Rainn Wilson on Creativity, Faith and Making Work that Matters

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Rainn Wilson is best known for his legendary role as Dwight in TV’s award-winning show "The Office,” but he’s also a movie actor, a best selling author, the founder of media company SoulPancake, founder a non profit called Lidé Haiti, an amazing human….and a self-professed sci-fi and fantasy nerd!

In this episode Rainn takes us on journey through his early life and into his ideas on art and creativity, hard work, parenting and spirituality. We spend some quality time around the lessons he learned trying to make it as an actor and the difficult years that preceded his breakthrough. And we also go deep into what inspires his work away from acting - his family, SoulPancake, and why he founded Lidé Haiti, a non-profit organization helping young women in Haiti via the power of creativity.

A few more hot topics:

Rainn never earned more than $20,000 acting in the first 9 years of his career. His advice? Keep cost of living low, do side jobs, and …. tune in to check it out ;).
We examine Rainn's personal challenges parenting from a place of privilege while simultaneously aiming to foster hard work, motivation, and drive.
Rainn shares his spiritual journey, from questioning and challenging the faith he was raised with - to ultimately rediscovering that faith and why it’s right for him.
and more my dear friends - much much more!

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show here on Creative
0:09.1	Live to Chase Jarvis Live show. That's right. I'm your host, your guide, your friend, Chase.
0:14.2	Welcome to my world. I am very happy to be in your ears today. You all know this show. This is where I sit down
0:19.2	with amazing humans. many of the world's
0:21.6	top creators and entrepreneurs, and I do everything I can to unpack their brains and help you
0:26.3	live your dreams with your big brain. My guest today has received multiple Emmy nominations
0:33.3	as an actor. He's a director. He's a best-selling author. He's the founder of Soul Pancake. He's
0:39.2	an advisor to the Mona Foundation. He even started his own nonprofit that uses arts and literacy to empower
0:46.2	adolescent girls in Haiti. You might know him as some guy named Dwight Shrut on a crazy little
0:52.6	show called The Office, but we all know him as Mr.
0:56.7	Rain Wilson.
0:58.5	The legend in his own right, this show is so much fun.
1:03.9	You're going to quickly understand not only is his reign super funny, but he is an amazingly
1:10.0	intelligent, down to earth heartfelt earnest and just
1:14.1	all around great human being it was so fun to cover a little bit of his backstory that i didn't know
1:19.9	first of all he's um it raised in seattle where i was and our parents lived just like five miles
1:26.2	apart um so we we did a little uh, do you know, which was kind of fun.
1:32.1	Turns out we didn't actually know one another.
1:34.5	But we also retraced some of his history, not just in Seattle, but with acting, for example,
1:41.1	here's this.
1:41.7	Check this out.
1:42.9	He never made more than $20,000 in a year for the first,
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