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TFP-032-Disruptive Design & Systems Thinking-Leyla Acaroglu

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Using Disruptive Design and Systems Thinking to Build a Better World

As entrepreneurs, we create products and services. As we create them we often are thinking of the use of the product or service but we rarely think about what happens at the end of a product lifecycle. What if we thought about those very products and services as a complete system? What is the lifecycle of that product or service? What happens when the products initial use case is finished? Listen to this inspiring conversation about disrupting the way we think about what we create.

Links:

Leyla Acarcglu

Disruptive Design Method

The UnSchool Project

Leyla Acaroglu

Design disruptor, creative boundary pusher, and cultural provocateur, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu (A-jar-a-loo) embodies the innovation that instigates positive environmental and social change. A New York-based Australian designer, social scientist, and sustainability expert, she is internationally recognized as a leader in the use of disruptive design across sustainability and educational initiatives. Leyla was awarded 2016 Champion of the Earth by the United Nations Environment Programme, and her 2013 mainstage TED talk that has collected over one million views is one of the most watched TED talks on sustainability.

In 2014, Leyla completed her PhD at RMIT in change-centric disruptive design and started developing the Disruptive Design Method, which is the backbone of her unique approach to design-led social change. She has won a host of awards for her work, was named one of Melbourne’s 100 Most Influential People, and has been forging positive change through creative practice in multiple ways for over a decade. Her systems-based thinking coupled with her highly-skilled communication techniques is featured in several publications, including the New York Times.

Leyla is the founder of two design agencies, Disrupt Design in New York and Melbourne-based Eco Innovators, as well as the UnSchool, her uniquely rebellious experimental knowledge lab that is all about disrupting the mainstream way that knowledge is gained and shared. It runs innovative pop-up programs around the world and recently won a CORE77 Design Education Initiative Award. With Leyla’s expertise at the helm, each of these operatives serve as multidisciplinary approaches to pioneering social and environmental change through design.

As a designer, her works such as Design Play Cards, Game Changer Game, Secret Life of Things, Designercise, and the AIGA Gender Equity Toolkit are at the forefront of activated experience design. She has authored several handbooks for change makers and continues to agitate for new ways of solving complex social problems through beautifully designed interventions. Leyla’s creative work is highly acclaimed, having been featured in a permanent exhibition in the Leonardo di Vinci museum in Milan and earning commissions from the National Gallery of Victoria.

She is an internationally respected keynote speaker and trusted expert, having led thousands of hours of workshops, lectures, activations, and educational experiences around the world. Leyla was a visiting scholar at NYU and an Innovator in Residence at the Center for Social Innovation NYC. She was also an invited Artist in Residence with Autodesk and managed the development of ‘Greenfly,’one of the first online life cycle assessment tools for designers. Leyla is regularly invited to provide her professional opinions on radio and TV, having been a regular judge on the ABC TV show The New Inventors, along with a host of international programs.

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TFP-031-Entrepreneurship, passion, and communities – Ernesto Sirolli

Why passion is the ultimate driver in entrepreneurship and economic development

Entrepreneurship is really about doing what you are passionate about, then finding others to help you by doing what they are passionate about.  Working alone in the garage to build a business is just a myth, it never happens. Even Steve had Woz, and virtually every successful business ever built has been a group effort.  Businesses and people thrive when each individual is able to focus on what they love and do best. Instead of becoming the typical “superhero entrepreneur” by doing everything on their own.

In this episode, I am speaking with Ernesto Sirolli. For 35 years he has helped communities and organizations grow entrepreneurs through what he calls “Enterprise Facilitation” and Social Infrastructures. He has worked all over the world and they have helped start over 50 thousand businesses.  Listen in to this insightful conversation.

Some of the things we discuss

  • What the word entrepreneur really means.
  • The psychology of entrepreneurship.
  • Why you should only work at the things you are passionate about.
  • Where communities can find new entrepreneurs.
  • Rebuilding our social infrastructures to help each other become the fullest human they can be.

Ernesto Sirolli

Ernesto Sirolli is a noted authority in the field of sustainable economic development and is the Founder of the Sirolli Institute, an international non-profit organization that teaches community leaders how to establish and maintain Enterprise Facilitation projects in their community. The Institute is now training communities in the USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Africa, Asia, Central and Latin America. In 1985, he pioneered in Esperance, a small rural community in Western Australia, a unique economic development approach based on harnessing the passion, determination, intelligence, and resourcefulness of the local people. The striking results of “The Esperance Experience” have prompted more than 250 communities around the world to adopt responsive, person-centered approaches to local economic development similar to the Enterprise Facilitation® model pioneered in Esperance.

