5 Conversations Aspiring Creatives Should Have Each Week
To move your work from good to great
“I hate podcasts and I hate poetry! There’s no way I’m doing a podcast about poetry!”
“That’s exactly why it will be so much fun!”
And with that sales pitch, my friend and mindfulness coach Justin Caffrey, roped me into starting a podcast where he drops Rumi bombs and I try to make sense of what in the hell he’s talking about.
“Two Dudes and a Poem” probably won’t be a hit.
I can say that with a certain level of confidence.
But I’ll be damned if recording the first few episodes these last weeks before our launch hasn’t been a serious buzz. Talking on camera for 15-minutes about a topic I’m not well-versed in has not only exposed me to a bunch of new ideas and ways of looking at things. But, interestingly enough, it’s also helped me to connect some of the dots I have floating around my head. After all, sometimes the best way to gain clarity is by allowing ourselves to share loose thoughts.
Plus, I’ve always been a big believer that a seriously underrated way to spark ideas is by doing something you hate as it’s hard to not be fully present when standing on the edge of a cliff.
