Blogcast FM: Online Business | Blogging | Social Media | Content Creation show

Blogcast FM: Online Business | Blogging | Social Media | Content Creation

Summary: Founded in 2010 by host Srinivas Rao, Blogcast FM is the one stop resource for online businesses and entrepreneurs. BLOGCAST FM is the most prolific resource of interviews from successful and internationally known business owners, bloggers, online entrepreneurs, and published authors. BLOGCAST FM’s audience includes social media enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, influencers, authors, actors and actresses, PR and advertising agencies, and corporate decision makers. Previous guests on BlogcastFM include Ramit Sethi, Chris Guillebeau, Robert Greene, Seth Godin, Chris Brogan Tim Ferriss, Danielle Laporte, Guy Kawasaki Mike Stelzner, Cameron Herold and 100's of others. Online business, marketing, blogging and social media strategies from the best and brightest of the web

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 Greg’s Adventures in Babysitting and Other Ways to Make Money – BlogcastFM Backstage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:49

This week we changed things up a little bit. Greg didn't have a chance to catch up on a recent interview, so we decided to wing it and share some stuff from behind the scenes of the business. You'll also learn about the wide array of tools available to you in order to make money online. Here are some highlights from this episode: * Taking Advantage of Free Resources That Are Available (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BlogcastFM-Backstage-300x300.jpg) * Inside the Rebranding of BlogcastFM and the Motivations * How Sticking with Something for a Long Time Makes a Difference * A Look at Lots of Ways to Make Money with the Sharing Economy * How Greg Mashed Up Tons of Free Services to Survive * Adventures in Babysitting with Greg and Why He's Good At It * Why a Project-Based  Approach to Your Business Can Be Powerful * What We Can Learn from the Starting Points of Succesful Businesses * A Look at a Few Completely Crazy Projects Greg Is Working On * How Parkour Training Can Help You Tap into Your Creativity * Using Selz without Even Having a Website If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/3UdW6) to post it to Twitter. 

 How Stories Create Intangible Value with Bernadette Jiwa | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:09

Bernadette Jiwa's journey as a storyteller began in Dublin, Ireland, where she was exposed to theatrical storytelling by a merchant in a local market. She's developed a unique brand of storytelling that helps people fall in love with your products. Here are some highlights from our chat: * How a Story Creates an Intangible Value (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BernadetteJiwa.jpeg) * Lessons from The Fortune Cookie Principle * The Difference Between Anecdotes and Your Story * Why Purpose and Mission Are Key to a Great Story * Disrupting the Way That People Feel About Your Brand * Lessons from Warby Parker and Dollar Shave Club * The Inner Soul Searching Required to Find Your Why * Why the Airbrushed Version of Who You Are Won't Work * The Role Values Will Play in Vision, Products, and Story * Commonalities Between the Biggest Online Personal Brands * How Your Intention Influences Everything You Do  * Uncovering the Threads for Interesting Stories in Your Life * Why Bernadette Gave up a Traditionally Published Book Deal Bernadette Jiwa is author of the #1 Amazon Bestseller The Fortune Cookie Principle. She is a speaker and brand story strategist who is unlocking the value in stories. You can follow her on twitter @bernadettejiwa (https://twitter.com/BernadetteJiwa). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/rjIeU) to post it to Twitter.

 Selling a Tribe on Your Vision with Alli Worthington | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:30

