Episode 14: Turning personal tragedy into positive change for the world with Grant Rutherford, Ella Ward, and Michael Farr.

When something terrible happens you can either let it beat you, or turn it into something that benefits the world. Grant Rutherford, Ella Ward, and Michael chose the second option, and used creativity to help out thousands of people.

Topics discussed:

1. What creativity is to them.
2. How to turn something personal into something positive for society.
3. How you can use creativity to put good into the world.
4. And then a question from the book The Right-brain Warm-up: Imagine you are watching a time lapse movie of your entire life. What stands out? What is the accompanying soundtrack? Their answers are brilliant!

Grant Rutherford.

Grant is an advertising creative, who, trying to make sense of the death of his beautiful daughter Chloe from Leukaemia in 2009, co-founded the Snowdome Foundation. Snowdome's mission is to bring cutting edge treatments and cures to Australians living with blood cancer. So far the foundation has raised over $35 million towards helping these patients live longer, better lives. https://www.snowdome.org.au/

Ella Ward.

Ella is is an Aussie mum, wife, advertising boss lady and now (unfortunately) one of Those Cancer People. For 19 years, Ella has worked at ad agencies in London and Melbourne, leading clients including Visit Victoria, Marks & Spencer and Defence Force Recruiting. When she’s not doing all of that other stuff; Ella’s oversharing on Instagram, and writing for publications including The Age and Frankie magazine.

https://www.ellaward.com.au/

Michael Farr.

Michael is a product designer at Movember and lead instigator of the Tour De Parma — A parma powered mental health initiative that aims to start a more relaxed ‘normal’ environment for talking about the mental health with your mates. A maker of stuff and someone who’s constantly distracted by the next thing to create. http://tourdeparma.com/ https://au.movember.com/

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