26k Podcast // Art of meaningful work: Recent Episodes
Ernest Barbaric // Digital Marketer, Entrepreneur, Artist & Fountain Pen Aficionado
Do you want to make a difference, build projects that make the world a better place, and leave your dent in the universe? Then you and I are on the same path, and I would love to share this journey with you.
26k is a podcast about the art of meaningful work. About doing work that matters. It’s about starting a business or a passion project you had in the back of your mind. It’s about getting over fear and embracing vulnerability. It’s about creating time, space and stillness for meaningful work. It’s about learning productivity, creativity, and focus. It’s about professional and personal development.
Tune in with hundreds of other listeners, just like you, to intimate interviews with entrepreneurs, artists and thought leaders like Pam Slim, Gavin Aung Than, CC Chapman, Paul Jarvis and Todd Henry. We chat about creating a legacy, doing meaningful work, and building an extraordinary life.
The new podcast I hinted at in the last episode is now live and available on iTunes.
Join us here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-creator-podcast/id1095068735
This is the final episode of the 26k podcast. It's been close to a year since the last episode, and in this one... I will share with you the story of the name, what some of my turning points were and which ideas impacted my life and thinking, as well as what comes next.
We will be rebooting this podcast in the next month or so, and are looking for new name ideas. I would love to hear what you think! You can e-mail me directly at hello@ernestbarbaric.com
The next iteration will bring you new and exciting guests, on the topics of meaningful work, reinvention, and entrepreneurship.
Thank you for listening!
- ernest.
Meet the nicest guy on the internet - CC Chapman. He is the author of two best sellers: Content Rules and Amazing Things Will Happen.
He is also an entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster, photographer, father of two, and a humanitarian. In this interview, we chat about how he got to be a writer, what it took to become a best-selling author, what it means to pursue your calling, how to conquer fear and uncertainty, and how to build a meaningful life.
For show notes (and more) go to: http://26k.ca/episode18
Topics: Entrepreneurship, fear, author, writing, passion projects, meaningful work, meaningful life.
Do you want to make a difference, but just aren't sure how to go about it, or how to get started?
Amber Hahto and Robert Trozzo share their journey of starting a passion project that helps raise funds for ovarian cancer research. What started as a fun exploration into pottery, blossomed into a great little side project that allows Amber and Robert to tap into their respective talents and make a difference with their art.
Show notes:
- Be open to being vulnerable. Nothing happens until you share your ideas, your work and your art.
- The only way to get over analysis-paralysis is to take action.
- Embrace your creative side, and seek out opportunities for accidental creative acts. Listen to our interview with Todd Henry for more on this.
- The story behind the brand is sometimes more powerful than sales, or marketing.
- You CAN make a difference in world. You just have to start.
I would love to hear about your creative or side projects! You can share them with me directly at hello@26k.ca – maybe we'll have you on the next season of of the podcast :)
Thanks for listening,
– ernest.
Nir Eyal wrote the book on habit forming technology, called “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”. In this interview, we talk about how he was able to change his own everyday habits in order to pursue more meaningful work and living. He provides a few awesome hacks for making small changes and changing your own habits as well.
Show Notes:
- My top three podcasts: Invisible Office Hours, Portfolio Life, and The Lede.
- Instead of focusing on the goal of writing a book, Nir focused on sitting down for 45 minutes every day in order to build a habit of writing. The book came naturally after he sorted that habit out.
- Setting goals can cripple your progress, especially if you have to do creative work, or seek to find answers to questions you don’t have answers to yet.
- Focus on MEA (Minimum Enjoyable Action), in order to start building better habits.
- Getting your physical body in order, allows your your mind to function better, and builds a foundation for healthy habits for life.
- Using a simple $5 timer from Home Depot could just save your marriage :)
- To check out Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, here is the book, and theaudiobook.
- Listen to the interview with Paul Jarvis on living without goals, and Jason Zook on leading an Action Army.
If you enjoyed this episode, or this podcast in general – I would really appreciate if you would take a couple of minutes and leave an honest review or rating on iTunes. It would help me build a better show, and help other folks find the podcast :)
Don’t forget, you can always get in touch with me directly at hello@26k.ca. Thank you for listening,
– ernest.
Todd Henry wrote The Accidental Creative, and Die Empty - the latter of which caught my eye and ear. We catch up in this interview and talk about turmoil and stress as part of meaningful work, dealing with uncertainty, performing creative acts, and doing great work.
Show notes:
- Art is the outcome of a creative process. But so is a business, an article or chair.
- Creativity thrives with limitations. Create a box for yourself to create around. Play with time, space or other limits.
- Give yourself the permission to say no to things, in order to do what is the most important.
- Unnecessary creation - is a process of building something, trying something on the side, where there is low risk of failure.
