The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

Justine Ezarik aka iJustine is one of the OG YouTube stars-- one of the very few people who have been on the platform for over a decade. You may remember her from her first big hit, her "300 page iPhone bill" video way back in 2007 or from literally streaming her entire life for 6 months, and since then she's had several other hits that helped her build a huge following based off the kind of DIY hustle that I absolutely love-- for example her early videos were shot with a $400 point and shoot and a green rug from Ikea that served as her "green screen." She's one of the people who blazed the trail for the YouTubers and vloggers of today, and she's parlayed that into a ton of opportunities outside YouTube including appearances on shows like Law & Order and Criminal Minds as well as being named by Time as one of the top 100 most influential people to 18-34 year olds. Today on the podcast, * She talks about how she got her start in her hometown of Pittsburgh-- she didn't need to be in New York, LA or SF to make things happen, and neither do you. I love how she puts it: "be the best where you are, then move when you've outgrown it." * We riff on one of my favorite topics which is the idea that stamina wins, that the most important thing is just to keep grinding and over time the ups and downs will just be noise. * She's got a really great perspective on negative feedback. Any creator gets some, and the standard response is to ignore it. But here's the thing -- as she says -- sometimes they're right. Sometimes you should listen to it and adjust accordingly. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

In this discussion, Ryan Holiday, a marketing expert and author of bestsellers like Ego Is the Enemy, shares his journey from dropping out of college to becoming the marketing director at American Apparel. He emphasizes that creators must act as their own chief marketing officers and offers practical tactics for getting organic media coverage. Ryan also reveals how to create newsworthy content and utilize controversy effectively, while providing strategies for pitching bloggers and building relationships that yield mutual benefits.

Joe McNally is one of the most accomplished photographers of his generation, with a list of achievements that I couldn't possibly do justice to in this little intro. He's one of the few people who have managed to be super successful in both journalism and commercial photography, and a few of the highlights of his insane career are working with clients including FedEx, Sony, GE, Adidas and Epson; working as LIFE Magazine's only staff photographer; shooting cover stories for the likes of Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and Time among many many others; authoring three books on photography and creating several high-profile projects such as the incredibly powerful collection "Faces Of Ground Zero" honoring the first responders to the 9/11 attacks. Today on the podcast, * He talks about something a lot of people think or claim to possess but not so many actually do, which is tenacity. He has some great stories about being - as he says - "pitbull when he has a camera in his hands" and doing whatever it takes to get the shot * We've talked about the vital role of failure many times on this show and I love what Joe has to say about it - about how his failure shooting a horse race early in his career is specifically what set him up for success later in his career on projects like shooting the launch of the space shuttle * We get into something that's very rarely discussed, which is the cost of being a super high achiever - some brutally honest discussion about the tradeoffs Joe's made in his own career, such as the fact that traveling so much as a photographer meant that he missed a good chunk of his children's formative years. Very real and raw stuff. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

Roman Mars is the host of the wildly popular design podcast "99% Invisible" and has been called "the Ira Glass of design." With several hundred episodes in the can over its six years in existence, it's covered everything from "Unsung Icons of Soviet Design" to Love Park's place in skateboarding history to DIY space suits, all through the same lens of - as he says - "telling stories that make you notice and appreciate the world in a different way," drawing attention to the world of design around us that is 99% invisible (hence the title of the show). He's also the creator of the world's most popular design-focused TED Talk and co-founder of the podcast collective Radiotopia. Today on the podcast, * He says that "lack of success gives you a certain amount of freedom" - I love this because I see so many people stressing about the fact that they aren't a household name yet - embrace it! This is your chance to try crazy, cool stuff - and if you mess it up then it doesn't matter because nobody's watching. * We get into something I talked about recently on this show which is finding your personal style - he has a great way of putting it: try on as many things as possible until you find your voice. * He gets into what he's learned as the show has scaled and relies not just on him but on a team. This is tough for many creators who are super comfortable doing things alone and have to make a lot of adjustments once it becomes a team effort. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

Scott Dadich is a designer, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He's currently the co-CEO of Godfrey Dadich Partners, a design, content and strategy firm. Prior to that he worked at Conde Nast where he was the editor of Wired and helped Conde Nast build out their digital strategy including the tablet editions of their magazines (and if you remember when those came out, they were incredible products that were among the first things really felt tablet native). He's also the creator of the amazing new Netflix series "Abstract: The Art Of Design"-- I'm sure a lot of you have already binge-watched it, and if you haven't then do yourself a favor and check it out ASAP. Today on the podcast, * We talk about why you should listen to your instincts or as he says, to the voice inside. He's got a great term for this which is finding "gut/head alignment." I'm a big advocate of learning how to hear and trust your instincts and this has been my biggest asset in many ways. * He gets into the making of "Abstract," the transition from journalist to filmmaker and some of the common elements they saw in all of the designers that they profile in the series - a lot of good stuff here for those of you who are into habits. * On that note one of the things that comes up a couple times is the power of the exploratory process in honing your craft - for example drawing as a means of visualizing your ideas. The key here is that its not about making a beautiful perfect drawing per se, it's about the process of exploring the idea - it's a muscle that you'll grow by exercising it on a regular basis. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

I've talked before about that 3AM voice - the one that whispers in your ear that you're not good enough or that maybe you'll fail and so therefore it's probably better if you just quit now. That voice is what I call the gremlins. The gremlins are not your friend, and you've got to learn how to ignore them. But here's the thing - there's another voice that often sounds very similar to the gremlin voice, except that it's RIGHT. It's the voice of your instincts, and its absolutely critical that you trust and listen to this voice. The key here is to learn how to tell the two apart, because like I said they can sound very similar until you learn how to train your inner ear to know the difference between gremlins and instincts - and in this episode I give you the details on how to do exactly that. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

Debbie Millman is currently the Editorial and Creative Director of Print Magazine, but she has an insane track record going back decades: she's the author of 6 books including "How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer," a prolific design writer in outlets like NYT, Fast Company, and Design Observer, chairs the Masters In Branding program at SVA (co-founded with Steven Heller), and hosts a long running podcast called "design matters" which has done 265 episodes over 10 years with legends and icons like Michael Beirut, Stephen Heller, Chip Kidd, Massimo Vignelli, Isaac Mizrahi and Malcolm Gladwell. Today on the podcast, * She says that "confidence is overrated." This is something I know a lot of you struggle with and I love how she talks about this. Confidence is created by repeatedly doing something, and if you've never done something before how could you have confidence? Confidence - in her view - is the easy part. It's finding the courage to do the thing when you DON'T have confidence that is the gamechanger. * The importance of teaching: why Milton Glaser said it's the most important thing he ever did and why Debbie has always made it a big focus in her own career-- because as she says, when she teaches, the students teach HER * Why even hyper-achieving legends struggle with feelings of unworthiness and what the levers are for coping with it. This is a nearly universal thing that's very rarely talked about, and it's super important that you put your own mechanism in place to keep it from sabotaging your success. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

I often talk about personal style, but I'm always asked … what, why, how? So on this week's podcast we dig into it. Today's episode is a micro shows. In addition to the bad-ass guest interviews, these are short 5 to 15 minute segments sharing inspirational tidbits, hot news, discussion on specific topics, and more. If you have ideas on what you'd like to hear on the show let me know on any of my social channels: @chasejarvis. I'm listening! Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

You may know Adrian as the star of Entourage and The Devil Wears Prada, but he also has a lengthy history as a documentarian and entrepreneur who's made a lifelong habit out of going around, over and through the various gatekeepers that stood between him and his goals. You'll hear a lot of familiar themes come up in this conversation that are very core to me: the critical importance of building a community of peers who will motivate, inspire and help each other; how mentorship can be a catalyst for progress; and the drive for continuous and never-ending self-education. Today on the podcast, * Why Adrian is a passionate learner, yet dropped out of college when he found that the traditional educational system wasn't actually educating him * We get into his history as a documentarian - for example, how he got the call for Entourage while trying to sneak into Cuba to make a documentary * How creativity can play a vital role in driving social change. Our special guest Dune Ives of The Lonely Whale Foundation talks about how engaging the sense with visuals, music and rich experiences is the key to unlocking empathy - and once unlocked, that empathy is a powerful force for change Enjoy! This episode first appeared on CreativeLive as part of the 30 Days of Genius series. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

Caterina Fake is best known for being the co-founder of Flickr, which pioneered a ton of the things that we now take for granted on the internet: social networking, tagging, and content surfacing algorithms to name just a few. But like many of us, her career path has been - to say the least - unpredictable. On the way to becoming the co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake explored everything from banking to graphic design to writing novels, and she's now the Chairman of the Board for Etsy, a board member at Creative Commons, and on the board of advisors for the Berkeley School of Information. And while there's a narrative in our culture that this sort of winding path indicates that something went wrong, I believe the opposite - I believe that it creates the sort of eclectic, versatile people who will (like Caterina) thrive in the new "skill economy." Today on the podcast, * How Caterina ended up co-founding Flickr and ultimately selling it to Yahoo even though she grew up as a self-described "artsy girl" - a far cry from what many would expect of a tech founder * Some great advice for writers, specifically around how to create the kind of habits that will get you into the groove of relentless daily productivity, and keep you there * Why she calls herself a "reclusive extrovert" and why online communities are an ideal fit for reclusive extroverts This episode first appeared on CreativeLive as part of the 30 Days of Genius series. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world's top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.