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5 May 2020
Derek Sivers on What It Means to Fail
Derek Sivers has lived many lives. He has been a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, speaker, and book publisher. His TED Talk, “Weird, or just different?”, has been viewed more than 3.5 million times. His book Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur shares everything he learned from starting, growing, and selling the company CD Baby.
You can say hello to Derek at https://sivers.org/contact (https://sivers.org/contact).
In this episode Derek and I discuss:
How Derek cultivated a practice of questioning assumptions
Why Derek has a Making Room, not a Living Room
What a controversial blog post taught Derek about handling criticism
Why you should distance your private persona from your public persona
What a failed marriage taught Derek about the meaning of failure.
Why you should separate your decisions from the outcome of those decisions
How Derek cultivates calm in his life
References
How to ask your mentors for help (https://sivers.org/ment)
“7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails”
Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (https://amzn.to/3cOTlCI) by David Bayles and Ted Orland
The Man with One Red Shoe starring Tom Hanks
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21 Apr 2020
Cathy Heller on the Power of Radical Empathy
Cathy Heller is the host of the popular podcast Don’t Keep Your Day Job, which was given the #1 spot on iTunes recommended list of shows for the New Year in 2018 and 2019. She started out as a singer songwriter and first found success licensing her music to TV, films and ads. After making a multi six figure living with her music, Cathy started a music agency, and began teaching other artists to grow their own careers.
You can subscribe to Cathy’s podcast at https://www.dontkeepyourdayjob.com/podcast or through your favorite service, and follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/
In this episode Cathy and I discuss:
Her heartbreaking experience of being dropped from two record labels
The lesson we should learn from the Covid-19 crisis
How Cathy found her passion through a series of day jobs
How Cathy grew an immensely successful online business without knowing how to make an online business work
Why you need to give yourself permission to be mediocre
How Cathy allows her authentic self to shine through
What Cathy thinks our greatest human need is
The life lessons Cathy is still trying to learn
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