Rebel, Reject, Create!

Enjoying these interviews? please consider supporting me financially by signing up for my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidchislett . After she finished her Business Bachelor studies, life just happened to bring all the right opportunities to Eszter and she took them. She started teaching part-time and found that her true calling is to find ways to teach so that students have fun. Using all t...

This episode features Play expert and all-round fun(nny) guy Jeff Harry. Play is fun, but make no mistake, Jeff delivers some serious advice in this interview! Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges through embracing a play-oriented approach to work. Jeff was selected b...

Creativity is not only about fantastical imaginings! In this episode, I talk to data analyst and poet, Sudhanya Mallick. Sudhanya is a computer science engineer with over fifteen years of experience in corporate. She hails from India and her work took her to many countries, learning and growing into a data architect today. She is passionate about data and emotions. Science, rational reasoning, ana...

Johnny Muteba founded the Pan African Chamber of Commerce in 2015 in Johannesburg/South Africa. He has over 15 years of work experience in media, entertainment, entrepreneurship, trade, social impact and human rights.   He is a global thought leader with a proven track record to lead multicultural teams and deliver outstanding results and as an in-depth understanding of business networking, negoti...

Catherine is a Lean and Leadership Coach. Her work involves training and coaching executives and teams in organizations of all types and sizes. Catherine's approach is strategic, enthusiastic and empathetic. Through collaborative methods, Catherine facilitates people and organizations to find practical and long-lasting solutions to their problems. Catherine brings a balance of process and peop...

David McQueen is passionate about developing leaders. A family man first, he is the husband of one, father of two, and friend of many. He has founded and cofounded a number of businesses including Q Squared, Black Founders Hub, and Evermoor, and sits as a Non-Exec on the advisory board of many companies offering support on leadership and financial competence. In his work as an Executive Coach, Fac...

In this deep dive episode, I dive into some of the insights from Cliff around songwriting and explore how that works in other areas of life: business, problem solving, and innovation. He really drops bombs of inspiration in that interview, so this deep dive is intense! Listen to the original interview here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-chislett/episodes/Cliff-Goldmacher-Creating-T...

In this episode of Rebel, Reject, Create, I talk to Cliff Goldmacher about the power and adaptability of songwriting, and how composing a song is a metaphor for many things in life. Cliff Goldmacher is a GRAMMY-recognized, #1 hit songwriter, music producer and author. His book, The Reason For The Rhymes: Mastering The Seven Essential Skills of Innovation by Learning to Write Songs, encapsulates th...

In this episode, I dive deep into something Chrissy said in her interview episode about how linear the way the world works is... and then it gets toasty! Find her Original interview HERE! Chrissy is a London-based Creative Director, she studied graphic design and communications at the Royal College of Art here in London. She’s won a number of industry awards for branding, is a TEDx speaker, a newl...

Chrissy is a London-based Creative Director, she studied graphic design and communications at the Royal College of Art here in London. She’s won a number of industry awards for branding, is a TEDx speaker, a newly published Amazon best-selling author who believes creative thinking is vital for us to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Now Founder & Creative Director for Creative Conscience...

Graeme Codrington is a futurist, scenario planner and an expert on the future of work. With six best-selling books to his name, and clients in over 100 countries, he helps organisations anticipate the forces that will shape their industries in the future, and prepare for disruptive change today. Creativity is about new things - new ideas. This is at the heart of the work I do in helping people to...

Josuël Rogers is a life & executive coach, speaker and podcast host. He is someone who values interpersonal relationships and his passion lies in helping others become their best selves. As a personal and executive coach, he uses his analytical skills and creativity to help others overcome their challenges. He has a love for the Hip Hop culture, and realising the lessons and mindset insights t...

Talking with Judith Germain is always fun and in her original interview (season 1, episode 7) she said some very cool things about Creativity, innovation and her idea of herself as creative... So in this Deep Dive episode, I revisit some of those thoughts. Judith Germain is the authority on Maverick Leadership. She is an author, consultant, trainer as well as a C-Suite and business Mentor, and spe...

