Daring Creativity

Radim Malinic

Daring Creativity is your backstage pass to the minds that shape our creative world. A podcast series inspired by the upcoming book by Radim Malinic, helping people start and grow life-changing careers and businesses. Over the coming episodes, I will sit down with a broad range of guests: artists, musicians, designers, actors, technologists, and entrepreneurs who've discovered something powerful: that creativity isn't about perfection. It's about showing up with all your doubts, insecurities, and imperfections—and making them count. Are you ready to discover what happens when you dare to create? More info https://radimmalinic.co.uk/

  1. Dare to make food your art form - Caroline Hobkinson

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    Dare to make food your art form - Caroline Hobkinson

    Caroline Hopkinson is a food artist and food anthropologist whose work sits at the collision of neuroscience, performance, ritual and sensory design. In this conversation she reframes everything we think we know about eating — not as sustenance or even pleasure, but as our most intimate, politically charged and deeply human act.  From the communion of a morning coffee order to immersive dining experiences in Berlin and Paris, Caroline reveals why food is the one domain where algorithms have no jurisdiction. Food is our most intimate ritual — more so than sex, because what we eat literally becomes us and can be read in our bodies months laterIn a world of algorithmic content, food remains the last bastion of radical agency — the one thing we can fully control and consciously chooseChildren have more taste buds than adults, which is why they reject certain flavours — it's sensitivity, not fussiness, and it diminishes as we ageBitterness in flavour signals evolutionary danger, but those who override it tend to be risk takers and thrill seekers — your taste palette reveals your personality archetypeSound is the fastest sense — high frequencies amplify sweetness, low frequencies bring out bitterness, and a designed soundscape can transform the experience of a meal entirelyThe meals we prepare are the punctuation of our lives; every celebration, transition and gathering is anchored by food, making it the definitive marker of intentionalitySurrender is not giving up control — it requires trust, and when onboarded properly, it allows people to move beyond hyperactive choice into genuinely transformative experienceCapturing a memory and creating one are fundamentally different acts — the most powerful dining moments resist documentation and live only in the bodyIntermittent fasting and mindful eating aren't new trends — they mirror ancient religious cycles of feast and fast that humanity followed for millenniaFood is the last domain untouched by VR, AI or the metaverse — its irreducible physical reality makes communal dining more valuable and culturally significant than ever Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    59 min
  2. Dare to speak every creative language - Samuel Mensah-Bonsu

    30 MARS

    Dare to speak every creative language - Samuel Mensah-Bonsu

    Sam Mensah Bonsu is a Creative Director and Experience Designer at Microsoft, part of a small team shaping how millions of people interact with AI through Copilot. ~ From tracing Dragon Ball Z printouts borrowed from his brother's college library, to creating a candy typeface that went viral in 2013, to landing at AKQA on the Nike Football account and later advising C-suite executives at McKinsey.  Sam's career has been a masterclass in following curiosity with full commitment. He founded Youth Worldwide to mentor underrepresented emerging talent and champion design education at a time when it was being defunded from schools. Now at the forefront of AI experience design, Sam reflects on what it means to make things that not only look good but genuinely change lives. Takeaways: Creativity is a give-and-take system — inspiration received must become inspiration returnedThe entry point defines who gets in; lowering barriers is itself a form of creative leadershipSpeaking multiple creative languages — design, strategy, business — builds longevity and lasting influenceGoing to McKinsey wasn't selling out; it was learning to communicate value and impact at the highest levelYouth Worldwide was built to mentor underrepresented talent and make design education feel possibleAI doesn't replace creativity — it eliminates the gap between thinking and makingThe most powerful shift AI offers creatives is the freedom to think bigger, not just work fasterBeing at the forefront of change requires constant adaptation and the courage to occupy unfamiliar roomsYour power lies not in fitting in, but in standing out purposefully and communicating value on your own termsOne poster influences thousands; one great AI experience has the potential to shape billions Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    58 min
  3. Dare to protect your peace - Danielle Weber

    23 MARS

    Dare to protect your peace - Danielle Weber

    Australian muralist Danielle Weber, joins Radim to explore the invisible layers behind a creative life — from a teenage detour that almost derailed her entirely, to the streets where brilliant and bruising human encounters shape every project. ~ Danielle shares how curiosity has been both her compass and her chaos, why she'd choose fifteen years of slow growth over a single moment of overnight success, and how building a community became an act of creative necessity.  This is a conversation about learning to trust your intuition, protecting your energy, and finding genuine beauty in the chapters that don't always look like progress. Key Takeaways Exploring many styles and approaches isn't wasted time — it's how you discover what truly belongs to youCuriosity that isn't channelled creatively will find other, often self-destructive, outletsAuthentic presence online means sharing the day-to-day reality, not just the polished resultMural work is a full-body, full-mind endurance test — managing your energy matters as much as managing your craftSaying no to the wrong people and projects takes years of practice and builds through every single conversation you haveSlow growth is sustainable growth; overnight success is a dangerous and fragile place to landYou don't need to be at 100% to mentor others — honesty about your own struggles is exactly what makes you credibleThere is no expiration date on creativity; embracing the fact that you have time changes everything Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    56 min
  4. Dare to not know what you are - Rik Oostenbroek

    16 MARS

    Dare to not know what you are - Rik Oostenbroek

    In this episode, Radim sits down with Rik Oostenbroek — Dutch visual artist, digital pioneer, and restless creative explorer — for a wide-ranging conversation that moves between nostalgia, grief, identity, and the strange beauty of not knowing what comes next.  Rik reflects on two decades of carving his own path through commercial illustration, abstract digital art, the NFT world, and now the physical realm of screenprinting and sculpture, always guided by the same curiosity that drove him as a 14-year-old discovering DeviantArt. The conversation is also a tribute to their mutual friend and creative force, Rutger Rutger Paulusse, who passed away recently, and whose influence on Rik's move toward physical making is one of the episode's most moving threads. Key Takeaways Staying connected to the version of yourself that first fell in love with the work is not nostalgia — it's a survival strategy for sustaining a long creative careerThe early internet art community thrived precisely because there were no tutorials; being forced to ask another person built deeper connections than any algorithm can replicateCommercial success and artistic authenticity require constant, conscious negotiation — comfort can arrive too soon and pull you away from what truly makes your work feel like yoursThe NFT movement gave digital artists something the agency world rarely did: the experience of being seen as artists rather than production toolsTranslating digital work into physical form is an act of surrender and discovery — CMYK will never match RGB, and that limitation can become a new creative constraint worth embracingProtecting a separate personal life from creative identity is not avoidance — it is how some artists sustain the passion and playfulness their work depends onThe people who push you hardest toward your best self leave the deepest mark; honouring their legacy means doing the very things they dared you to do Daring Creativity. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    57 min

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Daring Creativity is your backstage pass to the minds that shape our creative world. A podcast series inspired by the upcoming book by Radim Malinic, helping people start and grow life-changing careers and businesses. Over the coming episodes, I will sit down with a broad range of guests: artists, musicians, designers, actors, technologists, and entrepreneurs who've discovered something powerful: that creativity isn't about perfection. It's about showing up with all your doubts, insecurities, and imperfections—and making them count. Are you ready to discover what happens when you dare to create? More info https://radimmalinic.co.uk/

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