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Podcast roundup

To promote Keep Going, I spent the past two weeks recording podcasts all afternoon, so here’s a little roundup of the first ones to post.

1. I was totally flattered to be the first male guest invited on the Crafty Ass Female podcast.  We talked about a bunch of stuff, but my favorite part of the conversation was when we talked about how feminism is the way out of the nightmare of being a man. (A strong belief of mine!)

2. Had a great time talking to the fellas on the He Shoots, He Draws podcast.

3. Enjoyed chatting again with The Kindle Chronicles. Len excerpted this bit:

“When I first started out, if you had told me that my books were going to be shelved in Self Help, I would never have believed you. And when I first got started I had no idea there was such a thing as an illustrated gift book. I just didn’t know that those genres existed in publishing. The really fun thing for me about doing this kind of book is that it allows me to be as weird as I want to be in a mainstream format.  That is the great gift that these books have given to me.”

This is going to be one candid book tour, lemme tell you!

Coffee with an old friend

Back in February I sat down with Mike Rohde and recorded a conversation for his Sketchnote Army podcast about how I work. It was recorded on an iPhone in a noisy coffee shop downtown, but it has a casual, candid feel to it that I enjoyed.

I was right in the middle of writing the talk that would become my new book, and while I don’t talk about the book at all, I talk a lot about the process of getting to it: going back to daily blogging, putting out the newsletter, having a repeatable daily practice for generating work, reading Thoreau’s journals, watching Ralph Steadman draw, etc.

Listen here.

The work of art

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Ted Weinstein interviewed me for his new podcast, The Work Of Art.

In part one, we talked about limitations as a source of creativity, how to take more artistic risks, the value of old fashioned tools as well as social media to build community, and how to keep one’s art fresh:

 

In part two, we talked about why women artists are better role models for maintaining work-family balance, how to raise creative children, the value of sales and other business skills for artists, etc.:

Interview on the Stacking Benjamins podcast

After citing Steal Like An Artist as his major influence in the Inc. profile, “How Did An Average Joe Get an Award Winning Podcast? He Stole It,” Joe Saul-Sehy invited me to be a guest on the podcast. We had a nice conversation about side hustles, organization, flow, money, and a bunch of other stuff.

Listen here. (Our conversation starts at 16:00.)

Let’s Make Mistakes

I’ve been on my friend Mike Monteiro‘s podcast, Let’s Make Mistakes, twice now.

The first show was called “No One Destroys My Family But Me,” and we talked about being dads:

The second show was called “Church and State,” and it’s us ranting about art, design, and creativity:

I’m currently working on the forward to Mike’s forthcoming book, You’re My Favorite Client, which is the sequel to his brilliant book, Design Is A Job.

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