Masters of Craft

In the midst of US economic crisis, Skinner Layne made a bold and strategic move, relocating to Santiago, Chile. Soon after, the former political campaign adviser turned financial consultant, created Exopshere, an organization focused on entrepreneurial learning through a series scientific, emotional, and business educational experiences. With a collective goal to "Disturb The Universe," his team...

Moran Cerf is widely known for his Grand Slam Award-Winning talk on The Moth where he intricately describes a series of hilarious events that took place when he broke into a bank. The former hacker, graphic designer, filmmaker turned neuroscientist slash professor slash marketing consultant has gone from professionally breaking into banks (paid for by the banks to test their security systems), to...

As CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Nancy Hill gets a birds eye view of the world's most dominant for force behind the world's greatest economy... advertising. From Madison Avenue, to Silicon Valley to the White House, Nancy and the 4A's deal with everything from educating future leaders, to political policy change, to regulating ethical business practices, to tackling dive...

Behind the Hustle, Samsung, and Innovation Crush bring together three of of the world's most creative designers for an exciting conversation spanning fashion, technology, entrepreneurship, business models, failure, and everything in between. Featuring Jason Mayden, former head of global brand design at Nike, and currently VP of Design at venture firm, Mark One; Chris Stamp, CEO of Stampd (currentl...

How do you get 10's of 1000's of people to do absolutely anything you want them do all at once? Just ask Elan Lee, alternate reality game pioneer, marketer extraordinaire, video game designer, and record breaking crowdfunding raiser ($8M for Exploding Kittens). As a failing high school student, Elan Lee was the first person in the world to photograph a sound wave; of course after inventing the met...

At Sci Futures, Ari Popper and his team of visionary engineers, writers, and tinkerers play with the imagined future. With some of the world's top brands and corporations as clients, his job is literally taking science fiction from movies, books, and television and turning them to actionable products and services we can see today. From Visa to General Mills to Lowe's (for which they made a real li...

Every company, city, social media platform, school, brand, and so on, talks about the idea of building community. But with few true successes to note, there questions abound as to how to do it. Enter Ava Bromberg. A former sculptor turned civic maven, Ava is the SVP of business development for LA's largest maker community and a beacon for "how to" rethink community design for today's technological...

"Innovation to me is purposefully making mistakes." - Dan Harmon Dan Harmon is an expert at building Community. Literally. He is best known for creating the TV series, COMMUNITY, loosely based on his time spent in community college. What he is also an expert at is not fitting in. Most Google search results will tell you he's brash, overly honest, combative, mean, or otherwise difficult to work wit...

With 99 episodes complete, we've looked at ton of creative business and cultural problems solved by some of the world's top thinkers and doers. Now, joined by a few innovation brothers from other mothers, this episode is a brief look back at a few episodes, themes, guests, and concepts that have been examined over the past two years on Innovation Crush. And just in case you forgot: "Every week, In...

"Innovation to me is... terrifying." Damian Kulash is best known as the front man of super genius creative musical group, OK Go. As the grandson of the inventor of the fish stick (real talk), it's no surprise that many of the inventive genes he comes from manifest themselves in his group's whimsical and audacious creative exploits. Whether art projects, dabbling in physics, tinkering with biology,...

"Innovation to me is... seeing beyond possibility." Rabbi Sherre Hirsch is far from from your average Rabbi. She has broken through several glass ceilings in her career (she even heeds the warning of looking out for the broken glass in doing so) and has carved out very non-traditional paths both on- and off the pulpit. As a counselor of individuals, teams, and corporations, Sherre teaches people h...

"Innovation to me is... solving interesting problems in ways that haven't been thought of before." A few years ago, Maria Scileppi - a then very successful advertising executive - hit an all time low. Unsatisfied both personally and professionally, she decided to quit her job, make a friend a day for the next year, document it all, and make an art exhibit out of it. Thus began a whole new career p...

Jenny "Zenka" Carden's visions for the future have been seen all over the world. The futurist/artist combines everything from 500 year old Japanese sculpting methods to augmented reality, large scale murals, invisible paints, and more to tell startlingly accurate stories about the past and future of society. Her artwork explores the themes of how technological advances accelerate over time. Before...