- Turmoil and stress are all parts of doing meaningful work. If you're comfortable, chances are you're not stretching far enough.
- Do you have a passion project, why NOW is the time to start one.
- Interview with Pam Slim on how to find your calling and do something that matters.
Like I mentioned in the podcast, I'm curious about when you listen to podcasts, and what you are going to create as part of your unnecessary creation! You can reach me directly at hello@26.ca.
Thanks for listening,
- ernest.
Jason Zook is an unconventional entrepreneur, to say the least. He is most well known for iwearyourshirt.com - a venture where he made over a million dollars wearing sponsored t-shirts, and buymylastname.com - where he sold his last name twice to the highest bidder. He is also half of the Invisible Hours Podcast with Paul Jarvis, and a co-founder of Teachery - a service that helps you build and sell online courses amongst many other things. In this interview, he shares his origin story - how he got the name Jason SurfrApp and what he would do if everything were to burn down tomorrow and he was left with nothing. If you are feeling stuck in your job, or want to launch a new project - Jason’s approach to getting shit done and off the ground will have you change your life within days. For more of this type of content, check out ernestbarbaric.com and don't forget to let me know what your takeaways are at hello@ernestbarbaric.com Enjoy!
When he was 28, Glen Sabin was diagnosed with stage IV chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and given 6 months to live. He decided to take control of his life and created his own integrated wellness approach by working with integrative oncologists, nutritionists and researchers at the Harvard medical school.
Last time we spoke, he told me that in 2012, after a thorough checkup - including bone marrow - he was able to achieve a complete pathological remission. He’s made many other life changes - and in this interview he shares how you too can reduce your risk for cancer and other diseases and live a long and healthy life.
You can find Glen at FonConsulting.com, and you can connect with me at ernestbarbaric.com
Serial entrepreneur, Len Kendall from Centup shares his story of starting up a company that aims to help content producers, as well as charities and social causes - enabling people like you and me to contribute without much effort.
Len talks about how he comes up with business ideas, his successful and unsucssful startups, as well as different passion projects he built and startups he founded, using elements from art to lean startup philosophy to do meaningful work.
In 2009 they quit their jobs, sold or gave away everything they had, and hopped on a plane to Bolivia. They have been travelling the world for 5 years, volunteering, house sitting and running a social media agency. All with no possessions, no plans and no excuses. In this exclusive interview with National Geographic Traveller of the Year, Pete and Dalene Heck talk about their journey around the world.
You can find them at http://hecktictravels.com and you can give me a piece of your mind at http://ernestbarbaric.com
Gavin Aung Than is an artist, entrepreneur and owner of Zen Pencils. In this espisode he shares his journey from an unhappy graphic designer to an internationally renowned cartoonist. His work has appeared in Discover Magazine, Washington Post, ProBlogger, CBC News, Kotaku, Upworthy, Brain Pickings and many more.
Gavin talks about selling his house and quitting his job in order to pursue a passion of cartooning for a living and finding his way to meaningful work. He also shares the many failures he had along the way before arriving at the idea of Zen Pencils.
You can find him at http://zenpencils.com or https://www.facebook.com/zenpencils
Pam Slim, author of "Escape From Cubicle Nation" and "Body of Work", consultant to entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies - stops by to talk about perseverence, doing things that matter and finding the thread of meaninful work.
Susan is an adventurer who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro 15 times and counting. In this interview she shares the excruciating experience of losing her husband to an avalanche in Alaska, and hew journey through love, loss, grief, vulnerability and finding herself again.
Karen Gimbel was a president of an eye correction organization spanning Canada and the US in 2001. Having taken the company public, she felt it was time for change. It took a few years for the stars to align when she and her husband decided to get rid of their worldly possessions, pack a car and set off for 2 years of vagabonding. In this podcast, we talk about the practice of letting go, listening to your life, defining success and not giving up (in her late 40s, Karen became an accomplished artist).
Paul is a web designer with a 6 month long waiting list. He wrote three bestselling books including a vegan cookbook. He talks about meaningful work, living without goals, eastern philosophy, his writing process and self-publishing. Incredibly insightful and inspiring interview.
Dr. Paula Robson, shares her story and insights from decades of work in the field of nutrition, preventable diseases and cancer research. What you can do to lower your risk of cancer, improve your health and do more meaningful work.
Throat cancer didn't slow her down. Heather shares her story on worrying less, believing in yourself, following your intuition and making impossible things happen.
What did Chris Bailey learn by watching 70 hours of TED talks in one week, living like a recluse, interviewing David Allen, author of "Gettig Things Done" and much, much more? Find out in this interview about productivity and meaningful work.
Stella Sehn built a honey business from scratch, lifting herself and her family out of poverty.
From local blogger to national entertainment personality, Mike Morrison shares how he built his brand, his audience and found his voice.