The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Sarah Cooper, creator of the The Cooper Review, a satirical blog that features weekly original articles, videos and cartoons on corporate humor, news, and other stuff joins us to talk about how she’s made a career of out rebelling against the status quo. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Dealing with Our Desires to Do Less Practical Things
• Finding an Outlet to be Wild and Unhinged The Challenges of Being Different in an Immigrant Family
• Nurturing the Seeds of Curiosity and Self Awareness
• The Importance of Exploring, Experimenting, and Persistence
• The Challenges of Dealing with External Validation 
• Finding a Voice Through Standup Comedy
• Lessons from Working at Google

QUOTES 

I don’t want to be in a position where I’m making things that I don’t actually like. (Click to Tweet)

I think it’s mostly about finding a place where you don’t feel trapped. (Click to Tweet)

I’m not trying to be funny. I’m just trying to be honest. (Click to Tweet)

RESOURCES 

10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings

8 Signs Your Heroine Addiction Might be Ruining Your Career 

The Real Horrors of Working at a Tech Company 

Sarah Cooper is the creator of the The Cooper Review. If you want to add a bit of laughter to your inbox , subscribe to her newsletter.

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Sarah Cooper, creator of the The Cooper Review, a  satirical blog that features weekly original articles, videos and cartoons on corporate humor, news, and other stuff joins us to talk about how she’s made a career of out rebelling against the status quo. 

I don’t want to be in a position where I’m making things that I don’t actually like.  (Click to Tweet)

I think it’s mostly about finding a place where you don’t feel trapped.  (Click to Tweet)

I’m not trying to be funny. I’m just trying to be honest.  (Click to Tweet)

10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings

8 Signs Your Heroine Addiction Might be Ruining Your Career 

The Real Horrors of Working at a Tech Company 

Sarah Cooper is the creator of the The Cooper Review.  If you want to add a bit of laughter to your inbox , subscribe to her newsletter.

Allison Carmen, author of The Gift of Maybe talks about how we can use the power of maybe to find hope and possibility in uncertain times. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• How We Suffer from Our Addiction to Certainty
• Why Our Stories Cause us to Spin out of Control
• Using the Power of Maybe To Create Possibility
• Moving form Intellectual Understanding to Awareness
• The 2 Questions We Can Ask Ourselves 
•  How Hope and Possibility Shifts us to Presence
• The Story of Regret That Limits Us 
• Letting go of Our Need for Life to be Linear 
• Achieving More by Embracing Uncertainty 

QUOTES

If you’re afraid of uncertainty, it’s impossible to have hope 

The unknown is your best friend because that’s where your life is going to change

The suffering is not from the goal. The suffering is from how it has to happen

As a coach, business consultant and author, Allison Carmen has developed the simple life philosophy called “Maybe” to help people deal with the uncertainty of life. She has successfully applied the philosophy to help her clients, who range from entrepreneurs and owners of multi-million dollar companies to artists, actors, writers, fashion designers, attorneys, health care workers, parents, nannies and the homeless. You can follow her on twitter @giftofmaybe

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Allison Carmen, author of The Gift of Maybe talks about how we can use the power of maybe to find hope and possibility in uncertain times. 

If you’re afraid of uncertainty, it’s impossible to have hope 

The unknown is your best friend because that’s where your life is going to change

The suffering is not from the goal. The suffering is from how it has to happen

As a coach, business consultant and author, Allison Carmen has developed the simple life philosophy called “Maybe” to help people deal with the uncertainty of life. She has successfully applied the philosophy to help her clients, who range from entrepreneurs and owners of multi-million dollar companies to artists, actors, writers, fashion designers, attorneys, health care workers, parents, nannies and the homeless. You can follow her on twitter @giftofmaybe

Brad Montague creative director and co-producer of the wildly popular web series Kid President, talks to us about the process of how a creative project finds its voice. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• How Small Moments Create Encouragement 
• Brad’s Mission to Make Other People Feel like they Matter 
• The Origin Story of Kid President 
• The Importance of Messengers in our Lives 
• Finding the Element that Causes Your Work to Connect at Another Level 
• Why Everyone of Us Needs to a Build a Cabinet
• Bringing a Sense of Wonder to Your Work
• The Importance of Celebrating Everybody 
• The Evolution of a Creative Project’s Voice 
• Viewing the Work You Create as a Gift 
• Choosing the Story We Want to Tell 

QUOTES

I feel like a kid whose been invited to the grownups table (Click to Tweet)

There’s a sense of wonder if we’re not careful we can lose (Click to Tweet) 

Brad Montague is the creator of Kid President and founder Love in Stereo. 

