by Joanna Pieters | Jun 17, 2019
This week, I’m doing something I’ve never done. I’m off on a personal writing retreat, to create my liminal space. In anthropology, liminality is a transient, ambiguous state between two rituals, such as those between childhood and adulthood. An...
by Joanna Pieters | Feb 5, 2019
It calms your brain chemistry, develops your cognitive flexibility and deepens your ability to focus. Here’s why a poetry habit should be central to your creative life To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your...
by Joanna Pieters | Dec 18, 2018
One of the biggest thing that happened in 2018 was getting a publisher for my book. Having spent years working with words in magazines and podcasting, creating something measured in tens of thousands of words is quite a different experience. (So far, the process is an...
by Joanna Pieters | Nov 12, 2018
You put down your pen and save the file. Then you stand up, stretch, and head for the fridge, the biscuit tin or the wine rack (Don’t you?). If we ask ourselves why, we’ve probably come across the fact that the brain uses up 20% of our energy. So, we...
by Joanna Pieters | Oct 9, 2018
When Kathryn Nicolai launched her podcast Nothing Much Happens: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, she didn’t plan fuss or fanfare. After all, she was a yoga teacher, not a writer. Even as a small child, Kathryn would wrap herself up in her bed at night, until she felt...
I'm Joanna Pieters and I've helped hundreds of professional creatives and creative leaders get their work known, sold and successful. I've run multiple, multi-million-dollar creative businesses and creating the ground-breaking psychometric assessment Vitally Productive. MBA, coach, violinist, writer, and host of The Creative Life Show podcast. Let's talk! 