Bloomerangas Podcast

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A curious exploration of our future and creativity. Featuring conversations with progressive leaders in design, technology, business, and education who are creating better futures. creativity.bloomerangas.com

  1. 3 days ago

    Sales for creatives who hate selling

    I sat down with Patrick Collins, a sales coach and consultant, to talk about something almost every creative person I know quietly dreads: sales. His first line on the subject set the tone for the whole conversation. “I’m not sure anybody who likes sales.” He doesn’t think that’s a problem to fix. He thinks it’s a sign the word itself is broken. Patrick completely reframed how I think about sales. He tells everyone he trains to cross out the word and call it education instead. Nobody likes being sold to, but people love being taught something useful by someone who clearly knows what they’re talking about. His simplest hack: export your LinkedIn network, run it through Claude, and ask it who you haven’t spoken to in 60 days. That list is almost always easier to work than any list of strangers. The name of his new project, Unemployable, comes from his own story. Years ago, in a job interview, he was told he’d be perfect for the role, then told in the same breath that he couldn’t have it, because he wasn’t employable. He’d already pointed out everything wrong with the company’s website. That instinct to question things rather than just do as told is exactly what he’s building a business and a community around now. In this talk, you’ll learn more about relationship building, using AI strategically, understanding what you want, and how to get out of the 9-5 trap. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativity.bloomerangas.com/subscribe

  2. 25 Aug

    The Future of Work Requires a New Kind of Leader

    I talked with Amanda Schneider, founder of ThinkLab and author of Work for What's Next. She was also just on The Oprah Podcast talking about the book, if you want another taste of her thinking. One thing she said has stayed with me since. We’re still running our workplaces on analog era norms, in a digital speed world. That gap, more than any single generation, is where most of the tension we feel at work actually comes from. It changed how I think about Gen Z, too. Amanda’s research keeps landing on the same point. They’re not really asking for anything new. They just grew up with more access and more context than any generation before them, so they ask for it louder. We also talked about what actually kills creativity inside a company. It's not a lack of tools or talent. It's fear, busyness, and certainty, in that order. Certainty is the one that worries her most, as AI gets more confident and more persuasive by the day. One more interesting idea stayed with me that Amanda shared: the difference between a game’s goal and its purpose. The goal of Monopoly is to win. The purpose is to connect with the people you’re playing with, think strategically, and enjoy the time together. She thinks most organizations have quietly optimized for the goal and lost sight of the purpose. We also got into why loyalty isn’t dead, just no longer blind, what Gucci’s shadow board did for their sales numbers, and what it might take to prepare the generation coming up after Gen Z for a future none of us can fully predict. If any of this resonates, I’d love for you to watch or listen to the full conversation, and read the write-up on the blog. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativity.bloomerangas.com/subscribe

  3. 7 Aug

    A School with no Teachers with Heidi Rundt, CEO of Hyper Island

    I talked with Heidi Rundt, CEO of Hyper Island, the Sweden-born creative business school that has spent thirty years training people in design, marketing, and innovation. Hyper Island now runs programs across Europe, the UK, Japan, and South America, but what struck me isn’t the reach. It’s how untraditional the model still is. The school has no teachers. Instead, it works with in-house facilitators and a global network of industry practitioners who bring in whatever is actually happening in the market right now. As Heidi put it, “We actually don’t have any teachers.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativity.bloomerangas.com/subscribe

  4. 23 Jul

    Designing our Future with Ana Maria Pinto da Silva, Carnegie Mellon School of Design

    I recently talked with Ana Maria Pinto da Silva — architect, former UX design leader at Microsoft and Amazon, founder of PechaKucha Seattle, and now Professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design — about a question she’s spent her whole career chasing: where does creativity actually come from? We got into the difference between learning and education, why friendship and nature are our original teachers, and why AI, in her view, makes education more urgent rather than less. She also shared what a decade of building PechaKucha Seattle taught her about community, and made a compelling case for design as a fundamentally optimistic, democratizing act. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativity.bloomerangas.com/subscribe

  5. 10 Jul

    Why Creative Leaders Must Learn the Language of Business

    Here’s the advice Ekaterina Solomeina gives every designer who wants to be seen as a leader, not just an executor: learn the language the business actually speaks. I talked with Ekaterina — creative director, writer, and co-founder of Future London Academy — about what actually gets creatives into the room where strategy gets decided. Her answer wasn’t “make better work.” It was: translate the work you’re already doing into terms leadership cares about. “If you want to show that you are capable of bringing strategic value, start to understand all the language of PL, CAC and LTV, TAM-SAM-SOM.” Not instead of caring about craft — alongside it. Present the beautiful brand and the business value it created. That, she told me, is how promotions actually happen. It’s part of a bigger argument she makes: as AI commoditizes technical skills, the core creative ones — imagination, nonlinear problem-solving, empathy — become more valuable, not less. Her hope is ambitious: more chief design and creative officers sitting alongside the CFO and COO. Ekaterina spent twenty years as a creative director working alongside people like Michael Wolff and Donatella Versace before co-founding Future London Academy in 2013. Its alumni now lead design at Apple, Nike, Netflix, and BMW, and she also hosts her own podcast, Creative Capes. We also got into why 80% of creatives said they’d rather work at a company under 50 people, brand as a belief system rather than a campaign, and why founders need a “third identity” completely unrelated to work (hers is Muay Thai). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativity.bloomerangas.com/subscribe

