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Candid conversations with music industry leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, creators, and people pursuing alternative lives. Join audio engineer, punk, and business man Dave Swillum in the thick of pursuing a creative passion in a serious way.
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Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
E51:
Following up on last weeks episode Dave goes solo on a shorter episode to expand on bringing your brick and mortar or less digital business to online offerings.
Following on the COVID-19 impact on small business and creative living we all need to be offering a way for people and consumers to interact and engage with our brands digitally so we can move forward through this and into the way people will inevitably change from the prolonged period of living this way. It doesn’t matter if you do yoga, record bands, serve food, run shows, everyone needs to have a digital offering right now to save income, create new income, and provide what society wants after these times. Let’s talk about getting digital when we need to most.
In This Episode We Cover
- Bringing income back
- How to serve online
- What NEEDS to be in person v. what CAN be done online
- Digital offerings seeing more give tele-med, beer/food delivery, digital delivered learning.
- How can your consumer consume your creative or business now?
- Demographic changes afterwards
- Long tail effect on the world
- Convenience
- Entertainment
- What will carry forward?
Mentioned Biz:
The Nook Yoga Studio KY
Personal Trainer Jake Lospennato E10 Interview
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
E50:
The world is unlike anything we’ve experience during the current pandemic dealing with Covid-19 which means we are facing economic and career changes we’ve never encountered before as creatives as well.
Tune in to hear the guys talk about some stories and strategy to navigating, pivoting, and adapting during a time when the world is functioning differently and paying for different things. There are ways creatives are pivoting and continuing to succeed in new forms of business and unfortunately entire industries under attack. Now is a time for change to make sure there is a future in your creative because people are consuming and buying differently.
Let’s chat about getting through it and moving through a new market with our creative lives.
In This Episode We Cover
- Changing daily health and living habits
- Transitioning into a different work life
- Stimulating creative v. stumping
- Hierarchy of needs before you can create
- What can I do?
- Control v. What we can’t control
- New opportunities, new market
- Exposing new norms
- Working ON your business when you can
- Productivity
Quotes
“ It’s really hard to make things happen when you don’t have all the things that you need.” - Host Dave Swillum
“ You can’t reject something just because it’s not the way you’ve been doing it. If what your doing is baring better results or giving more benefits then it doesn’t matter. I don’t hold value in anything you’ve done in your life just because you’ve done it that way a million times, its what is the best way?” - Host Dave Swillum
“You need to act as business as usual as much as you can while understanding what’s not business as usual to find a way.” - Co Host Ryan Carrigan
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
E49:
Everyone can be shy sometimes or have anxieties about social environments. Shyness or being an introvert is perfectly fine but we need to find ways to make sure the characteristics benefit us instead of prohibit us from growth. I see a lot of creatives with mental health problems and honestly sometimes that helps us create our best art but can often give us trouble too.
Some of the most creative times in my life that I’ve written my best songs, produced the best content, or been the most real have been when I’ve been in pain or facing anxieties but it’s always something to work on and control for the better not allowing it to control us.
Today we speak to Ted X speaker, host of the Humans 2.0 Podcast, and newly created author of “Screw Being Shy” Mark Metry who I met at a conference a few months back in Lowell seeing him speak on this. We talk through seeing your own type and creating a path to use the way you are and work on things you need help with.
