Fruitful Life
The fruitful life podcast is hosted by Ashwin Chacko a positively playful author, illustrator, and speaker. Ashwin chats with creators, illustrators, designer about their journey and how they turned their passions into a business, exploring themes of failure, passion, and success.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 27
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Fiona Woodcock
Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art Fiona is lucky enough to have always earned her living from drawing.
She started her career working in animation, but now specialises in picture books. Fion…
Benji Davies: Nurture Your Potential
Benji Davies is a picture book writer and artist. In his work he aims to capture how it feels to be a child. By immersing themselves in the stories he writes and illustrates, Benji hopes that childre…
Jim Field: Expand Your Net
Jim Field is an award-winning illustrator, character designer, and animation director. From music videos and title sequences to advertising and picture books, Jim has worked on a variety of projects.
Matt Lebaron (Much Creative) : Do I need an Agent?
I talked with Matthew LeBaron, agent and founder of Much Creative, about his experiences and lessons learned from representing artists for over a decade. We dive into the ins and outs of having an ag…
Tad Carpenter : Practice of Play
Tad Carpenter is a designer, illustrator and author based in Kansas City. He run the Carpenter Collective with his wife Jessica with the focus of bringing powerful messages to life through branding, …
Don Clark: Work Hard, Do Good!
Don Clark is an illustrator and cofounder of Invisible Creature, a widely respected and award-winning design studio based in Seattle, Washington. He has worked with clients such as Target, Pixar, NAS…
Dave Bain: A Foundation of Community
Dave Bain is a Bristol based Illustrator and Muralist. His work spans across the editorial and advertising world. His approach is distinctively colourful, expressive and inspired by screenprinting, j…
Maser Slow your Hustle
Maser, truly embodies the centric spirit of contemporary visual art in Ireland today. Creating artwork since 1995, over the last 25 years Maser has generated a large and dedicated following both in I…
Dapo Adeola: Stay Curious
Dapo Adeola is an award-winning illustrator and designer who creates characters and images that challenge expectations around race and gender in a fun and upbeat way. He is the co-creator and illustr…
Paul Delaney: Everyone is winging it!
Paul Delany is an award-winning designer and most recently an illustrator. From building brands, to crafting visual stories Paul can do it all. We chat about his career and his transition from the wo…
Kieron Lewis - Design in Community
Kieron is south London born freelance graphic designer, host on Adobe Live and public speaker with a BA (Hons) within Graphic Arts. His core skill sets include Editorial design, Marketing, Branding a…
Graham Thew: Enjoy The Process
Graham Thew is an award-winning Book Designer at the forefront of Book Design in Ireland. With a career that spans 25 years, we dive into how he was catapulted into the world of publishing as he left…
Murugiah: Pursuing Passion
Welcome to the Fruitful Life
MURUGIAH is an award-winning multi & interdimensional artist in London, UK exploring identity & awe & everything inbetween based in London, U.K. Born in England & raised …
Amy & Jen Hood: Bootstrapping It To The Top
Amy & Jen Hood are the co-founders of Hoodzpah a collaborative branding and type studio based out of Southern California. They create to delight the disenchanted, defy the ordinary, and decipher the …
James Martin: Effort is Free
Welcome to the Fruitful Life!
James Martin aka Made by James is a prolific creative, logo wiz, author, co founder of Baby Giant co and a lot more. He has helped hundreds of companies around the wor…
William Warren: The Conquering Creative
Welcome to the Fruitful Life where we discuss the business of creativity.
William Warren, Founder & CEO of The Sketch Effect which is based in Atlanta, has plenty of real stories and hard-earned ins…
Sarah Boris Art & Activism
Welcome to the Fruitful Life where we discuss the business of creativity.
Sarah Boris is an artist and designer based in London.
After working for over ten years for world renown arts and publishing …
Jason Naylor: Consistency is Key
Welcome to the Fruitful Life where we discuss the business of creativity.
Jason is an award-winning artist, designer, and creative director based in Brooklyn. After earning a BFA in graphic design fr…
Michael Emberley: Don't Do It For The Fame
Welcome to the Fruitful Life where we discuss the business of creativity.
Michael Emberley has been an author and award winning illustrator of children's books for over 40 years. He is known for his …
Rob Lowe: Supermundane
Welcome to the Fruitful Life where we discuss the business of creativity.
Rob Lowe AKA illustrator Supermundane is an artist, graphic designer, typographer, illustrator and writer with over 20 years …