Can you be ambitious and spiritual at the same time? Find out!

Olivia Emden

Emily Johnston

Last year, Olivia from the Footfall Theatre, asked two women in a discussion at St James's Church Piccadilly if it was possible to be ambitious in the world and retain a spiritual life.  I am interested in the question because to succeed as an actress and for her company to succeed meant that she understood the nature of ambition.  When you read the Footfall mission statement, you will see that they are an all-female theatre company with a passion for Shakespeare's texts and collaborative theatre.  They know that a lot of theatre makers tackle Shakespeare but what makes them different is their emphasis on illuminating the female voice and gender within his plays.

Jeremy Sinclair

Rosalind Wyatt

Dr Eve Poole

 Olivia's question remained with me and it will be up to you and your questions to help
find out if the apparent two paths, the ambitious and the spiritual end up in the same place.  To help, on November 25th at St James's Piccadilly, Emily Johnston, life and well being coach will chair the three remarkable people who you can see pictured.  All of them have outer lives that are quite different from one another except that all three are creative.  They have been asked to speak because their inner lives are all motivated by and centred on a spiritual curiousity.  They will be facing YOU alongside an audience with their own questions.  You can be there if you are in London but even if you live at the other end of the world you can join in.  Go to www.justthisday.org at 7.00 pm GMT on November 25th and starting with Don Kipper, two musicians who are ambitious to succeed will play you into the mood to listen. Then our speakers are guaranteed to give us a really interesting evening.  Jeremy Sinclair, Chairman of M&C Saatchi, Rosalind Wyatt, artist and calligrapher and Dr Eve Poole, writer and lecturer, all three are deeply impressive people.  I really want to know where ambition fits in to spiritual life because I recognise that I am ambitious in many ways, ambitious for Just this Day, ambitious for my children and Grandchildren to succeed and at best, ambitious for society in general to be happy.  Come along and help me to find out more.

Andrew Gorman and Don Kipper