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AC #177: Through-line
AC #177: Through-line
Instilling some practices in the areas of time, energy, stimulus, focus and relationships will help us find stability and continue to generate ideas when work life gets a little chaotic.
AC #173: Performance and Team
AC #173: Performance and Team
What causes creative teams to gravitate toward mediocrity? One thing - for sure - is the obsessive need for the appearance of performance at the expense of actual...
AC #168: Culture and Team
AC #168: Culture and Team
In this episode we examine five symptoms of potentially diseased creative teams and offer ways to countermand...
AC #162: Die Empty
AC #162: Die Empty
Your only job as an artist is to empty yourself every day. To die empty. To divest yourself of whatever is inside of...
AC #158: Manifesto 9
AC #158: Manifesto 9
Generosity in the creative process is a core ethic of healthy, thriving teams and artists. But how do we cultivate the practice of generosity? That's what this episode is all...
AC #153: Manifesto 4
AC #153: Manifesto 4
Growth requires intentionality. If you are not growing, you are dying.
AC #149: Manifesto
AC #149: Manifesto
Call it a line in the sand. In this podcast, we discuss the basic principles that will guide the AC community moving forward. What does it look like to be brilliant, prolific and healthy? Listen...
AC #143: Rails
AC #143: Rails
It takes intentionality to engage with creative projects on our own time - they don't just make themselves. In this episode, we talk about some disciplines that can help us creatively engage and get moving on our "pet"...
AC #138: riCardo Crespo
AC #138: riCardo Crespo
riCardo Crespo, (worldwide Creative Director for Mattel/Hot Wheels), shares his insights on branding, storytelling and sustained creating over the...
AC #135: John Winsor
AC #135: John Winsor
In this interview, John Winsor of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky shares his insight on career and creating. John is the author of Spark and Beyond The...
AC #132: Seth Godin on ‘Tribes’
AC #132: Seth Godin on ‘Tribes’
AC Podcast #132 features an interview with Seth Godin on his new book "Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us." In the interview Seth explains why everyone is now a leader and challenges us to stop defending the status-quo and to start doing something remarkable.
AC #127 – New Season
AC #127 – New Season
In the latest AC podcast we're gearing up for the new season in AC world by discussing three principles: (1) your creative health is your responsibility, (2) mediocrity is the tax paid for succumbing to fear and comfort, and (3) creativity requires intentionality...
AC #122 – Lisa Johnson (# 2)
AC #122 – Lisa Johnson (# 2)
By popular demand, AC #122 features the return of AC favorite Lisa Johnson. Lisa is working on an exciting new project called FreeAgent Formula for those who want to learn how to "break away" and start their own business. Whether it's a design shop, a free-lance practice or whatever, Lisa has some great advice for how to make it work.
AC #117: (reset) Expectations
AC #117: (reset) Expectations
Sometimes our [sub-conscious, unseen] expectations can impose artificial limits on our creative process. In this podcast we're looking at how we need to occasionally reset our expectations of ourselves and our understanding of others' expectations of us in order to...
AC Podcast: #99, Peter Block
AC Podcast: #99, Peter Block
Peter Block is a man who wears many hats. He is an internationally coveted speaker, a consultant to the biggest corporations in the world, and a best-selling author. Lately he's also been making a name for himself as a citizen by facilitating conversations within...
AC Podcast: #96, Stimulus
AC Podcast: #96, Stimulus
We must be intentional about the stimulus we absorb.
AC Podcast: #90, Unnecessary
AC Podcast: #90, Unnecessary
If we want to be able to "create-on-demand" we need to connect with our creative abilities in times of "unnecessary creating."
AC Podcast: #84, Moment
AC Podcast: #84, Moment
Our goal is freedom. We want to be unleashed to engage in the moment of creativity with full force. In order to do this, we must identify and eliminate the artificial boundaries in our lives. We must become "unbound."
AC Podcast: #76, Keith Ferrazzi
AC Podcast: #76, Keith Ferrazzi
At one point in his career, Keith Ferrazzi was the youngest CMO in the Fortune 500. Since then, he's led innovative companies and formed his own consultancy, Ferrazzi-Greenlight. He is the author of the international best-seller Never Eat Alone, which is a...