Maverick Mind

What does it mean to take the hardest parts of your story and turn them into art?
This week on Maverick Mind, I sit down with author, ghostwriter, and radio host Kimberly Love: a woman who transformed a traumatic childhood into a life built on creativity, storytelling, and courage.

Kimberly began writing as a way to survive her early years. Journaling became her therapy, then her memoir, and eventually the foundation for a career helping others share their own stories. After ghostwriting over 100 books, she finally stepped into her own voice, claiming space as an author in her own right.

In this conversation, we explore what it really means to alchemise pain into purpose, embrace your creative identity, and stop hiding behind other people’s narratives.

We dive into:

✨ Writing as a tool for healing and emotional liberation✨ The shift from ghostwriter to author — and the fear of being seen✨ How trauma can shape a creative voice without defining it✨ Social media boundaries and showing up authentically online✨ Letting go of perfectionism and trusting your own creative instincts✨ Building confidence as a storyteller, even when your voice shakes

Kimberly’s journey is a reminder that creativity isn’t just an artistic act — it’s a form of reinvention.

If you’ve ever felt afraid to tell your story, or struggled to believe in the value of your own voice, this episode will speak straight to your heart.

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In this episode of Maverick Mind, I’m joined by desire coach and storyteller Milica Grjic for a deeply grounded conversation on returning to your body, your truth, and the wild intelligence of your desires.

We explore what happens when you stop performing, stop packaging, and start listening.
To your signals.
To your softness.
To the truth beneath the noise.

Milica shares her perspective on self-love as an energetic frequency, not a checklist—and how desire, when deeply felt and honored, becomes a compass for creativity, love, and leadership.

This conversation is an invitation to reclaim your expression without needing to explain it. To let what moves you, move through you.
Without apology.

We talk about:

• Why self-love starts in the body, not the mind
• Releasing old identities and performing for belonging
• Desire as a spiritual and creative force
• Embodied boundaries, emotional safety & feminine power
• Creating from the truth of your experience—not the performance of it

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What does it take to keep creating when the odds — and the world — are stacked against you?

In this episode of Maverick Mind, I sit down with Tom Kwiat, the founder of Live and Amplified , a platform that helps promote and share the stories of independent musicians.

Born with cerebral palsy, Tom has lived many lifetimes in one — from filmmaker to storyteller to creative entrepreneur. Over the past decade, he’s built Live and Amplified from a scrappy idea into a global community supporting artists through storytelling, video, and live experiences.

We talk about:
🎙️ The origin story of Live and Amplified and how it’s grown over 10 years
🧠 Why mindset and resilience are the real foundations of any creative career
💡 How to stay authentic and independent in a world obsessed with algorithms
💬 The power of sharing stories — and why creativity thrives on human connection
⚡ The future of creativity: from AI and burnout to a return to in-person connection

Tom’s story is a masterclass in staying true to your voice, embracing the messy middle, and trusting the long game of creativity. Whether you’re a musician, filmmaker, or creator of any kind, this episode will remind you that you already have everything you need to begin.

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So many creatives spend their lives filtering their truth—polishing, perfecting, and performing—hoping it will make their work land. But the very thing you’re avoiding…the part that feels too messy, too raw, too real…is often the key to the connection, success, and deeper purpose you’ve been craving.

In this solo episode, Ellie explores why your honesty, not your polish, is what makes your work magnetic. She shares a recent realisation from her own journey about doing what you can versus what you’re truly here to do, and why that distinction changes everything.

This isn’t about oversharing or baring your soul online. It’s about choosing honesty over performance, and letting your creative “mess” become your most powerful message.

If you’ve been holding back, this episode is your reminder that your truth isn’t selfish. It’s service. And it’s the missing link to creating the impact you were born to make.

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What if the odds don’t apply to you?

In this soul-led solo episode, I’m exploring what it means to defy the narratives, labels, and statistics that creatives are often handed—and instead, live and create from your own truth.

We’ll talk about:

• Why so many visionary creatives unknowingly live from borrowed beliefs

• The subtle self-sabotage of trusting logic over instinct

• A story about a house sale during lockdown that will shift how you think about timing, “realistic” goals, and self-permission

• How to respond to doubt with one quietly powerful question: “But what if?”

