Hillary Weiss: The Danger of Just Mindset and Why Imitation Is a Trap for Finding Your Golden Thread
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting |
| 0:04.6 | some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical |
| 0:09.4 | strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve |
| 0:14.4 | personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get |
| 0:18.5 | 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 LifePurpose. Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash life purpose. Hillary, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. |
| 0:39.6 | So as I was mentioning before we hit record, creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. So as I was mentioning before we hit record, |
| 0:47.7 | you are in a long line of people that Sarah Peck has referred all who have been absolutely stellar, so no pressure at all. But the first question I want to start by asking is, |
| 0:54.0 | what social group were you a part of in high school? |
| 0:56.4 | And what impact did that end up having on the choices that you've made throughout your life and your career? |
| 1:01.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:02.1 | Yes. |
| 1:02.5 | So I've actually been, I was lucky and unlucky. |
| 1:05.3 | So I grew up in suburban South Florida. |
| 1:07.4 | And I actually went to the same school for 14 years. |
| 1:10.6 | So kindergarten all the way through 12th grade. And what happens when actually went to the same school for 14 years. So kindergarten all the way |
| 1:12.0 | through 12th grade. And what happens when you go to the same school for 14 years is that everybody |
| 1:17.2 | remembers, like, who peed their pants in pre-K and who did the embarrassing thing in second grade? |
| 1:23.8 | So I actually, I wasn't, I wasn't one of those social groups that wasn't. I was not popular. I was also not in the total reject spot. I was in the satellite group and we were friends actually for the full kind of 14 years and just orbited around doing our own thing. And what's actually been really cool is a number of the people from my high school life. I'm actually still |
| 1:45.5 | really good friends with. Like I have a group of girls who I go travel with back when we could do that. |
| 1:50.5 | I would travel with every year and everyone's married and like having kids now. So it's a little |
| 1:55.2 | different. But it's actually been an incredible source of value in my life to have those consistent friends who have known you |
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