CL075: Yuri Cataldo on creative entrepreneurship and the starving artist

In this episode of The Creative Life Podcast I talk with Yuri Cataldo, a Boston based entrepreneur, designer and Director of the Creative Entrepreneurship program at Emerson College. After training at Yale in set and costume design he founded IndigoH20, a multiple award winning bottled alkaline water which recently won best tasting water in the world. […]
CL074: Violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou on the value of creative commitment

In today’s episode of The Creative Life Podcast I meet with London based concert violinist, wine aficionado and snowboarder, Yi-Jia (E Ja How) Susanne Hou who talks about the importance of creative commitment. Susanne also describes how she balances life despite a very busy touring schedule and why she is fascinated with wine and physics. “No matter […]
CL073: Mike Glauser on the rise of the Main Street Entrepreneur

In this episode of The Creative Life Podcast I talk with entrepreneur, author and academic Mike Glauser about the rise of the “Main Street Entrepreneur”. Mike Glauser is an entrepreneur, business consultant and Executive Director of the Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Over the […]
CL072: Thomas Lang on learning how to practise

In this episode of The Creative Life Podcast Los Angeles based session drummer and drum educator Thomas Lang talks about learning how to practise and structure an effective practise routine. Thomas discusses the importance of patience, the dangers of “fame by proxy”, and why its worth learning how to practise even before you learn how […]
CL071: Erin McKean on lexicography and how to give a TEDTalk

In this episode of The Creative Life Podcast I talk with Erin McKean about how to give a TEDTalk. She is a lexicographer and founder of Wordnik.com which is the world’s biggest online dictionary. Before founding Wordnik she was the editor-in-chief of American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press. Her goal is to make every word […]