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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Listener Favorites: Drew Plotkin | How to Use Tattoos to Rewrite Your Story and Reinvent Yourself

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Drew Plotkin, tattoo artist and filmmaker, shares his journey of self-discovery through tattoos in this episode. He recounts his adventures, from death row to Hollywood, and uses his experiences to inspire listeners with his resilience and determination to live life on his own terms. Don't miss this raw and honest account of success, failure, and finding the strength to always get back up.

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As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting

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some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical

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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.

0:24.5

What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose.

0:28.0

Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose.

0:32.2

You know, after finding him and my mother and I called an ambulance and rode to the hospital and from the

0:38.7

hospital not knowing what was going to be the outcome just stunned and shocked as a 13 year old

0:43.6

kid calling my grandmother on the phone because my mother was with the doctors figuring out what

0:48.8

was happening and I tried speaking and she answered the phone and I can still hear her voice

0:54.0

answering the phone in my head to this day.

0:56.8

And my mouth was moving and I was saying the words and nothing would come out, not a single word.

1:02.8

And I remember looking around, you know, the hospital room where we were outside the emergency room and all these faces staring at this little 13-year-old kid with,

1:11.6

you know, tears streaming down his face. And I remember the shirt that I was wearing and just

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thinking myself, why won't these damn words come? I could not speak, even though I was mouthing the

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words. And, you know, trauma has strange and powerful impacts i literally lost very short term the power

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of speech right then and there i came back and i was i'm sure speaking later that evening certainly

1:35.1

the next day and i don't think i've shut up since i'm sreeny row and this is the unmistak Creative podcast, where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books, and created insanely interesting art.

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For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.

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Drew, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative.

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Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

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