Now Go Create

What do you do when you want to get more creative but there's no classroom, no team workshop, and no facilitator in sight? In this hands-on episode of Now Go Create , Claire Bridges hands you a solo toolkit to supercharge your creative thinking, just you, a notebook, and twenty minutes. The episode was sparked by a call from an ambitious agency professional itching to sharpen her creative skills o...

In this toolkit episode of Now Go Create, Claire Bridges dives into the power of asking better questions at work and introduces the concept of a "question storm." Instead of jumping straight into brainstorming solutions, Claire Bridges explains how focusing on generating well-aimed questions can unlock true creative and problem-solving potential. Drawing on real-world insights and her years of exp...

In this episode of Now Go Create , host Claire Bridges welcomes facilitator, connector, and author Jan Keck, who is on a mission to make meetings more meaningful by moving beyond cringey icebreakers. Drawing from his own experiences with the anxiety and dread of the standard “go around the room and share a fun fact” activities, Jan reveals how these methods often backfire, leaving participants fee...

If you’ve ever found yourself in a frustrating, awkward, or downright pointless meeting, this latest episode of the Now Go Create podcast is for you. Host Claire Bridges explores facilitation mishaps she’s encountered over her decades working as a creative director and professional workshop lead and facilitator. Drawing from real (anonymised) stories in client brainstorms and workshops, Claire Bri...

In this toolkit episode of Now Go Create , Claire Bridges introduces the concept of the premortem, a powerful technique for anticipating project pitfalls before they derail your ideas. Drawing from her extensive experience in creative thinking and strategy development, Claire demonstrates how asking the right questions early can transform uncertainty into opportunity and help teams avoid costly mi...

How do you turn a frustrating workshop into a creative, inclusive space where everyone feels heard without reinventing the wheel each time? In this enlightening episode of Now Go Create, host Claire Bridges sits down with Robert Cserti, co-founder of SessionLab, the go-to platform for workshop and meeting design loved by facilitators worldwide. Claire and Robert get honest about the art and scienc...

What if your best creative breakthroughs aren’t sitting on your laptop, but waiting for you outside? In this episode of the Now Go Create podcast , Claire Bridges invites you to step away from your desk and into a more embodied creative practice. Claire draws on her own experience running creative workshops, her creative director roots, and insights from psychology to explore how movement, the wor...

In this short, slightly, scrappy, 10-minute bonus episode, the strategist’s strategist Julian Cole joins me again - this time for a real-time riff on how to devise a usable strategy brief… when you don’t actually have one. Julian has worked with Uber, Apple, Facebook, Disney and more, and is known for demystifying strategy and making it accessible. In our previous full-length episode, we got so de...

What does it take to turn an idea into a brand new industry? In this lively episode of Now Go Create, host Claire Bridges sits down with Daisy Amodio, creative dynamo, founder of The Proposers, a royal wedding planner, and visionary behind 5,000 unforgettable marriage proposals. Claire and Daisy dig into how an impromptu treasure hunt for her brother kickstarted Daisy’s journey from advertising ac...

Are you feeling flat, uninspired, or stuck in a rut with your creative work? You’re not alone and you don’t have to go it alone either. Following on from last week’s episode of Now Go Create Claire Bridges chats to improv specialist and storytelling coach Maria Peters for a lively, practical deep-dive into getting yourself out of a creative slump (and why it’s actually normal to have one!) Claire...

What do you do when the creative ideas stop flowing? In this episode of Now Go Create, host Claire Bridges gets real about a topic we don’t talk about enough: the creative slump. She shares her own recent experience, and explores why slumps might happen, how they differ from creative burnout or “block,” and why we shouldn’t panic when the creative tide is out. Introducing her practical “Creative C...

In this episode, Claire Bridges sits down with Jody Orsborn Medina, experiential creative director and founder of Recess, a global creative community and incredible resource hub. Jody shares her journey from in-house and agency life to freelancing, and how the need for authentic connections inspired her to start Recess. What began as monthly internal inspiration sessions has blossomed into a world...

Congratulations, you’ve made it to the end of Summer School! In this special wrap-up episode, host Claire Bridges recaps the five creative nudges you experimented with over the summer, and brings them together into a practical, personalised toolkit to help you approach September (and beyond!) with confidence and curiosity. As you say goodbye to summer, Claire shares the three most powerful coachin...

