Podcast

Episode 198: Living In Wonderland

February 18, 2025

Creative business is all about the irrational, the ephemeral, the desire for other. It is the business of hope and transcendence. How you get from challenge to solution is of course a trek through the unknown. Welcome to Wonderland.

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Episode 197: Do You Want To Learn Another Language?

February 11, 2025

Clarity. Nuance. Exposition. Chameleons can do any of these because they are too busy being Chameleons. Let’s explore what it means to dig deeper holes.

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Episode 196: Creative Ways To Improve Client Experiences

February 4, 2025

The fluency of creative business is ever on order today. Design, Production, Installation/Reveal are the stages every creative business inhabits. The path forward remains with the opportunity for exposition. Simply, how do you get better at being memorable. Let’s talk Blow Pops. Original Episode Number: 57 | Original Air Date: 6/22/2021 Links & Resources: Link […]

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Episode 195: Metrics Of Success, Community And Zappo’s

January 28, 2025

In today’s world, we are what we measure. We hear it all the time now — data analysis, big data, consumer preferences, artificial intelligence and computer learning to show us what we see, feel and even touch. What does that mean for your creative business? Umm, everything. If experience is what you truly sell, then making sure that you define the success of that experience in your own iconic way is crucial. Enter metrics of success, the coffee table idea and Zappo’s. Listen in…

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Episode 194: What Makes For Great Client Management?

January 21, 2025

We have all experienced the utter toxicity of an out of control client. What makes for great client management? Easy — Knowing the 4 transitions and living the 3Ws.

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Episode 193: Start With What You Are Not

January 14, 2025

Storytelling requires engagement and imagination. If you lay it all out there you rob me of my ability to dream. Let’s talk about fairness, no more no less and being the adult in the room.

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Episode 192: Communication And Evolving Clarity Of Expression

January 7, 2025

All creative businesses are actually in the information and communication business far more than they are in the making stuff business. Understanding how communication tools have grown — from hieroglyphics to Zoom is critical to recognize the future that awaits for creative business. A quick trip through the past century of communication tools is a great place to start. Listen in…

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Episode 191: The Power Of Community

December 31, 2024

Most people think about their creative businesses as singular not communities. What a missed opportunity. Let’s talk about JazzWire and Shop My Porch.

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Episode 190: Conversation with Bernadette Smith — Expert In Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Author of Inclusive 360

December 24, 2024

Bernadette and I discuss all things DEI and its impact on all business, creative and not. We talk about opportunity and change and the desire to be human. We also talk about forgiveness and being anti-cancel culture.

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Episode 189: Talent, Wisdom and Experience

December 17, 2024

To be successful in creative business, you have to get paid for your talent, wisdom and experience. But what does that mean? In fact, what does each of talent, wisdom and experience mean? And why do they need to go together with the glue of resilience, conviction and faith? The answer is in the question, Is it art or the creation of art? Listen in…

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