Inspirational Creatives

By Rob Lawrence

What's Inspirational Creatives about?

Conversations with successful artists and entrepreneurs who offer new ideas and strategies to help you create the life you want. These intimate chats deliver what you need to know to take your creativity, life and business to the next level.

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Inspirational Creatives episodes:

12.09.2023
ICP 316 Own and Spend Less Starting Now
Why do we spend money? Why do we own things? You'd be surprised. In today's short episode I explore with you why we buy and the benefits of living with less. Is less more? And can we achieve more with fewer...
12.08.2023
ICP 315 Write a List For Everything
Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed with all of the things you need to thing about? Clearing our mind of mental clutter by writing things down can reduce overwhelm and anxiety. And keeping lists can help us to prioritise, make...
12.07.2023
ICP 314 Be Honest
What does it mean to be honest in our lives and with our creative work or craft? How do we live with greater integrity and truth? Why aren't we honest with ourselves? In today’s short episode I’d like to invite you to...
12.06.2023
ICP 313 Ask: “what’s the one thing that’s important today"
What’s the one thing that’s important today? Spending time with someone? Working on a creative project? Spending some time alone? Perhaps there's something or somone that needs your focus and attention today. Focussing on one thing that is important to...
12.05.2023
ICP 312 Cultivate Patience
"Instant gratification takes too long..." - Carrie Fisher Cultivating patience is an ongoing process that can improve your experience as a creative being. In this short episode I explore with you how impatience and frustration can be a good clue...
12.04.2023
ICP 311 Listen To Your Own Opinions and Only Consider Those of Others
Your own opinion matters. In this short episode, I suggest that your own opinion matters more than anybody else's opinion; Particularly if their opinion is embedded in criticism. Often criticism or feedback or opinion comes from others unsolicited. It can...
12.03.2023
ICP 310 Spend More Time Outside and In Nature
Nature can induce a calming state and it can help us to change our perspective. This is ideal for problem-solving and generating new ideas, which can lead to breakthroughs. In this short episode I invite you to consider a...
12.02.2023
ICP 309 “Be” don’t “do”
Your presence is a very powerful thing. In this short episode, we explore the importance of being present and reflective in our fast-paced world; Rather than a Western focus on constant doing and achieving and working towards a specific outcome....
12.01.2023
ICP 308 Add To Your Life By Subtracting The Unnecessary
Today I want to challenge you to consider what you can subtract from your life to create more joy and power...and a greater sense of being creative. Drawing upon the interview I had in the very early days of Inspirational...
11.30.2023
ICP 307 Cultivate a Deeper Relationship With Your Inner Artist
Today I want to explore with you the importance of dedicating time for your creativity and cultivating a deeper connection with your inner artist. Hear why it's important and some ideas of how to work towards developing a daily routine...
11.29.2023
ICP306 Be Authentic and Utterly Fearless
Creating this podcast hasn't been without its challenges. I've faced resistance and perfectionism, and there have been times when I've doubted myself. But despite these challenges, I've felt a strong need to express myself and share my ideas with you....
11.28.2023
ICP 305 Embrace Your Inner Child
"The most potent muse of all is our own inner child" - Stephen Nachmanovitch The importance of reconnecting with our inner child to boost our creativity is not be understated. It can lead potentially towards a more fulfilling life. In...
11.27.2023
ICP 304 Gracefully Let Go of People That Exhaust Your Energy
Have you ever heard of an energy vampire? In this short podcast episode, I explore with you the concept of 'energy vampires', individuals who drain others' emotional, mental, and spiritual energy. It's important that we reduce exposure to such individuals...
11.26.2023
ICP 303 Walk More
If you want to change how you feel, change your state. Today I want to explore with you how going for a walk can improve your life and be great for your inspiration, sparking creativity, as a creative being, in...
11.25.2023
ICP 302 Be Positive
How do we navigate a world that is uncertain yet keep the flame of creativity alive? I remember when I was growing up and going through various different emotions and moods and changes and people saying to me, "oh, you've...
11.24.2023
ICP 301 Breathe
If you're feeling stuck or some kind of discomfort or uncertainty, there's a number of things that you can do to to transcend or transform your current life experience. In the next 33 short episodes, I want to share with...
11.26.2021
ICP 300 Widen Your Net with Pam Slim
You have created a thing. You need to find the people who want your thing: Your product. Your service. Your piece of creative output. In this very special episode, episode 300, celebrating 7...
01.29.2021
ICP 299 Finding The Confidence To Create and Sell Your Art with Artist Sarah Tomlinson
In this episode you'll learn: How Sarah paints from a place of healing to empowerment How Sarah rediscovered her feminine nature through art The power of affirmation ladders How do you make a living from your art? How...
