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Bryan Stockton
8/3/20 UPDATE: I’m saddened to hear about the tragic passing of Bryan Stockton. I had the pleasure of speaking with him for 30 min last year and was touched by his big heart and positive spirit. My heart is with his family and his wonderful wife Maureen. – Justin Bryan Stockton, Former CEO of Mattel
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Kurt Workman
Kurt Workman, CEO of Owlet — Kurt Workman is the co-founder and CEO of Owlet, a world-changing tech company dedicated to improving infant health. Owlet’s famous “smart sock” uses pulse oximetry to track babies’ health, alerting parents of potential problems are concerning trends. Why Was Owlet Founded? In reality, the idea for Owlet came about
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Maureen Stockton
September 18th, 2019 Maureen Stockton, founder of Formé Comfort — Maureen Stockton is the founder and creator of Formé Comfort. Previously developing products alongside Mattel and Disney, her new venture has fixed a problem in women’s fashion most consumers don’t believe is even possible to fix. That is, making fashionable women’s shoes comfortable.
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Steve Robinson
Steve Robinson, CMO of Chick-fil-A — Steve Robinson started the entire marketing department of Chick-fil-A in 1981-2015. Working alongside founder Truett Cathy, today the company is the 3rd most profitable fast-food restaurant in the USA. Steve recalls their growth strategy, why their operators function much differently than traditional fast-food restaurants, and we talk about where
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Katie Byers
June 26, 2019 Katie Byers, founder of HomeDitty — Katie Byers is the founder of HomeDitty, a startup company that connects those wanting to live music in their home to artists across the country. House Concerts are coming back in a big way thanks to her tech and bands across the USA are currently facing
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Andrew Au
June 11th, 2019 Andrew Au, CEO and Founder of Intercept Group — Andrew Au is the CEO and Founder of Intercept Group and they work with some of the world’s biggest brands like Microsoft, Intuit and FedEx. He discusses why culture is so important and why it’s not as elusive as you think it is.
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Ryan Spong
Ryan Spong, CEO of Foodee — Ryan Spong is the founder of Foodee, acquired by Sodexo in July of 2021. Foodee is a tech company that is merging local food, local chefs, and scalable catering options for large organizations. The platform is able to take numerous orders, dietary restrictions, and other options, disseminate the information
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Jaime Casap
Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist at Google — In an era of rapid technological advancement, upending the very definition of work, Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist at Google, offers forward-thinking take on how society must adapt. Drawing on his own trajectory from public housing in New York City to the heart of Silicon Valley, Casap
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Sean Chou
Sean Chou, CEO of Catalytic — Sean Chou is CEO and co-founder of Catalytic, an AI Automation company. He was formerly CTO of Fieldglass, sold to SAP for one billion dollars. He believes the AI predictions for the future such as robots coming to take our jobs and that the robots inevitably will serve mankind
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Michael Ventura
May 8th, 2019 Michael Ventura, founder of Sub Rosa — Michael Ventura is the founder of Sub Rosa, a design and strategy firm based in New York who has worked with top brands like Google, Nike, Adobe, Goldman Sachs, Warby Parker, just to name a few. He is the author of Applied Empathy and guest
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Tiago Forte
Tiago Forte, Founder of Forte Labs — Tiago Forte explores the future of work at his company, Forte Labs. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Inc., Lifehacker, The Atlantic, Quartz, and others. His “future of work courses” have been taken by more than 20,000 online learners. Past clients include Genentech, Toyota,
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Steve Clayton
Steve Clayton, Microsoft’s Chief Storyteller — Steve Clayton is Microsoft’s Chief Storyteller and General Manager of Microsoft’s Innovation, Culture, and Stories team. His team is responsible for showing the more human side of Microsoft and how they are actively changing and improving the lives of their customers. I ask him what the team is responsible
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Skip Prichard
Skip Prichard, CEO of OCLC — Skip Prichard is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future and CEO of OCLC. Prichard has run global businesses ranging from the startup phase to mature businesses with over $1.5 Billion in revenue. Harvard Business Review labeled Prichard
