by Joanna Pieters | Dec 30, 2016
So, my brave, vibrant friends and creators, here we are at the end of another year. How has it been for you? There’s such a strong feeling around that 2016 has been difficult. Many of us have had our values challenged, we have been put in situations that have...
by Joanna Pieters | Nov 24, 2016
Some years ago, I was at a networking lunch, full of people ready to speak about their work for a minute while we ate. Some were nervous, some were prepared, some talked much too fast, or too quietly. There was one woman who sat calmly and quietly. When it came to her...
by Joanna Pieters | Sep 21, 2016
I was pacing around my kitchen on Saturday afternoon, trying to motivate myself to make supper and feeling thoroughly, creatively, blue. I tried my normal habit, which is to trace back to what kicked it off. Was it the (perfectly pleasant) conversation with my...
by Joanna Pieters | Sep 8, 2016
When I was at secondary school, a new head of music arrived who wanted to fill the music department with energy. I played the violin and the piano, and those were the things I took seriously – hours of practice, weekly lessons, orchestras rehearsals and theory...
by Joanna Pieters | Aug 2, 2016
It’s a dark October evening sky over the Bristol docks. There’s the low buzz of a gathering crowd, ten thousand people moving towards the water, puzzled, laughing, wondrous. They look upwards at the huge, dark, sculptural shapes of three industrial cranes with...
by Joanna Pieters | Jul 19, 2016
When I was training as a coach, we spent a long time talking about the importance of finding your purpose. What is is? Where is it? How do we help our clients find it? And purpose is awesome. At least, the idea of it is. That somehow, once you find it, you’ll...
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! 