The Zack Arnold Podcast

<p>In this mini episode, I vent about the moment I realized everything feels harder than it should, from parking apps to paywalls to bots talking to bots, and I dig into the enshittification of everything, everywhere...

<p>I’m doubling down on the live grenade I tossed into the room when I said work-life balance is bullshit, and in this mini-episode I unpack why building our work around our lives still doesn’t mean balance is the...

<p>What happens when the simple question “What do you want to achieve this year? And why?” leads to an existential crisis?</p><p>In this mini-episode, we pull back the curtain on why setting goals feels harder than...

<p>When uncertainty feels constant and exhausting, this episode explores how to ignore almost everything outside your control, accept that uncertainty is the only thing you can predict, and spend your limited time and...

<p>What should I be doing next?</p><p>That’s exactly the question I tackle with my student, Marcella Garcia, in today’s Hot Seat Friday. And here’s the TLDR of the conversation: If you’re stuck asking, "What should I be...

<p>This mini-episode from my lastest Substack article is a quiet gut punch and a wake-up call. A single Christmas photo opens the door to the moments you never realize are the last ones, the traditions that end without...

<p>If you're feeling a little bit overwhelmed, and if it feels like all the effort you've been putting in this year is not leading to the results you want, then I invite you to learn a little bit more about this thing...

<p>What if the reason you feel stuck, burned out, or off course isn’t a lack of effort but the fact that you’ve been blindly walking in circles, absolutely convinced you were moving straight ahead?</p><p>Using the...

<p>In today’s Hot Seat conversation, Julie and I dive deep into what it really feels like when your creativity and cognitive clarity start slipping through your fingers. I talk through the hidden impact of...

<p>This mini-episode taken from my latest article in the Digital Essentialism Series on Substack pulls back the curtain on the likes, comments, and compulsive urge to reach for your damn phone 205 times a day, all to...

<p>In today’s Hot Seat, I’m talking with Joe Dobson, who’s feeling stuck trying to balance earning paychecks with actually building his career. He’s been organizing his time and putting in the work, but still feels...

<p>In today’s Hot Seat with one of the students in the Arnold Academy, Brandon Holmes, we dig deep and talk about some really existential stuff, moving far beyond just setting goals to explore the vision for the next...

<p>In this mini-episode, I unpack my 2198-word “old man yells at cloud” rant about how algorithms are the new cigarettes, diving into the sighs, huzzahs, and head scratches it sparked while exploring our global dilemma...

<p>In today's conversation with my longtime student and even a former team member, Julie Fahrbach, we talk all about her relationship with social media and it's very complicated, both as a content consumer and a content...

<p>What does it really feel like to move through the messy middle of a creative career?</p><p>In this episode, I talk with Kalika Sharma, founder and creative director of Antidote FX, a woman-led animation and design...