The Unreasonable Art of Living

This week I’m joined by Paige Goldstein , coach for soul-led leaders, for a conversation about identity beyond work, spiritual awakening, intuition, travel, creativity, and why the opposite of depression might just be soul expression. Paige helps soul-led leaders build authentic personal brands through her community, The Ripple Effect . If you’d like to connect with her or follow her work, you can...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE POST; THERE WERE SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

Join me for a nourishing exploration of the world’s best-kept secret, and how it is my biggest inspiration for building a human-only Internet. No dark chocolate review this time :( Join Eleven Dunbar - The Human-Only Internet For Genuine Connection & Creativity A place for innovators, dreamers, and builders seeking genuine connection and creativity. A global community, capped at 150 - small enough...

Join me for the 3rd anniversary of The Unreasonable Art of Living! We talk dark chocolate, pizza-heaven, and about what is, or isn’t, your honest voice. And most importantly, THANK YOU for listening and walking with me on this beautiful journey. You rock (you weirdo). Join Eleven Dunbar - The Human-Only Internet For Genuine Connection & Creativity A global community, capped at 150 - small enough t...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. This week, we sit down to explore what it actually means to live a creative life, and why your inner creativity doesn't need healing; it just needs to be remembered. Also, we are hosting our FIRST ‘ The 11D Gathering Of The Elfs’ on June 24, 12 pm ET, a free one-hour event for people who want to have more creativity and...

Episode 100, and Justin and I spent it doing what we always do: BoJangles and what it means for us to build a human-only Internet. Join Eleven Dunbar - The Human-Only Internet We’re looking for the engineer/executive who secretly writes poetry. The digital-nomad/remote worker who can work from anywhere, but still craves a room that nourishes them intellectually and creatively. The founder who want...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. A new week, a new founding member episode! This week we sit down with Chad Hammock: sales leader, sneakerhead, and the man with a sourdough-based business philosophy that somehow explains everything. We get into the concept of Quality, AI, baseball, and what a bread starter has to do with building great teams. Enjoy! Jo...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. A new week, a new founding member episode! This week, we sit down with Sumo and Ami, two unbelievably amazing and interesting humans in the Eleven Dunbar universe. Dancing, childhood dreams, healing journeys, manifestation, and somehow Google Sheets all made it in. Enjoy! Join Eleven Dunbar We only have a limited number...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Pasi Joronen, founding member, startup-builder-and-investor-turned-musician-and-family-man, and who fell into boiling mud in Iceland (and lived to laugh about it), joins us for this member episode of How to Unreasonable. We go deep on rediscovering your creative self after 50, the alter ego you didn’t know you needed, a...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Emily Cabrera, founding member, lawyer-turned-AI-agent-builder, and certified adaptivist, joins us for the first-ever member episode of The Unreasonable Art of Living Eleven Dunbar series. We go deep on the renaissance of the human as ever-evolving adaptivist, why safety is the precondition for creativity, and what it m...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. We’re recording from a treehouse in Asheville, where the spiders are bold, the ceilings are enormous, and one shoe may already be lost forever. Between bear sightings, exploding bird-window mysteries, Bojangles fried chicken, and suspiciously meaningful house numbers, things get strange quickly. We also share what’s rea...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Hey everyone! Tomorrow I fly to the USA for 2 months. I also accidentally learned far, far too much about funerals, discovered a new passion for artistic expression, and crowned a new dark chocolate champion. Enjoy

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. From Eleven Dunbar's one-month survey results to dangerous staircases, barking dogs, and the quiet weirdness of life in the woods, this one drifts between building a community and questioning every sound outside your window. Somewhere in between, “anything could happen” starts to feel less like a promise and more like a...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Justin moves to bear country, Gerhard counts wrong, and Eleven Dunbar's first month delivers more learnings, surprises, and reasons to be excited than they could have planned for. Join Eleven Dunbar as an Early Bird We closed the founding member round and opened * drumroll * the early bird waitlist! You can sign up here...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. The struggle phase in any creative process was never the problem; it was always the point. Also, running shoes are insane now. Podcast ramble ratio: 60/40 (it was almost too little ramble). Join Eleven Dunbar as an Early Bird We closed the founding member round and opened *drumroll* the early bird waitlist! You can sign...

In this solo episode, I ramble through dark chocolate peanut butter cups, being back in Vienna, a bouldering conversation that made me feel deeply understood, and why 35% cocoa should be illegal. Somewhere in there: a reworked version of the lumii method for the Eleven Dunbar community, noticing what feels expansive vs. contracting, and a question I keep coming back to that’s quietly reshaping how...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. A solo ramble on jet lag, an unreasonable airline dream, and the discovery that changed how I understand my creativity, vision, and the way I move through life. Join Eleven Dunbar as an Early Bird We closed the founding member round and opened * drumroll * the early bird waitlist! You can sign up here: https://elevendun...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Or watch this episode on YouTube if you wanna see our faces, enjoy! We went live! We put up a bat signal, not entirely sure anyone would follow, and somehow ended up with a room full of beautiful people who were exactly who we were looking for. Join Eleven Dunbar as an Early Bird We closed the founding member round and...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Or watch this episode on YouTube if you wanna see our faces, enjoy! We closed the founding member round, ran a bunch of “digital crayons” hackathons, and somehow discovered the secret to creativity is sitting on the floor eating dark chocolate pretzels. Also, we debate gates that do not exist and invent handshakes so aw...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Or watch this episode on YouTube if you wanna see our faces, enjoy! One of the questions we ask applicants is to share an unreasonable dream they secretly hold. We find this question powerful because it activates the inner voice that often gets silenced/neglected, the part that knows what it really wants to do. Some peo...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Or watch this episode on YouTube if you wanna see our faces, enjoy! Join us for our honest “build in public” reflections from week two of launching  Eleven Dunbar:  the emotional highs and lows, Stripe notification drama, Schrödinger’s cat, and the key difference between building a community and building a software prod...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts for audio only. Or watch this episode on YouTube if you wanna see our faces, enjoy! Justin and I unpack the emotional rollercoaster of launching Eleven Dunbar, and why we’re now building weird, impractical things with AI just for the joy of it. We also announced a new type of "show" we're producing that will cover me teaching Justin va...

You can listen to this episode on Spotify , and Apple Podcasts . Today is the day when I will share with you what I have been working on behind closed doors with my dear friend, brother, and co-founder, Justin: Eleven Dunbar . We’ve been building this for the last ~6 months, but honestly… it feels like the culmination of decades of lived experience: wins, losses, startups, burnout, reinvention, la...

Back in Miami for 6 weeks. Long flight, no internet…just thinking. AI is about to unleash a wave of creativity we haven’t seen before, not in art, but in software. People will build tools the same way they make videos or write posts: for themselves, first. Sadly, no dark chocolate review today. Vienna fail. Miami redemption incoming. Get full access to The Unreasonable Art of Living at www.howtoun...

Welcome to another loose, unfiltered check-in on where my energy is going this year. Helsinki reflections, building something new, thoughts on AI, creativity, community, and why I’m doubling down on the things that still feel human. Plus: mustache ASMR and a dark chocolate review (Läderach 80%) , obviously. No script. Just thinking out loud. Enjoy