In this episode, I go somewhat deeper into some of the things Amy said during her interview with me (season 1 episode 6)... including the topic of COLLABORATION! Amy Shelver is on a mission to help the 30 million-plus creative workers around the world get better at business. She herself is a creativity-obsessed communicator and serial ideator with a passion for doing cool things, the written word,...

Catherine is a Shooper… she is on a mission to find more ways in life to let go and express yourself. SHOOP is positive, up-beat, ambitious, out of your comfort zone experiences. When you do them, with others, random and surprising things happen - your heart beats and you let go. What came before SHOOP? For 8 years Catherine was the CEO of an NHS funded mental health service- Designs in Mind. Her...

Erinch Sahan is transforming the deep design of business to embed regenerative & distributive goals. He Talks about #socent, #fairtrade, #sustainability, #socialenterprise, and #doughnuteconomics. He has spent his career trying to understand and promote social enterprises, cooperatives and other alternatives to profit-primacy business models. Here's the link to the tool that any business o...

Lois Holzman is co-founder and director of the East Side Institute, an international research and education centre for social therapeutics and performance activism—two approaches to ensemble creativity for self- and world transformation. For fifty years she has helped to build, worked with, and supported grassroots organizations working for progressive change and social justice. Lois is both an ac...

During his interview episode with me, Muyiwa boldly said that our education system is BROKEN! I happen to agree. In this episode, I dive deep into what this all means and WHY it is such an issue. Find Muyiwa online here: CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE CERTIFICATION COURSE https://glcicc.com/ LinkedIn @Muyiwa Fasakin (MF) FACEBOOK @Muyiwa Fasakin

Elise Keith is the founder and CEO of Lucid Meetings, a meeting innovation company dedicated to making it easy for teams to run successful meetings every day. In 2020, Lucid Meetings was recognized as one of the top-10 global influencer brands on the topic of remote work and virtual meetings. In 2023, Elise and David Mastronardi from the Gamestorming Group joined forces to host the New Rules for W...

Muyiwa Fasakin is Creative Intelligence expert and has certified 81 coaches from 20 counties of the world. He is the founder of GLCICC Texas USA and the School of Creativity and World Change Summit. He is the First African Advisory Board Member of the United Nations World Creativity and Innovation Day. Find Muyiwa online here: CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE CERTIFICATION COURSE https://glcicc.com/ LinkedIn...

Pinar is an actor, voice-over artist and yoga devotee. In her interview with me HER E, she described several important insights from her acting discipline. In this episode, I dive into these insights in order to mine them for other insights and explanations of HOW you can also achieve outstanding results using her tips. Find Pinar online here: https://www.instagram.com/pinar.karaaslan.official htt...

Pinar Karaaslan is a Turkish-Swedish actress. Besides being an actress, Pinar is a storyteller and international voice-over artist. She is also a certified yoga teacher and loves bouldering and playing beach volleyball while dreaming of riding horses. Find Pinar online here: https://www.instagram.com/pinar.karaaslan.official https://www.facebook.com/pinarkaraaslanofficial https://www.youtube.com/c...

In this deep dive I actually only dive into 3 things Michael said... Frankly, these were so loaded, that was enough for one episode. Michael is driven by curiosity: what happens next? What if I did this? I haven’t done it before, so I want to try it out... Why do so people do this? Why are we so easily discouraged by small gains? Or by the equally small setbacks? Why are we so set in our ideas of...

This Rebel, Reject, Create interview is with Michael Dean Dargie. Describing himself, Michael says, ' The title on my business card says "Creative Zealot." For the last 20 years, curiosity and adventure have fueled my mission to help entrepreneurs and businesses show up like the "big guys." I've developed several workshops and programs to help entrepreneurs and business...

In the previous episode, I chatted with creative director and rockstar Rob McLennan. he said a few epic and important things during our conversation that I really wanted to unpack, so that's what this episode is all about. For example: How creativity tends to converge all skills (even non-artistic ones) How a balance between self-doubt and self-belief is essential in a creative career of any k...