I’ve talked before about that 3AM voice - the one that whispers in your ear that you're not good enough or that maybe you'll fail and so therefore it's probably better if you just quit now. That voice is what I call the gremlins. The gremlins are not your friend, and you've got to learn how to ignore them. But here's the thing - there’s another voice that often sounds very similar to the gremlin voice, except that it’s RIGHT. It’s the voice of your instincts, and its absolutely critical that you...
Mar 09, 2017•18 min
Debbie Millman is currently the Editorial and Creative Director of Print Magazine, but she has an insane track record going back decades: she’s the author of 6 books including “How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer,” a prolific design writer in outlets like NYT, Fast Company, and Design Observer, chairs the Masters In Branding program at SVA (co-founded with Steven Heller), and hosts a long running podcast called “design matters” which has done 265 episodes over 10 years with legends and ic...
Mar 02, 2017•1 hr 4 min
I often talk about personal style, but I’m always asked … what, why, how? So on this week’s podcast we dig into it. Today's episode is a micro shows. In addition to the bad-ass guest interviews, these are short 5 to 15 minute segments sharing inspirational tidbits, hot news, discussion on specific topics, and more. If you have ideas on what you'd like to hear on the show let me know on any of my social channels: @chasejarvis. I’m listening! Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be fou...
Feb 22, 2017•19 min
You may know Adrian as the star of Entourage and The Devil Wears Prada , but he also has a lengthy history as a documentarian and entrepreneur who’s made a lifelong habit out of going around, over and through the various gatekeepers that stood between him and his goals. You’ll hear a lot of familiar themes come up in this conversation that are very core to me: the critical importance of building a community of peers who will motivate, inspire and help each other; how mentorship can be a catalyst...
Feb 16, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Caterina Fake is best known for being the co-founder of Flickr, which pioneered a ton of the things that we now take for granted on the internet: social networking, tagging, and content surfacing algorithms to name just a few. But like many of us, her career path has been - to say the least - unpredictable. On the way to becoming the co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake explored everything from banking to graphic design to writing novels, and she’s now the Chairman of the Board for Etsy, a board ...
Feb 09, 2017•1 hr 13 min
If you’ve ever asked yourself - as almost all of us have - “how can I find and follow my calling and my passion,” then you’re going to get a lot out of this conversation. Elle has a book describing her own search for an answer to this question which is called “The Crossroads of Should And Must” which explores the tension between the expectations that parents, friends, and culture put on us (what she calls “should”) and who we are and what we know to be true (what she calls “must”). Today on the ...
Feb 02, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Gretchen Rubin is the author of several blockbuster NYT bestsellers ( Better Than Before , The Happiness Project and Happier At Home ) which have sold millions of copies worldwide. If you notice a common theme of “happiness,” that’s because Gretchen is one of the world’s foremost “happiness experts.” Today on the podcast, * Gretchen talks about her concept of “drift." Drift is what happens when we take the path of least resistance, which avoids friction in the short term but often leads to unhap...
Jan 26, 2017•1 hr 7 min
Brian Solis is a digital anthropologist and futurist, studying disruptive technology and its impact on the future of business and society. This episode is all about design-- specifically experience design, which is the topic of Brian’s latest book “X: The Experience When Business Meets Design.” It's the paradigm which drives companies like Nike, Airbnb, and Uber that are transforming one industry after the other, and Brian has some great insights that will help you wrap your head around it and a...
Jan 19, 2017•49 min
To list all of James Altucher's accomplishments would take more space than we have here, but the short version is that he's written something like 18 books, he’s got a wildly popular blog called the Altucher Confidential, an awesome podcast, and he's started 20 (yes, 20!) companies-- and that's just the highlights. Today on the podcast... * We talk about a great framework for a daily checklist: Am I doing something for my physical health? For my personal relationships, creativity, and practicing...
Jan 12, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Tina Roth-Eisenberg aka Swiss Miss is an acclaimed graphic designer and entrepreneur. She's the founder of several ventures including CreativeMornings, a to-do app called TeuxDeux, a designy temporary tattoo shop called Tattly and runs a co-working space called FRIENDS. Today on the podcast... * The beauty of starting something as a side project vs a business-- you’re more willing to experiment, less afraid of failure * Scratching your own itch. Tina says, "If I keep repeatedly complaining about...
