Season 1
Episodes
Write Your Origin Story
Modern business founders tell their origin stories in books and movies. Ancient cultures told stories about the beginning of life on earth, plants, animals, weather and everything else that needed an explanation....
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The Importance of Story
In most entertainment, an origin story is an account or back-story revealing how a character or group of people become a protagonist or antagonist. Understanding the story behind a character adds to the overall...
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Harness the Power of Fresh Starts
Why is the beginning of a new year so popular for making resolutions and fresh starts? What is it about a new year that brings out the resolve to take out gym memberships, start diets, and quit smoking? Why can’t we...
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Why Procrastinating is a Good Thing
Procrastination refers to the process of delaying or postponing tasks. Everyone bangs on about we should try all these techniques to avoid procrastination but I think that procrastinating is sometimes our...
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Create a Diagram of Your Ideal Life
When you are creative it’s easy to lose track of what you are meant to be doing with your life, why you have creative skills, who you can help with them and how you can make money. There is often a conflict between...
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What is Your Creative Superpower?
Just about every creative I ever speak to, myself included, has struggled at some time or another with choosing a focus for their creativity. Shiny object syndrome can make it very difficult to choose just one thing....
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Why it is Important to Forgive Yourself
Traditional education systems praise the correct solution and discourage mistakes. It can be challenging to move into a creative headspace where mistakes are actively encouraged. To be creatively successful, however,...
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How Your Skills Can Pay the Bills
The idea that we stop learning when we finish high school or university is as outdated as the concept of having one job for the rest of our lives. The industrial mindset is currently being replaced by the...
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Three Ways to Test your Business Ideas
When you are building your creative side business, you need to be creating products and services that people actually need. You might be super passionate and interested in an idea, but if no one else is, you have a...
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What Sparks Light Up Your Business?
I have spent over twenty years in design education and seen irreversible changes to the industry as a whole. These changes are due mainly to the introduction of the desktop computer and the Internet. The Internet has...
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A Simple Way to Prioritise Your Creativity
In this day and age, the methods of prioritising that worked for our parents, and grandparents no longer work for us. There is much more other people need us to do, and so many more ways they can get us to do it....
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You Can Be Skilful Enough Without Mastery
As a Creative Entrepreneur, it is often a struggle to keep on top of all the skills you need to develop to build a creative business. We are not born with skills—they are developed through experiences in life and...
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