Creative Confidential with Bryan Tuk

Every so often it's time to spruce the joint up.

Since the last episodes aired, I wrote and published a book: risk, create, change: a survival guide for startups & creators, which is now available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com. If you are interested in the content of the podcast, the book is pretty closely aligned and will aid you your professional journey. http://riskcreatechange.com

Then I went and recorded some new bumpers for the show (who says you can't have a soundtrack comprised of solo drums?), we did some new voiceovers, and put everything together.

Enjoy - and please tell a friend!

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This is an excerpt of Episode 17 with Jazz great Jeff "Tain" Watts. For the entire interview, please go here:

http://www.creativeconfidential.net/?p=331

Jame DiBiasio is an author, a journalist, and an entrepreneur, who grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania but moved to Hong Kong in 1997 and has been in Asia since. Indy presses have published his two thrillers, GAIJIN COWGIRL and BLOODY PARADISE, as well as THE STORY OF ANGKOR, a history and guide to the famous temple monuments in Cambodia. He combines literature with a career in financial journalism. In 2000, he founded a magazine called AsianInvestor, which covers the asset-management industry, and came to oversee a small family of trade-industry publications. In 2017 he co-founded and launched an online-only news business called DigFin, which covers digital finance, a.k.a. fintech.

For more information: http://jamedibiasio.com

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Creative Confidential is a production of Force Ten Media and the Tuk Law Offices. http://tuklawoffices.com

A lot has happened since our last conversation (in Episode 21) with filmmaker Lee Rudnicki. Lee has taken a short film which he wrote and directed and put together team spanning Japan, the United States and Italy to produce Fleur, which is beginning to generate a lot of attention from film festivals around the United States.

Lee returns to the podcast to update us on an incredibly unlikely chain of events which lead up to Fleur's release.

For more information: http://fleurfilm7.com

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Mediocrity is not Bill Childs’ friend. He refuses to be pals with “good enough.” Will never be besties with “just O.K.” And “phoning it in” is not part of his #squadlife. As a marketer and a creative, Bill believes in pushing projects as far as they can go – then pushing it a little more. He’s also someone who believes that good is the enemy of great.

He is currently the Director of Marketing and Communications at Trifecta Technologies, where he’s responsible for leading the marketing team as they develop, coordinate, and implement marketing strategies and content for the Trifecta brand.

Childs spent 2 years as an Art Director for Adams Outdoor Advertising and 10 years previously as a graphic designer at The Morning Call. His entire 32-year career has been focused on creative design and strategic messaging for a multitude of clients that include Coca-Cola, Coors-Light, Cars.com, Coachmen, Miller-Lite, Yuengling and Takamine Guitars to name a few.

Childs lectures on creativity, marketing and design at colleges and universities throughout Pennsylvania and the region.

He currently resides in Allentown with his wife and three children.

Valerie Giglio is many things: a singer, published author, and practicing attorney. At age 42, Valerie suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed on her left side. She went through extensive rehabilitation and physical therapy to learn how to walk again, and ultimately sing professionally again. This is her story.

Her recent book, Singing in My Own Key: A Vocalists’ Triumph Over Stroke is available at online sellers and the audiobook version will be released in August.

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Imagine you are on a high wire hundreds of feet in the air without a net. You’ve never felt more free or more empowered.

The air is different. The breeze feels different. Everything you have experienced everyday takes on a slightly different edge.

Below you there is nothing but the air and the wire.

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Jeffrey A. Parks is the Executive Director of the ArtsQuest Foundation, a support organization for the nonprofit arts and cultural organization ArtsQuest, based in Bethlehem, PA. Mr. Parks is also the founder and former President of ArtsQuest. Appointed to the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts by Governor Tom Corbett in 2014, Parks was appointed Chair of the Council by Governor Tom Wolf in December, 2016.

ArtsQuest’s mission is building community through the arts, working towards this goal by offering arts, cultural and education programs every day of the year, while serving more than 1.5 million people annually.

Mr. Parks is the principal founder of Musikfest, a 10-day music festival presented by ArtsQuest that features more than 500 live musical performances on 15 stages each August. With more than one million attending, the event is one of the largest music festivals in the United States.

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There is one truth I’ve learned in almost 20 years of representing small business owners. The greatest obstacle to progress in starting a creative project or business venture is the fear of failure, or the fear of non-acceptance by one’s peers.

There’s fear, and then there’s fear. The former is healthy, the latter is the kind that keeps you up at night, and plagues you into paralysis when you feel isolated. Here’s another truth: all fears are not equal.

In this mini-episode, I’m joined by psychologist Robert Gordon, Ph.D. We’ll talk about the difference between rational and irrational fears, what fear really represents and how it can be defeated.

Keep building the future, it’s closer than you think.

Gerard Longo is fighting the good fight. Gerard founded the website Lehigh Valley Underground, which provides extensive coverage of the region's indie music scene. As the business matures, we follow Gerard through how he is building LVU in a multi platform media company, including a weekly podcast, the Quinn Spin.

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