Creativity Cultivator Podcast - Turning Your Business, Your Team And You Into A Creativity Cultivator

Bruce Daisley, former Twitter exec, and Googler calls out work hour boasters and explains why too many hours makes you a useless worker. Also, in this show we discuss how to communicate to your staff about Covid19, and a I explain why leading work from home employees does require you to retrain your managers. (quickly)

Pernell Cezar co-founder of Blk & Bold coffee achieved national distribution in under 2 years! I ask him how. Also, we dig into why 1 day shipping from Amazon isn't doing well, the balance between transparency and oversharing, and why only 70% of your internal email is ever read. (Ouch)

Mike Train, President of Emerson joins us to discuss the extremely bright future AI and Automation bring to the workforce. Plus, in this show, I explain why employers are installing uncomfortable toilet seats, why it's important to research the researchers and why "professionals" are stealing content on LinkedIn.

In today's show, Elon Musk has erased stupid time-wasting meetings and you absolutely should do the same. Plus, we discuss how loyal Millenials are and why all your ideas about demographics are WRONG and why small businesses (even Amish ones) are doing well.

Topics in today's show: Who really owns your data (is it even yours?) How can retailers stay competitive and even beat the big guys? Why does health insurance take the blame for our entire healthcare failures? Also, a huge majority of applicants are lying, and I think the companies actually fired the first shot.

Robbie Kellman Baxter explains the membership economy, higher profits, and a major increase in responsibility. Also, Justin explains the stupid talent war, and if internships should be paid.

Raise your hand if you took the kids out of the room for the Super Bowl half time show? How is this kind of show appropriate, and are we sending our workforce and children the wrong message? Also, new research suggests being fake at work hurts productivity.

Chris Hogan is a two-time #1 national best-selling author. His new book, Everyday Millionaires busts common myths that most assume are true about wealth today. Did you know most millionaires didn't inherit anything at all? Did you know most millionaires truly are self-made? Do you know why college debt is so high? Do you know YOU can be a millionaire? Hogan has the data to back it up.

John Jantsch is best known for his book "Duct Tape Marketing" and "The Referral Engine" but his new book "The Self Reliant Entrepreneur" goes into detail about the toll entrepreneurialism takes on individuals, how to combat it, and how to not do too much emotional damage to yourself and your relationships.

Sandy Girard is the Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer at Spkr, a 24-hour podcasting curation platform and app. As one of the original members of XM Radio, she stayed through the merger with Sirius as the VP of Programming of Talk & Entertainment at SiriusXM.

Bryan Stockton was CEO of Mattel from 2012 - 2015 and today has everyone's dreams job as a professional resort photographer that travels the world visiting the most stunning locations. He explains the pain of loss, playing guitar with Vince Gill and why you shouldn't let the English language get in the way of great communication.

Kurt Workman is the co-founder and CEO of Owlet, a world-changing tech company dedicated to improving infant health. Their famous "smart sock" product uses pulse oximetry to track babies' health, alerting parents of potential problems are concerning trends.

Maureen Stockton is the founder and creator of Formé Comfort. Her company 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. Her unique patented design is inserted into your favorite fashion-forward footwear, customizing the fit by stretching it without damage. Launching the company wasn't easy however.

Steve Robinson started the entire marketing department of Chick-fil-A in 1981 alongside the founder Truett Cathy and today it is the 3rd most profitable fast food restaurants in the USA. Steve recalls their growth strategy, why their operators function much differently than traditional fast-food restaurants, and we talk about where the whole anti-beef cow Eat Mor Chikin marketing strategy .

Katie Byers is the founder of HomeDitty a startup company that connects people 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 a waiting list to get into the platform.

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.

Ryan Spong is the founder of Foodee, a tech company that is merging local food, local chefs and scalable catering options for large organizations. His platform is able to take numerous orders, dietary restrictions, and other options, disseminate the information to numerous local restauranteurs and have everything delivered to a single corporate location. Foodee has since grown by 1125% and serves 12 major North American cities with more than 700 restaurant partners and has a growing list of clients includes top names in tech, finance and consulting, such as Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Visa, Comcast, and The Weather Channel.

Jaime Casap is the Chief Education Evangelist at Google and I've invited him back to talk about career development at this particular fast-changing work environment. We discuss why automation isn't about replacement, but re-assignment into more fulfilling jobs, and he explains why Gen Z is going to destroy our broken employment problems. (Hint: They watched boomers, X and Y do what they were told and get screwed. The jig is up.)

Sean Chou is CEO and co-founder of Catalytic, an AI Automation company. He believes the AI predictions for the future such as robots coming to take our jobs and that the robots inevitably will serve mankind are both flawed. He was previously CTO of Fieldglass that sold to SAP for $1 billion back in 2014 and is now at the forefront of leaders who are helping businesses and society to understand the full impact and potential of automation.

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 has the most vivid view of empathy I've ever seen and how it practically related to business, productivity, and profit. He is the author of Applied Empathy and guest lectures at Princeton and West Point.