Daring Forever (Find your Extraordinary)
Daring Forever is a podcast about being human, wired for wonder, capable of courage, perpetually becoming. It's about the waves that knock us under and the strange, stubborn grace with which we surface. Hosted by Radim Malinic, an author, creative, and an eternally curious human who is on a mission to speak with incredible people, also called Forever Daring Humans, those in pursuit of an extraordinary life. Every week, discover an interview that is packed with amazing stories and value.  How will you dare forever? This podcast is inspired by my upcoming book titled Daring Forever, which is now available for...
Dare to let ideas have a home - Melissa Castan
Mel Castan is a Mexico City-born, Barcelona-based animator, illustrator, and community builder whose creative journey has taken her from advertising school to motion graphics to founding two community projects for creatives. ~
She talks with Radim about growing up in a military family with a spiritual streak, discovering illustration as a meditative practice, and building spaces where creatives can process burnout, imposter syndrome, and identity beyond the usual networking event.
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Mel is a Mexico City-born, Barcelona-based animator, illustrator, and producer who's spent nine years building a career across advertising, motion design, and..."When you have a lot of passion for something, it can blur your view." (Pep Salazar bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Pep Salazar from OFFF Festival ~
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Dare to chase the hardest place on Earth - Pep Salazar (OFFF)
Pep Salazar, director of OFFF — the design and creativity festival he's shaped since 2007 — joins Radim to unpack what it really takes to build a "city for three days." ~Â
Pep traces his own unlikely path, from a teenager who dreamed of being an actor in a small town near Barcelona, through his formative years building SĂłnar, to the moment he realised passion alone can blur your vision and every idea needs a manager to make it real.Â
They talk about why OFFF shows unfinished work instead of polished portfolios, how a team of seven becomes thirty...
"Unless you put yourself out there, nobody's going to discover you." Lidia Scarlat
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Lidia Scarlat  ~
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Dare to build the conditions for others - Lidia Scarlat
Lidia Scarlat is a Moldova-born producer who has built a career spanning animation, motion, VFX and live events — from stage visuals for the Swan Lake Ballet to screen visuals for Jurassic World theme park, often in the very same week. ~Â
Raised in a family of artists during Moldova's turbulent post-Soviet transition, she talks with Radim about how "everything is temporary and it will be fine" became a defining philosophy, why producing means jumping off the cliff before the artist ever can, and how showing up — not waiting to be discovered — built her entire career.Â
They also get into...
"I started asking and I started getting" (Dan Woodger bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Dan Woodger ~
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Dare to ask for what you want - Dan Woodger
Dan Woodger — freelance illustrator, animation director, and returning Daring Forever guest — joins Radim to unpack Run London Draw London, the project he built alongside training for this year's London Marathon. ~
Starting from a blank canvas in January, Dan invited people to donate ÂŁ5 to add a hand-drawn character to a sprawling crowd-scene illustration of the marathon route, turning strangers, club runners, and eventually Paula Radcliffe, pro athletes, and podcast hosts into part of the artwork.Â
The conversation ranges across the collision of running and illustration, the frustration of NDA'd client work going unseen, the highs and lows o...
"Brands increasingly don't want people to write about their work now." (Eliza Williams bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Eliza Williams from creativereview.co.uk ~
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Dare to take the slow road into the industry - Eliza Williams (Creative Review)
Eliza Williams, editor of Creative Review, joins Radim to trace a career built without connections, without a plan, and — by her own admission — a fair amount of terror. ~
From selling popcorn at the Clapham Picturehouse to writing for free on '90s art blogs, to landing at Creative Review and eventually taking the helm, Eliza's path is a masterclass in slow, unglamorous accumulation.Â
This is a conversation about leaving exclusive worlds for more welcoming ones, learning that interviewing is just "speaking to a lot of people at once," and what it really means to steward a tru...
"There are no dead ends, cul-de-sacs or mistakes" (Simon Dixon bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Simon Dixon from DixonBaxi ~
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Dare to never ask permission - Simon Dixon
Returning guest Simon Dixon, co-founder of global brand and design agency DixonBaxi, sits down with Radim as the studio approaches its 25th birthday to talk about what actually holds up over a quarter of a century. ~Â
This is a conversation about comfort without complacency — how a body of work lets you meet the world with strength instead of fear, why Simon has never asked permission or had a mentor, and how "access" quietly determines who gets to be daring in the first place.Â
They trace the throughline from permission to curiosity to gratitude, unpack the real...
"I do enjoy personal projects that are very personal." (Paloma Rincon bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Paloma Rincón ~
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Dare to make the straight line perfect - Paloma RincĂłn
Visual artist and photographer Paloma RincĂłn joins Radim to trace a creative life built on colour, contrast, and control. Raised in Mexico City and surrounded by handcraft, tactile materials, and a graphic designer uncle, Paloma fell first for the analog darkroom, then for the still-life sets she builds entirely by hand. ~Â
She talks candidly about the shock of moving to a "monochrome" Madrid at a young age, the disciplined self-reliance it forced on her, and how a chance pairing of a disco ball and a melon became one of her most iconic images.Â
The con...
