What if procrastination wasn’t a flaw, but a signal?
In this episode of The Self Trust Solution Podcast, former film executive turned tech entrepreneur Steven Puri shares how high-pressure Hollywood deadlines taught him powerful lessons about productivity, creativity, and deep focus.
Now the founder of The Sukha Company—a focus platform designed to create more joy in work—Steven reveals practical and surprising tools that help you get more done with less stress.
You’ll walk away with new ways to break through resistance, beat distraction, and create meaningful progress, even if you’re not feeling motivated.
Learn more about Steven & the app at https://www.thesukha.co/
Mentioned on the episode:
📖Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
🎙️Episode #117 of The Self Trust Solution Podcast on Boundaries with Andelin Price
⭐About our guest:
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.www.TheSukha.co