In This Episode We Cover
- Your not the only one that feels like you do
- Talking about it
- Using shyness or your personality for strength
- Facing fear
- How most experience it
- Awareness
- Different forms of anxiety
- Science based approach
- People uses vice’s to drown out the voice
- Band Aid Solutions
- American diet feeding anxiety
- Chemical behavior
- Modern work life over evolution of human behavior
Quotes
“ It’s totally fine to be an introvert and to be quite, but if your shy and you can’t really be yourself in front of other people that’s going to put up boundaries in your life.” - Mark Metry
“ When your mind get’s stretched like that you can’t ever go back so the only other way is to drown out the voice.” - Mark Metry
“Your mind either exists in the present or the past.” - Co-Host Ryan Carrigan
Mark’s Links
Website
Linked In
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/
Mark’s Podcast Humans 2.0
https://www.markmetry.com/humans-2-0-podcast
Mark’s Recommended Resources
Marks Book
“Screw Being Shy”
https://amzn.to/2QkbFL3
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
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Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
E48
Why should a band use business characteristics? Check out this conversation between host Dave Swillum and James Cross from the Better Band Bureau Podcast. Starting off in local radio James got into audio and working with music. He went on to work on Van’s Warped Tour for three tours working in merchandise and sponsorship and now runs a recording studio in VT.
Between Dave’s experience playing and touring with rock and hardcore bands in New England and James experience in the industry in multiple roles we really lay out a conversation about why and how to integrate business into your band or art.
In This Episode We Cover
- Why treat a band like a business?
- Results
- How much to spend/why?
- Marketing your band
- What bands does this work for?
- Hobby vs. non-action
- What’s your role in the band?
- Sectioning your time
- Brand
- Branding past the page
Quotes
“Band’s who take the business side of things seriously are much more likely to succeed even if they are inferior musically to other bands.” - James Cross
“When you understand business, it’s just easier to make the right decisions.” - James Cross
Jame’s & Better Band Bureau Podcast Links
Website
https://thebetterbandbureau.com/podcast/
https://www.facebook.com/thebetterbandbureau/
Jame’s Recommended Resources
Jame’s DIY Tour Guide
https://pinnacleprosound.com/the-ultimate-diy-tour-budgeting-guide-for-bands/
The Go Giver
By Bob Burg
I Prevail Tayler Swift Cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb_CZfWko8
All You Need To Know About The Music Business
Donald Passman
Indie Music Survival Guide
https://amzn.to/2TUTr3Y
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
E47:
Solo episode today, super digestible and quick. Today we talk about something I see in myself and others everyday. As creators whether you make music, art, run a business, or create content there is always a battle between releasing content consistently verses slowly but “perfect”. If your a perfectionist, great….but perfection is the enemy of creating. Art isn’t perfect, and to make great art you need to make it A LOT.
Create and release consistently and make it as perfect as you can in the timeframe you set. We can’t get feedback or be what we want if we aren’t doing and showing what we do. Let’s dive into some of the rational and irrational ways we look at how often we release our ideas.
In This Episode We Cover
- Lots of creative or perfect creative?
- What is perfect?
- Quality vs. Quantity….or both….or neither
- Timeline for sending it
- People can engage more when you give more
- Art isn’t perfect, humans aren’t perfect
- Keeping emotion and candid in creative
- Imposter syndrome
- Get it out quicker, you will always get better
- Your output is better when you act and do frequently
- Learn by doing
Quotes
“ If we aren’t releasing things we can’t have engaged fans, and if we are making something too perfect sometimes it’s not what we should be making” - Host Dave Swillum
“There were some excuses that I had….but not enough to compensate for four years of not releasing stuff.” - Host Dave Swillum
“The market will tell you if it’s bad, you don’t have to be the judge of it” - Host Dave Swillum
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromworkI
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channe
lhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Monday Feb 24, 2020
Monday Feb 24, 2020
E46
Hey guys check out the episode to hear how today had a few curve balls but we are here no matter what. Solo shorter episode with Dave today to talk about why you should start a podcast (or some other consistent content) for your hobby, creative career, or business. Recently we have been contacted by three or four people asking insight on launching a podcast in the past month so I wanted to dive in a bit and talk out some of the things I've encouraged them on and some things I wish I had someone pushing me along to do a few years back.
Join me for a quick commute, dog walk, etc. to talk about why you should come home from work your working whatever your doing to start something that connects you with the people and places you want to be now.
