Today, for the Grand Finale of our first season, we have a guest we’re both super-excited about – Charlie Gilkey!
Charlie is the founder of Productive Flourishing, that’s been enabling Creative Giants realize their impact on the world for over a decade. He’s a speaker, author, Business Strategist and Podcaster. His work has a way of validating your actions, calming your deepest fears, and moving you to push and reach further that you thought possible.
Show Notes:
- 1:23 The power of analytics and building a narrative
- 6:40 Is there a magic number, a critical mass, where analytics start to be a strategy tool? The balance between one on one conversations and quantitative data. And the Prince Qualifier
- 10:45 What are you missing using only qualitative data? What about using quantitative data only? In other words, why do you need both?
- 14:11 A liberating insight about the combined power of passion and attrition on the internet.
- 19:10 Why “a thousand true fans”?
- 19:30 Let’s say you DO get to be yourself and do that thing you love. It comes packed with a new kind of fear. What kind of courage do you need THEN?
- 22:10 “You have to be Functionally Delusional to be a creative entrepreneur” – we talk about stoicism, facing rejection (especially if you’re female!) and placing your self-worth at the mercy of your last project outcome.
- 30:00 The BS myth around success, the deceptive link between price tag and value, and why these are a dangerous way to educate creative folks
- The new Momentum Planners. (They’re awesome! We use and love them)
- 37:03 Where do we struggle most in big projects?
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