Destination Different
130 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsOn Destination Different, host Ryan Dunn is staying weird with it. Each week he interviews guests who are in the midst of building their career. From creators, to entrepreneurs, to adventurists, and everyone in between, this show is all about doing things differently. Mixed in you’ll find some inspiring stories, major flops, and just the right mix of naive optimism and pure stupidity that will instantly make this your favorite creative/entrepreneurship/personal growth love-child podcast. New episode every Thursday. Stay weird.
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I AM CHANGING DESTINATION DIFFERENT
April 22, 2022 01:44 - 10 minutes - 12.9 MBAfter 127 episodes it feels about time to make some changes to the podcast. I've done a lot of thinking over the last few weeks. While there are some bright spots and I do truly believe I'm onto something with this podcast, the show is lacking the momentum and the focus that great podcasts have. Because of that, I'm going to take time to make much-needed changes to get it growing. You can expect to see changes to the following elements of Destination Different: The format - Right now it'...
Jersey Chasers - Creating Custom Sportswear With Adam Lavitola and Nick Winter of Clubhouse Athletic
April 15, 2022 13:57 - 59 minutes - 47.9 MBI honestly think my dream job might be creating ridiculous custom jerseys and apparel for sports teams. And that's EXACTLY what the fellas at Clubhouse Athletic are doing. The idea all started when Adam Lavitola was in college and began referring to himself as "The Custom Guy." He would create custom tee-shirts, tank tops, jerseys, you name it, for college friends, intramural teams, greek life events, etc. And as business continued to roll in he realized if he was making custom everything ...
Name, Image, Likeness - Creating Opportunities For College Athletes With Pat Johnson of Vantage Sports
April 07, 2022 11:00 - 56 minutes - 42.3 MBUp until July of 2021 college athletes couldn't make money off their own name, image, or likeness. While schools and conferences and the NCAA raked in hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the student-athletes who were putting on the show were mostly left out to dry. That all changed last summer with some new NIL legislation. And Pat Johnson saw an opportunity to build a business in a completely untouched industry. So Vantage Sports was born. It's an online platform that connects curren...
Hope For Homeless - Creating Debit Cards For The Homeless With GiveCard
March 31, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBIt has happened to all of us at one point or another... You come across a homeless person on the street and want to give them a couple bucks for a sandwich or a water or some basic necessities. But when you reach into your wallet you realize you've got no cash. In an increasingly digital world the homeless have fewer options. GiveCard has set out to fix that. Founded by Lurein Perera and Diksha Thach, the duo's model is to put a couple hundred dollars a month on a debit card, put it in th...
Professional Creative - Podcasting, Showrunning, Book Writing, and Beyond With Jay Acunzo
March 24, 2022 11:24 - 54 minutes - 44.4 MBHave you ever wanted to become a professional creative? To make a living with your own voice and words and thoughts and actions? I know I have. And if there's ever a person to learn from... it's Jay Acunzo. Jay started his career in the marketing world and eventually made the switch to life as a full-time podcaster, author, showrunner, and speaker; sharing his knowledge gained in the business world with others looking to rise above all the average content out there. He got so good at runn...
Meet The Meat Gang - Made-To-Order Charcuterie With Gilli Rozynek & Morgan Biles Of Kured
March 17, 2022 11:49 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBChipotle serves up made-to-order Mexican bowls. Sweetgreen serves up made-to-order salads to go... Now Kured is serving up made-to-order charcuterie boards and boxes. What started with Gilli Rozynek driving around Cape Cod delivering meats and cheeses out of the trunk of her car has evolved into a full-fledge operation with multiple retail stores, an e-commerce offering, catering for your next event, ANDDDD an eye on expansion. Kured officially opened its first retail shop in June of 2021...
