Hi Fast Company listeners! Please enjoy this sneak peek of our new podcast, Creative Conversation. In the first episode best-selling author David Sedaris explains how he spins the seemingly mundane into gold, the challenges of being a humorist in the P.C. age, and why he finds criticism so hard to process.

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Stuck in a creative funk? Looking for some inspiration to get that project off the ground? “Creative Conversation” is the spark you need. Join Fast Company editor KC Ifeanyi for in-depth explorations on the creative process with some of the most innovative thinkers across film, TV, music, and beyond. Tune in for conversations with David Sedaris, Max Richter, Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, and more. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.

Join Fast Company editors Kate Davis and Anisa Purbasari-Horton as they try to figure out how to get it all done. In this bi-weekly podcast they’ll sort out fact from fiction on things like multi-tasking, sleep, and email and get expert advice on how to work smarter instead of harder.

Follow our hosts on Twitter: @KathleenEDavis and @a_purbasari and share your productivity tips and tricks using the hashtag #FCMostProductive. Find us wherever you get your podcasts.

This show offers an inside look at some of America’s cult brands: businesses that have achieved the sort of extreme and even irrational customer loyalty that executives and entrepreneurs dream of.

Can you orchestrate that word-of-mouth marketing as a company? And how much of this devotion is accidental?

We sat down with the founders of SoulCycle, Drybar, and Casper to find out.

In this episode of "Innovators Uncensored," we catch up with Fast Company writer John Paul Titlow.

He talks Moogfest, the multi-day festival celebrating electronic music in North Carolina, plus his sit-down with Giles Martin, who remixed The Beatles’ most ambitious album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," with a blend of vintage technique and modern tools.

Get the full story here: https://www.fastcompany.com/40421732/how-the-beatles-sgt-pepper-was-retooled-to-sound-fresh-50-years-later?partner=soundcloud

The 97-year-old nonprofit was prepared for a Trump presidency in a way the rest of the country wasn’t. Here’s how Anthony Romero and his team did it.

Read the full story: https://www.fastcompany.com/40407576/how-the-aclu-is-leading-the-resistance

This podcast, focused on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, explores how commerce and conscience can fuel success (or outrage) in today's fraught business climate.

For more, check out out Fast Company's April cover story: "Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, And The Struggle To Do The Right Thing."

https://www.fastcompany.com/40397294/facebook-airbnb-uber-and-the-struggle-to-do-the-right-thing

From Kurdish shepherd to billionaire CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya turned milk into gold and created a model for 21st-century leadership. In this conversation with Fast Company editor Bob Safian, you'll get a taste of how Ulukaya is winning America's culture war.

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