Daring Forever (Find your Extraordinary)
Daring Forever is a podcast about being human, wired for wonder, capable of courage, perpetually becoming. It's about the waves that knock us under and the strange, stubborn grace with which we surface. Hosted by Radim Malinic, an author, creative, and an eternally curious human who is on a mission to speak with incredible people, also called Forever Daring Humans, those in pursuit of an extraordinary life. Every week, discover an interview that is packed with amazing stories and value. How will you dare forever? This podcast is inspired by my upcoming book titled Daring Forever, which is now available for...
[NEW BOOK] Dare to publish on your own terms
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This is the first in a new series of behind-the-scenes episodes on how Daring Forever came to life. Radim goes back to the start of his publishing journey: seven books in ten years, all self-published, all built by throwing himself in at the deep end.
He traces the path from Book of Ideas in 2016, a launch full of mistakes that still sold, to a second volume that taught him sales are never guaranteed. Then came Book of Branding, written in three months and released just before lockdown. It became a category bestseller and an unexpected engine for...
Dare to tell the story behind the work - Alex Blyth (RedSetter)
Alex Blyth is co-founder of Red Setter, the PR agency for many of the world’s leading brand design studios. ~
He studied philosophy and found no jobs waiting for philosophers. He took a sales job cold-calling marketing directors, then spent 15 years as a freelance journalist, and joined his wife Claire at Red Setter in 2009. In this episode, Radim and Alex talk about why the creative industry is so good at talking to itself and so bad at reaching the business world.
They cover why AI-driven search makes earned media matter more than ever, and why publ...
“Death is what drives me. It’s my fuel.” (Yasmine Patpatia bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Yasmine Patpatia ~
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"The perfect moment in acting is, by its nature, imperfect" (Rob Brownstein bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with actor, Rob Brownstein ~
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Dare to let fear ride, but never drive - Yasmine Patpatia
In this episode I talk to Yasmine Patpatia, a London-based creative coach who helps women build businesses and creative careers that last without burning out. ~ She grew up the youngest of five in an entrepreneurial family, and spent much of her childhood alone in the garden inventing worlds. As a teenager, an art teacher held up her chaotic, faceless self-portrait to the class and called it what art should be. That was the first time she felt validated for seeing things differently.
Yasmine studied psychology and philosophy instead of art, then took a one-way flight to Asia...
Dare to let the moment find you - Rob Brownstein
Rob Brownstein is an American actor, teacher and coach. He has spent decades working in theatre, television and film. His path into acting started by accident. In 1977, when New York City went bankrupt, his jazz major disappeared over one summer. With nowhere else to go, he walked into a drama-building audition. He didn’t get a part, but he knew straight away that this was what he wanted to do.
In this conversation, Rob and Radim talk about why great acting is never about perfection, and how the craft is like jazz: improvisation, new keys and new mo...
"We need to allow ourselves to not get it right." (Eleni Beveratou bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Eleni Beveratou from Dalton Maag ~
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Dare to stay curious, letter by letter - Eleni Beveratou
Eleni Beveratou, creative director at the London type studio Dalton Maag, comes back to Daring Forever. ~
Her first conversation looked back at her origin story; this one looks ahead at what it means to be a type designer in 2026. Eleni explains why accessibility and multi-script design now lead client conversations, how variable fonts are bringing back craft that was lost in the early digital years, and why her team calls themselves font developers rather than type designers.
She talks about the weight of designing letters that billions of people will read, the problem with outdated a...
"We win jobs purely on listening." (Seth Epstein bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Seth Epstein from Los York ~
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Dare to let one conversation change your life - Seth Epstein (Los York)
Seth Epstein is a creative entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Los York, a global creative company of self-described “global nomads of the arts.” In this conversation, Radim and Seth skip the business talk and follow the story behind it. ~
It starts with a furious client phone call in the mid-’90s, in the early days of Fuel, one of the first Mac-based motion design studios in LA. Inspired by the Zen parable “Emptying the Cup,” Seth asked to come in and simply listen. That meeting became the basis of how he listens, leads and wins work to th...
"When you feel like it's good and you're really into it, stop." (Amy Swift bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Amy Swift ~
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Dare to be grateful for the detour - Amy Swift
Amy Swift is a singer and songwriter from London. She grew up in South East London on her parents' Motown, jazz and blues records and was going to gigs from about 15. ~
Her career started on Myspace and in a part-time job selling subscriptions at Music Week, where she "bullied" her way into industry events. Amy Winehouse was breaking through at the same time, so Amy took an alias, Berry Farley, which was her nan's name.
Features on house tracks followed, then fronting Pacific State with The Shapeshifters and a deal with Universal. She was grateful f...
