Cornerstone content, how to create compelling content for an “overexposed” topic, and predicting the future for our businesses. It’s Q&A day! Our wonderful community of listeners shared three questions with me today. In this 29-minute episode, I talk about: How to, in Wayne Gretzky’s phrase, “skate to where the puck is going” What to look... Listen to episode

Content strategist Sonia Thompson talks with me today about business clarity and the power (and pitfalls) of limitless opportunities. Whether I’m podcasting, tweeting, or writing a post for Copyblogger, I talk a lot about the combination of values and tactics. Financial success won’t make you feel amazing until you can create it while living on... Listen to episode

All-caps, all-me Twitter accounts! A fabulous police department Facebook page! It’s time for Things I Love / Things I Hate. This week I’m launching a new regular mini-series on things I think are awesome and … the other stuff. Let me know if you find it useful! I’ve found it’s often easier to see a... Listen to episode

Any time you can take a measurement in your business — any time you can look at something and get a number — the question arises: What number should I be aiming for? Business benchmarks and metrics are a complicated topic, and the answer to those questions is usually “It depends.” But what does it... Listen to episode

“Untethering” is a major 21st-century trend, from Uber to minimalism to remote workplaces. How can we get the most freedom from this social trend, without getting lost in the shallows? More and more people are decoupling from traditional models of work, housing, relationships, possessions. This can be a recipe for liberation, or for hollowness and... Listen to episode

What does it mean to live an amazing life? Why put the time in to get great at something? And how can we keep having fun for the long haul? Last week David Bowie died, leaving a lot of us shocked and saddened — and leaving all kinds of “What David Bowie can Teach Us”... Listen to episode

Creative people (in other words, all of us) are supposed to be motivated by the pure joy of creating. But what happens when we aren’t? Poet, coach, and creative entrepreneur Mark McGuinness has a new book for us called Motivation for Creative People. He joined me to talk about some of the lessons he’s learned... Listen to episode

Vision and goal-setting are useful practices for business owners and professionals — but they can also be a recipe for beating yourself up and feeling like crap. Here are my suggestions for productive goals. This time of year, it seems like there are almost as many “goals and resolutions are for dopes” posts as there... Listen to episode

Don’t you love those Internet facts? You know, the ones that aren’t facts at all, they’re fodder for our own confirmation bias, and weapons in the Outrage Wars. For Christmas week, we have an encore episode from earlier this year. Given the current state of political discourse in the U.S. at the moment, I thought... Listen to episode

Ever wonder why some people think content marketing is the greatest thing since sliced bananas, and others find they never get any real return on time and energy they’re putting in? The difference tends to be a question of strategy. Just because it’s “content” (what does that even mean, anyway?) doesn’t make it “content marketing.”... Listen to episode