by Joanna Pieters | Jul 1, 2017
If you build a life around your creative skills, here’s what you know. The world does not make it easy for you. The world does not come knocking on your door and offering to pay you. You do not fit into easily definable boxes. You often feel like a square peg in a...
by Joanna Pieters | Jun 15, 2016
A friend emailed me this week, under pressure of leaving a job, fitting in demanding professional training and networking her way into a new role, with her husband away and the summer holidays racing towards us. This is the kind of overwhelm that comes when we have a...
by Joanna Pieters | May 15, 2015
The earth curved away on both sides, beneath the vast blue space. 24 miles below, in the New Mexico desert, his mentor talked him through each step. Push back your seat. Release the seat-belt. Verify cut-away knife. Disconnect oxygen supply hoses. Attaboy. And then,...