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Poet and creative coach Mark McGuinness brings you inspiration and practical guidance for your creative career or business, and interviews leading artists, creatives, entrepreneurs and other outstanding creators. Take part in the weekly Creative Challenge for your own personal development (there are prizes as well).
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In this special episode, I share how the pandemic prompted me to create, fund and launch my new poetry podcast, A Mouthful of Air. First, I reflect on my own journey through Covid disruptions – from coaching creatives to writing poetry – and then my friend Joanna Penn interviews me about the inspiration, funding and […]
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Related StoriesFrom Tattoos to NFTs with Ichi HatanoCreative Disruption: How 12 Creatives on 5 Continents Rose to the Challenge of the PandemicUsing Lockdown to Launch a Dream Project with Nicky Mondellini
When Covid closed his bustling Tokyo studio, Ichi Hatano turned to his ink wash paintings and digital art to stay inspired. From crowdfunding a sumi dragon book to renovating a countryside house and launching NFT art, he reinvented his creative practice. ‘Challenging yourself is very important’ – discover how Ichi reinvented his art across mediums. […]
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Related StoriesCreative Disruption: How 12 Creatives on 5 Continents Rose to the Challenge of the PandemicMark’s Pandemic: Poetry, Podcasting and PressureUsing Lockdown to Launch a Dream Project with Nicky Mondellini
Have you ever had a creative project you never quite found time for? That was voiceover artist Nicky Mondellini’s dilemma until the pandemic cancelled her film work – and suddenly she had the time to launch her long-planned podcast. ‘If you don’t start now, you’ll never do it’ – tune in to Nicky’s story of […]
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Related StoriesMark’s Pandemic: Poetry, Podcasting and PressureFrom Tattoos to NFTs with Ichi HatanoTaking Deep Work Online with Laura Davis
When lockdown cancelled her in-person writing retreats, bestselling author Laura Davis faced a choice: let her teaching career stall or reinvent it online. Laura, famed for The Courage to Heal and her new memoir The Burning Light of Two Stars, challenged her own beliefs about digital learning – and discovered it could be just as […]
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Related StoriesMark’s Pandemic: Poetry, Podcasting and PressureFrom Tattoos to NFTs with Ichi HatanoUsing Lockdown to Launch a Dream Project with Nicky Mondellini
When the pandemic brought live music to a halt, artists lost their gigs, their incomes and the vital connection with fans. Charlotte Abroms, a Melbourne-based music manager, used the enforced shutdown to pioneer new ways to help her roster thrive – from virtual gigs to mentoring emerging talent. ‘If an artist doesn’t have cash flow, […]
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Related StoriesFrom Tattoos to NFTs with Ichi HatanoCreative Disruption: How 12 Creatives on 5 Continents Rose to the Challenge of the PandemicMark’s Pandemic: Poetry, Podcasting and Pressure
Lockdown threw parents into a frenzy of juggling childcare, homeschooling and work – with creativity often sidelined. Kay Lock Kolp shows how even in crisis you can nurture your artistic spark alongside parenting demands. ‘Each of the next seven nights, take a few moments to look at yourself in the mirror.’ – hear Kay’s nightly […]
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Related StoriesMark’s Pandemic: Poetry, Podcasting and PressureMy Creative Process (on the Podcast that Produces Jewelry)From Tattoos to NFTs with Ichi Hatano
The experiential marketing world in India was shattered overnight when lockdown forbade face-to-face campaigns. Amrita Kumar turned the crisis into opportunity by launching Mojo Box – a subscription discovery platform that kept her business alive and engaged 240,000 consumers. ‘Going slow is okay’ – learn how patience became Amrita’s secret weapon. Episode summary Amrita Kumar […]
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Related StoriesFrom Tattoos to NFTs with Ichi HatanoHelping Musicians Through Lockdown with Charlotte AbromsCreative Disruption: How 12 Creatives on 5 Continents Rose to the Challenge of the Pandemic
The world of film and TV production ground to a halt in early 2020, leaving studios, agencies and freelancers stranded by travel bans and lockdowns. Hometeam Productions turned that crisis into opportunity by tapping a global network of local filmmakers to keep content flowing for brands and broadcasters. ‘When the rest of the industry went […]
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Earl Abrahams is a Johannesburg-based lens-based artist whose films and photographs animate the city’s streets until lockdown confined him to his apartment block. Under strict restrictions he turned his camera into a window on the world, creating his Lockdown Series to reimagine confinement as a source of solace and invention. ‘Photography became my place of […]