Sirolli Institute- International Enterprise Facilitation Inc. www.sirolli.com

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TFP-029-How Spending Time In Nature Can Make Us Happier and Healthier- Florence Williams

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Something as simple as a walk in the woods can help us live a better life

In this episode, I am talking with Journalist and prize-winning author Florence Williams about her latest book Nature Fix.  We discuss the current problems with our hyper-connected and indoor life and how getting outside can actually help make use happier, healthier and more creative.

Some of the points we talk about

  • What happens to our brain and body when we go outside
  • Programs that some countries are putting in place to get people in nature
  • Things that you can do
  • Getting outside under trees
  • Spending a few hours every week in nature
  • How longer bouts in nature can help

About the guest

Florence Williams is a journalist, bestselling author, podcaster and public speaker. She is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. She is also the writer and host of the new Audible Original series, Breasts Unbound, as well as Outside Magazine’s Double-X Factor podcast. Her public speaking includes keynotes at Google, the Smithsonian, the Seattle Zoo, the Aspen Ideas Festival and many other corporate, academic and nonprofit venues.

Learn more about Florence and her work. http://www.florencewilliams.com/

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TFP-027-What is your Relationship with Money? – Dr. Sarah Newcomb

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Money :

It’s a loaded word and idea.

We all have stories that we tell ourselves about money, what it is and how we interact with it.  Some people pursue it as an end goal while others avoid it like the plague. Either way, these ideas are guiding many decisions and relationships that we have in our lives.  Relationships with our families, friends, and society as a whole.  As entrepreneurs and business owners, we carry all of those personal ideas into our businesses and it can have a tremendous impact on how we operate and grow.

In this episode, my guest Dr. Sarah Newcomb and I have an in-depth discussion about how to unpack and understand our relationship with finances so that we can make better decisions without leaving our values behind. She is the author of Loaded: Money, Psychology, and How to Get Ahead without Leaving Your Values Behind

Some of the things we discuss

  • What it’s really is about
  • Why we have such different relationships with money
  • How to align it with your needs values
  • How to uncover where we get our ideas

Loaded: Money, Psychology, and How to Get Ahead without Leaving Your Values Behind

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Does money represent luxury, security, and peace of mind, or stress, inequality, barriers, and greed? LOADED is written for anyone who struggles with their complex relationship with the so-called “root of all evil.”

Rather than offering traditional financial advice, Sarah Newcomb (a Morningstar behavioral economist) digs deeper and approaches money management from a fresh angle. LOADED explains how our experiences with money have a psychological basis and can often run counter to our core values.

Our personal history has a profound influence on how we handle or mishandle money. In reality, however, money is a simple tool, a neutral resource that is full of possibilities. It can be used for good or for ill, and how we use it is entirely a matter of personal choice. Our relationship with money is almost never about the numbers. It is about the stories we tell ourselves because of those numbers. We all come to believe certain stories based on our upbringing and our experiences with money. This is where our relationship with money is rooted, and this is where sound money management begins.

Based on years of research and filled with illustrative stories, LOADED offers an important guide for identifying the harmful core beliefs about money and what can be done to challenge and overcome those negative beliefs. Once a clear understanding of an individual’s beliefs about money is established, the human-centered approach to budgeting and money management can be put into action. This budgeting structure incorporates several principles from psychology that are missing or misaligned in traditional budgeting methods.

The fresh approach outlined in this book is a money management method rooted in psychology that offers a way of changing one’s financial life by creating a plan for money that is both deeply satisfying and also sustainable over the long term. The author also includes a wealth of worksheets and personal money psychology assessments to aid in the LOADED process.

LOADED offers an approach for discovering and understanding your relationship with money that will lead to more peace and satisfaction in your financial life.

Dr Sarah NewcombDR. SARAH NEWCOMB is an expert in the psychology of financial decision-making. As a behavioral economist at Morningstar, Inc. she works to integrate behavioral science into financial management applications. Dr. Newcomb holds a PhD in behavioral economics, a master’s degree in financial economics, and a master’s certification in personal financial planning. Through speaking, writing, and product development, she aims to translate the findings from scholarly research into practical and useful tools for everyone. She lives with her daughter in Washington, DC.