In This Episode We Cover
- Reasons to start
- Other forms of content best for you
- Common hesitations
- Who should podcast?
- What type of content can you create?
- When to start
- Is the market saturated?
- Equipment v. content
- Start
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website www.wakingupfromwork.com
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
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Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
E44
Join us today talking how to create and run an event for your brand or passion with Erin Neuhardt from E Studio Events. I met Erin while working live sound and we clicked during our first meet up so I wanted to share some of the things that have made her really successful in the entrepreneur and speaking engagement event space.
I really believe that no matter how small you may be or think you are there is space for you to host some type of event even if it’s a reoccurring get together with like minded people. People are craving human interaction and want to be apart of a community so let’s give them a place to. Here’s to hoping the podcast can host an event some day and talk about the details of how it’s done right with Erin.
In This Episode We Cover
Everyone can do an event
Realistic expectations
Solo artists can host great events
Purpose
Make the connection last after
Be authentic
Shiny object syndrome
Experience vs the things
What are you known for?
Quotes
“We are in a space in time where we are all behind computers so often that being in community in one another is HUGE and I think that live events allow us to get out from behind the computer and get together.” - Erin
“Decide on those top two or three things that are super important to you that you don’t want to compromise on. Being clear on what it is that you want to put out there and how you want to show up to your audience.”
“You can’t sustain success unless it’s built on genuine intent on how to serve something or someone.” - Host Dave Swillum
“People pay to experience something, if they don’t walk out of your event and feel something different inside them then they aren’t going to keep coming back to your event” - Host Dave Swillum
Erin’s Links
Website
www.estudio.events
@neuhardt.and.soul
E Studio Events
Erin’s Recommended Resource
Masterclass
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Patreon
(If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
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Monday Feb 03, 2020
Monday Feb 03, 2020
E43
There are a lot of amazing attributes that I’ve seen in creatives meeting new people everyday but one common weakness and fear I’ve seen is being afraid to commit to sales to grow your creative business. One common feeling and thing I hear is “I don’t want to sell out” or “If it’s good art they will come and support it”. While I agree that you shouldn’t make all your decisions as a creative only oriented at popularity and I don’t think you should turn your love into a hate I do always advocate for artists to learn to be forward with creating opportunities for themselves by finding people that like what they do and showing them what you do in some way to meet that need.
Maybe your going to events and meeting people, talk on facebook groups, calling people that don’t know about what you can do to help them, messaging or emailing out. Everyone introvert and extravert, artist or not has an opportunity to create opportunity by connecting with people that are in need of what they do and showing them the value in how YOU personally solve the issue. Let’s talk with Stephanie from Grow Disrupt in San Antonia, TX about transforming your small creative business into a growth machine that sustains success and income.
In This Episode We Cover
Starting sales
Sales for creatives
Grind time, How long?
Working while working
Problem solving
Starting change
Not selling out but selling your product/service
Energy v time shortages
Burnout from pushing
Small things that mean a lo
Quotes
“ Do not screw with your sales reps commission checks, because if you do six years later they will be on a stage talking about you!” - Stephanie Grow Disrupt
“ You may outgrow those guys, your friends. Your interests, your conversations are going to change from what theirs are.” - Stephanie Grow Disrupt
“ I have band practice once a week on Wednesdays. The reason why I got into audio is because of music and I knew if I didn’t keep that in my life then I would lose all reason why I do what I do. When I practice on Wednesday I lose that time and I need the time. To take that time away it needs to be valuable but taking that time renews my energy. “ - Host Dave Swillum
Stephanie’s Links
Website
Success Steph
Stephanie’s Recommended Resources
Mike Michalowicz
Profit First
https://amzn.to/2GLWtB4
Clockwork
https://amzn.to/2GZCr6B
Pumpkin Plan
https://amzn.to/2RP6kN4
The Introverts Edge
By Matthew Owen
https://amzn.to/2OkQ6sU
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Patreon
(If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020