Productive Flourishing
By Charlie Gilkey
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Description
Productive Flourishing (formerly the Creative Giant Show) explores how to do the work that matters to become your best self in the world. Host Charlie Gilkey and occasional co-host Angela Wheeler take listeners on a deep dive into the lives of leaders, changemakers, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are thriving in life and business by doing work that matters. Listen in to see how they cultivate meaning, success, and happiness as well as their approach to productivity, business, health, and the challenges (yes, even the deep, dark ones) that show up in their lives.
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CleanPaul Jarvis, Company of One (Episode 204) | Examining Business Growth | 2/21/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDr. Samantha Brody: Overcoming Overwhelm (Episode 203) | Making Decisions That Allow You to Live Your Best Life | 1/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSeth Godin: This is Marketing (Episode 202) | The Power of Generosity and Influence in Marketing | 11/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMore Together Than Alone (Episode 201) | 8 Worldviews that Bring Us Together | 11/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhen to Refresh and Take a Break (Episode 200) | Seasons of Work | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSusan Piver: The Four Noble Truths of Love (Episode 199) | Enlightenment and Love | 6/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLiz Forkin Bohannon: Why Business May Be the Best Vehicle for Social Change (Episode 198) | Sseko and the Importance of the Direct Sales Model | 6/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMike Silvio: Learning Life Lessons Through Running (Episode 197) | 7 Marathons, 7 Different Lessons | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhere Is the Debt in Your Life? (Episode 196) | Debt and Abundance | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMarc and Angel Chernoff: Getting Back to Happy (Episode 195) | Developing Rituals That Lead to Happiness | 5/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLaurence McCahill: Finding Your Happy Place as an Entrepreneur (Episode 194) | How to Find an Ideal Balance in Your Work | 5/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmber Rae: Choose Wonder Over Worry (Episode 193) | Cultivating Awareness of Worry and Wonder | 5/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMary Shores: Exploring Conscious Communications (Episode 192) | Owning Our Neuro Pathways | 5/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStan Tatkin: What Keeps You and Your Partner Together When the World Pulls You Apart? (Episode 191) | How to Build a Thriving Relationship in the Face of Change | 4/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAsh Beckham: How to Master Real Conversations in an Age of Combativeness (Episode 190) | Engaging in Constructive and Respectful Conversation | 4/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanParker Stevenson: Financial Awareness Is Fuel for Business Growth (Episode 189) | Practical Tips for Successful Business Finance | 4/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs Technology Affecting Your Relationships? (Episode 188) | Creating Healthy Boundaries with Communication Technology | 4/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLeveraging Your Quiet Power with Tara Gentile (Episode 187) | Tara Gentile is an author and business strategist, who works with entrepreneurs and helps them design their personal “quiet power strategy” that will tap into their strengths and help them lead themselves where they want to go. She teaches her clien | 3/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBryan Caplan: The Case Against Education (Episode 186) | Formal Education Is Not for Everyone | 3/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKathleen Kelly Janus: How to Scale Up Your Nonprofit’s Impact (Episode 185) | Making the Most Difference | 3/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBryan Falchuk: Working Through Radical Change, One Day at a Time (Episode 184) | A Story of Transformation | 3/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBuild Better Boundaries (Episode 183) | One Boundary at a Time | 3/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSharon Rowe: Embracing the Shifts in Your Business (Episode 182) | Navigating the Business Landscape of Your Ideas | 2/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTama Kieves: Thriving Through Uncertainty (Episode 181) | Living an Inspired Life in Times of Uncertainty | 2/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChristina Scalera: Both Sides of Being Your Own Boss (Episode 180) | Conquering the Legal Aspects of Owning Your Own Business | 2/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDebbie Reber: How Your Life’s Path Can Shape Your Career Path (Episode 179) | Embracing Life’s Tilts | 2/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRyan Haack: Different Is Awesome (Episode 178) | Everyone Is Valuable | 1/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCarey and Demir Bentley: Living Powerfully Can Help You Work (Episode 177) | Radical Self Care | 1/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBarb Suarez: Letting Go of How Things Must Go Is the Best Birth Plan (Episode 176) | Embracing Our Vulnerabilities | 1/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndrea Owen: How to Ditch the 14 Habits That Are Holding You Back from Happiness(Episode 175) | Owning our Shame for Personal Growth | 1/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKerra Bolton: How Business Activism Supports Your Business and Your Community(Episode 174) | Business Activism: Ways to Get Involved | 12/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAngela Wheeler: Best Practices for Your Annual Reflection(Episode 173) | Looking Back and Moving Forward | 12/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLee Rankin: What a Farm Business Can Teach Us about Creativity and Business (Episode 172) | Life with the Alpacas | 12/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMike Vardy: Get the Right Things Done Easier By Focusing On Your Energy (Episode 171) | Energy-Based Productivity | 12/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCourtney Carver: Simplicity Is a Way Back to Yourself (Episode 170) | Small Steps for Huge Changes | 11/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPenelope Trunk: Asperger’s, Creativity, and the Education System (Episode 169) | Penelope’s Perspective on the Lack Creativity in Education | 11/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAngela Wheeler: Is It Time to Work with a Coach? (Episode 168) | Finding Accountability and Investing in Yourself | 11/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAndy Molinsky: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone without Falling into a Fail Fest (Episode 167) | From Avoidance Strategies to Taking a Leap | 11/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLeah Weiss: How to Be More Mindfully Inclusive About Mindfulness (Episode 166) | Having Productive Conversations about Mindfulness | 11/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBreanne Dyck: What to Do When You Know You Need to Shift, but Don't Know What to Shift To (Episode 165) | Highest and Best Use in the Present Moment | 10/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAngela Wheeler: Navigating the Hard Road of Family Health Decisions (Episode 164) | Managing Hard Family Decisions | 10/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJacquette Timmons: The Relationship Between Your Identity and Your Finances (Episode 163) | The Relationship Between Your Identity and Your Finances | 10/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRyan McRae: How to Be Productive and Focused When You