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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.
Episodes
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Tuesday May 17, 2022
E161:
Short episode talking on creation and the initial idea as the most important. If you have something holding you back from releasing something think back to some of your favorite songs, vacations, and other memories. Was it that their production and set up was perfect that made them impactful to you and amazing? The best things are the things that exist and the best initial spark that’s captured so make sure you release it. In this episode we speak through the process and getting action behind it.
In This Episode We Cover
- The best ideas are the idea not the production
- Why am I hesitating ?
- No one actually knows what they are doing
- Does this matter to stop this from being released?
Quotes
“Things are as good as the things that are made for how they are relative to the people of the time.” - Host Dave Swillum
Resources Noted In This Podcast
Zane’s Episode 116
https://www.audible.com/pd/Airforce-Audio-Engineer-100-All-In-W-Zane-Pugh-Podcast/B098QHYWND
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel & Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
E160:
As creatives or entrepreneurs we all get those “uh ha” moments in the worst places, those once in a lifetime ideas when we are driving, working out, or working that we can NEVER get back when we want to. Let’s talk about some ways we can catch them on the run, reduce friction to engage with them, and harvest them frequently to take action and consistency with our thoughts. On this episode we cover simple methods to capture different mediums on the run, systems to put them in to use, and habits to build them in to our routine so you never forget those killer ideas again!
In This Episode We Cover
- Capturing ideas as they come in the moment
- When and where do we get our best ideas?
- Simple ways to capture
- Don’t worry about perfect
- Reduce friction
- The solution for shower ideas
- Harvesting ideas
- Systems to bring these ideas into our schedule
- Action orientated, friction reducing habits
Quotes
“We’re not worried about how beautiful or perfect something is, perfection is the enemy of creation sometimes. It’s ok to have typos or have background noise. Just worry about capturing and how you can harvest after.” - Host Dave Swillum
Resources Noted In This Podcast
Evernote
Apple Notes & Voice Memo
Band Lab
https://www.bandlab.com/?lang=en
Aqua Notes Waterproof Notepad
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel & Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Alternative Band Broadwing
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
E159:
No one want’s anyone to hate them or what they do but they should. On this episode we take a quick deep dive into why it’s important to create polarizing content, creative, and business so that you make a sound. You can’t speak to anyone so why would you try? There will be people that don’t like what you do out there and say so but that’s great! This shows who loves your stuff and means you are making enough noise and being individual enough to push some boundaries. Let’s talk about it.
In This Episode We Cover
- What positive hate looks like
- Trolls
- It’s ok for people to not like you or what you make
- All new’s is good news
- Finding your niche by removing what isn’t it
- Creating noise
- Creating a conversation
- Without hate there is no love
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel & Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
E158:
At this point the internet has been here for awhile and most of us are consuming content from various places consistently so it’s time to take a look at where it’s coming from including this podcast. Short solo episode today breaking down where our content comes from and different approaches to control it, use it effectively, and stop it from some of the negative effect’s it can have on us mentally. Discussion on ways I’ve cut down on consumption, researched where I’m consuming from, and being more forward on how it affects my day instead of letting it tell me how I should feel and think. Content is great! But we need to manage it and understand it’s intentions for us while we interact with. Being intentional is everything.
In This Episode We Cover
- Filtering your consumption
- Protecting your attention span
- What addictions do you have with content?
- What things are coming in?
- Feeling boredom and accepting it
- Reversing attention span loss
- Getting information in a healthy way
- Media monopoly
- Algorithms on platforms
- Getting content when you need it and not just for content’s sake
Quotes
“In the morning I find people’s attention is the most primed, so I think taking in educational content in at that time is really impactful.” - Host Dave Swillum
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel & Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
E157:
It's great to have guests back on to see what they’ve been up to and dive further into their creative businesses. On this episode we are joined again by engineer, entrepreneur, and artist Jay Maas to speak on how things have been since the start of his AI mastering platform Maastr since we spoke right at launch a year and a half ago. We talk over getting non-bias feedback, working with teams and coaching for the first time, and finding ways to get creative with getting your business started when your budget gets depleted. Great conversation on take two with Jay. If you haven’t listened to E65 go check it out first for context!
In This Episode We Cover
- Covid pivots
- Creating a minimal viable product and coming to market
- Creative meets programming
- Outside feedback
- Concept of teams
- Being a control freak
- Offloading work and collaborating
- Running out of money on your build
- Naive enough to start, audacious enough to finish it
- In no mans land
- Non-bias feedback loop
Quotes
“There’s no reason to release a product that’s worse than something that already exists.” - Jay Maas
“What makes this different? what makes this actually good?” - Jay Maas
“You need a little bit of naivety of an idea to get into it then you need the audacity to complete it and make it happen despite what you got into.” - Host Dave Swillum
Jay’s Links
Jay’s Mastering Platform (I love this thing personally)
Jay’s Audio Site
IG @Jay_maas
Resources Noted In This Episode
Optimistic Nihilism
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q
E65 W/ Jay on the show
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-bqytk-e256a0
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel & Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
E156:
Will Wohler is a portrait photographer based out of Portland, Maine. Recently I went really granular looking for a photographer specifically for helping me split my audio brand between the two spaces I work in and Will stood out. We speak to showing your brand and finding that. Will believes that everyone is an artist and needs to find a way to express it so he works to create the space and get that out into the world. We speak through deciding on the piece of industry you love, branding your business or creative, reading people, CRM’s/systems, and even starting a mystery delivers box brand as another business at the end.
