The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

In this episode of the show we speak with Wrike founder and CEO Andrew Filev about his mission to become insanely productive. 

Highlights 

• Cultural influences of a post-Soviet world
• Building perseverance and becoming resourceful
• Why time is our most precious resource
• Recognizing the magic moments in your life 
• The difference between your work managing you and you managing your work 
• Developing a system to drastically change your results
• Using small wins to get to a really big goal 
• Combining things from different worlds to make something Unmistakable 

As the founder and CEO of Wrike, Andrew Filev is the visionary behind the unique social project management mix that has become an irreplaceable collaboration solution for thousands of customers. As a successful software entrepreneur and experienced project manager, Andrew not only oversees the company's business strategy, but passionately leads the product management.

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In this episode of the show, we speak with behavioral scientist and FiveMinute Journal Founder UJ Ramdas about the science of gratitude and simple behavioral change

• UJ’s earlier cultural influences 
• The journey of self inquiry 
• Why momentum is critical 
• How the dots connect in life
• Using journals to find data about yourself
• Becoming a better student of yourself
• Simplifying Your Daily Gratitude Practice
• Managing cognitive load to change behavior 
• Applying real world consequences to behavioral change

Quotes

I think almost always, insight is predicated by disaster – UJ Ramdas 

Resources

• The Art of Learning 
• Mastery by Robert Greene
• The Five Minute Journal

UJ Ramdas is passionate about bringing together practical psychology and business to create a better world. With a background in Behavioural science, Marketing and Hypnosis, he’s consulted with (several hundred) clients, bringing them from confusion to clarity. Currently based out of Toronto, Canada, he’s a big fan of the wilderness, eastern meditative practices and a good cup of tea.

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In this interview we wrap up 2014 by revisiting our interview with Nick Reese

Like many young people, Nick Reese was wildly ambitious. While that ambition became the driving force of his entrepreneurial efforts, matters of the heart interfered.  What started was a radical shift from maximizing income to maximizing impact. 

• Starting a t-shirt company from a college dorm room
• Learning to recover from the failure of a business 
• Having the audacity to go for what you really want
• Why Nick tied his self worth to making money 
• A pivotal moment that caused Nick to change his path
• Looking at a difficult parental relationship with a father
• Handling significant amounts of adversity in order to grow
• The 30 day cold shower challenge 
• The importance of being able to tolerate uncomfortable situations
• Developing a confident internal narrative to go after what you want 
• How to improve your map of the world my modeling great ones
• Why reading non-business books is incredibly useful 
• Creating the awareness necessary to  know you're in an identity crisis
• Why relationships matter more than anything in the world
• An incredible story of love, heart problems, and what matters in life  
• Battling with credbility vampires 

Nick Reese is on a mission to help people learn the skills to live an uncommonly good life. You can learn more about his work at NicholasReese.com and Broadbandnow.com

The Pillars of the Earth

The Neursocience of Flow with Steven Kotler

The Making of Super Size me with Alex Jamieson

This episode of the Unmistakable Creative is sponsored by Skilledup, an online course discovery platform built to help shape the future of learning​. Download their free toolkit for creative professionals. 

In this interview we wrap up 2014 by revisiting our interview with Nick Reese

Like many young people, Nick Reese was wildly ambitious. While that ambition became the driving force of his entrepreneurial efforts, matters of the heart interfered.  What started was a radical shift from maximizing income to maximizing impact. 

• Starting a t-shirt company from a college dorm room
• Learning to recover from the failure of a business 
• Having the audacity to go for what you really want
• Why Nick tied his self worth to making money 
• A pivotal moment that caused Nick to change his path
• Looking at a difficult parental relationship with a father
• Handling significant amounts of adversity in order to grow
• The 30 day cold shower challenge 
• The importance of being able to tolerate uncomfortable situations
• Developing a confident internal narrative to go after what you want 
• How to improve your map of the world my modeling great ones
• Why reading non-business books is incredibly useful 
• Creating the awareness necessary to  know you're in an identity crisis
• Why relationships matter more than anything in the...

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Today we continue our best of 2014 series. Joe Loya’s life trajectory of rising up and moving forward took a radically different turn after losing his mother at an an early age, and stabbing his father in the neck at the age of 16. This was beginning of of a life of crime, and 14 month bank robbing spree in which he robbed 30 banks. In this amazing chat about his life, we discuss the amazing power of innovating with your story. 

Higlights

• The loss of a parent at a very young age 
• Growing up with an abusive father
• How stabbing his father unleashed Joe’s anger
• The power of a story that continually changed
• How being robbed caused Joe to ratchet up his game
• The murder of an ex cellmate that changed Joe’s life
• Achieving balance without acting against your consciousness
• How writing starts to reveal the patterns of our lives 
• Why you must start to own your story 
• How Joe became a talking head for crime 
•  The pain of victims that led Joe to working with female writers
• Why your story is a fluid thing that you can own
• How we deal with grief and why it’s a part of life 
• Why holding onto grief can be insidious 
• How being trained to look for meaning helped Joe transform 
• A look at what happens in the mind when you rob a bank 
• Why your story is a fluid thing that can change 
• Learning to laugh at the things you take seriously
• Our cultural misperceptions of the people who are prison 

Joe Loya is an essayist and playwright, as well as a contributing editor with the Pacific News Service. His essays have appeared in several national newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, and El Andar magazine. 

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In this best of 2014 episode, we revisit our interview with Sarah Peck. Sarah is an writer/designer/entrepreneur whose life has been deeply influenced by swimming and writing. In this chat we discuss lessons she’s learned on her journey from college swim team member to writer and open water swimmer, whose swims have included braving the treacherous waters of San Francisco bay to make it to Alcatraz and back.

Highlights

• The “not good enough” narrative that we all deal with
• Changing our narratives to serve us rather than sabotage us
• Why we can’t be too hard on our egos
• How learning not to stop can be life changing
• Letting of the things we think we’re capable of for something better
• Why it’s ok for things to be incredibly difficult
• Trials and tribulations of Sarah’s college swimming experience
• How open water swimming changed Sarah’s life
• Why challenges, quitting, and obstacles reveal who we are 
• Leveraging incredible mental frameworks to overcome pain
• Fighting through pain when you’re absolutely miserable
• Why the worst of times reveals somebody’s true character
• The correlation between happiness and hard work
• Why pain is a signal from your body
• Learning to recognize and leverage your areas of expertise
• Why Sarah teaches writing as a mechanism to get access to your inner wisdom
• The power of committing to the act of creating and doodling 

Sarah Peck is a writer, open water swimmer, designer-entrepreneuer and urban nerd who is on a mission is to find and capture insights from everyday, extraordinary living an share them with others

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In today's episode we look back at one of our best episodes of the year. Dani Shapiro has made her living as a writer for more than 20 years. In this interview we have an in-depth discussion about working artists and what it takes to master the craft of writing. 

Highlights:

• Why there are many trajectories to creative careers
• Dani's early exposure to working artists
• The importance of living and rebelling 
• Why Having a story to tell matters so much
• Getting back to callings of our youth 
• How a new generation values of quality of life
• Why Dani left New York for a quiet country life
• What it truly means to live a creative life
• How some of the great things in life happen accidentally
• The importance of exposing yourself to great artists 
• Some incredible insights on the best way to start your day
• Slowing down your mind by reading physical books 
• Making meaning from loss by telling a resonant story
• The self doubt that every single writer faces before the page
• Memory and imagination as engines for storytelling 
• Being responsible with our gifts as writers 
• When you feel misunderstood and wounded as a writer
• The reason you can't hand lack of craftsmanship 
• Why authors are increasingly responsible for their book's success
• The role that talent plays in your ability to succeed as a writer

Resources

Still Writing: The pleasure and perils of a creative life

Goodbye to all that: Writers on loving and leaving New York

Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, and has been widely anthologized. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, The New School and Wesleyan University, and she is co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy.

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In this episode of the podcast, we speak with Olympic coach Jeff Spencer about the secrets of peak performance and success

Highlights:

• Why will and talent aren’t enough for success
• How mentors can alter our paths in lives 
• The reason we shouldn’t fight battles in isolation 
• The 3 key people that you need on your team 
• Lessons from being olympic cyclist 
• Testing your limits responsibly 
• 8 foundation for peak performance 



Quotes

When we regularly engage in pursuits that we’re passionate about we serve others 

Jeff Spencer has been at the forefront of human performance and achivement for over 40 years. He's worked with gold medalists, world champion athletes and Fortune 500 leaders.

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In this episode I speak with Tara Sophia Mohr about why people play small, and what helps us play big in our lives and careers from the inside out. 

Higlights

• Balancing spirituality and practicality 
• Finding Your Way Back After You’ve Lost It
• Using feedback in a way that allows you to play big
• Learning to Identify Your calling 

Resources

Lean In

Learning to Love Criticism NY Times 

Tara Sophia Mohr is the author of Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message, named a Best Book of 2014 by Apple's ibooks. Her work on wellbeing, careers and spirituality has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and the Today Show. She's also the creator of the global Playing Big leadership program for women, and a lover of poetry, dance, dogs, art and mamahood.  

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Today we wrap up our instigator series in which we revisit their interviews and unveil the speakers for our annual event, The Instigator Experience. Our final instigator experience is Christina Rasmussen who talks to us about overcoming losses and dealing with the inevitable setbacks of our lives. 

As the founder of Second Firsts, an organization to help people create a pathway back to life after loss, Christina spends her time speaking, coaching, and helping thousands of people rebuild, reclaim, and relaunch their lives using the most powerful tool for personal reinvention: the human mind

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