12.16.2020
ICP 298 The Key To Creating a Successful Creative Business Online in 2021
If you choose to listen to only one short action episode this year, I highly recommend this one! In this short action episode, Kira and Ilysa reveal the key to how they’ve both created successful lives and a business working...
12.11.2020
ICP 297 Artists Kira McCoy and Ilysa Ginsburg on Creating a Thriving Business and Community From Scratch
Artists, Kira McCoy, and Ilysa Ginsburg, love what they do. In this insightful and revealing chat, interviewed by Sandra Lawrence, Ilysa and Kira share how they’ve have grown their business and what it means to them to create an environment...
11.25.2020
ICP 296 Why You Must Get Started Soon With Your New Idea or Venture (with Juliana Meyer)
When is the best time to get started with your new idea, product, service or business? It seems that sooner is better than later. That’s the experience of female tech entrepreneur and SupaPass founder, Juliana Meyer. Often we find ourselves...
11.20.2020
ICP 295 Creating a Home Online For Artists, Creators and Super-fans With Juliana Meyer From SupaPass
Juliana Meyer is an award-winning entrepreneur as well as highly qualified and experience musician and engineer. Today, her small software and technology company, SupaPass, is making big changes in the way that artist, musicians, podcasters and creatives of all kinds...
11.18.2020
ICP 294 How Finding Your Ideal Clients Will Bring Results From Your Creative Work
Have you ever found yourself working hard in your business, doing your creative work, but not getting the results that you want? In this short action episode we discuss the importance of being clear on who you serve and why....
11.13.2020
ICP 293 Lucy Eckley on Building Your Brand Story
In this episode, Build Your Brand Story founder, Lucy Eckley, shares her own journey from corporate career to communications consultant and how she helps people to day to create outstanding brands. Hear how Lucy helps her clients...
11.11.2020
ICP 292 How To Complete And Get Going With A Task or Project You Are Stuck On (with Sue Stockdale)
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results… But what if you’re not getting any results at all? If you’re stuck and struggling to complete a task or...
11.06.2020
ICP 291 Sue Stockdale on Taking Risks and Being The First British Woman To Ski To The Magnetic North Pole
Sue Stockdale is the first British woman to have skied to the magnetic North Pole. Having been introduced to the world of coaching working with pioneers such as Sir John Whitmore, Sue brings executive coaching and new leadership thinking to...
11.04.2020
ICP 290 Spotting a Gap In Their Market with Emily and Paul
Which markets and communities are you interested in serving? What is it you are planning to offer? And what is it that people need in those communities that they aren’t getting yet? In today’s short action episode, Paul and Emily,...
10.30.2020
ICP 289 Navigating Parenthood, Career Change and Depression with Emily and Paul - Creators of the Parent Guide to GCSE
“Knowledge beats nagging every time” according to Emily and Paul, creators of the parent guide to GCSE. Spotting a gap in a large market, ex-teachers, Paul and Emily, share their experience leaving the teaching profession to educate parents on how...
10.21.2020
ICP 288 Is Now Is A Great Time To Start Your New Business Idea or Venture? (And the Big Risk Not To Take) with Neil Foley
Is now a good time launch a new business, idea or venture? If you’ve got a new idea for a business, enterprise or venture, this short podcast episode is for you. In this short action episode, Neil Foley, from the...
10.16.2020
ICP 287 From Corporate Life To Collaboration: Neil Foley on How To Improve Your Luck and Find Your First Few Fruitful Opportunities
Who expected the events of 2020? Here we are 10 months in living with COVID, the shock of lockdown, and all sorts of new challenges and opportunities as creatives… Furloughs, losing jobs, changing careers and new opportunities. So to bridge...
10.14.2020
ICP 286 Why You Must Get Started Now and Not Worry About The Competition (with Neil Foley)
What’s the #1 to be thinking about when putting a new idea or service out into the world? For many creatives, entrepreneurs and new business owners, knowing which is the right market for their product, idea or service can be...
12.27.2019
ICP 285 The No B.S. Way To Creating A Small Business That Matters in 2020 with Neil Foley of the Business Growth Club
Starting a small business can be both tough and exhilarating. Being technically gifted as a master craftsman/woman of your trade is a good place to start. Yet knowing how and when to start is better… And it pays to get...
12.18.2019
ICP 284 How To Grow Your Creative Business Consistently and Persistently (with Aaron Nace)
In this short action episode you’ll learn: How consistency and persistence can help you to achieve your creative aims The one thing that has kept Aaron and his business going What a creative business is really about What to...
11.29.2019
ICP 283 Aaron Nace (part two) on Founding A Fun Way To Learn Photoshop with Phlearn
In this interview, part two, chat with Phlearn founder, Aaron Nace, we explore pictures of friends, (dressed as clowns) to politically inspired, visually stimulating, images… And telling stories with composite photos of cuddly creatures playing hide-and-seek with kids… Aaron is clearly someone who...
