The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

What started out as Jon Levy’s social experiment to bring together the most influential people in our culture, evolved into Influencer Dinners, the Manhattan dinner party where deals are made. The guests have included masters of industry and finance, media tycoons, tech titans and many others. Listen in as Jon share’s his lessons in human behavior, adventure and influence. 

Highlights: 

• How being unpopular made Jon get interested in the dynamics of human behavior
• The challenges of growing up with dyslexia 
• Leveraging our weakness to become disproportionately successful
• The importance of understanding your capacity for discomfort 
• Creating a career without following a map
• Why we’re free to create a future that is built on what inspires us
• Learning to keep the challenges of past from becoming part of our future 
• Why the future that we believe we have creates our present experience 
• The importance of a goal that is big enough to lead to growth 
• Being deliberate about the people who influence your life 
• Inside the design of the the most influential dinner party in Manhattan
• Leveraging neuroscience to influence people 

Jon Levy is a behavior expert, consultant, writer and keynote speaker best known for his work in the fields of Influence and Social Experience. He has worked with countless brands and companies to support their efforts in consumer engagement, customer acquisition, and product development, by applying the latest behavioral research ranging from neuroscience and psychology to economics and biology. 

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What started out as Jon Levy’s social experiment to bring together the most influential people in our culture, evolved into Influencer Dinners, the Manhattan dinner party where deals are made. The guests have included masters of industry and finance, media tycoons, tech titans and many others. Listen in as Jon share’s his lessons in human behavior, adventure and influence.  

Jon Levy is a behavior expert, consultant, writer and keynote speaker best known for his work in the fields of Influence and Social Experience. He has worked with countless brands and companies to support their efforts in consumer engagement, customer acquisition, and product development, by applying the latest behavioral research ranging from neuroscience and psychology to economics and biology. 

In this episode of the podcast, Bluefish founder Steve Sims discusses how he creates unique once in a lifetime memories for his clients that have included supersonic military flight jets in Russia, subversive dives in the Atlantic to view the Titanic and weddings at the Vatican. 

HIGHLIGHTS 

• Steve’s incredibly short career in banking
• Bridging the gap between a blue collar upbringing and white collar life
• Learning to cultivate confidence despite the circumstances of your life
• The inquisitive nature that allows us to understand the nature of beauty 
• How great mistakes and actions have turned
• Lessons in human behavior from working a night club door 
• Why Steve worked the door at his own parties for many years
• Overcoming the hangups and fears that we have in our lives 
• Planting seeds that define and create cultures 
• The problem with listening to best practices and “good” advice 
• Why listening to too many other people can cause us to loose our way 
• The reason that Steve makes himself intentionally difficult to be found 
• Creating unforgettable and unmistakable customer experience 
• Using physical mail to stand out above the noise 

Quotes

If you were successful and it starts going wrong, it only started going wrong because you stopped doing what you used to do. 

My drug of choice is passion.

Business is personal. If you can make a connection with someone that works. 

Steve Sims is the founder of Bluefish, an exclusive luxury concierge service for the elite. His daily life includes helping clients craft experiences the have included: a live underwater tour of the Titanic, a flight to space, red carpet events and supersonic military jet flights in Russia.

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In this episode of the podcast, Bluefish founder Steve Sims discusses how he creates unique once in a lifetime memories for his clients that have included supersonic military flight jets in Russia, subversive dives in the Atlantic to view the Titanic and weddings at the Vatican. 

If you were successful and it starts going wrong, it only started going wrong because you stopped doing what you used to do.  

My drug of choice is passion.

Business is personal. If you can make a connection with someone that works. 

Steve Sims is the founder of Bluefish, an exclusive luxury concierge service for the elite. His daily life includes helping clients craft experiences the have included: a live underwater tour of the Titanic, a flight to space, red carpet events and supersonic military jet flights in Russia.

In this episode, celebrity photographer and Offcamera Host Sam Jones discusses the art of of storytelling, photojournalism, and how he manages to continually produce authentic conversations that seem to make the cameras disappear.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Creating the ultimate living black and white portrait of a person
• How skateboarding and music impacted Sam’s childhood and career choice
• The push pull between responsibility and having fun we face as creatives 
• The importance of a gut desire to do creative work
•  Why all creative careers have boring parts that 
• How technology is fundamentally altering creative careers for better and worse
• Influences and inputs that develop our style as artists
• Lessons in storytelling through the lens of a photographer
• Using the core of human experience to connect to people 
• The multiple professions and roles that photographers take on to make their art
• Learning to strip away the layers that separate the artist from the audience 
• Seeing your set from the other side by becoming a patron of your art form
• The “Matt Damon” filter for whether or not you have what it takes to succeed 
• The craftsmanship that goes into incredible artistic achievement
• Creating work that gets under people’s skin and stays with them

Quotes

If you can talk somebody out of this thing they want to do in one conversation, they’re never going to make it.