High Wire Act - Transforming Wire, Wood & Metal Into Art With Ryan Kelley
March 10, 2022 11:48 - 1 hour - 55 MBSome people might see it as old junk just laying around the house... Ryan Kelley sees it as his next piece of art. The insanely talented creative (appropriate dubbed "Wire By Ryan") is quickly coming up on using 100 miles of wire in his career, and he shows no signs of stopping. After taking an interest in art in high school he threw himself into his creative work and hasn't looked back. Today, he is the creator of some of the largest and most impressive wire sculptures on the planet; pie...
Mind Over Matter - Mindfulness, Meditation, And Letting Shit Go With Nina Purewal
March 03, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBash·ram /ˈäSHrəm/ - noun - a hermitage, monastic community, or other place of religious retreat. If you had "ashram" on your Destination Different bingo card this week, then you are a winner! My guest on this week's show spent an entire year at an ashram in the woods of northern California with no phone, no computer, no connection to the outside world. She practiced mindfulness and meditation, and learned the teachings of ancient wisdom from monks. It's fairly safe to say the experience c...
Men On The Move - Building The Future Of Remote Work With Dryfter
February 24, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBDan Brett and Bobby Harrington were college roommates. And unlike most college roommates who spend their 20s pretending they're still in college, Dan and Bobby went the opposite route. They started a business. A couple of them actually... Ever since graduating, the two friends have been hellbent on finding solutions to common problems. They messed around with everything from local restaurant meal kits to delivering Christmas trees dressed as Santa Claus, but where they've really found th...
Music Video Magic - Embracing Life On And Off Camera With Courtney Knecht
February 17, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBWhat do you do when you have to give up your college basketball dreams because of injury...? If you're Courtney Knecht you pick up a camera and starting shooting music videos for the artists and bands you love. Flash forward to today and she's running her own company in LA shooting vids for some of the best up and coming musicians. Courtney also started documenting her process on YouTube and TikTok along the way, which ultimately led to her getting hired by the media company One37pm to mak...
Long Island Dirt - Comedy Writing, Song Singing, and Always Laughing With Rose Kelso
February 10, 2022 12:00 - 54 minutes - 41.7 MBI am going to say something and I'm only going to say it once... Rose Kelso is pure, unfiltered chaos. And I can't get enough. Rose (or Long Island Dirt as she is known in internet circles) is a writer, performer, producer, photographer, director, song-writer, TikTokker... the list goes on and on and on. Professionally speaking, she is a writer and director at Comedy Central. Not bad for a young 20-something. She has worked for SNL, The Jim Gaffigan Show, BuzzFeed, and landed her promotio...
One F Jef - Doodles, Designs, and 1.5 BILLION Giphy Views With Jef Caine
February 03, 2022 13:09 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBThere are certain people you meet who just have a way of making you smile. Jef Caine is one of those people. Everything from his art, to his style, to his voice, to his overall outlook on life. It's hard not to love him. Jef has been doodling in sketchbooks for nearly his entire life, and now he makes a living as a graphic designer, illustrator, and animator for brands, creators, and nonprofits. PS... He taught himself to animate during the pandemic by the way (casual). When you look thr...
Internet Brain - Pranks, Podcasting, and Choking Hazards With Patrick Dudek
January 27, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBPatrick Dudek aka Patrick On Cameo aka The 4th Most Famous Person On FamousBirthdays.com With the Last Name Dudek. Who would have thought I'd host someone who cracked a Top 5 list on Famous Birthdays on my show... but here we are. Patrick Dudek is good at the internet. He has been experimenting with social media and video creation for the better part of the last decade and he seems to have a knack for making content that goes viral. His Best Man speech at his brother's wedding has been vi...
Robinhood of Fashion - Always Be About Something With Farouq Gidada Of ABAS Clothing
January 20, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBEvery kid has had the dream at one point or another... "I'll just start a clothing brand and get super rich." It's a tale as old as time. But few, and I mean VERY few, ever even follow through with the idea. And for those who do the level of success is minimal. On this week's Destination Different we've got someone who is defying the odds. Farouq Gidado has always been an artistic kid with an eye for fashion. When he was in high school him and some friends coined the phrase "Always Be Ab...
