{"podcast":{"title":"Kelly Corrigan Wonders","slug":"kelly-corrigan-wonders-1318374","podcast_index_feed_id":1318374,"rss_url":"https://rss.amperwave.net/v2/feed/audacynetwork/kelly-corrigan-wonders","website_url":"http://www.kellycorrigan.com/","image_url":"https://images.castfire.com/image/661/0/0/0/0-8382544.jpg","author":"Kelly Corrigan","episode_count":817,"summary":"Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, a place for people who like to laugh while they think and find it useful to look closely at ourselves and our weird ways in the hopes that knowing more and feeling more will help us do more and be better. Author of 4 New York Times bestsellers about family life, Kelly wonders about loads of stuff: is knowing more always good? Can we trust our gut? How does change actually happen? We only book nice people who have a sense of humor and know things worth knowing. Each episode ends with Kelly’s shortlist of takeaways, appropriate for refrigerator doors, bulletin boards and notes to your children.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T06:20:16.256406+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kelly-corrigan-wonders-1318374"},"episode":{"title":"Deep Dive with Jeff Kinney on Creative Constraints","slug":"deep-dive-with-jeff-kinney-on-creative-constraints","published_at":"2026-04-21T08:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kelly-corrigan-wonders-1318374/deep-dive-with-jeff-kinney-on-creative-constraints","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kelly-corrigan-wonders-1318374","url":"http://www.kellycorrigan.com","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/traffic.megaphone.fm/CAD5639375954.mp3?updated=1776219352","summary":"Jeff Kinney spent eight years working on Diary of a Wimpy Kid almost entirely in silence — no feedback, no applause, no guarantee it would ever amount to anything. He just kept going. In the third episode of our Wired to Create series, Kelly sits down with the creator of one of the bestselling book franchises in history to talk about why the siren song of instant validation might be the enemy of great work, what constraints actually do for creativity, and why making a place — a bookstore, a basketball court in Tanzania, a downtown in a town of 9,000 — might be the most powerful creative act of all. This episode was made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. To learn more, please visit: waltonfamilyfoundation.org. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"Jeff Kinney spent eight years working on Diary of a Wimpy Kid almost entirely in silence — no feedback, no applause, no guarantee it would ever amount to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3502,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kelly-corrigan-wonders-1318374/episodes/deep-dive-with-jeff-kinney-on-creative-constraints/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kelly-corrigan-wonders-1318374/deep-dive-with-jeff-kinney-on-creative-constraints.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}