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On 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 ...
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After 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-…
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I 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…
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Up 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 …
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It 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 t…
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Have 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;…
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Chipotle 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, …
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Some 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 h…
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ash·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 wo…
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Dan 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 …
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What 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 st…
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I 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…
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There 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, an…
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Patrick 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 pa…
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Every 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 G…
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I 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 so…
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You 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. On…
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I'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 s…
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There 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 impossi…
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If 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 bakerie…
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I 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…
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You 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 directi…
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After 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 w…
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On 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 podca…
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"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 …
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For 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 figur…
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If 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…
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When 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 …
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To 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, Nationa…
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I 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 …
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Some 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 …
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It'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 B…
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This 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 sl…
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When 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 …
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At 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…
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When 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…
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They 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 spa…
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Who 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 h…
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A 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 bus…
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There 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 the…
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Zack 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 profes…
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Carter 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 …
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It'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 u…
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Christina 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-…
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A 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 he…
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2,650 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 shatte…
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I 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 ti…
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There 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…
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You 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, Saun…
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I 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 …
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There is art that you see where it's like "Ahh yes, this is art I'm familiar with..." Oil paint, charcoal, etc. etc. Then there is art where you're like "I have literally never seen anything like this in my entire life." Bev Acton makes the latter. Bev is a surreal collage maker and illustrator from Cheltenham, England. Last March right as the pand…
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