261: Debbie Millman - Manifesting Your Goals • Courage Before Confidence • Everything Worthwhile Takes Time
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Debbie Millman is an author, educator, curator, and host of the podcast Design Matters. She was named "one of the most creative people in business" by Fast Company, and "one of the most influential designers working today" by Graphic Design USA.
Design Matters is 13 years old and is one of the world's first and longest running podcasts. Debbie has interviewed over 400 artists, designers, and cultural commentators.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Debbie became interested in design & branding
- The evolution of Design Matters over 13 years
- The trajectory of a person's life
- The creative process behind interviewing
- Debbie's failures made her resistant to shame
- Be open to learning and growing
- Rejection and failure are two different things
- The mentor who changed Debbie's life
- Pay it forward
- Looking for fulfillment
- How Debbie designs her days
- What gave Debbie a sense of deep joy
- Therapy helped save Debbie's life
- The impact of negativity and criticism
- Is your fear bigger than your desire?
- Courage is the first step to confidence
- Living in a 140 character culture
- Everything worthwhile takes a long time
- Reality check for building a career
- Keep going until you make it
- Debbie's morning and nightly routines
- Her struggle with self-esteem
- The perfect day exercise from Milton Glaser
- Manifesting your goals
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Design Matters (Debbie's podcast)
Debbie Millman - Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits (book)
Debbie Millman - Brand Bible (book)
Debbie Millman - Self Portrait as Your Traitor (book)
Debbie Millman - How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer (book)
Debbie Millman - Why You (book)
Debbie Millman - The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (book)
Debbie Millman on The Tim Ferriss Show
Dani Shapiro - Inheritance (book)
The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC
Healing & Dealing with Hashi's (Marni & Samantha's Online Course)
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| 0:00.0 | I define now confidence as the successful repetition of any endeavor. |
| 0:05.0 | For those of us that are able to walk, we have walking confidence. |
| 0:08.4 | We didn't have that when we started walking. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 261. |
| 0:19.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marty Wasserman |
| 0:21.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:25.2 | This week our featured guest is Debbie Millman. |
| 0:27.3 | She's an author, educator, curator, and host to the podcast Design Matters. |
| 0:32.3 | She was named one of the most creative |
| 0:33.7 | people in business by Fast Company and one of the most influential designers |
| 0:37.8 | working today by Graphic Design USA. Design Matters is 13 years old and is one of the world's first and longest running |
| 0:44.5 | podcasts. Debbie has interviewed over 400 artists, designers, and cultural |
| 0:49.4 | commentators. We first learned about Debbie through Jesse's mom who happens to be a big fan of her |
| 0:54.6 | podcast and is also an artist herself. After digging into Debbie's work we found out |
| 0:59.1 | she is behind so many big companies and she helped work with them to help with their branding and |
| 1:03.3 | design and this includes companies like Burger King, General Mills, Starbucks, |
| 1:07.2 | Kleenex and so many more. We definitely get into Debbie's story of how she became |
| 1:11.4 | interested in design and branding but we talk about so much more. |
| 1:14.3 | So here's what we get into today. |
| 1:15.8 | We talk about the creative process behind interviewing since she's been podcasting for |
| 1:19.5 | over 13 years. |
| 1:20.8 | We get into Debbie's failures that made her resistant to shame. We talk about |
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