Olatunde Sobomehin and Sam Seidel on finding your creative hustle

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tunde and sam first partnered up at Stanford’s d.school to share their wisdom of “creative hustle” in a class that equally drew participants from Stanford’s student body and the nearby community of East Palo Alto. Now they share their creative inspiration and instruction with an even wider audience in their newly released book - Creative Hustle: Blaze Your Own Path and Make Work That Matters. They join Jessi to discuss lessons from the book on marrying values and talent to passion. Follow Olatunde Sobomehin and sam seidel on LinkedIn and check out their book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir here. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn. Listen to my new podcast, The Path.
0:05.0	Discover how today's greatest leaders shape their unique career paths and the lessons they learned along the way.
0:10.0	Tune in to new episodes weekly wherever you enjoy your podcasts.
0:14.0	LinkedIn News
0:20.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:24.0	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:30.0	We've been talking lately about some of the big and ephemeral parts of our lives.
0:35.0	At work and beyond, how to come out about who we really are, how to resolve harm, how to face fear, how to lead.
0:43.0	Today is all about how we can, if we want to, make a big creative impact.
0:50.0	My guests team teach a popular class at Stanford University's D-School and they've just published a book.
0:56.0	It's called Creative Hustle, blaze your own path and make work that matters.
1:01.0	A latunde Shabomahin and Sam Seidel believe everyone is born creative.
1:07.0	They've devised a framework to help us make the most of that creativity and we're going to review it today.
1:13.0	To get started, we need to dive into what Tunde and Sam mean when they say the words creative hustle.
1:18.0	They define it succinctly in the book and I used it as a jumping off point for our conversation.
1:24.0	They say, creative hustle is the alchemy of imagination and ambition that will enable you to apply your gifts to your goals.
1:32.0	Oh, I love that.
1:33.0	So here are Tunde and Sam. Sam speaks first.
1:36.0	Well, first of all, Jesse, thank you for having us and thank you for echoing that quote back to us.
1:43.0	It's something that we wrote a while ago and speaks to something we both believe very deeply,
1:51.0	which is both that there is this balance that every one of us can find between imagination and ambition,
2:00.0	between being creative and figuring out how to make things happen in the world.
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