{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Creative with Todd Henry","slug":"daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412","podcast_index_feed_id":745412,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/tac/","website_url":"https://podcast.toddhenry.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/9036ecb3-7066-499c-873b-83e69653acb5/pbtCeNzYBzprBYXXEOtXAcPo.jpg","author":"Todd Henry","episode_count":116,"summary":"Formerly The Accidental Creative. Being a creative professional should be the greatest job in the world. You get to solve problems, express yourself, bring something new into the world and you get paid to do it. What's not to love. Yet every day, creative pros face, tremendous pressure and uncertainty. The temptation is just to play it safe, surrender to distraction and settle for less than your best daily creative is about making sure that's not your story. Each episode focuses on a topic relevant to creative pros, like how to come up with ideas under pressure, or how the collaborate when you're overwhelmed, or how to lead your team and help them discover motivation. It's time to fall back in love with your work. Listen to Daily Creative wherever you get your podcasts or subscribe in the Daily Creative app at dailycreative.app.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T02:18:47.881392+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412"},"episode":{"title":"What Do You Do When You're (Actually) Working?","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-you-re-actually-working","published_at":"2026-02-11T19:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412/what-do-you-do-when-you-re-actually-working","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412","url":"https://podcast.toddhenry.com/95","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/837d8cd4-4b31-422f-9dcd-1b9b188c2b14.mp3","summary":"In this episode, we dive deep into the real value of creative work—what we truly get paid for, beyond our time and output. We bring together two insightful thinkers, Rebecca Hinds and Jen Fisher, whose perspectives on meetings and hope transform how we structure our work days and support our teams. We explore why most meetings sabotage productivity and how “visibility bias” tricks us into equating a full calendar with actual progress. Rebecca Hinds (author of Your Best Meeting Ever ) challenges us to rethink meetings as products: expensive, important, yet often poorly optimized. She shares actionable strategies like \"meeting doomsday\" and the \"rule of halves\" to declutter calendars and refocus collaboration. Shifting gears, we unpack the often-overlooked topic of hope in organizational culture. Jen Fisher (author of Hope Is The Strategy ) reframes hope as a strategic, action-oriented process, not just a feel-good slogan. We discuss Gallup’s finding that hope ranks higher than trust as what people want most from leaders, and how misaligned incentives erode both hope and well-being, leading to disengagement and burnout. Throughout, we challenge creative pros to rethink their real value—insight, intuition, and emotional logic—and encourage leaders to create environments where these qualities flourish. Five Key Learnings: Insight is Indispensable: Our unique perspectives, intuition, and courage—not just our time or output—are what make us valuable in creative roles. Meetings Need a Reset: Meetings often serve as a status symbol rather than a tool for progress. Treating meetings as products and regularly auditing their purpose and effectiveness can dramatically improve collaboration. Subtract to Add Value: Applying the “rule of halves”—cutting meeting length, attendees, age…","meta_description":"In this episode, we dive deep into the real value of creative work—what we truly get paid for, beyond our time and output. We bring together two insightfu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1696,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412/episodes/what-do-you-do-when-you-re-actually-working/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-creative-with-todd-henry-745412/what-do-you-do-when-you-re-actually-working.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}