The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

In this episode of the show Kabir Seghal discusses his new book Coined, the history of money and how it is has shaped us. 

• What’s happening in the brain when we deal with money
• Our physiological responses to money
• An interesting look at how different cultures react to money
• The currencies of social and financial debt 
• The future of money in developed and developing countries
• Why our financial decision are not made on a conscious level
• The emotional meaning of money
• Carving out of unconventional opportunities in a conventional career

Resources

Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us

Kabir Sehgal is a New York Times bestselling author and Grammy Award-winning producer. He is currently a vice president at JPMorgan Chase

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Peter Young is an animal right activist who went on a cross country run in which he cut fences to free mink from farms, which resulted in a potential life sentence, and becoming a fugitive on the run for 7 years.

• The punk rock roots of Peter’s calling 
• Furthering the mission of communities through action
• Figuring out the only metric that matters in your work 
• Lessons in persuasion and communication from protests
• A look into the inner workings of life as a fugitive on the run
• Interesting life hacks from living as a fugitive
• Regaining our sense that we don’t know things that can’t be done
• The transitions in and out of life in prison 

At various times, site editor Peter Young has been a fugitive, activist, author, prisoner, felon, spokesperson, animal liberator, protester, entrepreneur, saboteur, publisher, speaker, and criminal of conscience. You can follow him on twitter @peterdyoung

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In this episode Jen Louden returns to the show discuss telling stories, finding out what’s true for you,and uncovering the thread of our deepest desire

• Creative roadblocks and falling apart moments
• Overcoming our environments to reach our creative potential
• Self trust and learning to choose what’s true for you
• Storytelling lessons from the world of film 
• The stories we tell ourselves and the narratives of our lives 
• Crux moments and leveraging them in our stories 
• Discovering the thread of our deepest desires 
• The insidious nature of comparison in the internet culture 
• Cultivating self awareness in being authentic 
• Investigating your own life through the eyes of a detective 
• Developing the patience for a lifetime body of work 
• The question of what we’re wiling to give up

Quotes

Follow your bliss and bear it. But it’s going to burn. 

Our falling apart moments are about letting go. 

Resources

Woman’s Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the self-care movement with her first book The Woman’s Comfort Book. She’s the author of 7 additional books on well-being and whole living: The Couple’s Comfort Book, The Pregnant Woman’s Comfort Book, The Woman’s Retreat Book, Comfort Secrets for Busy Women (The Comfort Queen’s Guide to Life in hardcover), The Life Organizer, and A Year of Daily Joy. There are about million copies of her books in print in 9 languages. You can follow her on twitter @jenlouden. 

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Ryan Holiday dropped out of college to spend his early 20’s working for masters of their craft like Robert Greene and Tucker Max. A conversation at a conference turned him on to the world of stoic philosophy and led to the publication of his most recent book The Obstacle is the Way

• Building a capacity for making terrifying decisions 
• Recognizing pivotal moments in our own lives
• How we deal with difficult moments in our lives
• Learning to control our perceptions 
• Making the best out of terrible situations
• Why our view of people’s lives is flattering
• The 3 foundations of stoicism: perception, action and will
• Why limiting our exposure to difficult situations limits our capabilities 
• The relative nature of adversity 
• Why there is no life that is free of suffering 

Resources

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)

Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business. You can follow him on twitter @ryanholiday

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Michael Gebben found himself exhausted by his work, and hiding from this clients. In this inspiring conversation he talks identifying the sweet spot in our work and getting back to doing the things we love. 

Highlights: 

• Going the extra mile in all the work you do 
• Why becoming an entrepreneur is not for everybody
• Doing things with no expectation of anything in return
• Tuning out your external voices and turning them into fuel for your fire 
• Taking baby steps to build some semblance of momentum
• Lessons in creativity from the world of video 
• Identifying your sweet spot and the things you love 
• Why mindset gives you the biggest performance edge
• Having a zero tolerance policy for all negativity 
• Taking Massive Imperfect Action 

Resources

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

Quotes

The truth is that everything in life takes hard work 

Michael “Gebbs” Gebben started his video production company “Gebbs Total Video” at age 19. Later on, the company grew to become “GEBBSTV” where he explored his epic talent at shooting not only weddings and everything under sun but also events for huge names like Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins and Richard Branson among others. You can follow him on twitter @mgebbs

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In this episode of The Unmistakable Creative, Seth Godin returns to the show to discuss his new book, It’s Your Turn.

•  Leveraging books as a tool to change the people around you 
• Writing a book that begs to be shared and gets under people’s skin
• The choice between creative or cog that we’re always making 
• Why we must be willing to be wrong to do work that matters
• How the connection economy rewards people 
• Our search for reassurance and how to stop it
• Learning to take your work seriously and not personally
• The mythical time when we think we’ll be ready
• A look at what school is actually for 



Resources

Yourturn.link

Stop Stealing Dreams

Quotes

A book only happens when I can’t let an idea go

If you go into this saying, how do you know, you’ve already lost.  

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In this episode of the podcast, Life After Tampons creator 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 

Our work is to live as mortal people, but create immortal beautiful work 

Resources Mentioned

The Denial of Death By Ernest Becker

A Word About Failure

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In this short episode of the podcast, I wanted to do something a little bit different. As I've mentioned in a few previous episodes, we're currently working on a new writing project called The Compass, a creator's guide to Instigating something that matters. One of the requests I had from a few of our listeners was to do an audio version of the project, so I decided to release a sneak preview via the podcast. 

Resources Mentioned

The Instigator's Compass

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When Faris Yakob proposed to his wife Rosie, he also suggested they quit their jobs and travel the world. The result has been a 98 week journey of creating work that’s in their heart, and the formation of their business, Genius Steals. 

Episode Highlights

• Doing the things that are interesting, fun and profitable 
• Lessons in branding from working with Jay Z 
• How being good at being you makes you irreplaceable
• Learning how to find your superpowers and push edges
• Lessons from the world of Maxim magazine
• Applying creative constraints to do your best work 
• A look at the reality of the technonomad life 
• Using structure to manage uncertainty 
• Identifying your beliefs to determine the work that’s close to your heart 

Quotes

People gravitate towards people they’d want to hang out with 

With every life choice you have pros and cons 

The best partnerships are when you each feel like you’re getting the better end of the deal 

Don’t be good at things you don’t want to do 

Resources

Strands of Genius Newsletter

Worldwide 101 Virtual Assistant Service

Rosie and Faris Yakob are cofounders of Genius Steals. 

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In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, Erica Dhawan talks about connectional intelligence and how we can leverage knowledge, ambition and human capital to create something meaningful in the world. 

Episode Highlights 

• Using business as tool for social change 
• Harnessing communities to change the world
• How to connect, people, ideas and resources
• The difference between collaboration and connectional intelligence
• Using dance as form of expression and storytelling
• Creating value and meaning through connectional intelligence
• Giving and listening to your community
• Connecting knowledge, ambition, and human capital to create something meaningfu
• Leveraging our human assets to solve the world’s most important problems
• The 5 Key Questions Related to Connectional Intelligence

Resources

Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence

Erica Dhawan is the Founder & CEO of Cotential, a global consultancy that accelerates the connectedness of employees teams, customers and clients. You can follow her on twitter @edhawan

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