When you’ve lived through Hollywood blockbusters and Silicon Valley start-ups, you collect a few lessons about focus, fear and meaning.

In this episode, Andy Goram talks with Steven Puri, founder of The Sukha Company, about the link between creativity, purpose and deep work. Steven’s career has spanned DreamWorks, Fox and tech ventures — but today his focus is on something subtler: helping people find ease and meaning in what they do.

This conversation isn’t about hacks or hustle. It’s about what really drives us — why we work, how fear holds us back, and how we can find the calm, creative flow that comes when purpose and focus align.

Warm, honest and deeply human, it’s an episode about living — and working — with Sukha.

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Key Takeaways

Purpose gives depth to performance. Before chasing productivity, ask why you want to perform. Meaning drives mastery.
Leadership is about drawing out greatness. Managers track tasks; leaders help people shine.
Fear blocks flow. Psychological safety frees creativity and purpose.
Sukha means alignment, not effort. Ease and joy appear when you’re doing the work you’re meant to do.

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Key Moments

The key moments in this episode are:

0:01:17 – Purpose, Fear and Flow: An Unplanned Conversation
0:05:01 – The Story Behind The Sukha Company
0:08:25 – The Customer Who Defined Sukha
0:14:45 – Leadership and Drawing Out Greatness
0:17:48 – Fear, Failure and the Role of Psychological Safety
0:21:09 – Lessons from Spielberg: The Best Idea Wins
0:25:01 – Meaning, Emotion and Purposeful Work
0:33:12 – Living with Intention, Flow and Focus
0:44:55 – Steven’s Three Sticky Notes of Advice

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