2018-09-18
1 小时 3 分钟Imagine graduating college and embracing entrepreneurship and you find yourself few short years later, heading your own high flying creative agency with huge global clients with 40 something employees.
But underneath it all, you're kind of pretty miserable.
And one day you're at work and in a moment, your body betrays you, sending you screaming to the floor, unable to move, and very likely in need of spinal surgery.
And while you're on a healing journey from that, within a relatively short period of time, the economy falls apart and pretty much takes your firm out from underneath you as well.
How do you rebuild from there?
Well, today's conversation with Michael Ventura explores this very thing.
And in fact, as we sat in the studio, he was the founder and head of a really cool strategy and design agency called Sub Rosa, which was, in fact, the rebirth the phoenix of his original firm.
And not only that, but the healing journey, the personal healing journey that he went on led him to also become a healer.
And in addition to growing and running this incredible agency, he actually sees private clients early in the morning, in the evening, and on the weekends.
And I know it's like, more beyond that.
He is also partner with his wife in a really cool retail concept, and he lives a pretty awesome life.
It's all about the idea of intuition, empathy, service and openness.
And these are all key topics that we explore in today's conversation.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
You're somebody who's figured out how to weave these different stories, these different narratives, these different professional sort of explorations together in a way that I think a lot of people would be fascinated by, would love to realize is possible, but think probably isn't.
So I kind of want to dance with those different sort of threads with you for a bit.
Yeah, let's take a step back in time because I want to know how this all came together.
Grew up in New Jersey, from what I remember, went to college, came out of college at a time where the economy, especially for what you were interested in, was kind of in the dumps.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.