Episodes
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Peace and Script Writing
A surprise window of peace and cooler temperatures welcomed some clarity on my struggles with the writing process for the kids show.
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Finally Free: Chef vs Cafeteria Cook
For a long time, I’ve misunderstood where I want my career to be going. Due to my own assumptions and those of the people around me. I finally started to understand why it’s OK to have different goals than I thought I used to.
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What I do when it gets dark.
Like anyone else, I am susceptible to darkness and negativity. Sometimes I can shake it off, but other times I need to find tricks to get myself back to where I want to be.
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I don’t care if you’re “creative.”
As I ponder, what really matters to me with regards to people that I hire and myself, I’m finding myself valuing the traditional definition of creativity less and less.
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Bigfoot, Guitars, and Lulls
A lull in work and a few quotes have got me thinking about my life goals with creativity.
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Why Can't I Figure It Out?
Everyone else seems like they figured it out. Why can't I?
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Stoicism vs Anxiety: Travel and Connection
After a long morning in a different city, I explored how some of my feelings could be used to affect the work that I need to do today. And try to examine how these feelings of loneliness and anxiety might be very common. And through connection with each other, we can find love and peace.
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How I Change My Own Mind
How I use journaling and podcasting to get myself out of ruts and into philosophy. Also, what IS philosophy?
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Should I Have "Said Something?"
When should I speak up? When should I not? What difference does it make?
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Scaling Everything
Two great questions to ask in any situation are is this scalable? And does it need to be? So often we can make short term decisions and pigeon hole ourselves into bad habits. Stepping back to examine scalability is important in work, creativity, and friends vs fan relationships. Hi, Allison.
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Pumpkin Spice Taylor Swift
In this episode, I explore what our trends about pumpkin spice season and Taylor Swift’s new album say about where we invest our time and energy and what we’re saying to ourselves in our children.
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The Ego Sweet Spot
Ego can be a dangerous thing that can hold you back and stifle other people. However, it’s also necessary to create the changes that we need to see in our world and that you have the power to affect.
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Evaluate your evaluation
A big part of creating is finishing projects and looking back on them. However, if we don’t consider the metrics, we are using to evaluate a given project. We may miss classified those projects as being failures were incomplete when really they’re not. Taking a few minutes to think about how you...
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How to create more.
For the first time I reflect on how I am successful at being creatively prolific. And I distill it down to three things that I used to guide my creative output. Some more as a discovery and a reminder to myself true advice I share these three things now.
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Audit Your Time, Author Your Legacy
In this episode, Shaun reflects on the slow, spiraling journey of discovering who we are—like approaching an unseen truth, closer with each loop. Through journals, changing priorities, and creative struggles, he explores the tug-of-war between consumption and creation. Are we spending our time...
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For the Record: My Politics
This episode is about my politics. It is not inviting a discussion, nor is it trying to convince anyone of what to think. This exists solely so that if anyone in the future ever wants to know what I thought for some reason, they can listen to this and find out.
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What are your grandkids going to think?
As we live our lives, there are not a lot of opportunities in day-to-day life to reflect on current events and personal struggles and triumphs, in anyway that’ll be passed along thoughtfully. So, who is going to be the one to tell your great grandkids about what you thought about what’s happening...
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Why Do I Keep Doing This?
I keep podcasting in the morning. Everyday. It’s too much. But here’s why I keep doing it.
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Savoring vs Competing: The Mindset
After a fun competition, I'm thinking about how I approach parenthood and professional creativity.
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Please, make a podcast.
I’ve been podcasting, theoretically for a couple weeks, and it’s really helpful to my mental health. But I realized it’d be so awesome if more people did that, and made it available publicly to pass down stories and lessons to the next generations. I wish my great grandparents had created…
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Faith, Friction, and Fatherhood
Religion is tricky, here's where and why I am where I am right now with it.
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My New Philosophy on Gear
As we continue to make episodes of our kids show, things have to change. Here's why.
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The Edge of Instinct
How often do I stop to push myself beyond the edge of instinct? Not often enough lately.
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My three recent problems
Here's what's been affecting my personal and professional life for the past 4 months.
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The Dual Emotions of Finishing a Big Project
I helped published the first episode of our show. Now I'm sitting with that fact.
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Anxiety and Mazes
The cereal box helped me find some clarity about the struggles of anxiety and life.
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Losing All My Tools
I keep reading and learning new things and new tools for how to deal with life, but I'm always amazed at how quickly my tools disappear when I need them the most.
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Sunsetting a Lucrative Client
I have to tell a long time client goodbye. Here's why.
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Why I Wear Big Hats
I wear big hats and I cannot lie.
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My 2023 Chrysalis
So I've been waiting to make content for a few months because I wanted to get something right.
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My Ego Is a Problem (it turns out)
I've been reading "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday, and it was more impactful than I expected. Here's how it's changing my approach to a few open projects.
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An Audience of Friends and "Building a House"
I'm talking about three things in one episode. Here's the Tim Urban article about religion: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html
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The Benefit of Lacking Habits
This has been bothering me for a while. This was another reminder to myself.
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My Guiding Principles (Hopefully)
A little reflection on what parts of myself are the most important as 2022 closes and 2023 approaches.
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Remembering My Calling
I take a short journey back to why I do all of this.
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My July: Accidental Cults, How to Fix Religion, and Golf
I've had a July immersed in different communities, religions, people, and golf courses. I learned lessons from each of them, but had some unique realizations in parallel situations of politics and community. As I think through these things, I invite your feedback as I try to hone this…
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Hate-Based Communities vs Love-Based Communities
This is another YouTube Rough Draft. Something I'm thinking about. If you've got any thoughts, call me. Email me. Text me. If you don't know me, hit up my website http://shaunhautly.com and let's chat.
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I have nothing to watch.
I have strangely found myself without anything I want to watch. And that has led to some unexpected reflection.
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Building Legacies and Choosing Your Tools
Struck by the Beastie Boys Story on AppleTV+, Shaun finds himself musing tools, legacies, and speaking in the third person.
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Goodbye, LinkedIn.
I've deleted my LinkedIn (along with Facebook and Instagram). It's just my podcast and my YouTube channel now. It's very quiet. Which is nice.
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Where Are You Going with This?
We're coming to the end of another chapter of boom and my life. Looking into the next section of the story and making a plan. Here's what I know and what I want so far.
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Sidebar: Jobs (w/Shannon Marklin) Part 3 of 3
The thrilling conclusion to our deep dive into careers, the job market, and our advice to anyone thinking of switching jobs or entering the job market for the first time.
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Sidebar: Jobs (w/ Shannon Marklin) Part 2 of 3
Part two of our discussion about jobs and careers. This episode focuses on our current jobs. The ups and downs. The daily grinds. The good and the bad.
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Sidebar: Jobs (w/ Shannon Marklin) Part 1 of 3
Shannon and I put a lot of work into making a podcast. We discussed topics, questions, recorded, edited, and added some introductions and context to bring these to life. This is the first installment of the three part series focusing on our jobs. This first episode dives deep into our past jobs…
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Hustle Culture and Patience
I’m reading, learning, and changing. I hope you are, too.
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How Vulnerability Can Fix the World
Maybe "How I'm Trying to Fix the World" should just be the title of this podcast in general. This is an episode exploring my insecurities about mindfulness and meditation as well as my thoughts on the potential if we can get it right.
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Reflections on the Future as of Jan 7, 2021
I’m once again using this platform to think through some things and prepare myself for larger discussions. I may be very wrong with some of what I’ve said, but I’m eager to learn and hear other perspectives.
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Moving On and My Lingering Election Questions
I recorded a lot of content in the weeks before and after the 2020 US Election, but I've decided not to post any of it. I went though quite an evolution of emotions and forced myself to reflect, learn, and grow, and I've found peace on the other side (especially since Biden won). I still have…
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What Doesn't Kill You.....
...makes you stronger. Unless it does kill you. Which for many people, it has. What's the right way to do this?
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People vs Principles - Allegiance and Priorities | YouTube Rough Draft
Some documentaries about cults have caught my attention lately. Why do people dedicate themselves to a single, living individual?