Elevenses with CEC: Recent Episodes
Creative Entrepreneurs Club
A monthly podcast featuring Creative Entrepreneurs from across the landscape doing interesting and amazing things to make the world a little more colourful.
Each month we welcome a different guest to join us and share their expertise, their journey and their perspective. To broaden our understanding and approach and learn from their experiences.
It’s International Men’s Day on November 19th and we’re celebrating the best way we know how… by talking to two men who are experts in being men and helping men! Sounds good right?
We’re concerned that international Men’s Day doesn’t get the recognition that it deserves so this month on Elevenses with CEC we’re spending time with Joe Anderson and John Robertson, co-founders of the men’s collective The Men Who: to figure out why exactly that is and what needs to change. Is every day already men’s day or do they deserve more credit than that?
Join us for this informative episode of the podcast where we’ll discuss everything from mental health to inequality, the patriarchy to politics, what it means to be a man in modern-day society and the importance and impact of growing healthy connections and encouraging open communication.
To help us put healthy habits in place and manage our energy this December, we’ve invited our favourite mental health expert Charley Gavigan back to Elevenses with CEC. Set yourself up to succeed this winter by set healthy boundaries, realistic expectations and trigger recognition to avoid the usual holiday season traps during this enormously practically and relevant episode.
This month Elevenses with CEC welcomes celebrated grain scientist, prominent human rights activist and proud Scotsman, Sir Geoff Palmer to the podcast to discuss the important role that education plays in ending racism and creating an equal and diverse future.
Uprooting your life, loved ones and your business can seem daunting and for some, it may seem totally unthinkable, but it's not impossible. In this month's Elevenses with CEC, host Medeia Cohan is joined by award-winning entrepreneur and author Jessica Huie MBE, to discuss the motivation and realities of relocating to their dream locations.
From booking DJ’s at long-standing night, The Rhumba Club in Scotland and The Gardening Club in London, to working with some of the world’s biggest stars, including Madonna, Kylie, Britney Spears, Metallica, Stevie Wonder and Snoop Dogg, Keith Howison has forged a solid career in talent booking and festival organisation over his 30 years in the music events industry. A founding member of award-winning UK festivals Bestival and Camp Bestival, he has been involved with both since 2004.
We’re switching things up a little this month on Elevenses with CEC as we welcome Creative Director, Production Designer and Art Director Andrea McSwan and Director of The Noble Sage, the UK’s first gallery to specialise exclusively in South Asian contemporary art, Jana Manuelpillai to jointly discuss their views on assumptions, expectations and representation of disability.
Join us on Elevenses with CEC for a very timely special edition with The Realness in Business founder Katty Janneh for Craft your way to Christmas; Your guide to how you can prepare yourself for this festive time of year.
Join us this month on Elevenses with CEC as we tackle these big questions with Jamie Anley, founder of creative agency JAM and co-Director of Beautiful Corporations, a consultancy supporting global businesses to make big positive change. With a wealth of experience, Jamie will share his unique approach to leadership, giving insight into his fascinating career thus far and what drives him to do business with global positive impact at its core.
This month we are very excited to be joined on Elevenses with CEC by one of the founding Co-Directors of Sanctuary Queer Arts, Fraser Macleod, who is keen to use this platform to talk about mental health support for those who create safe spaces for others – a subject particularly close to our hearts.
On this episode of Elevenses with CEC we are thrilled to welcome sustainable finance and climate action expert, Meryam Omi. Meryam has been seconded to play a crucial role in the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) taking place this November in Glasgow and although environmental issues and global conferences may not seem like a natural fit within the confines of CEC, we feel like these are major issues that affect all of us and as such we need to pay attention and get involved where we can.
On this episode of Elevenses with CEC we are excited to welcome social entrepreneur Kevin Osborne who has spent the last 30 years as a leader, producer and developer in the arts and creative industries supporting BAME talent.
Kevin has recently founded Create Equity, an investment fund that aims to redress investment disparities in the arts, social enterprise and commercial industries by supporting a new generation of BAME entrepreneurs and businesses.
This week on Elevenses we’re joined by internationally published illustrator and celebrated artist, Sarah Walsh. Sarah’s keen to speak honestly about her journey thus far, managing her success, juggling a waiting list of client projects, making time to pursue her own creative ventures and landing the dream job of re-imagining Roald Dahl’s classic novel Matilda.
This week on Elevenses with CEC we speak with multidisciplinary creative mastermind, Louise McGettrick about fearlessly traversing creative sectors and working with agents to pursue her wildest creative dreams. Successful children’s author, turned mother of Fugglers and now mother to a real-life monster, Louise will pull back the curtain on her journey from building her career, losing her mentor, changing creative directions, selling it all and starting again.
This week on Elevenses, we chat with hope-a-holic, Charley Gavigan, who is learning every day to ditch her terrifying fears, anxieties and self-defeating beliefs in order to practice living and leading her bravest life. As Co-founder and coach at Brave Your Day, Charley supports people to lead mentally healthier and braver lives in uncertain times, something we could all benefit from.
This week on Elevenses with CEC, we’ll be speaking with powerhouse entrepreneur and drinks industry disrupter, Frankie Snobel about exiting her cocktail business (Tipplesworth) and how agility led to success.