“You have to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. You have to allow yourself to fail. Once you get over the fear of failure, then you will start to find where your happiness lies, and if ‘good enough’ is sufficient or not.” - Jessica Alb

Collaboration & Friendship / Seth Rogen + Evan Goldberg, Comedy Duo

1 1 Sep 10th, 2019 1h 23m

“At the end of the day, I’d rather make stuff period than make stuff how I want to make stuff. And specific to us, I’d rather make stuff together even than stuff alone.” -Evan GoldbergMy guests this week are the comedy duo Seth Rogen and Evan

MacGyver, Media, & Merchandise / Tony Hsieh, CEO & Internet Entrepreneur

Feb 20th, 2020 44m 58s

“I love being entrepreneurial because it’s really just about getting to play MacGyver, but for business.” -Tony HsiehWelcome to a very special episode of CREATIVE PROCESSING! This episode was recorded live in collaboration with Talkhouse Podca

Career & Contacts / Mary Vernieu, Casting Director

Oct 15th, 2019 1h 1m

“From an actor's perspective...you have to be prepared for it to be really hard because there's so many factors that are influencing why you get a role and why you don't get a role. When you go into an audition, leave it in the room— otherwise

Tech & Humanity / Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Writer, & Musician

Oct 8th, 2019 1h 15m

“Making things ‘easy’ always has a downside...To pretend that you can make something easy without losing some of your focus and discipline is always a fallacy. There's always going to be a tradeoff.” -Jaron Lanier This week’s guest is Jaron La

Love & The Paycheck / Omid Memar, Up-and-Coming Actor

1 Oct 1st, 2019 42m 53s

“When you're an artist, it's not a button you can push on or off. You're always an actor. I sleep as an actor. I wake up as an actor.... I always think about art and creativity, and that's all I want to do.” -Omid Memar This week’s guest is Om

Analytics & Intuition / Liv Boeree, Professional Poker Player

Sep 24th, 2019 58m 2s

“A lot of people often think of rationality as actually about removing your emotions entirely, but I disagree with that because emotions are what ultimately make us human...To be truly rational, we have to learn to work with our emotions— not c

Family & Folk Music / Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Mother-And-Son Folk Band

1 Sep 17th, 2019 1h 7m

“There’s times before my mom and I are about to go onstage to play together, and maybe we just argued right before going on. But there’s something about that moment... where I give her a kiss on the cheek and say, ‘Hey, this started with you an

TED TALK / How craving attention makes you less creative

1 Sep 12th, 2019 15m 40s

For this episode, I’m going to do something a little different. I recently did a TED Talk, and there was something really distinct and special about it. I’m pretty used to performing on stage in front of people as a character or for a show, but

Clouds & Pipes / Yuka Honda, Sonic Songstress

Sep 3rd, 2019 50m 9s

“To me, it's not about really external/internal. It's about a pipe between me and others...I have all these thoughts and I want to express them all, but people are not always ready to receive them. Then when you get together and express somethi

Art & Politics / Shepard Fairey, Propagandist

Aug 27th, 2019 57m 32s

“I want to be transparent that any image with an agenda (which is actually most images) is a form of propaganda. It’s just whether you try to hide that fact or whether you’re honest about it.”-Shepard FaireyMy guest this week is Shepard Fairey

Originality & Imitation / Rian Johnson, Filmmaker

Aug 19th, 2019 1h 1m

“You have to be kind of angry about something to write a script...and if the thing that you're angry about is not something that you identify in yourself, I'm always wary of that.” -Rian Johnson This is the very first episode! My guest is THE

COMING SOON - Episode 1 with Rian Johnson!

Aug 13th, 2019 4m 11s

Here’s a little snippet from the very first episode of Creative Processing featuring writer/director extraordinaire Rian Johnson! I was in his very first movie, Brick as well as his third movie Looper. He also made The Brothers Bloom, and Star

Trailer

Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to hear your questions about creativity...

Jul 11th, 2019 8m 5s

In his new podcast, "Creative Processing," Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to explore all aspects of creativity and artistic collaboration. Each episode will focus on a single question contributed by the audience. Questions can be about any aspect o