Totes McGOATs - Upcycling Tote Bags And Beyond With Alexa and Blake of Scrapped Clothing
January 13, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBI am very familiar with the concept of recycling. You drink a beer, then you put your can in the little green bin with the circular arrows. Upcycling on the other hand... not as familiar. Thankfully Alexa and Blake, the co-founders of Scrapped Clothing helped me out. Upcycling is when you take thrifted or second-hand materials and turn them into something new. In the case of Scrapped, they are taking everything from table clothes, to curtains, to old tee-shirts, and turning them into thes...
Painting With Bleach - Creating Custom Apparel With Nathan DeVaughn of DeVo Customs
January 06, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBYou ever create a custom jacket for one of the biggest rappers in the world, but don't put your name on it so you get absolutely zero credit...? Yeah, me neither. But Nathan DeVaughn has. And he learned a valuable lesson that day. Nathan was always an artistic kid growing up and a few years ago he started messing around with painting on jackets. One of his favorite rappers, Lil Yachty, put out a call to fans asking for them to send him their work. Nathan obliged and it wasn't long until L...
Fitness & Fun - Founding Surf, Yoga, Beer and Teaching Soul Cycle With Entrepreneur Mantas Zvinas
December 30, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBI've always found the whole "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" thing to be kind of bullshit. Who actually LOVES what they do? Well, if you're Mantas Zvinas, you just love what you love and then create a business around that. Mantas grew up loving surfing and yoga, and in his later years developed an affinity for the party scene... soooo, naturally he started a business called Surf, Yoga, Beer. Surf, Yoga, Beer started with an adventure to Costa Rica where Mantas...
Storytelling Mastery - The Power Of A Good Story With Artist-Writer-Podcaster-Gamer-Videographer Quentin Allums
December 23, 2021 14:41 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThere is a word out there called "multi-hyphenate." It is defined as "a person, especially a celebrity, with several professions or skills." Quentin Allums fits that definition to a T. I've written and rewritten this description approximately 2,000 times trying to summarize all of the creative work he has done over the years and it's nearly impossible to put a nice tidy bow on it. Quentin is an entrepreneur by nature. He has started not 1, not 2, but 3 companies in his 20s, including most...
Modern Woodworking - Teaching Yourself A Furniture Business With Kristina & Nick of Twenty Five and Pine
December 16, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBIf you put a table saw or even just a simple 2x4 in my hands I would almost certainly cut my fingers off. Somehow Kristina & Nick originally knew nothing about the business of carpentry and have managed to turn it into a full-scale operation. Since the time she was 3-years-old Kristina has wanted to run her own business, but everything from bakeries to sign shops didn't quite hit the mark. That's until she started messing around with the art of wood and realized she might be onto something...
Fire Painting - Open Flame Pyrography With Artist Zachary Aronson
December 10, 2021 00:52 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBI can promise you right now... I swear on everything that is dear to me in this world... you have never seen art like this in your life. This week I've got Zachary Aronson on the show and, as the name of the episode suggests, he makes art out of fire. Like, actually. He really does. 10+ years ago Zachary forgot his sketch pad on the way to class at Cal Arts. Rather than head back to his dorm to retrieve it, he picked up a blow torch and a block of wood, and an entirely new medium of art ...
Getting Better - A Discussion About Improving The Podcast With Carmine Mattia
December 01, 2021 13:15 - 1 hour - 44 MBYou ever do something over and over and over and eventually just feel like you're stuck? After 100+ episodes of the Destination Different podcast there are definitely moments where I feel like I'm stuck and questioning everything. "Is this the right format?" "Who are the people listening?" "Why do they care?" "Do I need to go in a different direction?" "Is it time to hang it up?" All of these are things I've asked myself over the last two years of hosting this show. And more often than no...