"We always looked at rock bands — they gave us the blueprint" (Snask bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Freddie Ost and Erick Kockrum from Snask  ~
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Dare to make enemies and gain fans - Freddie Ă–st & Erik Kockrum (Snask)
Radim is joined by Freddie and Erik from SNASK — the Stockholm-based studio that has spent nearly two decades building one of the most distinctive, daring creative brands on the planet. ~ What begins as a conversation about music, inspiration, and origins unfolds into a masterclass in conviction, values-led work, and why making enemies is the most logical brand strategy there is. From their refusal to enter awards to a client who fainted getting a tattoo at a wrap party, this episode is a full-blooded reminder of what it actually looks like to stand for something — and never apologise for it.
Dare to fall in love with creativity again - Rob Draper (Live at All Flows)
Rob Draper is an artist, designer, lettering artist, and collage maker whose career has been shaped by an extraordinary sequence of reinventions. Growing up in Worcester in the 1980s, Rob was captivated by American culture, graffiti, and the visual energy of films like E.T. and Tron. ~
That early love of making things became the thread connecting every chapter that followed — from graphic design student to art director, from redundancy to sign writing, from teaching in prisons to painting coffee cups that went viral. In this conversation, recorded live at All Flows Festival, Rob talks about the cou...
Dare to outgrow the niche that made you - Nada Hesham (Live at All Flows)
Nada Hesham is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of 40Mustaqel, an independent design studio born and based in Cairo, Egypt. Recorded live at All Flows Festival, this conversation moves between identity, rebellion, methodology, and the deep craft of building a studio that refuses to be a factory. ~
Nada grew up in Cairo — an intense, visually chaotic city she describes as a continuous love-hate relationship — in a family of doctors and engineers. She found her way into graphic design not through natural talent, but through the logic of typography: a discipline where obsession and method matter more than...
"It gets better. You maintain, you improve, you just do you." (Mat Voyce bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Mat Voyce ~
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Dare to be honest about the life behind the work - Mat Voyce
In Episode 50, Radim sits down with Mat Voyce — type animator whose kinetic, character-driven lettering has earned him a devoted following and a client list most freelancers would dream about. What starts as a conversation about craft quickly becomes something more personal: how a self-described jack-of-all-trades with middle-of-the-pack grades found his calling through animated type, and how the pressure of building something real collided with the weight of anxiety that nobody could see from the outside.
Mat traces his journey from childhood TV binges and PlayStation nights to architecture illustrations sold as wall art, to the type pieces he...
"Sitting with work produces better outcomes and trust." (Elana Rudick bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Elana Rudick ~
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Dare to shift back to human - Elana Rudick
Montreal-based creative director and founder of Design is Yummy, Elana Rudick, returns to the podcast for the first time since season one. With twenty years in the industry and a new talk on the horizon, Elana joins Radim to explore what it really means to make design human — from the studio floor to the stage.Â
They cover the rollercoaster of running a creative studio post-pandemic, why slowing down your thinking is the new competitive advantage in an age of rapid AI execution, and what happens when a chocolate bar becomes your CV.Â
Elana's new keynote, "The...
"Imposter syndrome robs you of being in the now" (Murugiah bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Murugiah ~
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Dare to find radical empathy for the people around you - Murugiah
Murugiah returns to Daring Creativity for a conversation that feels like watching someone step fully into who they were always meant to be.Â
A multidisciplinary artist trained in architecture, living and working in London, Murugiah has spent the years since his last appearance developing a deeply personal body of work — acrylic paintings that fuse his digital aesthetic with a new emotional rawness, rooted in his Sri Lankan heritage and shaped by a decade of intentional craft. ~
 One email to the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration led, against all expectations, to an invitation to open the enti...
"I'm a reluctant influencer" (George Wu & Malika Favre bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with George Wu and Malika Favre (icantaffordthisbutmaybeshecan) ~
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Dare to start with an audience of one - Malika Favre & George Wu
Malika Favre is one of the most recognisable illustrators working today — a master of bold geometry, reduced palettes, and images you feel before you decode. George Wu is a graphic designer, event director, product creator, and by her own admission, a jack of all trades. Together, they created I Can't Afford This But Maybe She Can — a curation account that started as a private joke between two best friends and grew into a 350,000-follower community, a newsletter with a 70%+ open rate, and a full concept store with over 300 products from 90 independent brands worldwide.
This conversation captures why that...
