Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders
The Converge Podcast, hosted by Dane Sanders, explores the tension between creating meaningful things and finding innovative ways to profit from what you've made.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 115
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2022
Joe Lemay on Overcoming Failure to Become a Crowdfunding Hit That Can Last
Failure is a Part of the Testing Process, Keep Trying
Joe Lemay is an entrepreneur who was enamored with the idea of developing an idea and finding a way to get it fully funded by potential consumers …
James Clear on Forming Small Habits to Achieve Meaningful Results
Change your habits and Get 1% Better Every Day
Do you ever find yourself making fake deadlines only to push your endless to-do list off to the next day? You’re not alone. But, as James Clear explains,…
Jaz Ampaw-Farr on Reversing Toxic Trajectories
We live in a world full of conflict. A friendly conversation takes an unexpected turn into an "Us v. Them” situation. And when it does, how exactly do we find a way to turn a potentially toxic trajec…
Taylor Holiday on How To Build A Creative Team That Never Wants To Leave
There s nothing better than working with a creative team of people who are the best at what they do. It brings out the best in you and enables you to reach new heights you previously only dreamed of.…
David Jay on How To Go From Freelance Photographer To Entrepreneur
Many of the people who listen to Converge are creatives – freelance photographers, artists, interior designers, and others. They know that moving from the time-for-money trade that freelancing requir…
Theresa Christine on How to Pursue an Adventurous Life in the Midst of Normal
It only takes one Google search to find hundreds, maybe even thousands of people telling you to pursue an adventurous life. Many of them define that as a lifestyle that abandons the normal things of …
Taylor Jones and Eric Brown on Leveraging the Internet for Good
The internet is a pervasive thing, gobbling up time as well as bandwidth. Dane s guests on this episode of Converge are co-leaders of a web design team whose primary purpose is to leverage the intern…
Josh Muccio from Gimlet on Doing Great Work To Create Your Opportunity
Your opportunity to make it big with your creative endeavors is no longer something others are in control of. You can influence your own success tremendously – primarily through doing great work and …
Justin Zoradi on Why We Were Made For These Times
Justin Zoradi believes with the strongest conviction that without exception, we were made for these times. That means you – and it means me. But many of us wonder how that can be true when we are sad…
Donald Miller on How a Clear Story Multiplies Impact and Profits For Your Brand
There are few things we humans enjoy as much as a good story. Doesn’t it make sense that brands should make use of that fact? This episode of Converge features Donald Miller, the brilliant mind behin…
Vincent Pugliese on The Power of Mindset in the Pursuit of Freedom
Are you sacrificing your dream to make money? Does your job leave you little time to do what you love? Does time freedom seem forever out of reach? Vincent Pugliese the guest on this episode of Conve…
Bryan and Shannon Miles on The Power of a Virtual Assistant
Do you feel swamped with your business? Are you wearing too many hats and can t seem to focus on what is important, the things only you can do? This episode of Converge might offer a solution. Your h…
Jaz Ampaw-Farr on Conviction Is The Key To Success,
Success is a term that is used heavily in our culture. Success is the thing that everyone works to attain, some people are born into success while others stumble upon it. You may be tempted to blame …
Jeff and Erin Youngren on How to Build Community as a Business Growth Strategy
Growing a business is hard work, especially if you are a new business owner. Getting used to the idea of being your own boss and having employees of your own is challenging. But when you add in the s…
Dr. Ben Houltberg on What It Means to Thrive In Life and How To Do It
All of us want to thrive in life. Without exception. But what it takes to truly do that is the question we seem to have the most difficult time answering. Dane s guest on this episode is the leader o…
Heather Vickery on Conquering Fear and the Limiting Beliefs Behind It
Strangely ingrained in the fabric of who we are as human beings is this thing called fear. But if you look a bit more deeply you ll see that fear always flows out of a belief we re having about ourse…
Mike Michalowicz on Running a Profitable Business, Stress-Free
It s not easy to run a profitable business. Stats prove it to be true. A very high percentage of businesses do not show a profit and Mike Michalowicz believes it s because business owners don t plan …
Kate Merrick on Moving From Grief To Creativity
It s ingrained in our culture to fix things, to try to make everyone happy and see smiles on the faces of everyone around us. But life just isn t that way all the time. In fact, life can often become…
Evan Sharma on Life as a World-Renowned Painter at 13 Years Old
It s not every day that you get to talk at length with a world-renowned artist. Even rarer is the opportunity to speak with one who has been labeled a child prodigy. Evan Sharma didn t begin painting…
John Fox on Leaving Academia To Become An Entrepreneur
NOTE: DANE’S AUDIO HAD SOME GLITCHES BUT THE CONTENT WAS TOO GOOD NOT TO SHARE.
Don t you love success stories? Especially the kind where the successful person bucks the conventions of the day and do…