Daring Forever (Find your Extraordinary)

Radim Malinic
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Daring Forever is a podcast about being human, wired for wonder, capable of courage, perpetually becoming. It's about the waves that knock us under and the strange, stubborn grace with which we surface.  Hosted by Radim Malinic, an author, creative, and an eternally curious human who is on a mission to speak with incredible people, also called Forever Daring Humans, those in pursuit of an extraordinary life.  Every week, discover an interview that is packed with amazing stories and value.   How will you dare forever?  This podcast is inspired by my upcoming book titled Daring Forever, which is now available for pre-order (Out October 2026)  More info https://radimmalinic.co.uk/

  1. 1d ago

    Dare to let one conversation change your life - Seth Epstein (Los York)

    Seth Epstein is a creative entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Los York, a global creative company of self-described “global nomads of the arts.” In this conversation, Radim and Seth skip the business talk and follow the story behind it. ~ It starts with a furious client phone call in the mid-’90s, in the early days of Fuel, one of the first Mac-based motion design studios in LA. Inspired by the Zen parable “Emptying the Cup,” Seth asked to come in and simply listen. That meeting became the basis of how he listens, leads and wins work to this day. Seth talks about growing up between a hippie philosopher father and a disciplined, self-improvement-driven mother. He sold Fuel to Razorfish at 31 and then spent nearly a decade lost, without purpose. At one low point, his family couldn’t afford groceries.  A small passion film made with one camera, about his hero Shawn Stüssy, opened the door back into the industry. It led to taking over Stardust and eventually to Los York, whose name, ethos and clothing label all trace back to Stüssy’s International Tribe. The episode ends with a reflection on why creatives keep returning to their hands, and on the universal urge to grow towards the light. Key takeaways You can’t have a breakthrough without a breakdown. Breakdowns are a signal that growth is around the corner, so go looking for them.Empty the cup. Let people say everything, don’t defend yourself, then repeat back what you heard so they feel fully heard.There are three kinds of listening: distracted, listening to respond (the cocktail-party default) and listening to recreate. The last one wins work and builds relationships.Write your own notes. Seth handwrites his and doesn’t let AI do it, because the quality of listening is the competitive edge.Money without purpose leads to misery. The “someday my prince will come” story falls apart without community and meaning.When everything is stripped away, go back to home base. Ask what you’re good at and what you’d do for free.Constraints create great work. One camera, no crew and nothing to lose made a hero-level ask feel easy.Comfort kills. Comfort is when we start trimming our dreams and ignoring the “wouldn’t it be cool if” urge.One meeting can change your life. Stay open and available, because a throwaway comment can change your direction.Find your North Star. Look for people living the life you want and let them pull you forward.Be a multi-hyphenate. Keep finding new ways to create, including being bad at ceramics. Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    Dare to let one conversation change your life - Seth Epstein (Los York)

  2. 5d ago ·  Bonus

    "When you feel like it's good and you're really into it, stop." (Amy Swift bonus episode)

    A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Amy Swift ~ Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    "When you feel like it's good and you're really into it, stop." (Amy Swift bonus episode)

  3. Oct 5

    Dare to be grateful for the detour - Amy Swift

    Amy Swift is a singer and songwriter from London. She grew up in South East London on her parents' Motown, jazz and blues records and was going to gigs from about 15. ~ Her career started on Myspace and in a part-time job selling subscriptions at Music Week, where she "bullied" her way into industry events. Amy Winehouse was breaking through at the same time, so Amy took an alias, Berry Farley, which was her nan's name.  Features on house tracks followed, then fronting Pacific State with The Shapeshifters and a deal with Universal. She was grateful for all of it, but she never wanted to be just a voice on a house track, because she had stories to tell. She and Radim talk about where songs come from, and about learning to write to a brief for sync, TV, adverts and even a musical for a cruise ship. They also cover the "twisted fairy tale" of publishing contracts, a week-long writing camp in Denmark with no phones, and why her track Moving ended up using the first demo vocal she recorded. Takeaways Songs start with a feeling. Ask yourself how you feel and what you want to say, then the melody and words follow.Anyone can write, because we all share heartache, loss and grief.Writing to a brief is a different way of thinking. The constraints can free you up instead of limiting you.Sync work became a real income during COVID. It also put her music in front of hundreds of thousands of people through a Netflix show.Be open about the commercial side of being an artist. There's no shame in having more than one way to earn from music.Labels and publishing deals aren't the be-all and end-all, and they can leave you stuck.Less is more. When it feels good, stop, because overcooking can take months or even years.Your songs capture a moment in time, and that's what makes them beautiful years later. Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    Dare to be grateful for the detour - Amy Swift

  4. Oct 1 ·  Bonus

    "It's okay to want people, not need them." (Nils Leonard bonus episode)

    A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Nils Leonard from Uncommon Creative Studio ~ Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    "It's okay to want people, not need them." (Nils Leonard bonus episode)

