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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:

Best of 2015: A Journey to the Crossroads of Should and Must with Elle Luna Dec 09, 2015

Show notes

Elle Luna shares her journey to the crossroads of should and must in this best of 2015 episode.

Highlights:

A recurring dream that served as a sign for a calling
Why the crossroads should and must appears over and over again
How getting rejected from every law school changed Elle’s life
Learning to trust the intelligence that lies beyond ourselves
Opening the floodgates of creativity through collaboration
Looking to peers as our mirrors when things don’t go according to plan
Lessons in life from working at IDEO
The power of optimism and curiosity
Why a team, community and support are essential to our success
Learning to remove the “shoulds” of our lives
Getting in touch with our inner psychic world
Why vulnerability is a good indicator that you are on to something
Learning to reframe what your idea of success is
How following “must” becomes a gift to other people

QUOTES

1+1 Adds Up to Infinity (Click to Tweet)

Often times the best way to get to must is to understand should first. (Click to Tweet)

Nowhere is the essence of must more purely exhibited than when we’re kids. (Click to Tweet)

The vulnerability piece is a really good indicator that you’re onto something. (Click to Tweet)

Resources

The Mailbox App

The Crossorads Should and Must (Medium Essay)

The Crossroads of Should and Must (Book)

Elle Luna is a designer, painter and writer. She also runs a textile venture, the Bulan Project., a collaboration with master batik artists in Bali, and has previously worked at international design firm IDEO and with teams to build Mailbox’s iPhone App, redesign Uber’s iPhone App and scale the storytelling platform Medium. You can follow her on twitter @elleluna.

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Best of 2015: Designing Your Environment for Optimal Performance and Creativity with Jim Bunch Dec 07, 2015

Show notes

Jim Bunch talks about rapid transformation, why will power fails to change the behavior of 96% of people and, how you can design your environment for optimal performance and and creativity.

Why transformation has been the glue that held together Jim’s businesses
The importance of having a bigger brighter vision for the future
A Look at why willpower fails to change the behavior of 96% of people
How every environment we’re in inspires or expires us
Designing your environments so that they express your values
Shifting the focus of your efforts from yourself to what you can contribute to the world
The 3 foundational components that influence of our success
Using environments to create the behavior you want to cultivate

People and Resources Mentioned

Tony Robbins Personal Power II Program

Conversations with God

The Yourturn Challenge

The 90-day Challenge

Quotes

Simplicity succeeds. Complexity kills (Click to Tweet) .

Your mind is your most valuable asset especially when it comes happiness health and wealth. (Click to Tweet)

Most entrepreneurs don’t go financially bankrupt first, they go emotionally bankrupt first. (Click to Tweet)

Jim Bunch is the founder of The Ultimate Game of Life and has been a leader in the coaching and personal transformation industry for over 20 Years. Also referred to as “The Ultimate Life Entrepreneur,” Jim has coached and mentored some of the world top business and thought leaders. You can follow him on twitter @itsjimbunch

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Defining Freedom in a Way that Serves You With Ryan Moran Dec 02, 2015

Show notes

Ryan Moran joins us to talk about defining freedom in a way that serves us, learning to separate ourselves from our stories and much more.

HIGHLIGHTS

Breaking away from the Beliefs of Our Past and Upbringing
Navigating a Painful Identity Crisis
Rebuilding Your Life after and Identity Crisis
How Absolutes Get in Our Way
Being Informed vs Defined by Other Perspectives
Why We’re More Wired for Certain Tendencies
Letting Go of Our Attachments to Success and Failure
The Choice Between Taking a Red Pill and Blue Pill
Lesson Learned from Losing 100,000 Dollars
Separating Yourself from the Results in Your Life

QUOTES

There’s no getting it wrong. There’s just what is. (Click to Tweet)

We’re only defined by things we choose to be defined be. (Click to Tweet)

The pain comes in when you confuse the story with what actually happen. (Click to Tweet)

LINKS

Reconsider by David Heinemeier Hanssson

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Making a Career out of Rebelling Against the Status Quo with Sarah Cooper Nov 30, 2015

Show notes

Sarah Cooper, creator of the The Cooper Review, a satirical blog that features weekly original articles, videos and cartoons on corporate humor, news, and other stuff joins us to talk about how she’s made a career of out rebelling against the status quo.