"The process and the journey is the art." (PJ Richardson bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with PJ Richardson from Laundry Studio ~
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Dare to challenge the status quo with joy - PJ Richardson (Live from OFFF 2026)
In this special live episode recorded in front of an audience at OFFF Barcelona 2026, Radim sits down with PJ Richardson — ECD and co-founder of Laundry, a motion design studio based in LA and San Francisco — to pull back the curtain on one of the most ambitious creative projects of the festival: the OFFF 2026 opening titles, the nine-and-a-half-minute projection mapping piece that lit up an entire building and stopped the crowd in their tracks.Â
PJ Richardson takes us inside the full arc of that creative journey — from the initial spark of ambition, through the chaos of experimentation, to the emo...
"To be really curious, you have to let it all in." (Dora Drimalas bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Dora Drimalas from Hybrid Design ~
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Dare to find curiosity in all things - Dora Drimalas
Dora Drimalas, co-founder of San Francisco design studio Hybrid, joins Radim to explore what it really means to build a creative practice grounded in genuine, unfiltered curiosity. ~Â
Over 24 years, Hybrid has refused to specialise — working instead across branding, campaigns, books, and environments for clients from Nike to Lego — and Dora explains why that deliberate refusal to narrow down has been the studio's greatest creative strength.Â
From their formative years at Nike, where fearlessness was the culture, to the making of their debut monograph Curiosity in All Things — a 650-page love letter to design, process, and inspirat...
"Frustration isn't the enemy of creativity - it's the fuel." (Pablo Juncadella bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Pablo Juncadella from Mucho ~
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Dare to bring creative poetry to every problem - Pablo Juncadella
Pablo Juncadella is co-founder and partner at Mucho, the Barcelona-based branding and identity studio approaching its 25th year. In this conversation, Pablo traces a career built on unlikely advantages — dyslexia, collective thinking, and an editorial background that taught him to treat brands as stories told in headlines. ~
From working on El PaĂs at 22 through Pentagram London, to becoming creative director of The Observer at 25, to building a studio with offices across Europe and the US, his path has been one of constant curiosity, deliberate humility, and a refusal to lower the standard of what design can do...
"Food is our last bastion of radical agency." (Caroline Hobkinson bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Caroline Hobkinson ~
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Dare to make food your art form - Caroline Hobkinson
Caroline Hopkinson is a food artist and food anthropologist whose work sits at the collision of neuroscience, performance, ritual and sensory design. In this conversation she reframes everything we think we know about eating — not as sustenance or even pleasure, but as our most intimate, politically charged and deeply human act.Â
From the communion of a morning coffee order to immersive dining experiences in Berlin and Paris, Caroline reveals why food is the one domain where algorithms have no jurisdiction.
Food is our most intimate ritual — more so than sex, because what we eat literally becomes us an..."Creativity has always been a selfless thing for me" (Sam Mensah-Bonsu bonus episode)
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Dare to speak every creative language - Samuel Mensah-Bonsu
Sam Mensah Bonsu is a Creative Director and Experience Designer at Microsoft, part of a small team shaping how millions of people interact with AI through Copilot. ~
From tracing Dragon Ball Z printouts borrowed from his brother's college library, to creating a candy typeface that went viral in 2013, to landing at AKQA on the Nike Football account and later advising C-suite executives at McKinsey.Â
Sam's career has been a masterclass in following curiosity with full commitment. He founded Youth Worldwide to mentor underrepresented emerging talent and champion design education at a time when it was b...
"Being a muralist is brutal. It is not sunshine and rainbows." (Danielle Weber bonus episode)
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Dare to protect your peace - Danielle Weber
Australian muralist Danielle Weber, joins Radim to explore the invisible layers behind a creative life — from a teenage detour that almost derailed her entirely, to the streets where brilliant and bruising human encounters shape every project. ~
Danielle shares how curiosity has been both her compass and her chaos, why she'd choose fifteen years of slow growth over a single moment of overnight success, and how building a community became an act of creative necessity.Â
This is a conversation about learning to trust your intuition, protecting your energy, and finding genuine beauty in the chapters that don...
"I always try to maintain that energy from the 14-year-old Rik." (Rik Oostenbroek bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Rik Oostenbroek ~
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Dare to not know what you are - Rik Oostenbroek
In this episode, Radim sits down with Rik Oostenbroek — Dutch visual artist, digital pioneer, and restless creative explorer — for a wide-ranging conversation that moves between nostalgia, grief, identity, and the strange beauty of not knowing what comes next.Â
Rik reflects on two decades of carving his own path through commercial illustration, abstract digital art, the NFT world, and now the physical realm of screenprinting and sculpture, always guided by the same curiosity that drove him as a 14-year-old discovering DeviantArt.
The conversation is also a tribute to their mutual friend and creative force, Rutger Rutger Paulu...
"I'm a unicorn that simply refuses to be put inside a horse box." (Sarah Masters bonus episode)
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