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Destination Different
by Destination Different
On Destination Different, host Ryan Dunn is staying weird with it. Each week he interviews guests who are in the midst of building their career. From creators, to entrepreneurs, to adventurists, and everyone in between, this show is all about doing things differently. Mixed in you’ll find some inspiring stories, major flops, and just the right mix of naive optimism and pure stupidity that will instantly make this your favorite creative/entrepreneurship/personal growth love-child podcast. New episode every Thursday. Stay weird.
Episodes
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I AM CHANGING DESTINATION DIFFERENT
After 127 episodes it feels about time to make some changes to the podcast. I've done a lot of thinking over the last few weeks. While there are some bright spots and I do truly believe I'm onto something with this podcast, the show is lacking the momentum and the focus that great podcasts have....
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Jersey Chasers - Creating Custom Sportswear With Adam Lavitola and Nick Winter of Clubhouse Athletic
I honestly think my dream job might be creating ridiculous custom jerseys and apparel for sports teams. And that's EXACTLY what the fellas at Clubhouse Athletic are doing. The idea all started when Adam Lavitola was in college and began referring to himself as "The Custom Guy." He would create...
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Name, Image, Likeness - Creating Opportunities For College Athletes With Pat Johnson of Vantage Sports
Up until July of 2021 college athletes couldn't make money off their own name, image, or likeness. While schools and conferences and the NCAA raked in hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the student-athletes who were putting on the show were mostly left out to dry. That all changed last…
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Hope For Homeless - Creating Debit Cards For The Homeless With GiveCard
It has happened to all of us at one point or another... You come across a homeless person on the street and want to give them a couple bucks for a sandwich or a water or some basic necessities. But when you reach into your wallet you realize you've got no cash. In an increasingly digital world…
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Professional Creative - Podcasting, Showrunning, Book Writing, and Beyond With Jay Acunzo
Have you ever wanted to become a professional creative? To make a living with your own voice and words and thoughts and actions? I know I have. And if there's ever a person to learn from... it's Jay Acunzo. Jay started his career in the marketing world and eventually made the switch to life as a...
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Meet The Meat Gang - Made-To-Order Charcuterie With Gilli Rozynek & Morgan Biles Of Kured
Chipotle serves up made-to-order Mexican bowls. Sweetgreen serves up made-to-order salads to go... Now Kured is serving up made-to-order charcuterie boards and boxes. What started with Gilli Rozynek driving around Cape Cod delivering meats and cheeses out of the trunk of her car has evolved into…
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High Wire Act - Transforming Wire, Wood & Metal Into Art With Ryan Kelley
Some people might see it as old junk just laying around the house... Ryan Kelley sees it as his next piece of art. The insanely talented creative (appropriate dubbed "Wire By Ryan") is quickly coming up on using 100 miles of wire in his career, and he shows no signs of stopping. After taking an...
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Mind Over Matter - Mindfulness, Meditation, And Letting Shit Go With Nina Purewal
ash·ram /ˈäSHrəm/ - noun - a hermitage, monastic community, or other place of religious retreat. If you had "ashram" on your Destination Different bingo card this week, then you are a winner! My guest on this week's show spent an entire year at an ashram in the woods of northern California with…
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Men On The Move - Building The Future Of Remote Work With Dryfter
Dan Brett and Bobby Harrington were college roommates. And unlike most college roommates who spend their 20s pretending they're still in college, Dan and Bobby went the opposite route. They started a business. A couple of them actually... Ever since graduating, the two friends have been hellbent…
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Music Video Magic - Embracing Life On And Off Camera With Courtney Knecht
What do you do when you have to give up your college basketball dreams because of injury...? If you're Courtney Knecht you pick up a camera and starting shooting music videos for the artists and bands you love. Flash forward to today and she's running her own company in LA shooting vids for some…
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Long Island Dirt - Comedy Writing, Song Singing, and Always Laughing With Rose Kelso
I am going to say something and I'm only going to say it once... Rose Kelso is pure, unfiltered chaos. And I can't get enough. Rose (or Long Island Dirt as she is known in internet circles) is a writer, performer, producer, photographer, director, song-writer, TikTokker... the list goes on and on...
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One F Jef - Doodles, Designs, and 1.5 BILLION Giphy Views With Jef Caine
There are certain people you meet who just have a way of making you smile. Jef Caine is one of those people. Everything from his art, to his style, to his voice, to his overall outlook on life. It's hard not to love him. Jef has been doodling in sketchbooks for nearly his entire life, and now he...
