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The B&B Podcast is a weekly technology talk show co-hosted by Ben Brooks and Shawn Blanc. Show topics include Apple, productivity, writing, software, iPhones and iPads, and the like. Hosted by Ben Brooks & Shawn Blanc.
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In this collection, playwrights take to the National Theatre stage to offer an insight into their work, featuring Alan Bennett, Tom Stoppard, Tena Štivičić, Simon Stephens, and more.
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Latitude is an interview show about all the non-business parts of running a successful online business. I interview freelancers and founders about how they are building their businesses and (mostly) maintaining their sanity.Latitude is about finding the space to do real, meaningful, creative work. Work that inspires others and motivates yourself. I interview creators like you to discover what it actually takes to show up and define work on your own terms. Doing creative work is hard. Making ...
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Intentional focus in an ever-changing environment with Shawn Blanc
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Find Shawn Blanc everywhere on the internet: Shawn's Twitter Shawn's personal website The Focus Course The Sweet Setup Tools and Toys Mentioned in this episode: Isaac Smith - Twitter Things Good Notes Sean McCabe - Twitter Basecamp Shape Up by Ryan Singer of Basecamp A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering …
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Creative strategy and strategic creativity with Sarah Avenir
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Find Sarah Avenir everywhere on the internet: &yet (and the &yet newsletter) Personal website Sarah's Twitter Gather the People Mentioned in this episode: Lynnandtonic by Lynn Fisher The Food Place Top Chef Stats Hollywood Age Gap A Single Div US Flags (dot design) David Sherry Morning Pages Headspace A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the L…
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Find Khe Hy everywhere on the internet: RadReads Khe's Twitter Khe's Instagram Khe's Notion course Mentioned in this episode: Start With Why by Simon Sinek A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering 15% off for life to listeners of the Latitude podcast. Learn more: https://podia.com/latitude Learn more about …
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Living an examined life with Khe Hy
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Find Khe Hy everywhere on the internet: RadReads Khe's Twitter Khe's Instagram Khe's Notion course Mentioned in this episode: Millionaire study Happiness and Income study The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga Brad Stulberg Give and Take by Adam Grant Meet Khe Hy, the Oprah for Millennials - CNN Getting Things Done by David …
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Listen to the full interview here. Find Mojca Žove everywhere on the internet: Super Spicy Media Mojca's Twitter The Science of Facebook Ads A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering 15% off for life to listeners of the Latitude podcast. Learn more: https://podia.com/latitude Learn more about the show and ge…
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Navigating transitions with Mojca Žove
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Find Mojca Žove everywhere on the internet: Super Spicy Media Mojca's Twitter The Science of Facebook Ads Mentioned in this episode: Changing Gears YouTube series Amy Hoy's Twitter Alex Hillman's Twitter A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering 15% off for life to listeners of the Latitude podcast. Learn mor…
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Authenticity, attachment, and environment (David Sherry takeaways)
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Listen to the full interview here. Find David Sherry everywhere on the internet: Death to Stock Creative Caffeine Twitter A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering 15% off for life to listeners of the Latitude podcast. Learn more: https://podia.com/latitude Learn more about the show and get updates about th…
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Overcoming burnout and leading yourself with David Sherry
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Find David Sherry everywhere on the internet: Death to Stock Creative Caffeine Twitter Mentioned in this episode: Jocko Willink - Podcast, Twitter A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering 15% off for life to listeners of the Latitude podcast. Learn more: https://podia.com/latitude Learn more about the show…
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Building community and ethical responsibilities in tech (Nick Disabato takeaways)
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Listen to the full interview here. Find Nick Disabato everywhere on the internet: Draft - Nick's design consultancy Twitter Personal website A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering 15% off for life to listeners of the Latitude podcast. Learn more: https://podia.com/latitude Learn more about the show and g…
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Value-based design with Nick Disabato
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Find Nick Disabato everywhere on the internet: Draft - Nick's design consultancy Twitter Personal website Mentioned in this episode: Cadence & Slang - Nick's book Value-based Design - Nick's other book ConversionXL Annielytics Personal MBA Google Optimize Draft's blog Future Ethics by Cennydd Bowles Get Together Run your own social A huge thank you…
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Design thinking, avoiding perfectionism, and knowing when to quit (Charli Marie takeaways)
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Listen to the full interview here. Find Charli Marie everywhere on the internet: YouTube Website Dribbble Twitter Design Life podcast Mentioned in this episode: What is Design Thinking? - IDEO U A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering 15% off for life to listeners of the Latitude podcast. Learn more: https:…
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Side-project productivity with Charli Marie
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Charli Marie has grown her YouTube channel to over 100,000 subscribers, created 100s of videos and podcast episodes, and created a tshirt business all while working full-time. These side-projects led to her most recent job as Marketing Design Lead at ConvertKit, and that job is now informing her side-projects and conference talks. We chat about the…
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Burnout, experimentation, and owning your weird (Jason and Caroline Zook takeaways)
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Listen to the full interview here. Find Jason and Caroline Zook everywhere on the internet: Wandering Aimfully Wandering Aimfully Instagram Wandering Aimfully YouTube Caroline's Instagram Caroline's Twitter Jason's Twitter Jason's Instagram Mentioned in this episode: Maslach Burnout Inventory - Wikipedia Cognitive behavioral therapy - Wikipedia A …
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Building without burnout with Jason and Caroline Zook
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Jason and Caroline Zook both ran their own successful businesses for years before combining forces to create Wandering Aimfully. This "un-boring coaching for intentional online business owners" has grown from $0 to $10k in MRR in just under a year, but it wasn't without challenges. Jason and Caroline share some of the challenges they've faced growi…
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Faster, more effective learning through writing and mindframing (Anne-Laure Le Cunff interview takeaways)
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Find Anne-Laure Le Cunff everywhere on the internet: Twitter Ness Labs Indie Hackers Mentioned in this episode: What is Stoicism? by Daily Stoic How to build a better writing habit by Anne-Laure Le Cunff A huge thank you to Podia, the sponsor of the Latitude podcast. Podia is offering 15% off for life to listeners of the Latitude podcast. Learn m…
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Mindframing and writing for personal growth with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Find Anne-Laure Le Cunff everywhere on the internet: Twitter Ness Labs Indie Hackers Mentioned in this episode: Anne-Laure's interview on Bright & Early Mindframing: a personal growth framework by Anne-Laure Writing is the best personal growth tool by Anne-Laure Getting Things Done The Generation Effect by Anne-Laure Mindframing research paper by A…
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Starting small, product-founder fit, and embracing constraints (Mubs interview takeaways)
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Listen to the full interview with Mubashar Iqbal ("Mubs"). Find Mubashar Iqbal ("Mubs") everywhere on the internet: Twitter Indie Hackers Product Hunt Mentioned in this episode: Pod Hunt Meaningful Motion UI - User interface animation course My YouTube channel - Tutorials for user interface designers 6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Ov…
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Finding joy in making with Mubashar Iqbal ("Mubs")
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Mubashar Iqbal ("Mubs") is a developer, maker, and indie hacker. He's been Product Hunt's Maker of the Year and has created over 80 unique projects. Some of those projects have gone completely viral, received 10s of millions of views, and been sold. In this conversation, we chat about how to decide what to work on, how to keep it fun and interestin…
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Bootstrappers' Journey, Patronage business model, and disconnecting (Brendan Hufford takeaways)
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Find Brendan Hufford everywhere on the internet: 100 Days of SEO podcast "One Ranking Away" 5-day SEO challenge Twitter Personal website Mentioned in this episode: Startup Escape Plan - Amy Hoy (Stacking the Bricks) Overlap - Sean McCabe Out of Office - Justin Jackson Makerpad Adobe Fund for Design Design Forward Fund by InVision A huge thank you t…
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Planning for productive downtime with Brendan Hufford
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Brendan Hufford is the SEO Director at a design and development agency, but he also has side-projects, a family, a regular fitness habit, and more. We talk about how to balance all of that and how sometimes taking a break from all of it can make you even more effective and connected. Brendan also explains how building an effective SEO strategy mirr…
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Latitude is about finding the space to do real, meaningful, creative work. Work that inspires others and motivates yourself. I interview creators like you to discover what it actually takes to show up and define work on your own terms. Doing creative work is hard. Making a living from that creative work is even harder. Latitude attempts to make it …
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In this special episode I’m joined by my friend, Ben Brooks. (Throwback to the B&B Podcast days.) We talk about yesterday’s iPhone 7 event, including our first impressions of the new Apple Watch, the iPhone 7, the shift toward carrier upgrade and payment plans based, buttons, and more. Download here. (56 Minutes)…
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I received an email from a reader recently. In it he stated that one of his biggest challenges related to doing his best creative work is the fear that “it’s already been done before”. When you’ve got an idea for something, do you find yourself asking: “Hasn’t SUCH-AND-SUCH been done already?” If so, here’s the answer: Yes. Yes, it’s been done befo…
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Today I share some thoughts on the importance of taking 100-percent responsibility for our actions, behaviors, results, and situation in life. While there are times when things truly are out of our control, most of the time they’re not. And so, instead of “becoming the victim”, it’s critical that we move on, take ownership, and do something about i…
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On today’s show I share a little bit about the next product and training area I’m going to be focusing on. It’s still in the very early stages, and so I share the very rough, behind-the-scenes Here are a bunch of statements: Follow your passion is bad advice Talent is overrated Find the sweet spot where passion, skill, and opportunity meet. Deep wo…
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Here’s a clever trick for if you’re trying to incorporate a new habit or routine into your day-to-day life: anchor it. For me, I’ve begun taking Vitamin D on a daily basis. Except that I will forget to take it for weeks or months at a time. So, I put the bottle of my vitamin D pills right next to my coffee making gear. Now, every morning when I am …
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Long-time listeners of the show will know just how much I love the “purity” of the “art” of charcoal. Well, I’ve decided to give my grill away because, honestly, I haven’t used it in nearly two years — ever since I bought a gas grill. In short, there are times in life where convenience and simplicity trump out over quality. (If this weren’t true, t…
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Today is a big day today over on The Focus Course. We’ve been hard at work for the past 5 months developing a whole new foundation for the site. While the changes we’re shipping today aren’t cosmetic — they’re to the back-end infrastructure of the site — they are significant, because they’re setting us up to do some awesome new things on the site. …
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Let’s talk for a minute about business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and creativity. I just recently began re-reading The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. In it, Ries defines a startup as this: A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. If you’ve read Frank Chimero’s fantastic bo…
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On today’s show I share about how getting my family’s financial budget in order helped open the door for better management of my time and also healthier eating and exercise. It’s the idea that, when you have at least one area of your life that is disciplined and healthy, it acts as an anchor to help get and/or keep the other areas of your life disc…
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On today’s show: If you could be somebody else for one year, who would you be? And secondly, what’s the advantage of “switching” with someone else’s life rather than (a) studying their life and their work, or (b) having the opportunity to interview them? Download Here. (05:51)Par Shawn Blanc
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In his book, Anything You Want, Derek Sivers writes about how there’s “a big difference between being self-employed and being a business owner.” Being self-employed feels like freedom until you realize that if you take time off, your business crumbles. To be a true business owner, make sure you could leave for a year, and when you come back, your b…
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Something I once learned from Joshua Blankenship was the idea that if you work with your head, you should rest with your hands. For me, I love woodworking. It’s so great to have “rest” projects that don’t involve a computer screen, a desk chair, and a task-management app. We have these never-ending to-do lists. Like Hydra, when you cross one thing …
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It was a 12-week process from when we decided to move until we were in our new home. But we made it. On today’s show I wanted to share a few things I’ve learned about life, possessions, and moving. Don’t stop unpacking. If you do, you may never start again! We’ve been focusing on a different area of the house and trying to make a little bit of prog…
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Last week, after several days of delay, we finally closed on our new home. It’s been a massive undertaking, and it’s still not over yet… Download here. (10:22)Par Shawn Blanc
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Lorraine Hansberry's Literary Executor and Director of her Literary Trust, Joi Gresham, joins director Yaël Farber and dramaturg Drew Lichtenberg to discuss the playwright’s work and legacy, and this new production of her play, Les Blancs. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/les-blancs #LesBlancs This is a recording of a live platform event.…
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On today’s show I share a quick story about how my writing routine helped us with the process of buying a new house. Download here. (8:40)Par Shawn Blanc
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Just a quick episode to share some behind-the-scenes details of what’s happening at the moment. Long story short, but my family is moving to a new home about 5 minutes down the road and the process of buying a new place, selling ours, and the launch of the Time Management class has pretty much consumed all my time as of late. We’ll be continuing wi…
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Today we’re continuing the “Book Club” series, going through the book, The 4 Disciplines of Execution I’m reading this book right now and am loving it. Over the next several shows I’ll be sharing highlights and key takeaways from the book, and also working through the book’s chapters and how to apply the ideas and themes of the book. Note that just…
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Today we’re continuing the “Book Club” series, going through, The 4 Disciplines of Execution I’m reading this book right now and am loving it. Over the next several shows I’ll be sharing highlights and key takeaways from the book, and also working through the book’s chapters and how to apply the ideas and themes of the book. Note that just listenin…
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Today we’re continuing the “Book Club” series, going through, The 4 Disciplines of Execution I’m reading this book right now and am loving it. Over the next several shows I’ll be sharing highlights and key takeaways from the book, and also working through the book’s chapters and how to apply the ideas and themes of the book. Note that just listenin…
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Today we’re kicking off a “Book Club” series, going through the book, The 4 Disciplines of Execution I’m reading this book right now and am loving it. Over the next several shows I’ll be sharing highlights and key takeaways from the book, and also working through the book’s chapters and how to apply the ideas and themes of the book. Note that just …
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Today’s podcast episode wraps up our focus on Margin. And I’ve saved the best for last. Over the past several weeks we’ve covered so much ground: what margin is; why it’s important; how to get margin in our schedule, in our finances, in our creative energy, and so much more. For today’s podcast, I wanted to talk with someone I deeply respect: Havil…
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In today’s episode of Shawn Today I have the honor of talking with Cal Newport. Cal Newport is one of my favorite writers and thinkers. His book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, was one of the most impactful books I read in 2015. And his brand new book, Deep Work, is equally fantastic. The hypothesis behind Deep Work is this: The ability to perform …
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Shawn is joined by special guest, Corbett Barr. Corbett is the co-founder and CEO of Fizzle, an online business training resource plus community for indie entrepreneurs. In the show, Shawn and Corbett discuss building an audience, building an online business, doing your best creative work over the long-run of a decades-long career, how to focus on …
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Why do you need financial breathing room? Because financial overwhelm is flat out stressful. Debt puts a ceiling on your finances. Whereas cash and cashflow are huge assets. You will never be financially independent if you can’t first live within your means and think long-term with your finances. When you have margin in your finances, it gives you …
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On today’s episode of Shawn Today we have a very special guest. My friend, Mike Schmitz. Mike is the author of Thou Shalt Hustle, he’s the Product Director at Asian Efficiency, and he’s a contributing write for The Sweet Setup. On the show, Mike and I continue the with the theme of Margin. We talk about how margin in your life is critical for being…
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On today’s show I share with you everything we have planned for the next several months. Including what new features we are adding to the membership, what topics we’ll be diving into over the next several months, and what new product is being planned to ship this summer. Download here. (13:05)Par Shawn Blanc
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Today we are kicking off something a little bit different for shawnblanc.net — taking a whole month and focusing on one primary topic. As I’ll get into on tomorrow’s show, we’ll be doing more of this approach in the coming months. This month, January, we are focusing on the topic of Margin. We have a slew of awesome articles and podcasts in the pip…
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Earlier this week on the show I asked about how we could improve the membership. And yesterday I sent out an email with a link to a membership survey. On today’s show I share some of the feedback and survey results so far. If you haven’t yet taken the Membership Survey, you can do so right here. Download here. (09:44)…
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