How loud is the voice in your head that tells you you’re not good enough, or worries you’re about to mess things up? Welcome to week five of Now Go Create’s Summer School with Claire Bridges. This week’s creative nudge is all about noticing your self-talk and learning how to shift that critical inner voice into something much kinder (and more helpful for your creativity). The short voice note podc...

Have you ever changed your perspective and unlocked your creativity? Today Claire Bridges brings you a quick but powerful creative nudge packed with inspiration. She draws from her conversation with multi award-winning photographer Tom Oldham, best known for his bold and soul-baring portraits of icons like Cristiano Ronaldo and Rick Rubin. Claire shares Tom’s top creative nudge: look at the world...

Ever felt stuck on a problem and wished you could look at it with completely fresh eyes? In this week’s Summer School Creative Nudge, Claire Bridges invites you to borrow brilliance from the most unexpected places whether it’s a magician’s art of misdirection or a Formula 1 pit crew’s lightning speed. Join us as we explore the Related Worlds tool, a favourite method for breaking creative ruts and...

Welcome to another bite-sized Creative Nudge from the Now Go Create Summer School! This week, host Claire Bridges invites you to break out of autopilot and see things from a different perspective. In this mini-episode, Claire shares a story of getting lost on her usual dog walk only to stumble upon a beautiful bullrush-filled lake. Her challenge: What if you could bring some of that serendipity, p...

Welcome to the first Creative Nudge of the Now Go Create Summer School! This week, host Claire Bridges invites you to try a powerful tool inspired by author Elizabeth Gilbert: the Creative CAT Scan. No medical equipment needed just five to ten minutes (and maybe a notebook) to look beneath the surface of your creative life. Instead of our usual full-length episodes, Claire is dropping bite-sized a...

Ready to boost your creative confidence and reset your habits this summer without overwhelm? In this special episode of Now Go Create, host Claire Bridges shares a brand-new (and totally free) resource: the Creative Nudge Summer School. Our routines change over summer. Whether you’re juggling kids on school holidays, diving into new client projects, or longing for some downtime, this time of year...

Ever wondered how the world’s best creative ideas are born and why some of them come from the unlikeliest places? In this episode of Now Go Create, host Claire Bridges sits down with ex-PepsiCo marketer Arif Haq to deconstruct some of this year’s most standout campaigns from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. We want to figure out how the work got made! From destigmatising herp...

What exactly is strategy and why does it seem so confusing (or intimidating) to so many of us? In this episode of Now Go Create, Claire Bridges talks to Julian Cole, the globally renowned strategy consultant and educator who has worked with brands like Uber, Apple, Facebook, and Disney. If the word ‘strategy’ makes you think of war generals, chess masters, or just gives you imposter syndrome, let...

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the pace of change at work, worried about AI or just not sure where your own career goes next? This episode of Now Go Create might be the creative inspiration you need. Claire is joined by Christopher Bishop, a self-styled “Chief Reinvention Officer,” ex-touring rock musician turned IBM exec, and now author of the new book Improvising Careers: Succeed at Jobs That Do...

What do you do when your brilliant idea just isn’t getting noticed? In this launch episode of our new “Creative Dilemmas” feature, Claire tackles Nicky’s real-life challenge: she’s poured her heart into designing and patenting the Wedgee Box, a beautiful, shoe-saving solution for travellers but isn’t seeing the sales or engagement she hoped for, especially on social media. Stuck in that all-too-fa...

How do you really know if an idea is any good? Can you truly judge creative work without getting tangled in your personal taste or letting your biases get in the way? In this episode of Now Go Create, I dig into the messy, often emotional process of evaluating creative ideas. It's award show season, and competition for gongs is fierce. I’m joined by my fellow judges for the Creative Moment Awards...

When’s the last time you broke a rule not recklessly, but smartly, strategically, and creatively? This week on Now Go Create, Claire Bridges explores the maverick mindset that drives creative breakthroughs, inspired by her conversation with Graham Goodkind (Frank PR) and high-jump legend Dick Fosbury, whose “Fosbury Flop” didn’t just win medals but changed the sport forever. Claire breaks down how...