A magazine must have a mission, and TalkTalk’s is to inspire people in their 20s with creative and/or entrepreneurial yearnings to stop yearning and start being creative and/or entrepreneurial. To get going with a project you’ve been dreaming about, sometimes you just need a little nudge: advice, encouragement, the example of someone who has tried and succeeded (or at least tried). The people profiled in this issue of TalkTalk all found their nudge and did their thing: we hope that reading their stories will give you a nudge in the right direction, too.

Jessie Scott found hers walking around her Melbourne neighborhood, in the architecture of people’s houses. The photos she took – one featured on the cover of this issue – became an exhibition at a local gallery, then an Instagram page, and finally a book, The Coburg Plan. Dan Rule of Perimeter Editions makes books, too. Along with co-founder Justine Ellis, Dan turned his bookstore into an imprint. He says he is inspired by trying to give an artist’s work the right form in print. Arcadia Scott found enough inspiration at a pottery class to make a career leap, giving up a steady sales job for life as a maker of lovely ceramics; Huw Vellacot of Computer Cycles was on an overseas campervan-biking trip with his future wife when he decided he wanted a job where he could cycle to work – what better way to do that than to start your own bike shop? Finally, Bethany Atkins-Quinton and Izzy Roberts-Orr wanted to nurture emerging podcast makers, especially women and others whose voices aren’t always heard in our media: so, they got together with Areej Nur to form Broadwave, a collective that equips people and communities to find their podcast voices.

Books, bikes, ceramics, stories spoken in your ear and a printed magazine: it seems everything old is new again.