Masterpiece

Eliza Gosse is not your typical artist. Mathematical, precise and quietly disciplined, she has built an incredible career as a painter — ten solo exhibitions in seven years — and she’s only 30 (and just getting started).In this conversation, we talk about what it really means to commit to a creative life: the steadiness, the structure, the slow evolution. Eliza shares how she plans three shows ahead, why she still uses a tiny brush despite being told not to, and how becoming a mother is shifting her relationship to art and home.---ONE WORD JOURNALPre-order here.---ELIZA GOSSEArt + Instagram + Buon Gusto Studios.---NEWSLETTERFor 'Things I learnt from Eliza' and more sign up to my free newsletter here.---JESSICA YOLANDA KAYEInstagram + website.Email [email protected] for anything else :)

I met the Canadian-born TV and film producer, Haley Vickers, at a birthday dinner in 2023. We were both pivoting in our careers, both breaking up with London, and by the time dinner came out, I’m pretty sure we’d both cried. Haley has that rare ability to make you laugh, cry, think, and see things differently. All within a matter of minutes.Haley has spent the last decade developing and producing films across London, Toronto, and beyond. In 2025, she launched her own production company, Flick Films. Most recently, she executive produced the rom-com Mile End Kicks, starring Barbie Ferreira, which premiered at TIFF this year.Like me, Haley has spent the past year in what she calls “living limbo.” So, sitting together on a sofa in central London, we explored the role of place in shaping who you are and who you’re becoming. We laughed, we cried, and inevitably, found ourselves in Italy.I loved this chat. I hope you do too.JYK 🤍---HALEY VICKERSInstagram + IMDB + Flick Films.---MUSIC'Deleta Ya' by Djo.Used with permission from AWAL.Listen here.---NEWSLETTERFor things I learnt from Haley and more sign up to my free newsletter here.---ONE WORDFind your word here.Share your word here.---Email [email protected] for anything else :)

Diana Reid wrote her debut novel at 24 during lockdown, having deferred a corporate law job by a year. That book became a bestseller. In the five years since, she’s published two more, with another and a screenplay adaptation on the way. But what's so remarkable about Diana isn't her productivity, but her perspective.Sitting together on a sofa in London, I was struck by her stoicism, her maturity, her detachment. In this conversation, we talk about the conditions that give you the freedom to create, the best advice she’s ever received, training for writing like an athlete, why she leaves her phone at home, and the little pocketbook where she collects inspiration.It’s a conversation that reshaped how I think about focus, creative discipline, and what really matters.JYK ♥️--Follow Diana on instagramOrder Diana's latest book: Signs of Damage--Pre-order your One Word Journal and pick your word for 2026Subscribe to my newsletter for new podcast episodesEmail: [email protected]: @jessicayolandakaye

Today, my podcast, Masterpiece, is out. I’ve been talking about this podcast for years — dreaming about it, playing with it, circling around it, and avoiding it. It’s wild how you can want something so much and still be so scared of it. How something can feel so true and so dangerous at the same time. I’ve avoided this podcast because I’ve been afraid. Afraid to trust myself. Afraid to be fully seen.Masterpiece is a podcast about letting go of who you think you should be and becoming who you really are. But the truth is, it’s really hard.For the last decade, I’ve been on this beautiful, messy, meaningful journey of discovering who I am — quitting my job, moving to London, becoming an artist. And even though I’ve shared pieces publicly, I’ve kept a lot to myself. I’ve been living between the lines, and I don’t want to hide anymore.Miranda July said, “The more honest you are, the more dangerous it feels.” This podcast feels dangerous. But it also feels important. So for the first episode of Masterpiece, I said what I was afraid to say.JYK 🤍 --https://www.instagram.com/jessicayolandakaye/https://www.jessicayolandakaye.com/https://www.myword.is/journal

Talia Blank is a painter, poet, filmmaker, and incredibly deep thinker. For Talia, making art is like breathing. It isn’t something she thinks about. It pours out of her. And yet, when she had her first solo exhibition in New York, something she had dreamed of, it broke her heart.In our conversation, we speak about what it really means to be an artist. The vulnerability that creativity demands, and how exposing that can feel when shared publicly. The maxims she lives by, the rituals that save her, and what happens when we stop trying to control everything and let the magic in.I loved this chat. I hope you do too.JYK 🤍---TALIA BLANKInstagram + creative studio + website.---MUSIC'It Starts Now' by BLOND:ISH. Used with permission from KOMPAKT Records. Listen here.---NEWSLETTERTo receive Talia's Big Little Things (the book, film, rituals that inspire her) sign up to my free newsletter here.---ONE WORDFind your word here.Share your word here.---Email [email protected] for anything else :)