Rebel, Reject, Create!

Sarai is a teacher of art and philosophy as well as an artist, speaker and author. She has just released a fantastic book about Art and creativity entitled 'Off Track - Art and Philosophy as triggers for system change' So I read the book and HAD to talk to her about her approach, her knowledge and the book. You can read more about the book AND order it directly from Sarai (in the original Dutch or English) here: https://sarai.nl/ontsporen/

In this episode of the Rebel, reject, Create podcast I talk to Scott Homan about his new film, The Witness Underground and his kickstart initiative to help fund its launch. He's got some awesome stuff to say about the power of creativity and really deserves YOUR support for this film. Check out the Kickstarter HERE!

Johnny Muteba founded the Pan African Chamber of Commerce in 2015 in Johannesburg/South Africa. He has over 15 years of work experience in media, entertainment, entrepreneurship, trade, social impact and human rights.   He is a global thought leader with a proven track record to lead multicultural teams and deliver outstanding results and as an in-depth understanding of business networking, negotiations, relationships and project management.   Johnny’s work is inspired by his responsibility to Africa. He has a very special ability in connecting entrepreneurial vision, creative passion and innovative problem solving. His enthusiasm and experience provide for compelling insights, interesting ideas and refreshing approaches which are so desperately needed today. Johnny offers a broad range of professional services for artists, corporations, universities and Governments. Across all that he does, he taps into the power of creativity to innovate lives, bottom lines, organizations and the communities which sustain us.   The Pan African Chamber of Commerce is currently active in more than 45 countries in Africa and is also in the United States and Europe. He is a member of the World Trade Organization/International Chamber of Commerce committee on medium and small enterprises advisory committee He is also the founder of the Women Entrepreneurship Centre,the South African Film and Television Academy and the American Arts Academy   https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnny-muteba-6a191a215/ https://www.panafricanchamber.com/

Catherine is a Lean and Leadership Coach. Her work involves training and coaching executives and teams in organizations of all types and sizes. Catherine's approach is strategic, enthusiastic and empathetic. Through collaborative methods, Catherine facilitates people and organizations to find practical and long-lasting solutions to their problems. Catherine brings a balance of process and people development to the organizations she works with. In addition to teaching Lean concepts and tools, Catherine draws attention to the systemic and cultural patterns of the organization and facilitates the creation of change agendas that address operational and cultural change as well as people development. For this podcast, Catherine is offering a discount code for her online/blended learning courses. Initial courses include: *Coaching Skills for the Leader as Coach *Introduction to Lean Management *Process Mapping and Team Optimization. Email her, specify the course you're interested in and she'll send you a special discount code. catherine@mcdcoachconsult.com Check out her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-mcdonald-b6157210a/

David McQueen is passionate about developing leaders. A family man first, he is the husband of one, father of two, and friend of many. He has founded and cofounded a number of businesses including Q Squared, Black Founders Hub, and Evermoor, and sits as a Non-Exec on the advisory board of many companies offering support on leadership and financial competence. In his work as an Executive Coach, Facilitator, Board Advisor, and International Speaker, he has worked with corporates and non-profit organisations worldwide to develop their senior leaders and managers. His clients include Facebook, Google, Shopify, Lloyds, HSBC, Mercedes Benz, Sky, BMW, Uber, Fidelity Investments, EY Foundation and Barnardo's. David is also an Angel Investor, Mentor, Host of the BRAVE Leader podcast, a three-time TEDx speaker, and is currently writing his first book on leadership and never works on a Saturday! Find David online here: www.linkedin.com/in/mrdavidmcqueen

Graeme Codrington is a futurist, scenario planner and an expert on the future of work. With six best-selling books to his name, and clients in over 100 countries, he helps organisations anticipate the forces that will shape their industries in the future, and prepare for disruptive change today. Creativity is about new things - new ideas. This is at the heart of the work I do in helping people to “think like a futurist”. I call it strategic imagination - there’s a toolkit for business people (that can be applied to anyone else actually) that helps us break free from the natural limits of our brains and imagine a different world and future. I think that a massive part of this is recognising the cognitive functions that limit our ability to do this; and learning skills and tools to overcome these limits. • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemecodrington/ • YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/graemecodrington • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/graeme.codrington • Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/graemecodrington/ • Twitter - https://twitter.com/FuturistGraeme • TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@graemecodrington