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Internet Brain - Pranks, Podcasting, and Choking Hazards With Patrick Dudek
Patrick Dudek aka Patrick On Cameo aka The 4th Most Famous Person On FamousBirthdays.com With the Last Name Dudek. Who would have thought I'd host someone who cracked a Top 5 list on Famous Birthdays on my show... but here we are. Patrick Dudek is good at the internet. He has been experimenting...
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Robinhood of Fashion - Always Be About Something With Farouq Gidada Of ABAS Clothing
Every kid has had the dream at one point or another... "I'll just start a clothing brand and get super rich." It's a tale as old as time. But few, and I mean VERY few, ever even follow through with the idea. And for those who do the level of success is minimal. On this week's Destination…
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Totes McGOATs - Upcycling Tote Bags And Beyond With Alexa and Blake of Scrapped Clothing
I am very familiar with the concept of recycling. You drink a beer, then you put your can in the little green bin with the circular arrows. Upcycling on the other hand... not as familiar. Thankfully Alexa and Blake, the co-founders of Scrapped Clothing helped me out. Upcycling is when you take...
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Painting With Bleach - Creating Custom Apparel With Nathan DeVaughn of DeVo Customs
You ever create a custom jacket for one of the biggest rappers in the world, but don't put your name on it so you get absolutely zero credit...? Yeah, me neither. But Nathan DeVaughn has. And he learned a valuable lesson that day. Nathan was always an artistic kid growing up and a few years ago…
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Fitness & Fun - Founding Surf, Yoga, Beer and Teaching Soul Cycle With Entrepreneur Mantas Zvinas
I've always found the whole "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" thing to be kind of bullshit. Who actually LOVES what they do? Well, if you're Mantas Zvinas, you just love what you love and then create a business around that. Mantas grew up loving surfing and yoga, and in...
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Storytelling Mastery - The Power Of A Good Story With Artist-Writer-Podcaster-Gamer-Videographer Quentin Allums
There is a word out there called "multi-hyphenate." It is defined as "a person, especially a celebrity, with several professions or skills." Quentin Allums fits that definition to a T. I've written and rewritten this description approximately 2,000 times trying to summarize all of the creative…
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Modern Woodworking - Teaching Yourself A Furniture Business With Kristina & Nick of Twenty Five and Pine
If you put a table saw or even just a simple 2x4 in my hands I would almost certainly cut my fingers off. Somehow Kristina & Nick originally knew nothing about the business of carpentry and have managed to turn it into a full-scale operation. Since the time she was 3-years-old Kristina has wanted...
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Fire Painting - Open Flame Pyrography With Artist Zachary Aronson
I can promise you right now... I swear on everything that is dear to me in this world... you have never seen art like this in your life. This week I've got Zachary Aronson on the show and, as the name of the episode suggests, he makes art out of fire. Like, actually. He really does. 10+ years ago...
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Getting Better - A Discussion About Improving The Podcast With Carmine Mattia
You ever do something over and over and over and eventually just feel like you're stuck? After 100+ episodes of the Destination Different podcast there are definitely moments where I feel like I'm stuck and questioning everything. "Is this the right format?" "Who are the people listening?" "Why…
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Thanksgiving Thankfuls - A Turkey Day Special With What We're Thankful For
After my guest for this week needed to reschedule I was left with a choice... Do I put out some fluff BS by myself? Or do I try something a little different? This is Destination DIFFERENT after all, so I went with the latter. Every year on Thanksgiving when my grandmother was still alive she…
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Cha Cha Cha Changes - What Does Destination Different Need To Go To The Next Level?
On this week's episode host Ryan Dunn discusses what it's going to take to elevate Destination Different to the next level. After two years and over 100 episodes the podcast has hit a bit of a plateau in terms of listenership and general excitement. What changes could be made to drive future…
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Plant Pants - The Business of Clay With Pair Of Plants Creator Michelle Sieg
"Soooo they're like pants, but for your plants...?" I know, it's a tough concept to wrap your head around, but when you see them you'll never look at a potted plant the same way ever again. Michelle Sieg is a creative person by nature and a director / art director by trade. And she's a DAMN good...