Thanksgiving Thankfuls - A Turkey Day Special With What We're Thankful For
November 25, 2021 16:02 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBAfter my guest for this week needed to reschedule I was left with a choice... Do I put out some fluff BS by myself? Or do I try something a little different? This is Destination DIFFERENT after all, so I went with the latter. Every year on Thanksgiving when my grandmother was still alive she would make us all go around the table and say one thing we're thankful for. And while this is a podcast and not a Thanksgiving dinner table, I thought it would still be cool to ask some of the most i...
Cha Cha Cha Changes - What Does Destination Different Need To Go To The Next Level?
November 10, 2021 13:58 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBOn this week's episode host Ryan Dunn discusses what it's going to take to elevate Destination Different to the next level. After two years and over 100 episodes the podcast has hit a bit of a plateau in terms of listenership and general excitement. What changes could be made to drive future growth of the show? We look at other top performing podcasts and the concepts that make them sticky, as well as look inward at Destination Different from the show format to the target audience to the d...
Plant Pants - The Business of Clay With Pair Of Plants Creator Michelle Sieg
November 04, 2021 04:28 - 54 minutes - 42.9 MB"Soooo they're like pants, but for your plants...?" I know, it's a tough concept to wrap your head around, but when you see them you'll never look at a potted plant the same way ever again. Michelle Sieg is a creative person by nature and a director / art director by trade. And she's a DAMN good one at that. She has worked on campaigns for massive brands likes Nike, Spindrift, and Squarespace to name a few. Yet somehow it's her work outside of "work" that has gained her even more notori...
Plant Pants - Director Turned Ceramicist With The Creator of A Pair Of Plants Michelle Sieg
November 04, 2021 04:28 - 54 minutes - 42.9 MB"Soooo they're like pants, but for your plants...?" I know, it's a tough concept to wrap your head around, but when you see them you'll never look at a potted plant the same way ever again. Michelle Sieg is a creative person by nature and a director / art director by trade. And she's a DAMN good one at that. She has worked on campaigns for massive brands likes Nike, Spindrift, and Squarespace to name a few. Yet somehow it's her work outside of "work" that has gained her even more notorie...
Niche Me - The Power of Internet Communities and Making Money Online
October 27, 2021 23:24 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBFor over two years I've been churning out podcasts, interviewing interesting people, and trying to grow this show. Yet, if you were to look at the progress in terms of listenership or momentum you wouldn't see a whole lot. Outside of a few minor peaks and valleys, it has been pretty flat since the day I launched. I'm still not sure I've quite figured out who this show is for or what "niche" it belongs in. But when it comes to the internet, it seems like the narrower you go, the more niche y...
Chocolate Overload - Brand Building, Cocoa Growing, and Honoring Ghanaian Roots With Priscilla & Kim Addison of 57 Chocolate
October 20, 2021 15:13 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBIf I started a chocolate business I would probably weigh 400 pounds with a face constantly covered in sticky, delicious goodness... Priscilla and Kim Addison have a bit more self-control than me and they're building a business that is making a serious impact. After a visit to a Swiss chocolate factory the two sisters learned that Switzerland didn't actually grow any cocoa trees. Ghana did. One of the top growing regions in the world just so happened to be where the two sisters were from. ...
Brooklyn Rob - The Pursuit of Comedy Writing Perfection With Rob Christensen
October 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBWhen you've been working stand-up stages for over a decade, you get pretty good at landing a joke. If you're Rob Christensen, you get so good that you end up being selected out of a pool of 2,400 applicants to write for Jon Stewart's new TV show. Rob is a born and raised New Yorker and continues to work way through the ranks of the stand-up comedy scene. There is absolute zero doubt as to how he got to where he is today... He is OBSESSED with comedy writing. It's really that simple. He is ...
