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What does it mean to live a creative life? CreativeMornings, a breakfast lecture series for the global creative community, brings some of our most remarkable and inspiring archived talks—fro...

“Everyone is creative. A creative life requires bravery and action, honesty and hard work. We are here to support you, celebrate with you, a...

“Love is the thing in life that can cause you the most horrific, terrible pain, but it’s also the only thing on the planet that can heal you...

“We connect human-to-human and heart-to-heart by empowering the entire community… and do nothing but love, love, love.” Alan Graham took the...

“Each time that we are courageous and brave enough to take a risk we're showing to ourselves that we're worth it.” Sarah Hernholm spoke at C...

“The creative work life requires faith—faith in our craft, faith in the process, and the most challenging of all, faith in ourselves.” Self-...

“There is hope. After everything, you are able to survive. Listen to people, ask for help, receive the help. That would be the message… to r...

“There's a larger system that you must learn to address rather than just people and that, I think, is a level of maturity that is very impor...

“If you want to have a happy, successful, fulfilling, confident life, you have to commit yourself to take care of the people around you.” Si...

“Do anything that you can possibly do in life to figure out the best way for you to become exactly what you want to be.” Speaking on the glo...

“The greatest form of humility is to take your talent and put it in the service of other people.” Creative strategist Justin Kingsley delive...

“I think as a society we should move away from acts of balance and more toward acts of wholeness.” Katherine Wintsch spoke on the global the...

“Today and going forward, the risk of separation is so much greater than the risk of connection.” John Zinsser took the stage at CreativeMor...

"If we are going to change the world, we have to be open to the perspectives of what other people are going through — whether you've experie...

"Creative people are being asked to work on really important problems, problems that matter in the world, and the good news is we’re coming...

“I think it’s everyone’s birth right. Allowing yourself to find the things that you love and dedicating your life to doing them.” In this ta...
"Take a chance and try some things you didn't try because that may be the thing that works for you." With a style that is as abrasive as it...

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is becoming irrelevant, or invisible in my culture and in my society today.” Speaking on the globa...

"I felt that I'd taken the easy road. Never one to set up camp in regret, I found myself face to face with giant, seemingly insurmountable,...

“The first step is being able to admit that you have a dream.” In this CreativeMornings/Chicago talk from May 2014, Dallas Clayton, a childr...

“It is only when you can name your prison that you can do the terrifying, but life affirming and necessary work of setting yourself free.” K...

"Starting work without a contract is like putting on a condom after taking a home pregnancy test." Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and desig...

"It's not about what you stand against, but what you stand for." Aisha Fukushima, a singer, speaker, educator, and activist, strongly believ...

“Embracing and provoking conflict is one of the best things you can do for the creative process." Rochelle King is VP of Data, Insights and...

“I am doing something about what everybody knows and nobody ever speaks about." Cindy Gallop, an advertising expert and business consultant...

“Demand responsibility but don’t worry at all about authority." Seth Godin, a bestselling author, entrepreneur and marketer, believes that w...

"That's the beauty of community: we can spread love." John Forté, a classically trained violinist and Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter an...

“I don’t care what your art is. We are all artists." Tiffany Pratt, a designer and stylist, feels the world is a blank canvas and she sprink...

“Before you change politics, you have to change culture." Favianna Rodriguez is a transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organi...

"We need to empower ourselves to be the change." Benjamin Southworth feels that the education system failed him, and his own poor academic r...

"Oftentimes, all we have to do is make a decision to change." Steve Larosiliere is the founder and president of STOKED, an award winning dev...

"It’s easy to throw out bad ideas, but to throw out really good ones is hard." Anthony Casalena, the founder and CEO of Squarespace, walks u...

"Catapulting pellets of chance into your head." Lulu Miller, the co-host of NPR’s Invisibilia, covers stories that challenge our assumptions...

"Don't worry about big ideas, just keep making stuff." Ben Chestnut, the co-founder and CEO of MailChimp, spoke at CreativeMornings/Atlanta...

"If we don't love our work, we don't look out for each other." Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Simon Sinek is a tr...

“If you’re not making enough mistakes, you’re not taking enough risks.” One of the most influential designers working today, Debbie Millman...

“Grab the reins and do it!” Jessica Hische, renowned letterer, illustrator, type designer, and self-described “avid internetter,” spoke at C...

"Purpose is the new bottom line." Casey Gerald is the co-founder and CEO of MBAs Across America, a national movement of MBAs and entrepreneu...

CreativeMornings launches a podcast on Friday, October 2nd! We're excited to bring our monthly global events (in over 125 cities!) and intro...