TEM145: Finding your creative personal rhythm (TEM Short)

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TEM145: Finding your creative personal rhythm (TEM Short)

A TEM Short on the importance of finding a creative rhythm that works best for you.

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Produced by Andrew Hitz

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You're behind. So what?

"Quitting merely because you’re behind is a trap, a form of hiding that feels safe, but isn’t. The math is simple: whatever you switch to because you quit is another place you’re going to be behind as well."

—Seth Godin

Yet another truth bomb from Seth Godin.

You are always behind so using that as the primary reason to bail on something is just an excuse. Try to get to the heart of why you don't want to continue so you can decide if that is in fact the best thing for you moving forward.

Don't fall for the trap.

Godin: How far behind?

TEM144: Evolving career goals and finding your personal creative rhythm - A conversation with composer Dale Trumbore

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TEM144: Evolving career goals and finding your personal creative rhythm - A conversation with composer Dale Trumbore

Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer, author and teacher.

What You'll Learn:

  • The very narrow definition of success Dale had for herself (with a self-imposed age limit!) and why she adapted that definition over time

  • How she moved to LA but deviated from her original plan of becoming a film music composer

  • Why creating your ideal community doesn't necessarily involve where you live any more because you can create that community online if you look in the right places

  • Why the uneven income of an entrepreneur meant she had to get good with managing her money at an early age

  • The time of day Dale is most productive and why she advocates for everyone to find their own personal creative rhythm

  • How she analyzes her past career goals in order to inform her new ones

  • Tips to make a great website (which Dale feels quite strongly about!)

  • How to craft a personal and relevant email when asking someone for something

  • The importance of developing your own creative process and how that helps you to ride out the rough patches

Links:

1. Help me get to my goal of $75 per episode on Patreon (only $11 to go!) by pledging as little as $1 per episode to support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tempodcast.

2. My next iTunes goal is 100 ratings and 75 reviews. Take just a minute to leave a rating and review on iTunes to help me get there. Thank you!

And finally, a huge thank you to Parker Mouthpieces for providing the hosting for TEM.

Produced by Andrew Hitz

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TEM143: Learning by doing (TEM Short)

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TEM143: Learning by doing (TEM Short)

Turns out you can't learn how to play by basketball by reading about how to play basketball.

Execute > Expect failure > Learn from it > Execute again

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Produced by Andrew Hitz

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Begin in the Middle

"Begin in the middle."

—Seth Godin

That's from yet another concise and to the point blog post from my spirit animal, Seth Godin.

How many times have you started watching a YouTube video, Instagram story or Facebook video and you end up clicking 'next' within 10 seconds.

There is lots of data that a whole lot of us do this most of the time. There is way too much content out there to consume for us to stick with a video, podcast episode, blog post, ebook or Netflix series that doesn't immediately grab our attention.

So when creating content we've got two options:

  1. Complain to anyone who will listen about how technology is ruining attention spans and yearn for the glory days when things used to be so much better and blah blah blah

  2. We can begin in the middle

As Seth challenges us to do in that blog post, begin in the middle. Begin with the good part. Provide value to your listener/viewer/reader as soon as you have their attention. They will always be happy you did.

As a side note, that is exactly what I love about Seth Godin's blog posts. They are "high protein" as I like to call them. He gets right to the point. Like, every single day.

And that is precisely why of all the blogs in the world, his is the only one I have delivered to my inbox every day of every week. I can't imagine life without his blog and a big part of that is because I don't have to sift through the pleasantries to get to the good stuff.

If beginning in the middle works for Seth, it can work for the rest of us, too.

TEM142: Successfully launching a nationally acclaimed music institute before you can even legally drink: A conversation with Buddy Deshler

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TEM142: Successfully launching a nationally acclaimed music institute before you can even legally drink: A conversation with Buddy Deshler

The story behind how Buddy Deshler successfully launched the Fredericksburg Brass Institute at the age of 20 and the lessons he's learned along the way.

What You'll Learn:

  • The characteristics that led Buddy to not only have such big ideas but the followthrough to execute them as a 20-year-old

  • Why Buddy built his team based on the people on the team rather than on the specific mission (since that mission can and will change)

  • How the first iteration of FredBrass was a good idea but the wrong format and at the wrong time (and how they couldn't have figured that out until they tried and failed)

  • How the benefits of being young and naive help with networking fearlessly

  • How Buddy approached asking (and affording) big names for the first FredBrass when it obviously hadn't existed before

  • The failed attempt at FredBrass expansion in 2016 and what they learned from it

  • How Buddy developed his product, The Entrepreneurial Student, a presentation that he offers to universities and conservatories

  • The difference between networking and relationship building

Links:

1. Help me get to my goal of $75 per episode on Patreon (only $11 to go!) by pledging as little as $1 per episode to support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tempodcast.

2. My next iTunes goal is 100 ratings and 75 reviews. Take just a minute to leave a rating and review on iTunes to help me get there. Thank you!

And finally, a huge thank you to Parker Mouthpieces for providing the hosting for TEM.

Produced by Andrew Hitz

Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed, links to all books and websites referenced can be found at:

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Article: Sometimes You Win the Race Because Everyone Else Stops Running

"A huge, incredibly un-sexy ingredient in my success is that I’ve simply kept going. For almost 10 years, I’ve written blog posts, replied to comments, and promoted things I created. I’ve done this almost every blessed week day. For 10 years."

—Sarah Von Bargen from the Yes and Yes Blog

I stumbled upon this great post via future TEM guest Dale Trumbore's twitter feed. (Her interview is recorded and will be released soon. Don't miss it because it is awesome!)

Such a simple concept and yet so important to hear. The un-sexy key is you just have to keep running. I highly recommend checking out this article.

(Click the link in Dale's tweet below)

TEM141: How to deal with haters in just one sentence (TEM Short)

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TEM141: How to deal with haters in just one sentence (TEM Short)

Some wisdom from Elizabeth Gilbert on dealing with people who criticize your art.

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TEM140: Outsource this at your own peril (TEM Short)

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TEM140: Outsource this at your own peril (TEM Short)

This is one thing that as an entrepreneur you shouldn't ever fully outsource.

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TEM139: Why You Should Almost Always Run from Traditional Record Deals - A Conversation with Ryan Kairalla

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TEM139: Why you should almost always run from traditional record deals - A Conversation with Ryan Kairalla

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TEM139: Why you should almost always run from traditional record deals - A Conversation with Ryan Kairalla

Entertainment lawyer Ryan Kairalla explains why it is the most exciting time in history to be a creator of anything and offers some actionable legal advice that all artists need to hear!

What You'll Learn:

  • Some of the myths about copyright law

  • Why Ryan’s best clients are the ones who ask a lot of questions (and why you can’t ever truly outsource the legal stuff)

  • What inspired him to write his book, Break the Business

  • Why signing a record deal is frequently a really bad idea

  • The evil that is a '360 Deal'

  • Why the ability to be quick and nimble in a business sense is the true advantage of being an independent artist

  • Why Ryan advocates for building your own music empire

  • LLC’s: Should you form one and why or why not?

  • How to find the right lawyer for you

  • When you should and shouldn’t form a nonprofit

Links:

Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed and links to all books and websites referenced can be found at:

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1. Help me get to my goal of $50 per episode on Patreon (only $6 to go!) by pledging as little as $1 per episode to support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tempodcast.

2. My next iTunes goal is 100 ratings and 75 reviews. Take just a minute to leave a rating and review on iTunes to help me get there. Thank you!

And finally, a huge thank you to Parker Mouthpieces for providing the hosting for TEM.

Produced by Andrew Hitz

TEM138: My best piece of advice for a new entrepreneur

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TEM138: My best piece of advice for a new entrepreneur

I recently was a guest on the Break the Business Podcast and was asked what advice I would give to a new entrepreneur. This was my answer.

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TEM137: How "overnight success” David Taylor was named to the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe List by working 70-hour weeks for years

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TEM137: How "overnight success” David Taylor was named to the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe List by working 70-hour weeks for years

David Taylor is the CEO of Yorkshire Young Sinfonia and was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list for 2018.

