Seth Godin On Creativity, Embracing Failure & Spreading Big Ideas

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Today’s guest wants to give you the tools to get started, overcome creative blocks, and get your work into the hands of the people you most want to help. His name is Seth Godin. He's the author of more than 19 international bestsellers, an entrepreneur, a speaker, and a climate activist. Through his work, Seth seeks to turn people’s lights on, inspire them to action, and teach them how to level up. And in today’s conversation we discuss creativity, writing, understanding the distinction between marketing and advertising, the pitfalls of modern education, and his most recent book, The Carbon Almanac, a one-stop-shop on everything we know about global climate change. Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/RichRoll LMNT: drinkLMNT.com/RICHROLL JOOVV: Joovv.com/RICHROLL Athletic Greens: athleticgreens.com/richroll Peace + Plants, Rich

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1:01.4	The Rich Roll Podcast
1:07.4	Everybody has a brand or they are invisible. Your brand is the story people tell themselves about you
1:14.4	and the expectations they have of what you're going to be like when you walk in the room.
1:19.4	When it comes to creativity, marketing, business, speaking, writing, and how to interpret the world,
1:28.4	few names are as influential as that of today's guest, Seth Godin.
1:34.0	If you are pizza lover and you think about the great pizza places in the United States,
1:39.5	none of them are full-service restaurants with big menus.
1:42.4	You have to say this is what I do. You can say, and, and, and, and, and,
1:46.6	because then you have an excuse for everything being sort of average.
1:50.0	An absolute giant in the book publishing and marketing worlds is quite literally in the marketing hall of fame.
1:58.0	Seth is the author of more than 19 international bestsellers. He's an entrepreneur, a speaker,
2:04.9	a climate activist, and the solo contributor to his incredibly popular daily blog,
2:11.1	which he's been writing every single day since 2005.
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