Dr. Irwin Adam Eydelnant is no ordinary doctor. Part technologist, part foodie, part artist, and a scientist by trade, Irwin is in the business of next level food experiences. Using pots, pans, and beakers as his tools of the trade, the Principal and Creative/Scientific Director of Future Food Studio, has created emerging food concepts and experiences alongside the likes of Pepsi, Kraft, SBE Group...

Standing 6'7" and 290 lbs and adorned in 2 out of 3 pieces of a 3-piece suit, Andrew McGregor, aka King Drew, is quite literally, a gentle giant. That is, if he's not punching you in the face or defeating the world's foremost opponents in chess. The Mighty King Drew has had recent buzz for bringing the sport of Chess Boxing to the United States. However, in many circles he's known for philanthropi...

Barnet Bain is an award-winning filmmaker, best-selling author, teacher, podcaster, radio personality, and essentially - for all intents and purposes - the muse of all muses. His mantra, "every act is a creative act," fuels creative thinking and doing in everything from politics to entertainment to manufacturing, entrepreneurship, teaching and then some. Part science, and part fun, he has taught u...

In 2015, Matt Mason was voted the 11th most creative person in business by Fast Company. The pirate radio dj turned magazine publisher turned marketer, turned BitTorrent whisperer boasts a number of claims to fame - including the only book on Amazon to become a best-seller in two simultaneous categories. He's written and produced TV series, screenplays, comic strips, apps and records, not to menti...

As an organization, Humbleriot describes itself as "a collective of peaceful warriors armed with a loaded clip of authenticity and awareness, who utilize music and culture to tell stories." At its helm sits Anthony Demby, the most humble rioter of all. For the past 18 years, Anthony has been a staple in audible entertainment, working with artists ranging from Natasha Bedingfield, to Childish Gambi...

Jenny Gottstein once loaded a toy gun with marshmallows dipped in food coloring and shot her coworker. Fortunately for her, as a professional adventure game designer, that's exactly the type of thing she gets paid to do. For years, Jenny has used the power of play to unlock creativity in the teams she works with by organizing public games around the world for groups ranging from 5 to 10,000 people...

For years, people all over the world have had their eyes and ears on the streets of Detroit, MI, USA. In the midst of all the overly promoted destruction porn, lay several gems of innovation and an overwhelming sense of excitement toward the endless possibilities that come from starting over. 2 years ago The Collaborative Group launched the first ever "Challenge Detroit," a year long initiative de...

Look at any top 100 YouTube channel list, and you're guaranteed to find Toby Turner (aka Tobuscus) somewhere in the ranking. To put that in perspective, in 2012, Wired reported that there are well over half a billion YouTube Channels in existence. In that regard, Toby has amassed fame that easily rivals any mainstream celebrity. 15+ million subscribers, over 3 billion views, a top performing crowd...

Dave Asprey is a former computer hacker turned biohacker turned systems thinker turned CEO turned branding & business maven turned awesome. At age 26, and worth millions of dollars, Dave was well over 300lbs and suffering from numerous conditions affecting his mental and physical health. Tired of physiological failure, he turned his hacking skills toward his own biology, thus beginning the journey...

Innovation Crush host, Chris Denson, breaks down 5 points of innovation; pulling anecdotes and stories from previous episodes and building takeaways for how to apply innovation principles and theory to your own Crush Culture. 1.) Curiosity & Exploration 2.) Say Yes to the Yes 3.) Diverse Perspectives 4.) Creating Happiness 5.) User Experience See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cal...

On this episode of Innovation Crush, we got a chance to sit down with the power women of Nike, Def Jam, and Universal Pictures during Behind the Hustle's "Yes Ma'am" event. The conversation is a fun and dynamic ride through everything from humble beginnings, personal branding, the value of relationships, working with millenials, celebrating personal victories, work-life balance and more... plus Q...

Whether on stage at a comedy club, at the helm of the LA Podfest, behind the mic on Comedy Film Nerds, directing his podcast documentary, or entertaining the troops in one of his 7(and counting) tours of the Middle East, Graham Elwood is a force to be reckoned with. Over the years, the comedian/filmmaker/entrepreneur discovered his purpose as an entertainer... to change people's lives... and do it...