Hey, Creator!
Business & Economics Podcasts
Join bestselling author Jeff Goins and his cohosts and guests for a weekly mixtape about the Creator Economy. If you're sick of consuming boring content and determined not to become part of the problem, you're ready for this show. Through stories, interviews, dialogue, and shenanigans, Jeff will lead the way into a new and inspiring reality for creators all over the world. Tune in every week for proof that you can live the creative life you've always dreamed of.
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United States
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Join bestselling author Jeff Goins and his cohosts and guests for a weekly mixtape about the Creator Economy. If you're sick of consuming boring content and determined not to become part of the problem, you're ready for this show. Through stories, interviews, dialogue, and shenanigans, Jeff will lead the way into a new and inspiring reality for creators all over the world. Tune in every week for proof that you can live the creative life you've always dreamed of.
Language:
English
Episodes
The Unfinished Symphony
10/4/2022
We are all living unfinished symphonies. Our lives and our work never actually end. We are always moving on to the next chapter, the next project, the next incompletion. And everything we put our hands to is yet another opportunity to discover who we are. And when we finally discover that, the real work begins. Until then, we’ll just have to keep—
Duration:00:44:11
It’s a Matter of Taste: Part Two
8/30/2022
Developing your taste is a process of trusting yourself and your experience. It’s about learning to live in the moment and knowing that sometimes it never gets better than the first sip. And really, what we’re talking about here is the art of learning to live a little more fully alive.
It’s a Matter of Taste: Part One
8/15/2022
An artist’s taste is everything. But this takes time and effort to develop. And often, we won’t know what we like until we experience what we don’t like. Maybe taste, then, is more about paying attention than it is about preconceived preferences.
This is part one of a two-part conversation.
How to Finish the First Draft of Anything
7/25/2022
The first step to finishing is to begin. And the secret to getting unstuck is to begin again. We cannot bring anything to completion. That’s not our job.
The Creative Future of Money
7/11/2022
Join us as we get to the bottom of the future of money, cryptocurrency, and NFTs with our guest expert Ty Ward, founder of Book Coin and wearer of aggressively short shorts.
The Largeness of a Little Life
6/29/2022
A little life is underrated. When all the glitz and glamor of “success” fade away, all that’s left is the life you choose to live, the one that may be standing right in front of you. Maybe your greatest story is the one that’s already happening.
Living the Dream
6/14/2022
What do tattoos, dreams, and bulls have in common? Maybe more than you think. Today, we explore this dream-like existence we call life and the creator’s dilemma of making sense of the mystery.
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Where Does the Money Come From?
6/6/2022
After being able to buy a house he didn’t know he could afford, Jeff muses about money and value and where it all comes from. If currency is merely a concept, then what does that mean for the artist? Maybe we can create the very resources we need to produce our work.
Creative Idiots
5/24/2022
All art is a little scandalous. It takes that which you treat as precious and sacred and exposes it. A great artist knows how to play the trickster, that devious misfit who stirs things up in a way that changes things for the better.
Beyond the Brand
5/16/2022
What do you do when the familiar story you’ve been telling the world—about yourself—gets interrupted by reality? You do what no marketer or influencer wants to do. You tell the truth.
Ray Edwards shares his story about getting Parkinson’s, how he tried to get healed, and what happened to his identity when what he wanted to become didn’t happen.
The Problem with a Brand
5/10/2022
The problem with a (personal) brand is it’s an idea, a distillation of a concept that is interesting and attractive to a certain group of people for a certain period of time. But then you change, and you have to keep selling the same thing to a world that wants you to be what you were. So what do you do then? Well, that’s when life really begins.
Duration:00:44:36
The Coffee Episode
4/25/2022
Wherein we explore the art of making a perfect cup of coffee—and why it ultimately doesn’t matter. Art is an asymptote: a striving towards an impossible standard of excellence that you never actually reach but always makes you better.
I’m Still Here
4/18/2022
After a cross-continent road trip, Jeff is still here and opens up about the story of his divorce, how he overcame writer’s block, and the magic of making things.
Sequels Suck
4/11/2022
A sequel only works when it ignores what came before it. This is true with your life and work: to be truly innovative, you have to be willing to break the rules, even the ones you may have written. You can't just be another connoisseur; you've got to become a true creator, and that requires unmistakable audacity. You have to dare to be different if you want to continue creating work worth noticing.
This Is Not a Trailer
2/15/2022
We’re back! But are we really? In this volume, we’re gonna talk about sequels and second seasons and why they fundamentally don’t work—unless you completely disregard what came before. And that’s just what we intend to do (hopefully). See you soon.
Duration:00:03:27
Season One Retrospective
11/30/2021
Jeff and Kelton sat down with a glass of wine to wax philosophical about the creative process, the first season's most popular episodes, their personal favorites, and the fate of a second season. TL;DR – They don't know where they're going, but they know how to get there. Thanks for coming along for the ride.
Outro: I’m Not Here
9/28/2021
A farewell poem to Season One from Jeff.
Am I Really Retiring?
9/21/2021
In this final issue of our first season, Jeff shares more about his recent “retirement” announcement and hints at what’s next. It turns out we are always retiring from something, outgrowing an old way of being and graduating to the next. This week, we explore how to end things well, what it looks like to create blank space for future work, and why endings are never really the end. We also hear some kind words from the audience, celebrating ten years worth of creative work together and bidding farewell to the old.
Day at the Museum
9/14/2021
This week, as we prepare for our season finale, we have a bonus episode for you. Recently, while walking through the Art Institute in Chicago, I had a revelation. Observing the Picassos and Warhols and O’Keefes, I realized that art is not necessarily the final product. It is the process. The same might be said of our own work, as well.
Duration:00:21:11
The Creative Question
9/7/2021
With our work, we are all trying to answer an important question. And how we choose to answer it affects everything. Art, however, may not be about answering the question as much as learning to live well within the unknowns of what we do. In this issue, we talk about death, art museums, writer's block, and more. Where we end up just may surprise you.