Olivia da Costa — AKA Olivia du Please is the root cause of Please Magazine, Please radio, and more recently Politeness, which she designed as an emanation of Please.
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Pleaseness is first and foremost an e-shop, it was a pop-up at Printemps Haussmann, and for the last few months it's been a shop, located at 33 rue d'Hauteville in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
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It features a selection of vintage accessories, which Olivia spends a lot of time hunting for.
And it's really true to her image — it's glossy, graphic and colourful, with just the right amount of kitsch to ultimately be super edgy.
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A collector, obsessive, workaholic, perfectionist and full of energy, Olivia follows her desires.
«That's my strength — I feel like doing something, bam! I do it»
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Olivia has ultimately devoted her entire career to showing people and objects in their best light, so it is somewhat her turn to be in the spotlight now that she is in direct contact with customers in her three-dimensional jewellery box.
If you’d like to find out more about what I call Creative Management, I dedicated a full episode to it a few months ago.
Today, I would like to take a closer look at one aspect of Creative Management: team-building.
What exactly does it involve?
What are the benefits?
I also share a great example, as well as a counter-example, from my own experience as an employee.
And bonus: I talk about my favourite sports coach, Ted Lasso. (no spoiler as I haven’t started Series 4 yet).
If you're interested in offering your team a workshop / team-building / training session, do drop me an email! lbm@lilibonnet.com
I can organise and facilitate almost anywhere in the world 🙂
I’ve known Fabien for over 20 years, back when he was a graphic designer.
We worked together on a project and have stayed in touch — partly because it’s something I enjoy doing, of course, but mainly because I’ve always admired his entrepreneurial spirit.
Even when he enrolled at art school, he didn’t know what he was going to do later on; he just had a fairly broad vision of his future:
– getting up whenever he wanted;
– not working for a boss;
– and living in a loft.
Today, that’s exactly what he’s doing.
He’s the owner of UNSEEN, a vintage shop in Brussels, but he’s also a designer, a carpenter…
it’s clearly impossible to define him in a single word, as he has developed and put to use a wide range of skills.
And it’s quite fascinating to see how much this multi-potential individual needs to free himself from the constraints that a single skill entails, to allow himself not to be confined to just one profession. Not to limit himself. And that is precisely the driving force behind everything he undertakes.
this episode, we also talked about:
– pop culture,
– imposter syndrome,
– mental health,
– and identity, thanks to his recent reconnection with his country of origin, Vietnam.
