Listen in to Helen's chat with James, where he shares his journey starting as a bass player in his youth to becoming a sound producer, and how music has helped him through the various seasons of life.  James shares the secrets which enable him to get the best out of the artists he works with and tells the story behind his own experimental work.  Listen in to hear an excerpt of James' favourite track Heath from his album Nesting.

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Helen Munro is the founder of Cultivating Creative which provides bespoke marketing support and web design for organisations.  Find out more, or get in touch here:

cultivatingcreative.co.uk 

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Huge thanks, as always, to James Mason for production help.  You can contact James here: hello@islandfarmstudio.

Oliver discusses his varied career, highlighting the importance of validation and feedback in creative work and how constraints can actually be a spur to creativity. He also shares how he balances his freelance work with his rewarding role as a civil funeral celebrant and his return to acting after 30 years.

For more information about Olivers work as a funeral celebrant check out his website: olivertimscelebrant.co.uk

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Helen Munro is the founder of Cultivating Creative which provides bespoke marketing support and web design for organisations.  Find out more or get in touch here:

cultivatingcreative.co.uk

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Angela Hartley is a cardiac nurse and personal trainer.  She is the founder of Healthy Hearties and Clinical Exercise and in today's episode she shares her unique approach to supporting people with cardiac conditions.  Hear about her business, and how she manages her TikTok following of over 45,000 accounts.

To find out more about Angela's cardiac exercise programmes, take a look at her website: clinicalexercise.co.uk

You can also find out more about cardiac rehab here: healthyhearties.co.uk

Join Angela's Healthy Hearties Facebook Group or check her out on TikTok.

Helen Munro is the founder of Cultivating Creative which provides bespoke marketing support and web design for organisations.  Find out more, or get in touch via her website here:

cultivatingcreative.co.uk or on Instagram 

Thanks to James Mason for production help: hello@islandfarmstudio

Kelly Price, a Graphic Design Consultant, shares her journey to starting her own business during Covid in today's episode.  She talks about how she supports clients through their design projects to get to the best outcome, how she gets through a creative block and what happens when a client changes their company name mid-way through a project!  

Kelly is happy to chat to potential clients about their requirements so if you'd like professional branding for you business you can find out more about Kelly here:

kellypricedesign.co.uk

or on Instagram

Helen Munro is the founder of Cultivating Creative which offers marketing support and web design for organisations.  Find out more, or get in touch via her website here:

cultivatingcreative.co.uk or on Instagram

Thanks to James Mason for Production help: hello@islandfarmstudio

In this episode, Bron Ivy shares what it's like to be a woman in the world of magic and she spills the beans on what the Magic Circle is really like.  She chats with Helen about how she uses magic to tell a story, what influences her performances and the big issue of what should a female magician actually wear?

Bron Ivy offers close up magic for events and parties.  Her alter-ego Radish the Magician provides kids magic, puppets balloons and much more.

You can find out more about Radish the Magician here: https://www.radishthemagician.com/

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Helen is the founder of Cultivating Creative which offers marketing support and web design for organisations.  Find out more, or get in touch via her website here: cultivatingcreative.co.uk or on Instagram

Thanks to James Mason for Production help: hello@islandfarmstudio

In this interview, Jude discusses what led her to become a leadership and team coach, sharing the challenges of perfectionism, burnout, and the transformative effect that coaching had on her life and her career.  Jude and Helen explore themes of creative thinking, self awareness and the challenges of running your own business.

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Helen loves supporting small businesses through her business, Cultivating Creative.  Find out more, or get in touch via her website here: cultivatingcreative.co.uk  or on Instagram.

Thanks to James Mason for Production help: hello@islandfarmstudio

Lorraine chats about her career in musical theatre, the ups and downs of life on stage and the impact on her career when she had children.  She shares the joy of teaching children and adults through Mini Molesey Theatre Club and Molesey Ladies Choir which she originally started to help her have a more realistic balance of work alongside caring for her children, but now they are a fundamental part of her work.

Find out about Mini Molesey Theatre Club, or follow on Instagram

Find out about Molesing Ladies Choir

Lorraine is represented by Jeffrey and White Management Ltd.

Helen loves supporting small businesses through her business, Cultivating Creative.  Find out more, or get in touch via her website here: cultivatingcreative.co.uk or on Instagram

Thanks to James Mason for Production help: hello@islandfarmstudio

This Cultivating Creative podcast episode features an interview with artist Alexis Rizzo, who shares how art helped her mental health, and how her inspiration comes from the world around her. Alexis also shares her intuitive creative process, experimentation with different mediums, and how she feels about promoting her art.

Find out more about Alexis Rizzo here: alexisrizzoart.co.uk

You can follow Alexis on Instagram @alexisrizzoart 

If you'd like to sign up to the Cultivating Creative mailing list you can sign up here: cultivating creative.co.uk

To find out more about the rejection challenge, check out Liz Mosley on Instagram  or listen to the Building Your Brand Podcast.

Production help for this episode from James Mason: Hello@islandfarmstudio

This Cultivating Creative podcast episode features an interview with author Kristen Perrin, who discusses the journey of publishing her first novel, How to Solve Your Own Murder. Kristen shares insights into her writing process and some of the challenges she has faced as she prepares to release her second book, How to Seal Your Own Fate.

Find out more about Kristen Perrin here:

kristenperrin.com

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If you'd like to find out more about Helen and Cultivating Creative, check out the website here: cultivatingcreative.co.uk or follow me on Instagram here: Cultivating Creative Instagram

Production help from James Mason: Hello@islandfarmstudio

An introduction from Helen to the Cultivating Creative Podcast.  Listen as she talks about the origins of the podcast and her hopes for future episodes.  

Helen mentions some of the key topics that come up in her interviews with guests around creativity in their organisations.  They will look at ideas around how our personality affects how we run our business, some of the challenges faced in running an organisation and what her guests love the most.

Follow Helen on Instagram here: @cultivatingcreative

Check out her website here: cultivating creative.co.uk

Find out more about podcasting from Chris Stone here: https://podcaststrategy.substack.com/about

Production help on this episode was from James Mason Hello@islandfarmstudio