Have ADHD (Episode 162) | Managing ADHD and Productivity | 10/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJessica Abel: What Productivity & Creativity Teachers Do When They Get Stuck (Episode 161) | Creative Constraints | 9/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAngela Wheeler: If You Aren't Doing What Matters to You, You're Not Being Productive (Episode 160) | Productivity People | 9/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRonen Gafni: Going All In (Episode 159) | Bet on Yourself | 9/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIshita Gupta: Falling Apart Can Be Falling Into Something Bigger (Episode 158) | Giving Yourself Permission To Fall Apart | 9/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVanessa Van Edwards: How to Succeed With People (Even/Especially If You’re Awkward) (Episode 157) | Hacking Human Interaction | 8/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAngela Wheeler: Spiraling Up: Healthy Changes for A Better Life (Episode 156) | Personal Change in Relationships | 8/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMichael Gebben: Breaking Free of the Self-Made Prisons (Episode 155) | Self-Awareness & Identifying the Root of the Problem | 8/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeffrey Davis: The 4 Reasons Why It's Hard to Stand for Something (Episode 154) | Mine Your Irritation, Mine Your Curiosity | 8/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMichelle Jones and Austin Goldberg: Wayfinding Academy 101 (Episode 153) | Challenging the Status Quo of Higher Education | 8/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLarry Robertson: How to Explore and Play at Your Creative Edge (Episode 152) | Standing on the Edge | 7/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAngela Wheeler: How Volunteering Shapes Your Professional and Personal Development (Episode 151) | Synergy in Volunteerism and Service | 7/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPatricia Bravo: Why Empathetic Leaders Create Better Teams (Episode 150) | Building Empathetic Leadership | 7/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSusan Piver: How Mindfulness Helps You Become More Creative (Episode 149) | Links between Mindfulness and Creativity | 7/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMeighan O’Toole: Making It Online (Episode 148) | Community, Fear, and Being Your Authentic Self | 6/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAngela Wheeler: What to Do If You're Burnt Out (or Close to It) (Episode 147) | How to Avoid Burn Out in Business and Life | 6/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBryce Bladon: Why the Difference between Freelancing and Entrepreneurship Matters (Episode 146) | Building A Better Life With Your Business | 6/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCory Huff: What If Your Pivot Doesn’t Fit Your Current Business? (Episode 145) | To Scale or Not to Scale | 6/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFiona Dawson: Living a Fluid Life (Episode 144) | Shaping a Spectrum Way of Thinking | 6/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean143: The End of the Creative Giant Show | In this last episode of the Creative Giant Show, we discuss why we’re ending it and what comes next. | 5/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean142: 12 Simple Ways to Be Present | Increasing Presence, Decreasing Anxiety | 5/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean141: How to Balance Entrepreneurship and Fatherhood with Mike Bruny and Jeremie Miller | Entrepreneurial Fatherhood | 5/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean140: Q&A #11: Habit Stacking, Important but Not Urgent Projects, and Tips on Using Medium | Taking Small Steps to Build a Better You | 5/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean139: The Relationship Between Grief and Creativity with Cath Duncan and Kara Jones | Permission to Grieve or Not to Grieve | 4/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean138: The 3 Goals of Any Business Activity | Cash Flow, Opportunities, and Visibility | 4/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean137: Systems, Creativity, and Emotion with Marina Darlow | Building Systems to Fit Your Creativity | 4/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean136: Q&A #10: Having a No Electronics Rule, Switching Your Focus, and Conducting a Mid-Month Review | In this Q&A, Angela joins Charlie to answer questions from the Campfire about why they have a no electronics rule in the bedroom or dining room area, how to determine if your current focus block isn’t going to work and how to switch to something else, | 4/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean135: How Side Projects Help with Your Main Project with Nicole Stevenson | A lot of creative people thrive on having multiple side projects, but at the same time, having side projects may cause your main projects to suffer. Nicole Stevenson joins Charlie to jam about how having side projects might help you with your main proje | 3/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean134: 5 Ways to Get Through the Creative Red Zone | Today’s episode is a requested reading of a previously published post on Productive Flourishing named “5 Ways to Get Through the Creative Red Zone.” This article lists five ways to get projects that are almost done into the finished stage. Key | 3/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean133: Small Business as a Vehicle for Social Change with Pam Slim | As entrepreneurs and small business owners, we can help create solutions that create positive social change - promoting diversity and inclusion, distributing wealth, creating opportunities, and promote flourishing. In today’s episode, Pam Slim joins C | 3/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean132: Q&A #9: Decision Fatigue, Business Growth, and Managing Multiple Projects While Overwhelmed | In the 9th Q&A episode, Angela joins Charlie to answer questions from the campfire about decision fatigue, business growth problems, and how to manage multiple projects when you’re already overwhelmed. Key Takeaways: [1:06] - The show must go on! A | 3/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean131: Questioning the Givens of Creativity with Larry Robertson | Larry Robertson, author and thought leader, joins Charlie to jam about creativity. In this episode, they cover everything including what creativity is, where breakthroughs come through, unhelpful myths that prevent us from understanding creativity, the | 3/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean130: You Have to Make Time to Make Time | Today’s episode is a requested reading of a previous published post on Productive Flourishing. Charlie answers a question about making time to plan and how he uses certain materials to organize and remind. The key idea is that you have to make time fo | 2/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean129: How Theming Your Week Can Make You More Productive with Mike Vardy | Mike Vardy, a friend and fellow productivity teacher, joins Charlie to talk about the power of defaults, theming your week, how to use creative/focus blocks, and how effective scheduling, planning, and decision making is really about being kind to yours | 2/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean128: Q&A #8: Creative Energy Flow, Taking Action on Your Great Ideas, and Healthy Money Conversations | Angela joins Charlie as he tackles three questions revolving around how to take action on a good idea without it being overwhelming, how to discuss goals and finances with your business team without it being awkward, and which of the Productive Flourish | 2/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean127: How Charlie Gets Stuff Done with Jennifer Labin | In this episode, Charlie and Jennifer cover the “behind the scenes” of how Charlie gets stuff done. Tune in to find out everything from why