Wake Up Excited!
Wake Up Excited!
Podcast Description
Inspiring conversations with exuberant humans about how to live a creative, fulfilling, and authentic life. Hosted by enthusiasm enthusiast, Brad Frost.
We experience a brief moment of truth when we first wake up in the morning. Before the cold shower of reality, our infinite to-do lists, and macro-level woes seize our consciousness. We experience a brief moment of excitement — and this pure moment tells us something important about ourselves.
There are people out there who seem to move through life with intention, authenticity, creativity, kindness, and enthusiasm. And they do this despite the deeply inperfect world we inhabit. This podcast is an attempt to learn from these people.
Through wide-ranging conversations, Wake Up Excited explores guests' passions, interests, enthusiasms, and philosophy of life.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast delves into themes such as creativity, personal growth, community engagement, and mental health. Specific episodes explore topics including the impact of social media on mental well-being, work-life balance amidst societal pressures, and the empowerment derived from creative endeavors. For example, discussions with guests like Jessica Hische and Aarron Walter highlight the significance of positivity and the relationship between personal values and financial decisions.
Inspiring conversations with exuberant humans about how to live a creative, fulfilling, and authentic life. Hosted by enthusiasm enthusiast, Brad Frost.
We experience a brief moment of truth when we first wake up in the morning. Before the cold shower of reality, our infinite to-do lists, and macro-level woes seize our consciousness. We experience a brief moment of excitement — and this pure moment tells us something important about ourselves.
There are people out there who seem to move through life with intention, authenticity, creativity, kindness, and enthusiasm. And they do this despite the deeply inperfect world we inhabit. This podcast is an attempt to learn from these people.
Through wide-ranging conversations, Wake Up Excited explores guests’ passions, interests, enthusiasms, and philosophy of life.
Andy Clarke shares what excites him lately, sparking memories of his early photography career and frequent trips to Schaffhausen. His pivot from art school and darkroom work into technical sales, and lessons about good selling as an art of solving real problems. The discussion moves to creative storytelling on the web, focus and distraction habits, challenges with open-plan offices, and how he’s built a work life around late-night rhythms and self-managed attention. Clarke also reflects on family history, his father’s suicide and trauma, changing views on mental health and heredity, and a desire to do more consequential political or social work while relearning how to create for pleasure.
Topics:
- (00:00) – Introduction
- (01:17) – Rebuilding The Sinar Camera
- (08:28) – Pre Digital Car Shoots
- (14:28) – Sales Lessons That Stick
- (27:15) – Storytelling On The Web
- (37:10) – Writing Needs Silence
- (48:45) – Designing Your Rhythm with ADHD
- (01:08:01) – Turning 60 Reflections
- (01:12:36) – Mr Rogers Envy
- (01:17:49) – Providing vs Purpose
- (01:25:30) – Objects as Memory Anchors
- (01:40:43) – Music Picks and Billy Bragg
- (01:45:42) – Where to Follow
Links:
- Up (2009 film)
- Love Story (1970 film)
- Philadelphia (1993 film)
- Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
- Mister Rogers biography
- Billy Bragg
- Motörhead
- Meat Loaf
- Led Zeppelin
- Miranda Lambert
- Megan Moroney
- The Rolling Stones
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Wilco
- Woody Guthrie
- Bat Out of Hell
- Between the Wars
- Power in a Union
- Unfinished Business
- stuffandnonsense.co.uk
- Sinar P2
- Schneider Super-Angulon
- IWC Schaffhausen
- Rolex
- Hermès
- Rickenbacker
- Gibson Les Paul
- iPod Classic
- Game Boy
- Tiffany & Co.
- Amazon
- David Hockney
- Jeremy Keith
- Preston North End F.C.
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