Masters of Craft
From the team behind the top-ranked Innovation Crush interview series, Masters of Craft explores the life and times and minds of some of the world's greatest thought leaders in business and beyond. Created and hosted by Chris Denson and Caleb Thorpe, the show serves up a giant helping of some of the best minds around the world, all with a heaping side of occasional bad jokes. Listen. Enjoy. Repeat.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 256
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2024
#77: Elliot Kotek - The Death of Impossibility
How do you win TIME Magazine's invention of the year? Build a device that helps a fully paralyzed graffiti artist create art with only his eyes. This is how Elliot Kotek and his business partner, Mic…
00:47:56 |
Tue 31 Mar 2015
#76: Jon Werner - Trend Walks and Tech Talks
Jon Werner has mastered the true artistry of innovation; exploring every endeavor with a sense of childlike wonder. Quite literally, he is adidas Innovation Explorer (real title), and has led the c…
00:51:43 |
Thu 26 Mar 2015
#75: Cenk Uygur - The Angry Truth About Honesty in Media
Cenk Uygur has mastered the art of news and storytelling for the digital generation. As co-founder and CEO of The Young Turks, his news platform amasses BILLIONS of impressions each month through co…
00:58:26 |
Tue 17 Mar 2015
#74: Steve Streit - Prepaid Power to the People
Steve Streit is credited (pun intended) as the inventor of the prepaid credit card. In the beginning, he figured Ivy League college kids would flock to his invention, but quickly realized that his …
00:57:57 |
Tue 10 Mar 2015
#73: CRUSH LIVE! -- Jason Mayden - From Death to Designer
At age 5, Jason Mayden almost died due to an infection in his blood. On his near-death bed, he had visions of what he wanted his future to look like, and after surviving the experience, he held on t…
01:09:22 |
Tue 24 Feb 2015
#72: Maz Jobrani - Why I Am Not a Terrorist
What's the best way to change perceptions? Tell jokes about the very thing you want to change. Maz Jobrani is an entrepreneur, comedian, actor, and now author whose Iranian roots are deeply embedde…
00:51:54 |
Tue 17 Feb 2015
#71: Bob Safian - Catching Up With Fast Company
When it comes to innovation, Bob Safian sits high above the fray, with a panoramic view of the world filled with inspiring ideas. As the leader of the leading publication about leading innovations i…
00:50:44 |
Tue 10 Feb 2015
#70: Jess Weiner - Taking Branding Personal
Jess Weiner (yes, pronounced like the hot dog), grew up consuming media cascaded with women who looked nothing like her. Even at a young age, the bullied performing arts enthusiast knew her life's wo…
00:49:06 |
Wed 04 Feb 2015
#69: Tristan Walker - Razor Sharp Design Thinking
When it comes to design thinking, few do it better than Tristan Walker. Early in his career, the award winning, 30-year-old entrepreneur served as an intern at then fledgling "microblogging" site, T…
00:48:38 |
Tue 27 Jan 2015
#68: Engage LA - Videos, Views, and Visionaries
We've heard many times before that "Content is King." But how do you lead people to that content? How do you keep them there when choices are vast and attention spans are low? How do you keep them…
01:00:52 |
Tue 20 Jan 2015
#67: Andy Walshe - Human Potential Takes Flight
For 8 years, Dr. Andy Walshe has served as Red Bull's High Performance Director. As such, the good doctor helps the athletes, musicians, artists, and performers Red Bull supports, push far beyond th…
00:47:21 |
Tue 13 Jan 2015
#66: Peter McGraw - The Hardy Har Boys
Peter McGraw is a marketing professor, author, behavioral economist, and extremely humor curious. So much in fact, that he and his co-author, Joel Warner, of The Humor Code, set off on a global tre…
00:54:36 |
Tue 09 Dec 2014
#65: Adam Garone - From Success to Significance
A self-proclaimed "mustache farmer," Adam Garone is the CEO and co-founder of Movember, a globally celebrated movement that pits mustaches against men's health issues; particularly prostate cancer. …
01:00:18 |
Tue 02 Dec 2014
#64: Jeff Jenkins - Crunch Wrapped Innovation
Jeff Jenkins has many labels, from Taco Hack to Resident Disruptor to the Taco Whisperer. For the past 6 years the former NASA and Viacom exec has been creating new and innovative ways to engage the…
00:55:56 |
Tue 25 Nov 2014
#63: Skip & Alison Bedell - Crafting Excellence
Skip Bedell was birthed in excellence and professional integrity. The master carpenter comes from a long line of successful builders. While Skip once abandoned the family business to pursue other e…
00:52:26 |
Thu 13 Nov 2014
#62: Jeff Sparr - Mind Over Matters
Jeff Sparr is passionate about mental wellness. The CEO, hyphen artist, hyphen philanthropist, also happens to suffer from severe obsessive compulsive disorder. Early in his executive career, he le…
00:44:40 |
Thu 06 Nov 2014
#61: Erica Williams - The Win Begins Within
Erica Williams Simon is an award-winning transformational speaker, storytelling trainer, media maker. With an early career inside the nation's capital, Erica quickly learned to recognize that real s…
00:43:11 |
Thu 30 Oct 2014
#60: Jordan Brady - The Art of Specificity
Jordan Brady is a comedy legend turned commercial director, producer, podcaster, and documentarian. His passion projects include two films entitled I AM COMIC, and I AM ROAD COMIC which showcase the…
01:04:28 |
Wed 22 Oct 2014
#59: Rebecca Kantar - Nurturing the Future
By the age of 14, Rebecca Kantar had started her own non profit organization focused on the prevention of sex trafficking. By 16 she and her cohorts began a speaking tour to ignite youth entreprene…
01:15:50 |
Tue 14 Oct 2014
#58: Guive Balooch - Inside the Connected Beauty Incubator
Guive Balooch is a scientist turned cosmetics genius who currently helms L'Oreal's Connected Beauty Incubator, a lab focused on creating forward-thinking products and services that disrupt the cosmet…
00:56:29 |
Tue 07 Oct 2014
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