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Austin Kleon is a writer, artist, and speaker.  Austin also speaks about creativity for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, and many others.  He is the author of many books, including Steal Like an Artist, and Newspaper Blackout.

In this episode, Eric and Austin discuss his book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

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In This Interview, Austin Kleon and I Discuss How to Stay Creative and …

• His book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
• How his deep work has usually originated from a dark place
• Life is about the balance between the light and dark in us
• His long term pessimism and short term optimism
• Making peace with things not ever getting easier and learning to enjoy the now.
• How there are no perfect conditions in life so no sense waiting or worrying about what’s next
• If/And statements and how life is not linear in that way
• His reflection on the book her wrote 10 years ago
• Trying to get back to the beginner’s mind
• Seeking curiosity over wisdom
• Ordinary life + extra attention = the extraordinary
• Paying attention by drawing, writing, reading poetry, or walking
• Trying to view things as an artist might
• Forget the noun, do the verb
• The importance of having a hobbies
• How energy can be found in books and works of art

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Jon Acuff is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books.  He’s also an INC Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences and companies around the world, including FedEx, Nissan, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, and many others.  

In this episode, Eric and Jon discuss his new book, Soundtracks:  The Surprising Solution to Overthinking

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In This Interview, Jon Acuff and I Discuss Overthinking, Internal Soundtracks, and …

• His book, Soundtracks:  The Surprising Solution to Overthinking
• How action eliminates overthinking and inaction breeds overthinking
• The importance of deciding as few times as possible
• Overthinking is when what you think gets in the way of what you want
• Viewing our thoughts as repetitive soundtracks that become our playlist
• “Pulling the thread” when processing your feelings
• How fear gets a voice but doesn’t get a vote
• Learning to identify your broken soundtracks
• Evaluating your thoughts and asking is it true, is it helpful, is it kind?
• Getting support from others can help retire your broken soundtracks
• How we can’t stop overthinking but we can replace it with another thought
• Viewing our thoughts as a dial that we can turn down and not a switch that we can turn off
• Finding activities that get you out of your head
• Flipping your broken soundtracks to the opposite
• The important process of repeating new soundtracks
• Finding ways to remind yourself of new soundtracks
• Tying new thoughts to a symbol by making it personal, visible, and simple

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Sebastian Siegel is a British American screenwriter, director, author, and actor from Oxford, England.  His new movie is Grace and Grit, based on the American philosopher Ken Wilber’s, 1991 memoir.  John Mackey had to say about the new movie, “This movie will shake you, and maybe even awaken you in some way.  This movie is a must-see, especially for anyone interested in love or consciousness.”

In this episode, Eric and Sebastian discuss his movie, Grace and Grit.

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In This Interview, Sebastian Siegel and I Discuss Love, Grace, Grit, and …

• His new movie, Grace and Grit, a story of love beyond life
• Ken Wilber’s memoir and brilliant body of work that inspired this film
• The beautiful story of love and transformation 
• How taking action is a catalyst in the growth of your different relationships
• Knowing that we always have a choice in how we respond to what life gives us
• What it means to have both grace and the grit to push through challenges in life 
• How exercise and pushing beyond his physical limits is a spiritual practice for him
• Remembering and cultivating awareness that every moment is a spiritual practice
• His admiration of and inspiration from philosophers Alan Watts and Ken Wilber
• The gentleness and gracefulness of Ramana Maharsi’s work about being in service to love
• The metaphor of the bent finger of reaching out to God, within and through ourselves
• The paradoxes woven into life

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Guy Winch, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, keynote and TED Talk speaker, and author whose books have been translated into twenty languages. In this episode, Eric and Guy discuss his book Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts.

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In This Interview, Guy Winch and I Discuss Emotional First Aid and …

• His book, Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts
• Understanding that we need to tend to our emotional wounds just as we would physical wounds
• Building emotional resiliency by addressing these small wounds
• How to treat the emotional wound of rejection
• Identifying exactly what the hurt feelings are
• How the brain registers physical and emotional pain in the same way
• Learning to improve low self-esteem
• Writing exercises to help deal with rejection and failure
• How ruminating can easily become a habit and lead to depression
• The dangers of rumination: stewing vs. doing
• How rumination is vulnerable to distraction, engage your mind somewhere else
• What works and doesn’t work in building self-esteem
• Building self-compassion
• The detective mindset vs. a harmful and self-critical mindset

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Brian Broome is a poet, screenwriter, and instructor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.   He has been a finalist in The Moth storytelling competition and won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King’s Writing Awards.

In this episode, Eric and Brian discuss his book, Punch Me Up to the Gods:  A Memoir

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In This Interview, Brian Broom and I Discuss his Journey to Healing, Recovery, and …

• His book, Punch Me Up to the Gods:  A Memoir
• How he was raised in an environment where men are taught to be tough and masculine.
• Understanding that parents are doing the best they can and having grace with them
• How he learned more about his father after his death when writing his book
• His journey to getting sober and healing from childhood wounds
• What sobriety looks like for him now
• Recognizing his defense mechanisms
• Learning to not be ashamed of taking medication for anxiety and depression
• How he started writing in rehab lead to becoming a therapeutic tool for him
• Being ruled by shame and how all-consuming it was 
• The ideas of masculinity that remain from his upbringing
• His thoughts about masculinity not being a useful concept, but rather being human is what’s important
• External support is important, but only you can save yourself

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