Alli Worthington's story starts with losing everything. But that loss turned out to be the catalyst for a remarkable journey. She went on to co-found Blissdom and Blissdom Canada, the single largest international women's small business conference. In addition she built and sold Blissfully Domestic a magazine for women.  In this interview you'll learn all about how to a sell a tribe on your vision. Here are some highlights from our chat: * Breaking the Conspicuous Consumption Cycle (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/7d3a3a8bfd3ba15d07a1257a53a5d850.jpeg) * A Look at Fear and Risk in the Online World * Knowing Whether You're Building to Sell or Grow * Creating a Filter for Your Most Important Decisions * Leading People and Selling Them on Your Vision * Why You Have to Be Painfully Transparent  * Why You Can't Play It Safe in Your Business * Developing Brand Partnerships and Content  * How to Organically Build Relationships with Brands * The Power of Starting with Something Small  * A Look at the Early Seeds of the Blissdom Conference * How Alli Built The Community and Content of Blissdom * Why Blissdom Has No Panel Based Segments * Bringing Distinctiveness to The Work That you Do * The Reason You Can't Become Completely Satisfied Tweetable Insights Include: * We have to edit out the good to make room for what's great (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/2IbOe)) * It is simplicity that will lead to great success (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/7Rvc0)) * For all leaders, it's important to be painfully transparent (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/VD4UU)) Alli Worthington Business Coach & Consultant. Speaker. Strategist. Believer. Humanitarian. Serial Entrepreneur. Startup Advisor. A founder of @BlissDom. Advisor to @Safeworld. You can follow her on twitter @alli (https://twitter.com/alli). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/b15TE) to post it to Twitter.

 Why You Must Be Bigger Than Your Circumstances – BlogcastFM Backstage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:08

In this episode of BlogcastFM Backstage, we revisit our interview with Meg Worden and get into a really interesting discussion about how your mindset influences of your business. Here are some highlights from our chat: * Why Greg and I Probably Won't Be Running a Sports Team (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BlogcastFM-Backstage-300x300.jpg) * Abandoning Positioning and Image and Replacing It with Story * The Importance of Not Treating Your Audience Like a Therapist * Using Your Story and Your Past to Shift People's Paradigms * Getting to a Place Where You're Completely OK with Your Past * The Story of Greg's Expulsion from High School and His Crazy Childhood * Why You Have to Learn to Be Bigger Than Your Circumstances * How to Escape the Prisons We Create in Our Everyday Lives * Why There Are Few People Who Could Survive on Talent Alone * The Importance of Acting Bigger Than Your Circumstances * Believing That You Are Somebody Before You Become Successful * Why You Must Develop a Tolerance for Uncertainty * How Living Ny Cause and Effect Is Completely Backwards * Using Your Memory and Imagination to Serve You * Greg's Secret Desire to be a Fashion Mogul If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/Tery9) to post it to Twitter. 

 Scientifically Proven Advice for Becoming Happier with Shawn Achor | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:21

I came across Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage because Danielle LaPorte mentioned it. Then I tracked down his TED talk. Of all the books I've read on happiness over the years, Shawn's book had some of the most practical tips on happiness I had ever encountered. Not only that, it was backed up by tons of research. So when I got a copy of his new book, I immediately asked his publicist if she'd be willing to let me interview him. Here are some highlights from our chat: * A Look at Shawn's Early Work in Religion and Psychology (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Shawn-Achor-200x300.jpg) * Why Positive Brains Lead to Better Outcomes in All Areas of Life * An Interesting Look at Spirituality, Religion, and Happiness * The Opportunity to Choose Between Multiple Realities * Why You Don't Have to Meditate for 7 Years to Find Yourself * Divorcing Yourself from Your Genetic Make Up to Create a New Reality * How to Make Changes to Your Habits By Tapping into Past Successes * Making a Mindset Shift to Separate Happiness from Your Environment * Why We Study and Learn from Positive Outliers * Going Back to Places When You Have Less Than Now, But Were Really Happy * Why Genetics and Environment Don't Necessarily Indicate Our Potential * How People Experience Post Traumatic Growth  * Why We've Had the Formula for Happiness and Success Better * Learning How to Become More Optimistic and Productive  * Several Scientifically Proven Ways to Become Happier * Ideas for Speeding Yourself Towards Your Goal * Why Small Changes Have the Greatest Impact on Our Lives * A Productivity Hack for  Rocking Your To-Do List * Putting the Concept of Activation Energy to Work * How to Create Unconscious Positive Genius   * Why Your Vision Boards Don't Actually Work Tweetable Insights Include: * There are multiple ways of looking at the exact same reality (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/7cs12)) * You will be just genes and your environment unless you make changes to your mindset and habits (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/aQc1q)) * Every time your brain has a success, your brain changes the goal post for what success looks like (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/549UP)) * If you have a mindset change, but don't make a behavioral change it doesn't last very long (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/Y5hsn)) * The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/X6N2I)) Shawn Achor is author of BEFORE HAPPINESS and THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE, founder of GoodThinkInc, a positive psychology researcher, and a speaker. You can follow him on twitter @shawnachor (https://twitter.com/shawnachor). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/977dR) to post it to Twitter.