"It's okay to want people, not need them." (Nils Leonard bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Nils Leonard from Uncommon Creative Studio ~
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Dare to build work that outlasts you - Nils Leonard
Nils Leonard is the creative founder of Uncommon Creative Studio, with offices in Stockholm, London and New York. Its work covers design, advertising, film, narrative objects and art, including a show at the Venice Biennale. ~
In this conversation, Nils explains why he doesn't want to win the opening weekend. He wants to make reference points: work people still talk about years later.
He talks about the long break after Grey that stopped Uncommon from becoming "Grey Part Two", and why the first question he asks every new client is "why are you here?" He also ex...
"Art has always been a real solace" (Frances Yeoland bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Frances Yeoland ~
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Dare to doubt and keep going - Frances Yeoland
Frances Yeoland is a Sydney-born, New York-based creative director and artist who has spent fifteen years working across branding, campaigns and design systems, while building a parallel practice as an abstract painter and poet.~
She talks with Radim about growing up between Australia's Western outlook and its geographic place in Asia, discovering gallery spaces as a teenage sanctuary, and the long process of letting her commercial and artistic selves finally meet instead of staying separate.
The conversation moves through her process, poetry as the seed of every painting, colour pulled from photos of everyday urban s...
"Not all ideas are good" (James Martin bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with James Martin ~
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Dare to slow down and think deeper - James Martin (MBJ)
James Martin — designer, educator, and now double author of No Bullshit Branding — joins Radim to unpack why perception so often outruns talent, and what to do about it. ~
The conversation moves from why James wrote a deliberately slow, research-heavy book in a fast-content world, into his central framework: the gap between evidence (everything you've actually done) and proof (what you show the world so people can believe it).
Along the way, they cover the "hidden geniuses" of the creative industry, the effort heuristic, and why chasing social media visibility without asking where your actual clients are i...
"I don't think opportunity is found. it's built" (Marissa Garcia bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Marissa Garcia ~
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Dare to make it on brand - Marissa Garcia
Marissa Garcia is a brand designer and strategist from Fresno, California, currently in the middle of what she calls a "personal revolution" — expanding from brand design and strategy into building a creative co-working studio for entrepreneurs and founders in her hometown. ~
A former competitive runner, Marissa traces her understanding of personal branding back to childhood, when she was repeatedly cast as "Scary Spice" instead of the "Sporty Spice" identity she felt was truly hers. That early lesson — that if you don't control your narrative, someone else will — became the foundation of her three pillars of personal brand: clarit...
"Self-doubt is the blade in my pencil sharpener" (Benji Wiedemann bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Benji Wiedemann wiedemannlampe.com ~
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Dare to design across generations - Benji Wiedemann
Benji Wiedemann, co-founder and executive creative director of Wiedemann Lampe, joins Radim to unpack a career that's grown from graphic design into something closer to nation-building — cultural strategy for governments, museums, and city-scale projects that won't be finished for another 25 years. ~
Benji traces his path from a German-Jewish family shaped by displacement, through a childhood spent convinced he'd end up homeless, to co-founding an agency with Alex Lampe that now works on cities not yet built.
This is a conversation about listening as a discipline, self-doubt as a tool, and designing for a timescale far lon...
"I want to let the project get its own shape." (Melissa Castan bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Melissa Castan ~
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Dare to let ideas have a home - Melissa Castan
Mel Castan is a Mexico City-born, Barcelona-based animator, illustrator, and community builder whose creative journey has taken her from advertising school to motion graphics to founding two community projects for creatives. ~
She talks with Radim about growing up in a military family with a spiritual streak, discovering illustration as a meditative practice, and building spaces where creatives can process burnout, imposter syndrome, and identity beyond the usual networking event.
Takeaways
Mel is a Mexico City-born, Barcelona-based animator, illustrator, and producer who's spent nine years building a career across advertising, motion design, and..."When you have a lot of passion for something, it can blur your view." (Pep Salazar bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Pep Salazar from OFFF Festival ~
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Dare to chase the hardest place on Earth - Pep Salazar (OFFF)
Pep Salazar, director of OFFF — the design and creativity festival he's shaped since 2007 — joins Radim to unpack what it really takes to build a "city for three days." ~
Pep traces his own unlikely path, from a teenager who dreamed of being an actor in a small town near Barcelona, through his formative years building Sónar, to the moment he realised passion alone can blur your vision and every idea needs a manager to make it real.
They talk about why OFFF shows unfinished work instead of polished portfolios, how a team of seven becomes thirty...
"Unless you put yourself out there, nobody's going to discover you." Lidia Scarlat
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Lidia Scarlat ~
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Dare to build the conditions for others - Lidia Scarlat
Lidia Scarlat is a Moldova-born producer who has built a career spanning animation, motion, VFX and live events — from stage visuals for the Swan Lake Ballet to screen visuals for Jurassic World theme park, often in the very same week. ~
Raised in a family of artists during Moldova's turbulent post-Soviet transition, she talks with Radim about how "everything is temporary and it will be fine" became a defining philosophy, why producing means jumping off the cliff before the artist ever can, and how showing up — not waiting to be discovered — built her entire career.
