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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Timeless Practical Wisdom For Living a Meaningful Life

Inspiring stories and practical advice from creatives, entrepreneurs, change-makers, misfits, and rebels to help you become successful on your own terms

Our listeners say, “If TEDTalks met Oprah you’d have the Unmistakable Creative.” Eliminate the feeling of being stuck in your life, blocked in your creativity, and discover higher levels of meaning and purpose in your life and career. Listen to deeply personal, insightful, and thought-provoking stories from the world’s leading thinkers and doers including best-selling authors, artists, peak performance psychologists, happiness researchers, entrepreneurs, startup founders, artists, venture capitalists, and even former bank robbers. Former guests have included Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, Justine Musk, Scott Adams, Rob Bell, David Heinemeier Hansson, Elle Luna, Jordan Harbinger Brett Mckay, and Simon Sinek.

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Latest Episodes:

Igniting Change through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols with Nancy Duarte Mar 21, 2016

Show notes

Nancy Duarte joins us to talk about how to ignite change through speeches, stories, ceremonies and symbols.

Highlights

How a failure sparked an entire body of work
Overcoming emotional wounds from parents
The decision to focus on being the best in the world at one thing
Moments in time that test our hearts and our grit
Going from college drop out to speaker at the same university
Turning every Obstacle into an Opportunity
Resolving our need for parental approval
Bringing focus to your work by saying no
How hobbies can create careers
Lessons from working with Al Gore
Using speeches, stories, ceremonies, and symbols

Quotes

I’ve become the antithesis of what my destiny would dictate I’d become

Creating a movement is the long game

If you wake up everyday, and do what brings you peace and passion you’ll end up in the right place.

We were in business 20 years before my first book was written.

I think you are hardwired and made with a destiny.

Part of transformation at scale and creating a movement is letting go of the past and embracing the future

Links

Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

Slideology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, LA Times and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. The largest design agency in the Silicon Valley, and 5th largest woman-owned employer, Duarte, Inc. is estimated to have created more than a quarter of a million presentations.

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Storytelling Lesson from Iconic Radio Producers with Jessica Abel Mar 16, 2016

Show notes

Jessica Abel, comic artist and author joins us to share storytelling telling lessons from iconic radio producers.

Highlights

Finding the themes inside a body of work
Storytelling lessons from iconic radio producers
Why our paths are rarely linear
Managing the uncertainty and anxiety of creative work
The conceptual story structure of how narrative journalism works
Why there are no shortcuts to creative success

Links

Jessica Abel is a a cartoonist and a writer, and is deeply interested in stories: She makes them, investigates how they work, and wants to help you make your own.

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The Evolution of a Body of Work with Wendy Piersall Mar 14, 2016

Show notes

Wendy Piersall, blogger and artist joins us to discuss the evolution of her body of work

Highlights

What happens when we become disillusioned with our success
How loss can lead to the start of true happiness
Having the courage to avoid soul-sucking easy money
Making decisions in the absence of external evidence
Letting go of the “fix yourself” approach to personal development
How forgiveness creates space in your life

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Quotes

My life had to come part to go back together in ways that would actually work

Sometimes you have look nowhere but within yourself for answers

When I started nurturing myself for sake of nurturing myself it spread like waves to people I love the most and projects I cared about the most

When you ask crappy questions you get crappy answers

Why even show up for life if you’re not going to listen to the guiding voice within you?

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Wendy Piersall, blogger and artist joins us to discuss the evolution of her body of work

Highlights

What happens when we become disillusioned with our success
How loss can lead to the start...
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Science Based Tools for Happiness, Resilience and Peak Performance with Emiliya Zhivotovskaya Mar 09, 2016

Show notes

Speaker, educator, facilitator and coach Emiliya joins us to discuss science based tools from the field of positive psychology

Highlights

Media driven misperceptions of communism
The least useful question we can ask in adversity
The difference between positive psychology and positive thinking
How we give our happiness away
The powerful role of ritual and community
Mental health stigma in immigrant communities

Quotes

Everybody is constantly creating their own reality through their perceptions

The brain is constantly asking why and making meaning

I often say gratitude was the best diet I put myself on

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A leading voice in the world of positive psychology and the science of flourishing, Emiliya Zhivotovskaya is a widely sought-after speaker, educator, facilitator and coach.

Speaker, educator, facilitator and coach Emiliya joins us to discuss science based tools from the field of positive psychology

Highlights

Media driven misperceptions of communism
The least useful question we can ask in adversity
The difference between positive psychology and positive thinking
How we give our happiness away
The powerful...
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The Role of Intrinsic Motivation in Our Happiness with Neil Pasricha Mar 07, 2016

Show notes

Neil Pasricha, creator of 1000 Awesome Things, returns to the show to discuss his new book The Happiness Equation

Highlights

Developing the habit of starting and building things
The 4 simple words that block all criticism
Why extrinsic motivation causes you to lose satisfaction
The success triangle
Psychology and human behavior lessons from a fast food restaurant
Three things that help you manage life after a difficult experience
Finding the motivation to show up every single day
Lessons from working up close with high-level leaders
How to spend the bulk of your time on high impact activities

Quotes

It matters internally more than externally on any creative project

The average person makes over 300 decisions a day. We all have decision fatigue.

Resources and Books

Neil’s TED Talk

The Book of Awesome

The Happiness Equation

The Institute for Global Happiness

Neil Pasricha is the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series which has spent over five years on bestseller lists and sold over a million copies. He’s also the author of The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything.