 Orchestrating a 365 Day Coaching Program with Kimberly Gosney | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:32

Kimberly Gosney had one of the most interesting pitches I've ever received for her appearance on the show. First she enlisted a small army to recommend her for the show, and then she created a personalized video with a bit her story. Here are some highlights from our chat: * How Kimberly Became a Momivator (part mom, part motivator) (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/kim_mailbox-200x300.jpg) * Why You Need to Find One Thing You Love About Yourself * An Amazing Tactical Branding Exercise That You Can Put to Work * Sales and Management Lessons from the World of Retail * Finding the Opportunity in Your Work to Lead People  * Using Facebook to Find the First Cheerleader on Your Squad * Learning to Identify the Hinge Moments in Your Online Journey * An Amazing Filtering Process for Dealing with Information Overload * The Power of Writing Things Down to Get Your Creative Process Flowing * The Reason Consistency Breeds Creativity * Why Kimberly Setup the Cost of Her Coaching Program As a Donation  * Pulling the Moving Parts of an Extremely Complicated Project * How Kimberly Recruited a Small Army of Moms to Help Her Tweetable Insights Include: * It costs you nothing to give someone a piece of advice (Click to Tweet) (http://clicktotweet.com/2f7nW) * Take ownership of the things that you do for other people (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/X76YR)) * When you're a full time employee and an entrepreneur, you really have to make the best use of your time (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/Qfad2)) Kim Gosney (http://www.the365dayproject.com/) frees overworked moms from dreaded day jobs by helping them build their dream ones, while saving the world one child at a time. You can follow her on twitter @kimberlygosney (https://twitter.com/kimberlygosney). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/0mEj4) to post it to Twitter.

 Everything Paul Jarvis Knows – BlogcastFM Backstage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:50

In this week's Backstage episode we bring back  one our favorite BlogcastFM guests, Paul Jarvis. He's recently launched a new book on Kickstarter, so we asked him to join us to talk about it. Here are some of the highlights from our chat: * Our Fairly Useless Thoughts on the iPhone 5C/5S Launch (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BlogcastFM-Backstage-300x300.jpg) * Paul's Background as the Lead Singer in a Heavy Metal Band * How to Avoid Creating a Business That You End Up Hating * Why We Learn from Our Mistakes and How to Avoid Them * Lessons Learned from Doing Meaningful Work * A Framework For Choosing Clients That You Don't Hate * Deciding on Criteria and Values That You Don't Bend On * Why You Deserve the Clients That You Get It * The Importance of Being Clear with What Your Opinions Are * Why You Want to Be a Collaborator with Your Clients * How to Make Sure You Learn Everything That Paul Knows Before He Dies Resources Mentioned Include: * The Kickstarter Campaign for Everything I Know (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pjrvs/everything-i-know) If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/223f7) to post it to Twitter. 

 How to Speak the Language of Your Customers with Shenee Howard | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:01

