Creating Things that Matter with Charlie Gilkey

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: Creating Things that Matter with Charlie Gilkey
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 01:07:23
• Published: 2013-03-04 09:00

We had Charlie as a guest on the show in the early days of BlogcastFM. See Charlie Gilkey on Turning Your Blog into a Real Business, Networking, and Collaboration. Since then, he's been busy making quite a ruckus.  In this interview, you'll get a very eye-opening and refreshing look into the content creation process. Here are some highlights from our most recent chat:

• How  Philosophy Informs Charlie's Content 
• Figuring How a Business Supports Our Collective Thriving
• Integrating Your Previous Experience Into Your Brand and Content 
• Leveraging Your Life Experiences to Tell Stories and Create Content
• The Problem with Reverse Engineering Your Successful Posts 
• Why You Need to Have a Context for Your Numbers and Metrics
• What You Need to Think About In Terms of Long-Term Impact
• Why the Need for Approval Kills Your Ability to Create
• The Power of Writing 50 Posts to Start Your Blog
• Why You Need to Focus Your Efforts on Action
• Articulating the Core Elements of Your Brand Statement 
• Learning to Recognize When You Need Help
• Finding the Simplicity and Building from There 
• The Power of Asking People Why They Connect with You
• Why the Thing You Stand for Will Change
• The Content Doppler Effect and Why You Need to Be Aware of It
• An Early Glimpse into Charlie's Next Book
• Writing Something That Serves the People Who Show Up for You

Resources Mentioned Include:

• How to not Show up like an A-list Blogger
• The Accidental Creative
• Making Ideas Happen 

Tweetable Insights Include:

• Your brand creates an emotive connection between you and your readers (Click to Tweet)
• Tweets and status updates don't change lives. They interrupt them (Click to Tweet)
•  A lot of bloggers get too obsessed with the numbers without understanding what they mean (Click to Tweet)
• We can do powerful things in the world, but it requires execution (Click to Tweet)

Charlie Gilkey helps people and organizations start finishing the stuff that matters. He is a coach, consultant, writer, speaker, teacher, and superhero cultivator. You can follow him on twitter @CharlieGilkey. 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.