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Coaching to Create Behavioral Change and Great Work with Michael Bungay Stanier Mar 02, 2016

Show notes

Michael Bungay Stanier, senior partner at Box of Crayons joins us to discuss coaching questions that create behavioral change and enable us to do more great work.

Highlights

Nurturing the seeds that get planted in our lives
The path from conscious incompetence to mastery
The power working the system to get we want
How to be the rebel within the system
The balance between madness and measure
Making change in complex systems resistance to change
The difference between great work and good work
Lessons learned from working with Seth Godin
Coaching questions that lead to behavioral change

Quotes

You’re always trying to find the balance between madness and measure

Questions are portals into the future

Turn the volume up to 10 on who you are and how you show up in the world.

Books and Resources

Do More Great Work

The Coaching Habit

Michael Bungay Stanier is the Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. Box of Crayons is best known for their coaching programs that help time-crunched managers coach in 10 minutes or less. He’s written a number of books, the best known of which is Do More Great Work, created a series of short internet videos that have been seen by millions of people around the world, and organized the Great Work MBA, a virtual conference that had 10,000 registrants. He’s proudest of the book End Malaria, a collection of essays about Great Work from thought leaders that has raised $400,000 for Malaria No More.

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The 9 Environments That Make Up Your Life with Jim Bunch Feb 29, 2016

Show notes

Jim Bunch, coach and founder of The Ultimate Game of Life returns to the show to talk about 9 the environment that make up our lives. Download Your FREE 9 Environments Assesment

Highlights

What causes our addiction to personal development
Shifting your mindset to believing you have enough
Why the likelihood of change is less likely without a catalyst
How your environments work on you 24 hours a day
The small ways to start changing environments
Creating environments that pull you into a bigger you
Where people go wrong in the process of changing environment
Anchoring environments to create change

The 9 Environments that Make Up Your Life With Jim Bunch

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Leaping without a Plan B with Tess Vigeland Feb 24, 2016

Show notes

Tess Vigeland, veteran radio producer and former anchor for public radio’s Marketplace, join us to discuss her story of leaping without a plan B.

Highlights

Developing an awareness of the moments we fall in love with our work
The challenges of coming up with your own definitions of success
Why we all don’t have to be special
The mentality that sets us up to feel like failures
How definitions of success change over the course of our lives and our careers
Lessons in mastery from more than 20 years in radio
Navigating loss of identity that comes with significant changes in your life
Navigating the psychological challenges of leaping into uncertainty

Books and Resources

Quotes

Everybody doesn’t have a calling, but why should they? @tessvigeland via @unmistakableCR

You have one life to live. Live it the way you want to live it. @tessvigeland via @unmistakableCR

You can’t be a journalist if you don’t have a curious mind. @tessvigeland via @unmistakableCR

There’s a great responsibility to making sure people are informed about their world. @tessvigeland via @unmistakableCR

People back from the cliff because they can’t imagine who they are without what they do.

If the self-help books worked, we wouldn’t have so many of them.

Tess Vigeland is a veteran journalist, and a well-known voice to millions of American radio listeners. She is the CEO of Tess Vigeland Productions, a Los Angeles-based multi-media company. Tess spent 11 years as an anchor for public radio’s Marketplace, including six hosting the personal finance show Marketplace Money. Her first book, titled “Leap: Leaving A Job With No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want,” was published in August 2015, by Random House Harmony.

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Using Your Art to Be a Voice For Others with Reema Zaman Feb 22, 2016

Show notes

Reema Zaman, writer, visual artist, and actress joins us to talk about using her art to become a voice for people who don’t have one.

Highlights:

How curiosity enables us to cultivate self-awareness
Leveraging writing to find clarity and comfort in our lives
Becoming the author of your own life
The golden thread that exists in each of our lives
Creating narratives of resilience and choice
How to deal with the questions we’ll never have answers to
Why pain gives us an opportunity to gain strength
Why forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give to yourself
Creative lessons learned from the world of acting and theater

Quotes

Art gives voice to so many other things that would otherwise remain quiet.

Every time something painful happens it tests your loyalty to yourself

For me watching pain turn into poetry is the biggest high – Reema

When you’re an actor you’re the instrument that communicates the story

You don’t want to tell the story, you want to feel the story.

All art is an act of intimacy and vulnerability.

Reema Zaman is a writer, actress, and artist from Bangladesh.

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Navigating Our Internal Journeys of Loss and Adversity with Tim Lawrence Feb 17, 2016

Show notes

Tim Lawrence, creator of The Adversity Within shares how we navigate the internal journeys of loss, adversity, and how we grow by putting ourselves in challenging environments.

Highlights

How adversity creates ferocious internal resolve
Putting yourself in intentionally constraining environments
Why we don’t have to believe something inherently good about
The difference between approval and acceptance
Building foundations of empathy and compassion
What causes us to confuse responsibility and blame
Focusing on what we control vs what we don’t
The masks we wear to hide our challenges
Finding our way back into the light through service

Quotes

It takes balls to actually stand in your pain

It’s really hard to find meaning if you haven’t fully acknowledge what you’ve gone through

Acceptance is simply acknowledging reality for what is

I think hiding is responsible for unimaginable amounts of suffering in the world

I’ve learned to find strength in my weaknesses and love in my vulnerability

Through his words, Tim Lawrence helps people navigate life’s difficulties – grief, injury, depression, or loss – and learn to forge strength in the fire.

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