HIGHLIGHTS

Dealing with Our Desires to Do Less Practical Things
Finding an Outlet to be Wild and Unhinged The Challenges of Being Different in an Immigrant Family
Nurturing the Seeds of Curiosity and Self Awareness
The Importance of Exploring, Experimenting, and Persistence
The Challenges of Dealing with External Validation
Finding a Voice Through Standup Comedy
Lessons from Working at Google

QUOTES

I don’t want to be in a position where I’m making things that I don’t actually like. (Click to Tweet)

I think it’s mostly about finding a place where you don’t feel trapped. (Click to Tweet)

I’m not trying to be funny. I’m just trying to be honest. (Click to Tweet)

RESOURCES

10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings

8 Signs Your Heroine Addiction Might be Ruining Your Career

The Real Horrors of Working at a Tech Company

Sarah Cooper is the creator of the The Cooper Review. If you want to add a bit of laughter to your inbox , subscribe to her newsletter.

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Finding Hope and Possibility in Uncertain Times with Allison Carmen Nov 25, 2015

Show notes

Allison Carmen, author of The Gift of Maybe talks about how we can use the power of maybe to find hope and possibility in uncertain times.

HIGHLIGHTS

How We Suffer from Our Addiction to Certainty
Why Our Stories Cause us to Spin out of Control
Using the Power of Maybe To Create Possibility
Moving form Intellectual Understanding to Awareness
The 2 Questions We Can Ask Ourselves
How Hope and Possibility Shifts us to Presence
The Story of Regret That Limits Us
Letting go of Our Need for Life to be Linear
Achieving More by Embracing Uncertainty

QUOTES

If you’re afraid of uncertainty, it’s impossible to have hope

The unknown is your best friend because that’s where your life is going to change

The suffering is not from the goal. The suffering is from how it has to happen

As a coach, business consultant and author, Allison Carmen has developed the simple life philosophy called “Maybe” to help people deal with the uncertainty of life. She has successfully applied the philosophy to help her clients, who range from entrepreneurs and owners of multi-million dollar companies to artists, actors, writers, fashion designers, attorneys, health care workers, parents, nannies and the homeless. You can follow her on twitter @giftofmaybe

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Connecting with Your Voice to Create Work that Matters with Brad Montague Nov 23, 2015

Show notes

Brad Montague creative director and co-producer of the wildly popular web series Kid President, talks to us about the process of how a creative project finds its voice.

HIGHLIGHTS

How Small Moments Create Encouragement
Brad’s Mission to Make Other People Feel like they Matter
The Origin Story of Kid President
The Importance of Messengers in our Lives
Finding the Element that Causes Your Work to Connect at Another Level
Why Everyone of Us Needs to a Build a Cabinet
Bringing a Sense of Wonder to Your Work
The Importance of Celebrating Everybody
The Evolution of a Creative Project’s Voice
Viewing the Work You Create as a Gift
Choosing the Story We Want to Tell

QUOTES

I feel like a kid whose been invited to the grownups table (Click to Tweet)

There’s a sense of wonder if we’re not careful we can lose (Click to Tweet)

Brad Montague is the creator of Kid President and founder Love in Stereo.

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How Kids Can Have a Profound Impact on the World with Matt and Eva Webb Nov 18, 2015

Show notes

In an effort to teach their own kids how they could change the world, Matt and Eva Webb took a one year road trip to all 50 states on which they interviewed 75 young change makers from all over the United States.

