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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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Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
E141:
Everyone experiences burnout but recently I’ve felt it the most I ever have so I wanted to share what some indicators were now that I’m recharged so you can keep an eye out as well. On today’s episode we talk through the behavioral, emotional, and physical red flags to indicate you may be burnt out and should take some action to recharge and regroup so you can perform and create the best you can. I talk through my experience realizing it and taking a month off and away to come back to the game full.
In This Episode We Cover
- Signs you are burnt out
- How to address it
- True procrastination
- When you stop doing the things you love
- Holding down push periods of work for too long
- Using coping mechanisms
- When your body starts rejecting bandwidth
- Physical toll on your body from burnout
Quotes
“ Some of your behaviors are the first things to notice with burnout.” - Host Dave Swillum
“ We all press F it mode to push through the “getting things done” mode to get some things done but it’s when we hold that button down you need to pay that loan back” - Host Dave Swillum
Resources Noted In This Podcast Episode
How to have a healthy relationship with your money episode link noted
Article On Burn Out Referenced In Pod
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/burnout-prevention-and-recovery.htm
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Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
E140:
Have you ever heard the saying “If Johnny jumped off a bridge would you do it too?” or felt pressure to have to do things just because your neighbor or someone from work had or did something? Of course we all get these feelings but today I speak to some things I’m noticing from how social media has blown this feeling out more than we’ve ever experienced and it’s happened so fast I don’t think we understand it in full yet. Social media where we all connect and live so much of our lives now has made a new version of keeping up with the joneses that isn’t healthy. I believe we now see mostly just the things want us to see or what to show and not nearly as much of the how it happened to truth behind it to provide the context we need. Let talk about ways social media is good but we can limit it’s power on our day. On this episode Dave talks through thoughts on this concept and brings in context, stories, and things that have and haven’t worked for him combatting this feeling.
In This Episode We Cover
- How mindset issues can stop creative
- How social media is affecting us
- Issues with content algorithms
- How the human mind has been created verses how fast we have changed our environments
- Limiting social media to control your day
- Keeping focus in the morning
- Saving time waste from social
- Versing yourself instead of others
- “How” it’s happening, fake indicators of success
Quotes
“Now it’s escalated, on every social media platform at all times we can see what they are up to. On social media we can post only what’s good in our lives all the time and keep all the bad hidden all the time.” - Host Dave Swillum
“We often don’t have time to know if what we are introducing into our lives and way of life is good or bad because it’s moving so fast.” - Host Dave Swillum
“That’s the hardest race to win, when you’re versing yourself. That’s something I’m much more interested in winning.” - Host Dave Swillum
Resources Noted In This Podcast Episode
Keeping Up With The Jone’s Definition Cited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses
The Social Dilemma Documentary
https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224
Newsfeed Eradicator Chrome Plugin To Block Social
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@davewakeup
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Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
E139:
Home recording consultant, musician, family man, and prog rocker Jorge Cadiz and I sit down to talk. Jorge and I speak through turning depression and imposter syndrome into art and pushing through it to the other side. Turning your passions and creative into a business and using your own work as a proof of concept for what you can do for clients. We speak through the internet learning with too much information and living life full and with gut decisions all in. Today’s episode is great for musicians and entrepreneurs alike.
In This Episode We Cover
- Creating credibility for your work for clients through your own creative
- Feeling like you are under a microscope while recording
- Doing it now instead of putting it off
- Too much information
- Being confident in your product
- Live life to the fullest
- Strategy behind your releases
- How are you going to make it heard?
- Be the last one standing
- Trusting your gut
- Home studio coaching
Quotes
“Creating a good quality product segways into doing good business.” Jorge
“When you’re under the microscope, all that comes out. When you are in a mega studio or some place you are a fan of, all that comes out.” - Host Dave Swillum
“There’s too much information on what you can do and not do right now.” - Jorge
Resources Noted In This Podcast Episode
Porcupine Tree Band
Jorge's Links
Jorge’s Website
https://www.runway11.com/home-2
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Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
E138:
I’m always drawn to conscious hip hop. I love the stream of consciousness hearing big thoughts come out as organic as they come. Today we speak with Nate also known as Unique Unknown. Nate has lived in many places and comes from a rock background but writes and teaches hip hop now in Portland, Maine. We speak through his history with chronic pain and how it shaped him living in different settings of people. Theatre background and creating multi-art events to stimulate and bring together the community. Everyone has something that makes them unique and that especially comes out in creative.
