2026 Intro Episode: We're Moving to Substack!

(Still the Creative Reboot you know & love, but we’re moving over here - read on for reasons!)

Ta daaaaaaaah! Welcome back, or welcome if you’re finding us for the first time!

After five years and eight seasons of our beautiful little podcast, we’ve decided to move over to Substack, and figured an intro, or re-introduction, would probably be a good place to start.

The Podcast

Creative Reboot is all about creativity, whether it’s your full time job, your side hustle, your hobby - wherever creative oomph fits into your life. It started when we (Carla & Sarah - more about us in a bit) were having late night conversations shortly after Sarah moved to Canada. First we thought other people might like to hear them, and then we realised other people might also like to join in with them. And somehow now we’re here.

We didn’t have much of a plan, but we did have a founding principle of honesty, and honesty at the time the things were happening rather than ten years after they were fixed.

And halfway through we both discovered we were neurodivergent, in some similar and some wildly different ways. Which has definitely had an influence on our podcast!

It’s sort of us working out and reworking our lives, figuring it out very publicly so you guys can follow along.

Meet Carla Watkins

Carla is the UK half of Creative Reboot, based in Essex. She’s a brand photographer / visual magic maker, fantasy photographer and semi professional mermaid. Alongside her photography businesses and the podcast she helps with her family’s chocolate business TEMPRD, co-owns an online stationery boutique (Ink Drops), cofounded Cahoots Club for networking & connection, and quite possibly some other stuff she’s forgotten to mention.

She’s been blogging since 2004, has her own Substack over at Colourful Magical Weirdo Life (& business) and is long form everything - photos and words in equal measure, but almost never short snippets. She’s very definitely a multipod, and it will come as no surprise that her ND flavour is ADHD.

And she lives by the river with two silly kittens, is single & childfree by choice, and forgot to mention these things in her intro!

Find her on Substack: Carla Watkins, on Instagram @colourfulmagicalweirdo, and links to everything she does at carlawatkins.com/multipod

Meet Sarah Wayte

Sarah is the Canada-based half of Creative Reboot, living on the west coast just outside Vancouver. In the mountains. Which we’re not AT ALL jealous of…

She’s also a multipod, with her business Sarah Wayte Creative encompassing copywriting, creative writing and brand photography. She’s currently writing her first novel, and also writes lots of creative non-fiction, usually about her own experiences as a recovering paramedic, a neurodivergent person, a woman going through perimenopause, a migrant who has moved country multiple times.

She is a certified word nerd who loves words with every atom of her being. And she’s married and also a cat mum and childfree by choice!

Find her on Substack: Sarah Wayte, on Instagram @sarahwaytecreative and on her website sarahwayte.com

Things we both are

In no particular order: Childfree by choice. Cat mums. Photographers. Writers. Perimenopausal. Neurodivergent. Colourful hair. Glasses wearers. Gigglers.

We met in Essex over a decade ago, have maintained a very close friendship throughout transatlantic moves and the pandemic and all sorts of other chaos, although we don’t see each other as much as we’d like to. But we do chat on Whatsapp most days!

Listen to our individual intro episodes from right at the beginning here:

Sarah’s intro episode

Carla’s intro episode

You’ll note our slightly panicked realisation that five years is a long time and we’ve both built and burned things down in that time, so please forgive any inaccuracies!

2026 for Creative Reboot

So what’s actually happening this year / season? Well, we decided we’re not going to start a new season (and actually, we recorded this nearly two months before we managed to release it, so this was the correct decision for this insane year).

It’s been a busy year with Carla’s 40th, a Scotland trip for Sarah and the usual mad life things happening - and when we got together to talk about season nine, we’d independently both come to the conclusion that we may not have time for a whole structured season this year.

But we have both been writing our own Substacks in the meantime, and we both love how it feels over here - like the golden days of blogging & connection online - and when we checked our back catalogue we have 90 episodes. Eeeek!

So while we may well record the odd episode during this year to keep you updated, mostly we are going to be polishing show notes over here and re-releasing all our previous episodes for you guys to catch up on. (well, almost all - there are some irrelevant archive bits like the prepping for the pandemic which probably don’t need a re-listen!)

Hopefully you’ll be seamlessly listening to this on your usual platform, and our website is staying intact, but because there are so many episodes we’re going to work through them a little bit at a time.

We’ll highlight them in order from season 1, with the small caveat that we were a bit more chaotic in the early days and we had no idea we’d still be going five years down the line!

The practical info

If you were already a subscriber to our newsletter, we are shortly moving you over and you don’t need to do anything, you’ll continue to get our emails when we send them out, just from Substack instead of from Mailerlite.

If you’ve subscribed to us in Substack, you don’t need to do anything and our posts will land in your app or inbox when we send them out.

You can subscribe & listen directly on Substack, plus from all good podcast apps, and if there’s one we’re not on and you’d like us to be, just let us know!

Our website is creativereboot.co

You can find us on socials, mainly on Instagram at @creativerebootco

And if you want to get in touch, drop us a comment here or an email hello@creativereboot.co!

We’re thrilled you’re here for this next chapter!

You’ve been listening to the Creative Reboot podcast. Thanks so much for listening. Do let us know your thoughts or anything you want to add to the conversation below (and don’t forget to like, share and subscribe for more episodes!).

In the meantime, if you want to get to know Carla or Sarah better, you can find us at the following links:

Carla: Website | Instagram | Substack

Sarah: Website | Instagram | Substack