Sending Buzz Lightyear into space with NASA, building an Olympic length swimming pool down Main Street in Disneyland for Michael Phelps, and working with companies like Google, Apple, the NBA, Coca-Cola, and many more to help them tap into the deep well of creativity within their companies through his workshops and speaking–it’s Duncan Wardle, the former head of innovation + creativity at Disney. In this episode Duncan shares how to believe in yourself again after many failures, how to tap into creativity when you have nothing special on your schedule, how to choose an idea when you have oh so many, and how to innovate when you have zero dollars.

Take a screenshot wherever you’re listening and tag us both on Instagram I’m @brookebschultz and he’s @duncanjwardle, let us know that you’re listening. Duncan also has a book coming out in a couple weeks, it’s available for pre-order now called the Imagination Emporium and it’s full of FUN tools for tapping into your creativity.

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