The Modern Crone Danielle Van de Velde

Creative Spirit with Serial Entrepreneur and Content Community Queen, Chris Edwards
Chris is a serial entrepreneur having started her first business in 2008 at 28 years of age — a lifestyle media platform: Honeycombers.  Honeycombers is now the go-to lifestyle resource for locals, expats and tourists alike across Singapore, Hong Kong and Bali.  She has also created a parenting platform called HoneyKids Asia.  Collectively there are over 1 million unique readers of Honeycombers content across South East Asia every month.
 Chris started coaching entrepreneurs, and from this experience she saw the need for a community for conscious entrepreneurs, so she created Launchpad in 2022.  Launchpad is an entrepreneurial community, designed to help small businesses thrive through community, peer mentoring and coaching. Launchpad today has over 450 members from across 6 countries. 
 Chris now runs 4 companies across 4 countries and hosts a weekly podcast called Good Business where she interviews impact-led founders. Chris spends her time split between Singapore, Hong Kong, Bali and Byron Bay, Australia, where she lives with her husband and three kids. 
Join us as we explore the role of creative expression in the generation of business ideas and growth, the need to slow things down to gain traction, how to intuitively identify potential niches and trusting your gut to take risks, Chris’s ability to envisage offerings that don’t currently exist, and the importance of trust,  how having her third child compelled her into art school…and so much more!
 
You can find out more about Chris at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisedwardshoneycombers/ 
 www.thelaunchpad.group

Creative Spirit with Musician, Singer, Songwriter and Entertainer Sam Joole
Sam Joole is an Australian singer, songwriter, entertainer, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, producer and composer. Born in South Africa, from Spanish, Moroccan and Lithuanian Roots, he resides in Sydney, Australia. 
A diverse career has taken him to many places where he has developed his own sound and story. He is constantly playing live and creating new music.
 Always inspired by making records with labels or on his own, there is always room for great opportunity - small or large.
 Sam is also available as a covers and tribute show performer.
Join us as we explore how Sam’s rebellious nature as a boy forged his path into being a professional creative; the influence of his mother’s creative nature; his ability to sense musical patterns and adapt them to different instruments; his beautiful take on the ‘spaces in between’ and the importance of ‘being lost’ to allow the subconscious to create, and so much more.
 You can find out more about Sam here:
www.samjoole.com
www.instagram.com/samjoole/
www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=sam%20joole


The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole: 
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com 
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Creative Spirit with Speaker and Author Simone Heng
Simone Heng is a human connection specialist and former international broadcaster for, among others, Virgin Radio Dubai, HBO Asia, and CNBC. 
She is one of the youngest female Certified Speaking Professionals in the world. With over fifteen years of experience as a communicator on air, on stage, and one on one in different countries, connection has always been her life’s work. 
As a speaker, Simone inspires people to connect in a world thirsty for connection. She has spoken to thousands, and often for Fortune 500 organisations. 
Her clients include Google, ByteDance, Spotify, Salesforce, SAP, Meta, the United Nations, and many more. Simone and her work have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, SCMP, TEDx, Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others. 
Simone is based and was born in Singapore but has also studied in Switzerland, was raised in Australia, and worked in the United Arab Emirates. 
She has a communications and cultural studies degree from Curtin University of Technology. Her latest book “Let’s Talk About Loneliness” will be published by Hay House on June 27th.

Join us as we explore the role of creativity in Simone's journey, how trauma and hardship can become fuel for creativity and how she perceives her creativity as a guiding light that links her to the universe. Beautiful!

You can find out more about Simone here:

www.simoneheng.com
www.linkpop.com/simoneheng
www.instagram.com/simoneheng

Creative Spirit with Art Psychotherapist and Author: Samantha Hickman
Samantha qualified as an Art Psychotherapist from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from University of Plymouth, UK.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, prior to the beginning of the civil war, Sam was brought up between the Middle East (Morocco and Saudi Arabia) and the UK, before her family moved to Asia where she lived for a total of 23 years (Hong Kong and Singapore).
Sam became an art psychotherapist to integrate her own creative practice into working with others and covers a wide spectrum of reasons for therapy from depression, stress, and anxiety, to anger and grief and loss.
 She completed her clinical placement with the Singapore Cancer Society, working with adults living with cancer, and went on to employment with the organisation before relocating to the city Bath, UK, in 2019, where she now works as a socially engaged artist alongside her private practice. 
Sam has exhibited in Singapore and the UK, has delivered workshops at international conferences and universities, and is a published writer on art therapy, practices and processes.
 She is a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and the Australian, NewZealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association, (ANZACATA), and HCPC registered. She is also DBS approved.
Her multicultural exposure and love of art mean that she brings a wealth of life experience into the therapy space, where she empowers others through the process of creativity, providing therapeutic guidance and support along the way.

Join us as we explore Samantha's beauitful process of creative expression as a form of guidance and respite; her varied and prolific mediums; her work with cancer patients and art as a healing medium. 
You can find out more about Sam here:
www.instagram.com/hopearttherapy
hopearttherapy@gmail.com 


The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole: 
www.samjoole.com

Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com 

Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com

Rebecca Downie is an international personal branding photographer whose clients are based across the UK, Singapore and Australia. 
 Her great uncle was a photographer and it was the many old photos from her mum's life that instilled in her the value of photos. A tangible record of a life lived. 
 From teen years she often had a camera in her hand but with no creative role models in her life she followed the traditional path of uni and business, followed by a 15 year career in the media and marketing industry. 
 When looking to leave corporate to create a life on her terms she turned to her love of photography.
Her passion is empowering women leaders and founders to proudly take the space they deserve. 
Her 'why' in business is to provide a service that not only creates a portfolio of stunning on-brand marketing images for their business, but one that shows them, via the power of her lens, just how fabulous they are. And how the world already sees them.

You can find more about Rebecca here:

www.rebeccadowniephotography.com
www.instagram.com/Rebecca.Downie.photography 
www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccadowniephotography

Creative Spirit with Professional Artist - Mishell Leong
Malaysian born Artist, Mishell Leong is a life expressionist; passionate about communicating her love for life through her use of vivid colours and bold techniques found in her iconic artwork.
Mishell’s signature style is a credit to her ever expansive and evolving nature. She has liberated herself from the constraints of traditional techniques and preconceptions of what and how art should be, using her distinct style and vibrant colours as an avenue to communicate her inspirations and messages to the world.
As a multiculturalist who has lived all over the world, Mishell very much identifies with Western culture and way of life, as much as she does with Asian culture. Mishell started out her professional career as a Chartered Accountant in London which quickly transported her to New York, Korea, Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Singapore and beyond. Mishell’s journey in the world of finance came to an end in 2012 when she gave into her true calling of expression and has not looked back. 
As all great stories often tell, life has taken her one full circle and she now finds herself residing back in Switzerland beside stunning Lake Zurich creating more than ever.
Mishell taps into life’s energetic flow drawing on love and the beauty of each given moment & all that surrounds us to create her new collection.
Mishell Leong is proudly represented by International Artist Management and Art Consultancy firm Curate International – with a presence in London and Singapore.
Join us as Mishell shares her journey from corporate career into professional artist, how she works with colour and form in every aspect of her life, some unusual sources of inspiration (which include being spanked), how she interweaves spiritual symbolism into her works and so much more.


You can find out more about Mishell here:


www.mishellleong.com 
www.curate-international.com/mishell-leong
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=mishell%20leong%20art
https://www.instagram.com/mishellleongart/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishell-leong