he joined the army and how he applies that to his work to his workout and self-care routines. If you like “ | 2/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean126: Stop Lying and Start Creating | Today’s episode is a requested reading of a previously published post on Productive Flourishing named “Stop Lying and Start Creating.” The key idea is that we creative people are particularly adept at making up stories and lies that keep us from d | 1/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean125: How to Deal with the Guilt of Getting What You Want with Toku McCree | Toku McCree joins Charlie to jam about what they’ve experienced in themselves and their clients, and how to move through the guilt of getting what you want to achieve success. Key Takeaways: [2:16] - Obsession with tactics and doing and how it stif | 1/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean124: Q & A #7: Priority Cagematches, Cultivating Diversity, and Troubleshooting Too-Intense Plans | Angela joins Charlie as they tackle another question & answer session, exploring the priority cage match, how to bring in more diversity into your company, and what to do when your plans are too intense. Key Takeaways: [0:54] - Can you elaborate more | 1/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean123: Feeling Your Way through What Does Make You Happy versus Should Make You Happy with Kristin Reinbach | Kristin Reinbach joins Charlie to discuss the question of whether happiness is dependent on the culture we’re from. They talk about the difference between social norms of success and happiness versus our personal concepts of success and happiness. | 1/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean122: Welcome to Project World | Today’s episode is a requested reading of a previously published post on Productive Flourishing called “Welcome to Project World.” The key idea is that we no longer live in a world defined by careers, but rather by projects. What we finish is more | 12/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean121: How to be Intentional During the Holidays | Charlie and Angela talk about values and expectations, priorities, and boundaries in order to amp up your holidays without amping up your stress. Key Takeaways: [1:25] - Intentionality during the holidays: what do we want this time to look like? [3:2 | 12/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean120: Q&A #6: Networking from a Place of Generosity, Project Post-Mortems, and Working in Harmony with Your Spouse | Our host, Charlie and his wife, Angela answer community members’ questions about networking, project post-mortems, and share real experiences of how they work together as a married couple. Key Takeaways: [1:04] - As a solo entrepreneur, how do we g | 12/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean119: Your Self-Talk Is Where Your Life Starts with Mary Fran Bontempo | Mary Fran Bontempo joins Charlie to discuss how aging can be a gift, and how to make words like change, fear, and fine not be dirty words. They also discuss how much of our identities is fixed by the stuff we accumulate. Key Takeaways: [1:19] - Intro | 12/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean118: Shake It, Don’t Break It | Today’s episode is a requested reading of a previously published post on Productive Flourishing named “Shake It, Don’t Break It.” The key idea from this post is that you can walk to edge of the known world you see, and shake things up without co | 12/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean117: Q&A #5: Delegation 101, High-Value Work, and Getting Back Into the Groove | Angela joins Charlie Gilkey answer your questions and discuss how to determine what to delegate in your business, how to focus on high-value work, what low prices say about your products and services, and what to do when your getting off your schedules | 11/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean116: Learning to Learn and Express Yourself | This episode is going to be a conversation between Angela and me about different learning styles and really getting to the bottom of how you learn, how you process and how you polish. The reason we’re going through this is because we’re both doing a | 11/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean115: Unlocking the MacGyver Secret with Lee Zlotoff | Remember MacGyver, the ingenious action-adventure hero from the 80’s who was able to do things like disarm bombs with a toothpick, swiss army knife and duct tape? MacGyver was a huge influence on me as a kid and his creator, Lee Zlotoff, joins me toda | 11/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean114: Your Art is For You | Today’s episode is a requested reading of a previously published post on Productive Flourishing, named “Your Art is For You”. So many creatives and change makers get stuck because they feel torn between the art they want to create and the art othe | 11/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean113: Grief Is A Natural Part of Life | Today Angela joins me again for a jam and we’re talking about grief, transitions and health. This comes because we have gone through some death and grieving recently and it’s something that people ask Angela about a lot, and I do get questions somet | 10/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean112: Q&A #4: Preventing Overwhelm, Dealing with a Bad Day, and Hiring When You Don’t Have the Cash | After seeing how much more fun it was to have Angela with me on the Q&A’s, we’ve decided that it’s the new standard. Today we answer questions people send in about preventing overwhelm when goal-setting, dealing with a bad day and hiring someone w | 10/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean111: How to Live a Good Life with Jonathan Fields | Jonathan Fields joins me for a second time today to discuss his new book, How to Live a Good Life. The journey of writing this book has been a particularly interesting one, for the process required him to step into a very uncomfortable role at the same | 10/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean110: What I’m Here to Do | Today’s episode is a reading of a previously published post on Productive Flourishing named “What I’m Here to Do”. The post shares some stories that have informed why I show up in the world the way I do — I’m a bridge builder that helps peop | 10/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean109: No One Size Fits Every Influencer with Jason Van Orden | In today’s episode, Jason Van Orden joins me and shares what he’s learned about influence and helping others become top influencers in their field. Given that we often teach what we most need to learn, we also discuss what his work has revealed for | 9/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean108: How to Align Your Goals and Projects with Your Seasonal Energy | Angela joins me on today’s episode to learn how to align your goals and projects with your seasonal energy. This is a bit of a follow up from episode 102 with Megan Roop, based on questions readers have been asking us. But, it’s also prompted by the | 9/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean107: Q&A #3: Success Packs, Goal-Setting, and Leadership Lessons-Learned | Angela joins me for this Q&A to discuss how to form a success pack, how to brainstorm your goals, and the biggest leadership lesson I’ve learned in business. We made the switch to Angela joining me on this because it’s way more fun doing these with | 9/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean106: Why Productivity is Bunk | Thanks so much for joining me on this quick episode. On this solo riff, I talk about why productivity gets a bad rap, and how instead of focusing on all the reasons why productivity is bunk, we’re better off focusing on finishing the stuff that matter | 9/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean105: Your Art Leaves A Mark with Arna Baartz | In today’s episode, Arna Baartz