Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting

In lucky Episode 13 of Breaking Walls we sit down for a chat with radio and public relations guru Susan Doyle for a conversation about her experiences emigrating back and forth from Ireland to the U.S. THREE TIMES! Susan gives tips on how to make big jumps like that and how to get yourself situated once you do.

Highlights:

•Susan's experiences moving back and forth between Ireland and the US 3x.

•Where Susan's love of broadcasting comes from and how that led to her getting her current job at Bloomberg.

•Why your need for future happiness means you can't ignore yourself when you want to jump to a new job, a new place, a new lifestyle.

•The importance of doing your research when you want to move to a new city or country. You absolutely will benefit from not walking through doorways blind.

•The kinds of companies you should seek out when moving to a new city or country.

•Things to keep in mind when going through a major life transition.

•The importance of allowing yourself to feel down for a little bit when something doesn't work out, with the promise to yourself that you will work to get to the other side of it every day.

•How finding your passion will always be a lot of work, but never feel like a lot of work.

•What's next for Susan and how far down the road she looks when making her decisions.

In Episode 12 of Breaking Walls, we pull back the curtain and describe our thought process behind:

• The relaunch of The WallBreakers on 2.1.2015

• How we approach creating content

• What our target audiences truly are and why they are our target audiences

• Where the idea for rotating monthly content themes came from and its significance

• What's next for The WallBreakers

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In Episode 11 of Breaking Walls we sit down with San Francisco-based creative director Monica Lo for a conversation about how having the guts to be vulnerable in life, coupled with a willingness to cultivate her passions, has led Monica to her dream job. For you food lovers out there, Monica is a creative director at Nomiku, makers of the world's most powerful and compact sous vide immersion circulator, and she got the job through Instagram... yup, Instagram!

Highlights

• Make your passions known! You can't score if you don't shoot.

• There is a place in this world for EVERYBODY!

• Why Monica left New York for San Francisco

• What to do when you're afraid that you'll fail

• Monica's formula for serendipitous outcomes

• Why you can't fear what's in front of you

• What is Nomiku and how you can make the most delicious, restaurant-quality meals for yourself when you're not even home

Monica's Links

Nomiku: http://www.nomiku.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lobese

Email: [email protected]

In Episode 10 of Breaking Walls, we sit down with Portland, Oregon-based stop-motion animator Javan Ivey for a conversation about how to find and sustain a eureka breakthrough.

In 2007 Javan invented a form of stop-motion animation he called The Strata-stencil Method in My Paper Mind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOoB_jDKIqw). We talk about what it was like to invent something and how we can make sure we don't negatively judge future accomplishments against past ones.

Highlights

• Why Javan gravitated towards stop-motion animation

• How Javan arrived at his breakthrough in 2007

• Where the Strata-stencil method of stop-motion animation takes its inspiration from

• What it's like to know you're in the middle of a eureka breakthrough

• How we can keep moving forward after the completion of a eureka project

• How we can ensure that we don’t end up drinking gin at 8AM like Ernest Hemingway

Javan's links:

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/javanivey

Twitter: https://twitter.com/javanivey

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2545186/

In Episode 9 of Breaking Walls we sit down with animator and IOS developer Spencer Johnson. Spencer is part of a family business called Infinite Cortex Creations with his parents and two brothers. We talk about all the things to keep in mind when running a business with someone you have a previous emotional connection with.

Highlights

• How a simple meeting changed the Johnson family's life

• Using the trust you have for people you care about to create synergetic business relationships with them

• Why open lines of communication are so important

• How growing up on a farm influenced Spencer and his family

• Infinite Cortex Creations' first game release for IOS

Infinite Cortex recently released their first game app! Fillip's Feast. Fillip is a hungry frog on a mission to eat as many bugs as possible before the bugs kill him. It's a free download that can be gotten here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fillips-feast/id926100130?mt=8

You can find more about Infinite Cortex Creations' goings on at: http://blog.infinitecortex.com

You can tweet to Spencer here: https://twitter.com/maroonfacelift

In our exclusive February mentor interview, we sit down with performer and dancer Chelsea Bonosky, who recently finished up a run playing six different characters at NYC's famed interactive theater experience, "Sleep No More." Chelsea spoke with us about the importance of vulnerability in her life and how being comfortable putting herself out there has given her the opportunity to experience her dreams.

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Highlights

• Chelsea’s beginnings as a dancer, how something small, but ingenious Chelsea’s mother did for her when she was a child helped her to feel more comfortable being vulnerable.

• Chelsea has portrayed six different characters at the NYC Interactive Theater Experience “Sleep No More.” Hear what having such a deep, emotional connection with show patrons is like for her.

• The importance of trying new things to discover what you’re passionate about.

• The importance of giving your all to your passions and how your passions are always an extension of who you are.

• How awareness of self makes it easier to be vulnerable.

