Kanye West, Lena Dunham, Chris Rock, personal mentors as catalysts for discovering your life's work, and breaking out of boxes that limit you.

In this episode, I talk to designer, illustrator and art director Timothy Goodman, who recently exhibited artworks from "Memories of A Girl I Never Knew" at Colette in Paris, collaborated with Jessica Walsh on 40 Days of Dating, and wrote Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques & Ideas for Transforming Your World.

Music

Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)

Highly Suspicious – My Morning Jacket

Greenfield Morning/Seed of Joy/Life is a Struggle - RZA & Yoko Ono

Colette – Orchestra Baobob

Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac

On Sight – Kanye West

All My Love – Led Zeppelin

Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes

Reading List

Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your World, by Timothy Goodman

40 Days of Dating: An Experiment, by Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman

The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand

The Autobiogrpahy of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

Significant Objects, by Jason Grote

Watch List

40 Days of Dating

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