How do we live a life and pursue a creative career where we don’t end up with a long list of regrets having succeeded at the wrong thing? There is no one I know ...
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The Artist’s Life: Interview with Elida Field
On The Portfolio Life this week, I’m talking to Elida Field, a professional artist whose work has been featured in the White House and on magazine covers. She’s curren...
Everything Is a Performance: Michael Port on the Roles We Play
What role is being required of you when you feel like the thing that you offer the world isn’t even needed? In this week’s episode of The Portfolio Life, I...
Your Questions Answered: Writing, Marketing and More
A few weeks ago, I did an episode of The Portfolio Life called “Don’t Build an Empire, Find a Few Friends Who Care.” It was about how the secret of marketi...
The Secret to Innovative Work: Be Different, Not Better
Often, we think the way to stand out from the pack is to be better. And sometimes that is the answer: to become an improved version of who you were yesterday, to do wh...
Learning to Be Your Own Best Friend: Interview with Matt Kepnes
I’ve often wondered what would it be like to be a nomad and travel the world. I did this for a brief time in my early 20s and then stopped, and recently I’...