What You'll Learn:

  • The hilarious story of how David came to find out he was named to the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list

  • The genesis behind the youth orchestra he founded, Yorkshire Young Sinfonia, and the many ways it is different than any other youth orchestra in the world

  • How it can be really hard to give up control of things as your business grows

  • Why today is the greatest time in history to create anything

  • David’s definition of branding and why it is so important for both organizations and individuals

  • Why David uses the term relationship building instead of networking

  • The Gary Vaynerchuk 51/49 Rule (and how he used this rule to get a local organization to give him enormous financial support)

  • How to craft a pitch email that will actually get read

Links:

Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed and links to all books and websites referenced can be found at:

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1. Help me get to my goal of $50 per episode on Patreon (only $8 to go!) by pledging as little as $1 per episode to support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tempodcast.

2. My next iTunes goal is 100 ratings and 75 reviews. Take just a minute to leave a rating and review on iTunes to help me get there. Thank you!

And finally, a huge thank you to Parker Mouthpieces for providing the hosting for TEM.

Produced by Andrew Hitz

TEM136: Deanna Swoboda Quotes

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TEM136: Deanna Swoboda Quotes

This episode features thoughts on my favorite quotes from the conversation I had with Deanna Swoboda in TEM135.

Quotes:

  • "I had designed a program, an assembly program, that could be turned into something that people would be interested in having at their schools. It was a program that music stores and music dealers were interested in collaborating with in terms of recruitment. Sam Pilafian really pushed me to organize that program into a business."

  • "Working in a nonprofit organization gave me skills, business skills…how to organize my thoughts of forming a business, and how to market, and how to plan, and how to organize."

  • "I think as musicians, sometimes we think about success, what success means to us individually. We really think it should be from point A to point B, and it should be very clean. In reality, it's the zig and the zag…the roads less traveled that you decide to take that have a direct influence upon your career."

  • "Really, at the heart of entrepreneurship is opportunity recognition. I think a lot of people may attribute their career to fate or destiny, being in the right place at the right time, et cetera, getting discovered or something, getting lucky. There is something to this. But I think that's a little bit of a passive approach. I really believe that it is that combination of talent, hard work, your work ethic, your attitude, and your determination and perseverance, and recognizing opportunities when they come your way."

  • "It's so important to be honest with yourself about what is truly going to make you happy. I think that it can change throughout life."

  • "Speaking of failures, I've had so many failures during my career. Without failures, there wouldn't have been self-improvement and moving into what's next. How do I do this slightly different so that it works, and it's a success."

  • "Everything leads to something else. Every person that you meet knows somebody else who might have an idea for you or be interested in what it is that you have to offer. Everyone and every one of their friends is a potential customer."

  • "You also have to communicate what makes you distinctive, and what makes your thing distinctive, and how you set yourself apart."

Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed, links to all books and websites referenced can be found at:

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TEM135: Developing an idea into a product you can build a business around - A Conversation with Deanna Swoboda

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TEM135: Developing an idea into a product you can build a business around - A Conversation with Deanna Swoboda

Deanna Swoboda is the creator of Brass Rap, a school assembly program so successful she had no place to live for two full years because she was on the road so much! She is also the Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Arizona State University where she also teaches music business and product development classes.

What You'll Learn:

  • How a mentor pushed her to turn a school assembly program into a business

  • What she learned from working for a nonprofit arts organization and how she applied that to working for herself in the music business

  • How success is almost never the straight line from Point A to Point B that we expect

  • Why you aren’t a failure if you are doing multiple things in order to make money

  • Why what a lot of people attribute to luck is actually opportunity recognition

  • The questions you need to ask yourself to help define success for you

  • The importance of quantifying exactly what it is that will make you happy (and why that is a moving target)

  • Why failing is integral to moving you into whatever’s next

  • How the school assembly show she booked up to 250 days a year for 10 straight years was made into a refined product through very intentional research and development

  • Why sometimes “opportunity recognition” is being prepared to rap for a company president on the spot

  • The importance of cultivating a good attitude

Links:

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