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George Foreman III
George Foreman III, founder of EverybodyFights — George Foreman III is the founder of EverybodyFights, a real-life fight club. He is also the son of Heavyweight champion George Foreman II, acting as his advisor and marketing director. Before he founded EverybodyFights he was an “accidental” professional boxer. In this interview, he discusses why he didn’t want
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Paul Allen
April 2, 2019 (Updated 8/25/20) Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com — Paul Allen is the founder of Ancestry.com, sold for 1.6 Billion dollars in 2012. Currently, he is fundraising for SOAR.com, the world’s leading community for strengths development. He is also a senior advisor for Gallup in Washington DC. Paul Allen came to the Justin
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Jeremy Dale
Jeremy Dale, Co-Founder of OTRO & Former VP of Microsoft Worldwide Retail — Jeremy Dale is the co-founder of OTRO, former VP of Worldwide retail for Microsoft, and led Motorola’s Product (RED) Campaign in collaboration with Oprah and Bono. He was named the “punk rocker” of business from U2 frontman Bono, after his strategy for
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Howard Schultz
This interview was recorded during Howard Schultz’s potential 2020 Presidential run. Please excuse the scratchy audio, as we was doing this interview on the road. Howard Schultz, Starbucks founder — It’s undeniable the Starbucks mastermind has made one of the most iconic and loved brands in the world. More than that though, he brought the
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Creativity Cultivator Podcast intro w/ Justin Brady. All you need is love.
In this intro episode, Justin Brady, tells us what to expect from the podcast. To be a business or leader that loves their staff is the only requirement to dive in! Go to http://www.creativitycultivator.com for all show notes.
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David Burkus
David Burkus, Best-selling author — David Burkus is the author of many highly influential business books, and I asked him about what inspired Under New Management, which is a thorough examination of the best management practices in today’s top businesses. It all started when Burkus was writing his first book The Myths of Creativity. He noticed
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Jessica Kriegel
Jessica Kriegel, Oracle — Jessica Kriegel is the author of Unfairly Labeled and previously was a Senior Organizational Development Consultant at Oracle Corporation. She holds a Doctorate from Drexel University. Her degree is in educational leadership and management focusing on generational differences.
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Soon Yu
Soon Yu, VP of Innovation at VF Corp — Soon Yu is the VP of Global Innovation at VF Corporation. Soon has a funny take on human failure and even includes his failure scorecard in the podcast. Check out my most recent podcast with Soon Yu Connect with Soon Yu Connect with Soon on LinkedIn. Learn about
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Matthew E. May
Matthew E. May, best-selling author — What fatal flaws are you committing every day and can you train your brain to overcome them? Matthew E. May is a legendary design thinking guy, sought-after speaker and best-selling author who rose to notoriety for his work with Toyota. In this episode of the Creativity Cultivator Podcast, we
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Will Burns
Will Burns, Founder of Ideasicle — Will Burns is a Forbes columnist and creator of Ideasicle, which is a genius, super creative marketing company concept that deals in only the best marketing ideas, passing execution off to the company who hired them. This ensures only the best ideas are presented, not merely the ideas that
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Avi Steinlauf
Avi Steinlauf, CEO of Edmunds.com — Avi Steinlauf, CEO of Edmunds.com shared about his results-only work environment (or ROWE) and how Trust plays an enormous role in their company, driving innovation and creativity. To take a company formed in the 60s and keep them relevant this entire time is quite an accomplishment! Edmunds.com is the
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Rajeev Beher
Rajeev Beher, super star entrepreneur — Rajeev Behera spent time at some cool companies including Disney interactive, Tumri and Playdom! He opens up about his new company, which just closed a 15 million dollar series A, Reflektive. Reflektive has raised more than $17 million in funding and has a client roster of over 150 companies,
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Frank Eliason
