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Going North PodcastEp. 965 – From Hollywood Writing Rooms to Writing Her Own Rules with Amy Suto (@Sutoscience)“Whether you want to publish a book or get paid to be a writer as your job, there are so many different ways to earn money as a writer. I hope people don't immediately think, 'Oh, being a writer means you're going to be broke.' I thought that growing up, and I was scared of becoming a writer until I proved myself wrong.” – Amy SutoToday’s featured bestselling author is a digital nomad, entrepreneur, produced Hollywood TV writer, freelance memoir ghostwriter, and book editor, Amy Suto. Amy and I had a fun on a bun chat abo...2025-06-0936 min
The Little Podcast of Big DreamsConclusionA final note of encouragement.2025-05-2708 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 9.7: Going through the Fog (Angel Sanchez)Why losing sight of your dream doesn’t always mean your dream is over.2025-05-2716 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 9.6: Every No Isn’t No Forever (Nico DeJesus)Why turning away from your dream and trying other things can sometimes be just what you need.2025-05-2711 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 9.5: When You Lose Heart (John Musker)The question to ask yourself when you feel too close to your dream to see things clearly.2025-05-2714 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 9.4: Your Own Timeline (Channel Baez)Why solo trips can really help to recharge you when you’re in the long haul of a dream.2025-05-2707 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 9.3: What to Do When You’re Waiting (Cheresse Thornhill)Why dreamers keep on dreaming even after a dream comes true. 2025-05-2709 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 9.2: When You Feel Left Behind (Jane Thompson)Why making slow progress on your dream can sometimes be an advantage. 2025-05-2712 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 9.1: When Your Dream Job Isn’t Hiring (Kim Kaupe)How to know when to give up and when to keep going.2025-05-2708 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 8.8: Dreaming until the End (Scott McKenzie)Why writing and sharing your dreams can have an impact on people in ways you may never know.2025-05-2708 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 8.7: What Coming in Last Means (Amy Downs)What to do when you do everything right and still your dream doesn’t seem like it’s going to end the way you hoped. 2025-05-2717 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 8.6: Dreaming in a World That’s against You (Trabian Shorters)How to dream in an unjust world. 2025-05-2713 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 8.5: Losing a Dream (Maureen Crawford)The impact dreams have even when they end. 2025-05-2721 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 8.4: When a Dream Sparks in Grief (Carla Fernandez)Why not putting too much pressure on a dream can help, especially during grief.2025-05-2713 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 8.3: Dreaming after the Unthinkable (Donna Yadrich)Why telling people your dream and where you’re stuck can move your dream forward.2025-05-2710 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 8.2: Giving Your Dream Back (Robyn Rosado)The surprising thing you can do to make impossible dreams come true.2025-05-2711 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 8.1: Dreaming after Losing Everything (James Arinatwe)What tragedy can’t take away.2025-05-2710 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 7.7: It’s Okay to Stop (Kimberly Bryant)What walking away from a dream can actually do for us.2025-05-2709 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 7.6: Change Your Dream or Your Timeline (Kyle Rohrbach)The two choices you have when a dream starts to feel truly impossible. 2025-05-2712 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 7.5: When You Stop Drawing (Peter Reynolds)Why it’s ok to take a break from your dream and get an ice cream instead.2025-05-2709 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 7.4: Where Your Heart Returns (Jackie Johansen)Why following what you love can sometimes bring old dreams back to you.2025-05-2706 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 7.3: Bringing a Dream out from Hiding (Wesley Whatley)Why “just book the club” became a phrase I used over and over again, and why certain places can spur our dreams.2025-05-2711 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 7.2: Writing Things Down (Ade Hassan)Why telling people your dream sometimes is worth the risk, and why it can be a good idea to write your dreams down. 2025-05-2710 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 7.1: When Childhood Dreams Return (Michael Bryant)Why stopping a dream doesn’t always mean the story is over.2025-05-1909 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 6.3: When Dreams Die (Steve Lewis)On what to do after a dream dies. 2025-05-1223 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 6.2: What Rejection Can’t Take Away (Stacey Aswad)On resilience and dealing with rejection after rejection (after rejection). 2025-05-0520 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 6.1: How to Keep Going When You Don’t Believe (Sarah Ballard)Why you don't always have to technically believe in yourself to go for your dreams. 2025-04-2816 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 5.5: Loving the Process (Will Wells)On moving towards what you really (really) love. 2025-04-2113 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 5.4: How Olympians Practice (Joe Jacobi)Behind-the-scenes of how one Olympian viewed practice...even when he was injured. 2025-04-1417 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 5.3: Enjoying the Creative Process (Don Hahn)What it was really like meeting the producer of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, and why a waffle was one of the things that inspired me most.2025-04-0721 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 5.2: How to Practice (Wayne Tucker)What it was like seeing my first ever live Jazz show in Harlem, and when practice goes beyond craft.2025-04-0716 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 5.1: Talent vs. Practice (Justin Davis)The difference between play and practice, and what wanting (and not wanting) to practice can tell you about your dream.2025-04-0715 min
