Welcome to Six Before Breakfast, the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. In this first episode, we meet our three breakfast hosts, Andrew Armour, Anthony Eldridge-Rogers, and Howard Ross-Simms who introduce you to what this podcast series is about and they share some of the key stories and points raised from the series. From creative mindset and craft, to the need for stress and change. From  personal risk, to making mistakes and being comfortable with a passion and a vision, that is not really a plan. 

We hope you enjoy the series, and please share with people you know who create or those that manage, coach, mentor and support those that do. And as we make our next series, if you have suggestions for guests, or topics you would like us to include please get in touch with us at [email protected]

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Andrew Armour

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com

Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Tommy Ludgate is a professional vocalist, a music educator, and​ ​a coach of creative people. From stage to workshop, from singing to supporting the creative ambitions of others, she knows the joys ​and not so joyful times - of what it takes to be ​a ​performer. Signed to a record label as a schoolgirl, ​working with acts such as Paul Weller and ​even touring Russia. She has seen what it takes​ to not just be passionate about creativity - but to make a professional career from it too​. Today, she specialises in running workshops for creative people, to improve confidence and turn those ideas into practice.

In this episode with Andrew Armour, Tommy shares her own creative journey, ​and ​building a career, from ​really doing what you really love​. She discusses how to deal with the inevitable setbacks and finding that all important resilience​ to keep getting up on to that stage​ – even when things do not feel so great. She tells us ​how to stay calm and, in the moment, when you are about to perform​ and feel those nerves, of working in your Flow.​ ​

​To find out more about Tommy, and the personal coaching ​and workshops she offers, ​you can visit her at LINKEDIN and ​see her YouTube Channel.

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Andrew Armour

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com

Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Samantha Holland trained at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama graduating in 1991. During her time at Guildhall she worked with the Russian director Vasily Skorik and movement professor Nikolai Karpov. Her work has covered all disciplines and has included setting up a theatre company concentrating on site specific work in and around London; a group called The Lab to provide a space for actors between work to maintain their training and create new work; a theatre company in Valencia to produce new writing and devised work; a workshop-based company ‘Radical Combustion’ to teach mask work to young people and adults. In 2019 she formed Loam Project, an incubator to develop new writing, performance and sustainable product design in Wiltshire feeding into her creative practice knowledge gained from her work as a co-founder of a new materials company between 2014 and 2022.

In this conversation we explore issues such why it is important to find your creative tribe, how we can encourage creative people to not be damaged by careers advisors, why it matters to take risks and take action, know yourself in the context of what you are trying to do, don’t talk about what you are going to do just get on with it,  and other topics

​To find out more about Sam ​you can visit her at www.samanthaholland.com and www.loamproject.com or connect with her on LINKEDIN.

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Anthony Eldridge-Rogers

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com

Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Stephen Burt is a coach, author, improviser and musician. Creativity is at the heart of his practice. His clients need to get creative in order to find novel solutions and discover under-used parts of themselves. His writing is energised by the joy (and frustration) of the creative process. He has been seduced by the buzz and risk of creating improvised shows with others. And he is constantly looking for ways in which his professional practice can be transformed by his learning as a performer.

In our conversation we explore issues such as having a tribe but the benefit of working with strangers, playing jazz, the joy of improv comedy, the importance of having side projects, being creative in the civil service and other topics. Now let's meet Stephen Burt.

​To find out more about Stephen connect with him at LINKEDIN and/or ​his website.

To get his book, The Art of Listening in Coaching in Coaching and Mentoring, you can visit Routledge Books

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Anthony Eldridge-Rogers

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com

Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. DAN TSU's career has seen him creating events from small nights for the local community, to producing some of the biggest shows at the biggest Festivals. From small arts gigs to the mighty Rum Shack at Glastonbury. From beat box battles - to urban dialogues, from stage planning - to arts for social change. He has produced shows at the Royal Albert Hall and with the British Council overseas. From Kensington to Kazakhstan. He has run Events programmes at Music Schools and Creative Universities, and today he is the inspirational manager of the Incubator programme at the legendary Roundhouse in London - mentoring and coaching young Londoners to turn their creative passions into a professional career. He has had a creative and productive life that challenged his background and constantly changed. He has seen the highs and lows and reinvented himself and his work. 

In this episode he talks about what drives him to do what he does, how he deals with uncertainty - and why those days when it does not all go right, may actually be the best way to learn what works best. And why you just must start doing.

You can find out more about Dan at his LINKEDIN, or though LYRIXORGANIX or Roundhouse Incubator Programme. 

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Andrew Armour

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com

Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Svetlana Vassileva has taken her own creative road, one that is very much the less travelled. Something inside took her from young rock musician in Bulgaria - to teaching at the biggest music school in Europe in London. From touring the world with superstar Moby and playing at the Sydney Opera House, to now running music programmes and helping the next generation of young creative talents on the east coast of New Zealand. And in between all of that, playing at Glastonbury, completing a Masters Degree in Music Performance and balancing the business of being a rock bass player - with the business of being a mother. In a creative industry which is notoriously tough for women. 

In this episode Svet tells us about the importance of getting on with people, and the importance of looking after your physical and mental health too, to keep yourself on track, in a career that can be ultra demanding.

You can learn more about Svet by seeing her LINKEDIN and her work at IDEA School the creative industries campus in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Andrew Armour

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com

Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Todays guest, Michael Eldridge has had a long and varied life working as painter and photographer and providing inspiration to some of the UK’s best known photographers emerging from the hey day of  Bournemouth College of Art in the late 1980’s to the late 90’ such as Nick Knight, Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve Champion, Colin Nichols, Steve Orino, Jackie Tune, Sonya Whitefield and many others.

Michaels creative life spans a massive change in the way that visual artists can express themselves and deliver their creative ideas to their audiences and clients. 

In our conversation we explore topics such as the way a creative life can develop, how important mentors are and do we find them or they find us, the importance of being open and aware to what creativity is and making your own mind up about it, we touch on ethics in the creative industries for individual creatives and other topics.

​To find out more about Michael, his work, and the workshops he offers, ​you can visit him at LINKEDIN and/or visit his website.

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Anthony Eldridge-Rogers

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com