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Brad Montague creative director and coproducer of the wildly popular web series Kid President, talks to us about the process of how a creative project finds its voice. 

I feel like a kid whose been invited to the grownups table (Click to Tweet)

There’s a sense of wonder if we’re not careful we can lose  (Click to Tweet) 

Brad Montague is the creator of Kid President and founder Love in Stereo. 

In an effort to teach their own kids how they could change the world, Matt and Eva Webb took a one year road trip to all 50 states on which they interviewed 75 young change makers from all over the United States. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Creating Opportunities for Children to Make a Difference
• How Expectations Get us Sucked into Keeping Up with the Joneses
• Making Good On Our Most Ambitious Dreams
• How the One Year Road Trip transformed Matt and Eva’s Family
• What Shapes Kids to Want to Be Change makers
• Why Routines Give us a False Sense of Security 
• How Exposure to Poverty Changes Your Perspective
• Why We can Often Find Joy in Our Communities
• Seeing That Everyone is of Equal Value
• Developing a Sharper Awareness of Time

QUOTES

In order to make lasting change you have to be embedded in a community. (Click to Tweet)

Every kid makes an impact in the world just by being here.  (Click to Tweet)

You know you’re really alive when you’re going through  (Click to Tweet)

challenges 

Every single human has the potential to teach how you to be a better person  (Click to Tweet)

When you don’t learn how to fail you don’t learn how to learn  (Click to Tweet)

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In an effort to teach their own kids how they could change the world, Matt and Eva Webb took a one year road trip to all 50 states on which they interviewed 75 young change makers from all over the United States. 

In order to make lasting change you have to be embedded in a community.  (Click to Tweet)

Every kid makes an impact in the world just by being here.  (Click to Tweet)

You know you’re really alive when you’re going through  (Click to Tweet)

challenges 

Every single human has the potential to teach how you to be a better person  (Click to Tweet)

When you don’t learn how to fail you don’t learn how to learn   (Click to Tweet)

In this episode of the podcast, Sasha Martin talks to us about her journey of cooking a dish from every country in the world. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• What Causes us to Ignore Our Spark Moments 
• How a Recipe Book Turned into a Memoir 
• The Search for a Sense of Belonging 
• Finding The Purpose of Your Quest
• Diffusing The Negative Stories of Our Past
• How Food Can Serve as a Bridge Between People
• Seeing People for Who They Are Instead of Who We Want them To Be
• Experiencing Every Country in the World In Your Kitchen 
• Why Sharing Our Intentions Sets Things in Motion 

QUOTES

“There’s a real difference between poverty of resources and poverty of spirit. (Click to Tweet) 

“Our past informs everything we do. But it isn’t who we are” (Click to Tweet)

“I realized that it had been my perspective that was narrow, not the city.” (Click to Tweet)

Sasha Martin is the author ofLife From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family and Forgiveness. On her blog, Globaltableadventure, she’s documented her journey of cooking a meal from every country in the world. 

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In this episode of the podcast, Sasha Martin talks to us about her journey of cooking a dish from every country in the world. 

“There’s a real difference between poverty of resources and poverty of spirit. (Click to Tweet) 

“Our past informs everything we do. But it isn’t who we are” (Click to Tweet)

“I realized that it had been my perspective that was narrow, not the city.” (Click to Tweet)

Sasha Martin is the author ofLife From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family and Forgiveness. On her blog, Globaltableadventure, she’s documented her journey of cooking a meal from every country in the world.