Month: October 2023

What did you want to be when you grew up? Are you doing that? Or like us, did your path have a few more twists and turns? Our journey down the path isn’t always consistent and so straight forward.

Keith and Laura find some common threads that still connect them to their younger selves and the drive and passion that made them want to connect and learn in their teenage years.

Do the same things still resonate with you? Did you find a way to incorporate them into your daily practice, into what you do in your spare time, or into projects that you’re pursuing?

Here are a few quick links to select works we enjoy and find helpful.

● Kim Scott, Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

● Daniel H. Pink, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

● Michael Bungay Stanier, How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters

● Mel Robbins, Take Control of Your Life: How to Silence Fear and Win the Mental Game

● Gary Vaynerchuk, Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success

● Seth Godin, The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

● Fusebox the podcast hosting and player we use. Check it out!

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Passion, Purpose, Practical – What Did You Want to Be? Episode 8 All the Links: https://linktr.ee/makecreatebuild

We’ve started, we’ve failed, and we keep moving forward. Let’s keep our momentum going with work that matters. Speaking of work that matters, we are talking about Seth Godin’s book, Poke the Box.

Over the week, we read (or reread) Poke the Box. And, now it’s time for us to do what we do; talk about it and see what resonates with each other. We even mention a few other books that we’ve been enjoying by Mel Robbins, Alisa Cohn, Michael Bungay Stanier, and I’m sure Keith mentions The Practice by Seth Godin.

Let’s shines a light on the Lizard Brain. It’s time to commit to making a difference and decide what matters. Become an initiator. Start. Go. Do.

Don’t forget to send us any recommendations of your favorite reads or listens. And, if you have any suggestions for Laura as she leans into her writing, let us know.

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Here are a few quick links to select works we enjoy and find helpful.

● Seth Godin, Poke the Box

● Alisa Cohn, From Start-Up to Grown-Up: Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business

● Michael Bungay Stanier, How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters

● Mel Robbins, Take Control of Your Life: How to Silence Fear and Win the Mental Game

● Seth Godin, The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

● Seth Godin, The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

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We talk through imposter syndrome. The pitfalls and how we push past them.  “I don’t feel good enough,” or “who am I to . . .”  We address how it feels and how we push through to keep taking steps on our journey. 

I may not feel qualified to do this “thing,” but what I do know is I’m going to learn as I go through this, and I’m committed to myself to not just learn, but to hold myself accountable, to continue to improve and hone my craft.

Pushing Through Imposter Syndrome Episode 6

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When life presents unexpected obstacles or you feel like waving the white flag; how do you keep going? You’re in the hard part. That’s the dip. How do you keep showing up and doing the best you can with the time you have? The way I try to work through is by choosing action. What choice can you make to keep moving forward with your project?

We talk about some of our practices that we use to help us keep pushing forward, even when it gets hard. What resources or techniques do you find helpful when you are having trouble seeing a way forward?

How Do You Keep Moving? Episode 5

Here are a few quick links to select works we enjoy and find helpful.

● Seth Godin, The Dip

● Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility

● Field Notes – The best memo notebooks around.

● LP, Love Lines – Amazing New music we found.

● How Did This Get Made? – Podcast

● The Anxious Achiever – Podcast

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Better late than never?

We’ve been thinking about how the podcast is rolling out and shaping up. As we’re finding our voices, going through the different episodes, trying to piece together the conversations that we’ve had–we’ve gone from talking about just starting, to the overwhelm of starting, to perfectionism. 

So, how do we spend time with the things that light us up and surround ourselves with things that bring energy, excitement, and happiness? The ideas that you surround yourself with, the people, the things, the information, the practices, are ultimately what influences how you experience your world, your days.

We dive-in to the books we read, the music we listen to and get excited about. The small little practices that help us stay positive, shift or reframe our perspectives, and keep moving forward. They all play a role in our ability to keep showing up, to do the work. 

We talk at length about a favorite new artist of ours, LP. It came to our attention after recording and publishing the episode, that in our discussion, we address LP with the incorrect pronouns. LP prefers they/them pronouns. We apologize for our oversight. 

Our aim is to be inclusive and for people to feel comfortable listening, participating, sharing space with us. We can’t always be articulate. We wish we could. Even if we don’t have the ‘right’ words to express our thoughts all the time, we will continue to learn, grow, and make space for others as we strive to share and listen generously.

A Mixed Tape Episode 4 

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