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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Best of: Reinventing the American Dream with Courtney Martin

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

For decades, there’s been one, big definition of “the American Dream.” But Courtney Martin doesn’t buy in to that, and she believes instead of the American Dream being financial success and the “white picket fence,” it’s developing healthy relationships and finding your success through the deep, genuine relationships you form. Hear her theories on her new definition of success and more in our latest episode!


Courtney Martin is an entrepreneur, columnist at On Being and author of The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream 


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In terms of the new definition of success, I mean I think at its most basic we have previously

0:07.4

defined the American dream as one individual, you know, creating wealth and usually we define that monetarily for themselves

0:16.8

and their family so this is you know everything from the white pick

0:20.0

offense and all of your you, needs are met within it to, you know, having a job that has a very

0:27.3

clear trajectory, you know, straight up the ladder and, you know, that you get all the glory and it's all about your

0:35.9

individual hard work and giftedness right and so I think what I'm trying to

0:40.6

argue for is kind of breaking apart that whole idea that success is an individual

0:46.2

pursuit and instead thinking of success as an interdependent pursuit that it's about the quality

0:52.2

of life you can create by doing

0:53.9

work that you find meaningful that allows you to earn enough money by creating

0:58.6

community around you whether that's physically where you live or in

1:02.2

co-working spaces but really having this sense that your

1:05.0

wealth is most accurately expressed through your relationships, that the more people that you have deep genuine and even

1:15.5

daily relationships with the safer you'll be and probably the healthier and happier you'll

1:20.5

be too. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative

1:28.8

podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most

1:32.2

innovative and creative minds who

1:33.7

started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books and

1:37.6

created insanely interesting art. For more check out our 500 episode archive

1:41.6

at unmistakable Creative.com.

1:43.6

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