joins me to share her journey, from a child of creative parents to an artist who teaches people to become more emotionally intelligent. Along the way, we discuss how she weaves in being a mother of 8 children, and her d | 9/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean104: Q&A #2: On Triggers, Resistance, and Not Being Where You Want to Be | Thanks for joining us today! In this special episode of The Creative Giant Show, Charlie does a Q&A session with topics ranging from: triggers, the root of people’s resistance, and how to reconcile one’s innate nature with what seems to be an almost | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean103: Create Art That Doesn’t Need a Signature with Srinivas Rao | Srinivas Rao returns to The Creative Giant Show to jam about his new book, Unmistakeable: Why Only Is Better Than Best. We dive right in and discuss how ‘only’ isn’t enough, how the myth of easy creativity keeps us from doing our unmistakeable wor | 8/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean102: The Nourishing Nature of Being in Nature with Megan Roop | Megan Roop joins Charlie today to talk about how quiet adventures helped her find herself battling the pursuit of being perfect. Along the way, she’s woven her experience with the Peace Corps, selling outdoor equipment, teaching yoga, and helping peop | 8/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean101: Get Up and Take Care of Your People | In this special edition of The Creative Giant Show, Charlie reads from the Productive Flourishing blog post, Get Up and Take Care of Your People. This gripping story tells of how a combat experience in the military revealed to him both parallels and val | 8/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean100: Andrea J. Lee Interviews Charlie Gilkey | The tables are turned in this episode, as Andrea J. Lee puts me in the spotlight. The questionnaire becomes the questioned. This one is coming right after I started sharing more of my thoughts on race, identity, equality and justice. So, a good bit of t | 7/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean099: How to Make Better Learning Experiences with Breanne Dyck | Whether we’re content creators, managers, leaders or customer service reps, we’re all in the teaching business. Breanne Dyck joins me again, to continue the conversation about making better learning experiences that work for our learners and work fo | 7/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean098: Which Creative Entrepreneur Type Are You? with Lisa Robbin Young | In this episode, Lisa Robbin Young and I discuss the blog post she wrote for Productive Flourishing on the 3 Types of Creative Entrepreneurs. Even if you don’t consider yourself creative or an entrepreneur, this is worth the listen because we’re rea | 7/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean097: You Can Be More Than One Thing with Dusti Arab | A common growing pain for Creative Giants is the pressure to be just one thing in the world. To just be a doctor or a writer or a programmer or CO or whatever it is. The truth of it is that we’re all multi-dimensional, so resisting that only leads to | 7/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean096: The Power of Simplicity in Organizations with Ken Segall | Peter Droppers said, the only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance. In a similar vein, it seems that businesses and organizations naturally tilt towards complexity, much to the dismay and frustra | 7/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean095: Grow and Communicate In a Creative Partnership | There are two myths about being a successful creative that get us into a lot of troub. One, that doing it by yourself is better and two, that having a creative partner would make life so much easier. It turns out that neither is true, at least for most | 6/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean094: How to Pick Yourself and Put Your Art Out There with Seth Godin | Today’s episode is a rerun of one of my favorite episodes, episode 3 with Seth Godin. We’re doing a rerun today for several reasons: 1) I wanted to share some of our past episodes, that were fantastic, with new listeners who may not have scrolled al | 6/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean093: How Sitting with Stillness Catalyzes Growth with Kristoffer Carter | While a lot of career paths aren’t linear, Creative Giants in particular often seem to have dramatically, nonlinear career progressions. One of the reasons for this is that we’re often actually pursuing multiple passions or growth edges at once. Kri | 6/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean092: Be More With Less with Courtney Carver | The pursuit of happiness is often tied to the acquisition of more stuff. But we should instead be asking how the stuff in our lives prevents us from being happy, creative and connected to the ones we love. Courtney Carver, from bemorewithless.com, joins | 6/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean091: Be Brave and Listen Within with Andrea Lee | It’s easy for coaches to not walk their talk. Especially, since we are so focused on transformation and transitions. While the outcome of transformations and transitions are great, the process isn't comfortable for anyone, including the coaches who fa | 5/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean090: Q&A - How to Plan Your Day Based On Your Energy Levels (+ more) | This is our first Q & A episode and I’m excited about it. In today’s episode I discuss: 1) creative ways to use the results from your productivity heat map, 2) how I suggest people approach heat mapping when their schedule is largely determined by s | 5/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean089: Build From What You Have with Sonia Simone | Think about what comes to mind when I ask you to think about a marketer or sales person. Be honest! Did you think of a smart, soft spoken, insightful woman? If not, I hope today’s episode changes that for you. Sonia Simone is a marketing trend setter | 5/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean088: What Happens When You Go Against Your Daily Rhythms? | This is a jam between Angel and I on what happens when you go against your daily rhythms and having awareness and synchronicity with your natural biorhythms. We also chat about creative energy, adapting to schedule shifts, peak creative times, “screen | 5/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean087: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway with Michelle Bushneff | As uncomfortable as it is to make big changes in life no matter what those changes are, fear kicks into overdrive when you’re changing great careers and great jobs. Michelle Bushneff joins me today to share her purpose-filled pioneering journey from s | 5/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean086: Two Concepts of Freedom | A lot of our decisions revolve around enhancing our own freedom. The challenge is that there are two distinct kinds of freedom that are often in tension and lead us to making decisions that keep us from flourishing and being our best selves in the world | 4/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean085: The Masks We Wear Influence the Lives We Live with Dr. Atira Charles | Each of us wears a different mask every day, whether that mask is being a mother, a creative person, a brother or a manger. Knowing when we’re wearing the right one and which ones not to reveal, is key to our success and happiness. Dr. Atira Charles j | 4/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean084: Changing Directions Isn’t Failing with Laura Neff | Something we don’t talk about enough is that many entrepreneurs and small business owners realize being in that space isn’t necessarily right for them. Sometimes it’s about business models and market trends, and yet other times it has nothing to d | 4/23/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean083: