Stories matter. Let’s create them, preserve them and share them.
I’m Thea Newcomb, a Glasgow-based storyteller, memory saver and creative trainer.
I help people bring ideas to life, rescue precious memories from old formats, and feel more confident using creative tools and technology.
Some days that means teaching a room full of people how to get more from Canva. Other days I’m rescuing someone’s family memories from a box of old tapes. And sometimes I’m telling stories of my own.
Different work, perhaps, but there’s a thread running through all of it: helping people create, preserve and share things that matter.
Create
I love helping people turn ideas into something real, especially when technology is making the whole thing feel more complicated than it needs to be.
I’m Scotland’s first Canva Verified Expert and have been using Canva since 2014. I offer practical training for individuals, businesses, teams and communities, built around what people actually need to do rather than a generic tour of buttons.
I’m also increasingly interested in how we use AI and other creative technology without handing over all the interesting human bits along the way.
Explore my Canva training and support
Preserve
Some stories already exist. They’re just sitting in a cupboard on a VHS tape, camcorder cassette, audio tape or disc that nobody has been able to play for years.
I’ve spent decades around analogue and digital media, and one of the things I love most is helping people rediscover recordings they thought they’d lost to time.
Because an old tape isn’t really about the tape. It’s someone’s voice, a wedding, a childhood Christmas, a family member who’s no longer here, or a completely ordinary afternoon that suddenly means the world.
Share
Then there are the stories we choose to tell.
Through my writing, speaking and Totally Content, I explore music, memories, nostalgia, creativity and the wonderfully human stories attached to them.
I believe technology can help us tell better stories, but I’m much more interested in the people behind it. The memories, oddities, connections and little details are usually where the good stuff lives.
Training That Feels Human
I’ve spent years teaching people who don’t necessarily think of themselves as creative or particularly technical, and that’s probably why my training style is a little different.
I don’t want you sitting quietly while I demonstrate seventeen features you’ll have forgotten by teatime. I want you asking questions, trying things, understanding why something works and leaving able to do more for yourself.
Whether I’m working with one person or a room full of people, the aim is the same: practical learning, more confidence and considerably less staring at the screen wondering what the hell to click next.
A Bit About Me
I’m Thea. I’m based in Glasgow, although work, curiosity and the occasional questionable travel itinerary regularly take me elsewhere.
I’ve spent much of my working life somewhere between creativity, technology, teaching, music and media. I like helping people understand things, I love preserving stories and memories, and I’m endlessly fascinated by the ways old and new technology collide.
I’m also a Canva Verified Expert, trainer, writer, analogue-to-digital obsessive and the person behind Totally Content.
I’m not entirely sure there’s a sensible job title for all of that.
Storyteller and memory saver gets pretty close.
What Can I Help You With?
If you’re looking for creative training, want help getting more confident with Canva, have old recordings you’d love to see or hear again, or simply think there might be something interesting we could do together, get in touch.
Create. Preserve. Share stories that matter.