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Niche Me - The Power of Internet Communities and Making Money Online
For over two years I've been churning out podcasts, interviewing interesting people, and trying to grow this show. Yet, if you were to look at the progress in terms of listenership or momentum you wouldn't see a whole lot. Outside of a few minor peaks and valleys, it has been pretty flat since…
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Chocolate Overload - Brand Building, Cocoa Growing, and Honoring Ghanaian Roots With Priscilla & Kim Addison of 57 Chocolate
If I started a chocolate business I would probably weigh 400 pounds with a face constantly covered in sticky, delicious goodness... Priscilla and Kim Addison have a bit more self-control than me and they're building a business that is making a serious impact. After a visit to a Swiss chocolate...
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Brooklyn Rob - The Pursuit of Comedy Writing Perfection With Rob Christensen
When you've been working stand-up stages for over a decade, you get pretty good at landing a joke. If you're Rob Christensen, you get so good that you end up being selected out of a pool of 2,400 applicants to write for Jon Stewart's new TV show. Rob is a born and raised New Yorker and continues…
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Photo Magic - A Very Special 100th Episode With D1 Athlete & Content Creator Kait Devir
To be perfectly honest, I thought I would quit this podcast after a few months... yet here we are 2 years and 100 episode later still going strong. And I couldn't have asked for a more perfect guest to ring in the 100th episode. This week features the incredibly talented, incredibly badass Kait...
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Patience - Doing 99 Episodes of a Podcast With Host Ryan Dunn
I just went back in the archives and discovered that today, September 29th, marks exactly two years to the day since I launched the first episode of Destination Different. What a two years it has been. When I started this thing I was living in my parents' basement. I had no job and had absolutely...
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Spitting Seeds - Starting A Business From The Dorm Room With Cole and Brian of Smackin' Snacks
Some people absolutely despise their random freshman roommates in college. Others become immediate friends and decide to start a sunflower seed company out of their dorm room... Cole Schaefer and Brian Waddick are the latter. The two random roommates at the University of Minnesota realized very...
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Professional Funny Man - The Life of a Stand-up Comedian With Alex Dragicevich
It's not often you get to see a 6'8" former Division 1 basketball player up on stage doing comedy. But that's what you get when you go to a show with Alex Dragicevich. Alex first fell in love with the art of comedy when he joined a sketch writing group in college. That new group of friends led…
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Watercolor Magic - From a Hobby to a Dream With The Founder of Olive & Orange, Annie Yuen
This episode originally appeared in February of 2021 under the titled "Watercolor Dreams." To date it is still one of our most listened to episodes of all-time. "I was in a farmer's market, saw some lady painting watercolors and said to myself 'That doesn't look so hard. I could probably that.'"…
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All Things Audio - Running The Barstool Sports Podcast Network With Executive Producer Mikey Fowler
When Mikey Fowler got hired by Barstool in 2016 they only had 5 podcasts in their network and he was told to "scale it." 4 years later and the media behemoth now has 60+ shows and is routinely in the top 5 most downloaded podcast networks in the world. Sooooo, you could say he scaled it... Along...
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DM King - Building a Community and Career With Twitter DMs Featuring 17-year-old Elijas Scherer
At 17 years old, I was playing soccer every weekend, serving chicken fingers at a local restaurant, and hadn't even had my first kiss yet. I knew nothing about the world and knew even less about the power of the internet. Elijas Scherer is a man with wisdom well beyond his years. Elijas is a...
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Olympic Talent - From the Pool to the Announcer Booth With Elizabeth Beisel
When you make your Olympic swimming debut at the ripe ol' age of 15, there's a lot of life left to live after that. Elizabeth Beisel went on to star in 3 Olympics, captaining Team USA swimming and winning 2 medals along the way. Now she is a 20-something with a new dream... to dominate her sport…
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Tired - Pushing Through When You Don't Want To
They say that the key to greatness is being consistently good for a really long time. I am absolutely NOWHERE near greatness levels, not even close. But I do know that every Wednesday a new episode of Destination Different comes out. That means even if I'm tired, or sick, or high off mushrooms...
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Milk Man - Kickstarter, Shark Tank, and a New Age of Chocolate Milk With Josh Belinsky of Slate Milk
Who doesn't love chocolate milk? It's creamy. It's chocolate-y. It's delicious. And it's great for recovery. Josh Belinsky had been drinking chocolate milk for all those reasons growing up and right through college, but over the years developed a lactose intolerance and realized that traditional...
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Side Piece - Managing a Side Hustle With a Full-Time Job
A little Ry3 Mini this week. No guest as I'm gallivanting across the southern United States going to soccer games for my real job (It's true what they say, everything really is bigger in Texas). It got me thinking... I've never really talked about managing a side project with a full-time job on...
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Soccer Crazy - Changing the Culture of American Soccer With Kevin Mejia of Atmosphre Futbol Chat
There is a lot wrong with soccer in America, but there aren't many people talking about how to fix the system. That's what Kevin Mejia is doing with Atmosphre Futbol Chat. It is a podcast and YouTube channel centered around giving a voice to American soccer at all levels, from youth to college to...
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Motorcycle Man - Riding, Racing, and Writing About Motorcycles with Zack Courts of RevZilla
Zack Courts grew up on the back of a motorcycle. He got his first dirt bike at 8-years-old and would zip around his family farm in rural Vermont. During his teenage years he traveled around the country with his dad more or less saying, "I wanna go fast," as he raced bikes competitively for more...
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One Legged Waves - Recovering From the Brink of Death With Surfer, Amputee, and YouTuber Carter Parry
Carter Parry was dealt a hand most people don't come back from. At the start of 2020 a bout of the flu put him in the hospital. By the time he left the Intensive Care Unit nearly 7 months later his lung, lower leg, and a couple of toes had all been removed. Yet somehow, despite all of that…
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All Out Blitz - Starting One of the Top Sports Newsletters in the World With Danny Healey of the Morning Blitz
It's a pretty simple concept... all the sports information you need to know, packaged up in a quick and easy 5-minute newsletter every morning. That's what Danny Healey has created with the Morning Blitz. And he has executed to perfection. Every morning for 2+ years (without missing a single…
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Body Art - Painting Her Bare Body On Camera With SeeKaySee
Christina Caaci has a gift. She has the gift of turning her own body into a one-of-a-kind canvas. Better known in the streaming world as SeeKaySee, Chris has built up quite the loyal fanbase on the streaming platform, Twitch. Twice a week she gets on camera and creates masterpieces using body...
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Stash and Dash - Designing the Future of Sports Bras With Coco Woeltz
A good recipe for starting a successful business is identifying a problem that people have and solving that problem. That's exactly what Coco Woeltz has done with Hummingbyrd. Coco is a former Division 1 soccer player, and an avid runner and hiker. But when she started running marathons she...
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Into the Wild - Trail Running, Ultra Marathoning, and Mental Toughness With Joe "Stringbean" Mcconaughy
2,650 miles. On foot. Two thousand, six hundred, and fifty miles! In 53 days... 53 DAYS! For those who are a little slow with their math that's roughly 50 miles a day. That's what Joe Mcconaughy did when he set the Fastest Known Time hiking/running/surviving the Pacific Crest Trail down the West...
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Being Better - How Do I Improve Destination Different?
I have let you down. I have let down the listeners of the Destination Different podcast. Last week was a solo show on this podcast and I promised that I would have an interview for this week's show. I don't have an interview for this week's show. It's just me. Again... But I do think this mini...
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Cold Outreach - Finding Guests for the Podcast With Host Ryan Dunn
There are a lot of things that go into making a single podcast episode. You have to research the guest and prepare a list of questions. You have script and record a coherent intro and outro. You have to actually interview the person featured on the episode. You have to edit that all together and...
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Pursuit of Portraits - Building a Global Collective Featuring Millions of Photographers With Saunak Shah
You know you're onto something when 10 MILLION people from around the globe are interacting with your brand. That's the number of global photographers who have posted a photo using the hashtag #pursuitofportraits since its inception in 2015ish. Saunak Shah is the man behind that global community....
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Pop of Color - Painting Faces, Eyes, and Shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio With Hailey Badovinac
I like art that is bright and colorful and makes you feel some kinda way. Hailey Badovinac makes that kind of art. She has been making art for about as long as she can remember. And what started as staying up late scribbling with Crayons in her bedroom has turned into a full-on career. What I...
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Planet Weird - Surreal Vintage Collages and Sending Pin-up Girls On Dinosaurs To The Moon With Bev Acton
There is art that you see where it's like "Ahh yes, this is art I'm familiar with..." Oil paint, charcoal, etc. etc. Then there is art where you're like "I have literally never seen anything like this in my entire life." Bev Acton makes the latter. Bev is a surreal collage maker and illustrator...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
On Destination Different, host Ryan Dunn is staying weird with it. Each week he interviews guests who are in the midst of building their career. From creators, to entrepreneurs, to adventurists, and everyone in between, this show is all about doing things differently. Mixed in you’ll find some inspiring stories, major flops, and just the right mix of naive optimism and pure stupidity that will instantly make this your favorite creative/entrepreneurship/personal growth love-child podcast. New episode every Thursday. Stay weird.
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