Hosted by David Speed · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 248 episodes
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David Speed hosts Creative Rebels, a arts show with 248 episodes published.
Creative Rebels is on mid season break but here is a bonus episode, as I was lucky enough to jump on a substack live with the amazing Seth Werkheiser from Social Media Escape Club. We spoke about mailing lists, in person
Daisy Fancourt is professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology and Head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at UCL. Her book Art Cure shows how art makes us happier, healthier and helps us live longer. Daisy has pub
I loved chatting with visual artist, Caitlin Winner about the modern realities of being an artist. We covered selling on instagram vs with galleries, why 10x is easier than 2x, learning from faliures and the type A appro
This week is a special Q&A episode. I answer your questions and worries about social media, ‘content’, galleries, failures, doom scrolling and the freedom of creative discipline. I hope this fires you up for 2026! Make s
Gabriel DeSanti is building the world’s longest resume. He has worked as a mural painter, a delivery driver, a dog walker, a wedding dress designer, a wiener-man and lots more. Each week he goes to work with someone new,
Bee was an elite swimmer as a child. They bring the determination and resiliance to their art career as they share their ups and downs through the work they make. This episode covers; approaching creativity as an athlete
This podcast has helped me so much over the last year. I hope it’s helped you too! This week we speak to the legend, Alex Brychta, the illustrator who drew over 600 Biff, Chip and Kipper kid’s books. You can check out hi
JOY! Collective is a creative production house from London, who specialise in huge public art projects. They describe themselves as an ‘outsource-able art department’. They began as mural painters in 2010 and focused on
This is one of my favourite discussions, with one of the most iconic designers of all time - Peter Yee We discuss how pain tolerance is essential in a creative career in fact, the path of the creative is one of the most
There have been three episodes of this show this year that have had a real impact on the art I’m making - podcasts with Luisa Omielan, Oliver Jeffers and this week’s episode with Alex Chinneck. Alex makes huge, incredibl
This week you’re going to feel like you’re in the studio, listening in. I chatted to Frisbie about the realities of being an artist, from pouring time into big pieces to the pressures of posting on social. If you’ve not
Lava La Rue is the definition of a multi-hyphenate, they are a musician, a director, a designer and artist. In this episode we spoke about DIY culture and the idea that if you’re obsessed with what you do, you can build
I was sitting at my kitchen table. Beans, my tiny cavapoo, was asleep on my lap. 4.29pm. 1 minute until the podcast is due to start. I go through the usual checks - mic is connected. Camera is on. My hat isn’t crooked. I
I started a podcast as a hack. I wanted to speak to my heroes. If you email Seth Godin, Debbie Millman or Oliver Jeffers and ask for an hour of their time, the answer will probably be no. A podcast is the cheat code to h
Jason Naylor is an artist, a designer and muralist known in New York for his bright colour palette and messages of positivity. He and I are both visual artists, our art carries similar messages of kindness and hope and o
Dr Rebecca Marks jokes that we shouldn’t listen to what critics and art historians say, but some of her unique takes in this interview, have been rattling around my brain since our discussion. Rebecca is an art historian
It’s time to take yourself seriously. It’s time to give those silly little drawings or that silly little writing the respect it truly deserves. No longer will we be delusional. We are going to stop running from the villa
This week I sit down with Quyen Dinh aka The Parlor Workshop The TikTok algo served me up one of Quyen’s incredible creations and I knew I had to try and get some time with this wonderland creator! We spoke about Quyen’s
Creatives can learn so much from comedians. If a painting, a piece of writing or a sculpture goes wrong for us at least it doesn’t go wrong on stage in front of 100 people. All artists are bearing their soul to an audien
I’m excited to let you into the room to hear a discussion I was lucky enough to be a part of recently. I’ve just completed an artist residence at the University of Warwick, called ‘Retreat to Create’ as well as creating
Seth Werkheiser
SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB
2 appearances on this show
Daisy Fancourt
Professor of Psychobiology & Epidemiology · UCL
1 appearance on this show
Bee
The Zine Witch · Life, Love and Travel
1 appearance on this show
Oliver Jeffers
1 appearance on this show
Liz Miele
1 appearance on this show
Sophie Tea
1 appearance on this show
Adam Aleksic
the Etymology Nerd · unclear
1 appearance on this show
Brandon Novak
Pro Skateboarder, Best Selling Author
1 appearance on this show
Nishant Jain
BJain Pharmacy
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