Welcome to Six Before Breakfast, the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. In this first episode, we meet our three breakfast hosts, Andrew Armour, Anthony Eldridge-Rogers, and Howard Ross-Simms who introduce you to what this podcast series is about and they share some of the key stories and points raised from the series. From creative mindset and craft, to the need for stress and change. From personal risk, to making mistakes and being comfortable with a passion and a vision, that is not really a plan.

We hope you enjoy the series, and please share with people you know who create or those that manage, coach, mentor and support those that do. And as we make our next series, if you have suggestions for guests, or topics you would like us to include please get in touch with us at podcast@theicd.org

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Andrew Armour

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com

Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Tommy Ludgate is a professional vocalist, a music educator, and​ ​a coach of creative people. From stage to workshop, from singing to supporting the creative ambitions of others, she knows the joys ​and not so joyful times - of what it takes to be ​a ​performer. Signed to a record label as a schoolgirl, ​working with acts such as Paul Weller and ​even touring Russia. She has seen what it takes​ to not just be passionate about creativity - but to make a professional career from it too​. Today, she specialises in running workshops for creative people, to improve confidence and turn those ideas into practice.

In this episode with Andrew Armour, Tommy shares her own creative journey, ​and ​building a career, from ​really doing what you really love​. She discusses how to deal with the inevitable setbacks and finding that all important resilience​ to keep getting up on to that stage​ – even when things do not feel so great. She tells us ​how to stay calm and, in the moment, when you are about to perform​ and feel those nerves, of working in your Flow.​ ​

​To find out more about Tommy, and the personal coaching ​and workshops she offers, ​you can visit her at LINKEDIN and ​see her YouTube Channel.

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Andrew Armour

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com

Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Samantha Holland trained at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama graduating in 1991. During her time at Guildhall she worked with the Russian director Vasily Skorik and movement professor Nikolai Karpov. Her work has covered all disciplines and has included setting up a theatre company concentrating on site specific work in and around London; a group called The Lab to provide a space for actors between work to maintain their training and create new work; a theatre company in Valencia to produce new writing and devised work; a workshop-based company ‘Radical Combustion’ to teach mask work to young people and adults. In 2019 she formed Loam Project, an incubator to develop new writing, performance and sustainable product design in Wiltshire feeding into her creative practice knowledge gained from her work as a co-founder of a new materials company between 2014 and 2022.

In this conversation we explore issues such why it is important to find your creative tribe, how we can encourage creative people to not be damaged by careers advisors, why it matters to take risks and take action, know yourself in the context of what you are trying to do, don’t talk about what you are going to do just get on with it, and other topics

​To find out more about Sam ​you can visit her at www.samanthaholland.com and www.loamproject.com or connect with her on LINKEDIN.

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Six Before Breakfast is the Podcast of International Creative Development (ICD) - a community of those who make their living by being creative, or those that manage, coach or support those that do. Want to be part of the conversation? Please visit the ICD online at our LinkedIn and Facebook channels - and join our community of interest to see, hear more from like minded people and meet some friends you do not know yet.

Host: Anthony Eldridge-Rogers

Post Production: JFF Productions and Mother City Audio

6 Before Breakfast Intro Music by the super fabulous Mikki Montes www.mikimontes.com