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Daily Creative
Formerly known as The Accidental Creative, Daily Creative is your source for becoming brave, focused, and brilliant.Being a creative professional should be the greatest job in the world. You get to solve problems, express yourself, bring something new into the world and you get paid to do it. What's not to love, right?Yet every day, creative pros face, tremendous pressure and uncertainty. The temptation is to just play it safe, surrender to distraction and settle for less than your best. Daily Creative is about making sure that's not your story. Each episode focuses on a topic relevant to creative pros, like how to come up with ideas under pressure, how the collaborate when you're overwhelmed, or how to lead your team and help them discover motivation.Host Todd Henry (author of The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, Herding Tigers, and other best-selling books) and featured guests such as Seth Godin, Cal Newport, Kim Scott, and other brilliant authors, practitioners, and experts guide our journey through practical topics to help you be brave, focused, and brilliant in your work and leadership.It's time to fall back in love with your work. Listen to Daily Creative wherever you get your podcasts, or subscribe for free to Daily Creative+ to get bonus episodes, full interviews, and more delivered each week.
Latest Episode
Why Great Ideas Fail: Escaping the Pain Cave
In this episode, we explore what really drives demand for creative products and services. Through the story of how OXO Good Grips was born—not from a brainstorm, but from noticing real pain in the kitchen—we examine why the most successful innovations aren’t invented; they’re observed in real-world frustration. Our guest, Rob Snyder, introduces “the Pain Cave” and the concept of the “hell yes customer,” explaining why so many creative pros find their ideas fall flat—even when they seem objective
Recent Episodes
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July 7, 2026
Why Great Ideas Fail: Escaping the Pain Cave
In this episode, we explore what really drives demand for creative products and services. Through the story of how OXO Good Grips was born—not from a brainstorm, but from noticing real pain in the kitchen—we examine why the most successful innovations aren’t invented; they’re observed in real-world frustration. Our guest, Rob Snyder, introduces “the Pain Cave” and the concept of the “hell yes customer,” explaining why so many creative pros find their ideas fall flat—even when they seem objective
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July 1, 2026
Saying, Wanting, Trying
In this episode, we explore the hidden dynamic that often derails creative professionals and leaders: the gap between what we say, what we actually want, and what we’re really building. We share the story of why some of the best music never makes it to radio, revealing how entire industries (and teams) quietly organize around mediocrity—chasing the safe middle, or as we call it, "the three." Drawing from lessons learned in Nashville’s music scene and patterns we've observed in organizations adop
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June 24, 2026
How To Try Again
In this episode of Daily Creative, we explore the nuanced experience of failure and the creative courage required to start over. We open with a story about recognizing when to let go of failed dreams and the importance of closure—giving our abandoned ambitions the dignity of a “decent burial” rather than carrying emotional residue into our next ventures. We’re joined by Steve Kamb, founder of Nerd Fitness and author of How to Try Again . The conversation focused on the modern misconception that
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June 16, 2026
The One and the Ninety-Nine
In this episode of Daily Creative, we explore the tension between individuality and belonging, drawing inspiration from both jazz legend Miles Davis and the philosophical tradition extending back millennia. Our guest, Luke Burgis —author of The One and the Ninety-Nine —joins us to dig deep into why it's so hard to be part of a group without losing ourselves in the process. We discuss the perils of both extreme individualism and unthinking collectivism, highlighting how modern work environments (
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June 9, 2026
Signal To Noise
In this episode of Daily Creative, we explore what it really takes to do meaningful, protected creative work in an age of perpetual noise and overwhelm. We kick off with a story from Claude Shannon, the mathematician whose revolutionary thinking about “signal vs. noise” in communication provides the perfect lens for today’s creative challenges. First, we sit down with Ron Friedman, author of Superteams , who shares the non-obvious strengths that set high-performing teams apart—from deliberately
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June 2, 2026
The Success Wound
Why does the title never feel like enough? Why do so many of us hit every goal we set and still go to bed feeling like we came up short? My guest this week has a name for it. Brooke Taylor calls it the success wound, the pain that comes from mistaking our productivity and achievement for our worth. We get into where it comes from, why creative people are especially prone to it, and what it actually looks like to stay ambitious without running yourself into the ground. If you have ever caught you
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About the Host
Todd Henry
Author, International Speaker, Advisor
For nearly 20 years, Todd Henry has equipped leaders and creative pros to become the most valuable person in any room.
He is the author of seven books (including The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, and Herding Tigers) which have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he speaks internationally on creativity, productivity, passion for work, and generating brilliant ideas.
Todd’s podcast Daily Creative has been downloaded more than 20 million times since 2005. Over the years, Todd has developed a comprehensive framework (The Brilliance Engine™) that empowers leaders and creative pros to produce brilliant work in healthy teams that make a meaningful difference in the world.
Through his keynotes and workshops, he shares practical strategies to help people and teams to be brave, focused, and brilliant every day.