Good writing is about having a perspective. Great writing is about taking a journey that shows how a perspective can change. That's why the word 'journey' is at the heart of 'journalism'.

Hear from the perspective of writer, publisher, editor, and cultural figure, Bob Guccione Jr who ran some of the biggest print magazines of the 1990s and found himself at the center of all manner of controversy in the process.

Listen for how Bob speaks on the importance of knowing how to disagree, how to debate, how to be in the discourse of what shapes our culture. It's a perspective we need to learn from today.

Chris Denson teaches innovation with more clarity than anyone I know.

He is marketer, multimedia host, bestselling author, former stand-up comic, and creator of Visionology, a coaching method for individuals and teams in the innovation economy. He has spent his career building better companies, launching new ideas, and giving rise to cultural tastemakers through awe-inspired experiences, content, and advisory. Echoing an award-winning career across entertainment, marketing, media and technology industries, Chris has valuable insights, practices, and resources to thrive in an always-evolving cultural and technological landscape.

Not only has he gained insights from interviewing 100’s of influential culture-makers and innovators, but he has also worked intimately with The United Nations, Fast Company, Omnicom Media Group, MullenLowe, SXSW, The Emmys, Cannes Lions, MassChallenge, HubSpot, Google Launchpad, The Obama Administration to name a few. He authored the 2018 #1 bestselling book, "10 Essential Rules for Breaking Essential Rules,” and has over 200 hours of training in trauma response, transformational leadership, personal development, and psychedelic facilitation.

You can find out more about Chris at www.chrisdenson.co/

Spotify users can check out his hand curated Visionology playlists below

• Visionology Playlist 1 that speaks to the emotional challenges of the innovation journey.: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7f64p0O4L3WC7IAxQI00md?si=02a2eb04c92f47ed
• Visionology Playlist 2 that speaks to the joys and power of the innovation journey: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5RCVQFv5aVF6JJDmShiWjt?si=7b08bacac07d4626

The funny thing about being born is that we humans...are not ready.

Yet, every aspect of what makes an infant human so uniquely vulnerable compared to others in the animal kingdom leads to the very strengths that make us human.

Contraction is the operating concept of birth. This episode is a meditation on the concept of contraction as expansion following my experience of becoming a parent, specifically a father and husband to a now mother and daughter.

This marks a return to new episodes of the Which Way Is North podcast after having a wonderful reason to take an absence.