The Book That Sat on His Hard Drive for Ten Years : Kevin Chung on We Are All Creative

Ep 155: The Book That Sat on His Hard Drive for Ten Years : Kevin Chung on We Are All Creative 🚨 First Things First! Come to Kevin's Party Today at 3 pm EST Kevin Chung wrote a book about creativity almost ten years ago, then let it sit.

This year he pulled it back out, cut the people who had since turned out to be problematic, and finally put it into the world. We talk about what it takes to actually finish something.

This one was a first for me. Kevin and I recorded live on LinkedIn, which I had never done before, so you get to hear us figure out the technology in real time before we get into it.

Kevin Chung is a writer, marketer and creativity evangelist who spent 17 years in corporate tech in Florida. After the 2024 election, he and his wife Anita decided they did not like where things were headed, made the call on Valentine's Day, and moved to Costa Rica about six months later.

Selling the house. Getting every piece of residency paperwork dated inside the same six month window.

Driving four hours to the state capital because Florida lost one of their documents. He walks through all of it.

Then we get into the book, We Are All Creative . Fifty-two weeks, each one built around a quote, an original piece of art he made himself, a story about a real person, and an invitation to shift something.

He wrote the first version a decade ago and left it on his hard drive. Going back through it this year, he found that some of the people he had held up as examples had become problematic, so he swapped them out, which turned the revision into its own creative act.

We also talk about the thing I am worst at: celebrating. Kevin throws parties.

For his book. For his dog.

He has a whole practice around it, and I asked him how he does it, because finishing something and immediately asking "what's next" is my default setting and I would like to stop. Plus: why he thinks creativity is a way of thinking and not a job title, how being an obliger means you need somebody else to hold your deadline, and the smallest thing you can do this week if you feel like you are living on autopilot.

What We Talk About Why they moved, and how a decision made on Valentine's Day became a move six months later Residency paperwork, the lost document, and the four hour drive to the state capital Getting the offer on the house while standing in line for Space Mountain Creativity as how you think, not what you do for a living What happens when the people you held up as examples turn out to be problematic The questioner, the transitioner and the builder, and which season people have the hardest time admitting they are in Being an obliger, and why external deadlines are the only ones that work for some of us Why he celebrates whether one person buys the book or a million people do Saying it out loud so other people can help you, and how his brother's client led to their realtor, who led to their lawyer Making creative work when you are depleted, including the writer who dictated her book while the baby napped What young Kevin believed about hustle that he no longer believes Chapters: 00:08 - Party Announcement & Episode Release (Oct 29, 2026) 02:05 - Kevin Chung Introduces Himself and His Book 19:32 - Start with Your Season — the Book's Website and Reader Pathways 30:48 - Planning the Launch Party — Celebrating the Book 39:24 - Getting Unstuck — Breaking Autopilot and Cultivating Creativity 52:39 - Finding the Book and Kevin’s Creative Ecosystem All about Kevin Chung Kevin Chung is a writer, marketer and the author of We Are All Creative , a fifty-two week book pairing quotes, original artwork and real stories with an invitation to make a shift. He writes the Standout Creative newsletter, hosts regular live conversations with other creatives, and runs creativity parties for people trying to get unstuck or get off autopilot.

He spent 17 years in corporate tech before moving from Florida to Costa Rica with his wife Anita and their dog Pookie, where he is working on a memoir about the move and learning Spanish through a language exchange group. Things We Mentioned We Are All Creative and the launch party, October 29 at 3pm Eastern → The Reflection Companion, free with pre-orders through October 29 The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin Scott Dinsmore's quote, which opens week one: "If we don't know what we're looking for, we're never going to find it" Close Business Friends, the program inside The Interweb 31 Days of Black Business → Connect with Kevin Connect with us on Linkedin: Kevin’s Linkedin Stephanie’s Linkedin Stay Connected 📬 Get the noseyAF Dispatch, a monthly roundup of episodes and studio stories. → Subscribe here