11.27.2019
ICP 282 How Podcasting Has Changed My Life In The Last 5 Years
Since launching five years ago, in November 2014, the Inspirational Creatives podcast has grown to over 100,000 downloads with a small yet highly engaged audience dedicated to creating, and leading, a more meaningful life with purpose. To celebrate, host, founder...
11.22.2019
ICP 281 Aaron Nace on Founding A Fun Way To Learn Photoshop with Phlearn
Aaron Nace is an educator and photographer. In 2011 he founded Phlearn to professional teach students around the world, Photoshop and Lightroom skills. With over 600 tutorials and 1.8 million subscribers on YouTube, and counting, today, the Phlearn platform reaches...
09.11.2019
ICP 280 Having Fun With Our Vulnerability And Living With Uncertainty By Letting Go Of Outcomes (featuring John Link)
In this short action episode we explore how embracing our vulnerability supports us towards reaching our creative goals. How? It’s about living with uncertainty and detaching from outcomes. Offering a fresh perspective on uncertainty, British painter and theatre director, John...
07.26.2019
ICP 279 Embracing Vulnerability: Confronting The Canvas with John Link - Part 2
In this second chat, artist, John Link, describes how vulnerability and a sense of play both motivate and inspire his creative work. Recorded in the heart of Norwich, England, in his studio, John shares how John’s recent ill health and...
07.24.2019
ICP 278 What Your Creative Process Can Teach You About Human Nature (with John Link)
Our own creative process can reveal to each of us something unique, which we didn’t know already about human nature. When we get stuck with our creativity, often it’s because we’ve stopped asking questions. Questions from a place of curiosity...
07.12.2019
ICP 277 To Be or Not To Be: Confronting The Canvas with John Link - Part 1
How do you navigate a career following your dreams? In this second interview of the "Bringing it Home" series on Inspirational Creatives, artist, John Link, describes the relationship he has with his painting and background as a theatre director. Recorded...
07.03.2019
ICP 276 A Creative Approach When Making Important Decisions (with Professor John Last)
Great leaders are relied upon to make great decisions. But what’s needed to make a great decision? Of course, there are many ways to approach decision making. How you reach a decision will depend upon your aims and the criteria...
06.28.2019
ICP 275 Professor John Last on Leading Creative Education Into The Future
What does it take to remain at the cutting edge of education in the creative arts and design? In 2017, Professor John Last was appointed an OBE in the 2017 Queen’s birthday honours list for his services to education. Today...
06.19.2019
ICP 274 Take Control Of Your Business Before It Takes Control Of You (with Alison Boyle)
If you want to create a life and living around the work you love, You probably won’t want to create yourself another job… Instead, you’ll want to learn how to create a business that works for you. So grab a...
05.31.2019
ICP 273 Getting Started with Digital Marketing with Alison Boyle
What is the true reality of working for yourself? Alison can tell you. Digital marketing expert, Alison Boyle, began her own business journey juggling children with uncertainty during the launch of her first business. She understands what’s at stake and...
05.22.2019
ICP 272 Is Now A Good Time To Start a Podcast? (with Mark Asquith)
If you’re thinking of starting a podcast, you’ll be interested in this short action episode (< 8 minutes.) One of the most frequently asked questions, amongst creatives, looking to market their output, products or services, is: “Is now a good...
05.17.2019
ICP 271 Mark Asquith Developing The Confidence To Grow and Re-Brand Your Podcast
Mark Asquith is the CEO and founder of Rebel Base Media and Podcast Websites. (He’s also a massive DC Comics fan.) More recently, with new products, podcasts and services well underway under the Captivate and Productivity brands, to name a...
04.24.2019
ICP 270 Why Creatives Get Stuck (And What To Do About It) With Peter Sage
Stuck? We all get stuck at certain points in our creative lives and career. Often the bigger the game we play, the more likely we are to find ourselves frozen. Frozen with fear, distraction or procrastination. In this short action...
04.05.2019
ICP 269 Being a Secret Agent of Positive Change with Peter Sage - Author of The Inside Track
He bought his first Ferrari for cash at the age of 25. He’s spent six months in Pentonville, one of the UK’s toughest and most violent prisons. As an accomplished athlete, skydiver, diver, honorary black-belt, and as someone who claims...
03.27.2019
ICP 268 How To Become A Successful Content Creator (with Ben Jeffries)
You may not have heard of Casper Lee; He’s an internet and social media sensation. My 11 year-old nephew assures me he’s the real deal: Last year he won global social media superstar by global.com Currently he has a growing...
12.21.2018
ICP 267 How Ben Jeffries Takes Brands To The Next Level with Influencer Marketing
Ben Jeffries created his first business at the age of 15 and is now a CEO at the age of 22. Partnering up with YouTube sensation Casper Lee, as a co-founder, in 2017, Ben was labelled as one of the young entrepreneurs...

