The Unmistakable Creative Podcast Cara Thomas: Building a Life of Serendipity, Adventure, and Connection
Oct 4, 2017
Cara Thomas, founder of Serenflipity and former innovation consultant, built a deck-of-cards experience to spark serendipity and human connection. She recounts a sabbatical of 90 friend-suggested adventures, surprising encounters like snagging advice from Steven Tyler, and how vulnerability, travel, and chance meetings shaped a life of spontaneity and meaningful micro-moments.
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A Stumbled Speech Sparked Leadership Through Vulnerability
- Running the high school arts board taught Cara that vulnerability and human moments matter more than polished perfection.
- She stumbled in a speech, laughed, connected with peers, and believes those moments shaped her innovation style.
How A 90-Card Travel Challenge Became A Business
- Cara Thomas convinced 90 friends to write 90 adventures for a three-month solo trip across India and Southeast Asia to get unstuck.
- She flipped one card daily, blogged the stories, and returned transformed — the trip sparked Serenflipity and a crowdfunded product.
Follow Ideas That Keep Coming Back
- Do pursue ideas that persistently 'knock on your door' even if they start as side projects.
- Cara built Serenflipity nights and weekends while consulting, then quit to run a 90-day business experiment that launched the company.