The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

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Justin McRoberts: Mortality, Meaning, and Giving Away Everything You've Got

12/22/2025 • 48 min

Justin McRoberts, musician, pastor, and author of "It's What You Make of It," shares how confronting death early in life shaped his approach to creativity and faith. Having attended over 20 funerals by age 25, McRoberts explains why understanding mortality is essential to living fully and why the cultural narrative of imperviousness keeps people from taking crea… Play episode

Jeff Wald: Navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Why Personal Re…
Jeff Spencer: The Champion Blueprint and the Eight Inevitable Steps to Pea…
Jason Naylor: The Psychology of Color and Why Bright Hues Unlock Positivit…
Jacob Sager Weinstein: The Memory Palace Method and Why You Cannot Synthes…
Hillary Weiss: The Danger of Just Mindset and Why Imitation Is a Trap for …
Gautum Mukunda: The Paradox of Leader Selection and Why Unfiltered Preside…
Cal Newport: Why Social Media Is Big Tobacco Not Big Oil and the Steam Whi…
Cal Newport: Cognitive Athleticism and Why Elite Performers Protect Their …
Ethan Kross: Mastering Your Inner Voice Before It Masters You
Eric Barker: The Science of Relationships and Why Playing Well with Others…
Brea Starmer: Redefining Work Around Highest and Best Use, Not Hours Logged
Dylan Beynon: Building Mindbloom and the Science of Psychedelic-Assisted T…
Douglass Vigliotti: Wrestling with Conviction and Why Creative Work Demand…
Donny Jackson: The Internalized Stains of Slavery and Why Empathy Cannot D…
Bjorn Ryan-Gorman: Coming Out as Gay in the Snowboarding World and Reclaim…
David Epstein: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Ayelet Fishbach: The Science of Motivation, Why Fantasies Fail, and Balanc…
Daniel Stillman: The Architecture of Conversations and Why Every Interface…
Dandapani: Mastering Your Mind as an Operating System, Sexual Energy Trans…
Cal Newport: Slow Productivity, Escaping Pseudo Productivity, and the Thre…
Alan Stein Jr: The Performance Gap Between Knowing and Doing, and What Eli…
Andrew Yang: Universal Basic Income and the Automation Crisis Remaking Ame…
Christy Tennery-Spalding: Building Political Homes and Redefining Self-Car…
Andrew Bustamante: Inside the Mind of a Spy — Tradecraft, Trust, and the C…
Chris Fussell: Systems, Mindset, and Leading at the Edge
Carlos Adell: From Drug Dealer to Industrial Engineer to Finding True Succ…
Alison Shcraeger: The Economics of Risk and What a Las Vegas Brothel Taugh…
John Epstein: Testing Acast Sync and Update Functionality
Akshay Nanavati: Finding Bliss Through Suffering, Silence, and the Edge of…
David Brooks: Seeing People Deeply in a World of Shallow Interactions
Damon Centola: Why Change Spreads from the Edges—Not the Influencers
Jennifer Wallace: Raising Resilient Kids in a Culture That Says They're Ne…
Laura Huang: Creating an Edge in a World That Won’t Hand You One
Emily Fletcher: The Science and Simplicity of Unlocking Human Potential Th…
Courtney Harding: Building the Future of Human Connection Through XR, Educ…
Daniel Lieberman: Dopamine, Desire, and Why Enough is Never Enough
Annie Duke: Why Knowing When to Quit Is a Superpower
The Science of Mastery: Anders Ericsson on Deliberate Practice
The Operating System of Transformation: Salim Ismail on Exponential Thinki…
Dennis Xu: Designing Tools That Think Like We Do
The Science of Focus: Gloria Mark on Attention Rhythms, Flow Myths, and Di…
Sonkhe Ahrens: Building a Thinking System That Generates Insight, Not Noise
Kevin Surace — Building Smarter, Leading Better, and Adapting to AI
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