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Kyle Scheele

Keynote speaker, author, and artist known as "the patron saint of crazy ideas"; author of How to Host a Viking Funeral, based in Springfield, Missouri.

Jun 25, 2026

5:46
And was that what you took to colleges or was it something else to students?
5:51
That was totally different.
5:53
So, I mean, I've been a creative my entire life.
5:56
I happen to... believe that all of us are born creative and all of us have tremendous gifts when it comes to creativity and innovation.
6:04
But I was always on kind of the more visible goofy side of that.
6:07
And so when I was in high school, I started a t-shirt company out of the trunk of my car.
6:11
And because I was really involved on campus, I was student body president.

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18:02
So what are some ideas that you used in speaking that didn't work? And what were some ideas that you had for speaking that you really saw move the needle?
27:18
But what was the progression for you? I'll let you share the story, but.
27:23
That story is I, I grew up going to a private Lutheran school.
27:27
It was, it was really small.
27:28
Like, my whole eighth grade class was 20 kids, and it was basically the same 20 kids I started with in kindergarten.
27:33
Every so often, a new kid would come in or a kid would leave.
27:35
And I just didn't really feel like I fit in in that environment.
27:38
[chuckles] I probably have ADHD, never been diagnosed or medicated or anything, but I'm bouncing off the walls.

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43:18
[laughs]
13:11
said, how old were you? How old were you at this time?
13:13
I was 18.
13:14
I was just freshly 18.
13:16
And love it.
13:17
And it was my freshman year of college at that point.
13:20
And he said, hey, man, we'd love to have these shirts in our stores.
13:23
And I knew nothing about retail.
18:22
So how do you go about cultivating a creative idea? I'm working

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