Jan 05, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Neil Strauss is a seven-time NYT best selling author. He became an international celebrity and an accidental hero to men after writing The Game, where he went undercover in a secret society of pickup artists for two years. If that wasn’t enough Neil is an award winning columnist at the New York Times and Rolling Stone, for which he’s well-known for earning the trust of some of the most guarded and secretive celebrities in the world. Today on the podcast... * We dig into vulnerability. Neil says ...
Dec 29, 2016•1 hr 28 min
Austin Kleon likes to call himself “a writer who draws.” He is the best selling author of three illustrated books (Newspaper Blackout, Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work), and one of the most insightful voices on the topic of creativity. He’s been featured on media institutions like NPR’s Morning Edition, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and PBS Newshour and speaks for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. In today’s episode we talk about: * Creativity &...
Dec 22, 2016•1 hr 21 min
If there’s a formula for turning your dreams into reality, Daymond has it-- and it starts with setting ambitious but achievable goals. Daymond John is a modern renaissance man. As the founder of iconic brand FUBU he first built his name in the apparel business, taking FUBU from a side hustle to over $6 billion in sales. He’s one of the stars of ABC’s Shark Tank and his most recent book The Power Of Broke made him a New York Times bestselling author. He’s the CEO of Shark Branding, which has name...
Dec 16, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Kevin Rose has lived the dream of many aspiring Internet entrepreneurs. His businesses have been prescient and successful, and as an angel investor he has bet on major players before they were big: Square, Twitter and Uber, to name a few. But Kevin’s successes as the founder of Digg and Revision 3 weren’t due to shrewd calculation alone-- they were built on a foundation of habits that anyone can duplicate and use as their own foundation. In this episode, we’ll look under the hood at how Kevin de...
Dec 08, 2016•1 hr 26 min
I’m often asked what are the biggest levers that have made a difference in my career & life. I’m a huge believer that so much of ‘THE GAME’ is mental. If you've been following me for awhile, you'll know I almost always bring up mediation. Perhaps my second not-so-secret weapon is gratitude. In today's podcast, I dive a little deeper into gratitude: what is it and how you can do it + a few places where I've shared more on this topic. Today's episode is a new segment on the podcast: Micro Show...
Dec 02, 2016•20 min
In 2010, Brandon Stanton started taking pictures of people on the streets of New York City and posting them on a blog. After thousands of conversations and pictures, Brandon realized he wasn’t a photographer. Rather, he was a believer in connection, in community, and in basic human sweetness. In large part, Brandon’s work has been so influential because he removed himself from the equation and allowed the communities he documents to speak for themselves. Brandon’s blog Humans of New York has acc...
Nov 23, 2016•1 hr 35 min
Sophia Amoruso is a creative visionary, pioneering entrepreneur, and fashion doyenne. As founder of Nasty Gal, she has forged an unprecedented path in building a brand in the teenage years of the Internet. Amoruso released the paperback edition of her New York Times 18-week best-seller #GIRLBOSS in 2015. It was recently announced that Amoruso has teamed up with Charlize Theron to Executive Produce the #GIRLBOSS comedy series on Netflix. Amoruso recently launched her first podcast, #GIRLBOSS Radi...
Nov 17, 2016•54 min
Kevin Kelly believes that we overestimate the effects of technology in the moment, but vastly underestimate their effects in the long term. Whenever we create anything, we join a vast lineage of makers and thinkers and doers, from the first cave painter to the designers of virtual technology. Kevin Kelly is a visionary idea man and technologist. He is a co-founder of Wired and also of the influential Hackers Conference. He is the editor and publisher of the website Cool Tools, which gets half a ...
Nov 11, 2016•1 hr 18 min
In today's show, I have a big announcement -- CreativeLive is now available as an app on iOS and AppleTV. Of course you can watch our free on-air broadcasts and purchases classes, anytime, anywhere. But what I'm super excited about is you can now select a free lesson of your choice every day from the 25,000 lessons we have in our catalog. That's like 25,000 days of genius. Download the apps + learn more at http://creativelive.com/apps Today's show is also the start of a new segment on the podcas...
Oct 30, 2016•7 min
At the age of just 24, Lewis Howes found his pro football career abruptly ended by injury. He collapsed into a depression, paralyzed by fear and overwhelmed by the prospect of rebooting literally his entire life (with no money, no degree, and nothing to fall back on). But unwilling to accept defeat, he broke the massive challenge of reinventing himself into a series of smaller, manageable goals that he took on way by one. It started with simply getting his butt off the couch, and ended with wher...
