For The Creators Podcast

*This episode was originally published on Mon Jul 02 2018*

How important is PR & Networking for creatives? How do you initiate conversations with influencers and decision makers? Is making good art enough to make it big or do you need a PR team to take you to the next level?

We explore all in todays snapshot, focusing on PR and networking.

Follow our guest on instagram @mrjsmash and check out http://streamlinepr.co.uk/

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This episode was originally posted on Mon Jun 18 2018

'some girls get sent flowers, I get sent beats' is what Maiday's email signature says and its for good reason... Maiday is an amazing Artist and songwriter with various hits to her name, including 'Don't Go' by Wretch 32, 'Fade' with Jakwob and 'At My Best' with Machine Gun Kelly and Hailee Stainsfield. Ryan and Maiday explore the reality behind being an artist and songwriter in the music industry and the ins and outs of writing a hit song. We explore how Maiday discovered writing as a child to the moment she achieved her first UK Number 1 with Wretch 32. We exchange tips and tricks on being a creative and handling the pressures of the music industry as an artist and as a songwriter. The focus for this podcast was the writing facet however, Maiday has new music dropping real soon so keep an eye out for it!!! (links below)

**SHOW NOTES**

- Obsession with words started by hearing adult vocabulary

- How Maiday finds melodies to fit lyrics 

- There is so much more to writing and producing than the writing and producing…

- Gauging if a collaboration is working or not

- Session hopping, New working environment & team every 2 days

-What you do all the time is HARD, its beyond writing, its ego management, its SELF management

- Not leaving everything in the hands of Management and publishers

- What its like as a writer entering someone elses environment

- How to be candid when something isnt working

- Ryan discusses working with Maiday for the first time

- How you hear music can determine what you gravitate towards as a pro

- Beats vs Lyrics

- First line has to grab you

- Being a slow burner and Leaving work at 25 to pursue songwriting professionaly

- You have to go through some shit to write some shit!

- Comparison is the theif of progress and joy

- Appreciate your successes and your acheivements #smallwins. Being content and definiing your own success

- Releif vs Dissapointment. Writing from experience, whether its happy or sad

- Putting out an ad to work with producers, starting out on MySpace

- A fan contacting BBC 1xtra DJB to play Maidays music and him becoming Maidays manager

- Moving to Birmingham for better opportunities and Taking the leap and Moving to London

- Having a no1 with Wretch 32, ‘Dont Go’

- Producing a demo because there were no producers around. Being restricted forcing her to create a new sound

- Going through dark patches and what went through her head

- What is publishing and what is an advance?

- How Hype can turn into self loathing

- Its always on you as acreative

- The fantasy vs the reality of being ‘in the industry’

- Explaining what you to do your family

- Getting 100% publishing with Girls Aloud

- ‘’Managing the Gaps, the gaps are where the crazy happens’’

- Why working in the creative industries ar a ‘backend’ industry

- Being smart about your finances & not goin ‘publishing shopping’

- Holding onto Money is as important, if not more important than making money

- Waiting to get paid 18 months from a major hit

- Its not all ‘airy fairy’ you got to look after yourself

- Creative Rituals, having nuggets to draw from, notes and melodies

- Why changing your environment changes the way you think and the way you create

- Dealing with writers block

- Having experience and writing with authenticity

- How to know when something is Good

- Being patient with your songs 

- Changing the way you hear your work

- Working with young women artists so they feel comfortable opening up

- Unless your song has been released, its not a given that its going to happen

- Saving your self disappointment but holding yourself back from excitement

- If things go wrong, go through it, don’t ignore it, it will follow you unless you look it in the eye and confront it

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/maidaymusic/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiday

https://twitter.com/iammaiday

Maiday singles on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/4qK6oQkDJ2tGgSrjhyTuLL?autoplay=true&v=A

Machine Gun Kelly - At My Best ft. Hailee Steinfeld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvbhxb9yk8

Wretch 32 ‘Don’t Go’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1BMpUnzT8

Jakwob feat Maiday ‘Fade' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHKTQcDfv9A

Songwriting and Production showreel https://soundcloud.com/maidaymusic/sets/maiday-writing-and-production

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This episode originally aired on 12th October 2018

Jump into the rabbit hole today with our conversation with Joel CHIDI Sydenham, a poet and artist who has a background in chemical engineering.

