The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

In this episode of the podcast, Moleskine’s director of brand and public relations, Erik Fabian, joins us to talk about how a notebook can serve as a platform your imagination and the pillars of an iconic brand. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• Erik’s early influences from art teachers and theatrical performance 
• Trusting your sense of joy
• Finding our sense of community as adults
•  Why in-person events create faster bonds than online communities
• The influence of attending an experimental college
• How a notebook can serve as a platform for your imagination
•  Infusing the pillars of an iconic brand into your own work
• Why pen and paper is still prevalent in a digital world
• How Moleskine notebooks are designed to create an emotional bond with with their owner

Erik Fabian is the Director of Brand & PR for Moleskine America where he ensures the core values and narratives of the Moleskine brand are shared with fans across the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Erik leads a team responsible for design, digital, and event partnerships with brands like: Tumblr, the Telluride Film Festival, Dwell.com, the Future of Storytelling Conference, the NYC French Embassy, the School of Visual Arts, Sean Kelly Gallery, and the Instagram based street-art gallery Instagrafite. Design collaborations have included projects with artists: Marina Abramović, Kehinde Willey, and Sarah Sze.

Erik is also a long-time impresario and artist/performer. He is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and experimental liberal arts curriculum at the Evergreen State College. Erik is launching a mini-series of interviews on a new YouTube channel: The Grass Is Green. 

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In this episode of the podcast, Moleskine’s director of brand and public relations, Erik Fabian, joins us to talk about how a notebook can serve as a platform your imagination and the pillars of an iconic brand. 

Erik Fabian is the Director of Brand & PR for Moleskine America where he ensures the core values and narratives of the Moleskine brand are shared with fans across the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Erik leads a team responsible for design, digital, and event partnerships with brands like: Tumblr, the Telluride Film Festival, Dwell.com, the Future of Storytelling Conference, the NYC French Embassy, the School of Visual Arts, Sean Kelly Gallery, and the Instagram based street-art gallery Instagrafite. Design collaborations have included projects with artists: Marina Abramović, Kehinde Willey, and Sarah Sze.
Erik is also a long-time impresario and artist/performer. He is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and experimental liberal arts curriculum at the Evergreen State College. Erik is launching a mini-series of interviews on a new YouTube channel: The Grass Is Green. 

In this episode of the podcast, Chris Bailey talks about lessons learned from a year of conducting experiments in productivity. 

HIGHLIGHTS

• A series of productivity experiments that led to Chris’ year long project 
•  Learning to see what our potential future could be
• The importance of spending your time on things you value and add meaning to your life 
• Why the idea of what we want to do is so much sexier than what we have to do 
• Leveraging the power of curiosity for information retention
• Designing productivity experiments for your own life 
•  Using meditation as a way change how you relate to experiences
• The 3 Key Things That Lead to Productivity 
• Understanding the difference between being busy and productive
• Why sleep is so critical to our productivity 
• Triggers that cause us to procrastinate on a reward

RESOURCES AND BOOKS 

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Getting things Done by David Allen 

QUOTES: 

Productive people are the ones who connect the most dots. 

Not many people change the world through social media. 

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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In this episode of the podcast, Chris Bailey talks about lessons learned from a year of conducting experiments in productivity. 

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Getting things Done by David Allen 

Productive people are the ones who connect the most dots. 

Not many people change the world through social media. 

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. 

In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative podcast, we welcome back Ashley Ambirge, the audacious founder of The Middle Finger Project and CEO of House of Moxie, Inc. Ashley's journey is nothing short of inspiring, as she navigates her way from living in a trailer to establishing a wildly successful copywriting business.

Ashley's story is a testament to resilience and the power of self-reliance. Her experiences, both the hardships and triumphs, have shaped her into the person she is today. She shares how necessity became the catalyst for her independence and how she learned to navigate both success and failure. Ashley emphasizes the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone and putting yourself in challenging situations, as these are the moments that truly define us.

In this conversation, Ashley also delves into the importance of generosity and how flipping the script on our internal narratives can serve us. She talks about developing a unique voice that resonates with people, a voice that is as powerful as a crowbar to the face. This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking inspiration and practical advice on building a successful business from the ground up. Follow Ashley on Twitter @tmfproject to keep up with her latest insights and projects.

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In this episode of the Unmistakable Middle Finger Project Ashley Ambirge returns to the show to share her journey from living in a trailer to a house of moxie and wildly successful copywriting business. 

Lincphin by Seth Godin

In order to flip the script, you’re going to have to piss a lot of people off 

Ashley Ambirge is the the founder of The Middle Finger Project and the CEO of House of Moxie, inc. You can follow her on twitter @tmfproject

In this episode of the podcast writer and speaker Jon Acuff talks about writing multiple books and the critical ingredients for a career do over.

HIGHLIGHTS

• How creative frustration led to the star of Jon’s first blog
• Why we have a tendency to write off our defining moments
• The great lie of apathy that keeps people standing on the sidelines
• The role that community plays in every creative endeavor
• Exploration as the path to finding our purpose
• Dealing with the weight of other people’s voices when we pursue our dreams
• Why we throw logs into the fire that keeps us from doing work that matters
• Letting go of our responses and reactions to criticism 
• How to keep self awareness from turning into self obsession 
• Asking How you Can Help vs How you Can Sell
• Lessons learned from Jon’s time working with Dave Ramsey
• The 4 critical elements of a career do over 

QUOTES

Hard work and hustle tend to reveal purpose

When you start to see people as your platform, you stand on top of them. 

Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of five books including his most recent, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work and Never Get Stuck. For 17 years he’s helped some of the biggest brands in the world tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and the Dave Ramsey Team. Most recently he’s spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, companies and churches. Featured regularly on national media, Jon has been seen on CNN, Fox News, Good Day LA and several other key outlets.

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In this episode of the podcast writer and speaker Jon Acuff talks about writing multiple books and the critical ingredients for a career do over.

Hard work and hustle tend to reveal purpose

When you start to see people as your platform, you stand on top of them. 

Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of five books including his most recent, Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work and Never Get Stuck. For 17 years he’s helped some of the biggest brands in the world tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and the Dave Ramsey Team. Most recently he’s spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, companies and churches. Featured regularly on national media, Jon has been seen on CNN, Fox News, Good Day LA and several other key outlets.

In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, Basecamp Co-Founder David Heinemmer Hanson talks about unlearning everything that we know about business. 

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• How being a blog reader lead to becoming the co-founder of a company 
• The power of exposing yourself to the right group of people 
• Why we can’t necessarily predict the the future based on our past
• Leveraging a deep seated mistrust of authority to your advantage
• The danger of misapplying patterns where the context does not match 
• Breaking our cultural conditioning that keeps us from reaching from our true potential 
• Why effort and output are not proportionate 
• The myth that straight A’s leads to success
• Learning to look at our work with no regrets 
• Why the modern workplace is an interruption factory
• The intrinsic flow that comes from doing work we live

QUOTES

I’ve learned the most important thing for my happiness is to define my own parameters of success

You make terrible decisions on an empty stomach 

BOOKS 

Rework

Remote: Office Not Required

“David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, founder & CTO at Basecamp(formerly 37signals), best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, public speaker, hobbyist photographer, and family man.

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In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, Basecamp Co-Founder David Heinemmer Hanson talks about unlearning everything that we know about business. 

I’ve learned the most important thing for my happiness is to define my own parameters of success

You make terrible decisions on an empty stomach 

Rework

Remote: Office Not Required

“David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, founder & CTO at Basecamp(formerly 37signals), best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, public speaker, hobbyist photographer, and family man.