• Why we are all innately in tune with the universe.

• Why life is all about risk vs. reward

• Advice from Chelsea if you have been stuck and have a fear of being vulnerable.

Chelsea’s Links:

http://www.chelseabonosky.com

You can get tickets to Adam Barruch & Chelsea’s Belladonna, which will be performed from 2.20 - 2.22 at the 92nd Street Y here: http://www.92y.org/Event/Adam-Barruch-Belladonna

With Thanksgiving around the corner, on Breaking Walls Season 1, Episode 7: The Season Finale we give thanks to you guys for tuning in and giving us the confidence to produce this podcast, and to our guests for believing in us enough to voice their stories through Breaking Walls. On this episode we recap some of the themes from Season 1, such as:

• Learning from any situation and not settling in life

• Ways to figure out what your "tool-kit" is

• The importance of figuring out what your passions are

• Knowing what you're good at and what you can earn money doing so you always have a fallback

• Understanding the big picture in your own life so that you can remember what you’re really trying to do

We also look ahead to Season 2, and what else is in store for The WallBreakers community.

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In Season 1 Episode 6 of Breaking Walls, the topic of discussion is: Switching Gears in Your Professional Environment & How To Make It Work. Our guest is former Municipal Bonds Salesman-turned author and world-traveler Steven Attanasio.

If you have been thinking about changing careers, this is a powerful conversation for you. Steve and I talk about all the things that led up to his decision to leave his job, and how that decision has helped his life since. He also gives important advice for those who have been considering the same thing.

Highlights

• Steve talks about how he left a successful career in Municipal Bonds sales because he wanted to find out more about who he was and what his passions were.

• Steve’s Journey Aboard the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

• Staying in a Mongolian yurt with a native family.

• The Importance of the melting pot culture Steve experienced growing up in Brooklyn and the brotherhood he found with his close-knit high school community.

• The Importance of family pride and traditions getting passed down through generations to keep the good things from the past alive.

• The reality that man people in their 20s and beyond struggle with the fact that adult life has no syllabi for you to help figure out what you want, and how finding ways to go after your passions is a good way to help figure life out.

• How a chance encounter at a wedding turned into a year-long journey for Steve, which culminated in his authoring Untouched Heroics: the True Life-Story of 95 Tony Varone. Tony is an Italian immigrant raised in Brooklyn, New York who served in the United States Army from January 1941 until June 1945. Surviving eight campaigns as an infantryman in World War II, Tony escaped death and injury innumerable times, and saved a significant number of lives in the process.

• What Steve’s doing now. After dedicating over a year of his life to telling this incredible story, Steve recently returned to the financial world in a much different and unique role, investing in multiple asset classes, where he hopes to learn more about the global economy, and the companies, industries, and countries that operate within it, with a fresh perspective.

Steve’s Links:

http://www.untouchedheroics.com

Peter Worthington’s Obituary - http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/14/peter-worthington-in-his-own-words

The Charity Steve was involved with - http://www.ironmatt.org

In Season 1, Episode 5 of Breaking Walls: The WallBreakers Podcast, we sit down with bar manager & nightlife promoter Tom Mauriello for a conversation about gaining confidence in the workplace in order to get to "yes" when pitching ideas to your bosses, superiors, or clients.

Highlights

• Why the best way to have an ego is to have no ego

• Doing the necessary research/homework to feel confident in yourself in a pitch

• The importance of knowing your client or bosses' past successes to lead them towards the successes you want to try to achieve next. Knowing the past to understand the future

• Learning from past business mistakes and understanding that just because an idea failed, it doesn't mean that all aspects of the idea were failures

• Why you need to follow your passions to be good at things in life - you will just care more

• The reality that you will get knocked down in life, but you can and should learn from it and come back stronger

• Why quitting/failure is actually continually choosing to do something you hate and that isn't in your best interests because it demeans your own self-worth

• The importance of your ideas being marketable and generating revenue in the real world

• The need to know what your bread and butter is so that you can expand on it. It is your core.

• Why Tommy's motto is "educate, entertain, retain" and how that can help you

Tommy’s Social Media Info:

https://twitter.com/officialt_mauri

Whiskey Park & Gerber Bars Social Media Info:

https://Gerberbars.com

https://twitter.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

http://instagram.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

https://www.facebook.com/wpnyc

In this very special episode of Breaking Walls, we go over the many announcements from this past week:

Highlights

• The Feedback from James Scully's Op-Ed "Why I Left NYC: The Future of The WallBreakers," and a further explanation of the events that led him to write the piece.

• The announcement of S01E02 guest Lina Gonzalez as James' new partner with The WallBreakers!

• The Future of The WallBreakers as a community and what kind of growth we can expect in 2015.

• Our plans for our site to be relaunched on 2/1/2015 as a full creative content hub

• Our GoFundMe campaign! - To donate go to http://www.gofundme.com/thewallbreakers