482 - Seth Godin on Creativity, Generosity & The Practice
The Marie Forleo Podcast
Marie Forleo
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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"Of Miles Davis' 50 records, 30 of them were pretty bad." Seth Godin - marketer, creative, and author of 19 bestsellers - explains why your work needs a practice and why that means accepting that not everything you create will be your best. Plus, get a rare peek into the personal writing practice behind his 20-year streak of daily blog posts.
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| 0:00.0 | Seth Godin has started successful companies, taught millions of people, and left his mark on our creative |
| 0:05.8 | culture. He's the author of 19 international bestsellers translated into more than 35 languages, |
| 0:13.5 | including tribes, Purple Cow, Lynchpin, The Dip, and This Is Marketing. He also has one of the most |
| 0:19.6 | popular blogs in the world. |
| 0:21.8 | He's also the founder of Alt MBA and the Akimbo workshops, |
| 0:25.1 | which are online seminars that have transformed the work of thousands of people. |
| 0:29.3 | His latest book is The Practice, Shipping Creative Work. |
| 0:33.3 | Seth Godin, oh my goodness, thank you for coming back on for the practice. |
| 0:39.2 | I have to thank you. |
| 0:40.4 | You're a shining light, and it's so nice to see you again, even if it's not in person. |
| 0:45.3 | Well, same. |
| 0:46.8 | And I will say this from my heart. |
| 0:49.2 | You keep getting better and better and better, which I was thinking about this. |
| 0:53.5 | I was like, well, that is the best |
| 0:55.1 | sales pitch for the practice, right? The fact that, for me at least, I've read, I think, |
| 1:02.9 | all of your books, if not close to it, and I enjoy them all. This one made a profound impact on me. |
| 1:08.6 | I've pulled out some of my favorite pieces. We'll walk through that, But I just want to tell you this. I was reading it in preparation for our conversation |
| 1:15.6 | today and I got so inspired at some point. I had to put it down, Seth. And I wrote an entire |
| 1:21.9 | kind of sales page, for lack of a better word, about something that's been in my heart for a while, |
| 1:27.6 | and it came pouring out of me. And I'll tag something. And it's not very long, but it felt |
| 1:34.0 | very impactful and true to me. And so I'll flag that when we get to that particular part. |
| 1:38.7 | But I just wanted to say all that up front. And I know so many folks in our audience are fans of |
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