How to Be Grounded and Positive Through Life’s Challenges with Marc and Angel Chernoff | Every one of us has our own unique set of challenges and negative beliefs that keep us from living life to the fullest. To thrive, we have to develop rituals, practices and methods that help us root out the negative thoughts and beliefs that are hurting | 4/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean082: Exercise Is a Foundation for Success with Mike Goncalves | All too often, exercise and movement are put in a different bucket of activities than those that count towards being productive. Unfortunately, that’s backwards. Exercise is a foundation for success, so focusing on our health and fitness is one of the | 4/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean081: Changing the World, One Toilet at a Time with Jasmine Burton | Jasmine Burton, an inspirational 24-year-old running a startup in Africa, hopes to improve women’s health via redesign of water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure - sparking the foundation of Wish for Wash. In this episode, you’ll learn how a va | 4/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean080: Reclaiming Wild Men with Jonathan Mead | Many modern men are caught in a strange space. For one, we can’t and don’t want to be like our fathers and grandfathers, but we also don’t want to be some shade of Homer Simpson. And yet, there’s not much space to talk about this in public eithe | 4/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean079: The Hidden Path for Artists with Cory Huff | If you’ve ever considered being a fine artist or have talked to an artist you know, you’ve probably heard or accepted some variate of ‘the gallery myth’, which is that the goal is to have your art featured in a gallery and then you’re set for | 4/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean078: The 3 Essential Pieces of Your Business’s Legal, Tax, and Financial Foundation with Kyle Durand | Let’s face it, the legal, tax and financial aspects of our businesses and creative ventures are areas that many of us avoid. We’ve been conditioned to be afraid of them, in the case of financial and tax matters; and diving into the financial realm, | 4/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean077: How to Capture the Everyday Wow with Cynthia Morris | Cynthia Morris joins me today to jam about creativity, talent and Capturing the Wow that comes up as we travel through our days. This is a particularly good episode to listen to if you’re at the beginning of your mastering journey with a creative form | 3/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean076: Good Strategy Helps You Make Better Choices with Tara Gentile | What does depression, strategy, financial intelligence and specialization, all have in common? They’re all related to choices. In the case of depression, sometimes feeling like you don’t have any. They’re also topics Tara Gentile and I jam about. | 3/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean075: Bringing Conversations about Death to Life with Kathy Kortes-Miller | We all know that death is a part of life, but it’s the part of life that we, as a society and individuals, often would rather not talk about. And yet, not talking about it isn’t making it go away; and in fact, makes death and dying so much harder fo | 3/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean074: The Emotional Journey of Growing Your Business | Angela is joining me today to jam about the emotional journey that happens as you’re growing and scaling your business. There are a lot of ups and downs, but a lot of times we’re not talking about the leaders or founders’ journey of grief, excitem | 3/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean073: How to Sew Business Success in the Fashion Industry with Shannon Whitehead | Though we wear cloths every day – at least most of us do – many of us don’t think about the entrepreneurial and economic aspects related to the cloths we wear. Like many other business industries, the fashion industry is going through a massive di | 3/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean072: Embracing Change with Jenny Blake | Many of us get stuck in life, because for some reason or the other we’re resistant to change. Being resistant to change is like being resistant to gravity, we might be able to counter some the effects of it, but it’s always going to be there. There | 3/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean071: Managing Your Money is a Creative Process with Luna Jaffe | Most people don’t put managing their money and being creative together. Especially since one seems to be what you have to do, whereas the other seems to be what you get to do. But managing your money is a creative process and whether you like it or no | 2/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean070: Love is the Source of Personal Growth with Dr. Laura Ciel and Bill Poett | Part of being a Creative Giant is learning to be fully you, however you might show up. That’s a hard enough journey but it can feel even more daunting to learn to do that while in a romantic relationship with another Creative Giant. Dr. Laura Ciel and | 2/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean069: How to Build Your Mentor Group with Jeff Hopeck | Mentors often make the difference between us successfully finishing the stuff that matters and just thinking or dreaming about it. This is especially the case for young adults and new entrepreneurs, who often times get so much well meaning, but bad advi | 2/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean068: What's Lurking in the Basement of Your Personality? With Todd Kashdan | While we like the idea that we can simply think ourselves into certain beliefs and instincts, the truth of the matter is that our personality is partially determined by our evolutionary history. There might be some things lurking down there that we don | 2/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean067: How to Avoid Creative Burnout with Jennifer Louden | Finishing creative work is challenging because sometimes you can’t just push through, as doing so will lead to creative burnout. And yet, you can’t give up when it gets hard or you’ll never really do the work that matters. Jennifer Louden joins me | 2/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean066: Scaling Up Without Selling Out with Laura Novak Meyer | A common myth is that scaling a business means you have to compromise the core values, culture and human-friendly qualities that the business originally started with. In today’s episode, Laura Novak Meyer joins me to share what she learned in the proc | 1/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean065: The Coaching Habit Unlocks Human Potential with Michael Bungay Stanier | Coaching is a powerful way of being with people, because it unlocks human potential and transforms the way you relate to others. It is also really misunderstood, misrepresented, and when done right it is hard to do. Michael Bungay Stanier is an award wi | 1/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean064: What Will You Stand For This Year? with Jeffrey Davis | You were probably in the goal setting mode for 2016 or maybe you just want to set the right goals. It turns out that making great goals is often a matter of asking the right questions. Jeffrey Davis and I think a particularly good question is, "what wil | 1/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 63 - Your Voice Can Be Transformational with Alexia Vernon | Branded a "Moxie Maven" by The White House Office of Public Engagement for her unique and effective approach to leadership development, through her 'Step Into Your Moxie' platform, Alexia has become the go-to expert for helping entrepreneurs, executives | 1/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 62 - 5 Ways to Make Better Plans for the New Year | It's the time of year where we're thinking about setting new goals and new resolutions. On this final episode of 2015, Angela and Charlie wanted to take the time to talk about some things to think about as you’re setting intentions and new plans for t | 12/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 61 - Mixing Freelancing, Music, and Entrepreneurship with Graham Cochrane | The stories we often hear and tell ourselves about entrepreneurs, are that successful entrepreneurs somehow had it in their blood or it was always what they wanted to be. The problem is that a lot of people who are now entrepreneurs never thought they'd | 12/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 60 - How to Make Email Work for You with Dmitri Leonov | Email has become the primary tool many of us use to communicate with others. We both love it and hate it, because like money, email can be a great servant but a terrible master. Dmitri Leonov joins Charlie Gilkey to jam about ways you can make email wor | 12/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 59 - Debugging the Imposter Syndrome with Dan Pickett | The imposter syndrome is a major road block for many of us when it comes to doing our best work, especially if doing it requires us to start something new. “Who are you to do it?” rings so loudly inside us that we often can’t hear the other more h | 12/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 58 - How to Heal After the Loss of a Partner with Kristin Meekhof | Kristin Meekhof is a licenced Masters level social worker. She's a speaker, contributor to Huffington Post, a Maria Shriver “Architect of Change”, and the author of A Widow's Guide to Healing. She has been seen on Huffington Post Live, featured on A | 11/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 57 - What to Do When You Have Too Much to Do | Sometimes, you commit to a few things and then life intervenes and throws a few more things on your plate, and it can sometimes get away from you. You feel like "how am I going to do all of this?", "what do I need to let go?", "how do I handle my own ex | 11/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 56 - Experience is the Best Teacher with Jordan Agolli | Jordan Agolli is a young, but highly experienced entrepreneur who is also the host of the Teenage Entrepreneur. He started his first business when he was 14-years-old, and grew the company to 20 employees by the time he was 18-years-old. In 2014, he fou | 11/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 55 - Planning Creates Luck with Rebecca Rescate | Rebecca is a serial entrepreneur who creates problem solving consumer goods that are in the hands of over half million people around the world, and have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, multiple episodes of ABC's Shark Tan | 11/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 54 - The Power of Meditation with Susan Piver | Susan Piver makes a reappearance on this week's episode to talk about meditation. Susan was featured on episode four of The Creative Giant Show, so be sure to check out her first interview with Charlie after you listen to this one. Susan Piver has an in | 11/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 53 - Balancing Self Care and Showing Up | Angela Wheeler joins Charlie Gilkey in today's podcast episode. Charlie and Angela talk on how sometimes it's difficult to practice self-care and take care of all of your responsibilities at the same time. The two explore the subject of self-care and ta | 10/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 52 - Making Tech Startups More Human-Friendly with Nathalie Molina Nino | Nathalie Molina Niño launched her first tech startup at the age of 20 and then later graduated with a degree in playwriting at Columbia University. In 2012, Nathalie co-founded a non-profit at the Athena Center for Leadership studies of Barnard College | 10/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 51 - How to Thrive as Life AND Business Partners with Angela Wheeler | Charlie Gilkey and Angela Wheeler have been together for over 18 years and discuss on today's podcast what's it like working with each other. Angela shares her struggles on leaving her academia career, catching up with Charlie's four year learning curve | 10/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 50 - GRIT to Great with Linda Kaplan Thaler | Linda Kaplan Thaler is an advertising luminary and author who is also the cofounder of the Kaplan Thaler Group and chairman of Publicis New York. She has created many iconic advertising campaigns such as Kodak Moments and the Aflac duck. She is a native | 10/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 49 - Financial Success Doesn’t Start in Your Wallet with Jacquette Timmons | Jacquette Timmons is a financial behaviorist who helps her clients figure out how to connect their money to life in a real and meaningful way. She offers unbiased advice and helps people gain insight and clarity that they might not otherwise get on thei | 9/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 48 - Love As Your Strategic Foundation with Sarah Jones | Sarah Jones is the founder of Introverted Alpha, a place to help introverted men attract women naturally. Her work has been featured in various places including Cosmo and Business Insider and many other. Along with being a dating coach, Sarah also uses | 9/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 47 - The Future of the Creative Giant Show with Charlie Gilkey | Charlie takes a few minutes in this episode to discuss the future of the show and the direction he would like to take it. Key Takeaways: 00:47 – “Bullets, cannonballs, and tripwires.” 01:36 – Why Charlie wanted to get to 50 episodes. 03:33 | 9/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 46 - Make Your Message Match Your Mission with Brigitte Lyons | Brigitte Lyons is a media specialist who founded B, a boutique PR agency helping organizations and individuals move their ideas. She teaches entrepreneurs how to take media outreach into their own hands. Brigitte is an advocate for emerging talent, and | 9/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 45 - Different is Awesome with Ryan Haack | Ryan Haack is an author, blogger, and speaker who was born without a left hand. In 2011, he launched his website, livingonehanded.com, in an effort to help people embrace the things that make them different and realize that they are still valuable and i | 8/31/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 44 - Fight for What You Believe In with Willie Jackson | Willie Jackson is the founder and publisher of Abernathy, a magazine for black men. He is also a tech consultant and a member of Seth Godin’s Domino Project. He is an advisor and has worked with several bestselling authors and entrepreneurs as well as | 8/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 43 - The Art of Work with Jeff Goins | Many of us don’t know exactly what we want to be. We wander through life dissecting our likes and our wants without realizing this is a process which gives our calling time to present itself. Life’s dopamine shots of getting it now can interfere wit | 8/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 42 - Live a Savvy Life with Stephanie Carls | The impression that you make while connecting on social media can help you land the perfect job or it can haunt you. Your online personal brand is what the world sees so, make certain it is authentically you. It may be difficult in the future to cover u | 8/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 41 - Which Wolf Will You Feed? | Charlie talks briefly on the show today about an old Native American parable about an evil wolf and a good wolf and which wolf we feed. It’s about the battle that goes on inside of us. Do we choose to feed the good or the bad in us? He addresses that | 8/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 40 - Your Work is a Gift with James Victore | James Victore is a graphic artist, author, and