How can you stay resilient and not lose hope when it feels like life is blocking all your exit routes? Bobby Berk, design expert and Emmy nominated TV host of Queer Eye was just a high school dropout from Missouri who yearned to escape and find his place in the world. After some rough years […]

How do you use every moment as a learning experience? Shea and Syd McGee, founders of Studio McGee and McGee & Co, authors, and stars of Netflix’s Dream Home Makeover took a chance when they sold their house to launch their design company. They share how to have a healthy marriage when you work with […]

Don’t Keep Your Day Job · How Jonathan and Drew Scott Created the Property Brothers & Became an HGTV Sensation When you hit a failure or rejection, how do you redirect to the path of success? Drew and Jonathan Scott (aka the Property Brothers), entrepreneurs, designers, bestselling authors, and twin TV personalities on HGTV always […]

Don’t Keep Your Day Job · How My Students Got Unstuck and Transformed Their Business & Life in 3 Months How did a frustrated online entrepreneur, a river rafting guide, an exhausted casting director, and a visually impaired illustrator wake up to the possibilities ahead of them and jumpstart a thriving business? We share unbelievable […]

How did a troubled, lost teen become a creative phenomenon featured on CNN, NPR and other national press? Timothy Goodman, designer, illustrator, muralist, and artist grew up with no sense of what direction to take. But he found his groove in designing murals and creating viral social experiments. He shares how he dealt with depression even […]

  What possibilities are waiting on the other side of embracing who you really are? Adam J. Kurtz, artist, illustrator, and bestselling author has grown his career by expressing his true voice of humor, optimism, and honesty. He shares how to release the need to be perfect, how to recognize whose feedback is most important, […]

  What surprise opportunities will you find on the route less traveled? Patrick Cain, furniture designer and founder of Patrick Cain Designs formed his own destiny without an art education, but with the gusto to present his furniture where no one else dared – Craigslist and flea markets. He explains how to tell your story to build […]

  What’s holding you back from a life of purposeful work? Are you waiting for your friend’s approval? A thumbs up from your family? Chances are, it’s the voice in your head that isn’t giving yourself permission. For Debbie Millman – writer, educator, artist, and host of the award-winning podcast Design Matters – it took […]

  Jonathan Adler – the king of modern chic design – was once told that he had no talent, that art was not his calling, that he should just give up. So how did he rediscover his love for pottery and become an insider of the design world? Jonathan also shares how a trip to […]