The secret to your best work may not be hustle, but flow.

In this episode of Rhythm of the Road Podcast, Jeremy chats with Steven Puri. entrepreneur, former Hollywood executive, and founder of flow state performance app, Sukha, about how creatives and entrepreneurs can tap into their deepest zones of focus.

Steven shares real-life lessons from building blockbuster films at DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox to launching tools that help people reach peak creative performance. You'll hear how place, time, and intentionality influence your productivity, why distraction is the true enemy of greatness, and how tenacity trumps raw talent every time.

If you're a musician, filmmaker, designer, or business owner, this episode is your key to protect your focus and start showing up for the work that matters most.

What you'll learn:

- Flow states: what they are and how to access them

- How Steven's Hollywood past shaped his creative process

- Tactics to overcome distraction and digital dopamine

- Why place and time matter more than you think

- How consistency beats raw talent

Key Moments

00:00 Introduction

00:24 Guest Introduction: Steven's Journey

01:43 Steven's Career in Film and TV

02:21 Transition to Entrepreneurship and Flow States

04:54 The Concept of Flow State

08:50 Personal Experiences with Flow

11:44 Pursuing Greatness and Avoiding Regret

15:16 Tenacity vs. Talent in Creative Fields

19:16 The Importance of Place in Creativity

21:14 Writing Under Pressure

22:43 Finding Your Creative Space

24:04 Distractions and Flow State

27:33 Time Blocking and Deep Work

28:38 Chronotype and Productivity

31:11 Intentional Time Management

Favorite Quote

"We all have something great inside us. The question is: are you going to get it out or not?" - Steven

Connect with Steven:

Steven is the Founder and CEO of The Sukha Company with the mission to help millions of people find their focus, achieve more and have a healthy work life.

Steven's career started as a newscaster/interviewer for the #1 youth news show in the DC/Baltimore market (on WTTG-TV) and then as a junior software engineer & Thomas J. Watson Scholar at IBM. After attending USC in Los Angeles, he began working in film production and produced computer-generated visual effects for 14 movies including Independence Day which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects.

Steven's first tech company was Centropolis Effects that produced those CGI effects, and he eventually sold it to the German media conglomerate Das Werk when he was 28. Steven then produced some indie films and eventually went studio-side to develop and produce live-action features as a VP of Development & Production at 20th Century Fox (running the Die

Hard and Wolverine franchises) and an EVP at DreamWorks Pictures for Kurtzman-Orci Productions where he worked on Star Trek, Transformers and more.

After Fox, Steven returned to building tech companies and founded The Sukha Company - 'sukha' means 'happiness from self-fulfillment' in Sanskrit. The Sukha is a focus app that bundles all the tools necessary to have a focused experience and a healthy, productive workday.

Steven lives in Austin, TX now.

Website: https://www.thesukha.co

Email: [email protected]

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