Are you looking for a creative outlet to express yourself and connect with others?

Today, Adam Hill opens up about his past struggles with addiction and how daily acts like posting dad jokes helped him find community. Adam believes creativity brings together diverse people by exposing us to new ideas. And being vulnerable through your art can connect strangers in meaningful ways.

Give this a listen - it might just give you the push you need to share your talent and connect with others through your creativity.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• Creativity can build unexpected communities and bring people together.

• Sharing small, daily creative acts to help overcome addiction and disconnect from negativity

• Vulnerability and passion have the power to unite people from all backgrounds.

• We all have gifts to share that can spread positivity and brighten someone's day.

• Taking creative risks and expressing yourself can help you connect in a meaningful way.

Episode Highlights:

[01:17] Adam’s amazing TED Talk experience

Adam shares how giving his TEDx talk at Boston College was a big step that deeply connected him to his message of creative connection.

[03:24] Creativity can help you create the community you never knew you needed

By consistently sharing even small positive creative acts with the world, we unexpectedly build the communities that we don't realize we need or want.

[06:54] The negative bias of news and social media

Adam explains how news and social media have a negative bias, as they feed on people's tendency towards negativity. They engage through arguments in the comments section, creating an addictive cycle that is really harming society.

[07:57] Lean into the healing power of positive creativity

We can do away with our negative addictions if we can actually lean into those small, positive creative acts – and then share them with the world consistently.

[09:18] Creativity and consistency will help you find your community

Adam shares how he decided to completely disconnect from the news, risking being uninformed, but it greatly improved quality of life, and over time a community developed around his consistent daily creative habit of sharing jokes, leading him to realize the power of creative connection.

[12:36] Creativity highlights our core passions

Creativity has the power to expose us to more diverse communities with a variety of beliefs and opinions. By sharing our creative passions, we open ourselves up to building the meaningful connections across differences that are so needed

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Your story has the power to help others.

In this episode, learn about overcoming adversity through storytelling as Adam Hill welcomes Dr. Michael Hudson. As a child, Michael endured unspeakable trauma that silenced him for decades. Now, he's dedicated to helping people share difficult parts of their journey.

Learn how Michael reframed his past to serve others better and discover your lessons. Leave empowered to break the silence on your experiences, connect through vulnerability, and use your voice to heal the pain in the world.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• The empowerment of owning one's full traumatic experience

• The power of sharing life's hard-earned lessons

• The three-sentence story

• Dissonance and alignment in personal and professional growth

• Reframing negative experiences to serve others better

Episode Highlights:

[12:03] The empowerment of owning one's full traumatic experience

Michael shares that softening or diminishing traumatic experiences only harms oneself, and acknowledging his own experience as rape rather than molestation through giving himself permission also empowered others to do the same.

[13:46] The power of sharing life's hard-earned lessons

We earn valuable lessons from difficult challenges, not just learn from them. Finding comfort in sharing what we endured can help change others' paths by helping them avoid similar pain, disconnect, and dissonance through what we learned.

[15:03] Sharing our scars, not our wounds

Focus on the lessons learned rather than graphic details. Michael emphasizes the importance of sharing life's lessons from past difficulties in a way that helps others without reopening your own wounds or soliciting an emotional response.

[20:27] The three-sentence story

Michael suggests a simple approach to sharing one's story in three sentences - situation, conflict, resolution - to create understanding and connection without rehashing traumatic details. This concise format allows others to relate while maintaining appropriate boundaries.

[25:41] Dissonance and alignment in personal and professional growth

The misalignment between your personal values and professional work can cause dissatisfaction and frustration, and the liberation that comes from achieving true alignment where one's actions and identity are congruent.

[49:05] Write a letter to your younger self

Michael suggests writing a letter to your younger self as an exercise to gain comfort in sharing difficult past experiences by addressing the journey, the highs and lows, and reframing events from a place of wisdom and healing.

Resources Mentioned:

The Backstory Initiative

Dr. Michael Hudson on LinkedIn

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Have you struggled to stick with learning a new skill? Discover how setting small, quarterly goals can help you consistently pursue passions and build competencies at a sustainable pace.

In his latest episode, Adam Hill shares how developing new skills and pursuing mastery has helped him overcome fear and anxiety. He discusses the importance of creating a "learning list" to brainstorm all the activities and subjects that interest you. Simply writing things down isn't enough - you need a plan to take action. That's where Adam's strategy of setting small, quarterly commitments comes in.

Tune in to hear Adam's approach to developing "multidisciplinary mastery" by stacking similar skills. He also emphasizes how learning connects you to new communities.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• Achieving gradual mastery through focused learning

• How to create your own learning list

• The importance of quarterly check-ins

• When to quit a learning goal

• Building multidisciplinary mastery through skill stacking

• Finding connection through shared learning

Episode Highlights:

[02:28] Achieve gradual mastery through focused learning

While it may appear Adam is skilled in many areas, he achieved them by gradually building competency in each area over time by focusing on one new thing at a time.

[04:10] Create your own learning list

List the things you want to learn that can engage your intellect, stimulate you mentally or physically, help you become healthier, or simply bring you joy and fulfillment as part of living an abundant life.

[10:24] Check in quarterly to assess if each activity still inspires you

Review your learning list each quarter to decide whether to continue pursuing each item or quit to make room for new goals. Consider if each activity still fulfills and inspires you or has become draining and boring.

[11:39] When to quit a learning goal

Adam suggests strategically quitting goals that no longer fulfill you after 90 days, to make way for new goals that better match your current interests.

[12:54] Build multidisciplinary mastery through skill stacking

Gaining foundational skills in one area first before taking on a new related skill allows you to build "multidisciplinary mastery" by stacking competencies in similar fields.

[13:52] Find connection through shared learning

Building knowledge and capabilities helps you connect with communities that provide support and human connection crucial for overcoming anxiety and fear.

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