In This Episode We Cover
- Dealing with chronic pain
- Writing to channel emotion
- Building resiliency
- What makes you unique?
- Stream of conscious
- Teaching hip hop to kids
- Getting a grant
- Connecting the community
Quotes
“ It is impossible to create a creative person the exact same anywhere else in the world because you are a culmination of all these unique experiences and things that you’ve done uniquely you.” - Host Dave Swillum
“ If I didn’t have that outlet, I might not be the same person. You can’t strip away the arts.” - Host Dave Swillum
“ What I want out of it is just to connect, as much as possible. Collaborate, bring people together. It’s a really big drive behind what I do.” - Nate L
Resources Noted In This Podcast Episode
Humans
Links
Nate’s Link Tree
https://linktr.ee/wearealluniqueunknown
Family Banned Records Website
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
E137:
Discussing and sharing new ways to address financial literacy in children and in schooling is a passion for me coming from a background where I really didn’t feel like I was taught anything about any of the tools that have become so pivotal to me over the past few years. Today I speak with co-founder Erik Neighbour of the app “Gaurdian Savings” aimed at helping kids work with parents to mange their savings and understand money in a real way at a young age in hopes they can make strong decisions earlier in their life growing up. We speak on the real delta between happiness and money and what isn’t needed for it. Discussions goin through Erik’s history living in 6 different countries and 3 continents growing up in many non-consumercentric environments to bring a fresh perspective to addressing this deeper thought. We touch on app creation, entrepreneurship, and much more.
In This Episode We Cover
- Moving around the world as a child
- What it is that makes them happy
- How money can make you happy but different than you think
- Poor spending habits in American culture
- Balance of real happiness and money
- Creating an app
- Not being raised in a consumer centric world
- Youth financial literacy
- Creating positive habits
- Alternative college fund ideas through investments
Quotes
“I’ve seen people living in mud houses but they might be happier than you and I.” - Erik Neighbour
“ In places like Bolivia, there really weren’t too many places I could go to and crave that stuff. Living in a less consumer centric world. This thesis changed my outlook of how we educate kids.” - Erik Neighbour
Resources Noted In This Podcast Episode
Dave’s Favorite Real Estate Podcast:
https://www.biggerpockets.com/
Erik’s friend Peter’s episode on our show:
https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-itnda-3ba5f4
Atomic Habits
Erik’s Links
Gaurdian Savings
https://www.guardiansavings.org/
Capital Clues
https://www.capital-clues.com/
Erik’s Emails
Erik’s Linked In
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-neighbour-52245938/
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Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
E136:
Ever hear the story about the carpenter that doesn’t work on their own house or mechanic that doesn’t work on their own car? It happens with creatives too. I’ve worked on my own music for 8 to 10 years, a lot of which has been helpful for learning my trade with more experimental things in studio and crazy ideas and tricks. But, what I’ve learned from it is that I am much better as a musician and writer when I am only focusing on being that person in that moment. When I have a technical aspect coming in it doesn’t always serve my art. SO, I’ve had to drop my ego, get out of my comfort zone and hire other people that do the same things as I do to work on projects with me because collaboration can be an amazing thing. I’ve noticed that many amazing songs if not all generally have other writers, producers, engineers, and collaborators involved with their success. When it comes to achieving the best possible results I’ll always give new things a try. On this solo episode I deep dive into my experience through these phases and my findings. Let’s talk about how important collaboration is for the creative community. We are built for it.
In This Episode We Cover
- Working on the art you do for work for yourself
- Limitations on working on your own
- What blocks us from collaborating more?
- How money can change your passion
- How ego can play into your decisions right or wrong
- What happens to the creative when you can’t step out of it?
- Being an artist first
- Benefits of collaborating with others
- Speeding up the feedback loop
- Making decisions
- Bringing diversity into the project
Quotes
“ If you don’t take time to be creative for yourself, you will lose that drive and ambition. Keep a little piece for yourself you deserve that and started because of it” - Host Dave Swillum
“ It’s your project, you have the right to say where the line is, that’s the best part about it.” - Host Dave Swillum
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Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
E135:
Today on the show coming at you from Montreal we have on Enzo and Tebo from Tebovision. Musicians, podcasters, and a lot more from the north. We talk on coming back together with friends by dropping ego and issues from the past and bringing back a band from 30 years ago. Finding your own voice on all platforms and writing, not allowing age to determine how you are able to interact with technology and social, and raising a child with different abilities. Everything you can think of between being a musician, creative, and content creator.