Three years ago, Shenee Howard put out a tweet saying that one of her goals was to be a guest on BlogcastFM. I looked at her site and didn't make much of it.  A few weeks ago, I got an email from Melissa Cassera (http://blogcastfm.com/blogcastfm/how-to-build-a-media-pr-campaign-for-your-business/) saying, "You should interview Shenee." And anytime somebody says they should be on BlogcastFM, I say listen to our interview with Melissa. Since Shenee put out that tweet she's taken over the world. Here are some highlights from our chat: * Why Shenee Taught Herself the Things She Wanted to Do for a Job (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SheneeHoward-294x300.gif) * The Power of Continual Experimentation to Figure Out What You Want to Do * How "The One" Syndrome Hurts Your Potential Growth  * Lessons from Launching a Product with a List of 115 People * How Finding Customers You Love Is Like Dating  * A Simple Tactic for Connecting with People in Comments * Paying Attention to Your Success in Order to Repeat It * Why You Should Get on the Phone with Your Customers * The Copywriting Goldmine in Your Client Conversations * The "Marie Forleo" Syndrome That Kills Your Brand * How Sounding Too Professional Kills You  * Why Knowing What Your TED Talk Would Be Is Useful * A Look at Defining Your Battle Cry * Defining the Problem You Solve with Your Product * How Shenee Conducted Incredibly Effective Research * Why Shenee Sells Out Every Single Launch of Her Products * Premium Pricing and the Boutique Approach to Running a Business Tweetable Insights Include: * I think the biggest part of standing out is accepting that whatever your personality is, is what people need (Click to Tweet) * In every paragraph, you should be able to see the person who has written it (Click to Tweet) * Perfectionism is just about you being too afraid of letting go of the vision you have in you head (Click to Tweet) Shenee Howard does brand and business strategy for makers (and future makers) of one-of-a-kind experiences. She is a Keanu Reeves enthusiast, party starter, and sentence fragments fan. You can follow her on twitter @heyshenee (https://twitter.com/heyshenee). Be sure to check out here coaching program www.hotbrandaction.com (http://www.hotbrandaction.com/) If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/U66bd) to post it to Twitter.

 Creating a Brand Message that Spreads with Brigitte Lyons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:29

Brigitte Lyons and I met for the first time in Portland at WDS. After lots of drinks, we became fast friends. We also went through Tara Gentile's mastermind together, where Brigitte shared lots of amazing gems about getting media attention for our personal brands. So when she emailed me, I knew it was a no-brainer to have her on the show. Here are some of the highlights from our chat: * Public Relations Lessons from the Political World (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/fcd800cc8fb1e5765b09e52ac07dd536.jpeg) * Making Small Leaps in the Direction of Your Dream * Why You Have to Know Your End Game  * Incorporating Controversy While Adding Value * What We Can Learn from Penelope Trunk and James Altucher * Creating Hooks to Get Yourself in the Mainstream Media  * Challenging Yourself to Make Your Content More Interesting * Why Relationships Matter When You Want to Teach People * The Mistakes That People Make with Media Placements * Using a Mythology Framework to Extract Your Origin Story * Looking at the Places Where You've Numbed Out * How to Tie Your Products to Your Purpose * Why You Have to Be Totally Turned on By Your Work   Tweetable Insights Include: * The only way ever to have progress is to question our assumptions (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/e0B7o)) * Our stories are what make us unique. A story is like your fingerprint.  (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/Qp568)) * I really admire brands that are willing to go out there and make a statement (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/pXJGw)) * If you're lacking emotion, your message isn't going to go anywhere (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/bqPNm)) Brigitte Lyons (http://www.brigittelyons.com/) founded Unfettered Ink to help creative visionaries liberate their message without compromising their ideals. You can follow her on twitter @BrigitteLyons (https://twitter.com/BrigitteLyons). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/9fSZR) to post it to Twitter.

 Committing to the Path of Mastery – BlogcastFM Backstage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 36:17

In this episode of BlogcastFM Backstage, we take a look back out our interview with Noa Kageyama (http://blogcastfm.com/blogcastfm/how-to-be-a-bulletproof-performer-with-noa-kageyama/) from the Bulletproof Musician. Here are some of the highlights from the episode: * Greg Talks About Starting Business Ideas from Scratch (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BlogcastFM-Backstage-300x300.jpg) * Our Adventures in Forests and Tijuana Streets * Business Lessons from My High Speed Car Chase * Why the "Weird Factor" Is Becoming Much More Normal * How Side Projects Are the Beginning of Really Good Ideas * A Framework for Coming Up with Ideas for Side Projects * Why the Things That Bother You are Great Starting Points * You Can't Plan for the Launch of a Really Big Idea * The Importance of Working on Yourself  * A Look Back at the 21 Day Courage Challenge * How to Set Realistic Expectations and Goals If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/oGx3_) to post it to Twitter. 