Read her column in Psychology Today called Loaded: Link

Twitter: @finance_therapy

Linkedin: Dr. Sarah Newcomb

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TFP-025 – Happy Startup – Carlos Saba

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Building a Happy Start-Up

When many of us hear the words startup we think of the lone genius working in her garage with some breakthrough idea that is going to turn into a huge business that they can then “exit”, then go sit on the beach for the rest of their lives.

My guest and his co-founder have taken a different approach. Through their business The Happy Startup School they have built a strong community of changemakers that value happiness over profits.  In our conversation, we talk about what The Happy Startup School does, their origin and why they do what they do.

Some of the key ideas discussed

Community and connection

The power of a like-minded group

How making space creates breakthroughs

About the Alptitude Event

From the Alptitude website:

It’s not a retreat, nor a training camp. It’s not a vacation, nor an unconference. It’s all of those things, yet none of them.

Think of it as a week where you’ll have the time and space to figure out where you’re at with your life and projects, whilst having more fun than you’ve had in years. This is the future of business events – emergent, playful and transformational.

Brought to you by The Happy Startup School and Dream Valley Projects and now in its third year, Alptitude brings together 25 purpose-driven entrepreneurs and changemakers from around the world for a unique, meaningful experience in stunning natural surroundings.

The lucky few that come leave with a renewed vigour for life, a ton of game-changing ideas to implement, but most importantly a shared experience and group of new friends that will stick with them forever. Friends they never knew they needed, but now can’t live without.

Go to the  Alptitude Site to learn more

Other links mentioned on this episode

The Happy Start-Up School

The Happy Start-Up podcast

The guest on this episode

Carlos Saba

Carlos Saba - The Happy Start Up School

Visit The Happy Start-up to learn more about Carlos and his journey.

Related Episodes.

Creating Meaning In your Business with Emily Esfahani Smith

Building Communities That Inspire Connection with Charles Vogel

People-Centered Workplace

Relationships at The Core of Your Business

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TFP-024-Compassion in Business- Monica Worline

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Compassion-One of Our Best Business Tools.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution (likely earlier), societies have treated business and work as something separate from our humanity and our compassion.  We tend to think as if we can compartmentalize and keep various parts of our lives separate.  In practice, this is not the case at all. While many of us are good at masking personal suffering in the context of our work, it’s still there, behind the scenes. It makes us less productive, less creative and possibly keeping us from finding meaning in our work and lives.

In this important episode, I talk with one of the world’s top researchers on compassion in organizations and the workplace, Monica Worline Ph.D.

During the conversation, you will learn why it’s so important and how entrepreneurs and organizations can build a more meaningful business by creating a culture of compassion.

    • We discuss the four keys to awakening compassion in our work.
    • The role of recognizing suffering as one of the keys to being compassionate.
    • The role of leadership in creating a culture of recognizing suffering even in tiny businesses and startups.
  • Pitfalls and common mistakes that leaders make when trying to awaken compassion at work.

We talk about Monica Worline’s Ph.D. new book, co-authored with researcher Jane Dutton; Awakening Compassion At Work “The quiet power that elevates people and organizations”

About the book

Caring Is a Competitive AdvantageAwakening Compassion at Work

Suffering in the workplace can rob our colleagues and coworkers of humanity, dignity, and motivation and is an unrecognized and costly drain on organizational potential. Marshaling evidence from two decades of field research, scholars and consultants Monica Worline and Jane Dutton show that alleviating such suffering confers measurable competitive advantages in areas like innovation, collaboration, service quality, and talent attraction and retention. They outline four steps for meeting suffering with compassion and show how to build a capacity for compassion into the structures and practices of an organization—because ultimately, as they write, “Compassion is an irreplaceable dimension of excellence for any organization that wants to make the most of its human capabilities.”

Book link to Amazon: Awakening Compassion at Work

Links Mentioned on this episode:

awakeningcompassionatwork.com — book website; downloadable chapter; 100 Days of Awakening Compassion and more content coming soon
compassionlab.com — research site; downloadable papers for those who want to read the original research

About the Authors of Awakening Compassion at Work

The guest on this podcast

Monica Worline Ph.D.Monica C. Worline, Ph.D., is founder and CEO of EnlivenWork, an innovation organization that teaches businesses and others how to tap into courageous thinking, compassionate leadership, and the curiosity to bring their best work to life. She is a research scientist at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education and Executive Director of CompassionLab, the world’s leading research collaboratory focused on compassion at work. Monica holds a lectureship at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and is affiliate faculty at the Center for Positive Organizations.

