MacGyver, Media, & Merchandise / Tony Hsieh, CEO & Internet Entrepreneur
“I love being entrepreneurial because it’s really just about getting to play MacGyver, but for business.” -Tony Hsieh Welcome to a very spec...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsArts
Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
On his new ten-episode series, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will get into the nitty-gritty of how a wide variety of creative people do what they do. Listeners’ questions will inspire conversations b...
Episodes
14 episodesPushing Boundaries & Yourself / Jessica Alba, Actress and Entrepreneur
“You have to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. You have to allow yourself to fail. Once you get over the fear of failure, then you...
Career & Contacts / Mary Vernieu, Casting Director
“From an actor's perspective...you have to be prepared for it to be really hard because there's so many factors that are influencing why you...
Tech & Humanity / Jaron Lanier, Computer Scientist, Writer, & Musician
“Making things ‘easy’ always has a downside...To pretend that you can make something easy without losing some of your focus and discipline i...
Love & The Paycheck / Omid Memar, Up-and-Coming Actor
“When you're an artist, it's not a button you can push on or off. You're always an actor. I sleep as an actor. I wake up as an actor.... I a...
Analytics & Intuition / Liv Boeree, Professional Poker Player
“A lot of people often think of rationality as actually about removing your emotions entirely, but I disagree with that because emotions are...
Family & Folk Music / Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Mother-And-Son Folk Band
“There’s times before my mom and I are about to go onstage to play together, and maybe we just argued right before going on. But there’s som...
TED TALK / How craving attention makes you less creative
For this episode, I’m going to do something a little different. I recently did a TED Talk, and there was something really distinct and speci...
Collaboration & Friendship / Seth Rogen + Evan Goldberg, Comedy Duo
“At the end of the day, I’d rather make stuff period than make stuff how I want to make stuff. And specific to us, I’d rather make stuff tog...
Clouds & Pipes / Yuka Honda, Sonic Songstress
“To me, it's not about really external/internal. It's about a pipe between me and others...I have all these thoughts and I want to express t...
Art & Politics / Shepard Fairey, Propagandist
“I want to be transparent that any image with an agenda (which is actually most images) is a form of propaganda. It’s just whether you try t...
Originality & Imitation / Rian Johnson, Filmmaker
“You have to be kind of angry about something to write a script...and if the thing that you're angry about is not something that you identif...
COMING SOON - Episode 1 with Rian Johnson!
Here’s a little snippet from the very first episode of Creative Processing featuring writer/director extraordinaire Rian Johnson! I was in h...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to hear your questions about creativity...
In his new podcast, "Creative Processing," Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to explore all aspects of creativity and artistic collaboration. Each...