The Creativity, Education, and Leadership Newsletter

This is a newsletter about creativity, education, and leadership.

Here’s why you should subscribe:

• You’re a writer and you want to learn more about publishing and marketing.

  Conversations about Creativity

  34. Self-Publishing, Marketing and Promoting Your Book

  Listen now (45 min) | In this interview with author Mark Paul we do a deep dive into self-publishing, marketing, and promoting your book. Mark is the author of The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told and has a great author website here. Here is the trailer for the book…

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  5 years ago · Ben Guest

• You’re a hoopshead who wants 90’s basketball content.

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  40. 3x NBA Champ Scott Williams on Jordan, LeBron, Dean Smith and Hubert Davis (Part 1)

  Listen now (32 min) | My life would have gone in a different direction had it not been for Dean Smith. Scott Williams played four years under Coach Dean Smith at The University of North Carolina. He played for 15 seasons in the NBA, winning three championships with the Chicago Bulls. In this conversation we discuss…

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  4 years ago · Ben Guest

• You’re a coach, athlete, or parent who believes in positive coaching.

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  58. "What is your goal as a coach?"

  Listen now | As a coach, you may want players in perfect lines. The reality is when the drills get messy they learn a lot better. Nick Hauselman (@bballbreakdown) has one of the most popular basketball YouTube channels out there. Previously, I was a guest on Nick’s podcast…

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  4 years ago · Ben Guest

• You LOVE Ted Lasso and want podcast episodes.

Conversations about Creativity

45. Is Ted Lasso a Good Coach?

Listen now (39 min) | Links: Apple/Spotify The biggest lie we’ve been told is that playing from a place of anger improves performance. Today’s episode is a conversation with Andrés Alvarez. Dre first came on the show way back in Episode 11 where we discussed meta-cognition, group think, poker, chess, and basketball…

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4 years ago · Ben Guest

• You’re a storyteller and want to learn more about creativity.

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59. I inhabit a character most when I can find their spirit of playfulness...

Listen now (35 min) | Not everything you do has to be perfect. Logan Floyd and I met at an improv class through The Squirrel Comedy Theater in New York City (@TheSquirrelNYC). Logan most recently performed the lead role of Velma Kelly in the national tour of Chicago: The Musical…

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4 years ago · 1 like · Ben Guest

• You want to keep up with my writing and publishing (you can buy a copy of Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball: Memoir of a Namibian Odyssey here).

I also have a couple of one-offs:

• Mental Health and Narrative Therapy

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61. Why do we think removing a sick person from a sick system fixes anything?

Listen now (66 min) | Through the lens of narrative therapy we’re looking at people being defined, and their identities being authored, within larger systems and communities. Travis Heath is an associate professor at University of Denver, specializing in narrative therapy. He earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado, his MA from Pe…

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4 years ago · Ben Guest

• The Omicron wave.

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Bonus: Where did Omicron come from and what should we do now?

Listen now | Omicron came from arithmetic. Cases of the Omicron variant are surging in New York City with 31,024 new cases reported Saturday and the daily average approaching 20,000…

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4 years ago · 1 like · Ben Guest

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