121: A Lifetime Finding Ways to Say YES to Creativity

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Daniels joined RealArcade in 2005 sourcing and producing video games. Ten years later, with dozens of titles as producer, designer and creative director, she’s making games for the whole family. In January 2015, she left Seattle in a renovated “Skoolie” bus. Her mission: to unplug, reconnect, and challenge her status quo. In a life filled with rich, diverse experiences, Sarah has honed a guiding pragmatism: “For earning a living, I made the mercenary's choice—I want to do what I love, and I have to pay my bills. The key is to get clear on what it means to be creative.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 121. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:10.9	Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves,
0:17.6	to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today I'm delighted to bring you
0:23.2	our featured guest, Sarah Elizabeth Daniels. Welcome, Sarah. Hi, Don. Sarah, are you using
0:29.6	your talents doing work that you love? I am. We want to hear the whole story. In 2005,
0:36.7	Sarah joined Real Arcade as a part of a three-person team
0:40.7	sourcing and producing video games. Ten years later, she has dozens of titles under her belt
0:46.8	as producer, designer, and creative director. She continues to work with international studios
0:53.0	making games which can be enjoyed by the whole family.
0:56.0	This past January, Sarah left Seattle in a renovated school bus on a mission to unplug, reconnect, and challenge her personal status quo.
1:06.0	So Sarah, that's a pithy summation of your life to this point. Tell us what you're up to now that has you engaged and motivated.
1:13.7	Well, as you just said in January, I left Seattle in a renovated school bus, which is a little bit of a surprise even to myself.
1:23.4	When I looked at my career a couple of years ago, I knew that I was going to have to shake myself up a little bit.
1:29.5	I've been making games at that point for eight years.
1:32.3	It's an industry that changes very rapidly.
1:35.1	The technology is always advancing.
1:37.1	The market is always ever in flux.
1:40.3	And for myself as a creative, because I put my whole heart into things, you just get burned out and you lose perspective a little bit.
1:47.2	Yes.
1:48.0	And so my family is all over the nation, and they're all getting older.
1:54.0	And my grandfather passed away in 2013.
1:57.3	And when he passed away, it was the first loss that really hit me. And I thought, you know what, I can't live my life online. I can't live my life on social networks. I need to go out and I need to look people in the eye and I need to sit with them and be with them and challenge all of my most closely held beliefs in a lot of ways.
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