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- Show Work That Reflects Your Goals #Portfolio #OneOfOne
Today James details how to ensure your portfolio brings you closer to achieving your creative goals.
TRANSCRIPT
They both pointed out something to me that I wasn't really paying attention to, and that's that if your portfolio doesn't reflect what you want to shoot, you need to change what that portfolio publicly looks like. That's why you need that master and you need all of your work and backed up multiple versions of your work and everything sitting on your master doc or your master file set on the backend so that you can change that. But you still have the portfolio, and just because you take something publicly off, doesn't mean you got rid of it.
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
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Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - Are You A Hobbyist Or Professional? #Portfolio #OneOfOne
In this episode Sae'Von reveals why you must decide who you are - a hobbyist or a professional?
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eighty20_/
Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmgillespie/
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - Sacrifice & Your Portfolio #Portfolio #OneOfOne
In this snippet James explains the relationship between sacrifice and your body of work.
TRANSCRIPT
It's something that we like to overlook because we also like to chase a dollar, right?. "Oh man,oh man. We gotta put food on the table, we gotta keep the roof over our head, we gotta pay rent, we've gotta do this, do that. Well, what you have to sacrifice is not the bread to have a portfolio. What you have to sacrifice is watching Netflix for 9 hours a day, chasing ass around in your 20s and 30s. You have to sacrifice some other things that at the end of the day when you're on your deathbed, ain't gonna matter, right? So if art or any form of art or any - this applies to , the portfolio work, applies far outside of creative in my opinion. I mean, even our close buddy who runs a home improvement business, he's not a creative agency by any means, but he still has a portfolio of work with those clients in deliverables that are different than what ours are on the creative front. But it's still a portfolio.
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
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Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
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https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - Are You Showcasing Your Creativity? #Portfolio #OneOfOne
On today's episode Sae'Von asks the question - are you showcasing your true creative potential?
TRANSCRIPT
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ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eighty20_/
Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmgillespie/
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - Show Your Audience Relevent Work #Portfolio #OneOfOne
Today James highlights the importance of showcasing work that is relevant to your desired fanbase.
TRANSCRIPT
When you go to wanting to shoot a small business commercial that's gonna run on social, paid ads, or pre roll on a Youtube video - really targeted - business want to know what other businesses have you worked with, what other jobs you've done. What do the other portfolio pieces look like? Because if you're out here shooting high fashion, photography, videography, and you're in NY bouncing around, someone who has a carpet cleaning or lawn care business might not give a damn about that. "Oh, that's so cool stuff" but how does that apply? That's not even representative of the type of stuff they're trying to do. So, being aware that portfolio is important, in both regards. But really just understanding more than anything that yo, you need a damn portfolio. You want to do anything? You need a portfolio.
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eighty20_/
Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmgillespie/
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - A Living Document #Portfolio #OneOfOne
In today's clip Sae'Von explains why artists should treat their portfolios as living, evolving documents.
TRANSCRIPT
Every time you do one thing - because I think the other thing that may step in is that some people may feel that you need to be at a certain level to have a portfolio. You have to have a portfolio where you have these big fortune 500 companies on there as people you've worked with - it doesn't matter. If you shot your dog, you can add that to your portfolio early on. As you get more work ,that portfolio is a living document. I look at it very similarly to a resume. You have a master resume and that has everything. Thats' the resume that's too damn long, that you can't submit to most places. And then from that master, you always have a record of all of it so you don't forget , you know how you wrote it up, all of that, you then create a specified focused resume for that particular job. If this a sales position, if this is a digital marketing position, if this is an engineering position, whatever. With creative portfolios, I think people should keep in mind that you can segment it the same way.
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eighty20_/
Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmgillespie/
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - Portfolio Defined #Portfolio #OneOfOne
In today's clip James details his definition of what a portfolio is and can be.
TRANSCRIPT
I think we need to first define what a portfolio is. So, simply put, a portfolio is literally a body of work. That can be in any medium, that can be in multiple mediums. I mean you can have a portfolio of journals that you never showed to anybody. Doesn't have to be public, doesn't have to be private. Having a body of work is what I would define as a portfolio.
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eighty20_/
Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmgillespie/
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - Stop Factoring Others Into Your Equations #PersonalResponsibility #DifferentMeans
In today's clip Sae'Von speaks on why you should think deeply about how you factor other people into your own equations.
TRANSCRIPT
There's a teacher by the name of - really wise guy, metaphysicist - named Seven Bomar. He made a really good point about how when you factor other people in, you reunin your own equations. And so, oftentimes, the reason I bring that up, someone can make the example that "But, these people did this! BUT, they go to school & that happened for them, BUT.." Is that you though? What works for them doesn't mean it's going to work for you. People will then offload their own ownership about learning about something and experiencing things for themselves. That happens, I think, because people by and large are in the "default mode network" where they still just want to be told what to do. "Oh, well someone told me to do Keto." "Someone told me to do this." Or "Someone told me to get this job." Or "Someone told me to get this degree." "Someone told me I should marry her." "My mom thinks I should do this." What the fuck do YOU think!?
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eighty20_/
Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmgillespie/
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - Embrace Discomfort #PersonalResponsibility #DifferentMeans
In today's clip James details the benefits of leaning into discomfort and running into the storm.
TRANSCRIPT
Fundamentally, ingrained in personal responsibility is the discomfort. If you're not willing to run into the damn storm to an uncomfortable space you will lose in the transition. You will lose when the pattern interrupt comes. You will not sustain your growth nor your norm when stuff out of your control happens - it's going to to happen. There's no way to stop it. Personal responsibility has nothing to do with anybody else but you. I know that should be pretty easily understood 'cause it's literally in the damn name "personal - responsibility" but we don't even know what responsibility is because responsibility - and we're about to pull up this definition...But responsibility is something that we don't even take when we crash our own damn car.
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eighty20_/
Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmgillespie/
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
1 min - Do You Know What You Want? #PersonalResponsibility #DifferentMeans
In today's clip Sae'Von asks the million dollar question - "Do you know what you want?"
TRANSCRIPT
I do think that for different people, there can be a lag time between the realization and the action. But usually the action doesn't come until the realization. But , to take yourself from a scenario that's so far from your ideal and then figure out how you can get there is commendable, it's tremendous and we all have the power and the ability to do that. Whether that's in your love life,whether that's in your friendships, whether that's with your family. We all have that control, whether it's the finances or whatever. BUT there has to be time to make that realization of is it in alignment with what you want? Which is also, you need to have an idea of what you want and if you don't know what you want, do you know what you DON"T want? Start there. It's often easier because then you can kind of say, alright, well I don't want THOSE things. So then if you're avoiding those things, you're automatically closer to what it is you DO want because you're not experiencing the things that you have very much declared I DO NOT want as a part of my life.
ABOUT EIGHTY20
eighty20 challenges conventions, questions status quo, and encourages personal empowerment & responsibility. An abundant life of blessings and purpose await for those intent upon it. So, how is your life designed?
CONNECT WITH US
Follow Eighty20
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eighty20_/
Email: [email protected]
Follow James:
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmgillespie/
https://www.instagram.com/thejamesm/
Follow Sae’Von:
https://www.instagram.com/saevonspringer/
https://www.instagram.com/veganheathenlifestyle/
Our Work
James: https://www.thejamesm.com/
Sae'Von: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0slbIC1FH9YkeJjIL6HDEb?si=55TYFgI7SruN9b_slvRyzQ
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