 Developing a Bold and Authentic Brand with Gala Darling | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:33

Gala Darling landed on my radar when Paul Jarvis (http://blogcastfm.com/blogcastfm/how-to-be-awesome-online-with-paul-jarvis/) said that he wanted to hear her on BlogcastFM. Given Paul's track record, I decided to check out what she was up to.   And no surprise, she was up to some pretty amazing things. Here are a few of the highlights from our chat: * A Mission to Live Out Loud and Have a Great Time on the Planet (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/GalaDarling.jpeg) * Looking at Early Online Journaling Platforms * Rediscovering the Freedom to Be Your Weird Self  * How to Figure Out When and Where You Can Cross the Line * Finding a Unique Angle on a Generic Topic Like Fashion  * Why Pushing the Boundaries of What You Post Raises Confidence * The Importance of Having a Bold Point of View * Why You Must Incorporate Lessons into Provocative Content * How to Uncover Your Branding and Messaging  * The Power of Writing to the Younger Version of Yourself * The Business Fundamentals That Are important to Your Success * A Look at How the Blog Academy Was Created from Nothing * The Role that Consistency Plays in Your Success Tweetable Insights Include: * There's a fine line between being a car crash blogger and being vulnerable from time to time (Click to tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/U79Q9)) * The only way to cultivate a strong voice is to practice it (Click to tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/wpb7i)) * After a certain point, perfection is procrastination (Click to tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/p31tf)) Gala Darling is an international playgirl, radical self love revolutionary, and false eyelash addict. She is Headmistress at The Blogcademy (http://www.theblogcademy.com/). You can follow her on twitter @galadarling (https://twitter.com/galadarling). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/xc9tM) to post it to Twitter.

 Finding Freedom and Writing Memoirs with Meg Worden | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:10:40

Meg Worden and I met in Portland this summer at the World Domination Summit when she picked me up from the airport. That was the start of an amazing friendship, conversations, and connections that eventually led to her appearance here on BlogcastFM. She has an amazing story of hope, transformation, and shifting paradigms that is the byproduct of two years in Federal prison. Here are some highlights from our chat: * How Certain Paths Lead to Delusional Enlightenment (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/greenchairmesmaller.jpg) * A Look at What It Takes to Radically Transform Your Life * What It Takes to Deal with Extreme Uncertainty * Learning to Embody the Things That Make You Special * Developing Practices of Learning to Live inside Your Body * Cultivating Actions to Increase Your Mental Strength * How Meg Turned a Horrible Experience into a Gift * Why Gratitude for Our Problems Can Change Our Lives * The Stories We Tell Ourselves in Every Moment  * The Prisons We Create with Belief Systems * Revealing the Parts of Our Personal Brand That Scare Us * Why You Need to Make Sure Your Story Is in Service of Other People * A Look at the Memoir Writing Process * The Role That Creative Cross-Training Plays in Your Voice * Advantages of Not Being Classically Trained in Your Field or Craft Tweetable Insights Include:  * Our bodies are these fantastic tools that carry our spirits around (Click to tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/gJ4x4)) * When you take care of yourself, you can take of the world around you (Click to tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/fP1Wa)) * I believe in the practice of being grateful for your problems (Click to tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/OzcSl)) * Putting your story out there is a deeper way to connect with people (Click to tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/QqdYr)) * Nothing really amazing happens without the help of other people (Click to tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/5df0a)) Meg Worden (http://megworden.com/) is a writer and Health Coach in Portland, Oregon. She has been published in a variety of places online and in print, and is currently shopping her memoir project about the two years she spent in federal prison. You can follow her on twitter @megworden (https://twitter.com/megworden). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/WSFKY) to post it to Twitter.

 How to Identify Key Elements of Your Personal Brand – BlogcastFM Backstage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:14

In this week's episode of BlogcastFM Backstage, we take a deep dive into personal brands and the things you can do to amplify yours. Here are some highglights from this episode * The Importance of Taking Days Off (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/BlogcastFM-Backstage-300x300.jpg) * How Noise Affects Creativity and Productivity * Creating a Routine for Your Day-to-Day * The Value of Doing Nothing and Replenishing * Simple Things That Dramatically Increase Your Productivity * The Amount of Work You're Truly Capable Of * A Look at Where We're at with The Instigator Experience (http://www.theinstigatorexperience.com/) * Thinking About How Our Interviews Apply to Your Brand/Business * Things That Greg Hates About Personal Brand and You Shouldn't Do * Why the Concept of "What You Do" is More Complex Than Ever * The Reason the Future of Work is  Going to Be Driven by Your Brand * Leveraging Your War Stories to Craft a Personal Brand * Why Your Brand Is Not About Crafting and Image * Keeping People Up to Date on What Your Brand is All About If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/T67ca) to post it to Twitter. 