Photo Magic - A Very Special 100th Episode With D1 Athlete & Content Creator Kait Devir
October 06, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBTo be perfectly honest, I thought I would quit this podcast after a few months... yet here we are 2 years and 100 episode later still going strong. And I couldn't have asked for a more perfect guest to ring in the 100th episode. This week features the incredibly talented, incredibly badass Kait Devir who is a jack of all trades. D1 Athlete, National Champion, YouTuber, Videographer, and Photographer, just to name a few. Kait is a junior at Boston College and won a lacrosse national champio...
Patience - Doing 99 Episodes of a Podcast With Host Ryan Dunn
September 29, 2021 09:47 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBI just went back in the archives and discovered that today, September 29th, marks exactly two years to the day since I launched the first episode of Destination Different. What a two years it has been. When I started this thing I was living in my parents' basement. I had no job and had absolutely NO idea what I was doing. We were still living in a pre-pandemic world and life was a whole lot different. Since that first episode I have learned a lot. It's easy to start up a creative proje...
Spitting Seeds - Starting A Business From The Dorm Room With Cole and Brian of Smackin' Snacks
September 22, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBSome people absolutely despise their random freshman roommates in college. Others become immediate friends and decide to start a sunflower seed company out of their dorm room... Cole Schaefer and Brian Waddick are the latter. The two random roommates at the University of Minnesota realized very quickly that they both shared a love for business and a desire to build something of their own. After a few failed tech projects the duo found a shared passion. Sunflower seeds. All of the legacy s...
Professional Funny Man - The Life of a Stand-up Comedian With Alex Dragicevich
September 15, 2021 21:28 - 1 hour - 51 MBIt's not often you get to see a 6'8" former Division 1 basketball player up on stage doing comedy. But that's what you get when you go to a show with Alex Dragicevich. Alex first fell in love with the art of comedy when he joined a sketch writing group in college. That new group of friends led him the stage for a few shaky stand-up appearances in Boston. 6 years' worth of material later and Alex is a budding star in the Chicago comedy scene. He regularly performs shows at iconic venues lik...
Watercolor Magic - From a Hobby to a Dream With The Founder of Olive & Orange, Annie Yuen
September 09, 2021 03:00 - 57 minutes - 45.6 MBThis episode originally appeared in February of 2021 under the titled "Watercolor Dreams." To date it is still one of our most listened to episodes of all-time. "I was in a farmer's market, saw some lady painting watercolors and said to myself 'That doesn't look so hard. I could probably that.'" - Annie Yuen (sort of). Ok, fine. I'm paraphrasing slightly, but that's pretty much how it all kicked off for Annie with her printmaking company, Olive & Orange. She simply took up a love for paint...
All Things Audio - Running The Barstool Sports Podcast Network With Executive Producer Mikey Fowler
September 01, 2021 10:00 - 58 minutes - 48.2 MBWhen Mikey Fowler got hired by Barstool in 2016 they only had 5 podcasts in their network and he was told to "scale it." 4 years later and the media behemoth now has 60+ shows and is routinely in the top 5 most downloaded podcast networks in the world. Sooooo, you could say he scaled it... Along the way, Mikey has had the chance to work with every major talent that has come through the Barstool doors and works directly with Erika Nardini and Dave Portnoy to identify and amplify the voices...
DM King - Building a Community and Career With Twitter DMs Featuring 17-year-old Elijas Scherer
August 25, 2021 12:15 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBAt 17 years old, I was playing soccer every weekend, serving chicken fingers at a local restaurant, and hadn't even had my first kiss yet. I knew nothing about the world and knew even less about the power of the internet. Elijas Scherer is a man with wisdom well beyond his years. Elijas is a 17-year-old German native and recent high school graduate who has built an incredibly powerful community with some of the greatest minds on the internet, all through the power of Twitter DMs. Over t...
