Episode #48: Bill Small – The Key to Creation is Dealing With Being Uncomfortable
Bill Small’s voice is a powerful creative tool that has been creating songs and conversations throughout his life as a professional musician, entrepreneur and business coach.
In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, Bill describes the challenge of blending his passions for music and conversation in order to create the life he wanted, highlighting key shifts in his mindset that enabled a balance to emerge.
During 35 years of performing and playing music and 20 years helping small business owners to thrive, Bill has accrued some wonderful stories and a huge amount of wisdom, not least through his experience of two of the biggest movements in personal development: The Landmark Forum and the Law of Attraction.
In our deep and searching conversation he reflects on creativity, integrity, personal responsibility, and money.
Alongside his work as a coach and as a musician, Bill is the co-host of The Subtle Art of Not Yelling podcast and co-founder of a creative community called The Box, both of which serve to help people chunk down their projects and get out of their own way in order to finish what they’ve made.
In this episode, we talk about:
Important versus interesting, and how we choose between them
Why finishing our creative projects matters
The comparison sticks we beat ourselves with
How to show up as everything we are, instead of our divided selves
Integrity, and what it means to honour your word as yourself
Finishing his work is something Bill has committed to in order to honour the creative process, and hearing him speak about how he approaches all aspects of his fiercely creative life is truly inspiring.
To learn more about me, visit https://www.robbieswale.com/, and to learn more about Bill, visit https://www.artistmind.co/.
For information about my wider work, my writing or to buy my books, visit www.robbieswale.com.
Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg
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Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):
- Bill’s podcast The Subtle Art of Not Yelling https://subtleartofnotyelling.com/
- Toku McCree on The Coach’s Journey Podcast https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-15-toku-mccree-sales-with-honour-and-love-on-the-end-of-a-sword
- Toku McCree on the Coaches Rising Podcast https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/the-path-to-coaching-mastery-and-what-new-coaches-get-wrong-with-toku-mccree/
- The Coaches Rising Podcast https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/
- Robbie’s 100 podcast challenge https://www.robbieswale.com/writing/2022/2/4/the-12-minute-method-100-podcasts-challenge
- Robbie’s appearance on The Subtle Art of Not Yelling https://subtleartofnotyelling.com/robbie-swale/
- The Tim Ferriss Show https://tim.blog/podcast/
- Steven Pressfield’s appearance on the Tim Ferriss Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RhIp9C5OO8
- Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler https://www.gruffalo.com/julia-and-axel
- 12-minute article on The Lost Relics of our Art https://www.robbieswale.com/the-12-minute-blog/2021/12/4/the-lost-relics-of-our-art
- Bill’s music https://billsmallmusic.com/
- The Landmark Forum https://www.landmarkworldwide.com/the-landmark-forum
- Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros https://www.mystiquero.com/
- Erhard Seminars Training (EST) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training
- Phil Bolton on The Coach’s Journey Podcast https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-2-phil-bolton-from-forensic-accountant-to-the-go-to-career-coach-in-london-and-on-to-work-with-ceos-mds-and-founders
- The Secret https://www.thesecret.tv/the-secret-documentary/
- BetterUp https://www.betterup.com/
- Steve Chandler https://www.stevechandler.com/index.html
- Bob Doyle https://thelawofattraction.com/about-bob-doyle/
- Mastering Your Personal Brand https://www.robbieswale.com/mastering-your-personal-brand
- Miles Hanson https://twitter.com/mileshanso
- The Box https://subtleartofnotyelling.com/box/
- The 12-Minute Method https://www.robbieswale.com/about-the-12-minute-method
ABOUT BILL SMALL
Bill Small has been a songwriter since he was 11 years old. During many years spent writing songs and touring in bands like Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros, he discovered coaching through music. After training with The Landmark Forum, he found a way to blend his two passions: creating music and creating conversations.
He continues to write songs, as well as books, and he creates conversations through his coaching business, Artist Mind Inc. For the last 20 years he has been helping small business owners to, as he puts it, “get out of their own way”. He also co-hosts a podcast, The Subtle Art of Not Yelling, which helps creatives learn how to finish their work, ship it, and build a brand without yelling.