Josuël Rogers is a life & executive coach, speaker and podcast host. He is someone who values interpersonal relationships and his passion lies in helping others become their best selves. As a personal and executive coach, he uses his analytical skills and creativity to help others overcome their challenges. He has a love for the Hip Hop culture, and realising the lessons and mindset insights that the culture has to offer, he founded HipHop Culture Coaching where the world of coaching and the world of Hip Hop meet each other. HipHop Culture Coaching provides teambuilding sessions and youth empowerment workshops where the goal is better communication with others but also with yourself in order to maximize results. He has just launched a new product. Which is an assessment and 1-time coaching package. Individuals can get insights into their motivators and/or communication preferences. https://josuelrogers.com/disc-behaviour-test-and-motivators-test Links Website https://www.hiphopculturecoaching.comhttps://www.josuelrogers.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/josuelrogers/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiphop-culture-coaching Instagram https://www.instagram.com/JosuelURogers https://www.instagram.com/HipHopCultureCoaching Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JosuelURogers https://www.facebook.com/HipHopCultureCoaching

Catherine is a Shooper… she is on a mission to find more ways in life to let go and express yourself. SHOOP is positive, up-beat, ambitious, out of your comfort zone experiences. When you do them, with others, random and surprising things happen - your heart beats and you let go. What came before SHOOP? For 8 years Catherine was the CEO of an NHS funded mental health service- Designs in Mind. Her focus was to value everyone's contribution and find ways to make ideas reality. For 18 years Catherine was a Trainer then Trustee for Jabadao a research and training organisation exploring physical development across the early years. Key elements of the practice that inform all Catherine's work are that we are biologically driven to move and that by following infant experts we find the play. Catherine started her career as a community dance artist bringing communities together and dancing to feel good. She went onto to start 'In Movement' opening up new conversations through play about leadership and engagement in business. https://www.instagram.com/theshoopery https://twitter.com/CatherineWilks_ https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinewilks/

Erinch Sahan is transforming the deep design of business to embed regenerative & distributive goals. He Talks about #socent, #fairtrade, #sustainability, #socialenterprise, and #doughnuteconomics. He has spent his career trying to understand and promote social enterprises, cooperatives and other alternatives to profit-primacy business models. Here's the link to the tool that any business or people working with businesses can use to apply some of the ideas discussed: https://doughnuteconomics.org/tools/191

Lois Holzman is co-founder and director of the East Side Institute, an international research and education centre for social therapeutics and performance activism—two approaches to ensemble creativity for self- and world transformation. For fifty years she has helped to build, worked with, and supported grassroots organizations working for progressive change and social justice. Lois is both an academic scholar and author of books and articles critical of the medical model of emotional distress and fostering new psychologies, and a popular writer (The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world) blogger at Psychology Today, Mad in America and loisholzman.org, and writer of the unique “advice” column, The Developmentalist. Creativity is a mundane and extraordinary human activity. It's the making of something new out of what exists. It is a cultural-social activity. I'm primarily interested in the collective activity of creating, that is, how social units create environments in which they qualitatively transform themselves and their environments. A Vygotskian lens is helpful here and I'm happy to share how. https://loisholzman.org https://eastsideinstitute.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/lois-holz... twitter.com/LoisHolzman https://www.facebook.com/lois.holzman.5

During his interview episode with me, Muyiwa boldly said that our education system is BROKEN! I happen to agree. In this episode, I dive deep into what this all means and WHY it is such an issue. Find Muyiwa online here: CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE CERTIFICATION COURSE https://glcicc.com/ LinkedIn @Muyiwa Fasakin (MF) FACEBOOK @Muyiwa Fasakin

