Creative Rebels

Gemma Cairney is an award winning broadcaster, author and documentary maker. Gemma’s work is always about people, communication and community. She is able to see the world as it is, to recognise problems but to overcome them with contagious positivity and DIY attitude. A key example of this is her business; after feeling like her ideas weren’t being heard she founded Boom Shakalaka Productions, to...

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Anna Fowler is a Fashion & Wedding Photographer. Anna inspires, brings confidence and helps her clients crush their insecurities. After 10 years in television Anna picked up the camera, discovered her passion and after all these years has never looked back. Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativerebels.substack.com/subscribe

Lucy Sheridan is the world’s first and only comparison coach. She helps her clients work out their own definition of success and teaches them how to kick the habit of constantly comparing themselves to others. This one is one of those episodes you’re going to want to listen to twice, it’s packed with so much valuable advice on how to kick out the ‘thief of joy’! Get full access to Creative Rebels...

Steph Elswood is an entrepreneur, a food and fitness blogger, a dancer and an advocate for body positivity. After struggling for years with an eating disorder, Steph started her road to recovery by posting pics of her meals on instagram. Over the years her account grew massively and opened many opportunities for her, to not only make a living but help lots of people along the way Get full access t...

Melissa Hemsley is a self-taught chef and a best-selling cookbook author who champions ‘real food’ and sustainability. In this episode we went way off menu and chatted on a bunch of different topics from coping with grief to the imposter syndrome around being seen as an expert. Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativerebels.substack.com/subscribe

This episode was such therapy for us! We confronted, head on, some of the totally crap parts of the current situation and how we’re dealing - and we all left smiling 😅 We Zoomed with @annacod and @tiffphilippou from 'Is This Working' Initially to talk about freelance issues but the conversation became much more than that. Worry Tree; https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/worrytree.htm Get full access to...

Tilly Walnes is the founder of Tilly and the Buttons, a sewing brand that offers sewing patterns and online classes, to help people make their own clothes. Tilly used to work a 'proper job' but turned an interest into a passion and her passion into a career. This episode is a masterclass in how to build a brand, a community and a successful business! Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativer...

Neil Rankin is a chef. He became well known for cooking BBQ, but has since started creating Vegan food as well. Neil went from studying sound engineering to becoming a well known chef and broke into the industry by working for free at 30 years old to learn his craft. It's an inspiring story of grit and determination. Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativerebels.substack.com/subscribe

'Is this Working' with @annacod and @tiffphilippou is one of our favourite podcasts, so we were super honoured to be invited on as guests for their season finale! We dived into some really big topics around creativity, work and happiness. If you enjoy this episode please let ITW know and have a binge of their show :D Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativerebels.substack.com/subscribe

Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis are host of the squiggly careers podcast, authors of the Squiggly Career book and founders of Amazing If. Their mission is to make work better. Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativerebels.substack.com/subscribe

Paul Kemp-Robertson is the co-founder of Contagious, a multi-platform marketing resource. Paul is a global marketing expert and in his book the Contagious Commandments he breaks down what it takes to make a brand, or essentially a story or message, contagious and how good ideas are spread. Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativerebels.substack.com/subscribe

Bruce Daisley is the former VP of EMEA for Twitter. He was instrumental in the growth of the social media network over the eight years that he was there and became interested in the dynamics of teams and company culture within the organisation. This interest led Bruce to start the Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat podcast and ultimately to write his book 'The Joy of Work'. Get full access to Creative Rebel...

Liz Earle is a writer, presenter and entrepreneur. After selling 'Liz Earle Beauty Co' to Boots in 2017 she could have retired to an Island to sip pina colada's, instead, she threw herself into start-up life, and founded Liz Earle Wellbeing. Her company creates content around all areas of wellbeing, food, health and beauty, and is founded on Liz's passion for working out how we can all live better...

Our guests this week for our Valentine’s Day special are Florence and Reed from Come Curious. The duo has been making YouTube videos since 2015. Come Curious are on a mission to normalise the conversations around sex, to educate and help people better understand their bodies, their feelings and their relationships and to eradicate the shame and stigma that so often hangs around the topic. Get full...

Andria Zafirakou is an art and textiles teacher from North London, who is a 'Global Teachers Prize' winner. Andria used the prize money of $1m to set up Artists In Residence, an artist residency programme that gives young people the chance to work with professional creatives and see the opportunities available for careers in the creative industries. Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativere...

Mike Winnet is a fictional character. He is a content creator who goes after online 'gurus' or as he calls them 'contrapreneurs' ™ who use exploitative tactics to sell their courses, mastermind programmes and mentorship. The real Mike sold his company for $11m and this chat is a fascinating look at what it takes to actually get rich and how it feels once you get there. Get full access to Creative...

Lauren Bravo is a freelance journalist and author. Her new book 'How to Break Up With Fast Fashion' does a couple of things. As well as highlight the shocking statistics of just how much fast fashion is screwing the planet , it also offers up practical solutions we can all implement as well as looking at our spending habits and how we've got into this mess in the first place. This is a fascinating...

Amanda Palmer is a rockstar, an artist, an activist, a writer, and a TED speaker If you google Amanda, you'll find a lot of articles that focus on the brash Amanda 'Fucking' Palmer rockstar persona. You'll find her mistakes, well documented and you'll find outrage that she has the audacity to ASK her people to support her. We didn't interview the rockstar. We interviewed an artist who understands...

Alastair Humphreys is an adventurer! He's also a motivational speaker, an author, a #1 podcaster. He has cycled around the world covering 46000 miles in four years, he has rowed across the Atlantic ocean and has busked his way around Spain, with no back-up money (or musical talent). You can find his podcast 'Living Adventurously' on any podcast platform and his book 'Doorstep Mile' Get full access...

One year ago Emma Gannon helped put Creative Rebels on the map as our first ever guest! We are so happy to welcome Emma back onto the show to talk about everything she's been up to in the past year and how her confidence has grown since turning 30. Emma is a podcaster, a best selling author, a speaker, and a true multi-hypenate (she should know, she wrote the book). Emma has just written her first...

😮 IT’S OUR LAST EPISODE OF SERIES ONE! (Don’t worry, Series 2 kicks off with a massive bang next week!) This episode we decided to take a look back at some of our favourite shows from the past year (yes, we’ve been making Creative Rebels for a whole year). We discuss some key guests and major takeaways we got from their interviews. Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativerebels.substack.com...

Clare Pooley is a blogger and a novelist. Her book ‘The Sober Diaries’ is an account of her journey from drinking over a bottle of wine a day to quitting completely - an incredibly difficult task. Clare coped by blogging her ups and downs and built a supportive network around her. Blogging reignited her love for writing and Clare’s first novel ‘The Authenticity Project’ is out in spring of 2020 Ge...

🚨 Whatever it is you’ve been thinking of doing, START. Whatever you’re working on, KEEP GOING. 💪 Most people fail, because they stop. Or they don’t start at all. Give every thing you have and be proud that you’re making the world better and that you’re the kind of person that Is always creating. Get full access to Creative Rebels at creativerebels.substack.com/subscribe

🗣 Marketing is a skill that many creatives are pretty bad at. We love making things, but we’re rubbish at telling people they exist. We don’t want to beg or brag so we say “I’ll let the work speak for me”.  👣 Unfortunately, in most cases, if you build it they will NOT come. You have to tell them about it and carry them there. This is where good marketing comes in. Get full access to Creative Rebe...