  6. 9 Jun

    Reimagining Creative Education in the Age of AI

    A few years ago, Dr. Chris Mitchell did something unsettling in his classroom at the Royal College of Art. He fed the same assessment brief his students were working on into a generative AI tool and then asked the students to evaluate the output. Almost all of them said it was a pass. He looked at it again on the train home, and thought: yeah, I think so too. His first reaction was terror. His second was more useful. “It was a reflection of my bad assessment design.” If an AI could pass it, he realised, then the assessment was never really measuring the things that mattered — curiosity, imagination, personal investment in the work. It was measuring the ability to compare and summarise information. Generative AI is very good at that. But that is not what creative education is actually for. So he redesigned it. Instead of comparing X and Y, he asked students to take a teaching session that had meant something to them — personally, formatively — and redesign it, explaining why. The results were completely different. Impossible to fake. “We had examples of people drawing on learning in a choir, or a workshop around ocarina making,” he told me. “It’s just so much fun to mark.” That moment captures something important about where we are with AI and education right now — and it’s just one thread in a really rich conversation. Chris is Head of Academic Strategy Development at the RCA and the creator of the MA in Creative Education. We talked for over an hour about what formal education is genuinely for, why the RCA builds everything around making and reflection, how hybrid learning can be done well (and what goes wrong when it isn’t), and why creativity is something every person can access — not a trait some people have and others don’t. We also got into the RCA’s long-standing pass/fail grading system — no marks, just detailed written feedback — and what it demands from both tutors and students. 👉 Watch the full conversation on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/BIrrwVRFUzc 👉 Read the blog posthttps://bloomerangas.com/blog/reimagining-creative-education-in-the-age-of-ai-insights-from-royal-college-of-art/ I hope it sparks something for you — whether you work in education, whether you’re a creative practitioner thinking about AI, or whether you’re just curious about what it looks like to build an institution around the act of making things. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativity.bloomerangas.com/subscribe

  7. 8 May

    Creativity Is a Muscle. Here’s How to Train It

    Can creativity be taught? This is the question we explored in the newest episode of Bloomerangas with Ruta Valušytė, Head of the Design Centre at Kaunas University of Technology. Every person has the native ability to create. But like any muscle, creativity needs to be used, trained, and nurtured. If we stop using it, it fades. If we practise it, it becomes more natural and intuitive. What I found especially interesting in this conversation is that creativity does not necessarily need complete freedom. Very often, a blank canvas blocks people. What helps is a thoughtful structure: a clear task, a useful example, a safe environment, and enough freedom to experiment. Ruta describes this as a kind of creative playground: a space where people can explore, fail, try again, and slowly build confidence in their own creative process. Surely, this resonates with us very much as we create creativity playgrounds for offices and spaces for exactly this purpose. We also spoke about AI. AI can be a fantastic tool, but it is still a tool. Ruta compared it to a pencil: if you know what you want to draw, it can help you. But it cannot replace your intention, your judgement, or your imagination. This feels especially important now, when creativity and innovation are so often discussed through the lens of speed and productivity. AI can generate quickly, but true innovation still requires us to question the status quo, define the right challenge, and imagine something that does not yet exist. In the episode, we also talk about: * how universities can nurture creativity * why struggle is part of the creative process * why structure and play need each other * how design education can support a more sustainable future * what it means to design beyond only human users * why curiosity is still one of the most important creative skills One of the strongest ideas from the conversation is that a creative environment is not only about tools, studios, or technology. It is about culture. It is about the values, behaviours, and ways of thinking that make people brave enough to explore something unknown. I hope you will enjoy this talk as much as I did. Read the full summary here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativity.bloomerangas.com/subscribe

  8. 14 Apr

    Your Brain Needs Idle Time to Be Creative

    In our latest Bloomerangas Podcast episode, I speak with Lina Žemaitytė-Kirkman, Head of Rockit (a Startup and Innovation Centre) about something many of us are feeling right now: how hard it has become to stay focused, creative, and mentally clear in a world of constant digital input. We explore why digital overload affects more than productivity, how boredom and rest support creativity, and what simple habits can help us protect our attention in the age of AI. It’s a thoughtful and practical conversation for anyone who wants to feel less scattered and create with more clarity. Watch the episode below, listen on substack/spotify/Apple Podcasts or read the summary on our blog. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit creativity.bloomerangas.com/subscribe

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A curious exploration of our future and creativity. Featuring conversations with progressive leaders in design, technology, business, and education who are creating better futures. creativity.bloomerangas.com

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  • Creator
    Karalyte
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    74
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    Bloomerangas Podcast