  
  

Whether you’re a designer, musician, writer, or multidisciplinary artist—if you’ve ever felt the pressure to shrink your vision to fit the current climate, this is your reminder that you are the climate.

This episode will help you return to your rhythm, rewrite the rules, and move forward from the one thing that’s always been yours: your internal knowing.

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Mentions:
Creative blocks, subconscious belief systems, energetic alignment, artistic identity, nervous system regulation, personal branding for creatives, maverick mindsets, non-linear success, intuition-led creation

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What if the clarity, success, and recognition you’re waiting for—are actually waiting for you?

In this solo episode, Ellie explores the quiet truth behind creative transformation: your desires aren’t random, and your next level isn’t something you chase—it’s something you become. If you’ve been craving momentum, deeper self-belief, or a creative breakthrough, this is your reminder that the things you want from life are often reflections of what life wants from you.

Whether you’re an artist, creative, musician, designer or simply navigating the tension between where you are and where you know you’re meant to be, this episode will leave you feeling grounded, seen, and softly activated.

We’ll explore:

• The mirror principle of desire and embodiment

• Why your internal world shapes what you receive externally

• Letting go of “performing” and returning to self-trust

• A personal reflection on navigating self-doubt and belief

• A gentle invitation to move from softness, not pressure

  
  

Perfect for anyone walking the path of creativity, self-leadership, and soulful success.

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In a world where everyone has an opinion on who you should be, how you should work, and what success should look like—it’s easy to lose the sound of your own voice.

In this solo episode, Ellie explores the real meaning of self-leadership as a creative. Not the polished version we see online

—but the quiet, grounded, often unseen moments where you choose your truth over trends, your rhythm over performance, and your clarity over applause.

You’ll hear:
— The subtle ways creatives abandon their own voice
— What self-leadership actually looks like in real life
— Why it often triggers others—and why that’s okay
— A personal story behind the creation of EMBER
— A gentle invitation to anchor back into your rhythm

This episode is a mirror, a permission slip, and a call to come home to yourself—especially when the world wants you to mold.

🎧 Listen now and let this be your reminder:
Your rhythm isn’t weakness.
It’s the way through.

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Somatic Healing is a tool I use with people in a 1-1 coaching container, in order to help them better understand, process and release both present and past emotions. However, over the past 1-2 years I've developed into an experience aiming to, hopefully, help more of you in the moments you need it.

You'll be taken on a journey through a deep somatic body scan and a visualisation to help process and release feelings of overwhelm.

Designed to help you reconnect with your body’s truth and release the pressure to get it “right,” this class supports emotional spaciousness, nervous system regulation, and self-compassion.

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This isn’t a retrospective.
It’s a real-time glimpse into what it means to create something personal—before the world sees it.

In this episode, I sit down with Apneet Sandhu, the founder of AURRA London—a fragrance line rooted in tradition, designed like art, and released just days before this conversation aired.

We recorded this weeks before launch, when the vision was fully formed but the outcome still lived in the unknown.

What unfolds is a raw, powerful reflection on creativity, identity, and the quiet conviction it takes to follow something meaningful all the way through.

AURRA is more than perfume.

It’s memory. Heritage. Design. Scent as storytelling.
Rooted in centuries-old Indian rituals. Reimagined through Apneet’s modern lens.

We talk about leaving behind corporate certainty.
Honoring your lineage.
And trusting the subtle, sacred pulse that says: “This is what I came here to build.”

If you’re at the edge of your own creative beginning—this is for you.

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In creative industries, gatekeepers are everywhere—curators, labels, mentors, influencers.
We’re taught that to succeed, we need to be chosen. Co-signed. Allowed in.

This episode explores what happens when you hand over your power in the name of access—and what it means to reclaim it.

We’ll talk about:

• The myth of being chosen

• The spell of proximity

• Why chasing influence costs more than it gives

• And what it really means to lead from creative self-trust

You are the authority.
You don’t need to be chosen.
You just need to stop abandoning your own voice.

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