The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Amy Clover was diagnosed with clinical depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, which eventually lead to a suicide attempt in her early 20’s. Through the power of fitness and exercise, she began her own recovery and became strong from the inside out.

• What resulted in Amy’s suicide attempt in her 20’s
• The choices we have, that we can all take advantage of
• Why fitness as an outlet helped Amy overcome her challenges
• The tendency to bury some of our most important problems
• Taking a first step in sharing your challenges and problems
• How self medication can lead to covering some things up
• The wakeup call that came from being hospitalized
• Why the determination to keep standing up helped Amy recover
• Navigating the roller coaster ride of trials and failures
• Why we must embrace struggle to grow stronger
• Learning to find reasons to make a change in your life
• The role that fitness plays in your ability to overcome depression
• Translating the intention of your workout to your life outside at the gym
• How the mission of Strong Inside Out has evolved over the last few years

Amy Clover has dedicated herself to providing others with to start implementing change within themselves, and to discover happiness and confidence. Through captivating blog posts, a successful coaching practice, and mind-body oriented workshops, books, and videos, Amy facilitates the unveiling of a vivacious, thriving community. The Strong Inside Out Tour exists to empower people out of struggle through fitness, but Amy can't do this without our help. Please be a part of this movement with us, and support the Tour by sharing and donating here.

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Colin Wright walked away from a bountiful financial opportunity to conduct extreme lifestyle experiments, like letting the readers of his blog vote on which country he should spend the next four months of his life in. This eventually resulted in the writing multiple books, and the development of an independent publishing company, Asymmetrical Press.

• Finding the balance between professional and personal fulfillment
• Why the meaning we find in money is starting to change
• The tendency to default to traditions, simply because they are traditions
• A look at what it means to live intentionally, in spite of our circumstances
• Why you don’t need to live a crazy adventure to have a good life
• Our tendency to demonize life in the cubicle
• Why there is no downside to the hand you’ve been dealt
• Implementing systemized self disruption into your life
• What causes post traumatic growth versus post traumatic stress
• Learning to navigate the constantly undulating wave of good and bad
• A look at the pivotal moment in Colin’s life that would have led to significant wealth
• The problem with living and measuring your life by one metric
• Knowing where you fall on the spectrum of risk and reward
• Lessons learned from Colin’s travels to various countries
• What eventually led Colin to create a publishing company
• The role that quality and talent will play in media and publishing

Colin Wright is an author, blogger, entrepreneur, and traveler. He periodically teaches classes online, gives talks, and runs workshops, all while travelling full time and publishing books with Asymmetrical Press.

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Sam Polk’s childhood ambitions of becoming rich led him to a career on Wall Street in which eventually he discovered that he had become addicted to money and success In this episode we discuss overcoming that addiction an the similarities that success and addiction have in common. 

• The influence that Sam’s dad had on his view of the world
• A period of loneliness and depression in college
• The challenges of pretending to be what we’re not
• The disconnect between who we are and who we want to be
• A series of inauthentic reinventions that failed 
• A relationship that made Sam choose a different path
• What happens when we see the world as a dark scary place
• Losing the belief that we’re inherently valuable 
• The exploration of core beliefs about your life 
• Why living your life from a complete deficit doesn’t lead to true success
• A look at the meaning that we give to having money in our lives
• The similarities between the pursuit of success and addiction 
• Dealing with two conflicting views of the world
• The challenge of choosing between two paths
• Choosing the path on which you can’t see the end 
• The motivation for creating the Groceryships non-profit 
• Why we can all create things that don’t exist 

Sam Polk is a former hedge-fund trader and the founder of the nonprofit Groceryships.

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Growing up under the dictatorship of Noriega, Lisa Fabrega has overcome incredible odds in developing the courage to speak her truth. In this episode, we discuss the role of speaking your truth, and finding compassion in your ability to be a leader.

• Growing up under the dictatorship of Noriega
• When we ignore our artistic inclinations
• Facing death and dealing with a terrible illness
• The problem with doing work that doesn’t align with your values
• Dealing with fears of speaking your truth
• Removing the imprints of our past to mold a stronger future
• Finding hope through creativity when life challenges you
• Learning to forgive people after they have oppressed or hurt you
• Transcending our tendency to build walls and be self protective
• The importance of devotion, trust, and belief
• Why massive growth experiences are rarely blissful
• The role that self care plays in your ability to heal
• Learning to separate rejection from your identity as a creator

Lisa Fabrega has devoted herself to helping others find their inner Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Theresa, so they can accomplish the big things they were destined to. By facilitating release of fear and transcension of circumstance, Lisa finds big ideas to make big impacts.

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In this unmistakable classic we revisit our interview with Georgetown professor and author Cal Newport who talks to us about how to be so good they can't ignore you. 

• How Cal Has Blended a Traditional and Untraditional Path 
• A Look at the Early Creation Process of Cal's Study Guides
• Lessons from the MIT Theory of Computation Group
• The Importance of Focus and Resisting Distractions
• What it Takes to Develop Career Capital (Rare and Valuable Skills)
• How Skills Give You More Leverage Than a Set Career Path
• The Arbitrary Advice of Following Your Passion – And Why It's Flawed
• Why You have to Become Really Good at Something to Love Your Work
• Traits That Lead People to Absolutely Love What They Do
• Making the Transition Match Theory to Capital Theory
• The Philosophy of Deep Work and Becoming a Master of Your Craft
• Why Cal Newport has No Social Media Accounts
• The Importance of Developing Taste in Your Work 
• Looking at the Mission Behind Somebody's Work
• The Framework of Little Bets to Make Progress with Your Ideas
• Why Publishers are Like Investors When it Comes to Your Book Deal
• Finding the Threads that Persist in Your Body of Work

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Jessica Hagy’s dissatisfaction with her work led her to self expression in the form of visual storytelling, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions and to actively participate in each narrative. She combines mixed data with humor, insight, and visuals, making complex concepts accessible and relevant.

