Cultivating Creativity and Finding Flow – with Author, Broadcaster and Comedian Chris Smith
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We are in the middle of a 'creativity crisis' - with so many people are distracted, unable to focus and lacking in connection. So what to do about it? Here to help me unpick how we can find more flow, creativity, connection, peace and ease - is Chris Smith, an award-winning author, broadcaster and stand-up comedian. For many years we sat alongside each other in the Newsbeat studio on BBC Radio 1. We discuss:
- How to get into flow and tap into the 'intelligent unconscious'
- The relationship between unplugging and creativity
- Why we love losing ourself in what we are doing, and how modern life is killing that
- Recognising that the future is never as bad as we fear it will be when it arrives as 'the present'
- How to develop a different relationship with our thoughts
- How to cultivate the space for true creativity to arrive
- The value of having a sauna
I am creating a course about Banishing Burnout and Finding Flow - which I will be sharing more about that over coming weeks and months. Together we can create a new way of being - one that is less distracted and combative, and has more flow and peace.
Book: https://www.simonmundie.com/book
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/YouTubeSimonMundie
Website: simonmundie.com
Substack Newsletter: https://simonmundie.substack.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/
**
For many years Chris was the voice of Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1. In 2017 he published Kid Normal which he co-wrote with his friend Greg James. It became the first in a series of children’s books. In early 2025 Chris is bringing back Enid Blyton‘s classic characters the Famous Five in a brand-new adventure.
https://chrissmithauthor.co.uk/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We are in the middle of what's being described as a creativity crisis, and that should not come as a huge surprise, as so many of us are distracted, unable to focus and lacking in connection. |
| 0:19.3 | So what to do about it? Here to help me unpick this one is Chris Smith, |
| 0:24.4 | an author, broadcaster, and even sometimes a stand-up comedian. For many years, I sat alongside him |
| 0:30.8 | as he was the voice of Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1. In 2017, he published Kid Normal, which he co-wrote with his friend Greg James. It became |
| 0:39.9 | the first in a series of children's books. And in early 2025, Chris is bringing back Enid Blyton's |
| 0:46.9 | classic characters, the famous five, in a brand new adventure. Chris and I spent many years |
| 0:52.9 | sat next to each other in the Radio One studio and we do |
| 0:55.7 | reminisce because it was a time full of creativity that we both looked back on fondly. |
| 1:04.1 | Chris, what a delight to see you again. How are you? I'm very well. It's a delight to see you as well. |
| 1:09.0 | It's a shame I'm not seeing you in person, but we're so used to this now, aren't we? |
| 1:12.8 | I know, we are, we are, but it's not as same as in person. We spent many, many years, sat alongside each other in the Radio One studio, you knocking out the news and me alongside you as your sporting sidekick. So this is really rolling back to the glory years. |
| 1:29.5 | You make it sound very professional. And now knocking out the news, it's Chris Smith. Come on, |
| 1:35.8 | you know we knocked out. You want a bit of good strap line. Yeah. Knocking out the news at 1245 and 545. |
| 1:41.4 | It's Chris and Simon. Oh, yeah. Gosh, those, it's funny, I felt like those days |
| 1:47.0 | would never end and yet now they feel like years ago. Yeah. And you sort of, you know, |
| 1:53.5 | before you get to something like that in broadcasting, you always sort of absolutely get starry-eyed |
| 1:59.7 | about it and we're very starry-eyed about the people that presented, you know, |
| 2:03.1 | newsbeat before we didn't. |
| 2:04.2 | And then you present newsbeat, |
| 2:05.4 | and it goes by on a snap of the fingers. |
| 2:07.9 | And then people come through and are saying the same thing to you, |
| 2:10.8 | you know, like, oh, there's Chris Smith. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Simon Mundie, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Simon Mundie and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.