Olympic Talent - From the Pool to the Announcer Booth With Elizabeth Beisel
August 18, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBWhen you make your Olympic swimming debut at the ripe ol' age of 15, there's a lot of life left to live after that. Elizabeth Beisel went on to star in 3 Olympics, captaining Team USA swimming and winning 2 medals along the way. Now she is a 20-something with a new dream... to dominate her sport as an announcer. And she's doing just that. Elizabeth was brought on by NBC to help commentate the most recent Olympics in Japan. This episode originally aired in December of 2020 when the thoug...
Tired - Pushing Through When You Don't Want To
August 11, 2021 22:38 - 11 minutes - 9.84 MBThey say that the key to greatness is being consistently good for a really long time. I am absolutely NOWHERE near greatness levels, not even close. But I do know that every Wednesday a new episode of Destination Different comes out. That means even if I'm tired, or sick, or high off mushrooms thinking a 3-eyed cactus is trying to break into my spaceship... the show goes on. We're in the dog days of summer right now and it feels like Destination Different is in a lull right along with i...
Milk Man - Kickstarter, Shark Tank, and a New Age of Chocolate Milk With Josh Belinsky of Slate Milk
August 04, 2021 12:31 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBWho doesn't love chocolate milk? It's creamy. It's chocolate-y. It's delicious. And it's great for recovery. Josh Belinsky had been drinking chocolate milk for all those reasons growing up and right through college, but over the years developed a lactose intolerance and realized that traditional dairy chocolate milk was super high in sugar. There had to be a better way for him to get his favorite beverage. There was. And the answer was Slate Milk. Josh and his co-founder Manny Lubin st...
Side Piece - Managing a Side Hustle With a Full-Time Job
July 29, 2021 02:18 - 13 minutes - 11.7 MBA little Ry3 Mini this week. No guest as I'm gallivanting across the southern United States going to soccer games for my real job (It's true what they say, everything really is bigger in Texas). It got me thinking... I've never really talked about managing a side project with a full-time job on this show. SO many of my guests have started their business or creative projects while also maintaining a full-time gig to pay the bills. And it's so damn impressive. It is a constant balancing act ...
Soccer Crazy - Changing the Culture of American Soccer With Kevin Mejia of Atmosphre Futbol Chat
July 22, 2021 01:10 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBThere is a lot wrong with soccer in America, but there aren't many people talking about how to fix the system. That's what Kevin Mejia is doing with Atmosphre Futbol Chat. It is a podcast and YouTube channel centered around giving a voice to American soccer at all levels, from youth to college to MLS to the Men's and Women's National Teams. And there aren't many guys who are more well-connected in the soccer community than Kevin Mejia. He was my teammate in college and seems to know just a...
Motorcycle Man - Riding, Racing, and Writing About Motorcycles with Zack Courts of RevZilla
July 14, 2021 11:44 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBZack Courts grew up on the back of a motorcycle. He got his first dirt bike at 8-years-old and would zip around his family farm in rural Vermont. During his teenage years he traveled around the country with his dad more or less saying, "I wanna go fast," as he raced bikes competitively for more than a decade. When he realized that becoming a professional motorcycle rider maybe wasn't in the cards, he turned his attention to writing about bikes. A few years and a couple bumps and bruises la...
One Legged Waves - Recovering From the Brink of Death With Surfer, Amputee, and YouTuber Carter Parry
July 07, 2021 12:13 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBCarter Parry was dealt a hand most people don't come back from. At the start of 2020 a bout of the flu put him in the hospital. By the time he left the Intensive Care Unit nearly 7 months later his lung, lower leg, and a couple of toes had all been removed. Yet somehow, despite all of that, Carter talked to me in this interview with a smile on his face and with his sarcastic sense of humor still very much on display. Carter grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, but moved to Hawaii for college and ...
