In this week’s Friday Feature, I relate life lessons from two short interactions. These two brought me some great knowledge. People drop wisdom in their everyday conversation that they don’t even realize. Today’s lessons come from two frenemies and a six-year-old. Listen to get the shameless eavesdropping scoop.

Many talk about how creatives are inherently broken. We don’t have to be. We can create wild, vibrant, life-changing art. And we can be healthy, healed, and whole while we do it. Flaubert said, “Be orderly in your life so you can be wild in your art,” (forgive the slight paraphrase). And it’s true. Let’s…

In order to succeed, we have to focus. In order to focus, we need to choose what we will concentrate on. Listen to today’s episode for ideas on how to do that.

Tamsen Webster, author of Find Your Red Thread on how to make your idea compelling whether you’re a founder, innovator, or creative. Tamsen Webster has spent the last twenty years helping experts drive action from their ideas. Part message strategist, part storyteller, part English-to-English translator, her work focuses on how to find and build the…

Public Speaking Nightmare and How You Can Change It Into Gold In my sophomore year of high school, I was cast in my first play. Additionally, I got a real lesson in staying present, improv, and dealing with a public speaking nightmare during the run of that show. One night in the middle of my…