 How to Be a Bulletproof Performer with Noa Kageyama | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:20

A few weeks ago, I landed on a blog post about practice and peak performance.  That led me to Noa Kageyama's blog, The Bullet Proof Musician (http://www.bulletproofmusician.com/). After digging through the archives I emailed him right away and asked if he'd let me interview him.  As a Juilliard-trained violinist who studies peak performance psychology, I knew he'd be bring a really interesting perspective to the show. Here are some of the highlights from our chat: * Lessons from People Who Are Masters of Their Craft (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/round-headshot-border-128.png) * A Look into the Influences of Suzuki Violin in Noa's Life * Why You Can Only See Dots Connecting in Hindsight * The Reality of What It Takes to Get Good at Something * Why So Many Small Ideas Are the Foundation for Big Things * The Role That Intense Curiosity Plays in Your Success * Why There's an Element of Performance in Everything You Do * The Role That Learning and Practice Plays in Peak Performance * Why You Can't Learn Effectively without Taking Action  * Making Small Adjustments and Tweaks to Get Closer to Your Goal * How the Curse of Instant Results Holds You Back  * Why You have to Be OK with Being on the Journey * Making a Mindset Shift to Doing Things for Intrinsic Value * An Eye-Opening Look at the Master's Path * Why There Is No Final Destination * Looking at the Times in Your Past When You Were Really Engaged * Why You Must Learn to Simplify Very Difficult Concepts * Identifying and Developing the Key Mental Skills for Peak Performance * Using the Past to Act Courageously in the Moment * How Pushing Your Comfort Zone Will Cause You to Exceed Your Expectations * Cultivating a Framework for Accelerating Your Progress * Leveraging the Influences of Others to Create Your Artistic DNA Dr. Noa Kageyama is a performance psychologist, Juilliard graduate, and is on the faculty of both Juilliard and the New World Symphony. He teaches musicians how to do their best under pressure. He is a wee bit obsessed with computers, technology, and the internet (and all things Apple). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/c8U0H)to post it to Twitter.

 Developing a Creative Innovation Process with Stef Lewandowski | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:08:32

Stef Lewandowski is definitely not our typical guest. I came across his work on Medium and noticed that he had some really profound insights to share about creativity. Between running a record label, working at an agency, and building a technology startup, I thought he'd have a really interesting perspective on creativity. Here are some highlights from our chat: * A Look at Building Creative Projects in an Afternoon (http://blogcastfm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ded1655236f13ca22adb18b9646863fc.jpeg) * The Power of Exploring Seemingly Pointless Ideas * Why It Makes Sense to Blend High and Low Tech Ideas * How to Rapidly Sketch and Test Out Your Projects * Why You Should Test the Edges of What's Possible * The Power of Mixing People with Disparate Skillsets * Why Solving Your Own Problems Can Lead to Business * A Look at 12 Different Ideas in the Course of a Year * The Power of Self Reflection Through Writing * Writing a Letter to Yourself to Learn from Your Past Mistakes * Treating Your Mornings as a Creative Bootup Time * How to Accelerate Serendpity in Your Creative Efforts * Why You Should Revisit Your Old Content to Get New Ideas * A Look at Hack Events that Lead to Interesting Ideas * Leveraging the Creative Hacker Framework in Your Efforts * Knowing When to Kill or Keep a Side Project Tweetable Insights Include: * Nowadays careers are a patchwork of many smaller careers (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/g5rZC)) * The first step to doing a new thing is experimenting in your spare time (Click to Tweet (http://clicktotweet.com/23K4e)) Stef Lewandowski (https://medium.com/@stef) is co-founder/hacker at Makeshift. He sketches with code, writes at at Medium, gives a leg up to the little guy, and creates something every day. You can follow him on twitter @stef (https://twitter.com/stef). If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here (http://clicktotweet.com/b_76R) to post it to Twitter.

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