This week I want to discuss what I believe is the most important, vital, and cutting edge “biohack” to optimizing your creativity, your mental health, and your overall well-being – SLEEP.
My favorite podcasts to boost your energy & creativity
Today I’m going back to the basics to help you master the fundamentals and ignite your energy & creativity doing the most basic thing of all – moving.
Ep174: Hollywood on the Record: The Real Story Behind @IA_Stories | with Marisa Shipley & Amy Thurlow
At the epicenter of the conversation last August during the most contentious portion of the IATSE contract negotiation was perhaps the IA Stories Instagram account where IATSE members discovered they weren’t alone in enduring the horrors of working in Hollywood: Burnout, abusive working conditions, and sacrificing everything – including even their lives – to simply keep their jobs in the entertainment industry was apparently everyone’s story.
You’re never “too old” to reinvent yourself
This week’s interview one of those special conversations that might help you realize you have a lot more to accomplish in life than you thought.
Ep173: How to Reinvent Yourself at Any Age (And Become Badass) | with Scott Morgan
As creative professionals, the pressure to come up with new ideas and be daring is stressful at best, and debilitating at worst. This pressure leads to limiting beliefs, imposter syndrome, and procrastination. And if it persists over long periods of time…even total burnout. What if there was a better approach to reinventing yourself, your work, and even your health & body image so you could fully tap into your limitless creativity?
Ep172: [CASE STUDY] Landing Your Dream Job Isn’t About “Luck,” It’s About Strategy | with Fabian Corrado & Nick Towle
When Optimizer students Nick Towle and Fabian Corrado originally came to me, neither one of them knew each other. But they both knew they were tired of the jobs they had, they felt stuck after trying for years to make a seemingly impossible career change, and they were ready to do anything to get on the right path.
(Podcast Top 5 RECAP)
This week I’m sharing the best of my top 5 podcast interviews that relate to setting goals, creating a plan, and making things happen!
Screw resolutions…try creating habits instead
This week I’m sharing the #4 of my top 5 podcast interviews that relate to setting goals, creating a plan, and making things happen!
This is my favorite meme from the last two years
This week I’m sharing the #3 of my top 5 podcast interviews that relate to setting goals, creating a plan, and making this happen!
The book that changed EVERYTHING for me
Of the hundreds of personal development books I’ve read I can confidently say that Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism is in my top 5 game changing books that have transformed the way I prioritize my life.
T-minus 26 days until 2022…are you ready for more than just “survival mode”?
If you’re not deliberate about defining what’s most important to you, the world will do it for you…and you simply become a part of someone else’s plan.
Ep171: How to Determine If a Job Is Worth The Costs | Mastermind Q&A
In this community Q&A, I and my coaching students discuss how to ensure that a potential opportunity can meet both our creative and lifestyle needs so the job doesn’t become “just another paycheck” at the expense of our health, our relationships, and our sanity.
My secret weapon for building my network
Let’s be honest…is there anything that we as creative professionals hate more than networking? Wouldn’t it be awesome to just do awesome work all the time and the right people would just magically discover that we are in fact awesome?
Ep170: How to Avoid Burnout and Live a More ‘Effortless’ Life | with Greg McKeown
Learn from New York Times bestselling author Greg McKeown the simple strategies you can use to both prioritize the most essential things in your life but also make doing them Effortless (without burning out).
The power of finding the right mentor (and how to make it happen)
I believe that if the goals you’ve set don’t require support from a mentor, then you’re probably not setting big enough goals for yourself.