The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Timeless Practical Wisdom For Living a Meaningful LifeInspiring stories and practical advice from creatives, entrepreneurs, change-makers, misfits, and rebels to help you become successful on your own terms Our listeners say, “If TEDTalks met Oprah you’d have the Unmistakable Creative.” El...
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Jim Kwik: Unlocking Limitless Learning and Why Your Brain is Not Fixed
Jim Kwik, brain performance expert and author of Limitless, reveals how a childhood brain injury transformed him from the kid with the broken brain in...
Vanessa Van Edwards: From Student Council Nerd to Decoding Human Behavior
Vanessa Van Edwards, behavioral researcher and author, traces her expertise in human behavior back to being a highly neurotic student council nerd wit...
Tiago Forte: Building a Second Brain After Five Schools Taught Him to Be a Chameleon
Tiago Forte, creator of the Second Brain methodology, shares how attending five different schools in five consecutive years obliterated his social cir...
Susan Magsamen: Your Brain on Art and the Neuroscience of Creativity
Susan Magsamen, author of Your Brain on Art, explores creativity through neuroscience rather than philosophy or technique. Born to working-class paren...
Robin Dellabough: From Supporting Others' Creativity to Claiming Your Own
Robin Dellabough, writer and editor, shares her unconventional journey from growing up in a bohemian Greenwich Village household to spending decades s...
Rob Bloom: How Stuttering Forced Creative Problem-Solving and Authenticity
Rob Bloom, creative director for Universal theme parks, shares his journey living with a stutter that shaped his entire life and career. He reveals ho...
Rich Karlgaard: Why Late Bloomers Win in a Culture Obsessed with Early Achievement
Rich Karlgaard, author of Late Bloomers, dismantles the toxic narrative that success must come early. Drawing from his father's reinvention in his 30s...
Rebecca Beltran: Redefining Intimacy Through Sex-Positive Courtesanship
Rebecca Beltran shares her unconventional journey from polyamory to becoming a courtesan, challenging cultural stigma around sex work and intimacy. Sh...
Jenny Blake: Free Time, Time-to-Revenue Ratios, and Rejecting the "Time Is Money" Myth
Jenny Blake, author of "Free Time," reveals how her father—an architect who gives ruthless editorial feedback with his "WKIYB" abbreviation (we know i...
Marc Elliott: How Media Narratives Shape Truth and the Untold Side of NXIVM
Marc Elliott shares his controversial perspective on NXIVM, arguing that media narratives have distorted the truth about Keith Raniere and the organiz...
Luvvie Ajayi Jones: Professional Troublemaking and the Power of Making Good Trouble
Luvvie Ajayi Jones challenges the cultural expectation that harmony is more important than justice. As a professional troublemaker, she argues that sp...
Peter Krask: From PhD Dropout to Hollywood Producer—Building Myth Merchant and Finding Creative Freedom
Peter Krask, creator of Myth Merchant and former Hollywood producer, shares his journey from quitting grad school to producing reality TV to building...
Oliver Burkeman: Why Positive Thinking Fails and the Paradox of Pursuing Happiness
Oliver Burkeman, author of "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking," dismantles the self-help industry's obsession with...
Michelle Gielan: How Small Shifts in Communication Create Big Changes in Happiness and Resilience
In this powerful conversation, former CBS news anchor and positive psychology researcher Michelle Gielan unpacks how we can rewire our communication h...
Breaking Free from the Plan: How Decision Engineering Can Transform Your Life with Michelle Florendo
Michelle Florendo shares her journey from following the immigrant dream of Stanford, an MBA, and a "good job" to discovering she was miserable and nee...
Justin McRoberts: Mortality, Meaning, and Giving Away Everything You've Got
Justin McRoberts, musician, pastor, and author of "It's What You Make of It," shares how confronting death early in life shaped his approach to creati...
Jeff Wald: Navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Why Personal Responsibility Defines the Future of Work
Jeff Wald, author of The End of Jobs and CEO of WorkMarket, examines how robots and AI are creating the fourth industrial revolution—a massive power s...
Jeff Spencer: The Champion Blueprint and the Eight Inevitable Steps to Peak Performance
Jeff Spencer, former Olympic cyclist and performance coach to Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, and Olympic gold medalists, breaks down the precise archit...
Jason Naylor: The Psychology of Color and Why Bright Hues Unlock Positivity, Memory, and Human Connection
Jason Naylor, artist and author of Live Life Colorfully, shares how growing up as the second of seven children in a Mormon family in Salt Lake City sh...
