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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:

Using Curiosity to Design Experiences with Ben Tseitlin Feb 15, 2016

Show notes

Ben Tseitlin, founder of Benchic chocolates joins us to discuss how he leverages curiosity to design experiences and make chocolate.

Highlights

The power of not having domain expertise
Why breaking things helps you understand them
Letting go of expectations to create results
The importance and power of focus
Making deliberate choices about running a business
Why empathy is the most critical aspect of design
Combining your background and experience to create your message
Unlearning what we know to develop a beginners mind

Quotes

The desire for mastery is one of those things that can’t be forced on anyone.

Childlike curiosity and exploration are the oxygen of mastery.

The information that you consume and the people around you shape who you really are

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Ben Tseitlin is the founder of Benchic Chocolate and is driven to make something extraordinary from nothing.

Ben Tseitlin, founder of Benchic chocolates joins us to discuss how he leverages curiosity to design experiences and make chocolate.

Highlights

The power of not having domain expertise
Why breaking things helps you understand them
Letting go of expectations to create results
The importance and power of focus
Making deliberate choices about running a business
Why empathy is the most critical aspect of design
Combining your background and experience to create your message
Unlearning what we know to develop a beginners mind

Quotes

The desire for mastery is one of those things that can’t be forced on anyone.

Childlike curiosity and exploration are the oxygen of mastery.

The information that you consume and the people around you shape who you really are

Sponsors

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Ben Tseitlin is the founder of Benchic Chocolate and is driven to make something extraordinary from nothing.

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The Keys to Exponential Personal and Professional Growth with Salim Ismail Feb 10, 2016

Show notes

Salim Ismail, Singularity University’s global ambassador and founding executive director, joins us to discuss the keys to exponential personal and professional growth.

HIGHLIGHTS

How institutions and organizations can adapt to a new world
Controversial theories on the success of Indian CEO’s
Navigating complex human relationships
Combining lunacy and rational thinking
The role that forcing functions play in our lives and our work
Expanding your capacity to push boundaries
Tools for internal transformation and rewriting our operating systems.
Disruptive technologies that will have profound impacts on our lives
The Power of Thinking at Scale

Quotes

Almost all profoundly successful entrepreneurs were dismal failures the first three or four times around.

Real power comes from when you can put yourself over the edge and pull yourself back.

Life at its core level is just a process.

The purpose of life is to grow.

If you try to do something disruptive, the immune system of the organization will attack you.

If you’re on the consumer internet, the two attributes you’d better have are speed and risk

Salim is a sought after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur – his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. Salim spent two years as SU’s founding Executive Director and currently serves as its Global Ambassador focusing on its global presence. He Twitters his thoughts at @salimismail and blogs infrequently at www.salimismail.com

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The Conversations We’re Afraid to Have with Jerry Colonna Feb 08, 2016

Show notes

Jerry Colonna CEO of Reboot.IO and former venture capitalist joins us for one of this year’s deepest and most thought provoking conversations about resiliency, our sense of self, and much more.

Highlights

The keys to developing resiliency
Myths about our moment of arrival
Dealing with impostor syndrome
Uncoupling our sense of self from extrinsic
The storm of emotions of that make up life
The power of insatiable curiosity and voracious reading
Lessons learned from working with Fred Wilson

Books and Resources

Faith by Sharon Salzburg

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

The Reboot Podcast

Quotes

Whatever capacity I have to see has come from standing on the shoulders of giants.

The fact that I cry and I feel, that’s a superpower.

I think that we’re afraid of our own feelings.

How can you be in relationship with someone if you don’t know who you are and you don’t love yourself?

I used the chase to define myself for such a long that time that when the chase was over who was I?

The promise of Buddhism is not eternal salvation. The promise of Buddhism is the alleviation of suffering in this lifetime.

Jerry Colonna is an executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction

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Generosity as the Path to Success with Dave Munson Feb 03, 2016

Show notes

Dave Munson founder of Saddleback leather joins us to discuss the rather humble beginnings of building a successful retail business.

