Getting Work To Work
Getting Work To Work is a weekly podcast for creative entrepreneurs, storytellers, visionaries, and change-makers who are on a mission of chasing big ideas, telling epic stories, and leaving living legacies. Whether you’re just starting out or have been at this creative and curious life for some time, I hope you’ll not only learn something new in this podcast, but also find yourself challenged and inspired to break through the barriers that hold you back from getting your work to work.
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How do you get better at your craft? Sounds like a potential start to a not so funny joke, but I'm serious: How do you get better at your craft? With skills that rely upon your hands and time—like woodworking or pottery or painting—you just have to do the work, go through the process, and see what comes out the other e
There is often a moment in every interview on Getting Work To Work that stops me in my tracks. In today's interview with Kimberly Lau and Linda Young, they dropped the mic twice with these two mind-blowing moments: "We have enough clothing on the planet to clothe the next six generations" and "Since we opened nine mont
What did Arthur C. Clarke have to say in 1968 about communication in the distant future? Buried in the middle of a single page in 2001: A Space Odyssey, on a trip to the moon, is an interesting description of Clarke's imagined future and our realized present. It's always uncanny when science fiction gets something righ
As much as I love imagining dystopian and doomsday scenarios of AI overtaking humanity, talking with experts about positive implementation strategies is a better use of my time (and mental health). Building upon an education in Data Science and Analytics and AI ethics, Ben Tasker currently "leads a Data & AI Academy th
I love this framing of the duality of our work: the art—the stuff we're supposed to do—and everything else. It gets me thinking of the backwards nature of modern life, where the label of "what we're supposed to do" is affixed to everything but our art. Things like admin, networking, content creation, marketing, managem
What is the connection between photography and memory? What are the stories beyond the frame of our most cherished family photos? What will we wish we had known about our loved ones? Profound questions and thoughtful answers with today's guest, Stacy Bass, photographer and author of Lightkeeper: A Memoir Through the Le