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Related StoriesMark’s Pandemic: Poetry, Podcasting and PressureFrom Tattoos to NFTs with Ichi HatanoCreative Disruption: How 12 Creatives on 5 Continents Rose to the Challenge of the Pandemic
Steven Kunis is a Greek-American theatre director based in London who founded Panorama Productions to create international collaborations in theatre and music. When his acclaimed production of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men was halted by the pandemic, he responded by inventing Rocky Road, a hybrid theatrical-cinematic thriller that reimagined live performance for the Covid […]
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Michael Bungay Stanier is a leadership coach and bestselling author whose earlier work, The Coaching Habit, has sold over three quarters of a million copies and helped leaders use coaching to unleash creativity in their teams. In this final episode of Season 5—Episode 50—Michael returns with his new book, The Advice Trap, to show you […]
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Krystal Lauk is the founder of Krystal Lauk Studios in San Francisco, where her illustrative work brings humanity and playfulness to tech interfaces for clients such as Google, Uber, Facebook and The New York Times. In this episode, Krystal shares her journey from analogue artist to leading a studio at ‘the intersection of delight and […]
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Cynthia Morris is a veteran creative coach and author of The Busy Woman’s Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book, with over two decades of experience helping writers and entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. In this episode, Cynthia reveals practical strategies—from mindset shifts to time-management hacks—to guide busy creatives through every stage of the book-writing […]
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Emily Kimelman is a bestselling thriller author whose Sydney Rye series has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. Her adventurous spirit shines through both her writing and her life – from sailing the seas on a houseboat to roaming the US in an Airstream trailer while building a thriving author‐entrepreneur business. ‘I could do […]
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Naomi Dunford has been helping unconventional business owners sell their work online since 2006, long before content marketing was a household term. In this episode she shares her contrarian approach to marketing for creatives – from reframing disempowering beliefs to spotting creativity in the world around you. ‘Creative people are the only people who are […]
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How do you build a thriving music career when you make ‘wonky electronica’ on a six-string bass and refuse to stream on Spotify? British solo-bass pioneer Steve Lawson has spent two decades answering that question – and his solution turns the usual music-business logic on its head. This week he explains why smaller can be smarter, […]
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What does it take to write thirty-plus books, host a weekly show with millions of downloads and still find time to experiment with the latest tech? Best-selling thriller author and creative entrepreneur Joanna Penn believes it all comes down to smart routines and an unquenchable curiosity. In this episode we dig into two of Joanna’s freshest […]
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Letterpress printer Nick Hand greets each working day in an Aladdin’s cave of cast-iron presses, wooden type and the rich scent of ink – a world away from the glow of a laptop screen. From this Victorian workshop in the heart of Bristol, Nick runs the Letterpress Collective and The Department of Small Works, reviving endangered printing skills while collaborating […]
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What happens when a mathematician peers into the circuitry of artificial intelligence and discovers the stirrings of imagination? In this week’s episode, Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy explains why he believes machines can already surprise us – and how their digital ‘dreams’ might soon expand human creativity. Du Sautoy’s latest book, The Creativity Code, asks whether algorithms can […]
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The 21st Century Creative returns with an extraordinary tale of reinvention – meet sculptor-mosaicist Rachael Que Vargas, formerly known as John T. Unger, whose fire-and-stone artworks have travelled far beyond her Hudson, New York studio. From cutting scrap steel with a 45,000 °F plasma torch to painstakingly shaping gemstones for life-size anatomical mosaics, Vargas shows how […]
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