Highlights

Why we are not always aware how we’re impacting people
Expecting something wonderful to happen when we’re inconvenienced
Cultivating a constant state of wonder
Why our impact starts to happen later in life
The importance of asking for help
Experience joy outside of our need for money

Dave Munson is the founder of Saddleback Leather, a people business cleverly disguised as a leather goods company.

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A Beautiful Detour with Amy Oestreicher Feb 01, 2016

Show notes

Amy Oestreicher joins us to discuss how she turned her life-threatening illness and over 27 surgeries into what she now calls a beautiful detour.

HIGHLIGHTS

Finding hope when in our most difficult times
Dealing with the fear of not being able to make our mark on the world
Turning obstacles into opportunity
How Amy turned her story into a beautiful detour
Why art and creativity can help us to heal
The unexpected places that detours take us
Bringing a sense of wonder to our daily lives
Using gratitude to build resilience
Shifting our questions from “why me?” to “why not?”

Quotes

I wasn’t able to heal until I could start sharing my story.

There’s life outside the plans we have for ourselves.

I don’t think you can change people until they’re ready to change.

When you find out what you’re grateful for, you realize what you’re about.

If life does take a detour you’ve got to follow that detour and just be open to where it leads because you really don’t know what you’ll get along the way.

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Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, speaker for RAINN, award-winning health advocate, actress and playwright.

Amy Oestreicher joins us to discuss how she turned her life-threatening illness and over 27 surgeries into what she now calls a beautiful detour.

HIGHLIGHTS

Finding hope when in our most difficult times
Dealing with the fear of not being able to make our mark on the world
Turning obstacles into opportunity
How Amy turned her story into a beautiful detour
Why art and creativity can help us to heal
The unexpected places that detours take us
Bringing a sense of wonder to our daily lives
Using gratitude to build resilience
Shifting our questions from “why me?” to “why not?”

Quotes

I wasn’t able to heal until I could start sharing my story.

There’s life outside the plans we have for ourselves.

I don’t think you can change people until they’re ready to change.

When you find out what you’re grateful for, you realize what you’re about.

If life does take a detour you’ve got to follow that detour and just be open to where it leads because you really don’t know what you’ll get along the way.

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Amy Oestreicher is a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, speaker for RAINN, award-winning health advocate, actress and...

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Bridging the Gaps in Our Productivity with Chris Bailey Jan 27, 2016

Show notes

Chris Bailey, author of The Productivity Project returns to the show to discuss how to bridge the productivity gaps in our lives, and how to effectively manage your time, attention and energy.

HIGHLIGHTS

How to create a structure for your projects
Why limitations and constraints increase your creativity
The difference between production and accomplishments
Character traits coordinated with a lack of productivity
Dealing with our addiction to “productivity porn”
The biggest mistakes that people make in their productivity
Why checking email hurts our ability to manage attention
The 3 ingredients that you combine to increase your productivity
Training the ability to manage your attention
Why mindfulness is so essential to our work today

Resources

The Productivity Roadmap
The Productivity Project (Book)
The Aging Booth App

Quotes

I really think this capacity to change is inherent in everyone.

Not all tasks are created equal

The more you use your brain to work, the more you need to manage your attention and energy

You work less efficiently if you don’t bring all of your attention to the work in front of you

Productivity is about the results that your action produces.

Attentional spaces breeds creativity.

When you let your mind wander and daydream you create the space for ideas to rise and bubble up to the surface

For every minute you spend organizing everything that’s a minute you don’t spend doing anything.

For exactly one year, beginning May 1st, 2013, Chris Bailey decided to follow his passion and devour everything he could get his hands on about productivity, and then write every day about what he learned on A Year of Productivity.

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Exploration as an Expression of Our Humanity with Adam Steltzner Jan 25, 2016

Show notes

Adam Steltzner, an engineer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory joins us to discuss his new book the Right Kind of Crazy and lessons in creativity from landing spacecrafts on Mars.

