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Episode 169: Back At It

July 30, 2024

New year. New opportunities. The 21 day challenge. Change one thing. Let’s talk about the marshmallow test. Listen in…

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Episode 168: Conversation with Futurist Michael Beneville

July 23, 2024

Michael Beneville is a remarkable futurist with a firm understanding of what tomorrow might be. This is one you are probably going to have to listen to over and again because the pearls of wisdom are mind boggling (to me anyway). Listen in…

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Episode 167: Discovering What Lies Underneath

July 16, 2024

Your ideal project — the one that gives you the best chance of success has to be known. What this timeframe, thought process, looks like has to be known to everyone. It is from there that you leap. Let’s talk Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

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Episode 166: There Has To Be A Paragon

July 9, 2024

Your ideal project — the one that gives you the best chance of success has to be known. What this timeframe, thought process, looks like has to be known to everyone. It is from there that you leap. Let’s talk Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

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Episode 165: Having Perspective

July 2, 2024

Doing work you hate never leads to the work you love. And skill is a commodity, passion is everything. What do these things mean? Do they matter? Let’s discuss…

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Episode 164: Managing Your Team

June 25, 2024

If you are making a change in your business, you have to have everyone be ready. If you are fortunate enough to need to hire a team or have a team, you have to understand The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. Let’s talk about Herbie one more time. Original Episode Number: 102 | Original Air Date: […]

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Episode 163: Perfectionism vs. Vision

June 18, 2024

Perfectionism lives within so many artists. Cliches abound: “Perfect is the enemy of good”, “Be the best”, “Profit and perfect are mutually incompatible.” Really it is a conversation about Creation versus Craft. Enter Jiro Loves Sushi.

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Episode 162: Be Grateful: Shun The Non-Believers

June 11, 2024

Creative business is built on the microscopic. For so many creative businesses, the very idea of serving more than 500 customers in a year is silly. Most are built on less than 50. And yet we speak in platitudes and generalities not radical authenticity. We do it because we have framed the conversation in terms of fear and rejection. How about we consider being grateful as we shun the non-believers. Listen in…

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Episode 161: Emotional Resonance, Professionalism, Stillness, A Flashlight And Generosity

June 4, 2024

Emotional resonance is what separates you, the artist, from the rest of us.  While you have a gift at your craft, that is not why you are paid.  You are paid to be professional, to make us feel and to feel while not getting lost in the emotion of the moment.  Simultaneously, engaged and removed from the situation. Enter stillness, a flashlight and generosity. Listen in…

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Episode 160: When Is It Time To Quit?

May 28, 2024

As we come to Fall, so many creative businesses are confronted with the challenge of whether it is worth it to keep going. There are no easy answers but there is a framework to think it all through. No story today, just straight talk. Listen in…

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