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Inspirational Creatives episodes:

ICP 316 Own and Spend Less Starting Now

ICP 315 Write a List For Everything

ICP 314 Be Honest

ICP 313 Ask: “what’s the one thing that’s important today"

ICP 312 Cultivate Patience

ICP 311 Listen To Your Own Opinions and Only Consider Those of Others

ICP 310 Spend More Time Outside and In Nature

ICP 309 “Be” don’t “do”

ICP 308 Add To Your Life By Subtracting The Unnecessary

ICP 307 Cultivate a Deeper Relationship With Your Inner Artist

ICP306 Be Authentic and Utterly Fearless

ICP 305 Embrace Your Inner Child

ICP 304 Gracefully Let Go of People That Exhaust Your Energy

ICP 303 Walk More

ICP 302 Be Positive

ICP 301 Breathe

ICP 300 Widen Your Net with Pam Slim

ICP 299 Finding The Confidence To Create and Sell Your Art with Artist Sarah Tomlinson

ICP 298 The Key To Creating a Successful Creative Business Online in 2021

ICP 297 Artists Kira McCoy and Ilysa Ginsburg on Creating a Thriving Business and Community From Scratch

ICP 296 Why You Must Get Started Soon With Your New Idea or Venture (with Juliana Meyer)

ICP 295 Creating a Home Online For Artists, Creators and Super-fans With Juliana Meyer From SupaPass

ICP 294 How Finding Your Ideal Clients Will Bring Results From Your Creative Work

ICP 293 Lucy Eckley on Building Your Brand Story

ICP 292 How To Complete And Get Going With A Task or Project You Are Stuck On (with Sue Stockdale)

ICP 291 Sue Stockdale on Taking Risks and Being The First British Woman To Ski To The Magnetic North Pole

ICP 290 Spotting a Gap In Their Market with Emily and Paul

ICP 289 Navigating Parenthood, Career Change and Depression with Emily and Paul - Creators of the Parent Guide to GCSE

ICP 288 Is Now Is A Great Time To Start Your New Business Idea or Venture? (And the Big Risk Not To Take) with Neil Foley

ICP 287 From Corporate Life To Collaboration: Neil Foley on How To Improve Your Luck and Find Your First Few Fruitful Opportunities

ICP 286 Why You Must Get Started Now and Not Worry About The Competition (with Neil Foley)

ICP 285 The No B.S. Way To Creating A Small Business That Matters in 2020 with Neil Foley of the Business Growth Club

ICP 284 How To Grow Your Creative Business Consistently and Persistently (with Aaron Nace)

ICP 283 Aaron Nace (part two) on Founding A Fun Way To Learn Photoshop with Phlearn

ICP 282 How Podcasting Has Changed My Life In The Last 5 Years

ICP 281 Aaron Nace on Founding A Fun Way To Learn Photoshop with Phlearn

ICP 280 Having Fun With Our Vulnerability And Living With Uncertainty By Letting Go Of Outcomes (featuring John Link)

ICP 279 Embracing Vulnerability: Confronting The Canvas with John Link - Part 2

ICP 278 What Your Creative Process Can Teach You About Human Nature (with John Link)

ICP 277 To Be or Not To Be: Confronting The Canvas with John Link - Part 1

ICP 276 A Creative Approach When Making Important Decisions (with Professor John Last)

ICP 275 Professor John Last on Leading Creative Education Into The Future

ICP 274 Take Control Of Your Business Before It Takes Control Of You (with Alison Boyle)

ICP 273 Getting Started with Digital Marketing with Alison Boyle

ICP 272 Is Now A Good Time To Start a Podcast? (with Mark Asquith)

ICP 271 Mark Asquith Developing The Confidence To Grow and Re-Brand Your Podcast

ICP 270 Why Creatives Get Stuck (And What To Do About It) With Peter Sage

ICP 269 Being a Secret Agent of Positive Change with Peter Sage - Author of The Inside Track

ICP 268 How To Become A Successful Content Creator (with Ben Jeffries)

ICP 267 How Ben Jeffries Takes Brands To The Next Level with Influencer Marketing