HIGHLIGHTS

Going to the edges of what we might be capable of
Making a significant internal identity shift
Searching for what’s wrong to find what’s true
Managing fear in high-stakes situations
The power of bringing in outside perspective
The right kind of crazy vs the wrong kind of crazy
Why our fear of failure is more debilitating than the failure itself
Establishing objective distance from your ideas
Rebuilding your confidence after a significant failure
Why exploration is a gesture of who we are

Quotes

I want to make sure I don’t stop trying for fear of failing

In an organization it’s very important to separate the ideas from the people who hold them.

Books

The Right Kind of Crazy

For 10 years, Adam Steltzner led a team of engineers inventing, designing, testing and retesting the revolutionary “sky crane” landing system that successfully placed the Mars rover, Curiosity on the Martian surface in 2012. Since then, he’s been awarded honors ranging from the Smithsonian’s American Ingenuity Award in technology, to GQ magazine’s Spaceman of the Year.

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Leveraging Incremental Progress to Level Up Your Life with Steve Kamb Jan 20, 2016

Show notes

Steve Kamb, rebel leader of Nerd Fitness joins us to talk about the power of using incremental progress to level up your life.

HIGHLIGHTS

Lessons learned from The Legend of Zelda
Applying the progress principle to our biggest goals
Structuring your environment to induce flow states
Finding the distinctive identity and fingerprint in our work
Removing the need for willpower and motivation
Determining the type of game that you want to play
The power of creating an alter ego and character to level up your life

QUOTES

Eventually doesn’t happen. Tomorrow is not guarantee.

I look at nerd as a very positive term

Screw motivation, cultivate discipline.

Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerdfitness, a global community to help desk jockeys, nerds, and average Joes level up their lives. He’s also the author of Level Up Your Life

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Getting to the Heart of What You Want to Say with Jamie Varon Jan 18, 2016

Show notes

Jamie Varon, writer and designer joins us to discuss design and writing in a way that gets to the heart f what you want to say.

HIGHLIGHTS

Thinking along the lines of what a professional would do
The role of self-motivation in our work
The power of teaching yourself
Overcoming the desire to just be comfortable
Recognizing the disconnect between where you are and where you want to be
How our imprints motivate or demotivate
The variables that create the spectrum of human performance
How extremely high expectations can actually hold us back
The advantage of naivety and not considering the outcome
How pre-judgements and uncertainty get in our way
The echo-chamber of life advice on the internet
The danger of getting swallowed in approval
Why your great work won’t come from following someone else’s rules

QUOTES

I don’t like the feeling that I can’t change where I’m at.

Either your outrunning something or trying to keep up with something.

Our culture is very programmed to avoid uncertainty.

If you’re convicted from a really true place, you can’t get let fear get you.

It’s a very vulnerable thing to live life on your own terms.

Write the things you want to read. Not what you think people want to read.

Books, Resources, and Articles Mentioned

Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
This is How We Date Now
Nobody on the Internet is Living the Life You Think They Are

Jamie Varon is a writer and designer. He work has been featured Huffington Post, Complex/NTRSCTN, Medium,Thought Catalog, Teen Vogue, The Liberty Project, and SF Weekly. You can follow her on twitter @jamievaron.

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The Benefits of Living a More Curious and Creative Life with Jeffrey Veen Jan 13, 2016

Show notes

Jeffrey Veen , design partner at True Ventures, and founder of Typekit joins us to discuss the benefits of living a more curious and creative life.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Lessons in design and content creation from the earliest days of the internet
Finding the things that are infectious to us
Why empathy is one of the most vital skills that we can learn
The power of democratizing tools
The power of marketing from a place of sharing everything you do
The psychology of being an employee, entrepreneur, and investor
Why we must develop a level deep self-knowledge
The role that higher purpose plays in our work
Lessons learned from some Silicon Valley folk heroes

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QUOTES

It took me many years to get over my education

One narrative that I’ve throughout out my career is to constant striving to overcome constraint

People who become really successful have to strive for deep self-knowledge

When I was honest with myself it had less to do with wealth and more to do with reputation

Jeffrey Veen is a designer partner at True Ventures, where he spend his time helping companies create better products. He does this as an advisor, as well, for companies like about.me, Medium, and WordPress. Previously, he was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the company he co-founded and ran as CEO.

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