People ask me when I am going to be finished my phd. How long is a piece of string, is usually my response. I’m not being glib, I just don’t know. I know it’s taking longer than I thought. I know it’s taking longer than I’d like. I know it’s taking longer than I hoped. […]
Are we being upfront about the risk?
Today I paid a visit to the bank to sit with an advisor. My current work as a part-time Professor at a college does not have a pension scheme and I wanted to open up an investment vehicle in which I could stash a few dollars each month towards buying myself diapers and gin […]
Can We Ever Really Come Home?
I’ve been asking myself that question for much of the past year. If you don’t know my story, I grew up in Canada. In 2002, I moved to the UK. In 2018, I moved back to Canada. I was gone for 16 years. In that time, I built a new ‘home’. I became a citizen […]
Why Forecasting the Future is a Fool’s Game
I’ve been cleaning up some papers lately (inspired by my binge watching of Marie Kondo on Netflix) and I came across a pile of newspaper clippings that I thought were worth keeping. The first one I read was from the London Evening Standard on Friday 19 September 2008 written just after the great banking […]
It’s Time To Dissect Working for Free
Recent research published by IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed found that 43% of their workers had worked for free. This rose to 86% of those in the creative industries. Now it doesn’t specify the timeline, i.e. is that 86% who have EVER worked for free or 86% who have recently […]
Being an Introvert in Business
I’m teaching an entrepreneurship class right now to University students on a performing arts degree course. There’s 19 of them in the class and they’re all in their early to mid-20’s. They’re bright, conscientious, and sparky. Some are goofy and loud and extroverted. Their personalities shine through, they love to talk up in class and […]
It’s OK to be small
I see advice all the time on ‘how to play big’ or ‘how to up your business game’ or how to ‘scale your business up to the next level.’ But what if that doesn’t interest you? What if you want a happy life instead of a busy life? What if you want ‘just enough’ instead […]
We Can’t Let Fear Win
This past weekend I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Theatre Educators’ Conference where I met a number of really great people who all teach theatre at different institutions in Ontario. For two days we talked about teaching acting, voice, dance etc – largely, but not exclusively, at the post-secondary level. Something I heard […]
Putting it on the back burner is not the same as forgetting about it
I’ve been burnt. It’s my fault that it happened, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating. You see, as you might be aware, I kinda put The Thriving Creative on the back burner 3 years ago when I got a full-time academic job. Between the job, 3 hours a day of commuting, and trying […]
Old Posts Are Like Old Photos
So you may have noticed that I have not been blogging much over the past few years. Or maybe you didn’t. Doesn’t matter. What does matter is that I find myself once again being drawn to putting some of my thoughts down on a page and out into the world. This is scary… and it’s […]
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