Oct 21, 2016•1 hr 17 min
How many times have you told yourself “I know I should _____, but [insert excuse here]”? And how much progress would you have made toward your goals if you were able to silence that voice and get rid of the excuses that keep you from putting in the work that you know you should? If you’re like most of us, you’d rather not answer those questions— but as you’ll learn from this great conversation with Ramit Sethi, the answer is simple: change your habits, and you’ll change your life. In our talk we...
Oct 13, 2016•1 hr 27 min
Gabby Bernstein is at the forefront of the growing spiritual wellness trend for a generation taught to strive for success above all else. She has been named a “next-generation thought leader” by Oprah Winfrey. She appears regularly as an expert on The Dr. Oz Show and has been named “a new role model” by The New York Times. She is an NYT bestselling author, and the founder of HerFuture.com, a social networking site to inspire, empower and connect women. Now if you’ve been following me for awhile,...
Sep 30, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Jared Leto is one of the most accomplished and versatile creators of his generation. He’s an Oscar-winner actor with two decades of film and television roles under his belt, quietly amassing a list of critically acclaimed appearances in films like Fight Club, Requiem For A Dream, Dallas Buyers Club and Suicide Squad among many others. His band Thirty Seconds To Mars has been in action since 1998 and sold over 15 million albums worldwide, and he’s directed several of their videos including the MT...
Sep 23, 2016•38 min
Everybody has a calling. If you open your eyes, there’s a maker instinct in you. For Sir Mix-A-Lot, creativity manifested in the form of rabid love for music in general and for hip-hop in particular. Cobbling together an immortal career first out of cast-off electronics and then out of platinum records, Mix was never concerned with success when he started out. He simply kept doing what he felt called to do - make music that gets people dancing - until he found himself in the midst of a profitabl...
Sep 23, 2016•1 hr 39 min
We often chase our dreams at the expense of our bodies. In the dogged pursuit of what we call success, we often don’t think about our bodies until they start to hurt. Dr. Kelly Starrett is redefining the way we think about success to include our basic physical health. His approach to movement, mechanics, and mobility isn’t just for athletes-- it’s a path toward health and wholeness for virtually anyone. Kelly works with professional athletes, Olympic teams, universities, and elite military. He i...
Sep 15, 2016•1 hr 46 min
Gary Vaynerchuk builds businesses. Fresh out of college he took his family wine business and grew it from a $3M to a $60M business in five years. Now he runs VaynerMedia, one of the world’s hottest digital agencies. He’s a best selling author, a renowned keynote speaker and releases tons of free content such as the The #AskGaryVee Show all surrounding valuable insights on social media, entrepreneurship, startups, and family businesses. This episode is rapid fire of action advice for creatives an...
Aug 30, 2016•51 min
She calls herself a shame and vulnerability researcher, she’s a storyteller, and has one of the most popular ted talks of all time. Brené Brown studies and talks about subjects we’re all intimately familiar with, but most of us rarely discuss. She has deeply, deeply inspired me. She’s a life changer, and a game changer and she also has 3 NYT Best Sellers in the top 10, including her latest book, Rising Strong. I love this conversation with Brené and we go deep into the things we face as creative...
Aug 11, 2016•1 hr 26 min
If there’s anyone qualified to lay out the blueprint for dreaming big, living life on your own terms and turning your passions into your career, it’s the iconic Richard Branson. He’s fearlessly and boldly disrupted one industry after another as the founder of the Virgin Group, from publishing to airlines to creating Virgin Galactic (the world’s first commercial spaceliner), building an empire of more than 100 companies and 60,000 employees in over 50 countries. Richard is an explorer and adventu...
Aug 11, 2016•46 min
Happy to play the role of provocateur and prankster, Stefan Sagmeister has famously pushed the boundaries of design. Stefan’s legend stems from the fact his work is so closely linked to his personal searchings and strivings. His impressive client roster includes names like The Rolling Stones, Target, Talking Heads, HBO, Time Warner and the Guggenheim, and he’s won two Grammy awards, an AIGA Medal and practically every important international design award. Stefan’s exhibitions have been mounted i...
Aug 05, 2016•1 hr 3 min
LeVar Burton was cast in the groundbreaking role of Kunta Kinte in the landmark television series Roots, at age 19, landing him on the cover of Time Magazine. You will also know him as Geordi La Forge in the iconic “Star Trek: The Next Generation” television series and films, but it’s his role as host and executive producer of the PBS children series “Reading Rainbow” that he’s most proud of. In this episode, we dive into LeVar's meteoric rise as a young actor to lessons learned of the last 40 y...
Jul 28, 2016•1 hr 22 min