Worlds. Creating Identities

Boris is an explorer of the human condition, of the duality between our ego and our shadow. He is a teacher, a speaker, an artist and a former marketing professional who has experienced with visual art of all types. As a child, he used to love black and white monster movies like Frankenstein, and lately he spends most of his time interacting and cocreating black and white art with AI, pieces that...

I saw Erik on the stage of the Kik Festival in Namur a few years back, with his partner Freddie Öst. They are the co-founders of Snask - "a creative agency of misfit geniuses" as they call themselves on their website. Sure they were very fun, but most importantly, to me something underneath all the colorfulness and the talent felt very… real. And that’s exactly what Erik gave us in this interview:...

Katie is head of strategy at FutureBrand. She grew up loving books, immersing herself in their imaginary worlds, becoming friends with their characters as she went through cultural changes between UK, US and France. Throughout this episode, we discuss with her the importance of truly and humbly listening when accompanying organizations in the definition of their culture and identity, while offerin...

How can we make sure the brands we work for have a positive impact on people and the planet? No single person can solve this equation, but here are some of my thoughts when it comes to brands' reason to be and the necessity of accepting their mortality when they are no longer needed by their community.

Did you know you could be a “peace builder”? Susan Coleman made that choice and worked all around the world, in conflict areas, for the UN, for Nasa... I’ve been listening to her “Peace Building Podcast” where she interviews incredible people who contribute to the same goal in diverse and complementary ways. One of my favorite episodes is with Thomas Hübl on healing collective trauma ;).In this ta...

Jérémie a étudié la psychologie, mais il est devenu producteur et réalisateur de documentaires. Devrait-il y avoir un « mais » dans cette phrase ? En écoutant cet épisode, je suis sûr que ous répondrez « non ». Jérémie sait construire un lien avec les personnes qu’il va filmer. Il les visite dans leur environnement, prend le temps nécessaire pour construire une confiance, pour qu’ils se sentent à...

Stand-up comedians telling their most awkward thoughts and memories on stage, authors of memoir or auto-biographies, each person sharing their truth... They are donating pieces of their journeys to save us time and energy, help us feel less lonely on this planet, in our bodies, in our stories.

Alexandre Delamaire était mon tout premier collègue quand j’ai rejoint la vie active. :) A mes yeux, il a toujours été un “beautiful mind” qui réfléchit vite et en profondeur, quelqu’un dont j’ai appris et dont j’ai ressenti le soutien dans un univers pas toujours simple. Je n’oublierai jamais ses soirées vintage game où on pouvait boire des verres et découvrir sous sa guidance des jeux comme Eggn...

C’est une amie maman qui m’a fait découvrir Justine en me disant “tu vas voir, elle est impressionnante”. J’avais déjà entendu parler du métier de doula sans savoir vraiment en quoi cela consistait. Dans cet épisode, Justine nous connecte aux coeurs des femmes (petites et grandes ;)), elle nous partage son parcours de slasheuse qui lui a fait porter une multitude de casquettes (journaliste, autric...

It's easy to listen to someone's life story on social media or through entertainment channels and let ourselves believe that it's all based on facts. It doesn't mean it's not fun to be in the audience or amongst the writers. Maybe it's time we name this genre "reality fiction" to make sure we keep a healthy vision of what's at play ?

A quelles sources de news faites-vous confiance aujourd’hui? Découvrez-vous l’actu sur TikTok? Le journalisme est en train de se réinventer à la vitesse grand V. C’est pourquoi j’ai souhaité rencontrer Alice Antheaume, directrice de l’école de journalisme de Sciences Po Paris. Au-delà de la désinformation, elle soulignait la problématique de l’évitement de l’information. Dans cette discussion mêla...

My favorite thing in the world is to collect "muses" : people who've said or done something that expanded my horizons, made my world more abondant with possibilities. Warning: many muses are to be encountered in the interview episodes of this podcast ;)

J’ai voulu rencontrer quelqu’un qui écrit les biographies de personnes qui ne sont pas célèbres et quelques clics plus tard, j’étais sur le profil web de Camille. Cette pétillante biographe va à la rencontre des familles souhaitant immortaliser leurs récits, sauvegarder et transmettre les Histoires de leurs grands parents, rendre hommage aux grands chapitres de leurs vies. Elle nous raconte commen...

I think it was two years ago. I was watching a round table conference to which Dionne Maxwell was participating. Every year, the ad industry needs new buzzwords, so the focus was moving away from green and more and more focusing on inclusion and diversity. Only one person stood out for me and it was Dionne’s impactful speech where she was giving it to us straight as should be : inclusion needed to...

What do these three A's have in common? The secret to artists' mental health and balance. In this short episode of ideas that stayed with me, I'm sharing how deeply moved I've been by the sad endings of so many musicians stories and my wish to make the creative industry better know the solutions offered by Ayurveda.

J’ai connu Laetitia en 2010, lors de mon premier job dans la com au sein du Groupe Publicis à Levallois. Elle avait déjà un poste et une posture de leader, confiante, chaleureuse, rassurante. J’ai très vite découvert qu’en plus d’être une top manager, elle était également une artiste (je dirais même “avant tout” artiste) et une femme très spirituelle, très connectée à son instinct. Elle doit l’ign...

I went to an exhibition called Star Wars Identities back in 2012 at the Cité du Cinéma in Paris. It became one of the reasons why I ended up studying coaching and cognitive behavioural therapies. Here is why !

My friend Kale M. Connor is a freelance UX designer (whom I’ve worked with and first launched Worlds as a design studio some time ago :). They have been living, working and also studying architecture in Paris for the past couple of years. Together, we spoke about their childhood in the US, growing up in a house that was in the making, getting creative with their sisters and parents, but also about...

An identity is much more than a nationality, a job title, a social status. Once we integrate our life stories, it becomes a tool that we can design and get creative with. A few minutes to explain why I called the podcast Creative Identities.