Author and consultant Phil Simon has navigated the world of publishing and learned to create his own path to success through crowd building and then crowd-sourcing.  We talked about publishing a lot, movies some and of course Seth Godin a bit.  Heâ€

How his manager talked him into applying to work with Seth Godin and why he turned it down. What it’s like to write a book for the first time. Aaron thought like a Linchpin and wrote a self-help book about hurting yourself. Why his book makes some peopl

This is a hard episode to write a synopsis for. Alex and I were all over the place but everywhere we went was fun to listen to. Alex is 29 and for all of his experience in life he has felt like working at The Domino Project has reprogrammed him in great

Dan Miller, career coach and founder of 48days.net talks about how he surrounds himself with other people to find success. Linchpins were never meant to operate in isolation contrary to the common perception that Linchpins are solo acts from beginning to

We started off this episode thinking we were going to talk about the education system but then we got into some great stuff about job seeking, recruiting and hiring so we bagged the education talk. We’ll get there in a future episode. Here are the high

Psychologist, University professor, Camp Director; Which one do you think has the most influence on the world? Jennifer Selke is all of these things so she is uniquely positioned to tell us how she influences others and how she helps shape the future Lin

Linchpin meetups were launched with much fanfare earlier in the year and they got a great response.  Megan Elizabeth Morris and a few other cool folks turned their meetup into a bonefied “shipping authority” that is birthing new art that will change

You can't be an artist unless you ship and Justin Lukasavige ships. I met Justin almost 2 years ago when I hired him to be my business coach. Now we're great friends so I invited him to talk about his experience ignoring the rules so he can do the right t

Jason Pamental left his job and one year later was invited to speak at the Future of Web Design Conference .  He got connected to our community by a mutual friend, bought Linchpin and then he did what it talks about; he shipped.  You can hear his list o

Al Pittampalli started following Seth Godin's blog because he wanted to know how Seth was making money from it.   He had is sights on Seth's six-month alternative MBA program and wouldn't you know hit, he made it in. He shares some inside stories from t