Offcamera Episodes

Interview with Surfer and Watermen Laird Hamilton

Interview with screenwriter Judd Apatow

Sam Jones is an acclaimed photographer and director whose seminal portraits of President Obama, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Bob Dylan, Kristin Stewart, Robert Downey Jr, Amy Adams, Jack Nicholson, and many others have appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Time, Entertainment Weekly and Men’s Journal. He’s also the host of the Offcamera, a show created out of his passion for the long form conversational interview, and as a way to share his conversations with a myriad of artists, actors, musicians, directors, skateboarders, photographers, and writers that pique his interest.

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In this episode, celebrity photographer and Offcamera Host Sam Jones discusses the art of of storytelling, photojournalism, and how he manages to continually produce authentic conversations that seem to make the cameras disappear.

If you can talk somebody out of this thing they want to do in one conversation, they’re never going to make it. 

Interview with Surfer and Watermen Laird Hamilton

Interview with screenwriter Judd Apatow

Sam Jones is an acclaimed photographer and director whose seminal portraits of President Obama, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Bob Dylan, Kristin Stewart, Robert Downey Jr, Amy Adams, Jack Nicholson, and many others have appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Time, Entertainment Weekly and Men’s Journal. He’s also the host of the Offcamera,  a show created out of his passion for the long form conversational interview, and as a way to share his conversations with a myriad of artists, actors, musicians, directors, skateboarders, photographers, and writers that pique his interest.

In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, professional drummer Rich Redmond talks to us about the realities of “making it” in the music industry.

Highlights

• Why we find our true callings in life no matter what
• The power of using music to change lives
• Understanding the ambition required to follow a calling
• Learning to fall in love with rejection when you have a career in the arts
• The “gateway drug” that sparks our creative passions
• Misperceptions we have of the rockstar lifestyle
• Changing the world without a formal education 
• Eating, sleeping and berating your art in order to master it
• Staying tapped into our child-like creative spirit 
• What it takes to make music timeless and evergreen

Quotes

“It’s a really long life when you do something you don’t enjoy doing”

Rich Redmond is a top call recording drummer/percussionist based in Nashville and Los Angeles. Rich’s versatile, dynamic, and rock solid drumming is the sound behind many of today’s top talents. Rich has toured/recorded/performed with: Jason Aldean, Ludacris, Kelly Clarkson, Bryan Adams, Bob Seger, Joe Perry, Jewel, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, John Eddie, Pam Tillis, Susan Ashton, Deana Carter, Montgomery Gentry, Alabama, John Anderson, Trace Adkins, Emily West,  and many others.  Rich has played drums and percussion on 19 #1 singles with sales well over the 20 million mark. As a high-energy live showman, Rich plays sold out shows of 20-65,000 fans nightly in amphitheaters, arenas and stadiums across the world. . You can follow him on twitter @richredmond. 

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In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, professional drummer Rich Redmond talks to us about  the realities of  “making it” in the music industry. 

“It’s a really long life when you do something you don’t enjoy doing”

Rich Redmond is a top call recording drummer/percussionist based in Nashville and Los Angeles. Rich’s versatile, dynamic, and rock solid drumming is the sound behind many of today’s top talents. Rich has toured/recorded/performed with: Jason Aldean, Ludacris, Kelly Clarkson, Bryan Adams, Bob Seger, Joe Perry, Jewel, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, John Eddie, Pam Tillis, Susan Ashton, Deana Carter, Montgomery Gentry, Alabama, John Anderson, Trace Adkins, Emily West,  and many others.  Rich has played drums and percussion on 19 #1 singles with sales well over the 20 million mark. As a high-energy live showman, Rich plays sold out shows of 20-65,000 fans nightly in amphitheaters, arenas and stadiums across the world. . You can follow him on twitter @richredmond. 

In this episode of the Unmistakable creative, Suzannah Scully whose clients included individuals and organizations such as Apple, Sony, and Eventbrite talks about the sacred contracts that drive our lives, and the difference between purpose and passion. 

Highlights 

• How “shoulds” of our lives send us down the wrong path
• Why tragedies and crisis make us see the world in a different way
•  Why so many of the things we worry about don’t really matter
• Answering the question who you are and why you’re here
• The importance of mental, physical and emotional space
• Living your life in pursuit of passion
•  Understanding the difference between passion and purpose
• Lessons learned from working as a waitress in a cafe
• Why we must travel certain paths for ourselves to learn our most important lessons
• How sacred the contracts we make subconsciously impact our lives
• Learning to develop gravitas and executive presence
• The 3 levels of listening 
• Navigating the structures of large organizations 

Suzannah Scully is a coach, speaker and blogger with a corporate background working for organizations such as Gap, Inc., Williams-Sonoma, Inc and The Wine Group. She is also the executive producer and host of the podcast Cosmos In You.

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In this episode of the Unmistakable creative, Suzannah Scully whose clients included individuals and organizations such as Apple, Sony, and Eventbrite talks about the sacred contracts that drive our lives, and the difference between purpose and passion. 

Suzannah Scully is a coach, speaker and blogger with a corporate background working for organizations such as Gap, Inc., Williams-Sonoma, Inc and The Wine Group. She is also the executive producer and host of the podcast Cosmos In You.