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...
by Joanna Pieters | Sep 25, 2018
Today, I’m sharing the 50th episode of The Creative Life Show podcast. That’s 50 episodes of wonderful conversations exploring creative success, and what it means to be creative in today’s world. If you’ve been a regular listener from the start, THANK YOU....
by Joanna Pieters | Aug 6, 2018
The beliefs about creatives run something like this: Creatives are spontaneous and wild, and led by their passion. Unless they’re not, in which case they’re disciplined and focused, almost monastic in their dedication. They’re sensitive and empathetic. Or possibly...
by Joanna Pieters | May 15, 2018
This was me last Friday. Because this happened. I’ve been working with the book coach and publisher Alison Jones in a book proposal challenge. She spends two weeks with participants on our ideas, structure and presentation for a business book, providing feedback...
by Joanna Pieters | May 1, 2018
Recently I’ve been talking to people about an idea that’s been going around my head. And on one hand it seems so obvious that I can’t believe that no-one else is talking about it. On the other hand, there’s a niggling doubt that maybe I’m missing something… that it’s...
by Joanna Pieters | Mar 29, 2018
‘Four kilometres’, intoned the voice on my running app. ‘Twenty-four minutes and fourteen seconds’. If you’re a runner, you’ll know this isn’t exactly Olympic speed. But I realised that I could, possibly, run 5km in 30 minutes, which is what I was doing a year ago,...
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! 