HIGHLIGHTS

Creating Opportunities for Children to Make a Difference
How Expectations Get us Sucked into Keeping Up with the Joneses
Making Good On Our Most Ambitious Dreams
How the One Year Road Trip transformed Matt and Eva’s Family
What Shapes Kids to Want to Be Change makers
Why Routines Give us a False Sense of Security
How Exposure to Poverty Changes Your Perspective
Why We can Often Find Joy in Our Communities
Seeing That Everyone is of Equal Value
Developing a Sharper Awareness of Time

QUOTES

In order to make lasting change you have to be embedded in a community. (Click to Tweet)

Every kid makes an impact in the world just by being here. (Click to Tweet)

You know you’re really alive when you’re going through (Click to Tweet)

challenges

Every single human has the potential to teach how you to be a better person (Click to Tweet)

When you don’t learn how to fail you don’t learn how to learn (Click to Tweet)

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How to Experience the Entire World from Your Kitchen with Sasha Martin Nov 16, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the podcast, Sasha Martin talks to us about her journey of cooking a dish from every country in the world.

HIGHLIGHTS

What Causes us to Ignore Our Spark Moments
How a Recipe Book Turned into a Memoir
The Search for a Sense of Belonging
Finding The Purpose of Your Quest
Diffusing The Negative Stories of Our Past
How Food Can Serve as a Bridge Between People
Seeing People for Who They Are Instead of Who We Want them To Be
Experiencing Every Country in the World In Your Kitchen
Why Sharing Our Intentions Sets Things in Motion

QUOTES

“There’s a real difference between poverty of resources and poverty of spirit. (Click to Tweet)

“Our past informs everything we do. But it isn’t who we are” (Click to Tweet)

“I realized that it had been my perspective that was narrow, not the city.” (Click to Tweet)

Sasha Martin is the author ofLife From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family and Forgiveness. On her blog, Globaltableadventure, she’s documented her journey of cooking a meal from every country in the world.

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How to Disrupt Yourself with Whitney Johnson Nov 11, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the podcast, writer, coach, and co-founder of the investment firm Rose Park advisors talks about incorporating the principles of disruptive innovation into our lives.

HIGHLIGHTS

Dealing with and Resolving Parental Expectations
Why Some of Our Biggest Strengths Come from Our Biggest Challenges
The Different Types of Intelligence
Identifying the Types of Intelligence You Have
The Path from Secretary to Investment Banker
Why We have to Play to Our Strengths to Reach Our Full Potential
Character Traits That Enable a Drastic Identity Shift
Why All Successful People Deal with Self Doubt and Fear
The Antidote To Low Grade Depression That Gives You an Edge
Determining How you Measure Success
The 7 Keys to Personal Disruption

Whitney Johnson is the leading thinker on driving innovation through personal disruption. Johnson is the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors, along with Clayton Christensen where they led the seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at $5+ billion.

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Make Your Work More Compelling with Tara Gentile Nov 09, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the podcast business strategist Tara Gentile talks about how to make your work more compelling and yourself more effective.

HIGHLIGHTS

Developing a Sense of Abundance
Living a Priority to Driven Life
Where We Inherit Our Beliefs About Money
Dealing with Your Blocks Around Money
Why the Notion of a Solo Entrepreneurship is a Myth
How Confirmation Bias Gets in Our Way
Shifting from an Employee Money Mindset to an Entrepreneurial Money Mindset
Building a Business Around What Makes You Most Compelling and Effective
Taking Action in a Moment of Creative Daring
Using the Living Room Strategy to Launch Successful Products
How to Find the Main Idea or Ethos of Your Work

QUOTES

It’s focus that allows us to make forward progress very quickly (Click to Tweet)

We’re often handed the things we’ve worked really hard for. (Click to Tweet)

The things that make us angry have great creative potential (Click to Tweet)

PEOPLE AND RESOURCES

Quiet Power Strategy

Body of Work by Pamela Slim

Chris Sacca’s Interview with Tim Ferriss

Sally Hogshead – Listen to Our Interview with Her

Tara Gentile is an author and business strategist who works with idea-driven entrepreneurs who want to do more with less. Her clients learn to lead themselves and their businesses based on what makes them most effective and compelling. Tara’s work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design*Sponge, and in the New York Times bestselling book The $100 Startup, by Chris Guillebeau. She’s a regular instructor on CreativeLive and speaks on entrepreneurship, money, and the New Economy all over the world.

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