Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. And today, I am super excited to share a conversation

I had with Todd Henry, host of the Accidental Creative Podcast, an author of four books,

including his most recent, The Motivation Code. Todd is a sought-after speaker, consultant,

and advisor to organizations seeking to enhance their

collective creative capability. He teaches people in teams how to be prolific, brilliant, and

healthy. And he does it with a blend of humor and practicality, I'm sure you're going to love.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Todd. Let's go. Todd Henry, host of the accidental creative podcast.

I am so delighted to have you join me on Modern Mentor today. Rachel, it's so good to be here.

Thanks so much for inviting me. Todd, I wanted to talk to you because I will just say there are a ton of

experts out there on creativity. But in my experience, I feel like so much of a conversation is

focused on the artists and the inventors and the entrepreneurs. And I love that you focus on what I

would describe is the really practical side of creativity. And you frame it as something that I think

is really accessible to all of us. And so as we continue to kind of wade through this epidemic of burnout at work,

I think creativity is one of the biggest levers that we can be pulling,

even inside of corporate work spaces.

And so I'm really looking forward to this conversation.

I 100% agree with you.

And I think sometimes we tend to look at moments like this,

what's happening in culture, what's happening in the marketplace right now, what's happening

inside the big organizations right now, frankly. And we tend to think, oh, well, these are

creativity inhibitors because we have more limitations. We have more boundaries. But the

reality is sometimes those limitations in boundaries or those changes in expectations and

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