Creative Coach | Mark McGuinness
Coaching for Creative Professionals
This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is Gabriela Pereira, a writer and teacher who is on a mission 'to empower writers to take an entrepreneurial approach to their education and …
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This autumn it struck me that this is my 21st anniversary as a creative coach. In many countries, 21 is considered the age at which you become an adult, so it seems like a good time to reflect on the …
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This week's guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Jocelyn K. Glei, Founding Editor of 99U, author of Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done, and …
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This week's guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Steven Pressfield, author of the creativity classic The War of Art and a string of other bestselling fiction and nonfiction books. In …
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When you follow a creative path, you won't find any of the usual milestones of success. Unlike your friends who enter traditional jobs, with clear routes to promotion, finely calibrated pay grades …
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Let me guess: You're busy. You receive too many emails. You've got people coming at you every day, asking for things, urgently. You've got a head full of great ideas, but there's never …
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Image by Hugh MacLeod We are condemned to be free. (Jean-Paul Sartre) The great thing about working on your own is that there's no-one to tell you what to do or when to do it - when to …
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Drawings by Will Kemp Ever wanted to learn to draw? Have you daydreamed of just picking up a pencil and sketching? But inside there is a lingering doubt. A distant memory of a school …
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Photo by Andrew Magill When Charles Schwab became President of Bethlehem Steel in 1903, he made an unusual offer to his consultant, Ivy Lee: Show my staff and me a way to get more done in less …
