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Creative Spark Podcast

Creative Spark Podcast

Hosted by: Dominique Falla

Are you an overworked creative who wants to figure out how to reclaim more space, time, and energy to get your most important work done? Are you like most creatives who suffer from shiny object syndrome and wish...

Episodes

How to Fill Your Topic Buckets

Season #1 Episode #36

Topic buckets are groups of things you like to post about, create work about, blog or podcast about. They can be completely unrelated at first. You can create your own unique niche by combining them in creative ways....
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How to Choose Your Perfect Niche

Season #1 Episode #35

What if you could discover the perfect niche for your business, book, or blog? If you could just be known for the stuff you love doing, you can stop going round in circles trying to figure it out. In today's podcast I...
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How to Steal Your Time Back

Season #1 Episode #34

No matter who you talk to, not having enough time is always listed as one of the top three reasons why something cannot be done. Allowing time to block your creativity is easy to justify, but it usually masks other...
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What Did You Struggle with Five Years Ago?

Season #1 Episode #33

By its very nature, creativity is a struggle. We are making new connections, trying new things and it is easy to lose our way. By looking at the things we struggled with five years ago, we often gain a clearer picture...
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Create Your Personal Values Compass

Season #1 Episode #32

In the previous episode, we looked at core values and why it’s important to identify them and then act in alignment with them to avoid disappointing yourself. Now it’s time to put theory into practice and develop your...
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Orient Your Brand Values

Season #1 Episode #31

Every day, whether you realise it or not, we all make decisions based on what we believe in. Think about the choices, challenges, or opportunities facing us every day—and how we engage with them. The way our values...
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Banish Energy Vampires

Season #1 Episode #30

An energy vampire is someone who makes a regular energy withdrawal from you and gives nothing back in return. They want to fill your clear head with their problems and if left unchecked, a weekly visit from an energy...
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Harness Your Authentic Voice

Season #1 Episode #29

As a Creative Entrepreneur, it is often a struggle to craft an authentic identity for your brand or business. It is all too easy to get caught up in what your competitors are doing or you end up following trends. It...
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A Simple Way to Target Your Motivation

Season #1 Episode #28

Motivation is one of those things that can be hard to quantify and we often don’t feel motivated to do something hard until we are part way through doing it. Success in any endeavour can bring motivation with it. A...
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The Importance of Finding Your Why

Season #1 Episode #27

With every new business venture or a creative idea, we usually charge forward, powered by sheer enthusiasm. But this initial burst of energy soon wears off. Without a foundation of intrinsic motivation driving them,...
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How to Use Trello to Run Your Life

Season #1 Episode #26

Trello is a visual collaboration tool that enables you to organise and prioritise projects using what are known as Kanban Boards. I use Trello to organise this podcast, I also use it to manage workflows, to-do...
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Embrace Your Procrastiworking Tendencies

Season #1 Episode #25

Procrastiworking is a term I first heard designer Jessica Hische use, and it refers to the work you do (or feel like doing) while putting off the work you don’t feel like doing. This term applies to most designers,...
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