In This Episode We Cover
- Being friends over bandmates
- Getting into social media at any age
- Making YOUR content on platforms
- Releasing your creative from 30 years ago
- Getting back together as a band
- Find your own bravery
- Starting from scratch
- Raising a child with different abilities
- Benefits of having a child with different mental abilities
Quotes
“ People striving for that feeling like it’s your first band is impossible to find. If you can find it with your friends great, but if you can’t its one some times you just get lucky.” - Paul Tebo
“ Be able to enjoy or be laid back about whether you are playing covers or originals, when bars are paying you money to play other peoples music it’s instantly gratifying. If that’s your thing awesome but I think it evolves.” - Paul Tebo
“It’s better to rule in hell than to serve in Heaven” - Enzo
Tebovision Links
Website
Resources Noted In This Podcast Episode
Gary Vee
https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/
The Tibetan Book of The Dead
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
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Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
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What does your retirement look like ?
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Managing financial risk
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Not feeling like yourself at a day job
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The gamble of living for retirement
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Different Ways To “Retire”
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How times have changed and what that means for our changes in abilities
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Peeling away life creep
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Kill your overhead
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People can retire younger with changes in expectations and planning
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What is retirement? Changing the meaning of it
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
E133:
We spend a lot of time talking about what jobs we don’t to do on this show so I thought it might be nice to mix things up and talk about some practical jobs that make a lot of sense to support creatives and entrepreneurs while they go after their passion. I KNOW we are all waking up from work and trying to do what we want to do but nothing is an overnight success and things take time. They take a lot less time when we have the right day job to support our schedules, family, health, and income and there are so many ways we now have access to than we did in the past. Today we speak to co-founder of Integrate Up ToriAnn Perkey about how she helps people who want to work online get hired by companies that want people who work online. She believes every person who wants to deserves the freedom and flexibility to build the life they want while working a job. We talk through being a stay at home mom and equality for women, creating and controlling your week, and choosing income generating actives that help you fulfill your purpose or build your purpose in the meantime.
In This Episode We Cover
- What jobs work best for creatives and entrepreneurs while they work on their passion?
- Creating flexibility in your day to day
- Home schooling your children
- Creating a business as a stay at home mom
- Taking action to put yourself in a position to be forced to take more action
- Giving women the ability to pursue their passion after they have children
- Saying no now doesn’t mean forever
- What can I do from home?
- What can I learn how to do or already have 80% of the skillsets?
- Control your week, control your day
- What are your income producing activities?
Quotes
“I can’t be the kind of mom I want to be and work full time. “ - ToriAnn Perkey
“Be a little naive of what you are diving into can sometimes be a good thing.” - ToriAnn Perkey
“Life is really big, just because you have to say no to something for awhile, doesn’t mean you have to say no to it forever. If you love it enough, life dishes you up opportunities all the time.” - ToriAnn Perkey
Resources Noted In This Podcast
Upwork
The Miracle Morning
Links
ToriAnn’s Website
Integrate Up
ToriAnn’s Facebook Community
Hire Up Online Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/integrateup
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Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
E132:
Everyone deserves a chance at bat, but not everyone is given the chance. Today we speak to author, advocate, and leader consultant Hans Manzke. Han’s speaks about his philosophy of democratizing big ideas and helping give access to everyone to use their talents. We speak through coming from a recent immigrant family, dealing with systemic racism, dispersing opportunity equally, imposter syndrome, and more.
In This Episode We Cover
- Democratizing big ideas
- Coming from an immigrant family
- Dealing with systemic racism
- Talent is equally distributed
- You have control on yourself
- Action v learning
- Imposter Syndrome
- Dunning & Kruger Effect
- Experts know what they don’t know
Quotes
“Talent is equally distributed, opportunity is not” - Hans via Layla Janah
“ If you know you have deeper immense talent but don’t know how to apply it one thing that is in your control is yourself.” - Hans Manzke
“I value additional action verses additional learning, if you take no action in the time you are learning does it matter now? You will keep learning but something has to happen.” - Host Dave Swillum
Resources Noted In This Podcast
Social Entrepreneur: Layla Janah
Neal Gaiman
English Writer
Maya Angelou
Poet
Ted Talks
Khan Academy
You Are Here
The Doors Of Perception
Thinking Fast and Slow
Han’s Links
Han’s Book!
For All: Democratizing Big Ideas
IG
@idleminddc
The Clearing
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