Fear, Love and Surfing with Jaimal Yogis

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: Fear, Love and Surfing with Jaimal Yogis
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 01:05:34
• Published: 2013-04-29 10:00

The story of how Jaimal Yogis and I met is serendipitous. A few years ago, I came across his book Saltwater Buddha and I emailed him to ask if I could interview him for The Skool of Life. Three years later, Jaimal contacted me to ask if I could help him with the marketing for his new book The Fear Project. It was a challenge I was excited to take on. Here are just a few of the highlights from our chat:

• How the Love of Surfing Drove Jaimal's Career Choice 
• A Story on Surfing that Caught the Attention of a Publisher
• The Intersection of Backgrounds in Buddhism, Journalism, and the Neuroscience of Fear
• Why a Diversity of Inputs and Experiences Will Improve Your Content
• A Look at the Strange Places Your Passions and Talents Will Be Used
• Why You Find Your Voice as a Writer Over a Lifetime
• The One Mistake that Jaimal Made with His First Book
• A Step by Step Look at How You Write Larger Bodies of Work
• Thinking of Sections in Your Book as Scenes in a Movie
• How Writing without a Plan Results in Some of Your Best Work
• Why You Judge Your Words and Why You Need to Stop
• How the Exploration of Fear Resulted In a Book
• Looking at Your Life for Potential Book Ideas
• The Concept of Jumping Off Points
• Why Comparison Keeps You From Achieving the Extraordinary

Tweetable Insights Include:

• You make real connections with people by doing things that you love (Click to Tweet)
• The more you can cut from your writing, the better (Click to Tweet)

Jaimal Yogis is an author, journalist, and outdoors-man. His work has appeared in ESPN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and many others. You can follow him on twitter @jaimalyogis. If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter. Oh, and we’d be really grateful if you write us a review in iTunes.