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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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Episode 188: What Questions Will You Answer?

December 10, 2024

If someone asks you which you like better — chocolate or vanilla when you like strawberry, what does your answer really mean? Comprehension requires definition not explanation. Listen in and I will explain what it all means for your creative business.

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Episode 187: Do One Thing Less

December 3, 2024

Fall is upon us and the instinct is to race ahead. What if you did one thing less? What would you have to charge to do it? Can you choose not to chase the shiny penny. Let’s talk The Perfect Egg.

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Episode 186: Change, Community, Seatbelts And Storytelling

November 26, 2024

Change is painful. It just is. Nobody wants to change, we are compelled to because we hope the future is brighter if we do. For creative businesses, this is about telling a deeper story, not a better one. To tell the deeper story, you need to know your community and the history of seatbelts in the U.S. Listen in…

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