Converge - The Business of Creativity Podcast

Do you know how to best serve your�audience? Do you know your audience? Connecting with your audience is part of operating a successful business. You have to know your audience before you can serve your audience, or at least before you can serve them well. After a series of many life experiences – the road [...]

The creative process is progressive. Just as it takes time to create and iterate, it can also take time to refine your ideas. If youre making a thing for others to use and interact with – a product of some sort – the idea you first present to the world will inevitably change�as you respond [...]

Most creatives would agree that giving yourself to the creative process is vital to your success as a creative. It is vital to creating authentic work worth sharing with the world. And we all have our own version of that creative process. Michael Yankoskis creative process is unique in that it is highly experiential. It [...]

You are a writer. Sure, you may not be a writer in the traditional sense as it relates to publishing books or articles for publication. Maybe you dont even have a blog or website where you publish content. Maybe you do. Either way, writing is a core human technology. Its something we all do on [...]

Do you know where you are right now? How about where you want to go with your creativity and your business? Do you have what it takes to assert yourself in such a way to make that happen? If hard work and sheer enthusiasm can get you where you want to go Grant is [...]

Life is hard. How we envision our life going isnt always how it turns out. Events and circumstances aren’t always what we prefer. They change our desires and passions. Sometimes they put a damper on our dreams - or even crush them. Of course you dont need me to tell you that. This is [...]

When becoming�an artist, its not uncommon to find ourselves hesitant to share our work with others for fear of criticism. Maybe youre waiting until you get better at your craft. Or maybe you fear revealing something so close to you - that is your art. Artist, author and illustrator Lisa Congdon started her journey [...]

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are familiar words here in the United States. It seems fitting that this Converge episode about exploring happiness, is releasing only a few days before we celebrate Independence Day and the signing of our Declaration that secured us those rights. What does the pursuit of happiness actually [...]

When is the last time you woke up in the middle of the night with a great idea? Or maybe your good ideas come in the shower. No matter when your brilliance strikes, it remains only an idea until you do something about it. So what should you do about it? How do you [...]

“YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE IN HOW YOU GO THROUGH LIFE AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES IN THE PAST DEFINE AND SHAPE YOUR FUTURE.” What do you do when you realize life as you know it isn’t how you want to live your life? More specifically, what do you do when your career, that you [...]

If you ask yourself the questions, How can I be of service? How can I be of value? You can see an opportunity to do that anywhere. If you are reading this I think its safe to assume that you have some sort of skills, passion and talent and�you want to find a way to [...]

If you want to be successful you have to act with intention and move in a particular direction or towards a particular goal. Financial freedom may feel like a distant dream or maybe even impossible to you. You may feel like you are living proof of the starving artist no matter how hard you [...]

Exploration has to be part of the creative process. You have to be lost before you can see the way out. As creatives we are aware of the body of work we are producing and sharing with the world but are we as intentional with our creative process and how that can inform our personal [...]

Have you ever had a big idea that you were sure would be a success if only you acted on it? Thats exactly what Spencer Boerup, creator of MagMod, did. He acted on his big idea and the result has been wildly successful. Join Spencer and Dane as they talk about innovation, getting curious, having [...]

Buster Benson has been around the block a few times in the online space. As a former Amazon employee and current Twitter employee he has had his hand in all kinds of online projects including six or more of his own personal projects. Some of them have translated into viable businesses and some of them [...]