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Sell Yourself Without Selling Out with Marc Ecko May 10, 2017

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Marc is a creative entrepreneur who's probably best known as the founder of the apparel brand Ecko, which began in his parents' garage and eventually grew into the largest brand in streetwear with a global footprint and over $1 billion in revenue. He's also the author of Unlabeled: Selling Yourself Without Selling Out - the book we discuss in this episode - the creator of a video game called "Getting Up" and the founder of Complex Media.

Today on the podcast,

* Some super-actionable tactics for promoting your work - one that I really love is Marc's concept of a "swag bomb," which is a package that you deliver to someone to get their attention- for example when he'd send some Ecko gear to rappers.

* Why the biggest barrier to success is - for most people - a self-imposed one: fear. Specifically, the fear of public or peer ridicule.

* The power of humble beginnings. There's this idea that you have to have best-in-class tools from the jump in order to get your start and frankly, that's complete bs.

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

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How Design Can Supercharge Your Business with Yves Béhar May 03, 2017

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Yves is the founder of Fuseproject and one of the most influential industrial designers of our generation, having also lead teams at the iconic firms frog design and Lunar Design. His clients include Herman Miller, GE, Puma, Kodak, Samsung, Prada and a host of others, and pioneered the paradigm of designer/entrepreneur as the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of smart lock company August and CCO at Jawbone. He's also a passionate advocate for sustainability and social good, contributing to a variety of projects like One Laptop Per Child, Ver Bien para Aprender Mejor and the SPRING Accelerator program.

Today on the podcast,

* He talks about how - contrary to what many think - the best way for designers to get a chance to have a seat at the table is to double down on their craft and become world-class at one thing

* We talk about how to turn off your brain when needed, quieting that relentless critical voice that all creators have

* And we also get into more detail on the evolution of design culture in the US- how companies like Apple and Target helped make designers more visible and more valued as core members of the team at the center of the business

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

Conquer Fear & Self-Doubt with Amanda Crew Apr 26, 2017

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Amanda Crew is an actress who's best known for playing Monica on the hit HBO show "Silicon Valley," which I absolutely love for skewering tech culture in a loving but deadly accurate way. If you haven't seen the show please, please do yourself a favor and check it out - season 4 recently premiered on HBO. But her career goes back many years: she's appeared in a ton of shows and movies like Smallville, Final Destination 3, Life As We Know It and much more.

Today on the podcast,

* Like almost everyone on my show, Amanda is a hyphen - she's a passionate photographer, although it took her a while to give herself permission to be more than an actor - she talks about overcoming the social bias that you can be good at more than one thing

* She talks about the low point of her career a few years back when the recession and a writer's strike hit at the same time one of her movies flopped and she didn't work for nearly two years - and how rebuilding her career from scratch was actually the thing that made her believe in herself more than ever and conquer the imposter syndrome

* We also get into the phenomenon of dealing with "what's next" - as an actor that's a constant thing for her: wrap a season of the show and there's the instant question of "ok so now what?" It's not an easy one for many people to answer and she has some great thoughts on it that apply to any creator.

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

Become A Master Communicator w/ Vanessa Van Edwards Apr 19, 2017

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Vanessa Van Edwards bills herself as a "behavioral investigator" - what that means is that she is absolutely amazing at unpacking what makes people do the things they do and turning that into proven, actionable techniques for others to hone their own people skills. She's written for publications like CNN, Fast Company and forbes and is the author of the brand new (and incredibly good) book "Captivate: The Science Of Succeeding With People." You've heard me talk many times about the critical importance of soft skills in building a successful career as a creator, and Vanessa is THE authority on this mega-important topic.

Today on the podcast,

* She talks about the difference between decoding and encoding emotional signals and how to apply that idea - for example, monitoring the micro-emotions that you are encoding with your body language and facial expressions (if you suffer from RBF this segment is for you!)

* Tons of amazing little hacks that will help you hone your people skills. As just one example that takes literally just a few seconds, when you see a closeup of someone's face on tv, try making that same face - it will help develop your ability to feel empathy because you'll find that you start feeling the same emotions that they're feeling

* Vanessa is also a master negotiator, and gets into some ninja negotiating techniques. You've heard me say that you need to raise your rates and these are the specific tactics you should be using to do so - this is the kind of specific, tactical stuff that I love

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

How iJustine Built Her Digital Empire Apr 12, 2017

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Justine Ezarik aka iJustine is one of the OG YouTube stars-- one of the very few people who have been on the platform for over a decade. You may remember her from her first big hit, her "300 page iPhone bill" video way back in 2007 or from literally streaming her entire life for 6 months, and since then she's had several other hits that helped her build a huge following based off the kind of DIY hustle that I absolutely love-- for example her early videos were shot with a $400 point and shoot and a green rug from Ikea that served as her "green screen." She's one of the people who blazed the trail for the YouTubers and vloggers of today, and she's parlayed that into a ton of opportunities outside YouTube including appearances on shows like Law & Order and Criminal Minds as well as being named by Time as one of the top 100 most influential people to 18-34 year olds.

Today on the podcast,

* She talks about how she got her start in her hometown of Pittsburgh-- she didn't need to be in New York, LA or SF to make things happen, and neither do you. I love how she puts it: "be the best where you are, then move when you've outgrown it."

* We riff on one of my favorite topics which is the idea that stamina wins, that the most important thing is just to keep grinding and over time the ups and downs will just be noise.

* She's got a really great perspective on negative feedback. Any creator gets some, and the standard response is to ignore it. But here's the thing -- as she says -- sometimes they're right. Sometimes you should listen to it and adjust accordingly.

