Career Development Archives - Page 5 of 5

Sep 30

The Art of Reinvention with Sophia Amoruso

Sophia Amoruso is an online educator, serial entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author. She has been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine and featured in the Fortune 40 under 40, Forbes 30 under 30, Inc. 30 under 30, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business lists, and featured on the June 2016 cover of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women issue. Sophia founded women’s network Girlboss as well as fashion startup Nasty Gal, which she built... read more ›

550 reads

Sep 23

Luvvie Ajayi Jones: Truth, Fear, and How to Do Better

Luvvie Ajayi Jones is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host and an incredible speaker. She sits at this amazing intersection of comedy, justice and what she calls, professional troublemaking. Speaking of professional troublemaking, this episode Luvvie brings so much clarity around finding our voice, being intentional in our actions, and being unapologically ourselves. Luvvie starts us at her journey through writing. What started as a fledging side project she worked on in her... read more ›

307 reads

Aug 26

Photographing History with Pete Souza

One of the things I love about photography is it's a universal language. You can look at an image intuitively feel the power and the emotion, regardless of age, race, gender, social/economic status, geography, even time. Pete Souza is such a critical creator in not just the arc of the United States of America and world politics, but as a guy out there doing what he loves, chasing his passion and hoping to tell a... read more ›

510 reads

Aug 03

Creative Calling Book Club

Creativity has never been more important. Art, creative expression, and creative solutions are required to create our future, and the world we want to live in. This is session a 6-week mentoring series on CreativeLive to put our creativity into action. Though this series is based on the IDEA framework in my book, Creative Calling, you don’t need to have the book to participate. Some topics we will explore in this series: why creativity, why... read more ›

980 reads

Jul 29

Never Settle with Mario Armstrong

Today's episode is a dose of positivity, inspiration, and energy from my guest Mario Armstrong. He is on a mission to help others accelerate their personal growth through their passions through positivity, motivation and tactical advice. Mario is a two time Emmy Award winning talk show host of the Never Settle Show, a web television series that provides advice and tools to help us tackle the mindset holding us back or tangible constraints such as... read more ›

428 reads

Jul 01

Life, Writing, and Real Talk with Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is an award-winning pop culture powerhouse whose writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling... read more ›

536 reads

Jun 13

Nigel Barker: Be the Artist You Want to Work With

Nigel Barker is an internationally renowned photographer, model, entrepreneur, TV star and author. You’ve seen him as a judge and photographer for 18 seasons on America’s Next Top Model, starring alongside Naomi Campbell on The Face, and as the host of Top Photographer. His entrepreneurial pursuits include having his own furniture line with Art Van Furniture, being the Artistic Director of the menswear brand Flag & Anthem, and co-founding the NYC gym, The Dog Pound.... read more ›

1.5K reads

May 30

Elle Luna: Your Story Is Your Power

Elle is an artist and author and just a genuinely amazing human. You’ve seen her design work on Medium, Uber, and many other recognizable brands as she came out the legendary design firm, IDEO. She was part of the 30 Days of Genius series on this podcast where we took a deep dive into finding our calling with the help of her breakthrough book, The Crossroads of Should And Must. I’ve personally found the idea... read more ›

2K reads

May 16

Find Your Calling In Career And Life with Chris Guillebeau

Today on the podcast we’re answering one of the most popular questions I receive: “how do I find my passion”. Yeah, not an easy one. Super tough! And if you’ve struggled with this or are struggling right now, this episode will help you find your way. In fact, my good friend Chris Guillebeau has spent years researching this exact topic and shares a formula that can help you unlock some missing pieces from his book... read more ›

1.3K reads