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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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...
Andrew Bustamante: Inside the Mind of a Spy — Tradecraft, Trust, and the Cost of Secrecy
Former CIA field operative Andrew Bustamante pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to recruit spies, run intelligence operations, and navigat...
Carlos Adell: From Drug Dealer to Industrial Engineer to Finding True Success Through Strategic Environment Design
Carlos Adell shares his unconventional path from growing up in a small Spanish town with limited resources to running a six-figure drug dealing busine...
Alison Shcraeger: The Economics of Risk and What a Las Vegas Brothel Taught Me About Uncertainty
Alison Shcraeger, economist and author of An Economist Walks Into a Brothel, explains how risk really works and why most people misunderstand it. From...
John Epstein: Testing Acast Sync and Update Functionality
This is a test episode to verify that our Acast sync system works correctly. We will upload this episode with a far-future publish date, then update t...
Akshay Nanavati: Finding Bliss Through Suffering, Silence, and the Edge of Human Endurance
Akshay Nanavati is not your typical adventurer — he’s a former Marine, a survivor of war-induced PTSD, and a seeker of what he calls the “crucible of...
David Brooks: Seeing People Deeply in a World of Shallow Interactions
New York Times columnist and bestselling author **David Brooks** joins Srini Rao to unpack what it really means to know and see another person — and h...
Damon Centola: Why Change Spreads from the Edges—Not the Influencers
Damon Centola, sociologist and author of *Change: How to Make Big Things Happen*, dismantles the myth of the influencer and introduces a radically dif...
Jennifer Wallace: Raising Resilient Kids in a Culture That Says They're Never Enough
Jennifer Wallace is a journalist, researcher, and mother of three who set out to answer one of the most pressing questions in modern parenting: *Why d...
Laura Huang: Creating an Edge in a World That Won’t Hand You One
In this powerful and perspective-shifting episode, Harvard Business School professor and author **Laura Huang** shares a deeply human and practical ro...
Emily Fletcher: The Science and Simplicity of Unlocking Human Potential Through Meditation
Emily Fletcher, founder of Ziva Meditation and a former Broadway performer, shares how her journey from the stage to spiritual leadership reshaped her...
Courtney Harding: Building the Future of Human Connection Through XR, Education, and Digital Agency
Courtney Harding, founder of Friends with Holograms and a leading voice in spatial computing, joins Srini to discuss the real-world applications and p...
Daniel Lieberman: Dopamine, Desire, and Why Enough is Never Enough
In this mind-expanding conversation, psychiatrist and author Daniel Lieberman unpacks the role of dopamine — the brain's molecule of motivation — and...
Annie Duke: Why Knowing When to Quit Is a Superpower
In this powerful third appearance, bestselling author and decision strategist Annie Duke dismantles the myth that grit is always good — and makes the...
The Science of Mastery: Anders Ericsson on Deliberate Practice
Psychologist Anders Ericsson, the originator of the concept of deliberate practice, shares the foundational principles behind how experts are made—not...
The Operating System of Transformation: Salim Ismail on Exponential Thinking, Leadership, and Inner Engineering
In this episode, Salim Ismail — founding executive director of Singularity University and author of *Exponential Organizations* — maps out what it tak...
Dennis Xu: Designing Tools That Think Like We Do
Dennis Xu, co-founder of Mem, unpacks the future of personal knowledge and how it’s being reshaped by networked thinking, cognitive design, and human-...
The Science of Focus: Gloria Mark on Attention Rhythms, Flow Myths, and Digital Control
Cognitive scientist Gloria Mark explains why modern knowledge work sabotages attention — and how to fight back. Drawing from her decades of research,...
Sonkhe Ahrens: Building a Thinking System That Generates Insight, Not Noise
Sonkhe Ahrens shares how traditional approaches to knowledge — highlighting, tagging, collecting — fail to support actual thinking. Drawing from Nikla...
Kevin Surace — Building Smarter, Leading Better, and Adapting to AI
Kevin Surace breaks down how AI is reshaping the future of work — not by eliminating jobs, but by replacing repetitive tasks and redefining what human...
Listener Favorites: Paul Millerd | The Pathless vs Default Path
Join us for a compelling conversation with Paul Millerd, author of The Pathless Path. In this episode, Paul shares his insights on finding yourself in...
Listener Favorites: Arianna Warsaw | Navigating The Dynamics of Identity Change
Join us as we sit down with music industry insider, Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch. Discover her unique perspective on navigating identity change and get an...
Listener Favorites: Manisha Thakor | Money Zen: The Secret to Finding Your Enough
In the latest episode of The Unmistakable Creative Podcast titled 'Money Zen: The Secret to Finding Your Enough', we are joined by Manisha Thakor, a s...
Listener Favorites: Aaron Dignan | How to Speed up The Organizational Decision Making Process
Aaron Dignan is using software to help scale new ways of working and expedite the decision making process of organizations. Discover the possibilities...
Listener Favorites: Drew Plotkin | How to Use Tattoos to Rewrite Your Story and Reinvent Yourself
Drew Plotkin, tattoo artist and filmmaker, shares his journey of self-discovery through tattoos in this episode. He recounts his adventures, from deat...
Listener Favorites: Gautam Mukunda | What Presidential Elections Can Teach us About Leadership
In this podcast episode, we sit down with Gautam Mukunda, a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership, to discuss w...
Listener Favorites: Jeremey Utley | How Having Lots of Ideas Leads to Creative Breakthroughs
If you want to be more innovative, you need to start by changing the way you think about creativity. Good ideas aren't the result of pure wisdom, but...
Listener Favorites: Russ Roberts | The Decisions that Define Us
We have apps telling us who we should date, what music to listen to and which route to take to work, but no algorithm or AI can tell us who we should...
Listener Favorites: Camille Virginia | The Power of Offline Social Connection
Camille Virginia presents a refreshing and influential solution to the conundrum of digital connection. That is- meeting offline and in the real world...