The Weekly Creative Podcast

What if you stopped shuffling all your creative pursuits around and focused on ONE at a time? Would be pretty cool, huh?

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In the time since I last did something with The Weekly Creative, I made a deal with myself. Rather than try to balance my time between a hundred different creative pursuits at once, I would choose fo…

The pros and cons of metaphors, etc. Featuring a slow jam simile session with my wife, Amanda.

This week we take a look at the stories that rule our society. A country’s border is merely an imaginary line, a dollar bill is just paper, and the president is literally just as much human as you or…

Hello and welcome back to the second season of The Weekly Creative! This week I talk about the role of rejection in creative work and also life. Hear about my experience getting cut from the jr. high…

Thanks so much to all the Weekly Creatives out there. We truly have an awesome listener base. I’m calling this episode the end of Season 1, with plans to take a few weeks off. I am not sure exactly w…

How polished is too polished? Computers make it awfully easy to perfect our art. But then what happens to the human element of creation? You don’t want to know. But if you do, take a listen.

Copeland…

Attack of the ticking-clock, Hurricane Katrina and canoes, and the magic trick of the century. Based on that, this episode is clearly about silence.

In order to best create, we need to be in the righ…

“Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.” – St…

Throwing things at Steve Jobs, etc. In creating, communicating, and productivity, it’s all about the power of ONE.

This week’s Creative Genius is the fantastic Mavreen Smiel. She gives some great, in…

The parable of the nachos, my phobia of not finishing books, and other adventures along the dumping-salvaging continuum. Sometimes it’s just better to throw everything out the window and start over f…

How I lost my wallet in a food court, how (the lack of) food trucks can promote world peace, and of course, The Office.

This week’s creative genius is the ever-so-talented Tara Roskell from MuttTheCu…

My 7th grade track and field fail, my central park bridge sketching fail, and how creative projects are like giant puzzles.

Today’s Creative Genius is Camille Jeanmonod from Why Choose Only One

Camil…

What does science say about the ideal workspace? What about other creative’s like Steve Jobs, EB White, and Chip Kidd?

This week’s Creative Genius is Scott Snow from thinklikeamusician.com

If you wou…

My personal war against overthinking aka how I managed to do a backflip on skis.

This week’s Creative Genius is Matt Jonas from @living2behappy. Go follow him for some great life and career advice!

My own short-lived viral fame, when “cash flow positive” isn’t necessarily a good thing, and my roast of Tai Lopez’s “How to Read a Book in 10 Minutes.”

This week’s Creative Genius is Jenny Roberts f…

Just as not allowing freshly laid concrete to cure the right amount of time can lead to a building’s ultimate collapse, sometimes projects or ideas simply need time to become what we dream them to be…

Missing flights and pools of chaos. What good is creativity if there is no order? Come learn some time management techniques and see how Austin Kleon and Leo Babauta structure their days.

This week’s episode serves as the counter argument to last week’s episode about “doing what you love.” Is “follow your dreams” responsible advice? Featuring clips from American Idol, Mike Rowe, Josep…

What would you do with a billion dollars? This episode is about identifying your passions–discovering what makes you tick. Make sure you tune in next week where we will discuss the counter argument–w…