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Today I’m so excited and conversation with Emma Willmer! We cover all of my favourite topics and we do a deep dive into taking an unconventional path, and an unconventional approach to productivity, and bringing compassion into our lives. **Get your pickle answered for the new podcast, Creative Pickle, here!**   About Emma Willmer: Emma is a compassionate coach and positive psychologist, and is on a mission to empower empathetic women who are tired of feeling stuck, feel suffocated by societal expectations, and want to stop second guessing themselves and sacrificing their own wellbeing for the sake of others. Emma uses her voice to help advance the dialogue on the effects on women of inter-generational sexism, healthy relationships and living a joyful life.  Emma's Website | Instagram     About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast   I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel-rouser for creative and multi-pas

This week I’m so excited to share my conversation with Sam Isles who is all about helping people get out of your head and into their life! This is such a practical episode full of ways to overcome overthinking and practise everyday mindfulness!   **Get your pickle answered for the new podcast, Creative Pickle, here!** About Sam Isles: Sam is based in the UK, and is a friendly, practical, no nonsense life and mindfulness coach, and she is all about helping overthinkers manage their frustrations and move forward confidently. Sam has this saying that I absolutely love, and it's all about getting out of your head, and into your life. Sam is passionate about helping others. She's worked many jobs to find the right path - she's been on this path for a decade, fuelled from a desire to help overthinkers, and to continue learning and growing.   Sam's Website | Sam's Insight Timer     About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast   I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of T

Whew! It's been a while! On today's episode I'm talking about the future of Couragemakers and have an exciting new announcement!   **Get your creative pickle answered here!   About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast! I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel-rouser for creative and multi-passionate women to do the things only they can do and build a wholehearted life. When I'm not recording episodes, writing bullshit-free Letters of Rebellion to my wonderful Couragemakers community or hosting workshops/group programmes, I'm usually covered in paint or walking my wonderfully weird cockapoo Merlin. Website | Instagram | The Couragemakers Podcast | Letters of Rebellion | Rebel Creators

This week I'm joined by the wonderful Helen Jones! We chat about Helen's experiences as a bisexual disabled woman, retiring in her 20s, reconfiguring her life, and the influences behind the first ever Quiet Pride event.   **Check out the Rebel Creators Community! It's £12 per month and is full of community, fabulous resources and a private podcast!**   About Helen Jones:   Helen is a disabled, bisexual woman living in York, England. She's been called an encyclopedia of weirdness, in the nicest of ways! She's curious about the world, passionate about learning and a compassionate activist. She writes about nature, disability, sexuality and tarot, she is a perpetual student and describes herself as finding herself, and I am finding her way through a prickly, untrodden path.   Helen's Website | The Quiet Pride Manifesto      About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast   I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel

This week I'm joined by one of our fabulous Rebel Creator Claire Frances Turner! Claire shares her journey of conscious transformation, and we discuss how hard it can be to move on from dreams, either through choice or circumstance. **Check out the Rebel Creators Community! It's £12 per month and is full of community, fabulous resources and a private podcast!**   About Claire Frances Turner:   Claire is a writer, spiritual philosopher, and a creative advocate for disabled young adults. Claire specialises in conscious self-transformation and is working on a project series called Illness my Teacher, beginning with Soul Evolution via Illness: awareness, identity, and formal and informal meditation. Alongside her writing and spiritual work, she is studying web development.   Claire's Website | Instagram | Claire's newsletter | 101 Spaces | Illness my Teacher |     About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast   I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers.

For the first episode of 2023, I'm chatting with the fabulous paper crafter, and community leader Rachel Warrillow. We dive into creativity, how hard it can be to let go of old dreams, and the path to stepping into our zone of genius. Enjoy!   *Sign up for my weekly Letters of Rebellion here!*     About Rachel Warrillow:   Rachel is the the founder of The Quirky Quillers, and is on a mission to mission to inspire and encourage others to enrich their lives with more creativity, and to find community and connection with other crafters.   Rachel lives in a beautiful spot in a village called Heptonstall, at the top of a hill in West Yorkshire, having returned to her home county after 21 years away and is at her happiest when she's making things, thinking about making things or talking about making things. Crafting is her passion, therapy, business, and a way to connect to the world. She adores pattern and colour, her rescue cats, books, being in her pyjamas and amazing vegan food.   The Quirky Quillers | The Qui

For the last Couragemakers episode of 2022, I'm so excited to share my conversation with Consie Sindet! We chat all about keeping creative joy in our lives, finding a job that suits you and building a life you love. Enjoy! **Check out the Rebel Creators Community! It's £12 per month and is full of community, fabulous resources and a private podcast!**   About Consie Sindet:   Consie is from South Carolina and she has a day job as a bookkeeper, and runs a business as a creativity coach and teacher called Atop Serenity Hill. She uses mixed media art journaling to help herself and others play, have fun and find themselves through the process of creating. She loves hiking, kayaking, practicing yoga, reading and hanging with her husband.   Consie's Website | Instagram | Youtube | Rebel Directory     About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast   I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel-rouser for creative and mu

