Creative Coach | Mark McGuinness
Coaching for Creative Professionals
Letterpress printer Nick Hand greets each working day in an Aladdin’s cave of cast-iron presses, wooden type and the rich scent of ink – a world away from the glow of a laptop screen. From …
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The 21st Century Creative returns with an extraordinary tale of reinvention – meet sculptor-mosaicist Rachael Que Vargas, formerly known as John T. Unger, whose fire-and-stone artworks have …
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Back in 2016 I outlined a fundamental strategy for your career as a 21st century creative professional: forget the career ladder, start creating assets. The argument I made, and that I make …
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However brilliant your craft, it will languish in obscurity if the right people never discover it. Yet marketing can feel baffling – or downright distasteful – to many creatives. Enter Ilise Benun, …
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When I started out as a self-employed psychotherapist and coach, in the mid-nineties, I was completely clueless about marketing. I thought it was the antithesis of my work - something commercial and …
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What does it really take to thrive as a one-person business? Czech business consultant Robert Vlach has spent two decades answering that question for thousands of independent professionals across …
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If you’re a self-employed creative, maybe you recognise this experience. You meet a business expert and get into conversation about your work. At a certain point they give you a sympathetic look, …
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Peleg Top built a thriving Los Angeles design agency creating album covers for the likes of Capitol Records – then walked away to discover what success really means. In this conversation he traces …
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What can a life of cycling round the world, rowing the Atlantic and busking penniless across Spain teach you about your own creative journey? British adventurer Alastair Humphreys has plenty of …
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