All Out Blitz - Starting One of the Top Sports Newsletters in the World With Danny Healey of the Morning Blitz
June 30, 2021 10:00 - 59 minutes - 47.4 MBIt's a pretty simple concept... all the sports information you need to know, packaged up in a quick and easy 5-minute newsletter every morning. That's what Danny Healey has created with the Morning Blitz. And he has executed to perfection. Every morning for 2+ years (without missing a single day!) Danny and team at the Blitz have sent out a daily update with all the happenings from the prior day in the sports world. He executed so well that the newsletter was actually bought out by the med...
Body Art - Painting Her Bare Body On Camera With SeeKaySee
June 23, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBChristina Caaci has a gift. She has the gift of turning her own body into a one-of-a-kind canvas. Better known in the streaming world as SeeKaySee, Chris has built up quite the loyal fanbase on the streaming platform, Twitch. Twice a week she gets on camera and creates masterpieces using body makeup on herself. The streams can last anywhere from 1-10 hours and are always centered around the art she's creating, but over the years have also evolved into space for her to have conversations w...
Stash and Dash - Designing the Future of Sports Bras With Coco Woeltz
June 16, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBA good recipe for starting a successful business is identifying a problem that people have and solving that problem. That's exactly what Coco Woeltz has done with Hummingbyrd. Coco is a former Division 1 soccer player, and an avid runner and hiker. But when she started running marathons she realized that there wasn't a great solution for storing her phone and keys while on the move. So she did what any normal person would do... She visited a local Spanish-speaking seamstress and started ...
Into the Wild - Trail Running, Ultra Marathoning, and Mental Toughness With Joe "Stringbean" Mcconaughy
June 09, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB2,650 miles. On foot. Two thousand, six hundred, and fifty miles! In 53 days... 53 DAYS! For those who are a little slow with their math that's roughly 50 miles a day. That's what Joe Mcconaughy did when he set the Fastest Known Time hiking/running/surviving the Pacific Crest Trail down the West Coast from Canada to Mexico. Since then he has shattered records on the Appalachian Trail, Wicklow Round, Long Trail, and Arizona Trail. We talked all about how he got into ultramarathoning in t...
Being Better - How Do I Improve Destination Different?
June 03, 2021 01:01 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBI have let you down. I have let down the listeners of the Destination Different podcast. Last week was a solo show on this podcast and I promised that I would have an interview for this week's show. I don't have an interview for this week's show. It's just me. Again... But I do think this mini episode is well worth the 13+ minutes. For the first time maybe ever I tried to lay out my long-term, GRAND version for the future of Destination Different. It's lofty. I want it to become the Th...
Cold Outreach - Finding Guests for the Podcast With Host Ryan Dunn
May 26, 2021 12:23 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBThere are a lot of things that go into making a single podcast episode. You have to research the guest and prepare a list of questions. You have script and record a coherent intro and outro. You have to actually interview the person featured on the episode. You have to edit that all together and upload it to a distribution network with one of these little description thingys. But before you do anyyyyy of that, you have to identify, reach out to, and coordinate schedules with the guest of ...
Pursuit of Portraits - Building a Global Collective Featuring Millions of Photographers With Saunak Shah
May 19, 2021 11:00 - 59 minutes - 50.3 MBYou know you're onto something when 10 MILLION people from around the globe are interacting with your brand. That's the number of global photographers who have posted a photo using the hashtag #pursuitofportraits since its inception in 2015ish. Saunak Shah is the man behind that global community. An Indian-born and New York-based photographer, Saunak practically grew up with a camera in his hands, but it wasn't until he quit his job and took a trip around the world that photography became ...
Pop of Color - Painting Faces, Eyes, and Shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio With Hailey Badovinac
May 12, 2021 10:00 - 56 minutes - 45.6 MBI like art that is bright and colorful and makes you feel some kinda way. Hailey Badovinac makes that kind of art. She has been making art for about as long as she can remember. And what started as staying up late scribbling with Crayons in her bedroom has turned into a full-on career. What I appreciate most about Hailey's story isn't so much that she's an insanely talented painter (which she is), but that she has consistently worked a full-time job as a UX designer and her art has come an...