Unconventional | Amy Guth: Recent Episodes
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Broadcaster Amy Guth interviews people who have taken unconventional paths, who challenge conventional narratives, and who have built unconventional lives.
In this episode, host Amy Guth talks about creative fuel, life changes once called taboo, and What We Do In The Shadows. Produced by Todd Manley at EarSight Studios.More at: https://www.amyguth.com
In this episode, host Amy Guth talks about the sneaky ways creative people can self-sabotage, and how they can take the others down with them if we don't know what to look for.Produced by Todd Manley at EarSight Studios. Follow Amy Guth on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amyguth
In this episode, host Amy Guth talks about the socialized idea of each of us only being one thing and argues that some of the great minds are multi-hyphenates.
In this episode, host Amy Guth has an epiphany about how to nourish our creativity after she saw a scrap of paper at the Grammy Museum bearing an early version of lyrics to the song "Humpty Dance."
Why with the phrase "labor shortage" is problematic, living seasonally, the David Bowie documentary "Moonage Daydream," the David Beckham documentary, the show "Obituary" and more.
Leader in visual thinking Brandy Agerbeck demystifies drawing to help people use it as their best thinking tool, shush their inner critic, and address overwhelm. In this episode, she talks with host Amy Guth about her work, her 25-year career as a graphic facilitator, how we think, how we learn, the drawing plays in iterative thinking, and how index cards can change our lives.
Links: https://www.loosetooth.com https://twitter.com/loosetooth https://www.instagram.com/loosetoothcom https://www.instagram.com/_visual_thinking_ https://www.facebook.com/loosetoothcom
Entrepreneur Erica Bethe Levin wants the make better global citizens, and she's doing that through her company, GloBowl, which makes organic food for babies and toddlers to expand their palates to a world of flavors and cultures early. In this episode, she talks with host Amy Guth about her business, the universal themes shared through food, her unconventional road to entrepreneurship, being a female founder, narratives put on women (especially mothers) and more.
Links: https://theglobowl.com https://www.instagram.com/theglobowl https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-bethe
Author, speaker. community organizer and activist Rebecca Sive has written "Every Day is Election Day," "Vote Her In," and the guided journal "Make HerStory Your Story." She talks with host Amy Guth about how challenging conventional thinking about our work, our legacies and what matters to us can change the world.
Links: https://rebeccasive.com https://twitter.com/RebeccaSive https://www.instagram.com/rebeccasiveformakeherstory https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-sive-2597b78 https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.sive
Jeanne Sparrow is renowned speaker, top consultant and 7-time Emmy-winning television and radio personality on V103 Chicago, and a graduate faculty instructor at Northwestern University. She also hosts the podcast, “Fearless Authenticity with Jeanne Sparrow." In this episode, she talks with host Amy Guth about the power of authenticity an audacity in success, realness, her transformational client work, her forthcoming book and the realization she had soon after Hurricane Katrina.
Links: https://twitter.com/JMSparrow https://www.instagram.com/jmsparrow https://www.tiktok.com/@msjeannesparrow https://v103.iheart.com/featured/jeanne-sparrow https://jeannesparrow.com/jeanne-sparrow-about-me https://www.spreaker.com/show/fearless-authenticity-with-jeanne-sparrow
Brandi Larsen is a writer, speaker and coach, who is aiming to build a more inclusive publishing landscape. In this episode, she talks with host Amy Guth about big life moves from journalism to a publishing gig in NYC to a writer's life in Cleveland, building the writing life she wants, and how being unconventional is a superpower.
Links: https://brandilarsen.com https://brandilarsen.com/books https://twitter.com/brandilarsen https://www.litcleveland.org https://www.litcleveland.org/profiles/brandi-larsen http://instagram.com/brandilarsen http://fb.me/brandilarsen http://www.linkedin.com/in/brandilarsen/
Jocelyn Geboy just hit her 20-year mark of sobriety. In this episode, she has an unfiltered, funny and heartfelt conversation with host Amy Guth about navigating sobriety, our seemingly alcohol-obsessed culture, the sober-curious movement, how the approach to recovery can look a lot of different ways and more. There's a lot of swearing in this episode.
Links: https://twitter.com/smussyolay https://www.instagram.com/smussyolay https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/candy-chat-chicago/id1579817749 https://twitter.com/candychatchi https://www.instagram.com/candychatchicago/
Mark Smithivas is a technologist, and he's probably been on Twitter longer than you. He's also been a stay-at-home dad for more than a decade, and while that shouldn't be unconventional at all, one could argue that it’s still less common that it could be. In this episode, he talks with host Amy Guth about narratives surrounding men and work, double standards, technology, education reform, and more.
Links: https://twitter.com/1god https://www.instagram.com/msmithivas https://lu.ma/msmithivas https://pod.co/mark-smithivas-personal https://marksmithivas.substack.com/
Kelley Kitley is a licensed clinical social worker, an internationally sought after women’s mental health expert and author of the book, "MY self: An autobiography of survival." In this episode she talks with host Amy Guth about sobriety, mental health, risk taking, vulnerability, her new film and more.
Links: - Website: https://www.kelleykitley.com - Instagram: https://www.kelleykitley.com - Twitter: https://twitter.com/kitleykelley
New York-based editor Laura Carney discovered her late father's unfinished bucket list and decided to finish it herself and write a book about the experience. In this conversation with host Amy Guth, Carney explains how the project, My Father's List, changed her life, took her way out of her comfort zone, and completely changed the way she approaches challenges.
- My Father's List on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myfatherslist
Abbas Jaffary is on a mission to make math accessible to everyone. In this conversation with host Amy Guth, Jaffary explains that math is, in fact, an interpretive art form, and that they way in which math is taught completely discourages diversity and creativity in the field.
- Abbas on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/necrohell
Steve Gadlin has built a creative career from the pursuit of rejection letters, which has led him to start businesses (one of which you might remember from its victory on TV's "Sharktank"), deliver TED Talks, make films, build products and more. In this conversation with host Amy Guth, Gadlin explains how the pursuit of "no" leads to incredible yesses, how to outsmart fear and more.
- Steves "Raccoon Penis Bones" TED Talk: https://youtu.be/SRZwbAYwAvg
- Steve's "Pursuit of Awesome Rejection Letters" TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwl0nEzCNCc
- I Want To Draw A Cat For You: https://iwanttodrawacatforyou.com
Unconventional with Amy Guth, Season 1, Episode 1.