Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business

“It doesn’t really matter how big your audience is if you don’t really have anything to say. Having something to say is way more important than having a giant audience.”

Too many people listen to self-help podcasts to soothe themselves instead of taking what they learned and putting it into action

Our brains love brief excitements and dopamine hits that come from clickbait culture, but that is not in any way connected to soulfulness

Focus on maximizing your satisfaction, not your audience reach. Often times you can sacrifice your creativity to reach a larger audience, but it will cost you some satisfaction

Your reputation used to be your college degree or connection to a middleman, but today it’s the size of your followers

There’s a difference between success that’s just an endless pursuit and success that actually enhances your life and that you allow yourself to appreciate and enjoy

“I’m not trying to create a better interview, I’m trying to create a different experience both for the guest and the audience”

More and more, creative people are going to be expected to manage their own business, their own marketing, their own promotion. And I think just as equally, business people are going to find that their world is enhanced by being creative.

“Different is better than better” – Sachit Gupta

Once your brand gets to a certain size, you can cut out the middleman (book publishers, traditional media, etc.)