by Joanna Pieters | Jun 4, 2019
This is for you if you have way more interests, skills and things you want to do that the rest of the world can really get their head round. Waqās Ahmed spent five years researching extraordinary people to write The Polymath, a book that flies the flag for living a...
by Joanna Pieters | May 21, 2019
Can you really become a million-selling novelist without a publisher or an agent? And if so, how? Author Mel Sharratt tells me how she went from redundancy to eleven best-sellers, and building the life as a full-time author that she’d dreamt of since childhood....
by Joanna Pieters | Apr 16, 2019
If there’s one thing that stops creative people releasing their full talents, it’s anxiety. When anxiety takes over, you say NO to things. You stop having great ideas. You don’t do the things that allow other people to experience your work. It...
by Joanna Pieters | Oct 30, 2018
The Times called Alan Rosenthal ‘one of Britain’s top foodies’ for his food columns and recipe books, his brand Stewed! and his work developing food and restaurants for big UK companies. Alan joins Joanna Pieters to talk about creating a life in food...
by Joanna Pieters | Oct 9, 2018
When Kathryn Nicolai decided to launch a podcast Nothing Much Happens: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, she didn’t plan much fuss or fanfare. After all, she was a yoga teacher, not a writer. Since she was a small child, she’d told herself bedtime stories to...