Episode 61 – The One About Creative Leadership

01/31/19 • 27 min

Adulting with Ebonie

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The One About Creative Leadership

Meet Joana Galvão

Joana Galvão is the co-founder of Gif Design Studios, an award-winning design agency specialising in brand identities and conversion-obsessed design.

Based in Porto, Portugal, with a team of 10 designers and developers, Gif Design Studios offers the full range of print and digital design services to industry leaders in seventeen countries on five continents.

Joana speaks internationally on the power of design and creativity and her work has been featured in the Guardian UK, Brand Brilliance, and Digital Arts magazine.

You can find Joana on her website - http://www.joanagalvao.com - and on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/joanagalvaodesign

Fav quotes from this episode:

“When you’re trying to be successful, you may need to compromise on quality in order to ensure that the product is delivered on time and profitability.”

“Adulting means taking responsibility and ownership of your actions and what’s happening in your life”

“Being someone’s boss is hard. Hiring at 22 was hard! I definitely wasn’t taking responsibility and ownership of my actions at that point.”

“There are always lessons to learn!”

“If you’re not willing to take responsibility in my business, it won’t work. I don’t have the capacity for that.”

In this episode we talk about:

Joana’s first experience of ‘Adulting’ as a boss at 22, and the lessons she learnt from a difficult situation

The importance of not ‘diluting’ responsibility when you’re working with a team - Joana talks about how she gives different designers leads on different projects to ensure that there is always someone there to take ownership of quality and delivery.

Why it’s so important as a creative individual to take some time out to create just for you.

That sometimes you need to take a leap in order to get out of your comfort zone and closer to what you want to actually achieve.

Plus, we talk how a last-minute competition entry has opened up a world of public speaking opportunities for Joana.

Next Episode

The One About Plan B

Meet Ruth Ridgeway

Ruth Ridgeway is the creator of The Lifestyle Designers Club and an understander of what happens when your life gets turned upside down and inside out in an instant.

She’s the proud girlfriend to her guy who was involved in an accident that left him paralysed in 2014. She shares their stories of life, love, hope and strength and what it’s like to create a (different, but equally beautiful) ‘Plan B’ life on her blog.

Through her work, stories and online club she’s helped hundreds of women to design businesses they love that allow them the freedom, security, and flexibility to do what they want, when they want, and from anywhere in the world they want through creating their own online courses, products and memberships.

Find out more about Ruth on her website: http://www.ruthxo.com

Fav quotes from this episode:

“Adulting means getting to choose what the heck you want!”

“It’s our job as adults to take care of our mindset and happiness even in the face of shitty circumstances.”

“Life is real and shit happens.”

“You will laugh again, you will have a better day again.”

“‘This too shall pass’ is my mantra.”

In this episode we talk about:

How quickly life plans can change, and what circumstances changed Ruth and her partner’s lives in 2014.

How important it is to be present for the good things that happen in your life

That Plan B isn’t necessarily ‘second best’ – it’s a different type of beautiful.

How it’s easy to stop looking at what is fun, and start looking at what is easy or useful, but that isn’t necessarily what you should do.