In This Episode We Cover
- Figuring out what isn’t your thing
- True versions of ourselves
- Everyone has an art to live
- Live vs studio
- The runaway train
- Creating the space
- Making people feel comfortable
- reading body language
- Empathy
- Branding your business or creative
- Making mission statement for anything
- CRM’s
- Systems
- A shield for your time
Quotes
“I feel like everyone is an artists of their passions and purpose. It’s a side of ourselves we only store through our art. The truest version of ourselves and the world needs that.” - Will Wohler
“I like having the box then I can go out of it but I need the box first.” - Will Wohler
“You only have so many hours to make someone feel comfortable enough to create and none of that is taught in school, it’s learned and an art of its own.” - Host Dave Swillum
“If I don’t know who I am I have no idea who I’m supposed to work with or what I can deliver. I need to know who I am first before I can help anyone else.” - Host Dave Swillum
Will’s Links
Will’s Site
Will’s Scout Box Company
IG @wohlerandco
Resources Noted In This Episode
Will’s CRM
Building A Story Brand by Don Miller
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel & Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
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Olympian
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Schedule of an Olympian on and off season
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Never using your degree
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Getting your foot into the door
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Entering a young industry
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Olympics during COVID times
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Small town to mega cities
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Mind gym
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Getting present
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Meditation
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Remind yourself to have fun
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Having a finite career
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Take a break
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
E154:
Today we break through creative, business, media theory, and high technology all in one place. We interview J Mark or stage name Djinnman who speaks through a history of high education in music composition, technology, and philosophy as well early crypto investing, alternative money ways to make money on your journey, and writing techno. We speak through J Mark’s life leading him to early retirement in the Philippines continuing to work on what he loves and believes in. Music, video, business, technology, philosophy, let’s go!
In This Episode We Cover
- Traditional music education
- Early electronic music
- Early Bitcoin investor
- Selling a trademark
- Being the black sheep
- Getting through depression
- Rejection
- Having a sleep disorder
- travel !
Quotes
“You trade marked an artist made and sold it, invested it into Damian Chazelle early senior project work and took return from that to invest in Bitcoin early, and now you're retired.” - Host Dave Swillum
“You will be rejected, when you get rejected, get better and come back. “ - J Mark
“Once you get three different things down and spend 10,000 hours you will be able to see between the similarities and move on to your fourth thing. People say you can only be an expert in one thing and that’s wrong. Being a human being you need to be more than one thing. Human’s are more than just an income stream so you’re not just one thing.” - J Mark
J Mark’s Links
J Mark’s Papers & Writings:
https://github.com/jmarkinman/betaprime
https://academia.edu/resource/work/19985425
https://medium.com/@jmarkinman/on-weak-substrate-independence-97de71ee2ac1
https://medium.com/@jmarkinman/on-a-zero-knowledge-truth-communication-network-protocol-f5d2235969e2
J Mark’s Music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/who-unleashed-the-virus/1501303804?i=1501303959
https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-had-chains/1542512350?i=1542512354
https://djinnman.com/story.html
J Mark’s Motion Picture Brand
http://www.secrethandshake.us/
Resources Noted In This Episode
Free google teaching
MIT open courses
Schoenberg Composer
Friedrich Kittler: Media Theorist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Kittler
Damian Chazelle: American Film Director
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel & Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
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Dealing with anxiety
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Getting that spark for your idea and running with it
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Starting a new venture you’ve never done
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Persistence
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Starting social media
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Setting up a Shopify and direct sale process
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Getting comfortable making authentic content
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Finding a clothing manufacturer for your brand
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Inspiring others with Autism to pursue their passion
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Self love
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Pushing yourself to do better everyday
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Write it down and speak it into existence
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
E152:
On today’s episode we speak to Coach Chris Leon from the Performance For Life Podcast / Move Weight, Playwrite, and father. Chris believes fitness evolves over time which brings him to where he is in life now. With a view of physical, mental, and spiritual as all important factors that make up our whole health Chris and the Performance For Life Podcast focus on living a high performance life in all aspects instead of just one. We speak on the athlete v. creative life and blending the two. We also speak to understanding yourself through your creative and therapy, embracing adversity, and living whole.
In This Episode We Cover
- The complexities of different people
- Athlete and creative
- Understanding more about yourself from what you create
- Going to therapy
- How conditions can be super powers
- Different stages in life
- Embracing adversity
- Being present
- Writing your first play
- Hyper visual thinking
- Living a healthy life
- Giving up before you blow up
- You can have both
Quotes
“Society likes to put people in boxes and say this person’s this and that persons that. I guess it works but the human experience doesn’t allow for that.” - Chris Leon
“I had to take on adversity from a battle perspective. I had to go to war, I had to defeat adversity. That worked for a very long time, but it doesn’t work for me anymore so I had to find a new way.” - Chris Leon
“That’s the thing that kills me the most, when people play the game hard and they play for 5 years and stop before they blew up on year 6 or they work doing things they have for 40 years then get sick when they finally stop to do their dream.” - Host Dave Swillum
Chris’s Links
Chris’s Website
IG
@coach_chris_leon
@movewt
Resources Noted In This Episode
Understanding The Mind
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Our-Mind-Buddhist-Psychology/dp/1888375302
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel & Series
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing