Animal Donut

Sam Heller returns to the Animal Donut podcast and we cover a wide range of concepts ranging from anxiety, health advances, the evolution of medicine, learning, art, ideas of success and progress and how they have changed with evolution.

Sam Heller interviews Jeff Luke about working with your hands, creating things in the real world, patterns that influence our thinking and behavior, creating content vs consuming content, and ways to get improvement in music, sports, writing and other areas where we need to get "unstuck" and make doing creative work feel less like a job.

Animal Donut talks with Seattle photographer Jay Dotson about what it takes to make it in the photo business. We discuss how to find clients on elevators and how to come up with creative solutions to photo problems. Jay talks about how the need to diversify income streams led him to start Tripod Coffee Company selling coffee from a horse trailer in Ballard, WA.

How to go for it. Why your reach should exceed your grasp. The value of experimental play. How a woolly mammoth photo became famous on Instagram. Animal Donut finds a new customer in New York. Why you need to get your work onto different platforms. Why we all need to get outside. "I'm not into that." The importance of doing stuff.

The importance of taking your ideas and executing them. What does Gary Vaynerchuk say about Entrepreneurship? How to think about balancing risk with the need for safety in your creative work. Seth Godin on the Marshmallow Test and importance of keeping two ideas in your mind at the same time.

What's your favorite animal to watch? Distilling things down to their essence. Elon Musk's advice on becoming great. Your goals and mine for the next week.

Immersing yourself in your work. Blurb comes to Seattle. How Uber can make you more creative & productive.