Everything's a Remix / Podcast Experiment with Alex Hillinger

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Experimenting with a new format with my pal Alex Hillinger. We’re planning to do a few of these so you can hear a format where there is more banter and storytelling. A little sneak behind how the sausage is made. Let us know what you think.

A great idea is transformative by nature and what comes next either supports making it or breaking it. When a good or even great idea presents itself, it’s not enough on its own. We need certain boundaries and constraints that drive the idea forward and we probably need some luck too.

When you’re getting an idea off the ground it’s common to spend a lot of time preparing for it. I’ve had ideas where I spent way too much time in the planning stages. I call this insecurity work. My friend Alex blatantly describes it as procrastination. Alex Hillinger is known as an unconventional strategist, he says there’s more to it when it comes to launching a great idea and having it work out. You need a great idea, and you need to take action on it, and you also need constraints and boundaries to do that effectively.

Alex knows what he’s talking about. He works with the most innovative entrepreneurs, artists, and athletes in the world. Through his work, he’s pioneered new business models, grown great brands, and collaborated on projects that changed the world. He’s an advisor to Google’s Crisis Response team and CreativeLive’s executive team. Alex has a lot to share with us. His experience in helping people generate game-changing strategies and growing engaged communities lends to the conversation we have. We explore both the strategic side and the emotional side of our creative pursuits.

Highlights from our conversation:

Get to know Alex Hillinger, who he is, and how we know each other. We go way back multiple decades, so we’ve got a lot of stories working and spending time together. 10:33
10% Planning, 90% Doing. The dominant mode for most people is that they way over-index on all of the planning and the insecurity work instead of just acting. 35:21
Constraints are Required. Freedom and creativity do need boundaries to help them be successful. 37:21
Everything is a Remix. 54:09
Success is a low bar. We should really be shooting for fulfillment. 01:11:44

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the show.
0:02.4	Ladies and gentlemen, hoas and tramps, cross-ed mosquitoes, and bow-legged ants.
0:05.9	I'm here before you to stand behind you to tell you something.
0:08.4	I know nothing about free admission, pay at the door, pull up a seat, and sit on the floor.
0:12.6	I remember that from like sixth grade.
0:14.9	I don't know why.
0:15.9	It seemed like a camp thing.
0:17.3	But welcome to the show.
0:18.6	Today's episode is different and new. That's right, an experimental
0:21.7	format where I bring in a co-host. That's right. It's not me interviewing somebody. I would say
0:27.4	it's a conversation. And this co-host is a dear longtime personal friend that I'm pretty sure you
0:33.3	haven't met before. His name is Alex and a little bit about Alex. Well, Alex talks about himself
0:38.4	in his intro. I ask him to, but you should know that Alex has been along as a friend and a,
0:45.2	and a collaborator with me for some time. I met him early on. He hired me to do a photo shoot for a
0:51.2	resort that he managed. And we became dear friends.
0:55.1	And he's gone on to advise Creative Live.
0:58.9	He advised my photography app startup called Best Camera.
1:03.5	It was a business manager, in fact, for me at Chase Jarvis, Inc.
1:06.6	for a few years as well.
1:08.6	And all in all, a super, super smart guy that I find, um,
1:14.6	he said, our, our thinking is very, um, I would say, how do you describe it?
1:19.8	Uh, complimentary. Uh, and I think you're going to get a lot of value, not just from the words
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