Jocelyn Glei: Find Your Through-line and Make Your Mark
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2014
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We spend a lot of time thinking about the legacy we're building. What is the thing that threads everything you've done together? What is the mark you're leaving on the world, both in the career or work you do and the way you live your life?
These are big questions. And they're what we're exploring in this week's episode with Jocelyn Glei.
From the time she was a kid, Jocelyn had been drawn to writing, publishing and entrepreneurship. In high school, she launched her first "zine," printed on copiers at her dad's office. Her interest in language deepened through college, and upon graduating she moved through a series of ventures that kept putting her in charge of bigger and bigger editorial teams and budgets. Then, in 2009, Glei hooked with Behance founder, Scott Belsky, to head up now legendary creative mega-site and the annual conference for creative pros, 99U.
Along the way, she's also curated a powerful three-book series, the latest of which, Make Your Mark, releases this week, boasting extraordinary essays from creative legends like John Maeda, Warby Parker co-founder and CEO, Neil Blumenthal, SY founder, Keith Yamashita, Sugru inventor, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh and many others.
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| 0:00.0 | You can change the way that someone thinks, or you can change the way that someone acts. |
| 0:03.6 | That's incredibly powerful. |
| 0:06.8 | So, the other thing about the through line, that common story, the common interest, |
| 0:10.9 | the thread that kind of ties everything that you've done together. |
| 0:14.4 | You know, very often from the time you were a little kid to almost every job you've had, |
| 0:18.6 | all the different careers to where you are today. |
| 0:21.2 | Well, that's one of the big things that we're exploring in today's episode. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Jonathan Fields. This is Good Life Project. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm a little kid. |
| 0:35.4 | Jocelyn Glyg, a bit by the publishing and entrepreneurial bug at a pretty young age, |
| 0:39.6 | starting out, cutting and pasting and making her own easing instead of clip art. |
| 0:44.5 | She grew slowly over time, found a way into a series of different startups and companies |
| 0:49.3 | every time gaining new skills, building bigger and bigger editorial processes, |
| 0:53.8 | publishing at a higher level until a few years back around 2009, she found herself at the helm |
| 0:59.6 | of 99 you, a really powerful global community for creative professionals, where they offer all |
| 1:06.4 | sorts of incredible advice to get ideas out of your head and into the world. |
| 1:12.1 | It's culminated in a monster website and also an annual conference in New York City. |
| 1:17.6 | Jocelyn really has this incredible through line that just keeps following her through life. |
| 1:22.0 | And in today's conversation, we trace not only that through line, but we really dive into a new set |
| 1:27.1 | of books that she's behind publishing, the latest of which is all about making your mark in the world. |
| 1:42.7 | Freedom is a spontaneous day at the beach. |
| 1:48.4 | A weekend away with friends. Freedom is Zip Car. With Zip Car, you can get a car or van |
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