  5. Sep 28

    Dare to build work that outlasts you - Nils Leonard

    Nils Leonard is the creative founder of Uncommon Creative Studio, with offices in Stockholm, London and New York. Its work covers design, advertising, film, narrative objects and art, including a show at the Venice Biennale. ~  In this conversation, Nils explains why he doesn't want to win the opening weekend. He wants to make reference points: work people still talk about years later.  He talks about the long break after Grey that stopped Uncommon from becoming "Grey Part Two", and why the first question he asks every new client is "why are you here?" He also explains how three years of a website with nothing on it but a bouncing flag flushed out the time-wasters. Nils looks back on LifePaint and what he'd do differently, tells the Yves Klein story that inspired the bacteria reveal at OFFF Festival, and explains why he markets to talent before clients. He ends with the kind of work he wants to make next: places and monuments built to outlast everyone involved. Key takeaways Treat every brief as a chance to matter. Whether work adds to your life's tapestry or just fills someone else's list depends on how you choose to see your job.Define success before you start. Most of the industry's frustrations come from never asking the client what success really looks like.Make it inevitable, not brave. The goal is an idea so right for the problem that nobody even sees it as a risk.Build first, then invite. Taking an idea to a brand as an invitation, instead of asking permission, changes the power dynamic.Scarcity is value. When everyone takes in the same inputs and offers the same things, being unlike anyone else becomes the offer.Narrative objects travel further than adverts. A product, object or place that tells a story lets people retell it in their own way.Market to talent first. If the best people want to work with you, the clients follow.Want people, don't need them. The power lies in making things happen without depending on anyone.Articulation matters as much as art direction. Creatives need to be heard outside their work, whether that's writing, speaking, publishing or making.Make it for yourself. The most personal work is often the most universal. Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    Dare to build work that outlasts you - Nils Leonard

  6. Sep 24 ·  Bonus

    "Art has always been a real solace" (Frances Yeoland bonus episode)

    A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Frances Yeoland ~ Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    "Art has always been a real solace" (Frances Yeoland bonus episode)

  7. Sep 21

    Dare to doubt and keep going - Frances Yeoland

    Frances Yeoland is a Sydney-born, New York-based creative director and artist who has spent fifteen years working across branding, campaigns and design systems, while building a parallel practice as an abstract painter and poet.~ She talks with Radim about growing up between Australia's Western outlook and its geographic place in Asia, discovering gallery spaces as a teenage sanctuary, and the long process of letting her commercial and artistic selves finally meet instead of staying separate.  The conversation moves through her process, poetry as the seed of every painting, colour pulled from photos of everyday urban scenes, and the discipline of resisting the impulse to "fix" a stray brushstroke. They also wander into living eulogies, the value of sitting in ambiguity rather than being pigeonholed, and why doubt doesn't have to disappear for the work to be good. TAKEAWAYS Frances trained in graphic design in Sydney without knowing it existed as a career, discovering it was a way to combine language and visual deliveryArt galleries became a teenage sanctuary for her as a queer woman navigating a conservative upbringing, offering stories and ways of living she couldn't find elsewhereShe spent years keeping her commercial design work and personal art practice deliberately separate, before realising the two feed and sharpen each otherHer paintings begin as poetry — she writes fragments of language first, then builds visual rhythm and colour that mirror the feeling of the wordsColour choices come partly from a "colour stories" photo album on her phone, pulled from urban scenes and everyday compositions she notices while out in the worldShe resists retouching or correcting mistakes in her physical work, treating an errant brushstroke as proof of the handmade rather than a flaw to eraseShowing her art publicly for the first time, in a solo show curated by Sydney Fishman, felt deeply vulnerable but gave others permission to be vulnerable tooShe'd rather sit in ambiguity than explain herself into a single job title, believing people are too often afraid of mysteryDoubt, for her, never fully goes away — she's made peace with it being part of the process rather than a signal to stopShe and Radim riff on the idea of "living eulogies" — describing people by their values and qualities while they're still here to hear it Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    Dare to doubt and keep going - Frances Yeoland

  8. Sep 17 ·  Bonus

    "Not all ideas are good" (James Martin bonus episode)

    A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with James Martin ~ Daring Forever. Podcast with Radim Malinic daringcreativity.com |  desk@daringcreativity.com Books by Radim Malinic Paperback and Kindle > https://amzn.to/4biTwFc Free audiobook (with Audible trial) > https://geni.us/free-audiobook Book bundles  https://novemberuniverse.co.uk Lux Coffee Co. https://luxcoffee.co.uk/  (Use: PODCAST for 15% off) November Universe https://novemberuniverse.co.uk (Use: PODCAST for 10% off)

    "Not all ideas are good" (James Martin bonus episode)
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Daring Forever is a podcast about being human, wired for wonder, capable of courage, perpetually becoming. It's about the waves that knock us under and the strange, stubborn grace with which we surface.  Hosted by Radim Malinic, an author, creative, and an eternally curious human who is on a mission to speak with incredible people, also called Forever Daring Humans, those in pursuit of an extraordinary life.  Every week, discover an interview that is packed with amazing stories and value.   How will you dare forever?  This podcast is inspired by my upcoming book titled Daring Forever, which is now available for pre-order (Out October 2026)  More info https://radimmalinic.co.uk/

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