The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Jadah has quickly built a thriving community with Simple Green Smoothies. She shares why sometimes it’s ok to let go of our dreams, how we get back up again, and finding the impact that feeds our souls.

In this episode, hear:

• Dreaming big and finding your tribe
• Building resilience… Falling and getting back up again
• How do we get out of being caught up in external accolades?
• How to find and connect with a community

“Serve people that light you up…” ~ Jadah Sellner

“I would say hope is my number one strength.” ~ Jadah Sellner

Resources:

• Jadah’s Website
• Liz DiAlto Episode
• Simple Green Smoothies

Jadah is an advocate for world-changing dreamers, a community-building strategist, and the marketing visionary and co-founder of Simple Green Smoothies. In 15 months, Jadah grew her Simple Green Smoothies’ community from 0 to 200,000 subscribers, reaching more than 10 million page views, 270,000 Instagram followers, and 160,000 Facebook fans. She’s helped nearly 1 million fans commit to drinking plant-based smoothies with their 30-Day Green Smoothie Challenge.

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As a sex, life, and intimacy coach, Kim shares how sex can be a place for personal growth and wellness. She teaches us how we can tap into the life force of sex, as a place where we can quiet the chatter of the mind and of massive transformation.

In this episode, hear:

• Finding your “next right” step
• How do we develop non-attachment?
• Becoming uninhibited
• Incorporated meditation as a practice
• How do we achieve a different state without an altered environment or state of mind?
• Confronting your sexual blocks
• Junk-food sex vs Gourmet sex

Quotes

“I don’t believe enlightenment is a static concept. It’s actually a temporary place… We get to a plateau and we’ve achieved something and there’s always another level to go.” ~ Kim Anami

“I look at sex as being this arena where we can consciously confront taboos.” ~ Kim Anami

Resources:

• Kim’s website
• Sexual Mastery for Men
• Well-F**cked Woman

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Authors of The Creativity Cure (A Do-it-Yourself Prescription for Happiness) and physicians, Carrie & Alton Barron, share the importance of creative action in fueling happiness. They cover the five psychologically-researched steps to achieving deeper satisfaction and alleviating depression by tapping into your creativity.

In this episode, hear:

• How do you identify “molding moments”?
• How different elements of creativity are essential to happiness and wholeness
• The necessity of using our hands to create
• The role of movement in our emotional wellbeing
• Our online / social media addiction
• The importance of a quiet mind and blank space

Resources:

• The Creativity Cure – Book

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Having produced movies such as the iconic Pretty Woman, Gary takes us to the story behind the story, why we need to hear “no”, and the importance of failure in our lives.

In this episode, hear:

• How do you let go of self-judgment?
• Scraped knees and failure
• The necessity of failure and how it brings us closer together
• 5 minute mentors
• Discovering your superpower
• Separating self worth from external accolades

Resources:

• Gary’s TED talk
• breakingintohollywood.com
• garywgoldstein.com
• Gary’s Youtube Channel

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Launched and sold his first business by age 19 while on active duty in the Air Force, indicted at age 23 for trafficking marijuana. A serial entrepreneur and natural born hustler, Frederick joins us to talk about his lessons from four years in federal prison and the business he built from behind bars.

• How do we avoid misguided ambition?
• What does the process of self discovery look like?
• How do we find our own vehicle to express our talents?
• How do we cultivate the ability to recognize opportunity?
• The difference between how you feel and what you know
• How prison teaches you to live by your word
• Why isolation in prison hurts re-integration and rehabilitation

Resources:

Frederick's Website

Nolan Bushnell: The Creation of Atari and Finding the Next Steve Jobs: Episode

Dave Logan: Using Language to Rewrite the Future: Episode

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Science writer, Elizabeth Svboda shares insights from her book about the science behind altruism and selflessness, and how we can make that into a practice.

• How do you keep skepticism from turning into cynicism?
• Turning difficult points into redemption
• Getting buy in on your mission
• The future of journalism

Resources

• Elizabeth's website
• Book: What Makes a Hero?

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From a touring rock band roadie to life in a monastery, Gentoku dives into acceptance, connecting to our deeper selves, and using every day activities as a “container for our practice”

In this episode:

• How checkboxes and filling other’s obligations takes us away from learning
• Creating awareness and space in every day life
• Waking up to find external accolades and possessions are no longer satisfying
• How do we take an experience that causes us pain and hold it lightly?
• The goal of meditation
•  How to create space for silence and contemplation amidst our busy lives

Resources:

• Gentoku’s Website

“People who are ideal aren’t as interesting as people who are imperfect.” – Gentoku

“That reality you have to change your life because that’s what your heart is calling you to do is really scary to some people.” – Gentoku

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Megan started a year-long expedition to have a single cup of coffee with a different person every week to see what she could learn about life and careers. She shares her conversations ranging from co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, to Seth Godin, to a former VP of Starbucks.

Resources:

• 52 Cups of Coffee
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Her published book, 52 Cups of Coffee, spans her year of 29 cities and 7 countries and what she learned about navigating life’s uncertainties.

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Nolan, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese and Steve Jobs’ mentor, shares views on education, reconnecting with your curiosity, and developing creativity to connect it to our vision.

In this episode:

• How do we better prepare people for today’s society?
• How schools have become warehouses
• How do we recognize early mentors?
• Credentials vs knowledge
• Are we born with awareness or can we cultivate it?
• Is ability to navigate emotional uncertainty something we are born with?
• The future of the web

“If you’re curious and passionate, school is unnecessary… We’re finding more and more the true movers and shakers of society are not educated.”

“Be entrepreneurial early and often.” ~ Nolan Bushnell

Resources

• Nolan’s website
• Book: Finding the Next Steve Jobs
• Brainrush.com
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Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, prolific entrepreneur, and scientist. He’s often cited as the father of the video game industry. Nolan is devoted to fixing education with his new company, Brainrush. A biopic, tentatively titled “Atari” is in pre-production, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Nolan.

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Kevin grew up in poverty, the son of an alcoholic outlaw, and turned his life into serving and shaking up the education system. His insights reach far beyond transforming education, but in how we break free from indoctrination and turning pain into a movement.

In this episode:

• What differentiates people who take pain and turn it into success vs a downward slide?
• How janitors can be mentors
• Balancing living in the moment vs living in the future
• Has our system indoctrination of education limited what we do in our adult lives?
• Spending our heartbeats to make it matter
• Does creating a movement come from something that already exists inside us?
• Where do we start in beginning a massive change?
• Releasing education’s prison shackles
• How to handle attacks when leading a movement

Resources:

• Kevin’s website
• Essdack.org
• Book: The Underground History of Education – Jonathan Taylor Gatto

Kevin Honeycutt is a technology integrationist and a staff developer from Central Kansas. He spent 13 years teaching K-12 art and now travels the country and the world sharing ideas with educators. His website is a valued treasure house of resources for educators.

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