The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Reema Zaman, writer, visual artist, and actress joins us to talk about using her art to become a voice for people who don’t have one.

Highlights: 

• How curiosity enables us to cultivate self-awareness
• Leveraging writing to find clarity and comfort in our lives
• Becoming the author of your own life 
• The golden thread that exists in each of our lives
• Creating narratives of resilience and choice 
• How to deal with the questions we’ll never have answers to
• Why pain gives us an opportunity to gain strength 
• Why forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give to yourself
• Creative lessons learned from the world of acting and theater

Quotes 

Art gives voice to so many other things that would otherwise remain quiet. 

Every time something painful happens it tests your loyalty to yourself

For me watching pain turn into poetry is the biggest high – Reema

When you’re an actor you’re the instrument that communicates the story 

You don’t want to tell the story, you want to feel the story. 

All art is an act of intimacy and vulnerability. 

Reema Zaman  is a writer, actress, and artist from Bangladesh. 

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Reema Zaman, writer, visual artist, and actress joins us to talk about using her art to become a voice for people who don’t have one. 

Art gives voice to so many other things that would otherwise remain quiet. 

Every time something painful happens it tests your loyalty to yourself

For me watching pain turn into poetry is the biggest high – Reema

When you’re an actor you’re the instrument that communicates the story 

You don’t want to tell the story, you want to feel the story. 

All art is an act of intimacy and vulnerability. 

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Reema Zaman  is a writer, actress, and artist from Bangladesh. 

Tim Lawrence, creator of The Adversity Within shares how we navigate the internal journeys of loss, adversity, and how we grow by putting ourselves in challenging environments. 

Highlights 

• How adversity creates ferocious internal resolve
• Putting yourself in intentionally constraining environments
• Why we don’t have to believe something inherently good about
• The difference between approval and acceptance 
• Building foundations of empathy and compassion 
• What causes us to confuse responsibility and blame
• Focusing on what we control vs what we don’t
• The masks we wear to hide our challenges
• Finding our way back into the light through service 

Quotes

It takes balls to actually stand in your pain

It’s really hard to find meaning if you haven’t fully acknowledge what you’ve gone through 

Acceptance is simply acknowledging reality for what is

I think hiding is responsible for unimaginable amounts of suffering in the world

I’ve learned to find strength in my weaknesses and love in my vulnerability

Through his words, Tim Lawrence helps people navigate life’s difficulties – grief, injury, depression, or loss – and learn to forge strength in the fire.

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Tim Lawrence, creator of The Adversity Within shares how we navigate the internal journeys of loss, adversity, and how we grow by putting ourselves in challenging environments. 

It takes balls to actually stand in your pain

It’s really hard to find meaning if you haven’t fully acknowledge what you’ve gone through 

Acceptance is simply acknowledging reality for what is

I think hiding is responsible for unimaginable amounts of suffering in the world

I’ve learned to find strength in my weaknesses and love in my vulnerability

Through his  words, Tim Lawrence helps people navigate life’s difficulties – grief, injury, depression, or loss – and learn to forge strength in the fire.

Ben Tseitlin,  founder of Benchic chocolates joins us to discuss how he leverages curiosity to design experiences and make chocolate. 

• The power of not having domain expertise
• Why breaking things helps you understand them
• Letting go of expectations to create results
• The importance and power of focus 
• Making deliberate choices about running a business 
• Why empathy is the most critical aspect of design 
• Combining your background and experience to create your message 
• Unlearning what we know to develop a beginners mind 

The desire for mastery is one of those things that can’t be forced on anyone. 

Childlike curiosity and exploration are the oxygen of mastery. 

The information that you consume and the people around you shape who you really are

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 Ben Tseitlin is the founder of Benchic Chocolate and is driven to make something extraordinary from nothing. 

Ben Tseitlin,  founder of Benchic chocolates joins us to discuss how he leverages curiosity to design experiences and make chocolate. 

• The power of not having domain expertise
• Why breaking things helps you understand them
• Letting go of expectations to create results
• The importance and power of focus 
• Making deliberate choices about running a business 
• Why empathy is the most critical aspect of design 
• Combining your background and experience to create your message 
• Unlearning what we know to develop a beginners mind 

The desire for mastery is one of those things that can’t be forced on anyone. 

