The Creative Boom Podcast

Katy Cowan

podcast@creativeboom.com

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Booking Overview

A weekly interview show for designers, illustrators, animators, and other creative professionals, featuring external artists, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers in candid conversations about building sustainable careers. PR agencies could credibly pitch practicing creatives, design and illustration professionals, creative-business founders, educators, and artists with distinctive career journeys; booking difficulty is likely low because the show favors accessible professionals over high-profile celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 217

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: United Kingdom

YouTube: 3.8k subscribers

Instagram: 163.0k followers

Contact Information

podcast@creativeboom.com

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Host

Katy Cowan - Katy Cowan hosts the Creative Boom Podcast, interviewing artists, designers, entrepreneurs, and other creative professionals about the realities of creative careers.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Practicing artists, designers, illustrators, animators, creative entrepreneurs, educators, or other creative professionals with firsthand experience building a career or business.
Required Achievements:  
Established creative practice, Distinctive career journey or professional perspective, Creative business, teaching, or artistic experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Rob Draper - Creative Influences, Artistic Interests, Personal Habits, And Career Aspirations

Rob Draper - Career Reinvention, Creative Resilience, Craft, Teaching, Authenticity, And Building A Creative Practice

Katy Ennis-Hargreaves - Creative Business, Boldness, Authenticity, Personal Style, And Creative-industry Advice

Recent Topics

Design, Illustration, Animation, Creative Careers, Freelancing

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Creative Boom Podcast
:

The Spark: Rob Draper on Old-School Electro, Portrait-a-Day and Nike Dreams

June 17, 2026

In this bonus episode, Katy Cowan and Rob Draper swap the big career questions for something a lot more daft – a quickfire ramble through nostalgia, confessions and very questionable claims to greatness. Rob shares his most controversial creative opinion (talking about it isn't doing it), the smallest thing that improves his work day, and the theme tune his creative style would have – an old radio dial flicking between fast and slow, classic and modern, all in the name of contrast. He reveal...

Why Starting From Scratch Might Be the Best Thing That Ever Happens to You, with Rob Draper

June 14, 2026

Lettering artist, designer and University of Worcester fellow Rob Draper joins Katy Cowan to close out the season with a warm, philosophical conversation about starting over and the art of creating something from nothing. Rob opens up about the redundancy that upended his life at 40, the period when he cleared out a warehouse waiting for work that never came, and the decision that changed everything: to try anything, turn down nothing, and trust that action creates action. From teaching art ...

The Spark: Katy Ennis-Hargreaves on croc hatred, accidental shoplifting and Vivienne Westwood

June 10, 2026

In the second, faster, slightly more feral half of the recording this week, Katy Ennis-Hargreaves of BOLDISM stays in the chair for The Spark – the rapid-fire round where the questions get cheekier and the answers get more honest. Top of the agenda is her renowned and entirely unrepentant hatred of crocs, a feud so well known that former colleagues now send her "croc bait" on a weekly basis. From there, she makes the case against the beige, clean-girl aesthetic taking over the high street, a...

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