As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting

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recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook. What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Again, that's unmistakablecreative.com slash life purpose. I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window into the stories and insights

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episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com. Jeffrey, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative.

Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Well, thank you, Shrini, for having me on.

Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here.

So I actually came across your work because of your publicist who sent me your book,

Creative Careers, Making a Living from your ideas, or Making Living With Your Ideas.

And I think that is one of those things that is

incredibly important to almost all of our listeners, myself included. And yet it's one of those

things that I think is very sort of mysterious to find sort of how you connect the dots between

creativity and money, which we will get to. But before we, you know, get into that, I want to start

asking, what did your parents

do for work and how did that end up influencing, shaping the choices that you've made throughout

your life and your career?

Well, my mom and dad were both retailers. Before they got married, my dad worked at a shoe

store and my mom worked at a department store, both in Akron, Ohio.

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