Sep 30

The Secret to Lifelong Creativity (Hint: It Doesn’t End After Your 20s)

Chase Jarvis in mid-conversation, gesturing with his hands, wearing a casual maroon t-shirt. The background appears to be an indoor space with wooden beams on the ceiling and soft lighting. On the left side, a bold yellow and black graphic reads "THE CHASE JARVIS LIVE SHOW," with each word stacked in a column. The scene conveys an energetic and engaging atmosphere, with Chase passionately explaining something to the person in front of him.
Hey everybody, it's Chase. Today, we’re diving deep into something that fires me up every time I think about it—lifelong creativity. There’s this myth floating around that creativity is just for the young or that it’s something you either have or you don’t. But let me tell you, that’s absolute BS. Creativity isn’t some finite resource that dries up as you get older. It’s not just for “artistic types.” No, creativity is a muscle. Like... read more ›
Jun 28

How to Become Flawesome: Embracing Your True Self with Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani

Newsflash: you're flawed. I'm flawed. We're all flawed. And that's because we're all human. Yet at the same time, we live in a culture of perpetual self-improvement - one that pressures us to be better and meet high standards on a consistent basis. Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani knows this well. As the co-founder of Mindvalley, the powerful life transformation platform used by over 20 million people worldwide, she has dedicated her life to personal development, helping individuals... read more ›
Jun 05

You’re The Answer: How to Take Control of Your Own Learning

No one is coming to save you.  Experts are valuable when you’re learning new skills, but neither experts nor institutions are going to nurture you, guide you, or make your creative dream a reality. You’re on your own path. It’s all up to you. This isn’t a bad thing, either. Your creativity gives you the capacity to design the life you want. The world of education has already changed. You no longer need an MFA... read more ›
May 24

10 Lessons Learned from Gagan Biyani’s Path to Entrepreneurial Success

Gagan Biyani is an entrepreneur by trade. He began exploring the career path at the age of 21, tinkering with ideas before eventually starting education technology Udemy in 2010 with co-founders Eren Bali and Oktay Caglar. He's also dabbled in journalism as a writer for TechCrunch, run a conference business, lent his skills as a marketing advisor to Lyft, and in 2013 founded Sprig, a start-up focused on sustainability and health-conscious food delivery services. Today,... read more ›
Dec 07

How to Stop Feeling Stuck In Your Life with Dr. Nicole LePera

 Dr. Nicole LePera is a trained clinical psychologist with years of experience through Cornell University, The New School for Social Research and the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. While extremely passionate for her field, she found herself frustrated by its conventional limitations and sought to expand her career in search of new solutions to mental wellbeing. Dr. LePera invested immeasurable amounts of time and research into writing her first book, 'How to Do the Work',... read more ›
Oct 03

Old Rules No Longer Apply

Most of us have been given the same general blueprint for success since birth. Go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a job, work hard and you'll be successful. And for a long time, this was an effective path to success. But in recent years, the idea of what it means to be successful has changed. With the advent of technology and the global interconnectedness of the world, success is no longer... read more ›
Aug 15

How Calculated Risks Expand Our Career Growth

If calculated risks keep us growing, why do we stop? There are two contrasting ideas that many of us have about creativity. It’s that we want to stand out and share our work while at the same time we want to fit in. When we stand out, it means we’re not fitting in. We can’t have both. Human nature likes us to fit in, so it becomes very risky behavior to stand out even in... read more ›
Jul 20

How to Unlock the Key to Continuous Innovation with Tony Fadell

Tony was a key part of the teams that built the initial iterations of the iPod, iPhone, and much more. Now an investor and entrepreneur with a 30+ year history of founding companies and designing products that profoundly improve people’s lives, Tony's primary focus is as Principal of Future Shape, which coaches over 200+ startups innovating game-changing technologies. On a recent episode of the Chase Jarvis Live Show, we talked about building things- from building... read more ›
Mar 07

Joy is the Way

Do you have a big dream, but you're having trouble making progress? There is one simple thing you can do to start moving, and re-train your brain to operate autonomously,  prioritize joy. Once you make this contract with yourself to pursue joy on a regular basis, you start to create inertia. So how do you get started? Maybe you don't know what action to take? I believe that a hugely under valued element of the... read more ›
Feb 28

Why I Don’t Set Resolutions (+ What I Do Instead)

Here we are at the end of February - how are those New Years Resolutions going? 😁 There is so much hype built into our society around resolutions. We often associate them with huge goals, and things we want to accomplish, rather than behaviors we want to embody. If 64% of all people fail their resolution within one month of starting, what is the common factor that makes them so hard to stick to? What you... read more ›