Childlike curiosity and exploration are the oxygen of mastery. 

The information that you consume and the people around you shape who you really are

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 Ben Tseitlin is the founder of Benchic Chocolate and is driven to make something extraordinary from nothing. 

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Ben Tseitlin,  founder of Benchic chocolates joins us to discuss how he leverages curiosity to design experiences and make chocolate. 

The desire for mastery is one of those things that can’t be forced on anyone. 

Childlike curiosity and exploration are the oxygen of mastery. 

The information that you consume and the people around you shape who you really are

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Develop a mediation habit with Start Here Now. 

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 Ben Tseitlin is the founder of Benchic Chocolate and is driven to make something extraordinary from nothing. 

Salim Ismail, Singularity University’s global ambassador and founding executive director, joins us to discuss the keys to exponential personal and professional growth. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• How institutions and organizations can adapt to a new world
• Controversial theories on the success of Indian CEO’s
• Navigating complex human relationships 
• Combining lunacy and rational thinking 
• The role that forcing functions play in our lives and our work
• Expanding your capacity to push boundaries 
• Tools for internal transformation and rewriting our operating systems. 
• Disruptive technologies that will have profound impacts on our lives
• The Power of Thinking at Scale 

Quotes

Almost all profoundly successful entrepreneurs were dismal failures the first three or four times around.

Real power comes from when you can put yourself over the edge and pull yourself back. 

Life at its core level is just a process.

The purpose of life is to grow.

If you try to do something disruptive, the immune system of the organization will attack you. 

If you’re on the consumer internet, the two attributes you’d better have are speed and risk

Salim is a sought after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur – his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. Salim spent two years as SU’s founding Executive Director and currently serves as its Global Ambassador focusing on its global presence. He Twitters his thoughts at @salimismail and blogs infrequently at www.salimismail.com

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Salim Ismail, Singularity University’s global ambassador and founding executive director, joins us to discuss the keys to exponential personal and professional growth. 

Almost all profoundly successful entrepreneurs were dismal failures the first three or four times around.

Real power comes from when you can put yourself over the edge and pull yourself back. 

Life at its core level is just a process.

The purpose of life is to grow.

If you try to do something disruptive, the immune system of the organization will attack you. 

If you’re on the consumer internet, the two attributes you’d better have are speed and risk

Salim is a sought after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur – his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. Salim spent two years as SU’s founding Executive Director and currently serves as its Global Ambassador focusing on its global presence. He Twitters his thoughts at @salimismail and blogs infrequently at www.salimismail.com

Jerry Colonna CEO of Reboot.IO and former venture capitalist joins us for one of this year’s deepest and most thought provoking conversations about resiliency, our sense of self, and much more. 

Highlights

• The keys to developing resiliency
• Myths about our moment of arrival 
• Dealing with impostor syndrome 
• Uncoupling our sense of self from extrinsic 
• The storm of emotions of that make up life
• The power of insatiable curiosity and voracious reading
• Lessons learned from working with Fred Wilson

Books and Resources

Faith by Sharon Salzburg

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron 

The Reboot Podcast 

Quotes

Whatever capacity I have to see has come from standing on the shoulders of giants.

The fact that I cry and I feel, that’s a superpower. 

I think that we’re afraid of our own feelings. 

How can you be in relationship with someone if you don’t know who you are and you don’t love yourself? 

I used the chase to define myself for such a long that time that when the chase was over who was I? 

The promise of Buddhism is not eternal salvation. The promise of Buddhism is the alleviation of suffering in this lifetime.

Jerry Colonna is an executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction 

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Jerry Colonna CEO of Reboot.IO and former venture capitalist joins us for one of this year’s deepest and most thought provoking conversations about resiliency, our sense of self, and much more. 

Faith by Sharon Salzburg

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron 

The Reboot Podcast 

Whatever capacity I have to see has come from standing on the shoulders of giants.

The fact that I cry and I feel, that’s a superpower. 

I think that we’re afraid of our own feelings. 

How can you be in relationship with someone if you don’t know who you are and you don’t love yourself? 

I used the chase to define myself for such a long that time that when the chase was over who was I? 

The promise of Buddhism is not eternal salvation. The promise of Buddhism is the alleviation of suffering in this lifetime.

Jerry Colonna is an executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction