The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

In this 2015 wrap up episode, Brian Koehn and I steal an idea from Tim Ferriss, and share some of the things we’ve learned from podcast guests in 2015. 

Episodes Mentioned

How to Live Well and Die Well (Part 1 and Part 2) with Greg Hartle

A Soulful Exploration of Inner Wisdom with Susan Piver

The Art of Living a Noteworthy Life with Bob Goff

Why You Should Never Miss an Opportunity to be Fabulous with Tina Seelig

Honoring the Intentions of Our Legacy with Patti Digh

Creating Your Immortal Beautiful Work with Jennifer Boykin

Designing Environments for Optimal Performance and Creativity

Unlearning Everything You Know About Business with David Heneimeir Hansson

Making the Impossible Possible with Tim Ferriss

Other Resources Mentioned

What Makes Some Truly Wealthy with Tim Ferriss (Animated Short)

The Geography of Loss by Patti Digh

Reconsider an essay by David Heneimeir Hansson

The Day I Became a Millionaire by David Heneimeir Hansson

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In this 2015 wrap up episode, Brian Koehn and I steal an idea from Tim Ferriss, and share some of the things we’ve learned from podcast guests in 2015. 

How to Live Well and Die Well (Part 1 and Part 2) with Greg Hartle

A Soulful Exploration of Inner Wisdom with Susan Piver

The Art of Living a Noteworthy Life with Bob Goff

Why You Should Never Miss an Opportunity to be Fabulous with Tina Seelig

Honoring the Intentions of Our Legacy with Patti Digh

Creating Your Immortal Beautiful Work with Jennifer Boykin

Designing Environments for Optimal Performance and Creativity

Unlearning Everything You Know About Business with David Heneimeir Hansson

Making the Impossible Possible with Tim Ferriss

What Makes Some Truly Wealthy with Tim Ferriss (Animated Short)

The Geography of Loss by Patti Digh

Reconsider an essay by David Heneimeir Hansson

The Day I Became a Millionaire by David Heneimeir Hansson

Wesley Chapman shares his personal story of 12 documented suicide attempts, and the tremendous power of accepting the transparent reality of our core identities 

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Wes’ experience with 12 document suicide attempt
• Finding your identity after it’s been lost 
• How our stories and circumstances become our power 
• Connecting the experiences of your life to expression of your identity
• Why healing from our pain frees us from it 
• Seeing past people’s weaknesses in order to see their strengths
• An honest conversation about what drives people towards suicide 
• Why worth is so important to our internal well being 
• The power of creativity and imagination to increase our  self worth 
• Why every hero’s journey has a moment when we fall 

Quotes

Until we’re honest with ourselves we can’t be honest with the rest of the world 

Resources: 

A Human Project

Wesley Chapman is the co-founder of a non-profit called A Human Project, where his mission is to create a community of empowered youth, while preventing teens from self harm and suicide. 

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Wesley Chapman shares his personal story of 12 documented suicide attempts, and the tremendous power of accepting the transparent reality of our core identities 

Until we’re honest with ourselves we can’t be honest with the rest of the world 

A Human Project

Wesley Chapman is the co-founder of  a non-profit called A Human Project, where his mission is to create a community of empowered youth, while preventing teens from self harm and suicide. 

Tina Seelig author, educator, and executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures program, talks about why most rules are just recommendations, the power of writing a resume of your failures, reframing problems to give us an expanded set of solutions and much more.  

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• What happens when we do the right things for the wrong reasons
• Why passion follows engagement and experience
• The problem with being completely rigid about your life and career plans
• Why most rules are just recommendations 
• Simple ways to get outside your comfort zone and grow
• Learning to use little experiments as the path to innovation 
• The power of writing a resume of your failures 
• How to reframe the problems in our life to expand the set of solutions
• Dealing with the personal, professional and academic challenges of our lives 
• The importance of knowing your limit when it comes to persistence 
• A look beyond the romantic illusions of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship

Tina’s Books

What I wish I Knew When I was 20

Ingenius: A Crash Course on Creativity

Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

Dr. Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in the Dept of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. She is also the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the dept of MS&E and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford.. You can follow her on twitter @tseelig

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Tina Seelig  author, educator, and executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures program, talks about why most rules are just recommendations, the power of writing a resume of your failures, reframing problems to give us an expanded set of solutions and much more.  

What I wish I Knew When I was 20

Ingenius: A Crash Course on Creativity

Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

Dr. Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in the Dept of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) at Stanford University. She is also the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the dept of MS&E and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford.. You can follow her on twitter @tseelig

Jennifer Boykin discusses what it takes to create your immortal beautiful work, getting comfortable with something unplanned happening and how we can use mastery of one craft to build confidence in others. 

• Why you can have everything, but not at the same time
• Learning about your dreaming instead of pursuing it
• Meeting the enormity of what is possible for us in our lives
• Using small wins to build confidence and overcoming failure 
• Why our culture teaches to use grandiose language is not strategic
• Why we need to overthrow ourselves a little bit 
• How music shapes and influences Jennifer’s art 
• Getting comfortable with something unplanned happening
• Using artistry and mastery to transfer excellence to anything 
• Leveraging obsession appointments to break patterns of negative thinking 

Quotes

Loss is the gateway to freedom (Click to Tweet) 

Our work is to live as mortal people, but create immortal beautiful work (Click to Tweet) 

Resources Mentioned

The Denial of Death By Ernest Becker

A Word About Failure

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Jennifer Boykin discusses what it takes to create your immortal beautiful work, getting comfortable with something unplanned happening and how we can use mastery of one craft to build confidence in others. 

Loss is the gateway to freedom (Click to Tweet) 

Our work is to live as mortal people, but create immortal beautiful work (Click to Tweet) 

The Denial of Death By Ernest Becker

A Word About Failure 

Robert Kurson shares his journey from being an F-student in high school, to a desperately unhappy Harvard educated Lawyer and eventual New York Times Bestselling Author

HIGHLIGHTS: 

•  A formative relationship that played a fundamental role in Robert’s career 
• Why a strong work ethic is important for a creative career 
• The struggles of a challenging academic career 
•  Finding a level of belief that keeps you going 
• From F’s in High School to Harvard School 
• The power of being desperately unhappy 
• Making a drastic identity shift that allows us to produce incredible results 
•  Finding meaning in the activities in which we lose track of time 
• How small opportunities can change into big change in our lives
• Why we must take risk and experience temporary pain for our greatest achievements
• Why unhappiness increases our capacity for taking risk 
• Mastering craft the storytelling 
•  Developing a sense for how a good story sounds 
• The power of speaking from the heart 

Quotes

Really great storytellers are people who notice the most (Click to Tweet)

A well told story is a universal thing  (Click to Tweet)

Robert Kurson is an American author, best known for his 2004 bestselling book, Shadow Divers, the true story of two Americans who discover a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. His new book Pirate Hunters  is a gripping, true story today, of the hunt for lost gold, bitter rivalries on the high seas, a long-ago legendary pirate captain, and two adventurous American men determined to win treasure – and find something even deeper – along the way.

Kurson began his career as an attorney, graduating from Harvard Law School, and practicing real estate law. Kurson’s professional writing career began at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he started as a sports agate clerk and soon gained a full-time features writing job. In 2000, Esquire published “My Favorite Teacher,” his first magazine story, which became a finalist for a National Magazine Award. He moved from the Sun-Times to Chicago magazine, then to Esquire, where he won a National Magazine Award and was a contributing editor for years. His stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications

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Robert Kurson shares his journey from being an F-student in high school, to a desperately unhappy Harvard educated Lawyer and eventual New York Times Bestselling Author

Really great storytellers are people who notice the most  (Click to Tweet)

A well told story is a universal thing  (Click to Tweet)

Robert Kurson is an American author, best known for his 2004 bestselling book, Shadow Divers, the true story of two Americans who discover a World War II German U-boat sunk 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. His new book Pirate Hunters  is a gripping, true story today, of the hunt for lost gold, bitter rivalries on the high seas, a long-ago legendary pirate captain, and two adventurous American men determined to win treasure – and find something even deeper – along the way.

Kurson began his career as an attorney, graduating from Harvard Law School, and practicing real estate law. Kurson’s professional writing career began at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he started as a sports agate clerk and soon gained a full-time features writing job. In 2000, Esquire published “My Favorite Teacher,” his first magazine story, which became a finalist for a National Magazine Award. He moved from the Sun-Times to Chicago magazine, then to Esquire, where he won a National Magazine Award and was a contributing editor for years. His stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications