The Visionist
This audio newsletter is your permission slip to dream and reconnect with the vision inside you. In each episode, we’ll explore a thought-provoking new prompt, concept, technique, or tool designed to spark transformative ideas. This isn’t just about ideating, it’s about reimagining the life you want to create and the impact you want to make.
Episodes
Welcome to Season 1 of The Visionist: A think tank in your ears and in your inbox
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Every week, when you read or listen to this newsletter, it should stir up something inside of you to either create your vision for impact, brainstorm ideas about a vision you already have, or execute one of your groundbreaking ideas.
We're literally in the middle of what I'm calling The Great Adult Creativity Recession, and its impact runs deeper than what you see at the surface level.
Here's what's really happening: Society, and the demands of adulting, has convinced us to trade our creative power for predictable productivity.
We've replaced "what if?" with "what's the ROI?"
We've swapped innovation for imitation.
The result? An actual ideas desert where g...
If we get straight to the heart of it: most of us don't have an ideas problem.
We have hundreds of them. Brilliant ones. World-changing ones. The kind that keep us up at night with their potential.
What we have is a permission problem.
We're waiting for permission. Permission we're never going to get.
Permission to be imperfect.
Permission to not know everything.
Permission to make something that might actually not work.
Permi...
For most of us, creativity isn't the issue. Implementation is.
The truth is, most of us are allergic to structure. We see it as the boring part, the creativity-killer, the thing that turns our exciting ideas into monotonous to-do lists.
But here's what I know to be a 100% truth: Structure isn't the enemy of creativity – it's actually creativity's best friend.
Try the 5-5-5 Method t...
Our culture has sold us a dangerous lie: Success is a mathematical equation of money + status + possessions = happiness.
But the data tells a different story.
It's time we design our lives around our values, a new (our own) definition of success, and what impact we want to make.
And to be honest - it takes a lot of courage to walk away from societal norms and carve our own paths, but that's a decision you will have to make for you...
This episode of The Visionist is an audio deep dive of the entire essay, brought to you by NotebookLM.
The From Make-Believe to Must Achieve: How Adulting Killed Our Creativity (And Our Ideas) Essay is a resounding wake-up call making people everywhere question everything – and finally take action on executing the ideas that matter.
This essay explores how creativity becomes collateral damage entering adulthood - as the celeb...
Do you ever catch yourself saying "I don't have time to work on my ideas"...yet you have plenty of time to mindlessly scroll through social media for the third time today? (Yes. I'm calling you out)
Those quick hits from TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter are addictively comforting. They feel productive – because you're "staying informed" and "keeping up with trends," right?
But here's the uncomfortable truth: every minute spent cons...
Some of the most successful and fulfilled business owners I know run companies that are deliberately kept small. They're making great money, loving their work, and guess what - they have time to actually enjoy their lives.
The pressure to constantly scale is built on a false premise: that bigger always equals better.
But what if your "better" looks different?
Tune in.
Our immediate, and always running, vehicle for chang...
Sometimes there's only one way to sum things up - "Life be lifeing" (as grammatically incorrect as it is, it gets the point across immediately right?).
Sometimes it feels like we're just going, going, going. And that life doesn't ever give us a break. That this life we live isn't built to prioritize rest.
Our current life systems are cracking under pressure, and the evidence is everywhere. But we have the power to redesign th...
For today's episode, I want to share three essential truths about being a visionary that might just transform how you approach your own journey.
Our immediate, and always running, vehicle for change is executing our ideas.
We have to give ourselves the permission, and have the audacity, to never stop dreaming, ideating and executing our ideas until the world in front of us is our vision, actualized.
Today, on the last episode of the season, I'm inviting you to join a movement. A revolution against the dusty shelves in our minds where brilliant ideas go to hide indefinitely. It's time to bring them into the light.
Take a few minutes to listen to this episode - close your eyes, take a deep breath, repeat after me, and commit to yourself to stop holding your ideas hostage.
Our immediate, and always running, vehicle for chan...
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