The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Dave Munson founder of Saddleback leather joins us to discuss the rather humble beginnings of building a successful retail business.

Highlights

• Why we are not always aware how we’re impacting people
• Expecting something wonderful to happen when we’re inconvenienced
• Cultivating a constant state of wonder 
• Why our impact starts to happen later in life
• The importance of asking for help 
• Experience joy outside of our need for money

Dave Munson is the founder of Saddleback Leather, a people business cleverly disguised as a leather goods company.

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Dave Munson founder of Saddleback leather joins us to discuss the rather humble beginnings of building a successful retail business.

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Dave Munson is the founder of Saddleback Leather, a  people business cleverly disguised as a leather goods company.

Amy Oestreicher joins us to discuss how she turned her life-threatening illness and over 27 surgeries into what she now calls a beautiful detour. 

• Finding hope when in our most difficult times 
• Dealing with the fear of not being able to make our mark on the world 
• Turning obstacles into opportunity 
• How Amy turned her story into a beautiful detour
• Why art and creativity can help us to heal 
• The unexpected places that detours take us
• Bringing a sense of wonder to our daily lives 
• Using gratitude to build resilience 
• Shifting our questions from “why me?” to “why not?”

I wasn’t able to heal until I could start sharing my story. 

There’s life outside the plans we have for ourselves. 

I don’t think you can change people until they’re ready to change. 

When you find out what you’re grateful for, you realize what you’re about.

If life does take a detour you’ve got to follow that detour and just be open to where it leads because you really don’t know what you’ll get along the way.

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Amy Oestreicher is a  PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, speaker for RAINN, award-winning health advocate, actress and playwright.  

Amy Oestreicher joins us to discuss how she turned her life-threatening illness and over 27 surgeries into what she now calls a beautiful detour. 

• Finding hope when in our most difficult times 
• Dealing with the fear of not being able to make our mark on the world 
• Turning obstacles into opportunity 
• How Amy turned her story into a beautiful detour
• Why art and creativity can help us to heal 
• The unexpected places that detours take us
• Bringing a sense of wonder to our daily lives 
• Using gratitude to build resilience 
• Shifting our questions from “why me?” to “why not?”

I wasn’t able to heal until I could start sharing my story. 

There’s life outside the plans we have for ourselves. 

I don’t think you can change people until they’re ready to change. 

When you find out what you’re grateful for, you realize what you’re about.

If life does take a detour you’ve got to follow that detour and just be open to where it leads because you really don’t know what you’ll get along the way.

This  episode is sponsored by Hostgator. Use the promo code CREATIVE  for 30% off all hosting package. 

This is episode is also sponsored by TrueCar. Visit their web site or  download the Truecar App

Amy Oestreicher is a  PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, speaker for RAINN, award-winning health advocate, actress and...

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amy Oestreicher joins us to discuss how she turned her life-threatening illness and over 27 surgeries into what she now calls a beautiful detour. 

I wasn’t able to heal until I could start sharing my story. 

There’s life outside the plans we have for ourselves. 

I don’t think you can change people until they’re ready to change. 

When you find out what you’re grateful for, you realize what you’re about.

If life does take a detour you’ve got to follow that detour and just be open to where it leads because you really don’t know what you’ll get along the way.

This  episode is sponsored by Hostgator. Use the promo code CREATIVE  for 30% off all hosting package. 

This is episode is also sponsored by TrueCar. Visit their web site or  download the Truecar App

Amy Oestreicher is a  PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, speaker for RAINN, award-winning health advocate, actress and playwright.  

Chris Bailey, author of The Productivity Project returns to the show to discuss how to bridge the productivity gaps in our lives, and how to effectively manage your time, attention and energy.  

HIGHLIGHTS

• How to create a structure for your projects
• Why limitations and constraints increase your creativity
• The difference between production and accomplishments 
• Character traits coordinated with a lack of productivity 
• Dealing with our addiction to “productivity porn” 
• The biggest mistakes that people make in their productivity
• Why checking email hurts our ability to manage attention 
• The 3 ingredients that you combine to increase your productivity 
• Training the ability to manage your attention 
• Why mindfulness is so essential to our work today 

Resources 

• The Productivity Roadmap
• The Productivity Project (Book)
• The Aging Booth App

Quotes 

I really think this capacity to change is inherent in everyone. 

