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The Accidental Creative

Todd Henry

The Accidental Creative podcast shares how to build practical, everyday practices that help you stay prolific, brilliant and healthy in life and work. Host Todd Henry (author of the books Th...

Episodes

20 of 130 episodes

Learn Your Way Through (with Kipp Bodnar, CMO of Hubspot, and Tim Leatherman)

In this episode, we explore the essential power of learning as disruption accelerates across creative industries. We unpack stories of trans...

36:14Sep 28, 2026

Shop Different: Lessons From How Apple Reinvented Retail

In this episode of Daily Creative, we explore the art of tuning into the signals that matter and eliminating the noise that distracts us fro...

33:57Sep 21, 2026

Act On Your Passions, Just Not All At Once (Ravi Gupta & Amanda Northcutt)

On this episode of Daily Creative, we explore the practical side of pursuing creative passions and scaling expertise. Starting with the less...

36:59Sep 13, 2026

The Fingerprints Are The Work (Maggie Fost, VP of Design at Shopify)

In this episode, we sit down with Maggie Fost, VP of Design at Shopify, to explore what it means to leave a genuine imprint on creative work...

37:00Sep 6, 2026

Autopilot (How I did everything right, and still almost missed my flight...)

In this episode, we explore the subtle dangers of drifting through our routines on autopilot—even when we feel present and focused. After an...

08:10Aug 29, 2026

Own Your Six Square Feet

In this episode, we unpack the story of Teruo Yabe and his remarkable turnaround of the Tokyo bullet train cleaning teams—transforming a low...

06:53Aug 19, 2026

The Octopus and the Mountain

This episode pulls back the curtain on how creativity gets stifled—both in our early lives and inside our organizations—and explores practic...

44:07Aug 11, 2026

The Long Moment

In this episode of Daily Creative, we reflect on the story of mathematician Andrew Wiles, whose years-long journey to solve Fermat's Last Th...

08:39Aug 4, 2026

The Price of Becoming

In 1852, a mid-level postal surveyor named Anthony Trollope gave Britain its iconic red pillar mailbox. He also wrote 47 novels, most of the...

31:56Jul 21, 2026

Of No Importance Whatsoever

In this episode, we explore the creative paradox that sometimes the best work begins when we stop trying to produce our "best work." We revi...

42:42Jul 14, 2026

Why Great Ideas Fail: Escaping the Pain Cave

In this episode, we explore what really drives demand for creative products and services. Through the story of how OXO Good Grips was born—n...

28:36Jul 7, 2026

Saying, Wanting, Trying

In this episode, we explore the hidden dynamic that often derails creative professionals and leaders: the gap between what we say, what we a...

10:00Jul 1, 2026

How To Try Again

In this episode of Daily Creative, we explore the nuanced experience of failure and the creative courage required to start over. We open wit...

24:08Jun 24, 2026

The One and the Ninety-Nine

In this episode of Daily Creative, we explore the tension between individuality and belonging, drawing inspiration from both jazz legend Mil...

24:30Jun 16, 2026

Signal To Noise

In this episode of Daily Creative, we explore what it really takes to do meaningful, protected creative work in an age of perpetual noise an...

39:13Jun 9, 2026

The Success Wound

Why does the title never feel like enough? Why do so many of us hit every goal we set and still go to bed feeling like we came up short? My...

24:47Jun 2, 2026

Stop Hoarding Your Genius: Why Habits Precede Breakthroughs

In this episode, we explore the often-overlooked gap between creating meaningful work and actually releasing it into the world. Starting wit...

32:20May 26, 2026

When Bad News Is Good News

In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful—but counterintuitive—practices for sustaining high-performance teams: making it safe to...

35:39May 19, 2026

Constraint & Uncertainty: David Epstein and Simone Stolzoff on Thinking Inside The Box

This week, we explore two forces that shape every creative journey: constraint and uncertainty. Drawing on the remarkable artistic reinventi...

38:57May 12, 2026

What's Running The Show? Henry Cloud and Owen O'Kane on Strategy & Anxiety

In this episode, we examine what really drives our actions as leaders and creators, and why our best intentions often fail to deliver result...

37:35May 5, 2026