Frank Eliason, creator of ComcastCares — Frank Eliason, the creator of the ComcastCares twitter account, is a literal customer service pioneer. At a time when customer service on Twitter wasn’t a thought, Frank started engaging customers on his own, fixing problems and changing public perception for the entire organization. Frank discusses why great customer service
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Lynn Robinson
Lynn Robinson, author — All the big data and information in the world isn’t helpful unless you can use your intuition to understand the information given to you. This week is Lynn Robinson, author of several books, with her newest just coming out. Why is it that we trust all the fancy computers around us, but
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Dan Janal
Dan Janal — He worked with Steve Case to launch AOL, he calls The NFL a client, he helped Tim Ferriss get published in the news, he was inT he Four Hour Work Week, he’s written 8 books, and I’m interviewing him from his home on the Pacific. Who is he? Dan Janal! I have
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Nancy Lyons
Nancy Lyons, CEO of Clockwork — Nancy Lyons, CEO of Clockwork provides beer on tap and you can work from anywhere you want to at any time, but she doesn’t actually believe that makes a great work culture. Instead, Lyons shares what makes her work culture famous from coast to coast. She was even invited
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Jaime Casap
Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist at Google — What an interesting episode this week! Jaime Casap, the Chief Education Evangelist at Google, discusses education and technology. Jaime is our second podcast guest that has been invited to The White House and he also talks about how technology, isn’t actually the silver bullet. He also unpacks
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Robert Greenberg
Dr. Greenberg, founder of Second Sight and inventor of the Bionic Eye — This week we welcome Dr. Robert Greenberg onto the podcast. Dr. Greenberg is the founder of Second Sight and inventor of the Bionic Eye that gives sight to the blind. He goes into detail about how he invented the eye, how blind people can
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Steve Farber
Steve Farber, author — Steve Farber is a best-selling author and has a LOT of passion for developing people, turning them into creative powerhouses. In this very energetic episode, we unpack how to grow engaging, creative employees and Steve talks about one of his hidden failures that looked like a success.
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Dr. Herbert Bresler
Dr. Herbert Bresler, Battelle’s Neurolife Project — In this episode, we interview Dr. Herbert Bresler, the guy in charge of Battelle’s Neurolife Project. Neurolife has made it possible for quadriplegics to regain the movement using their own limbs. Their technology basically “reads” the brain waves and re-introduce that brain data into the arm via a specially designed
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Shawn Lee
Shawn Lee, musician — Shawn Lee is one of the most prolific musicians of our generation. He has released 34 albums and has played, produced and written on hundreds of records with artists including Jeff Buckley, Kelis, Money Mark, Amy Winehouse and others. You likely have heard his music in both film & TV on
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Doug Powell
Doug Powell, IBM — Doug Powell is directing design thinking across the global tech company but many know Doug from when he served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design, the largest and oldest design organization in the world. Doug discusses how IBM has stayed relevant over the last 100 years
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Neetan Chopra
October 4th, 2016 Neetan Chopra, VP of Innovation for Emirates — Neetan Chopra is the Group Chief Technology Officer at Dubai Holding, formerly serving as VP of Innovation and Technology at Emirates Group. Chopra has a fascinating futurist/technologist view and explains what it means for organizations to “crack the egg from the inside.” When the
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Tom Gray
Tom Gray, CEO of Make48 — Tom Gray is CEO of Make48, where teams compete to develop products and companies in only 2 days. A diverse audience from all over North America participates and the competition is proof that anyone can be a creative mastermind. Make48 is sponsored by companies like QVC, will be nationally
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Courtney Klein
Courtney Klein, Co-Founder and CEO of Seed Spot — Courtney Klein is Co-Founder and CEO of Seed Spot a startup incubator/accelerator focused on positive social change. Companies that apply to be in SeedSpot must focus on a product, service or technology that improves lives. She founded SeedSpot in Phoenix and is now expanding nationally to
