Life’s Great Question (with Tom Rath)
How do you uniquely contribute to the world? On this episode, Tom Rath is here to help you understand why you are here on this planet.
Life’s Great Question (with Tom Rath)
Articles about purpose
Unnecessary Baggage
Unnecessary Baggage
On this episode, I share a few pieces of "extra baggage" that we carry with us as creative pros, and how to shed them so that we are lighter, more nimble, and better able to attach our work.
Limitless (with Laura Gassner Otting)
Limitless (with Laura Gassner Otting)
You proably have goals you'd like to pursue or dreams you'd like to chase. It's also likely that there are limits that you encounter as you pursue them. However, some of those limits are self-imposed. On this episode, Laura Gassner Otting is here to teach us how to bust through those artificial limits with insights from her new book Limitless.
Clean and Dirty Fuels
Clean and Dirty Fuels
What drives your creative work? Some fuels that drive our work burn "clean", and some burn "dirty", meaning they leave a residue that makes it difficult to continue producing great work over time. On this episode, I share the difference between clean and dirty fuels, and how to find motivation that lasts.
Legacy In The Making (with Lucas Conley)
Legacy In The Making (with Lucas Conley)
How do you define legacy? Or more importantly, what will be the legacy of your business or brand? Or, for you personally? On this episode, Lucas Conley shares insights from his reseach about how people and brands are building legacies that resonate and last. His book is called Legacy In The Making.
Escape Hatches
Escape Hatches
There are a number of ways in which we build "escape hatches" to relieve the stress and fear that we might under-perform. On this episode, I talk about three of those common "secondary ways of escape", and how to begin to counter them.
Adventure Is Right In Front Of You
Adventure Is Right In Front Of You
I sent a tweet (@toddhenry) the other day that addressed a pattern I'm seeing with people I've been interacting with. It seems that many people are losing the narrative. They expect results without adventure. Celebration with the risk of rejection. Pride without doubts. This doesn't happen. On this episode, I share a few areas where you need to be brave this week.
Know Your Values + Aaron Dignan on Brave New Work
Know Your Values + Aaron Dignan on Brave New Work
Do you have a matrix for important decisions in your life? How do you decide which path is correct when you're being pulled in multiple directions? On the first part of this episode, I share some insights from Herding Tigers to help you establish your core decision-making matrix.
Then, Aaron Dignan joins us to talk about his new book Brave New Work. He lays out a framework for re-imagining how organizations function in the accelerating and ever-changing marketplace.
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
On this episode, we share some principles for navigating to your sweet spot, and operating in your area of maximum effectiveness.
Finding Your “Sweet Spot” Of Effectiveness
Finding Your “Sweet Spot” Of Effectiveness
Where do you add the most value?
Be Fearless (with Jean Case)
Be Fearless (with Jean Case)
What are the common attributes of disruptors and changemakers?
My Personal Manifesto (and How To Write Your Own)
My Personal Manifesto (and How To Write Your Own)
Do you have a framework for making decisions?
Re-defining Success and Failure
Re-defining Success and Failure
Don't allow confusion about these terms to cause creative spinout.
Chasing Dreams (and When To Quit)
Chasing Dreams (and When To Quit)
People love to encourage you to chase your dreams. They mostly mean well. What they don’t tell you is that you are probably going to fail a lot. And, the problem with pursuing a dream is that it’s hard to know when to quit. On this episode, we discuss the difficulties of giving up a dream, and how to move on when it's no longer a part of who you are.
Making Echoes
Making Echoes
Leadership and legacy are not just what you do, but also how you do it. It will be determined by a series of choices you make over your life about how to spend this moment – here, and now. The challenging thing is that each moment feels like a throwaway, because another one follows closely on its heels. How you choose to engage here and now speaks more to your character than whatever residual stuff you leave in your trail.
Changing The World One Step At a Time (with Scott Harrison)
Changing The World One Step At a Time (with Scott Harrison)
Scott Harrison is the founder of Charity:Water, and organization dedicated to bringing fresh drinking water to areas of the world in need. On this episode, he shares how he transitioned from in-demand night club promoter to on-mission advocate for those in need, and offers lessons for how each of us can pay attention to the clues in our lives to discern how to create deep impact. Scott's new book is called Thirst.
Discover Your Productive Passion
Discover Your Productive Passion
What gets you out of bed in the morning? What keeps you going even when you face difficulty and overwhelming odds? For many people, the answer is something other than the tasks or the job. Rather, it's something deeper and more closely knit to their sense of purpose. On this episode, we discuss a few questions you can ask to help you identify your "productive passion".
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
What could you be better at than anyone around you? It's a question worth exploring.
Podcast: The Motivation Myth (with Jeff Haden)
Podcast: The Motivation Myth (with Jeff Haden)
How do you find the motivation you need to attack your goals? According to Jeff Haden, the problem is waiting for motivation at all. If you want to experience fulfillment and tackle big projects, it's more about the process. On this episode, we dive into why focus can actually be your enemy, how to find happiness by quantifying your progress, and how to accomplish long-arc projects by thinking small.
Podcast: What Should I Do With My Life?
Podcast: What Should I Do With My Life?
Do you have a framework for making larger decisions about your life, your career, and your work? How do you decide what you're trying to do with your life? In this episode, I address a question from a listener about how to make decisions about the larger questions of life and career.