Escalate & Evolve : A blueprint for career + life with Ben Uyeda

The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ben Uyeda stepped away from the award-winning architecture firm he co-founded, as well as an Ivy League teaching position, to develop media companies that deliver affordable designs to the masses.

In the last four years, Ben’s design ideas have reached more than 50 million people and the free designs he gives away are being built on six different continents. Despite the populist and affordable nature of his work, Ben’s designs have been featured in an exhibition and workshop at the Vitra Furniture Museum in Germany. He shares many of his designs on his popular youtube channel, the Modern Maker, as well as his growing collaborations with brands to explore sustainable designs. This episode ranks as one of my my top 5 ever conversation. Why? Ben's articulation of the creative process, including:

How and why to start with what you have?
Building your career through a process of creating larger and more complex projects over time
The difference between mastery and competency, and how sometimes competency is all you need
The challenges of scaling creativity
and much more.

If you've either struggled with your hyphenated creative identity or simply need a boost of inspiration, this episode is going to bring you a ton of value.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis live show. This is where I sit down with amazing humans and I do everything I can to unpack their brains with the goal of helping you live your dreams and career hobby and life. My guest today is YouTube and designensation Ben Ueda.
0:26.3	Now, I'm going to go on the record right now and saying this is one of my favorite five episodes of all time, specifically because of the wisdom that Ben shares in the next,
0:33.3	call it 50 minutes of this podcast.
0:37.3	Now, that's a big statement, but a little background on Ben.
0:40.9	He stepped away from an award-winning architecture firm that he co-founded.
0:44.9	He left a teaching position at an Ivy League school to create his own personal brand and
0:51.5	small media company focused on making design and designs for everyday things
0:57.4	that you and I would love to make them affordable and accessible. Millions of people use his
1:03.3	designs have paid attention to his YouTube channel, which is just so fun and pleasurable and
1:09.7	insightful. But more than anything, what Ben,
1:12.2	I think, delivers in this episode is not about his personal past, but about your ability to do
1:20.1	what he's doing, to take the thing that is exciting in your life and make it a reality,
1:25.1	make it the thing that you do for a living and a life, making that
1:29.7	accessible and connecting you with the creative process that's going to get you where you want
1:33.1	to be. Now, I consider myself an expert in this and I felt like I was at the foot of a master
1:40.5	in his ability to explain this. So I'm going to stop talking and let you enjoy this episode
1:45.3	with Mr. Ben Ueda. One of the most powerful messages that you can hear are the three words,
1:53.0	It is possible. Whatever your thing is, whether it's music, fine art, filmmaking, building a business,
2:00.1	non-profit work.
2:01.4	You can build a living and more importantly, a life around that thing.
2:06.1	Now, one of the most often overlooked aspects of success here, not to mention a well-lived
2:11.1	life, is acquiring those skills.
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