The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
Timeless Practical Wisdom For Living a Meaningful LifeInspiring stories and practical advice from creatives, entrepreneurs, change-makers, misfits, and rebels to help you become successful on your own terms Our listeners say, “If TEDTalks met Oprah you’d have the Unmistakable Creative.” Eliminate the feeling of being stuck in your life, blocked in your creativity, and discover higher levels of meaning and purpose in your life and career. Listen to deeply personal, insightful, and thought-provoking stories from the world’s leading thinkers and doers including best-selling authors, artists, peak performance psychologists, happiness researchers, entrepreneurs, startup founders, artists, venture capitalists, and even former bank robbers. Former guests have included Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, Justine Musk, Scott Adams, Rob Bell, David Heinemeier Hansson, Elle Luna, Jordan Harbinger Brett Mckay, and Simon Sinek.Join The Unmistakable CollectiveThe Unmistakable Collective is a monthly membership for writers, bloggers, podcasters, and content creators that gives you access to workshops, AMA's, and accountability from other like-minded peers to help you accomplish any creative goals! Click here to become a member.Connect with Us On Social Twitter: @unmistakableceoInstagram: @unmistkablecreative Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 24, 2016 • 55min
Dispelling Myths of Success and Goal Setting With Todd Herman
” I think the word potential is one of the most bullshit words out there. How I know someone isn’t very good at being a performance coach is when they use potential. It’s literally a word that’s not allowed to be used in my practice at all….It’s the crutch that average people use to describe their mediocre results.” – Todd HermanTodd Herman is a performance coach who helps Olympians, billionaires, and teams break through to new levels of performance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 22, 2016 • 1h 14min
Biohacking Your Way to a Bulletproof Life with Dave Asprey
“When you want to have more energy and more ability to write, it comes down to one thing. And that’s electrons. At the end of the day, you’re a battery. Your job is to make enough electrons to do what you want to do. We call that energy. You get energy from food, air, and to some extent from light and magnetism. The problem that most people have is that they have unstable energy supply to their head. Your brain and visual processing system are probably using 20% of your calories. Your heart, eyes, and your brain have about 10,000 mitochondria (these little power plants in your cell), per cell. So they’re very dense in energy consumption. The rest of your body has 1 or 2 per cell. So you have 10 times the energy consumption and energy production ability in your brain. That means, especially if you’re smart and focusing a lot, if you have slight perturbations in your ability to bring energy into those cells, it’s basically energy brownout.” – Dave AspreyDave Asprey, the founder of Bulletproof and author of New York Times bestseller The Bulletproof Diet, is a Silicon Valley investor and technology entrepreneur who spent two decades and over $300,000 to hack his own biology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 17, 2016 • 1h 5min
Jedi Mind Tricks of an FBI Hostage Negotiator with Chris Voss
Welcome to another riveting episode of Unmistakable Creative, where we dive into the mind of Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator and the CEO of the Black Swan Group. This episode, titled 'Jedi Mind Tricks of an FBI Hostage Negotiator with Chris Voss,' offers a unique perspective on negotiation and the power of deference.In this episode, Chris Voss shares his wealth of knowledge and experience from his years in international crises and high-stakes negotiations. He discusses the concept of deference and how ceding the illusion of control can give you the upper hand. Voss's insights are not just applicable to hostage situations but also to the business world and everyday life.Voss also talks about his book, 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It,' and his company, the Black Swan Group. The company applies the techniques proven in global crisis situations to the business world, providing a unique program for negotiation and communication. Don't miss this episode to learn from one of the most influential voices in negotiation and gain insights that could transform your life and career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 15, 2016 • 49min
The Art of Strategic Gifting with John Ruhlin
I don’t care who you are. Even billionaires. We like to be surprised and delighted. Most people I would say walk around feeling under-appreciated and not over appreciated, whether it’s by your family, by your employee, by your kids….In general most people feel under appreciated by their most important relationships. So I think when you gift no strings attached, and it’s not an obligatory year end gift. I don’t send one gift between Thanksgiving and Christmas because that’s an obligation. But when somebody gets a gift just because “I was thinking of you” or just “because of who you are”, I don’t care if you live in South America or Nowhereseville, Ohio, that makes people feel a certain way. And we all crave that appreciation and acknowledgement as a human being. When you tap into that feeling, it’s powerful. And I think we’re all wired at a DNA level, to want to reciprocate it in some, way, shape or form eventually. – John RuhlinJohn Ruhlin is the author of Giftology and drives sales growth by teaching gifting strategies to leaders in the pro sports, non-profit, and business world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 10, 2016 • 48min
The Future of Work with David Burkus
