Daily Creative with Todd Henry
Todd Henry
Formerly The Accidental Creative.
Being a creative professional should be the greatest job in the world. You get to solve problems, express yourself, bring something new into the world and you get paid to do it. What's not to love. Yet every day, creative pros face, tremendous pressure and uncertainty. The temptation is just to play it safe, surrender to distraction and settle for less than your best daily creative is about making sure that's not your story.
Each episode focuses on a topic relevant to creative pros, like how to come up with ideas under pressure, or how the collaborate when you're overwhelmed, or how to lead your team and help them discover motivation.
It's time to fall back in love with your work.
Listen to Daily Creative wherever you get your podcasts or subscribe in the Daily Creative app at dailycreative.app.
Being a creative professional should be the greatest job in the world. You get to solve problems, express yourself, bring something new into the world and you get paid to do it. What's not to love. Yet every day, creative pros face, tremendous pressure and uncertainty. The temptation is just to play it safe, surrender to distraction and settle for less than your best daily creative is about making sure that's not your story.
Each episode focuses on a topic relevant to creative pros, like how to come up with ideas under pressure, or how the collaborate when you're overwhelmed, or how to lead your team and help them discover motivation.
It's time to fall back in love with your work.
Listen to Daily Creative wherever you get your podcasts or subscribe in the Daily Creative app at dailycreative.app.
Episodes
Mentioned books
8 snips
May 20, 2024 • 26min
Anxiety Attack
Entrepreneur Liz Bohannon discusses the impact of anxiety on creativity, while Matt Gutman shares strategies to manage panic attacks. Scott Mautz talks about mental strength in leadership and Erwin McManus emphasizes creating for others to displace anxiety.
7 snips
May 13, 2024 • 31min
Commit To The Bit
Award-winning filmmaker Daniel Troia, author Brent Underwood, and NY Times author A.J. Jacobs share their journeys of commitment to creative projects. They discuss the personal fulfillment of pursuing passion projects, understanding costs, setting boundaries, and reflections on living constitutionally. The podcast delves into stories of creating award-winning films, revitalizing historic towns, and immersive experiments, highlighting the importance of dedication and community engagement.
19 snips
May 6, 2024 • 28min
Slow Productivity
Authors Cal Newport, Ryan Holiday, and Marc Zao Sanders discuss the damaging effects of high-intensity work without variation and propose solutions for slow productivity. Topics include mismatch of work pace with human nature, consequences of pseudo productivity, workload management, benefits of doing less, and the concept of time boxing for effective task completion.
10 snips
Mar 25, 2024 • 36min
The Universal Laws Of Creativity
The podcast delves into the universal laws of creativity, emphasizing feedback dynamics, empathy in collaboration, early project traction challenges, managing multiple initiatives, and the transformative power of belief in the creative process. Insights include the balance of directness and consideration in feedback, the importance of constructive empathy in team environments, and the courage needed to invite others into creative work.
11 snips
Mar 18, 2024 • 27min
The Wisdom Of The Water Tower
Learn how to manage your creative energy effectively from experts like Lisa Congdon, Brian Johnson, Tony Schwartz, and Jeff Karp. Discover the importance of prioritizing tasks, avoiding multitasking, and starting each day with the most important task. Find out how small victories and low activation energy goals can boost motivation and productivity.
20 snips
Mar 11, 2024 • 25min
Remarkable
Explore the importance of maintaining balance through life's challenges, planting seeds for success, leveraging underestimation for career growth, navigating high performance obstacles, addressing blind spots for growth, and embracing an optimistic vision for a remarkable future.
18 snips
Mar 4, 2024 • 23min
Mind Powers
Discover the power of the mind in moments of creative need with insights from Andy J. Pizza, Juliet Funt, Charan Ranganath, Dan Doyon, and Tiago Forte. Learn about incubation, subconscious mind leverage, healthy mental diet, repetition for memory recall, and developing a 'second brain' for idea organization.
9 snips
Feb 26, 2024 • 24min
Big Black Beast With 88 Teeth
Explore the challenges of creativity and strategies to overcome mental blocks. Embrace irresponsibility, the power of terrible ideas, and utilizing personal idea pads. Discover how to overcome biological barriers and unleash creativity through 'imaginating'. Dive into Billy Joel's songwriting approach and physicist Richard Feynman's innovative thinking.
11 snips
Feb 19, 2024 • 27min
Plays Nice With Others
Discover the secret behind Star Wars' success and the script that almost never existed. Learn about the power of healthy relationships in creativity and the impact of radical candor. Hear stories of transformative conversations and the pivotal role others play in our creative journey.
Feb 12, 2024 • 22min
Bambino
In this podcast, they discuss the importance of starting more and letting go of the pressure to finish everything. They emphasize the significance of taking action on our ideas without being paralyzed by the fear of public perception. They also explore the concept of starting more than you can finish to increase your chances of success. Overall, the podcast encourages embracing the process of starting multiple ideas and taking action on the ideas that resonate with you.
