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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:

From Living in a Trailer to a House of Moxie With Ashley Ambirge Jul 27, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative podcast, we welcome back Ashley Ambirge, the audacious founder of The Middle Finger Project and CEO of House of Moxie, Inc. Ashley's journey is nothing short of inspiring, as she navigates her way from living in a trailer to establishing a wildly successful copywriting business.

Ashley's story is a testament to resilience and the power of self-reliance. Her experiences, both the hardships and triumphs, have shaped her into the person she is today. She shares how necessity became the catalyst for her independence and how she learned to navigate both success and failure. Ashley emphasizes the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone and putting yourself in challenging situations, as these are the moments that truly define us.

In this conversation, Ashley also delves into the importance of generosity and how flipping the script on our internal narratives can serve us. She talks about developing a unique voice that resonates with people, a voice that is as powerful as a crowbar to the face. This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking inspiration and practical advice on building a successful business from the ground up. Follow Ashley on Twitter @tmfproject to keep up with her latest insights and projects.

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Taking the Risk of a Career Do Over with Jon Acuff Jul 22, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the podcast writer and speaker Jon Acuff talks about writing multiple books and the critical ingredients for a career do over.

HIGHLIGHTS

How creative frustration led to the star of Jon’s first blog
Why we have a tendency to write off our defining moments
The great lie of apathy that keeps people standing on the sidelines
The role that community plays in every creative endeavor
Exploration as the path to finding our purpose
Dealing with the weight of other people’s voices when we pursue our dreams
Why we throw logs into the fire that keeps us from doing work that matters
Letting go of our responses and reactions to criticism
How to keep self awareness from turning into self obsession
Asking How you Can Help vs How you Can Sell
Lessons learned from Jon’s time working with Dave Ramsey
The 4 critical elements of a career do over

QUOTES

Hard work and hustle tend to reveal purpose

When you start to see people as your platform, you stand on top of them.

Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of five books including his most recent, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work and Never Get Stuck. For 17 years he’s helped some of the biggest brands in the world tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and the Dave Ramsey Team. Most recently he’s spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, companies and churches. Featured regularly on national media, Jon has been seen on CNN, Fox News, Good Day LA and several other key outlets.

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Unlearning Everything You Know About Business with David Heinemeier Hansson Jul 20, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, Basecamp Co-Founder David Heinemmer Hanson talks about unlearning everything that we know about business.

HIGHLIGHTS:

How being a blog reader lead to becoming the co-founder of a company
The power of exposing yourself to the right group of people
Why we can’t necessarily predict the the future based on our past
Leveraging a deep seated mistrust of authority to your advantage
The danger of misapplying patterns where the context does not match
Breaking our cultural conditioning that keeps us from reaching from our true potential
Why effort and output are not proportionate
The myth that straight A’s leads to success
Learning to look at our work with no regrets
Why the modern workplace is an interruption factory
The intrinsic flow that comes from doing work we live

QUOTES

I’ve learned the most important thing for my happiness is to define my own parameters of success

You make terrible decisions on an empty stomach

BOOKS

Remote: Office Not Required

“David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, founder & CTO at Basecamp(formerly 37signals), best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, public speaker, hobbyist photographer, and family man.

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Rewriting the Story of Your Life With Donald Miller Jul 15, 2015

Show notes

Don Miller fell in love writing at a very early age, when believed he was naive enough to make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church lit the spark for a writing career that has spanned many years and several best sellers.

HIGHLIGHTS

Owning our formative experiences as part of the journey
The war of identity that comes with growing up
How brain chemistry impacts our drive and motivation
Why tragedy and the lowest moments of our life can be the most powerful ones
Why adversity is one of the most important elements of a great story
An inner knowing that you’re significant and what you say matters
What causes certain leaders to become villains
The influence of religion and spirituality on Don’s work
The law of diminishing returns and positive feedback
Learning to turn the other cheek to criticism
Why pain is key to character transformation

QUOTES

The fulfilling journey of doing something the difficult requires you to go through dark valleys.

Donald “Don” Miller is a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as “an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle”. You can follow him on twitter @donaldmiller

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Mysteries at the Heart of the Human Experience with Rob Bell Jul 13, 2015

Show notes

Rob’s early curiosity about life’s big questions planted the seeds for reinventing the experience of church and creating a community with room for doubt, discovery and belief

HIGHLIGHTS

Rob’s early curiosity about life’s big questions
Creating a community with room for doubt, discovery, and disbelief
Developing the extraordinary sense that life is a gift
Viewing your life as a giant art project
Finding the extraordinary gifts in our suffering
Why we need something that brings us joy and gets us up in the morning
Understanding the distinction between pursuing success and craft
Why we must develop a regular practice to tune into our inner compass
Finding someone to process our most important questions with
Lessons learned from a front row seat to suffering
Something that fills our tank where spirit resides

Rob Bell is a bestselling author, international teacher, and highly sought after public speaker. His books include The New York Times bestseller Love Wins, along with What We Talk About When We Talk About God, The Zimzum of Love, Velvet Elvis, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, Drops Like Stars. At age 28 he founded Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan, and under his leadership it was one of the fastest-growing churches in America. In 2011 he was profiled in Time Magazine as one of their 100 most influential people. Rob was featured on Oprah’s 2014 Life You Want Tour and will be speaking at venues around the world in 2015 on the Everything is Spiritual Tour. He and his wife Kristen have three children and live in Los Angeles. You can follow him on twitter @realrobbell

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Integrating Health and Fitness into the Bigger Picture of Your Life with Ted Ryce Jul 08, 2015

Show notes

In this episode, through the lens of a riveting life story that involves the tragic losses of both a mother and sibling Ted Ryce discusses how we integrate health and fitness into the bigger picture of our lives.

