238 - Discover your gift — with Michael Ventura

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Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Michael Ventura is the founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that works with some of the world’s largest brands, organizations, and startups. He is also a board member and advisor to several organizations, including Behance, The Burning Man Project, and The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. As if that weren’t impressive enough, he also owns a globally recognized design store in New York’s West Village and is a visiting lecturer at institutions like Princeton University and the United States Military Academy at West Point. In this podcast episode, Michael shares his experience as an entrepreneur, how he spends his precious time, and why his calling is helping other people overcome the obstacles in their way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am very committed to being me professionally.
0:04.6	For a long time I was the CEO of this business that was my job and I was Michael from Sub-Rosa.
0:10.1	And now I just want to be Michael. And some days that means researching an idea or a premise.
0:16.0	Some days that means writing, some days that means speaking,
0:19.0	some days that means working with other people in their teams.
0:21.0	And it's just nice to have that diversity in my day
0:24.4	and also some days to be able to just say,
0:27.1	I don't have anything really pressing today.
0:29.0	I'm going to go take a longer walk with the dogs. Oh, So I'm talking to Michael Ventura, he's the entrepreneur and CEO of Award Winning
1:00.3	Strategy and Design Practice Sub-Brosaa which he exited out of. He shares how empathy, the ability to see
1:06.3	the world through someone else's eyes could be what your business needs to improve,
1:10.0	innovate, connect, and grow. And here's something wonderful that Ariana Huffington said about his book,
1:14.1	Applied Empathy. With Applied Empathy, Michael Ventura shows us how to unlock our ability to design solutions,
1:19.9	spark innovation, and solve tough challenges with empathy at the center.
1:25.0	Michael, now it's becoming a trend that we're speaking to several people who spoke in Australia
1:31.5	at the NoB- NOPES conference.
1:32.7	You're just in a line of many great people
1:35.5	that I want to talk to.
1:37.0	First, for people who don't know who you are,
1:38.5	can you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit of your story?
1:41.6	Sure, yeah.
1:42.2	And thank you for inviting me to have a chat.
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