by Joanna Pieters | Oct 10, 2019
This is love for you on World Mental Health Day, if you’re a creative who struggles sometimes. If anyone has ever called you a ‘crazy creative’. ❤️ This is for you if you’ve thought there’s something ‘wrong’. ⛈ This is love if you’ve wondered why your brain seems so...
by Joanna Pieters | Sep 20, 2019
September! Do you love it or hate it? For me, I’ve spent this month pulled oh-so-strongly in different directions. Firstly, after the long school holidays – when I spend as much time as I can with my son – I’m thrilled to have more time back. I’m back to...
by Joanna Pieters | Jul 1, 2019
Last week I took myself off, all by myself, with nothing but my laptop, notes, and a couple of books. I was in search of a liminal space – a place between worlds, almost, where I could join the dots and create. It turned out to be as much of a footpath: a...
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...
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! 