HIGHLIGHTS

Learning to resolve incredibly traumatic loss and grief
Breaking the addiction to our painful thoughts and our suffering
Redirecting energy into creation
The power of using physical fitness to turn the volume of our life down
What it takes to make a radical identify shift
Why we are wired to get addicted to our suffering
Inside the health and fitness of high performance individuals

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Abundance by Peter Diamandis

Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

Ted Ryce has a passion for helping men build muscle, lose fat, develop more confidence and go after what they want in life. He’s spent the last 15 years of his life experimenting with exercise, nutrition, supplementation to find out what methods help — and which ones are hype. You can follow him on twitter @legendarylifep

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The Pillars of a Meaningful Life with Phillip Mckernan Jul 06, 2015

Show notes

In one of the most inspiring and poetic conversations of 2015 Phillip Mckernan talks about the pillars of a meaningful life.

HIGHLIGHTS:

How a culture can enrich you at your core
Taking the time to figure who we are and how we want to express it in the world
Why we get so far into our lives without clarity about what we want
3 Basic pillars of a meaningful life
What causes people to end up living out of alignment
Understanding the difference between confidence and self esteem
Getting to know and embrace your fear so it doesn’t control you
How to get a place that you can’t imagine as possible
Removing masks and letting skeletons out of our closet
Taking a risk to bring more meaning into our life
The power of trusting your intuition

Philip speaks around the world about the importance of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining clarity, and cultivating the confidence to believe in yourself. He has shared stages with some well known speakers…Steven Covey, Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama to name a few, and the feedback is generally overwhelmingly positive. Through live personal leadership experiences, he has worked with all sorts of people from housewives to Olympic athletes, TV personalities and entrepreneurs, people who’ve gone bankrupt to billionaires and everything in between, and he’s uncovered that people’s dysfunctional relationship to money and their inability to get in touch with their own deep intuition inhibits their ability to gain the authentic clarity they need to live an authentic, and meaningful life.

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The Magic of Possibility with Michael Grandinetti Jul 01, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the podcast, illusionist and magician Michael Grandinetti talks about bringing a larger than life vision to your work, the power of not knowing what you can’t do and the magic of possibility.

HIGHLIGHTS:

The power of not knowing what you can’t do
Navigating a career that has no map
The values that comes from paying your dues
Learning to adjusting to feedback you receive from your audience
The power of infusing stories into the work that we do
Why there are no barriers that are truly insurmountable
Shifting our internal dialogue to one of possibility
Why we never know how close to are to what we want
Bringing a larger than life vision to your work
The fun of not knowing how the magic works

With performances on national and international television, in stadiums, arenas, casinos, and theaters around the country, with symphony orchestras, for NFL halftime shows and major sporting events, in large-scale parades, for Fortune 500 companies, and at The White House, Michael Grandinetti has made a name for himself around the world as a talented entertainer with a unique style, a compelling creative vision, and an engaging personality.

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Why You Should Never Miss an Opportunity to be Fabulous with Tina Seelig Jun 29, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the podcast, author, educator, and executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures program, Tina Seelig talks about why most rules are just recommendations, the power of writing a resume of your failures, reframing problems to give us an expanded set of solutions and much more.

HIGHLIGHTS:

What happens when we do the right things for the wrong reasons
Why passion follows engagement and experience
The problem with being completely rigid about your life and career plans
Why most rules are just recommendations
Simple ways to get outside your comfort zone and grow
Learning to use little experiments as the path to innovation
The power of writing a resume of your failures
How to reframe the problems in our life to expand the set of solutions
Dealing with the personal, professional and academic challenges of our lives
The importance of knowing your limit when it comes to persistence
A look beyond the romantic illusions of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship

Tina’s Books

What I wish I Knew When I was 20

Ingenius: A Crash Course on Creativity

Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

Dr. Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in the Dept of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. She is also the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the dept of MS&E and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford.. You can follow her on twitter @tseelig

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The Art of Thinking Clearly with Mathias Jakobsen Jun 24, 2015

Show notes

In this episode of the podcast, creator of Think Clearly, Mathias Jakobsen talks about how to use pen and paper develop a practice for hatching your visions and making them come true.

HIGHLIGHTS:

How computer programming resulted an infinite supply of building blocks
Learning to letting go of perfectionism
Reconnecting with our sense of boundless imagination
The power of exploring multiples forms of creativity in the chapters of your life
Asking yourself what you want and imagining an unrestricted world
The surprising insights of what you might do with a billion dollars
Why we can’t be afraid to ask for help when we need it
Using your hands to shape you thinking
Conducting self inquiry through pen and paper

Mathias Jakobsen is the creator of Think Clearly. Born in Denmark, he founded his first company at age 15, building digital solutions for companies. You can follow him on twitter @thnkclrly

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