activist who describes his art as “sexy” and strives to help people find their creative courage through talks and workshops. He has numerous high-profile clients and his posters have been displayed in p | 7/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 39 - Be True to Yourself with Natalie Sisson | Known as the Suitcase Entrepreneur, Natalie Sisson has been traveling the world and living out of her suitcase since 2006 while also running a successful online business from her laptop that generates a six-figure income. She is a number-one bestselling | 7/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 38 - Every Day Is A Pivotal Point with Kevin Briggs | Sergeant Kevin Briggs is a retired California Highway Patrol officer who spent most of his time on the Golden Gate Bridge encouraging people not to commit suicide by jumping. He was nicknamed the guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge and has helped over 20 | 7/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 37 - Do What You Can, When You Can with Carla Birnberg | The smartest thing Carla ever did with regards to writing her book is collaborating with a person who was just as emotionally involved as she was. She was so used to going full throttle all the time she needed to learn that you can ask for help or even | 7/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 36 - Write Your Own Future with Ali Luke | Ali Luke is an author, blogger, entrepreneur, and mother who blogs about writing on her website Aliventures. She is also the creator of Writers’ Huddle, a teaching community site for writers. She started writing online in 2008 and has since become a r | 6/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 35 - Weave Your Magic into Your Life with Andrew Bennett | Andrew Bennett is a former Fortune 500 corporate executive and started his career working as H. Ross Perot's personal assistant. Andrew teaches corporations his transformation framework, which he developed through his passion and understanding of magic. | 6/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 34 - Living a Full-Color Life with Melissa Dinwiddie | Melissa evangelizes that feeding your creative hungers is one of the fastest routes to happiness. As a happiness catalyst and creativity instigator Melissa empowers people to find and follow their callings, create their art and share their work because | 6/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 33 - The 12 Challenges of Creative Giants | Charlie talks today on the show about what it means to be a creative giant and why he uses that term, challenges a creative giant may face, what it means and how to “stand tall,” and more. Key Takeaways: 01:13 – What creative giants are. 03:20 | 6/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 32 - A Life of Storytelling with Mary Trunk | Mary Trunk has many titles to her name including painter, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker and has been making documentary films for over 20 years. Her first feature length film, The Watershed, screened at over 30 film festivals worldwide and has wo | 6/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 31 - Building Your Money Muscle with Joan Sotkin | Joan Sotkin is an author, coach, and businesswoman who helps people understand why they do what they do with their money and how to change their financial behaviors. In the 1980’s Joan built her own mail order business selling crystals and making over | 5/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 30 - Advancing Craftsmanship with Breanne Dyck | Breanne Dyck is a strategist, coach, and consultant whose expertise is in distilling information, drawing key insights, and helping her clients achieve light bulb moments. She helps microbusinesses grow their revenues and their impact by applying the pr | 5/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 29 - Building an Inspiring Tomorrow with Valerie Groth | Val Groth is a former school social worker in the inner city schools of Chicago. She holds dual masters degrees in social work and educational leadership, which has helped her work with students in crisis. After her career as a social worker she entered | 5/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 28 - The Art of Being Unmistakable with Srinivas Rao | Srinivas Rao is a bestselling author and the host and founder of The Unmistakable Creative Podcast where he has interviewed over 500 people in an effort to inspire and encourage his listeners to stand out by being unmistakable. He is also the creator of | 5/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 27 - Leveraging Your Quiet Power with Tara Gentile | Tara Gentile is an author and business strategist, who works with entrepreneurs and helps them design their personal “quiet power strategy” that will tap into their strengths and help them lead themselves where they want to go. She teaches her clien | 4/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 26 - Owning Your Own Path with Chris Brogan | Chris Brogan is the CEO of Owner Media Group, a highly sought after professional speaker, coach, consultant, and author. He provides education and tools to help make people’s lives and businesses thrive by teaching them how to own the game they most w | 4/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 25 - Art, Abundance, and Entrepreneurship with Cory Huff | Cory Huff is an actor and storyteller who also has a career in Internet marketing. He discovered search engine marketing in social media in 2004 and since then has worked on marketing and software programs for some of the world’s biggest companies. He | 4/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 24 - Becoming a Force of Nature with Julie Daley | Julie Daley is a teacher, writer, and coach who works with people around the world in emotional intelligence, conscious embodiment, leadership potential, spontaneous awakening, the sacred feminine, finding one’s purpose, healing the pain of the past, | 4/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 23 - 27 Steps to Freedom with Wendy McClelland | Wendy McClelland is a lifelong entrepreneur who started a small typing business after her divorce that eventually grew to what The New York Times called one of the best biz sites on the ‘net. She has overcome incredible odds, raising 3 children under | 3/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 22 - Creating the Automatic Customer with John Warrillow | John Warrillow is a successful entrepreneur who is the founder of The Value Builder System and author of the bestselling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, which was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. Magazine as one o | 3/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 21 - Gathering the People with Sarah Bray | Sarah Bray is a wife and homeschooling mom who has spent the past nine years working with clients as a strategic designer, front-end developer, and nation-builder. She has consulted with over 100 clients on content strategy, product design, marketing st | 3/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 20 - Life After Tampons with Jennifer Boykin | Jennifer Boykin is the creative visionary behind the midlife reinvention movement “Life After Tampons” who speaks, teaches, and writes about women who rise. She frequently contributes to major Internet sites and blogs regularly for The Huffington Po | 3/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 19 - Find Your Own Success with Jake Ducey | In 2013, when Jake Ducey was 19, he dropped out of college to backpack the world. That then inspired him to write his first book Into the Wind, which he self-published, and it ended up making it to the top 300 on the Amazon bestseller list. He used the | 3/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 18 - She-Factoring the Tech Startup World with Thursday Bram | Thursday is the cofounder of Urgency, Inc., an online marketing agency focused on technical