Going North PodcastEp. 941 – South of the Yangtze with Flora Qian (@FloraQian)“It often takes years to understand our feelings and those reasons when at a time we already have a gut feeling about it.” – Flora QianToday’s featured award-winning author is a mom, wife, professor, and translator, Flora Qian. Flora and I had a fun on bun chat about her book, “South of the Yangtze”, her complex family background and the socio-political changes in China during her childhood, the resilience required to navigate different cultures and languages, and more!!Key Things You’ll Learn:What it was like growing up in Shanghai du...2025-04-0433 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 4.4: Contacting Your Dream Mentors (Dave Elsey)What to do when you are stuck for years and think it might mean you’re not good enough.2025-03-2413 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 4.3: Asking (And Asking) for Help (Mateo)One of the best things you can share to find the best mentors, and why you also don’t have to listen to every mentor.2025-03-1710 min
Going North PodcastEp. 928 – The Little Book of Big Dreams with Isa Adney (@IsaAdney)“Sometimes dreams can help us even in the darkest of times.” – Isa AdneyToday’s featured award-winning bookcaster is a wife, documentary producer, and the Senior Storyteller at Kit (formerly known as ConvertKit), Isa Adney. Isa and I had a fun on a bun chat about her book, “The Little Book of Big Dreams: True Stories about People Who Followed a Spark”, how video games like "The Last of Us" have influenced her writing, and tons more!!!Key Things You’ll Learn:What led to Isa’s love for movies and storytelling...2025-03-1352 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 4.2: What Mentors Can See (Amy Elizabeth Soto-Shed)What to do when you want to give up on your dream because it hurts too much.2025-03-1016 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 4.1: Finding Dream Mentors (Scott Barry Kaufman)Where to start when your dream is big and hazy.2025-03-0311 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 3.4: Believing Your Worth (Estella Pyfrom)What to do when you realize a crucial thing you need for your dream truly doesn’t exist. 2025-02-2413 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 3.3: Asking for Help Not Permission (Patrick Dowd)About that time a big literary agent broke my heart and what I did about it, and the role money plays in dreams.2025-02-1723 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 3.2: Getting Someone Else to Believe (D’Wayne Edwards)Why giving up on a dream doesn’t mean the dream is over, and how belief can spread. 2025-02-1010 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 3.1: Changing Your Dream (Kristen Anderson-Lopez)Why hearing Kristen speak (and sing) on a stage changed my life and why you don’t always have to technically believe in yourself to see a dream come true. 2024-12-0922 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 2.4: Leaving to Learn (Seth Stewart)This week I read the Seth Stewart story from Chapter 2, and then share my own takeaways, like the privilege of parents who support your dreams, what it was like seeing Seth dance in Hamilton, and the impact you can have on another dreamer right now. 2024-12-0320 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 2.3: Conducting a Dream Experiment (Linn)This week I read the Linn story from Chapter 2, and then share my own takeaways, like the secret to making a dream come true within one year, and why I almost gave up on a Taylor Swift related dream and how it came back to me. 2024-11-1921 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 2.2: Testing Your Dream (Carrie Hammer)This week I read the Carrie Hammer story from Chapter 2, and then share my own takeaways, like why dreamers aren’t as irrational as people sometimes think, and how I actually did eventually take classes at Harvard as a kind of dream test. 2024-11-1216 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 2.1: Following a Dream to Another Country (Joaquin Baldwin)This week I read the Joaquin story from Chapter 2, and then share my own takeaways, like why you don’t have to leave home to pursue a dream but do need to leave something, and why I encourage you to think about visiting the places where your dreams live, like that time I saw the original cast of Hamilton. 2024-11-0520 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 1.5: Big Dreams Start Small (Ronnie Cho)This week I read the Ronnie Cho story from Chapter 1, and then share my own takeaways, like what to do when a dream feels too big, and why you don’t have to wait to make the impact you really want to make. 2024-10-2912 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 1.4: Jumping Even When You’re Scared (Erin Lovell-Ebanks)This week I read the Erin Lovell-Ebanks story from Chapter 1, and then share my own takeaways, like how to tell the difference between intuition and anxiety, the role friends played in this book journey, and why Erin’s story represents one of the core reasons this book took 9 years. 2024-10-1518 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 1.3: When to Share (Adrianna Samaniego)This week I read the Adrianna Samaniego story from Chapter 1, and then share my own takeaways, like my favorite thing to tell myself after hurtful feedback, and what I do when I’m feeling burnt out on going for a dream.2024-10-0829 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 1.1: Finding Your Dream (Suz Loshin)This week I read the Suz Loshin story from Chapter 1, and then share my own takeaways, like why your dream doesn’t need to be specific, and some behind the scenes, like what it was like visiting Pixar studios. 2024-10-0123 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsCh 1.2 Where to Start (Melissa Corp)This week I read the Melissa Corp story from Chapter 1, and then share my own takeaways, like how to deal with the overwhelm you can feel when starting a dream, especially when it comes to all you feel like you don’t know yet. And I share a deeply personal story about when a dream supported me during one of the worst times of my life. 2024-10-0119 minThe Little Podcast of Big DreamsIntroductionIn this first episode I read you the introduction of The Little Book of Big Dreams, and then share with you why I felt so emotional reading it for the first time in a year, as well how to use this podcast to help you move forward on your dream or help someone else’s dream along. I also share some ideas for how to identify your next dream, and share few of my childhood dreams like wanting to live on a farm with golden retriever puppies. So stay tuned for a little post-reading blook club chat. 2024-09-1248 min
The Proffitt PodcastThe Power of Patience and Collaboration in Content CreationSend Krystal a Text Message.Unlock the secrets to resilience and growth in content creation as we recap day two of Craft and Commerce 2024! Hear from Susie Bullock of "Hey Grill, Hey," who candidly contrasts the millennial dream with harsh realities, sharing invaluable practices like mindset shifts, gratitude, journaling, and meditation that have helped her persevere through challenges. Susie's journey is a beacon of hope for content creators struggling to maintain their passion amidst adversity.Ever wondered about the transformative power of storytelling? Isa Adney, Senior Storyteller at ConvertKit, takes us behind the scenes of...2024-07-0234 min