Beyond working in whatever your parents did type of working, the industrial revolution really sort of began that idea that you would get a job, that you wouldn’t just be whatever your parents were or work on the farm that you inherited. That was the beginning of management and it was based off this idea that the majority of people didn’t need to think and act. We just need to teach you how to do this repetitive motion in the factory and pay you to do that motion for 8 hours. Then around the mid 1900’s we shifted from industrial work to knowledge work. What happened was that alot of those tools we brought with us from the factory to the office. The tools of how we manage people. And it worked because the work was still repetitive, but it was repetitive on paper instead of trying to assemble a car. And now we’re in this shift where knowledge work has become creative work. Everybody has to exercise creativity. Even in a normal “office” job you have to solve problems, come up with solutions, and create ideas. You have to exercise that muscle in a way that we haven’t had to do even 20 years ago. – David BurkusDavid Burkus is an associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University. He’s also the author of Under New Management and The Myths of Creativity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 8, 2016 • 58min
The Inevitable Forces That Will Shape Our Future with Kevin Kelly
I truly do believe that this is both the very best time in the history of the universe, as far as we can tell, to make something because the tools for creation have never been more easily gotten, they’ve never been cheaper. They’ve never been better. They’ve never been as diverse. And they truly make things more accessible. So if you want to make something that has been made already like a book, a movie, a song, the tools do that are just about free, which means almost anybody in the world can get their hands on it. And many of these things in previous generations were prohibitively expensive and relegated to the elites. But now you can make a book that looks as good as a best-selling author can make, and you can distribute it, and it costs very little do…We are at a moment right now in terms of what’s ahead of us, that it’s a very rapidly expanding opening. We’re on the cusp of all these very transformative technologies and trends that will produce more stuff and opportunities in the next 50 years than in the past 50 years as much as that’s hard to believe. – Kevin KellyKevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine, and author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 3, 2016 • 51min
Peak Performance and the Science of Expertise with Anders Ericsson
We have this basic activity where you set a goal. You’re trying to do something that you can’t do and you have a practice activity that you can repeatedly apply and explore different ways in which you achieve this goal that you’ve set. And if a teacher has now been able to identify this as a suitable change for you, then we call that deliberate practice. – Anders EricssonK. Anders Ericsson is a Swedish psychologist and Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University who is internationally recognized as a researcher in the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He’s also the author ofPeak: The New Science of Expertise Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 1, 2016 • 1h 16min
Unmistakable: Why Only is Better Than Best With Srini Rao
“When you’re truly unmistakable, the competition becomes completely irrelevant. You’re not the best option. You’re the only option. When you’re the only option people don’t price shop, compare or wait for what you’re selling to go on sale. If you’re the only option people will wait in line to buy your product regardless of what it costs, or in some cases regardless of what you’re selling” -Srinivas Rao Srinivas Rao is the host and founder of The Unmistakable Creative. He’s also the author of Unmistakable: Why Only is Better Than Best. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 27, 2016 • 56min
Moving from a Life of Success to One of Significance with Erik Wahl
“There’s a necessary amount of suffering that needs to happen for new ideas or new work or change to happen. If I don’t suffer, I won’t know what joy or contentment is. If I flatline, then I won’t be able to experience it as deeply. And the cracks are where the light shines through. The cracks, weaknesses, suffering and pain are what allow for new growth. Change is actually good. It doesn’t feel good. But it actually leads us to new places…Every person of significance has experienced deep and painful setbacks or heartbreak or suffering to get to the next level to be able to get to the next space of awareness.” – Erik WahlErik Wahl is an internationally recognized graffiti artist, author of the book Unthink, and speaker who redefines the term “keynote speaker” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 25, 2016 • 60min
Developing an Unmistakable Voice with Janelle Hanchett
“I was always able to envision “as soon as I get to this spot, the bullshit in my head is going to leave. As soon as this happens, it’s all going to go away. I’m going to feel really confident as a writer”. And I’ve actually reached all of those points and all that happens is the bullshit in my head shifts into some new story. That’s it. It doesn’t go away. I just changes. It’s a shapeshifter. So that’s where I am now. I’ve made peace with the fact there’s a part of my brain that’s always chattering on about how I’m an impostor, and I’m not good enough, and I’m going to make people upset. But I always get back to “am I writing what I want to be writing in way that I want to be writing it.” And I just kind of trust that’s all I’ve got. That’s what I’ve got to give the world. It’s either going to succeed or not. People are going to like it or not, but that’s what I have. I’m just going to focus on being the best writer that I can and telling the truth as accurately as I can.”Janelle Hanchett is founder of Renegade Mothering: The Fight Against Meaningful Parenting Advice Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