They also get into...
"I started asking and I started getting" (Dan Woodger bonus episode)
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Dare to ask for what you want - Dan Woodger
Dan Woodger — freelance illustrator, animation director, and returning Daring Forever guest — joins Radim to unpack Run London Draw London, the project he built alongside training for this year's London Marathon. ~
Starting from a blank canvas in January, Dan invited people to donate £5 to add a hand-drawn character to a sprawling crowd-scene illustration of the marathon route, turning strangers, club runners, and eventually Paula Radcliffe, pro athletes, and podcast hosts into part of the artwork.
The conversation ranges across the collision of running and illustration, the frustration of NDA'd client work going unseen, the highs and lows o...
"Brands increasingly don't want people to write about their work now." (Eliza Williams bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Eliza Williams from creativereview.co.uk ~
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Dare to take the slow road into the industry - Eliza Williams (Creative Review)
Eliza Williams, editor of Creative Review, joins Radim to trace a career built without connections, without a plan, and — by her own admission — a fair amount of terror. ~
From selling popcorn at the Clapham Picturehouse to writing for free on '90s art blogs, to landing at Creative Review and eventually taking the helm, Eliza's path is a masterclass in slow, unglamorous accumulation.
This is a conversation about leaving exclusive worlds for more welcoming ones, learning that interviewing is just "speaking to a lot of people at once," and what it really means to steward a tru...
"There are no dead ends, cul-de-sacs or mistakes" (Simon Dixon bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Simon Dixon from DixonBaxi ~
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Dare to never ask permission - Simon Dixon
Returning guest Simon Dixon, co-founder of global brand and design agency DixonBaxi, sits down with Radim as the studio approaches its 25th birthday to talk about what actually holds up over a quarter of a century. ~
This is a conversation about comfort without complacency — how a body of work lets you meet the world with strength instead of fear, why Simon has never asked permission or had a mentor, and how "access" quietly determines who gets to be daring in the first place.
They trace the throughline from permission to curiosity to gratitude, unpack the real...
"I do enjoy personal projects that are very personal." (Paloma Rincon bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Paloma Rincón ~
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Dare to make the straight line perfect - Paloma Rincón
Visual artist and photographer Paloma Rincón joins Radim to trace a creative life built on colour, contrast, and control. Raised in Mexico City and surrounded by handcraft, tactile materials, and a graphic designer uncle, Paloma fell first for the analog darkroom, then for the still-life sets she builds entirely by hand. ~
She talks candidly about the shock of moving to a "monochrome" Madrid at a young age, the disciplined self-reliance it forced on her, and how a chance pairing of a disco ball and a melon became one of her most iconic images.
The con...
"We always looked at rock bands — they gave us the blueprint" (Snask bonus episode)
A short bonus episode showcasing a few standout moments from this week's guest interview with Freddie Ost and Erick Kockrum from Snask ~
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Dare to make enemies and gain fans - Freddie Öst & Erik Kockrum (Snask)
Radim is joined by Freddie and Erik from SNASK — the Stockholm-based studio that has spent nearly two decades building one of the most distinctive, daring creative brands on the planet. ~ What begins as a conversation about music, inspiration, and origins unfolds into a masterclass in conviction, values-led work, and why making enemies is the most logical brand strategy there is. From their refusal to enter awards to a client who fainted getting a tattoo at a wrap party, this episode is a full-blooded reminder of what it actually looks like to stand for something — and never apologise for it.
Dare to fall in love with creativity again - Rob Draper (Live at All Flows)
Rob Draper is an artist, designer, lettering artist, and collage maker whose career has been shaped by an extraordinary sequence of reinventions. Growing up in Worcester in the 1980s, Rob was captivated by American culture, graffiti, and the visual energy of films like E.T. and Tron. ~
That early love of making things became the thread connecting every chapter that followed — from graphic design student to art director, from redundancy to sign writing, from teaching in prisons to painting coffee cups that went viral. In this conversation, recorded live at All Flows Festival, Rob talks about the cou...
Dare to outgrow the niche that made you - Nada Hesham (Live at All Flows)
Nada Hesham is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of 40Mustaqel, an independent design studio born and based in Cairo, Egypt. Recorded live at All Flows Festival, this conversation moves between identity, rebellion, methodology, and the deep craft of building a studio that refuses to be a factory. ~
Nada grew up in Cairo — an intense, visually chaotic city she describes as a continuous love-hate relationship — in a family of doctors and engineers. She found her way into graphic design not through natural talent, but through the logic of typography: a discipline where obsession and method matter more than...