Jane E. Dutton, Ph.D., is the Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology at the Ross School of Business. She is a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations, and passionate about cultivating human flourishing at work. Her research focuses on compassion, job crafting, high-quality connections, and meaning making at work.  She has written over 100 articles and published 13 books (see http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/janedut/), including How to be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact. She is a founding member of the Compassionlab—visit us and read more about our research at www.compassionlab.com.

Related posts:

Creating Meaning In your Business with Emily Esfahani Smith

Building Communities That Inspire Connection with Charles Vogel

People-Centered Workplace

Relationships at The Core of Your Business

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TFP-023-Should Your Business Be Not For Profit?-Donnie Maclurcan

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Why you should consider not for profit as a structure for your business

On this podcast and in many other business circles people are talking about creating meaning and purpose in their business. We talk about social and environmental justice and creating a more humane future for everyone. But typically we don’t talk about the idea of not for profit businesses.

The truth is that most entrepreneurs shun the idea of not for profit and I think that may be a big mistake. The title of the post Post Growth referred to the inherent finite resources of resources on this planet.

There is a lot of really interesting ways to use a not-for-profit to create a business that not only is financially sustainable for you and your family but also for the broader community and the planet.

Listen in on this conversation about creating an economy that is more equitable for all involved.

Donnie Maclurcan - HeadshotDonnie Maclurcan

A facilitator, author and social entrepreneur, Donnie Maclurcan is passionate about all things not-for-profit. Originally from Australia, he moved to the U.S. in 2013, from where he runs thePost Growth Institute: an international group exploring how we flourish without our economy having to constantly expand. As a consultant, Donnie has helped more than 350 not-for-profit projects start, scale and sustain their work, while his own initiatives include co-founding: Free Money Day, the Post Growth Alliance, the (En)Rich List, Cascades Hub, and Project Australia. An Affiliate Professor of Social Science at Southern Oregon University, a Distinguished Fellow with the U.K. Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, an Associate with the Australian-based Institute for Sustainable Futures and a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation, Donnie holds a PhD in social science that explored how nanotechnology might impact global inequality. He is currently completing his third book, titled: How on Earth: our future is not for profit.

Twitter: @donmacca, @postgrowth

Facebook: /postgrowthinstitute

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donniemaclurcan

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TFP-022-Creating Meaning in Your Business-Emily Esfahani Smith

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Man’s search for meaning is fundamental to what makes us human. Yet we live in a culture that encourages us to set this search aside when it comes to work and business. In this episode, my guest and I are talking about here book The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters.

We talk about the four pillars of finding and creating meaning in your business and in life.The Power of MeaningThe Power of Meaning

The Four Pillars:

  • Belonging
  • Purpose
  • Story Telling
  • Transcendence

I would love to hear your comments, questions and especially how you find meaning in your life.

Emily Esfahani SmithEmily Esfahani Smith is the author of The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters (Crown). She writes about psychology, culture, and relationships. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, and other publications.

Emily is also a columnist for The New Criterion, as well as an editor at the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where she manages the Ben Franklin Circles project, a collaboration with the 92nd Street Y and Citizen University to build meaning in local communities.

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Emily grew up in Montreal, Canada. She graduated from Dartmouth College and earned a master of applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

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TFP-021 The Art of Building Community

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Building Communities That Inspire Connection

In this episode, we are talking about community and connection.  Consider this, most businesses rise and fall based on the strength and depth of connection Communitythey build with employees, partners, and even their customers. Many of us don’t give a lot of thought about building a structure that can create a sense of belonging within our broader community and the micro-communities that form as a result of doing business.

Building that belonging takes work and strong leadership and commitment. Listen carefully to this episode and learn some of the principles that create and maintain those connections.

Some of the ideas we touch on that make strong communities

    • Boundaries
    • Space and safety
    • Implicit and explicit values
    • Creating paths to growth
    • Leadership

Please listen and share your ideas and stories about communities.