Not all tasks are created equal 

The more you use your brain to work, the more you need to manage your attention and energy 

You work less efficiently if you don’t bring all of your attention to the work in front of you

Productivity is about the results that your action produces. 

Attentional spaces breeds creativity. 

When you let your mind wander and daydream you create the space for ideas to rise and bubble up to the surface 

For every minute you spend organizing everything that’s a minute you don’t spend doing anything. 

For exactly one year, beginning May 1st, 2013, Chris Bailey decided to follow his passion and devour everything he could get his hands on about productivity, and then write every day about what he learned on A Year of Productivity. 

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Chris Bailey, author of The Productivity Project returns to the show to discuss how to bridge the productivity gaps in our lives, and how to effectively manage your time, attention and energy.  

I really think this capacity to change is inherent in everyone. 

Not all tasks are created equal  

The more you use your brain to work, the more you need to manage your attention and energy 

You work less efficiently if you don’t bring all of your attention to the work in front of you

Productivity is about the results that your action produces. 

Attentional spaces breeds creativity. 

When you let your mind wander and daydream you create the space for ideas to rise and bubble up to the surface 

For every minute you spend organizing everything that’s a minute you don’t spend doing anything. 

For exactly one year, beginning May 1st, 2013, Chris Bailey decided to  follow his passion and devour everything he could get his hands on about productivity, and then write every day about what he learned on A Year of Productivity. 

Adam Steltzner, an engineer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory joins us to discuss his new book the Right Kind of Crazy and lessons in creativity from landing spacecrafts on Mars. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Going to the edges of what we might be capable of
• Making a significant internal identity shift 
• Searching for what’s wrong to find what’s true 
• Managing fear in high-stakes situations 
• The power of bringing in outside perspective
• The right kind of crazy vs the wrong kind of crazy
• Why our fear of failure is more debilitating than the failure itself 
• Establishing objective distance from your ideas
• Rebuilding your confidence after a significant failure
• Why exploration is a gesture of who we are

Quotes 

I want to make sure I don’t stop trying for fear of failing 

In an organization it’s very important to separate the ideas from the people who hold them. 

Books 

The Right Kind of Crazy

For 10 years, Adam Steltzner led a team of engineers inventing, designing, testing and retesting the revolutionary “sky crane” landing system that successfully placed the Mars rover, Curiosity on the Martian surface in 2012. Since then, he’s been awarded honors ranging from the Smithsonian’s American Ingenuity Award in technology, to GQ magazine’s Spaceman of the Year.

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Adam Steltzner, an engineer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory joins us to discuss his new book the Right Kind of Crazy and lessons in creativity from landing spacecrafts on Mars. 

I want to make sure I don’t stop trying for fear of failing 

In an organization it’s very important to separate the ideas from the people who hold them. 

The Right Kind of Crazy

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For 10 years,  Adam Steltzner led a team of engineers inventing, designing, testing and retesting the revolutionary “sky crane” landing system that successfully placed the Mars rover, Curiosity on the Martian surface in 2012.  Since then, he’s been awarded honors ranging from the Smithsonian’s American Ingenuity Award in technology, to GQ magazine’s Spaceman of the Year.

Steve Kamb, rebel leader of Nerd Fitness joins us to talk about the power of using incremental progress to level up your life. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Lessons learned from The Legend of Zelda
• Applying the progress principle to our biggest goals
• Structuring your environment to induce flow states
• Finding the distinctive identity and fingerprint in our work 
• Removing the need for willpower and motivation
• Determining the type of game that you want to play
• The power of creating an alter ego and character to level up your life 

QUOTES

Eventually doesn’t happen. Tomorrow is not guarantee. 

I look at nerd as a very positive term 

Screw motivation, cultivate discipline. 

Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerdfitness, a global community to help desk jockeys, nerds, and average Joes level up their lives. He’s also the author of Level Up Your Life

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Steve Kamb, rebel leader of Nerd Fitness joins us to talk about the power of using incremental progress  to level up your life. 

Eventually doesn’t happen. Tomorrow is not guarantee. 

I look at nerd as a very positive term 

Screw motivation, cultivate discipline. 

Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerdfitness, a global community to help desk jockeys, nerds, and average Joes level up their lives. He’s also the author of Level Up Your Life