Creative Coffee

Aug 15 2024 9 ep. 34 mins 11

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Author Emma Gannon chats to guests about living a creative life over a coffee.

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This is Creative Coffee with Emma Gannon, a new series exploring creativity and how to live more creative lives over coffee with someone I admire. Less of an interview, more of a fly on the wall conversation. This is the last episode of this season, but I hope to be back soon — and I am planning to write a piece all about what I’ve learned launching a podcast on Substack. Today

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