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Jason Kiesau
Jason Kiesau, author of Focused — What a privilege it was to sit down with my good friend, Jason Kiesau, author of Focused: Your Future Starts Now. Currently, he is speaking all across the country unpacking how focus harnesses the effectiveness of creativity. He is also the leadership and talent development manager at Aureon located
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Dan Ariely
Update 6/24/23: Hi listeners, Justin here. I’m aware of the accuracy claims against Prof. Francesca Gino and Prof. Dan Ariely’s and research. Should an adjustment to this interview be necessary, I’ll update this note. Dan Ariely, author — Dan Ariely discusses his work on our irrational behavior, his new TED book called Payoff, and discusses
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Dan Ariely
Update 6/24/23: Hi listeners, Justin here. I’m aware of the accuracy claims against Prof. Francesca Gino and Prof. Dan Ariely’s and research. Should an adjustment to this interview be necessary, I’ll update this note. Dan Ariely, author — For those that just discovered the podcast, this is Part 2 with Dan Ariely. Part 1 is
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Danielle Atkins
Danielle Atkins, Kodak CMO — Danielle Atkins discusses how Kodak is tapping into our love of craft and artisan process. We all have that love of craft beer, gin, vinyl records, and real film, but Kodak has figured out a clever way to add the convenience of digital at the same time. (Side Note: Did
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Lou Prosperi
Lou Prosperi, author — Lou Prosperi is the author of The Imagineering Pyramid, which was recommended to me by the likes of Dan Pink and David Burkus. The book goes into detail on the thought process that made Disney come to life! Lou Prosperi Links Imagineering Toolbox: https://imagineeringtoolbox.wordpress.com/ The Imagineering Pyramid: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/194150096X/ The Imagineering Process: https://smile.amazon.com/Imagineering-Process-Disney-Creative-Toolbox/dp/168390138X Social Media:
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Rachel Cooke
Rachel Cooke, founder of Lead Above Noise — Rachel Cooke is the founder of Lead Above Noise and is laser focused on making work, work better. She shared her 5 step process her clients go through. It’s called Super Candor. Super Candor is a way to crush fear in the workplace, encourage better more creative
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Tomas DeLuna
Tomas DeLuna — It’s not every day you meet a literal household name. If you aren’t familiar with Tomas DeLuna, look around your house, you might have one of the wildly popular GE Artistry Series appliances in your house, condo or apartment right now. And he’s not done yet, he gives us an idea of
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Justin Brady
In this 2016 recap, Justin Brady goes over the common theme all guests wisdom has in common and how, exactly, you can implement all our guests advice one person at a time. Also, we dig into an HBR piece on failure and the previous podcast guest that invited Justin onto his own show!
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Ivan Cash
Ivan Cash, artist — Ivan Cash is an award-winning artist/director whose multidisciplinary work celebrates human connection and is loved by the internet. His work has exhibited internationally, is in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum in London, has been featured in TIME, CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, Fast Company, Wired, and received multiple
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Dave Birss
Dave Birss, artist — Dave Birss spends his time demystifying creativity for individuals and organizations Dave has corporate attention deficit disorder. He’s gone through a whole bunch of careers, including session musician, stand-up comedian, university lecturer, nude model, poet, patented inventor, radio breakfast show host and advertising creative. He’s now an author, consultant, keynote speaker,
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Michael Ferrari
Michael Ferrari, CEO / Founder of SmartyPig. — Mike is the founder of Social Money, a financial services company that included SmartyPig.com, a consumer goal-based savings app, and CorePro.io, an innovation technology platform for banks and fin-tech companies to deliver powerful and modern digital banking experiences. Prior to Social Money, Mike had more than 15
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Arne Boberg
Arne Boberg, inventor of the Boberg XR9 — Arne Boberg is an award-winning design engineering specialist at 3M and the founder of Boberg Arms, which he sold to Bond Arms in November of 2015. Boberg Arms is the original creator of a revolutionary “bullpup” handgun design, the Boberg XR9. With 23 years in manufacturing and