Big Juicy Creative
Big Juicy Creative is the show which nurtures your busy creative soul, so you thrive personally and professionally.
You could be in a ‘creative’ career, like marketing or the arts, or maybe you wish you did something more creative. This podcast will show you how, if you approach your life with creativity – a bit more openness, curiosity, self-expression, imagination - it will become bigger, juicier and more meaningful.
Creativity is about way more than painting or poetry, and this show brings you inspirational tales from beyond the creative department, from farming to fractions.
Your host, Suzy Bashford, is a freelance journalist, who writes about creativity among other things, a workshop facilitator and a speaker. As well as interviews, she’ll bring you shorter, solo podcasts where she sums up and test-drives the advice she’s given, reporting back to you with her trademark honesty.
Suzy is a mum on a mission to unleash our collective creativity so we can solve the world’s big problems… and we need buckets of creativity for that, so please get listening!
For more info:
www.bigjuicycreative.co.uk
IG: @bigjuicycreativeliving
FB: @bigjuicycreative
LI: Suzy Bashford
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 98
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Ep 097: Be more dog, with coach and energy expert Michael Overlie, founder of Dogs and Men
Dogs are zen-masters and intrinsically know how to unconditionally love and live big, juicy and creative. So, having just got a puppy, I've invited a coach who uses dogs to help people grow personall…
Ep 096: When the skin you're in doesn't feel right, including your gender; the colourful multi-creative career & story of Jo Sutherland
I've wanted to have a big juicy chat with someone who has transitioned gender for a while now. My two sons talk very openly about gender, and about people they know that don't feel right in their ski…
Ep 095: Living the scarytale instead of the dream, and how to rewrite your story, with public speaking champ Verity Price
Verity Price beat 30,000 other aspiring speakers to become Africa’s first Toastmasters world champion, and the 6th woman in 80 years to win the prestigious accolade.
In this funny, honest, sometimes …
Ep 094: How to be healthy & happy, with multi-creative GP Zain Kapasi
Ep 093: Writing to heal everything, from everyday frustrations to trauma, with author & coach Jackee Holder
I was totally awestruck when I first heard Jackee Holder speak. You could hear a pin drop in the massive room, so compelling was the way she told her story.
This generous, kind, beautiful soul refuse…
Ep 092: Back from the brink: why I fell off a creative cliff into a very large black hole & how I got out of it again
Ep 091: how to have those big juicy tricky conversations, with psychologist Sarah Rozenthuler
Ep090: Culture loves to pit women against women & it's toxic. It's got to stop. Here's why and how
Culture loves a good cat fight. Think Megan vs Kate. Angelina vs Aniston. It loves to make it seem like women are constantly hating on each other.
Besides from being bulls**t, it's really damaging to…
Ep089: Why and how good communications skills will make your entire life better, personally and professionally, with creativity campaigner Beth Collier
Beth Collier believes that when you improve your communications skills, you’ll improve everything. Your performance. Your relationships. Your life.
And she helps people do that. She even has her own …
Ep 088: Why (and how) we all need to slow down, for our own good, and the planet's, with pattern obsessive and designer Anna Murray
Since I’ve come out of lockdown I’ve felt like life has ramped up so quickly. I’m exhausted. I know if I keep going as fast, burn out is around the corner.
I know I’m not alone. There’s so much talk …
Ep 087: I get interviewed on my podcast (and it's probably my most honest interview yet - eek)
I'm usually the one doing the interviewing, but in this episode I get interviewed on my own podcast - and I realise how easy it is to blurt out stuff you've never admitted before on air, when you're …
Ep 086: Be brave enough to embrace the chaos of who we really are, masculine & feminine, with 'genderfabulous' fashion designer RobRoy SW
Fashion designer and gender fluidity campaigner RobRoy SW admits that he is stubborn. He is chaos. He is weird. And he's learnt that, rather than fight all these different parts of himself, he's much…
Ep 085: Why creating for creativity's sake has benefits way beyond just financial value (and why money can't buy some of them)
The biggest thing that stops us from creating for creativity's sake - like no one's watching, as I always advocate in this podcast's jingle - is often money. We measure 'value' and 'payback' so much …
Ep 084: Creativity to stop the spiral into depression or low(er) mood
Exhaustion and stress in personal relationships are two things that probably have the biggest detrimental effect on my creative mojo - and both of these things have been a feature in my life recently…
Ep 083: Stop talking about it, and JUST. DO. IT. Like I try to in this episode....
Artist Claire Macdonald (last week's episode - 82)'s work has really inspired me. She talks about how art is a gateway, for all of us, for understanding, empathy, connection, joy, play, meaning- so m…
Ep 082: How we can ALL create in a way that boosts our wellbeing, with artist Claire Macdonald
Claire has spent hours and hours researching the effect of art, and particularly creating art in collaboration with others, on wellbeing. But you just have to listen to this one hour to reap all the …
Ep 081: Don't judge me! But you will... here's how to handle judgement better
Ep 080: how creativity can help you heal, find your identity & live bigger, with professional dancer & (my!) teacher James Montgomery
Within a few minutes interviewing dancer James Montgomery we are talking about sexual fluidity, bullying and vulnerability - and how creativity can help you build your confidence and be who you reall…
Ep079: How to get over procrastination, so it doesn't steal your time or your dreams, with my mate Claire Merrick who has written a play
Procrastination is not only the thief of your time, it also robs your creative dreams and is associated with low self worth.
I am a massive procrastinator. That's why for this episode - another 'on l…
Ep 078: The courage to put yourself out there & how true friends will help you do that even if they're (slightly) jealous, with my multi-creative mate Eva Long
This is different from any other I've done because 1) it's Prosecco-fuelled and I've never hosted a podcast while tipsy 2) it's with one of my best mates, Eva Long, so there are no holds barred.
In e…