Elise Keith is the founder and CEO of Lucid Meetings, a meeting innovation company dedicated to making it easy for teams to run successful meetings every day. In 2020, Lucid Meetings was recognized as one of the top-10 global influencer brands on the topic of remote work and virtual meetings. In 2023, Elise and David Mastronardi from the Gamestorming Group joined forces to host the New Rules for Work experiment, a four-part program seeking reliably excellent ways to unleash team creativity in meetings. Elise is the author of *Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization*, and a regular contributor for Inc. and other publications. Her work has been described as "deep," "golden," "surprising," and "way more fun than I thought I'd have in a meeting about meetings." Find Elise Keith online here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisekeith/ New Rules for Work. Access symposium recordings (and see you in action!) here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisekeith/

Muyiwa Fasakin is Creative Intelligence expert and has certified 81 coaches from 20 counties of the world. He is the founder of GLCICC Texas USA and the School of Creativity and World Change Summit. He is the First African Advisory Board Member of the United Nations World Creativity and Innovation Day. Find Muyiwa online here: CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE CERTIFICATION COURSE https://glcicc.com/ LinkedIn @Muyiwa Fasakin (MF) FACEBOOK @Muyiwa Fasakin

Pinar is an actor, voice-over artist and yoga devotee. In her interview with me HERE, she described several important insights from her acting discipline. In this episode, I dive into these insights in order to mine them for other insights and explanations of HOW you can also achieve outstanding results using her tips. Find Pinar online here: https://www.instagram.com/pinar.karaaslan.official https://www.facebook.com/pinarkaraaslanofficial https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3sCyLntLDg-kL0P5f8oiaw https://www.twitter.com/pnar_karaaslan

Pinar Karaaslan is a Turkish-Swedish actress. Besides being an actress, Pinar is a storyteller and international voice-over artist. She is also a certified yoga teacher and loves bouldering and playing beach volleyball while dreaming of riding horses. Find Pinar online here: https://www.instagram.com/pinar.karaaslan.official https://www.facebook.com/pinarkaraaslanofficial https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3sCyLntLDg-kL0P5f8oiaw https://www.twitter.com/pnar_karaaslan

During our conversation in the previous episode, Anton spoke a lot about HOW he does what he does. Son in this episode, I unpack some of what he talks about to reveal the bones that anyone can use to build a similar, productive process for on-going creation.

Anton Marshall is a former entertainment journalist/hack for Channel24, World Online, Rolling Stone, and others.   He has also played in several music projects including Three More white Guys, the Dollyrockers, Long Time Citizen and others. Currently runs a solo project called eracode.   Find Anton Online here:  https://www.instagram.com/eracodemarsh  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCk5GaIXjDZyR2h7scogitQ

In this episode, instead of interviewing someone, I give you a guided tour of my new thinking tool, The Ideation Canvas. The Canvas is a tool for helping people and teams make obvious the sometimes hidden process of ideation. It allows people with different skills, approaches and information to work together in a structured, proactive way to go from vague inklings to concrete plans. If you prefer, watch this episode as a video HERE To get your own FREE copy of the Ideation Canvas, head over to my website and subscribe to my newsletter. Once subscribed you will be prompted to download the canvas from my site. https://davidchislett.com

Enjoying these interviews? please consider supporting me financially by signing up for my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidchislett . After she finished her Business Bachelor studies, life just happened to bring all the right opportunities to Eszter and she took them. She started teaching part-time and found that her true calling is to find ways to teach so that students have fun. Using all the inspiration and experience from her early years of teaching Eszter studied Educational Science and Technology and landed the coolest job in Amsterdam, Codaisseur. There, given plenty of freedom and trust, she blossomed and become an Education Specialist. She is now part of an extremely cool project of developing a learning platform to guide experts in creating amazing content and it awoke her personal mission: Find Eszter online here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eszterszollosi/ Kyna website: https://mindgymhq.com/

This episode features Play expert and all-round fun(nny) guy Jeff Harry. Play is fun, but make no mistake, Jeff delivers some serious advice in this interview! Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges through embracing a play-oriented approach to work. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers and has been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, Upworthy, Shondaland, & Wired. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day. Find Jeff Online here: https://rediscoveryourplay.com/speaking    / jeffharryplays   https://instagram.com/jeffharryplays https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffharry... https://medium.com/@jeffharryplays https://twitter.com/jeffharryplays https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffharryplays