Creative Reboot

Welcome to Creative Reboot and season 4! We can't wait to share this first interview of the fourth season with you. It's a great one, full of awesome inspiration (we hope!). In this episode, we're talking to the lovely Eve Calderbank, Principal Economic Growth Officer at Essex County Council all about supporting women in business. Eve shares with us her motivations behind what she does and how she...

Welcome back to Creative Reboot and the first episode of season 4! We're delighted and amazed to be back for a fourth season. It's been a tough journey to get here, we can tell you! We're starting the season with a topic that has been at the forefront of our minds this year, as we grow our businesses. We're talking all things Business Boundaries in this first episode - the importance of them, the...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! Welcome to our final episode of the season! And for this episode we've decided to tackle the big one, the thing no one ever likes talking about. It's the ultimate dirty word.... MONEY! Or, more accurately, money mindset. It's a topic we're both super passionate abou...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! We're super excited to share this final guest episode of the season with you, because Eli speaks so wonderfully about the power of connection. In this episode, she shares everything she knows about community and how running your business is so much more than just ab...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! As a kind of follow up to Episode 4: Legacy Planning, we tackle another big topic today that so many creative business owners don't ever really think about until the unthinkable happens - Emergency Planning! Do you know what you would do if you were suddenly taken i...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! As creative souls, the last thing you might think you need is a system. But we're here to prove you wrong with the very lovely and knowledgable Andrea Jordan, business strategist and fellow photographer. Andrea talks to us about all things systems - honestly, there'...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! For the last 2 seasons, we kept going on and on about how we would have to do an episode about procrastination. And after procrastinating over talking about procrastination for long enough, the episode is finally here! Yes, the irony is not lost on us. We talk about...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! It's time for the episode with two Carlas! That's because this week we've got the very lovely Carla Thomas from Carla Thomas Photography talking to us all about side hustling whilst also working a full-time job. Carla has been running her wedding photography busines...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! A bit of a different episode from us this week. We get a little more introspective as we take a look at the concept of legacy planning and how that relates to our creativity. We come at this from two very different angles - Carla has thought about this a lot and mad...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! We are super excited to share this episode with you today. Because we've got the delightful and amazing Marianne Cantwell, the genius behind Free Range Humans, chatting with us all about using your uniqueness in your business. Honestly, it's an incredible episode, e...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! In this episode, inspired by one of our favourite books - Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert - we talk all about that undercurrent of fear that always seems to walk hand in hand with creativity. We discuss the kind of fears we might all be experiencing, or have experien...

It's Season 3 of the Creative Reboot podcast, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! We're kicking off the season with an awesome interview with the very lovely Cynthia Hauk from Mindful Creative Muse. Cynthia helps busy and self-critical women de-stress with simple and calming mindfulness and art workshops online, which we think sounds utterly amaz...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! This week is our final episode of the season! And we've saved an awesome interview with you for last because, honestly, Laura Mathias is one of the most inspiring people we've ever met.  Laura is a former colleague of Carla's and she has used lockdown to start embracing h...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! This week we tackle one of our all-time favourite subjects - books! We've been threatening to have one of these episodes since we started Creative Reboot and we're so thrilled to finally squeeze one in before the end of this season!  We're both prolific readers and we cov...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! This week we talk to the very lovely and talented Janine Swann web developer by day and writer and colour analyst by night. We talk about her creative journey into what might seem like some contradictory career choices and we focus quite significantly on the struggles we...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! This week we have the epic Becky Scott joining us, fat fitness instructor and founder of MissFits Workout (C), a safe, inclusive and joyful space to move your body. She’s also created a wonderful supportive community around her business, and everything she does sparkles w...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! We're over halfway through the season! This week we thought we’d have a good dive into making the leap – it’s an emotive and sometimes frustrating expression, but it’s something we all go through, so we thought we’d tackle it. We talk about that icky feeling you sometimes...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! This week's episode is a beautiful conversation with the very lovely Louise Livingstone. Louise talks to her heart, leads her business with her heart, and is the founder of the Heart Sense Research Institute. She tells us about looking at the world differently, and experi...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! This week it’s a bit of a ranty episode. Because we believe you can be professional by being yourself, even though the colour, swearing and personality we infuse into our respective businesses are actively discouraged in the working worlds we’ve left behind! You should kn...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! This week we tackle one topic that even we still struggle with quite frequently as creatives in our business - TIME. We talk about the hours of doing business from the perspective of doing what works for us and not allowing clients to dictate our time, as well as finding...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! We're so excited to share this episode with you because we get to welcome our first ever guest expert, the very lovely Kate Atkin who took some time out to come and speak with us about her specialist subject... Imposter Syndrome! Carla doesn't mind admitting she was a lit...

Welcome to Season 2 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers! We're incredibly excited about our new format for the podcast this year. And season 2 is just the first of 3 seasons we've got planned for 2021! We kick off with a bit of a look back at the years gone by, because that's just how we start with looking forwards. We review t...

Welcome to Ep. 17 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers. We're super excited to share this episode with you because it signifies a whole year of the Creative Reboot podcast! And what a year it's been! We're diving in by talking about the absolute hellaciousness (our new favourite word) that has been 2020, how we review the year g...

Welcome to Ep. 16 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers. We've got another great guest on for this episode. The awesome Megan Andersen from Rogue Bookkeeping rocked up to talk to us about all things money and numbers. And boy does this woman love her numbers! It might seem like an odd topic for a creative podcast, but we thought...

Welcome to Ep. 15 of Creative Reboot, the podcast for creative souls, small business owners, side hustlers and dream chasers. We thought it was about time that we went back to our roots and talked about something specifically related to creativity! In this episode, we talk all about creative confidence - what we think that is, whether we have it, how to develop it and, as always, we talk about the...