Jacob Sager Weinstein: The Memory Palace Method and Why You Cannot Synthesize What You Do Not Remember
Jacob Sager Weinstein, comedy writer for Dennis Miller and author of How to Remember Everything, shares how growing up in privileged Washington DC whe...
Hillary Weiss: The Danger of Just Mindset and Why Imitation Is a Trap for Finding Your Golden Thread
Hillary Weiss, brand strategist and positioning coach, reflects on growing up in suburban South Florida where attending the same school for 14 years m...
Gautum Mukunda: The Paradox of Leader Selection and Why Unfiltered Presidents Are a Dangerous Gamble
Gautum Mukunda, Harvard professor and author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, reveals the paradox at the heart of leadership selection: t...
Cal Newport: Why Social Media Is Big Tobacco Not Big Oil and the Steam Whistle Theory of Attention
Cal Newport, computer science professor and author of Digital Minimalism, argues that the better analogy for social media is not big oil that must be...
Ethan Kross: Mastering Your Inner Voice Before It Masters You
Psychologist and bestselling author Ethan Kross breaks down the science of *chatter*—the internal voice that can either empower or paralyze us. Drawin...
Cal Newport: Cognitive Athleticism and Why Elite Performers Protect Their Attention
Computer science professor and bestselling author Cal Newport explains why cognitive fitness matters as much as physical fitness for elite performance...
Eric Barker: The Science of Relationships and Why Playing Well with Others Matters More Than You Think
Eric Barker, bestselling author of Barking Up the Wrong Tree and Plays Well with Others, reveals what decades of social science research says about re...
Dylan Beynon: Building Mindbloom and the Science of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Dylan Beynon, founder of Mindbloom, shares the deeply personal story behind building the first at-home ketamine therapy platform. After losing his mot...
Brea Starmer: Redefining Work Around Highest and Best Use, Not Hours Logged
Brea Starmer, founder of Lions and Tigers, challenges the outdated workplace model that measures face time over impact. Drawing from her experience as...
Douglass Vigliotti: Wrestling with Conviction and Why Creative Work Demands Uncomfortable Honesty
Douglass Vigliotti, author and creative, explores the tension between doubt and conviction that defines the creative process. Drawing from his parents...
Donny Jackson: The Internalized Stains of Slavery and Why Empathy Cannot Develop Without Interaction Across Racial Lines
Donny Jackson, poet and psychologist, reflects on growing up as a working-class black kid in Pittsburgh where his father was a postal worker for 35 ye...
Bjorn Ryan-Gorman: Coming Out as Gay in the Snowboarding World and Reclaiming Masculinity on Your Own Terms
Bjorn Ryan-Gorman, professional snowskater and LGBTQ+ advocate, shares his journey from hiding his sexuality behind aggressive board sports to buildin...
David Epstein: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein, author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, dismantles the myth that early specialization is the only path to exce...
Daniel Stillman: The Architecture of Conversations and Why Every Interface Shapes What We Say
Daniel Stillman, author of Good Talk: How to Design Conversations That Matter, reveals how conversations are designed—whether we realize it or not. Dr...
Ayelet Fishbach: The Science of Motivation, Why Fantasies Fail, and Balancing Abstract Goals with Concrete Plans
Ayelet Fishbach, motivation researcher at University of Chicago, dismantles the fantasy-driven approach to New Year's resolutions and goal-setting. Dr...
Dandapani: Mastering Your Mind as an Operating System, Sexual Energy Transmutation, and the Monastic Path to Unwavering Focus
Dandapani, former Hindu monk who lived monastically for 10 years, shares teachings from his guru on treating the mind as an operating system that must...
Cal Newport: Slow Productivity, Escaping Pseudo Productivity, and the Three Principles for Sustainable Knowledge Work
Cal Newport unpacks his framework for Slow Productivity, built on three core principles: doing fewer things, working at a natural pace, and obsessing...
Alan Stein Jr: The Performance Gap Between Knowing and Doing, and What Elite Athletes Teach Us About Execution
Alan Stein Jr, former basketball performance coach to Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and other NBA superstars, reveals why knowledge without execution is...
Christy Tennery-Spalding: Building Political Homes and Redefining Self-Care Beyond Capitalism
Christy Tennery-Spalding, activist and organizer, shares how growing up near Washington D.C. shaped her oppositional stance to power structures and le...
Andrew Yang: Universal Basic Income and the Automation Crisis Remaking America
Andrew Yang traces his path from failed entrepreneur to 2020 presidential candidate driven by a single realization: automation has already destroyed m...
Chris Fussell: Systems, Mindset, and Leading at the Edge
Former Navy SEAL and leadership strategist Chris Fussell reveals how elite teams operate under pressure—and how those principles can be applied far be...