Charles Vogl - Author The Art of CommunityCharles Vogl

An author and executive consultant, Charles Vogl uses principles drawn from more than 3000 years of community and spiritual tradition to teach others how to inspire powerful connections and produce the kind of change that lasts for generations. He works with leaders in technology, finance, media, government, and social good organizations to inspire powerful connections in critical relationships and create cultures of belonging.The Art of CommunityThe Art of Community

Making a difference has always been a key part of Charles’ life. In his early 20s, he volunteered full time at a homeless shelter in Santa Ana, California, before entering the Peace Corps and relocating to northern Zambia. There, he witnessed inspirational community in the face of extreme poverty, as neighbors with very little shared with those who had even less. Charles then moved to New York City to become a PBS filmmaker, producing documentaries including 2006’s “New Year Baby,” which chronicled the lives of Cambodian genocide survivors becoming Americans. The film won numerous honors including Amnesty International’s prestigious “Movies That Matter” award. He also volunteered as a labor organizer, working to empower abused workers in the restaurant industry.      

Charles received his B.S. from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California and a Master of Divinity at Yale University. A regular guest lecturer at several Yale departments, his first book, “The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging”, was recently published by Berrett-Koehler. Building on the concept that community and belonging can be developed through time-tested ideas and rituals, the book is a guide to creating and fostering meaningful cultures of belonging that benefit individuals and humanity.    

Charles lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Socheata. He includes surviving a plane crash, a spitting cobra attack, and acute malaria (all in one year) among his life-changing experiences.

CharlesVogl.com

The Art of Community Book

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TFP-020 Liminal Thinking – Dave Gray

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How do we begin to understand another point of view so that we can create and embrace change?

Dave Grey - Liminal ThinkingCreating change is difficult. It requires us to think differently and be open to new possibilities and different views of reality. But this is not easy because we have our own beliefs that to us are 100% true and correct. Yet others have their own set of beliefs that are 100% true and correct to them. So how can we possibly create any sort of change, be it settling an argument with your spouse, convincing your team on a new direction with your company, or even selling a solution to a client?

In this episode, my guest Dave Gray and I unpack some of these questions and ideas in an hour long discussion on some interesting ways to use something called Liminal Thinking.

I would love to hear your questions and comments on this episode. Please leave a comment below.

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Links from episodeLiminal Thinking BookLiminal Thinking Book

Liminal Thinking – The book website

Dave Gray’s Personal Blog – XPLANR

Design Consultancy – XPLANE

Two Waves Books – Use discount code XPLANE to get 20% off Liminal Thinking

Guest

Dave GreyDave Gray is a leader and manager with a background in design. He has worked with many of the world’s largest companies, as well as mid-sized businesses, startups, executives, and individuals.

He is the founder of XPLANE, a strategic design consultancy, and co-founder of Boardthing, a collaboration platform for distributed teams.

He is the author of two books on design, change, and innovation: Gamestorming: A playbook for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers; and The Connected Company.

His area of focus is the human side of change and innovation, specifically: How can you get people to adopt new ideas? How can you win their hearts and minds? How can you get people, including yourself, to change deeply embedded habits and behaviors? How can you transform a business strategy from a good idea to a living fact in the real world?

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TFP-019 Building a People-Centered Business- Jeb Banner

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Are you building a people-centered business?

Ask any business owner or CEO,  Who the most important people in their business are, and most will say “the customer is of course.”

But what if we refocus that lens and make our employees and colleagues most important?  What happens when we create a business that gives meaning to our employees? How will they interact differently with customers and how does that affect the bottom line?

Listen in to this episode where I talk with Jeb Banner the CEO of Small Box creative agency.

Jeb BannerJeb Banner CEO, Co-Founder of Small Box

Jeb was born in Chicago but moved to South Bend, Indiana when he was 6. Childhood was spent fidgeting at school, raising tadpoles in pools while building go-karts and tree forts in the rain.

Growing up it seemed that starting a business was the furthest thing from Jeb’s mind. After graduating with an English degree from IU in 1996, Jeb moved to Chicago to live in a ballroom with some friends, work odd jobs and play music. This lost weekend turned into a two-year stretch that brought Jeb to Indianapolis in 1998.

