Aug 05

Lori Gottlieb: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

The person you talk to the most in your life, is you. Yet what we often say to ourselves isn't always kind, true or helpful. Enter today's guest: Lori Gottlieb. Lori is a psychotherapist and author of the New York Times bestseller 'Maybe You Should Talk to Someone'. In our fast-paced world of independence and individualism, we often minimize the importance of our interdependence to each other. In this episode, we take a deep dive... read more ›
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Aug 03

Creative Calling Book Club

Creativity has never been more important. Art, creative expression, and creative solutions are required to create our future, and the world we want to live in. This is session a 6-week mentoring series on CreativeLive to put our creativity into action. Though this series is based on the IDEA framework in my book, Creative Calling, you don’t need to have the book to participate. Some topics we will explore in this series: why creativity, why... read more ›
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Jul 29

Never Settle with Mario Armstrong

Today's episode is a dose of positivity, inspiration, and energy from my guest Mario Armstrong. He is on a mission to help others accelerate their personal growth through their passions through positivity, motivation and tactical advice. Mario is a two time Emmy Award winning talk show host of the Never Settle Show, a web television series that provides advice and tools to help us tackle the mindset holding us back or tangible constraints such as... read more ›
481 reads
Jul 22

The Science of Making Work Not Suck with Adam Grant

Interested in making work not suck? We spend a quarter of our lives in our jobs. My guest today wants to make all that time worth your time. Enter Organizational Psychologist, Adam Grant. Adam has been Wharton’s top-rated professors for 7 straight years. He is recognized as one of the world’s most-cited, most prolific, and most influential researchers in business and economics. He has written 4 New York Times best selling books including Give and... read more ›
1.2K reads
Jul 15

Street Photography + Capturing Truth with Steven John Irby

Steve John Irby, aka Steve Sweatpants, is a renowned street photographer and cofounder of Street Dreams Magazine, a beautiful zine that is unlike anything of it's kind featuring up and coming photographers and crowd sourced photography in beautiful layouts and stories. The majority of Steve's photographic work is derived from the endless source of inspiration found in his home turf in NYC with intriguing travel logs to round out what has become an insanely compelling... read more ›
849 reads
Jul 08

Steve Aoki: Creativity, Community and No Days Off

Society would have us believe that we’re just supposed to know what we’re meant to do in our life, but it’s not true. It’s only through action - taking small steps every day - that the bigger picture is revealed. That is something that my guest, Steve Aoki, shares on this episode of the show. He’s one of the most prolific, renowned DJ and music producers in the world. He’s been nominated for multiple Grammys... read more ›
559 reads
Jul 06

Exponential Living with Sheri Riley

One of the things I love about this show is the opportunity to share with you things I'm learning, listening to, and taking inspiration from. Today's show is no different. My guest today is Sheri Riley. After 20 years of creating really innovative marketing fo Usher, TLC, Toni Braxton, Converse, the NBA, BMW, and Turner, to name a few, she now serves as an Empowerment Speaker and Life Strategist. Not too long ago, Sheri joined us... read more ›
517 reads
Jul 01

Life, Writing, and Real Talk with Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is an award-winning pop culture powerhouse whose writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling... read more ›
627 reads
Jun 24

Risk, Fear, and the Art of Chill with Jimmy Chin

It's a very rare occurrence when my man Jimmy Chin is in one place for any length of time. But in these pandemic times, he finds himself adventuring in his backyard in Jackson, WY and staying close to home with his family. Of course I had to seize the opportunity to finally sit down and check-in on his whirlwind career. Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, National Geographic photographer and mountain sports athlete known... read more ›
2.2K reads
Jun 17

The Power of Passion and Perseverance with Angela Duckworth

You might know my next guest from her bestselling book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance. Its sold millions of copies and stayed on the bestseller lists for hundreds of weeks. If you're not familiar with her work, Angela is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. Her TED talk is... read more ›
616 reads