Join bestselling author Jeff Goins and his cohosts and guests for a weekly mixtape about the Creator Economy. If you're sick of consuming boring content and determined not to become part of the problem, you're ready for this show. Through stories, interviews, dialogue, and shenanigans, Jeff will lead the way into a new and inspiring reality for creators all over the world. Tune in every week for proof that you can live the creative life you've always dreamed of.
Latest episodes
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44 min
The Unfinished Symphony
We are all living unfinished symphonies. Our lives and our work never actually end. We are always moving on to the next chapter, the next project, the next incompletion. And everyt…
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54 min
It's a Matter of Taste: Part Two
Developing your taste is a process of trusting yourself and your experience. It's about learning to live in the moment and knowing that sometimes it never gets better than the firs…
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55 min
It's a Matter of Taste: Part One
An artist's taste is everything. But this takes time and effort to develop. And often, we won't know what we like until we experience what we don't like. Maybe taste, then, is more…
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39 min
How to Finish the First Draft of Anything
The first step to finishing is to begin. And the secret to getting unstuck is to begin again. We cannot bring anything to completion. That's not our job.
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1 h 07
The Creative Future of Money
Join us as we get to the bottom of the future of money, cryptocurrency, and NFTs with our guest expert Ty Ward, founder of Book Coin and wearer of aggressively short shorts.
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45 min
The Largeness of a Little Life
A little life is underrated. When all the glitz and glamor of "success" fade away, all that's left is the life you choose to live, the one that may be standing right in front of yo…
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60 min
Living the Dream
What do tattoos, dreams, and bulls have in common? Maybe more than you think. Today, we explore this dream-like existence we call life and the creator's dilemma of making sense of…
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58 min
Where Does the Money Come From?
After being able to buy a house he didn't know he could afford, Jeff muses about money and value and where it all comes from. If currency is merely a concept, then what does that m…
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55 min
Creative Idiots
All art is a little scandalous. It takes that which you treat as precious and sacred and exposes it. A great artist knows how to play the trickster, that devious misfit who stirs t…
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52 min
Beyond the Brand
What do you do when the familiar story you've been telling the world—about yourself—gets interrupted by reality? You do what no marketer or influencer wants to do. You tell the tru…
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45 min
The Problem with a Brand
The problem with a (personal) brand is it's an idea, a distillation of a concept that is interesting and attractive to a certain group of people for a certain period of time. But t…
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41 min
The Coffee Episode
Wherein we explore the art of making a perfect cup of coffee—and why it ultimately doesn't matter. Art is an asymptote: a striving towards an impossible standard of excellence that…
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21 min
I'm Still Here
After a cross-continent road trip, Jeff is still here and opens up about the story of his divorce, how he overcame writer's block, and the magic of making things.
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37 min
Sequels Suck
A sequel only works when it ignores what came before it. This is true with your life and work: to be truly innovative, you have to be willing to break the rules, even the ones you…
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3 min
This Is Not a Trailer
We're back! But are we really? In this volume, we're gonna talk about sequels and second seasons and why they fundamentally don't work—unless you completely disregard what came bef…
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53 min
Season One Retrospective
Jeff and Kelton sat down with a glass of wine to wax philosophical about the creative process, the first season's most popular episodes, their personal favorites, and the fate of a…
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3 min
Outro: I'm Not Here
A farewell poem to Season One from Jeff.
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56 min
Am I Really Retiring?
In this final issue of our first season, Jeff shares more about his recent "retirement" announcement and hints at what's next. It turns out we are always retiring from something, o…
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21 min
Day at the Museum
This week, as we prepare for our season finale, we have a bonus episode for you. Recently, while walking through the Art Institute in Chicago, I had a revelation. Observing the Pic…
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56 min
The Creative Question
With our work, we are all trying to answer an important question. And how we choose to answer it affects everything. Art, however, may not be about answering the question as much a…