Finally the business bug bit. In 1999, Jeb discovered eBay. A few months and a large record collection later and StuffE was launched. It should be noted that said record collection also inaugurated Jeb’s record collecting habit which he has yet to kick. His vinyl collection clocks in around 3000 albums. After building StuffE into a mildly successful eBay consignment business he partnered with Dan Ripley to launch Antique Helper, an online auction house that married Dan’s knowledge and network with Jeb’s online auction systems.

In the meantime, Jeb and fellow Antique Helper employee Joe Downey collaborated on building Musical Family Tree, an online archive of Indiana music, which was founded in January of 2004. By the end of 2005, Antique Helper had grown into a successful business with $3 million in annual sales, but Jeb decided it was time to move on. Antiques were fun but the internet was calling.

In 2006 Jeb and Joe founded SmallBox, landing NUVO Newsweekly as their first client. As the company grew it moved beyond websites to become a fully integrated web marketing company. In early 2012, Jeb began to lead the company towards deeper consulting engagements, working with clients on organizational health issues. 2016 has seen a transition to what the SmallBox team calls 3.0. In essence, a quest to turn work into play and help clients do the same. Learn about this new direction here.

Jeb is very happily married to the amazing Jenny Banner and they have three strong, smart and bold girls. They live about 4 miles north of Broad Ripple with 2 cats, 1 dog, and 1 tiki bar.

Small Box Website

Twitter: @jebbanner

Personal Blog: www.jebbanner.com

SmallBox is a creative agency focused on helping clients find opportunities, solve big, fuzzy challenges, and build meaningful employee, brand and service experiences. We take a people-centered approach to designing solutions with you. Our services, from branding to strategic consulting to employee engagement, all speak to one goal: partnering with people to create distinctive and meaningful experiences. We thrive on curiosity, courage, collaboration and persistence, and these core values drive everything we do.

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TFP-018 Becoming The Creative Entrepreneur You Are – Carl Nordgren

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Are you really creative?

Many people don’t think of themselves as creative or entrepreneurial. In this episode, my guest and I discuss how incredibly wrong this is and how we are literally born as creative entrepreneurs.

Becoming A Creative Genius - Carl NordgrenMy guest, Carl Nordgren is a veteran entrepreneur and creative professional. We talk about some of the ideas in his latest book called Becoming a Creative Genius (again).

Some of the ideas we touch on

  • What it is to be creative
  • Generative
  • Mindset
  • the Importance of action
  • Practice and more

The lessons in the episode are important for every entrepreneur whether you are just starting out or a start-up veteran.

Links and Resources

Creative Genius

Research on walking to boost your creativity

Carls Blog

Carl Nordgren

Carl Nordgren was born in Greenville, Mississippi where his great grandmother’s house was across the street from the boyhood home of author Walker Percy. Carl has worked as a fishing guide on the English River in Northwestern Ontario and on the White River in the Arkansas Ozarks, as a bartender, a foundry man, and an entrepreneur. He lived with his family in Ireland for a year where he researched the IRA, and for 14 years he taught courses in Creativity and Entrepreneurship at Duke University. He graduated from Knox College and lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife Marie where they have raised three daughters.

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TFP-014-Becoming an Expert in a New Business -Tim Christen

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Building a business around your passion and becoming an expert.

Most entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs never start because they have the mistaken belief that they need to be anOORR Cycling Clothing
expert in the area.  In most cases, it’s not the expertise you need but rather its the interest or passion that moves the business forward.

In this episode, my guest shares his journey as an entrepreneur and how he has been able to become an expert in cycling clothing and sustainability. He started out because of a health issue that kept him from working at his normal job and now as we publish this he is launching  a Kickstarter campaign to launch his new line of “coffee infused” cycling clothing.

His company is called OORR (Out Of the Rat Race) and makes technical cycling clothing with a keen eye towards sustainability.

This is a great episode and I think that entrepreneurs at any level would find some great nuggets in our conversation.

Tim Christian - OORRTim Christian

A 37-year-old, a father of 3 boys under 6, airline pilot of 17yrs and founder of OORR. I live in Chatswood, a satellite CBD just 10 minutes north of Sydney, Australia. I love riding my bike and am a voracious consumer of cycling related news, and student of self-improvement. Everything I do tends to be about making this world better for my family, for others, and for future generations. Go to his site here.

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The Flywheel podcast and everything I do is about building connection and community. I look forward to hearing from you.


I will personally reach out and say hi.

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Victor​

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Oh BTW: Thats my walking buddy Max in the picture.

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