The Developing Life Podcast

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Different by Design | The Power of NOT Fitting In ft. Milka Broukhim

2026-08-1201:10:18

What if never fitting in became your greatest creative advantage? In this episode of The Developing Life Podcast, Heather Crank sits down with multidisciplinary creative leader, educator, and designer Milka Broukhim for a powerful conversation about identity, resilience, experimentation, burnout, AI—and what it really takes to stay creative in a world that constantly asks us to produce more. Born in Iran, Milka's life changed during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, when she left her home as a you...

The Art AI Can't Make: Matt Wood on "Brand Tattooing" & Surviving 27 Years Most Creatives Couldn't

2026-06-0553:16

While the creative industry races to hand everything over to AI, Matt has quietly built the one thing a machine can't replicate: art so human, so specific to who you are, that clients say "I've never seen myself like this." He calls it brand tattooing — and in this episode, he explains exactly how it works. Matt has survived the dot-com crash, and the pandemic as an independent creative — and he's convinced the AI era is "only inevitable if you allow it to be." This is a conversation ab...

Integration, Courage, and the Quiet Revolution of Being Fully Yourself | ft. Tess Posner

2026-05-1148:06

In this episode of The Developing Life Podcast- Host Heather Crank and special guest Tess Posner sit honestly with the questions almost no one in this conversation is willing to hold at once: • What does it actually mean to build human-centered AI right now • Why the "doomer vs. accelerationist" frame is failing us — and what the messy middle requires • The artist backlash, the Silicon Valley euphoria, and the cognitive dissonance most of us are quietly carrying • Why Tess is hesi...

Are we Teaching AI the Wrong Things? De Kai on Ethics, Language, and Raising AI

2026-03-2359:46

What if AI isn’t just something we use… but something we’re raising? In this deeply human conversation, AI pioneer De Kai, one of the minds behind modern machine translation- shares a perspective that reframes everything: 👉 AI isn’t a tool. 👉 It’s a reflection. 👉 And whether we realize it or not… we are its training data. From a childhood shaped by music, physics, and rebellion, to a career at the forefront of artificial intelligence, De Kai takes us into a moment humanity has nev...

Cut, Paste, Collide: Analog Rebellion in a World Racing Towards AI | ft. Scott Clum

2026-03-1001:07:25

In a world racing toward automation, what does it mean to stay human as a creator? In this episode of The Developing Life Podcast, we sit down with legendary designer Scott Clum—a pioneer of experimental typography, Raygun-era design culture, and one of the creative forces who helped shape visual language across the skateboarding and snowboarding industries. Scott’s career spans more than four decades of creative exploration, from discovering design through the bold hand-painted packa...

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