The Justin Brady Show

Peter Sims is the author of two best-selling books, founded Parliament Inc, is the brain behind the Black Sheep Bus Tour and has some incredible stories about dark failure. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Sarah Green Carmichael is Editor at Bloomberg Opinion, formerly senior editor of The Harvard Business Review, host of the HBR IdeaCast, and Barrons. A big part of her job is rejecting great ideas to make room for the super great ones. She has expert tips on how to do it without ruining relationships and some practical tools she uses to get stuff done and find those ideas.

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with the goal of making sophisticated research simple. He was named to Fortune's 2016 40 Under 40, a list of the most powerful, influential, and successful young people in business, and was listed as one of Forbes' "America's Most Promising CEOs Under 35" in 2013. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Not everyone can say they made a college from scratch, but Dr. Anthony Paustian did. A former air force pilot and marketing VP, he created the West campus of DMACC which hosted ciWeek featuring speakers like Grant Imahara, Thomas Dolby, Steve Wozniak, LeVar Burton, Dr. Hugh Herr, Howard Berger, Daymond John, Kari Byron, who endorsed his new book A Quarter Million Steps. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/...

Nicole Antonio-Gadsdon is a creative HR specialist and an activist for putting the "human" before the "resources." An unconventional path: She dodged becoming a lawyer, experienced a creativity-numbing short career in retail banking and financial sales, made a lucky escape into specialist recruitment and found her HR home by accident. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Ok everyone, Justin Brady can't take it anymore. It's time to kill off the creative label entirely — it's now doing more damage than good and the creative plague needs to end. Where we take this, is up to you. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info..

Adam Carroll talks about money in a way you've never heard and his family plays monopoly with real money. Adam and I discuss the state of finances, why creative ideas are just waiting to be uncorked in finance, and creative paths our future generation can take to get themselves financially free. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Eric Haller is EVP of Experian DataLabs and great it the department from concept into what it is today. Experian DataLabs employs top talent, PhD's, scientists, and a bunch of other smarties to find new trends, solve big problems and uncover opportunities. Plus, he breaks big news exclusively on our podcast that social media opinions may soon affect a companies credit rating! Go to www.justinkbrad...

I got back in touch with former guest, Soon Yu and we both had a crazy idea. Why not do a deeper episode where we tear back the layers of deep, dark, disgusting, smelly FAILURE. In this unique episode we have a candid discussion about where it all went wrong, and how we personally dealt with our failure. We also open up about why, even the most well respected leaders have trouble opening up about...

Warren Berger is the author of A More Beautiful Question. He explains how asking the right kind of questions can engage others and shift the focus of innovation and problem-solving. He has written in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc, The Harvard Business Review, and many others, PLUS he has spoken for GE, Red Bull, Microsoft, Boeing, Deloitte and many others. Go to www.justinkbra...

Blake Irving is the CEO and Board Director of GoDaddy. Under Blake's direction, the company has sharpened its focus on helping the world's 200 million small, independent ventures to grow and thrive online.  Previously he was EVP and Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!, and spent 15 years at Microsoft in various senior roles. In this episode, Blake discusses how important it is to be fearless in your c...

Liz Ryan leads the Human Workplace movement and is the author of Reinvention Roadmap. We discuss the modern HR shortfalls and why HR is broken, and why today's common HR practices are actually squashing collaboration and creativity. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Barry McGeough is Vice President at Innovation Next, which is PVH Corp's in-house innovation agency. PVH owns iconic brands like Calvin Klein, Speedo, Tommy Hilfiger and many others. Barry is committed to growing iconic global brands by creating award-winning, innovative technical solutions for apparel, gear and footwear that performs and appeals. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Arne Boberg is an award-winning design engineering specialist at 3M and also the founder of Boberg Arms, where he invented a new way to make the standard semi-auto handgun, the Boberg XR9-S! With 23 years in manufacturing and machine design, and 10 years in product design, he has a unique perspective on what it takes to make products, break molds and recover from epic failure. Go to www.justinkbra...

Mike is the founder of Social Money, a financial services company that included SmartyPig.com, a consumer goal-based savings app, and CorePro.io, an innovation technology platform for banks and fin-tech companies to deliver powerful and modern digital banking experiences. Prior to Social Money, Mike had more than 15 years experience developing strategic marketing and technology initiatives on beha...

Dave Birss spends his time demystifying creativity for individuals and organizations Dave has corporate attention deficit disorder. He's gone through a whole bunch of careers, including session musician, stand-up comedian, university lecturer, nude model, poet, patented inventor, radio breakfast show host and advertising creative. He's now an author, consultant, keynote speaker, broadcaster and th...

Ivan Cash is an award-winning artist / director whose multidisciplinary work celebrates human connection and is loved by the internet. His work has exhibited internationally, is in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum in London, has been featured in TIME, CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, Fast Company, Wired, and received multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and Webby Honorees. He has been recognized as...

In this 2016 recap, Justin Brady goes over the common theme all guests wisdom has in common and how, exactly, you can implement all our guests advice one person at a time. Also, we dig into an HBR piece on failure and the previous podcast guest that invited Justin onto his own show! Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

It's not every day you meet a literal household name. If you aren't familiar with Tomas DeLuna, look around your house, you might have one of the wildly popular GE Artistry Series appliances in your house, condo or apartment right now. And he's not done yet, he gives us an idea of his secret project at Harman. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Rachel Cooke is the founder of Lead Above Noise and is laser focused on making work, work better. She shared her 5 step process her clients go through. It's called Super Candor. Super Candor is a way to crush fear in the workplace, encourage better more creative ideas. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Lou Prosperi is author of The Imagineering Pyramid, which was recommended to me by the likes of Dan Pink and David Burkus. The book goes into detail on the thought process that made Disney come to life! Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Danielle discusses how they are tapping into our love of craft and artisan process. We all have that love of craft beer, gin, vinyl records and real film, but Kodak has figured out a clever way to add the convenience of digital at the same time. (Side Note: Did you know Kodak invented the digital camera?) Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

For those that just discovered the podcast, this is Part 2 with Dan Ariely. Part 1 is here. Dan is the James B Duke Professor of behavioral Economics at Duke University and has made the NYT Best seller list multiple times. This week we discuss how to celebrate failure without celebrating stupidity, how to remove the correct restraints for exploration and we also discuss how to tell someone they're...

Dan Ariely? I was totally star struck. Dan discussed his work on why we are so irrational, his new TED book called "Payoff" and discusses, with data and research just how important trust is to spur superstar creativity. He discusses how the crushing regulations on physicians, and how they are killing their life-saving potential, turning them into cogs with no critical thinking potential AND how le...

What a privilege it was to sit down with my good friend, Jason Kiesau, author of Focused: Your Future Starts Now. Currently, he is speaking all across the country unpacking how focus harnesses the effectiveness of creativity. He is also the leadership and talent development manager at Aureon located in the midwest. Go to www.creativitycultivator.com for the show notes.