• Coping and dealing with work that is predatory
• Why it’s important to create what you want to consume
• The power in creating something every single day
• Intersecting with nature on a daily basis
• A blog post that flourished into the origin story for the book
• The importance of physical and mental exploration
• How starting something, no matter what, is important
• Why it’s important to embrace the things that are weird
• Something amazing that doesn’t require monetary output
• Trusting your gut feeling around your creativity
• Why we have to stop asking for permission
• The cultural narrative the kills imaginative possibility
• Getting to the bottom of your motivation for your art
• Developing your own true north

Jessica Hagy is an artist and writer best known for her Webby award-winning blog, Indexed (www.thisisindexed.com). A fixture in the creative online space, Jessica has been prolifically illustrating, consulting, and speaking to international media and events since 2006.

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In this episode of the show we speak with anthropologist, writer, actress, and comedian Natalia Reagan. She talks to us about how she’s combined her love for science, comedy, and primates into a rather unusual career.

• An early obsession with King Kong nightmares
• Dealing with a tragic and life changing car accident
• Natalia’s foray into the study of spider monkeys
• The creation of “butt” week that led to viral success
• Natalia’s ultimate goal of creating a science comedy show
• How to look back at our childhood dreams
• Learning to craft the stories of our lives
• Natalia’s appearance on a popular TV show
• Dealing with critics and naysayers and turning them into fans
• Post traumatic stress versus post traumatic growth
• Building a multi-hyphenated career
• The myth of winning the internet lottery
• The role of craft in the process of entertainment

Natalia Reagan is the creator of “Science! It’s Your Friend,” a tongue-in-cheek web series that seeks to answer science questions with comedy. She has appeared on various television and radio shows, such as the “TODAY Show,” “Fox Edge News,” and “Playboy Morning Radio.” Through the success of her passions, Natalia strives to illuminate others on means of living in harmony with nature.

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In this Unmistakable Classic, we revisit a thought provoking conversation with Patti Digh, author of Life is a Verb. 

• The importance of feeling good about the work you’re doing
• Asking yourself what you’d do if you have 37 days to live
• The keys to writing your voice with a sole intention
• How art history and English degrees shaped Patti’s world view
• The 3 blocks that keep dreams from coming true
• A look at what it means to be truly transparent
• How we deal with incredibly negative thoughts
• How intention shapes the nature of what you create
• Presence and the role that it plays in our lives 
• Why you don’t want to be invested in an outcome
• Why you need organizing principles for a bigger body of work

Patti Digh, the creator and author of the award-winning blog 37days.com, is the author of the best-selling Life is a Verb (Skirt!), a Books for a Better Life nominee. An internationally recognized speaker who has worked in over 60 countries, Patti ’s comments have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The London Financial Times, and The New York Times, among other international press. Smart, funny, and insightful, her Web site is pattidigh.com. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Jodi Avrigan has chosen a rather unusual way to get his art out into the world. He’s the creator of Ask Roulette, an unscripted conversation in which participants ask and answer questions of each other in front of a live audience. In this interview we discuss the craft of narrative journalism, and the creation of Ask Roulette.

• Making films in the early days of high school
• The parallels between sports teams and creative environments
• Applying the storytelling tools of film to radio journalism
• The diversity in background and art that influence radio
• What some of the best radio journalists have in common
• How good creative people are wired and do their work
• Why being too comfortable hurts our creativity
• A look at trends in the world of podcasting and radio
• Why you should be continually experimenting with different ideas
• A look at the social dynamics of Ask Roulette
• Making New York feel like a smaller place through community

Jody Avrigan is a radio producer at WNYC, Brian Lehrer Show, and a myriad of additional projects. Amidst frequent collaborations with other stations and social media outlets, he also does freelance reporting.

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Storytelling is how we make sense of the world. In this episode of the podcast Lisa Cron talks to us about how we're hardwired to respond to story. 

• Lisa's early love for story telling from an early age
• The reason finding the thing you love is a struggle 
• Why story is a hardwired survial mechanism 
• The reason stories help us to navigate reality 
• Understanding how to shape and develop stories 
• Why making the impossible possible is a journey
• Digging deep enough to find your true gift is
• Why we tend to think in terms of stories 
• Separating the things that make us feel successfull externally and internally
• The challenges of pursusing any path on your own 
• How story and the brain evolved in tandem
• Why story is incredibly effective for changing behavior 
• The reason we make every decision based on emotion 
• Using stories to change our behavior 

Lisa Cron is the author of Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers From the Very First Sentence. 

Storytelling is how we make sense of the world. In this episode of the podcast Lisa Cron talks to us about how we're hardwired to respond to story. 

• Lisa's early love for story telling from an early age
• The reason finding the thing you love is a struggle 
• Why story is a hardwired survial mechanism 
• The reason stories help us to navigate reality 
• Understanding how to shape and develop stories 
• Why making the impossible possible is a journey
• Digging deep enough to find your true gift is
• Why we tend to think in terms of stories 
• Separating the things that make us feel successfull externally and internally
• The challenges of pursusing any path on your own 
• How story and the brain evolved in tandem
• Why story is incredibly effective for changing behavior 
• The reason we make every decision based on emotion 
• Using stories to change our behavior 

Lisa Cron is the author of Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers From the Very First Sentence. 

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