Today I'm chatting to our wonderful Rebel Creator, Clare Sutton! We chat all about Clare's journey to discovering what she wants to do, and her process of finding and living by her values. **Check out the Rebel Creators Community! It's £12 per month and is full of community, useful resources and a private podcast!**   About Clare Sutton   Clare Sutton is a multi-passionate human, and always looking for ways she can grow, develop and generally make the most of life. Clare is fascinated by people, and strongly believes in the power of connection, community and creativity. This has been a common thread through her career in the arts and charity sectors and now into coaching. She is also a very proud and appreciative friend, sister, daughter and partner to the most amazing humans.   Clare's website and anti-newsletter| Clare's Rebel Creators Directory| Instagram     About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast   I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rouse

Today I am delighted to share my conversation with Tori Ames. We chat about Tori's process of rebuilding her life, changing our definition of success and holding onto our intangible wins. **Check out the Rebel Creators Community! | My fabulous group coaching program One Woman Band is now open! Click here to find out more!**   About Tori Ames   Tori is an artist and colour loving creative living in Norwhich, UK. Tori describes her life as an adventure so far and hopefully will always continue to be whether it be in her life or in her art. She is passionate about more things (well more experiences than things) than she could list but boiled down, they would probably all have a thread of connection, laughter, exploration, sunshine & creativity running through them. Tori has a never-ending thirst for variety, kaleidoscopes of changing sights, sounds, experiences and wonderful people in her life, which makes for a very busy life, but one that fuels rather than zaps energy from her.   Tori's Facebook | Tori's

This week I'm chatting to the joyful and colourful Emily Richardson! We chat about over achieving, living in the messy middle, and this episode is SUCH a tonic! Check out the Rebel Creators Community! About Emily Richardson   Emily is a tiny and colourful polyglot and host of the Language Confidence Project podcast. During the pandemic, she lost her job, her home, and two very important people, but she also founded a business, learned Portuguese, and released a series of language journals. Two years later, she is on the way to rebuilding a more colourful, creative and intentional life to help people realise they can learn a language, and they can do it in a way that feels enjoyable and meaningful.   Tea With Emily | Emily's Instagram | The Language Confidence Project Podcast | Emily's links   Resources: The Language Confidence Project Podcast The Secret OWL Society Youtube Episode 37: Blowing up your life, Bewildered Podcast   About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast   I’m Meg and I’m the host of T

Hello Couragemakers! Today I'm sharing my conversation with April Showers, CEO of Afro Unicorn™. We chat bout April's journey and the inspiration behind Afro Unicorn™, her mission to inspire fellow small business owners and this episode is like a masterclass in confidence! About April Showers and Afro Unicorn™ April Showers is a multiple business owner, single mother of two, and in May 2019, she started a movement of likeminded, black unicorns through apparel and accessories. She is the founder and CEO of Afro Unicorn™, a brand designed to remind women and children of colour how unique, divine and magical they are. In May 2022, she launched in Walmart as the first black woman and first black licensed brand in party supplies for a major retailer. Her goal from the beginning was to help normalise black beauty, give black and brown girls a unicorn that represents them and encourages them to love the skin that they're in and embrace the crown on their heads. Afro Unicorn™ Instagram | April's Instagram | LinkedIn

This week I'm SO excited to share with you my conversation with Anna Mould! We dive into our inner wisdom, the joys and perils of social media and we get honest about friendship breakups Resources: Anna's first book, Green Pigs & Me, and her latest book When Green Pigs Fly: (and other musings) are available now! Lisa Pascoe Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist Jeneva Rose, One of Us is Dead 7 Types of Rest, TedX talk by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith  Get in touch with Anna! Anna's membership Anna's Instagram Anna's Rebel Creators Directory Find out more about the Rebel Creators community here! | Sign up for my weekly Letters of Rebellion here! About Meg & Couragemakers I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel-rouser for creative and multi-passionate women to do the things only they can do and build a wholehearted life. When I'm not recording episodes, writing bullshit-free Letters of Rebellion to my

Couragemakers is back! And for real this time! In this short episode, I'm sharing what to expect from Couragemakers going forward, I'm catching you up to speed on what's going and what's been going on and, my goodness, it is good to be back! Sign up for my weekly Letters of Rebellion here! About Meg & Couragemakers I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel-rouser for creative and multi-passionate women to do the things only they can do and build a wholehearted life. When I'm not recording episodes, writing bullshit-free Letters of Rebellion to my wonderful Couragemakers community or hosting workshops/group programmes, I'm usually covered in paint or walking my wonderfully weird cockapoo Merlin. Website | Instagram | The Rebel Rousers Podcast| Letters of Rebellion | Rebel Creators

I'm delighted to share with you my conversation with Austin Kleon! We dive into owning your weird, how to show up even when you don't feel like it and how to stay true to yourself no matter what.