clients. She’s been blogging for over 10 years and has written for a variety of publications. She is a true renaissance woman whose interests include diversity | 2/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 17 - Life Out of the Box with Jonathon and Quinn | Jonathon Button and Quinn Vandenberg left everything behind at age 25 and moved to Nicaragua. After 6 months of living among the locals, surviving off of just $2.00 a day, and immersing themselves in the culture, Life Out of the Box was formed. They wor | 2/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 16 - Run the Point with Mike Bruny | Mike Ambassador Bruny’s mission is to help individuals discover their greatness and live it out. His latest project, Brand Inside a Brand, focuses on personal branding for the working professional. He is the author of Move the Crowd: 30 Days of Hip-Ho | 2/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 15 - Cultivating Creativity During Motherhood with Lucy Pearce | Lucy Pearce is a number one bestseller on Amazon and has written several books on the subject of motherhood and women. Some famous titles include Moon Time, The Rainbow Way, and the Moods of Motherhood. She also has her own publishing company, Womancraf | 2/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 14 - Write, Publish, Repeat with Johnny B. Truant | Johnny B. Truant is the co-founder of a publishing company called Sterling and Stone. He has written many fiction books like Unicorn Western, The Beam, Fat Vampire, and more. Johnny and Charlie go way back and have known each other for quite some time. | 1/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 13 - Traditional Publishing or Self Publishing? with Todd Sattersten | Todd Sattersten loves business books. He helps experts publish books and is the founder of BizBookLab. He is also the co-author of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. He talks with Charlie today on the show about how he got started, why he decided | 1/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 12 - How to Build Strong Communities with Terry "Starbucker" St. Marie | Terry "Starbucker" St. Marie is a writer, consultant, start up investor, and more. He has recently started an online magazine called BuiltOregon.com, which was crowd funded in December 2014. Terry has had his own business since 2010 and was named top 10 | 1/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 11 - Go Beyond Your Fear with Glenda Watson Hyatt | Glenda Watson Hyatt is a blogger, motivational speaker, and more. She has cerebral palsy, which limits some of her function. On the show you may hear the use of additional technology to help her communicate her message to the Productive Flourishing audi | 1/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 10 - How To Build Stronger Bonds with Todd Kashdan | Todd Kashdan is a public speaker, psychologist, professor, and author. He has published over 150 peer reviewed journal articles about the meaning of life, strength and development, stress, and more. He is the author of Curious? and, his most recent book | 12/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 9 - Taming Emotional Obesity with Laura Coe | Laura Coe is an entrepreneur, coach, and writer. She teaches her clients special spiritual techniques to help them live better emotionally stable lives. Laura co-founded Litholink Corporation, a healthcare company that helped over 350,000 patients a mon | 12/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 8 - Making a Healthy Profit AND a Real Difference in Business with Mark Silver | Mark is a fourth-generation entrepreneur who has written 7 different programs and a number of classes for entrepreneurs. He runs a distribution business and is also a paramedic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He sits down with Charlie today to talk about | 12/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 7 - Don't Be An Idea Thief with Jeffrey Davis | Jeffrey Davis is a creativity consultant who helps connect his clients to what really matters. He is a writer and the author of the book entitled The Journey from the Center to the Page. He also has had several essays, articles, and short stories appear | 12/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 6 - Playing Big with Tara Sophia Mohr | Tara Sophia Mohr is an expert on well-being and women's leadership. She has a book entitled, Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message and Tara has been featured on Maria Shiver, Huffington Post, and more. She talks to Charlie today about | 12/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 5 - Making Change with Jonathan Fields | Jonathan Fields is an entrepreneur, husband, dad, and an award-winning author. Jonathan is currently focused on the Good Life Project, which is a global movement that helps educate, inspire, connect, and support mission-driven people to achieving more c | 11/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 4 - Become More Mindful With Susan Piver | Susan Piver is a New York Times bestselling author of 7 books and a Buddhist teacher. She has been practicing Buddhism since 1995 and became authorized to teach Shambhala Buddhist meditation in 2005. Today on Productive Flourishing, Susan talks about Th | 11/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 3 - Pick Yourself with Seth Godin | Seth Godin is a best selling author and has written 17 books that have sold all over the world. Some of his more famous books include The Dip, Tribes, Purple Cow, and Linchpin. Along with his multiple book successes, he is also the founder of Squidoo.co | 11/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 2 - Overcoming Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Steve Errey | Steve Errey had been diagnosed with CFS for 5 years before he decided to walk his very first 26 mile marathon. People who suffer from CFS often can not take care of themselves, get out of bed, and even the simplest of physical activity hurts. He created | 11/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEpisode 1 - Your Body of Work with Pam Slim | Pamela is an award-winning author, a motivational speaker, and the creator of the blog Escape from Cubicle Nation. She has recently released a new book called Body of Work and talks a little bit about her book, her journey in creating it, and answers so | 11/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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This podcast brings to life professionals and their work with a blend of intimacy and easily digestible information and tools. Whether you diligiently listen week week after week or pick and choose based on your current business or learning needs, you'll find insightful interviews with a diverse set of professionals from a variety of fields. Each one will leave you with practical takeaways that you can immediately apply, thought provoking questions or a point of view that causes you to examine your existing mindset. This coupled with Charlie's wisdom peppered throughout, makes for an enjoyable and informative listen.
Business With Human Understanding
Charlie Gilkey from Productive Flourishing is an amazing, insightful teacher and excels at business structure and organization.
I enjoy listening to the Creative Giant podcast, because Charlie interviews guests in an indepth and compelling manner getting them to open up on how their business intertwines with their personal goals and values
He has great free planners on Productive Flourishing and answers hard questions on organizing and business on his Monthly momentum calls. Definitely subscribe today.
Inspiration with a side of takeaway
In every episode, I find inspiration and motivation to keep doing big things. I also come away with 2 or 3 solid takeaways to bring into my own business and life after every episode. Charlie gets his guests to open up in a way that really hits home for me.
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