Hello and welcome to the Penny podcast, the place for entrepreneurs to share their personal stories about their business craft.

I'm delighted to be joined by Pia Leichter, a creative entrepreneur from New York (and self-described recovering nomad) who is now based in Copenhagen. We talk about her company, the Kollektiv Studio, and her recently published first book 'Welcome to the Creative Club: Make Your Life Your Biggest Art Project' which has become a best-seller.

Pia really is the creatives' creative - not only is she helping people bring their visions and ventures into the world and create impact but she has put her all into the book. This creative companion features poetry and personal stories, as well as exercises, case studies and hard data.

Listen in to hear how she has shaped her experiences as a creative into a compelling offering and how she keeps both ground and inspired.

Pia's website:

Kollektiv Studio

Pia's book:

Welcome to the Creative Club: Make your life your biggest art project

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Welcome to The Penny Podcast, presented by Eva Keogan, founder of Home of Social. In this new episode we are joined by tech entrepreneur Cathy Long, who shares her story about Aposto and how her passion for wanting to make events safer following the Hillsborough disaster has taken her from campaigning at the Premier League to building an event technology platform.

Cathy launched Aposto in March 2020, just as the global pandemic closed down the world, and of course, the events industry. Listen in to find out how she navigated this pivotal moment and how her company has evolved over the last four years into an industry disrupter. Cathy shares her hard won insights about bootstrap marketing, being a female tech founder in a male dominated sector and how to leverage online and in person networking to build your brand.

Listen in for an inspiring story about triumph over adversity and lots more.

The Penny podcast is where creatives, technologists and disrupters share their exciting and inspiring journeys.

In this episode, we're delighted to bring you the story behind a disruptive fintech as we talk with our guest, fintech entrepreneur Pierre-Yves Rahari.

Following a successful career in Investment management and setting up a consultancy firm, Pierre-Yves is now the Director and Co-founder of A-Lab Solutions, along with Luuk Jacobs. Together they have brought the Reseo eBusiness ID solution, which is a digital passport for corporate investors, to the market.

Reseo aims to resolve the numerous issues of onboarding investment clients which include putting them through the rigmarole of validating their credentials and anti-money laundering checks, aka the AML-KYC process. While this kind of rigour is necessary, Pierre-Yves believes it’s time to do away with paper and digitalise the process. This in itself creates numerous benefits such as saving a great deal of time and effort and expediting new investments.

We talk about the business of doing business, and how his creative pursuits and psychology training are brought to bear in managing the startup, and all the challenges the business faces as a disrupter in the market on a mission to move the digital dial in the industry.

Follow Reseo on LinkedIn and website reseo.global – you can connect with Pierre-Yves on LinkedIn here.

Thank you for listening!

Produced and presented by Eva Keogan, Home of Social

Music Eva Keogan and Nicolás Ayala Ramírez

The Penny podcast is where creatives, technologists and disrupters share their exciting and inspiring journeys which are often non-linear and this story is no exception.

In this episode, we're delighted to be talking with creative entrepreneur Fiona McLoughlin, owner of Old Cow Clayworks, in Drumshanbo, Ireland.

She tells the story of her major career change and how she left her successful 20 year photographic and management career behind to realise her childhood dream of becoming a potter. She is now on the cusp of launching her own shop and working with one of the biggest new business success stories in Ireland – Drumshanbo Gunpowder Gin.

We talk about how she has developed her creative practice, the entrepreneurial support she has received and the skills she has needed to develop. We also learn about her brand story, how she approaches marketing and sales, and the work she has done in setting up her own studio.

Follow Fiona on Instagram oldcow_clayworks and visit her website oldcowclayworks.com.

Thank you for listening!

Produced and presented by Eva Keogan, Home of Social

Music Eva Keogan and Nicolás Ayala Ramírez

Welcome to the Penny Podcast with Eva Keogan, who is joined by Adrian De la Court and Siân Prime from Goldsmiths University.

The Penny Podcast started in 2020 as a way for, people who were on the Masters for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship to document their entrepreneurship journey during lockdown and what a crazy time that was.

Here we are in 2024, the Penny podcast now is for creatives, technologists and disruptors. All the stories, all the background, all the exciting and gory innards of running your own business will be up for discussion.

We kick off this new series with a look at creative and cultural entrepreneurship and how it's moving with the times.

Thanks to our guests and enjoy the listen.

Additional notes:

Guardian articles about cuts at Goldsmiths

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/11/the-goldsmiths-crisis-how-cuts-and-culture-wars-sent-universities-into-a-death-spiral

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/27/goldsmiths-university-of-london-redundancy-plans

Goldsmiths Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE)

Home of Social www.homeofsocial.com

Welcome to a special edition of The Penny Podcast. The theme is the Business of Creativity. It's a huge topic so the focus is going to be on the field of writing and the precarity of the individuals working in the sector.

Dr. Christina Williams joins us as the expert to drill down on the topic into the detail of the life of a novelist and how they make a living. She shares her valuable insight about what drives writers to write and what it takes to be a writer.

She has recently been awarded a PhD from CAMEo - Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, based at the University of Leicester. She is a lecturer in Media and Communications at University of West England.

An essential word on the soundtrack...

Collaboration makes everything sound better! Eva was inspired by the patterns of speech she encountered during her podcast recordings and thought it would resonate to turn the title of the podcast into music. She created a short melody by using the words 'Welcome to the Penny Podcast' and turning them into notes, which sounded great but 'a bit tinny'.

Credit where credit is due - please give thanks to Nicolás Ayala Ramírez, a former colleague on the MACCE course, for polishing up the soundtrack and giving it a professional touch.

This has been created as part of the The Business of Creative Industries module.

Welcome back to the Penny Podcast and in this episode we meet Rosie Neave who is developing her new business called The Vertelle Project which you can find at www.Vertelle.co.uk or on instagram @rosieneave.

We talk about leadership, homeschooling hell, nature and finding blips of green in urban spaces, along with Rosie's fascinating new business which she is currently developing while spending an extended time away from the UK in rural France.

Thanks to Nicolás for polishing up the podcast soundtrack.

Eva was inspired by the patterns of speech she encountered during her recordings and thought it would resonate to turn the title of the podcast into music. She created a short melody by using the words 'Welcome to the Penny Podcast' and turning them into notes, which sounded great but 'a bit tinny'.

The Penny Podcast meets virtually with Eva in Notting Hill and Nicolás in Bow, E3. They talk about how Nicolás is navigating his masters in the UK, what set him on his path, music life in lockdown, music and culture in Bogota and staying happy.

Here are some Spotify playlists you might also want to listen to:

Top 50 tracks in Columbia

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbOa2lmxNORXQ?si=f72074062c2e4c2b

Curated by Nicolás

Columbian Indie music (great listen)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5IKmXrsFjWo4afvWcgXRXD?si=c9846423e97c4e1c

New British Indie music https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PROD83nc1CPm84x57cEd0

Curated by Eva

Lockdown Living it Up

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1dsxbMbNltGlgQhWgiDOpw

Please give thanks to Nicolás for polishing up the soundtrack.

Eva was inspired by the patterns of speech she encountered during her recordings and thought it would resonate to turn the title of the podcast into music. She created a short melody by using the words 'Welcome to the Penny Podcast' and turning them into notes, which sounded great but 'a bit tinny'.