Breakthrough Anxiety + Stress Through Play /w Charlie Hoehn
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Charlie Hoehn is the best-selling author of one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read, Play It Away, and just released his new beautiful book Play For A Living. He’s a marketing guru, who has helped the likes of Tim Ferriss, Ramit Sethi, and Gary V reach the #1 spot on major bestseller lists. He also brings the distilled wisdom of your favorite authors to you on his podcast, Author Hour Podcast.
This interview has been a long time coming. If you’ve been following me for awhile, you’ve probably heard me mention Charlie’s book, Play It Away. It has certainly changed my life and it’s why PLAY is one of the 10 habits I do every day for a happy and more creative life. It was great to reconnect with Charlie and I can’t wait to hear how this episode inspires more play in your life.
In today’s episode:
- The safe path seemed too risky for post-grad Charlie. He shares exactly how he got the attention of his dream employers after repeatedly failing with job boards and careerbuilder.com.
- Play is an essential ingredient to life. You can go your whole life without psychologically needing to work, but your brain needs to play. If you suffer from depression or anxiety, try adding play to your life.
- If you struggle with even knowing where to start playing, taking a look into your play history may help. What did you do for fun when you were a kid?
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, welcome back. |
| 0:05.0 | It's another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm so happy it's Wednesday a new show drops. |
| 0:13.0 | And you guys know this show. |
| 0:14.0 | This is where I sit down with the world's top creators and entrepreneurs and thought leaders. |
| 0:19.0 | And I do everything I can to unpack their brains and help you live your dreams in career, in hobby, and in life. |
| 0:25.1 | I vet my guests very carefully, and today's guest is Charlie Hohn. |
| 0:29.8 | All right, there's two camps here, people who know Charlie and people who don't. |
| 0:32.4 | If you're in the camp that knows Charlie, then let me put a pin in this for a second because you know why he's amazing. |
| 0:37.0 | If you don't know Charlie, Charlie wrote, was written two books, one called Play It Away and the other called |
| 0:43.3 | play for a living. Play it away changed my life. And it's very, very simple. That's one of the things |
| 0:48.9 | I love about it. So that's, you know, it's my goal to have people on the show that have directly or indirectly, |
| 0:55.4 | but obviously as much as possible have directly impacted, you know, the way I see the world or have |
| 1:00.0 | shaped some opinions or have helped me in some way. Charlie's book called Play It Away basically |
| 1:05.1 | helped me uncork so much of my creativity just through daily play. A little bit of backstory on Charlie. So I |
| 1:14.1 | originally met Charlie because he was working for Tim Ferriss and previously Rameet Saiti. So both |
| 1:19.4 | of those guys are close friends of mine, have been for years and years. And anyone who's worked for |
| 1:24.8 | both of them, I was like, oh, wow, I found out he was working for Tim and I want to meet this guy because I know what it takes to work in that environment. |
| 1:32.2 | I'm looking across the table here at the podcast. |
| 1:34.3 | Nasa helps me pull all this stuff together. |
| 1:35.9 | And in this world, the folks who are able to work at that pace and as intensely as folks like Tim and Rameet and others, myself included, work, it takes a very special person. |
| 1:47.7 | And Charlie, his story about working in that environment is both invigorating and inspiring. |
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