If you consider yourself to be a creative type, you probably find that it’s easy to have great ideas for things you’d love to try or projects you want to do in the future, but you struggle to actually make things happen. Even if you organize yo

Makoto and Ty Fujimura on Navigating the Tension Between Creativity and Commerce

Aug 3rd, 2022 1h 6m

Mako’s paintings have been described as a rebellion against the speed of the internet and an antidote to time. In fact, the New York Times refers to his work as a form of “Slow Art”. Rather than using conventional paint, Mako uses various pulve

Gerald Leonard on High Performance Workplace Cultures

Jul 20th, 2022 37m 51s

Gerald Leonard has had a diverse career filled with creative pursuits and technical education. The magic happened when Gerald was able to draw a throughline from the success of small jazz ensembles to the success of tech teams and businesses. I

Tim Arnold on Leading with AND

Jul 6th, 2022 25m 46s

Today’s conversation with Tim Arnold explores the gray areas that organization leaders encounter when faced with questions that don’t have black and white answers. We seem to be conditioned from an early age to see life in terms of either/or, r

Amit Gupta on Optimism in a Pessimist's World

Jun 23rd, 2022 36m 27s

Amit Gupta is an entrepreneur, writer, and serial optimist. He’s also a personal friend of Dane’s, and in this episode, Dane and Amit discuss the past, the present, and - with Amit’s own brand of optimistic clarity - the future. Amit is, in his

Jaz Ampaw-Farr on Belonging

Jun 8th, 2022 39m 36s

Jaz Ampaw-Farr is no stranger to feeling like an outsider. In this podcast, Jaz shares her personal story from her earliest days as a girl who seemingly had no name, to where she is now as a wife and mother, successful businesswoman, and surviv

Focusmate Founder Taylor Jacobson on Distraction Free Productivity

May 25th, 2022 35m 7s

Focusmate is all about distraction-free productivity. As a creative entrepreneur, you often get pulled away from your work because of the other things you need to do to keep your business running. Taylor founded the company on the principle tha

Kirsten Moorefield on Patterns for Thriving

May 11th, 2022 43m 22s

Cloverleaf uses popular assessments to create a slow drip of insights that can significantly change how you approach your career. No one thinks and communicates the same way. By understanding your audience and team members on a deeper level, yo

Jerzy Gregorek on Hard Choices for an Easy Life

Apr 27th, 2022 48m 6s

Jerzy lives by his own philosophy, and that is “Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” It’s a simple, easily applicable mantra to for all of us to live by. As somewhat of a Renaissance Man in his post Olympic life, Jerzy dabbles in

Corbett Barr on Creating a Career for Your Lifestyle

Apr 13th, 2022 36m 20s

Corbett Barr’s career spanned from helping Fortune 500 companies to becoming an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley to life-changing events in Mexico that changed his life. For Barr, pursuing a new career in the internet world is about audience-firs

Greg McKeown on Essentialism

Feb 22nd, 2022 39m 7s

Greg McKeown joins to discuss the idea that pursuing less actually produces more– or put simply, “Essentialism”. He outlines the framework of this philosophy with the tenets, “Explore, Eliminate, Execute”, and dives into how they can positively

Sam Rosen on Working Remotely with Others

Dec 29th, 2020 28m 59s

The Meaning of WorkBefore the time of remote jobs, work was two things: the place you go, and the things you do. When working remote grew in popularity, Sam saw a need for meeting those individuals want for inspiration and community. The issue

Chris Ronzio on Investing in the Systems of Your Business

Dec 15th, 2020 31m 27s

TimeMany entrepreneurs always find themselves plugged in with no way to disconnect. For some, they want to look at their business and say I owned this business not work for it. For others, they simply want more freedom within their work at thei

Ryan Callaghan on Buying Businesses and Investing in People

Dec 1st, 2020 37m 3s

Mission When it comes to finding your mission as a business, it is more than just what you're delivering. It involves finding something that is bigger than what you're delivering. Your mission needs to be something that motivates people, makes

Jeremie Kubicek on Calling People Up in Leadership

Nov 17th, 2020 33m 23s

Tension Between Challenge and SupportJeremie discusses with us how there is a time when you need challenge, but there is also a time when you need support. As a leader and an individual, it can be hard finding that balance point between the two

Jeff Goins on Finding your Story amongst Order and Chaos

Nov 4th, 2020 38m 9s

Feeling AliveLiving and being alive is more than just existing. The two ways to die are not really living or by killing yourself taking too many risks. There is a balance to living in the tension point between order and chaos. When you feel ali

Grant Baldwin on How to Become the Speaker You’ve Always Wanted to be

Oct 20th, 2020 38m 51s

The Start of Speaking When it comes to speaking, the only thing between you and to chance to share your voice is learning how the industry works. Grant spent a lot of time questioning and following speakers to acquire the knowledge that he then

Andy Mauer on Bridging the Gap Between Mental Health and Business

Oct 6th, 2020 29m 39s

Your StoryEach of us has a story to share that starts at birth and goes into this very moment. Both consciously and unconsciously, we push parts of our stories aside. We do this because we find them either uncomfortable, painful, or so overwhel

Josh Kaufman on Creatively Navigating Entrepreneurship

Sep 22nd, 2020 42m 16s

Background Josh is a full time researcher and author who started off at a big company analyzing if their online advertising was actually working. His research developed into putting together a strategy of determining what works for the company

Chris Guillebeau on Financial Independence Amidst Entrepreneurship

Sep 8th, 2020 27m 7s

A Narrative many can relate toMost people who read a business book are actually interested in business, making it a very segmented market. Chris wrote an inspirational business book- but in the fiction genre. Money Tree is a narrative about an

Joe Lemay on Overcoming Failure to Become a Crowdfunding Hit That Can Last

Aug 25th, 2020 44m 4s

Failure is a Part of the Testing Process, Keep TryingJoe Lemay is an entrepreneur who was enamored with the idea of developing an idea and finding a way to get it fully funded by potential consumers who believe he can follow through and provide

James Clear on Forming Small Habits to Achieve Meaningful Results

Aug 11th, 2020 44m 19s

Change your habits and Get 1% Better Every DayDo you ever find yourself making fake deadlines only to push your endless to-do list off to the next day? You’re not alone. But, as James Clear explains, it doesn’t have to be this way.Becoming an E

Jaz Ampaw-Farr on Reversing Toxic Trajectories

Jul 28th, 2020 48m 10s

We live in a world full of conflict. A friendly conversation takes an unexpected turn into an "Us v. Them” situation. And when it does, how exactly do we find a way to turn a potentially toxic trajectory around?Growing up, Jaz Ampaw-Farr endure

S.4 Ep.005 - How to Go From Freelance Photographer to Entrepreneur, with David Jay

Sep 9th, 2019 41m 39s

Taylor Holiday on How To Build A Creative Team That Never Wants To Leave

Nov 21st, 2018 37m 25s

There s nothing better than working with a creative team of people who are the best at what they do. It brings out the best in you and enables you to reach new heights you previously only dreamed of. Imagine for a moment, what might happen if y