Couragemakers is BACK! There are exciting new changes and I'm excited to be embracing imperfection and letting go of needing to know all the answers! Sign up for my weekly Letters of Rebellion here! About Meg & Couragemakers I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel-rouser for creative and multi-passionate women to do the things only they can do and build a wholehearted life. When I'm not recording episodes, writing bullshit-free Letters of Rebellion to my wonderful Couragemakers community or hosting workshops/group programmes, I'm usually covered in paint or walking my wonderfully weird cockapoo Merlin. Website | Instagram | The Couragemakers Podcast | Letters of Rebellion |   

It's the final episode of the Big Magic book club! We're sharing our biggest and most favourite take-aways, and what's next! As usual, there's lots of laughter and lots of fabulous quotes! Find out more about our Women's Creativity Circle here! Email Meg | Email Katie About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast Meg Kissack is a coach, writer, podcaster and all-round rebel rouser for creative and multi-passionate women. As well as Couragemakers, Meg is the host of The Daily Pep! Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. Meg is an INFJ creative and multi-passionate who has a bit of a notebook and post-it note obsession, loves foot-stomping country music and likes her hot chocolate with way too much chocolate. Website | Instagram | The Daily Pep! Podcast   About Katie Katie Snyder is a life, business, & enneagram coach, as well as an author & podcast host. She writes and speaks about fear & creativity and believes that better understanding these two subjects are the keys to being brave enough to chase

We're just popping in with a quick mini-episode ahead of our final episode next week! Find out more about our Women's Creativity Circle here! Email Meg | Email Katie About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast Meg Kissack is a coach, writer, podcaster and all-round rebel rouser for creative and multi-passionate women. As well as Couragemakers, Meg is the host of The Daily Pep! Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. Meg is an INFJ creative and multi-passionate who has a bit of a notebook and post-it note obsession, loves foot-stomping country music and likes her hot chocolate with way too much chocolate. Website | Instagram | The Daily Pep! Podcast   About Katie Katie Snyder is a life, business, & enneagram coach, as well as an author & podcast host. She writes and speaks about fear & creativity and believes that better understanding these two subjects are the keys to being brave enough to chase your dreams. Katie has a bachelor of science degree in research Psychology with a minor in Photography

We're diving into all things following your curiosity, being multi-passionate, and getting seriously, seriously vulnerable in this episode about our own experiences of living a creative life and pushing beyond fear. We're on the trust chapter and we're diving into the idea of the struggling artist, leaning into enjoying our creativity and stubborn gladness! And of course, we go off on a lot of tangents! About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast Meg Kissack is a coach, writer, podcaster and all-round rebel rouser for creative and multi-passionate women. As well as Couragemakers, Meg is the host of The Daily Pep! Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. Meg is an INFJ creative and multi-passionate who has a bit of a notebook and post-it note obsession, loves foot-stomping country music and likes her hot chocolate with way too much chocolate. Website | Instagram | The Daily Pep! Podcast   About Katie Katie Snyder is a life, business, & enneagram coach, as well as an author & podcast host. She writes and

We're on the trust chapter and we're diving into the idea of the struggling artist, leaning into enjoying our creativity and stubborn gladness! And of course, we go off on a lot of tangents! About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast Meg Kissack is a coach, writer, podcaster and all-round rebel rouser for creative and multi-passionate women. As well as Couragemakers, Meg is the host of The Daily Pep! Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. Meg is an INFJ creative and multi-passionate who has a bit of a notebook and post-it note obsession, loves foot-stomping country music and likes her hot chocolate with way too much chocolate. Website | Instagram | The Daily Pep! Podcast   About Katie Katie Snyder is a life, business, & enneagram coach, as well as an author & podcast host. She writes and speaks about fear & creativity and believes that better understanding these two subjects are the keys to being brave enough to chase your dreams. Katie has a bachelor of science degree in research Psychology wit

We're diving into the second and final part of the Perseverance chapter and we are getting seriously practical. If you struggle with keeping on keeping on (like we all do!) this one's for you! About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast Meg Kissack is a coach, writer, podcaster and all-round rebel rouser for creative and multi-passionate women. As well as Couragemakers, Meg is the host of The Daily Pep! Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. Meg is an INFJ creative and multi-passionate who has a bit of a notebook and post-it note obsession, loves foot-stomping country music and likes her hot chocolate with way too much chocolate. Website | Instagram | The Daily Pep! Podcast   About Katie Katie Snyder is a life, business, & enneagram coach, as well as an author & podcast host. She writes and speaks about fear & creativity and believes that better understanding these two subjects are the keys to being brave enough to chase your dreams. Katie has a bachelor of science degree in research Psychology w