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

How To Get The Press + Public To Notice Your Work w/ Ryan Holiday Apr 05, 2017

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Ryan is an author, entrepreneur and one of the sharpest marketing minds out there. He got his start working for bestselling authors like Tucker Max and Robert Greene and has since worked with folks like Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Evan Carmichael, and John Grisham among many others - and he's written 5 books now including TWO last year: Ego Is The Enemy and The Daily Stoic. This episode was originally recorded back in 2012 when he was promoting "Trust Me I'm Lying," which was his first book - releasing an audio version now as many of you have requested.

Today on the podcast,

* Why Ryan dropped out of college at 19 when he realized that he had better opportunities - specifically to go work for American Apparel, where he was Director of Marketing during the era in which they were on fire and really driving a huge part of youth culture

* He says "You are your own chief marketing officer" - a great way to capture something that only becomes more true with time, which is that creators have an imperative to PROMOTE their work in addition to MAKING the work. If you listened to my interview with Levar Burton a while back he talked a lot about this too.

* There's also a ton of super practical, hands-on tactics on how you can get organic coverage of your work - for example how American Apparel got tons of blogs and magazines to run their ads, but not as ADS but as part of editorial content. This is something almost all creatives struggle with and ask me about, and we get deep into it.

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

How To Be A World-Class Creative Pro w/ Joe McNally Mar 29, 2017

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Joe McNally is one of the most accomplished photographers of his generation, with a list of achievements that I couldn't possibly do justice to in this little intro. He's one of the few people who have managed to be super successful in both journalism and commercial photography, and a few of the highlights of his insane career are working with clients including FedEx, Sony, GE, Adidas and Epson; working as LIFE Magazine's only staff photographer; shooting cover stories for the likes of Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and Time among many many others; authoring three books on photography and creating several high-profile projects such as the incredibly powerful collection "Faces Of Ground Zero" honoring the first responders to the 9/11 attacks.

Today on the podcast,

* He talks about something a lot of people think or claim to possess but not so many actually do, which is tenacity. He has some great stories about being - as he says - "pitbull when he has a camera in his hands" and doing whatever it takes to get the shot

* We've talked about the vital role of failure many times on this show and I love what Joe has to say about it - about how his failure shooting a horse race early in his career is specifically what set him up for success later in his career on projects like shooting the launch of the space shuttle

* We get into something that's very rarely discussed, which is the cost of being a super high achiever - some brutally honest discussion about the tradeoffs Joe's made in his own career, such as the fact that traveling so much as a photographer meant that he missed a good chunk of his children's formative years. Very real and raw stuff.

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

How To Stop Waiting And Start Doing w/ Roman Mars Mar 22, 2017

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Roman Mars is the host of the wildly popular design podcast "99% Invisible" and has been called "the Ira Glass of design." With several hundred episodes in the can over its six years in existence, it's covered everything from "Unsung Icons of Soviet Design" to Love Park's place in skateboarding history to DIY space suits, all through the same lens of - as he says - "telling stories that make you notice and appreciate the world in a different way," drawing attention to the world of design around us that is 99% invisible (hence the title of the show). He's also the creator of the world's most popular design-focused TED Talk and co-founder of the podcast collective Radiotopia.

Today on the podcast,

* He says that "lack of success gives you a certain amount of freedom" - I love this because I see so many people stressing about the fact that they aren't a household name yet - embrace it! This is your chance to try crazy, cool stuff - and if you mess it up then it doesn't matter because nobody's watching.

* We get into something I talked about recently on this show which is finding your personal style - he has a great way of putting it: try on as many things as possible until you find your voice.

* He gets into what he's learned as the show has scaled and relies not just on him but on a team. This is tough for many creators who are super comfortable doing things alone and have to make a lot of adjustments once it becomes a team effort.

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

Scott Dadich: Gut, Heart, and Head Alignment Mar 16, 2017

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Scott Dadich is a designer, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He's currently the co-CEO of Godfrey Dadich Partners, a design, content and strategy firm. Prior to that he worked at Conde Nast where he was the editor of Wired and helped Conde Nast build out their digital strategy including the tablet editions of their magazines (and if you remember when those came out, they were incredible products that were among the first things really felt tablet native). He's also the creator of the amazing new Netflix series "Abstract: The Art Of Design"-- I'm sure a lot of you have already binge-watched it, and if you haven't then do yourself a favor and check it out ASAP.

Today on the podcast,

* We talk about why you should listen to your instincts or as he says, to the voice inside. He's got a great term for this which is finding "gut/head alignment." I'm a big advocate of learning how to hear and trust your instincts and this has been my biggest asset in many ways.

* He gets into the making of "Abstract," the transition from journalist to filmmaker and some of the common elements they saw in all of the designers that they profile in the series - a lot of good stuff here for those of you who are into habits.

* On that note one of the things that comes up a couple times is the power of the exploratory process in honing your craft - for example drawing as a means of visualizing your ideas. The key here is that its not about making a beautiful perfect drawing per se, it's about the process of exploring the idea - it's a muscle that you'll grow by exercising it on a regular basis.

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

When to listen to the voices in your head Mar 09, 2017

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I've talked before about that 3AM voice - the one that whispers in your ear that you're not good enough or that maybe you'll fail and so therefore it's probably better if you just quit now. That voice is what I call the gremlins. The gremlins are not your friend, and you've got to learn how to ignore them. But here's the thing - there's another voice that often sounds very similar to the gremlin voice, except that it's RIGHT. It's the voice of your instincts, and its absolutely critical that you trust and listen to this voice.

The key here is to learn how to tell the two apart, because like I said they can sound very similar until you learn how to train your inner ear to know the difference between gremlins and instincts - and in this episode I give you the details on how to do exactly that.

Enjoy!

Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast.

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