In today's conversation we cover how your energy, and energy in general can affect your creativity. We go DEEP!

We went on the maddest tangents but if you want a conversation that touches on Black History Month and ventures beyond, hit play! We discuss being a product of colonialism, how chemistry relates to Art, African history, Aliens and many many more.. enjoy!

***SHOW NOTES/LINKS**

https://instagram.com/joelsydenham/

https://chidi3s.net/

Dr Masaru Emoto's Water Experiment - Words are Alive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au4qx_l8KEU

Synesthesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Stephen Wiltshire draws NYC for UBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsJbApZ5GF0

Endorphin Casually Walks to Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7UFDUcstW0

Things Fall Apart https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Fall-Apart-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141023384

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**This episode is from Season 1 and originally aired on Monday Aug 6 - Season 2 is coming in early 2019!**

This episode is powered by Shazam, the music discovery service that millions of people use everyday. We sit down with UK Senior Music Manager Cassie Rowan to discuss how users can get the most out of Shazam and how artists can get their music discovered!

This is a very insightful episode that will show you the power behind Shazam and what you can do get to the most out of it.

Remember to submit your music to [email protected] - Let us know if you sign up for Shazam for Artists and how you get on getting verified!!

About Shazam:

"Our mission is to help people recognise and engage with the world around them"

Shazam is a mobile app that recognises music and TV around you. It is the best way to discover, explore and share the music and TV you love. Shazam connects more than 1 billion people. It took us 10 years to reach 1 billion tags, 10 months to reach 2 billion, 3 months to go from 10 to 12 billion... It's an amazing app, available now in the Apple and Android stores. And we're always looking for new and innovative ways to delight our users.

Links:

https://www.shazam.com/

https://www.shazam.com/artists

http://instagram.com/cassiexrowan

https://www.instagram.com/shazam/

https://twitter.com/shazam4artists

https://www.shazam.com/gb/apps

Socials:

@forthecreatorspodcast on insta

@for_thecreators on twitter

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Season 1 is over folks! But we'll be back in the New Year with more episodes, For The Creators!

We hope you have enjoyed Season 1 and we want to thank you for your ears and for your interaction with us. This has been an incredible journey and we couldn't do it without you!

Special thanks to all of our guests!!!!!

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter to stay up to date with the show and to receive banging new content to keep you inspired and in awe everyday!

Until 2019, we will be sharing episodes from Season 1 so you will see us pop up in your feed. If you haven't checked out an episode, now is the perfect time.

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(This episode originally aired on July 30th 2018)

In this episode, we sit down with Yinka Bokinni aka the one and only Yinkdaddy. Yinka is currently a presenter for Capital Xtra and Diet Coke, she is a TEDEx speaker, a blogger and her list of accolades go on and on. At such a young age and with so many achievements under her very fashionable belt, she is definitely a force to be reckoned with. But the best thing about Yinka in my opinion, is the fact that she swings to the beat of her own drum and is unapologetically herself 100% of the time. 

During our conversation, she reminisced on what it was like growing up with 6 siblings, witnessing the impact of her neighbour Damilola Taylor’s death, studying law at university and how after hearing how much fun a Superdrug DJ was having whilst at work, made her want to become a presenter. Our conversation was filled with laughter, moments of reflection and too many motivational gems to count. 

With Yinka’s talent, drive and confidence, we are sure that she hasn’t even begun to scratch the surface of her limitless potential. So, if you are an aspiring DJ, presenter or female boss, this episode is definitely for you. 

Show Notes

- Growing up in Peckham, not knowing she was poor

- ‘When everyone has nothing, that’s just the norm’

- Not ever yearning for money and why insatiable thirst for money can take away your joy

- “if I was in your shoes for 12 hours I might throw them off”

- Growin up as a middle child and having no excuse, but to be herself. learning from her brothers and sisters mistakes and become the best version of them

- Growing up next door to damilola taylor, what the effect of his murder was on her and her area.

- Being an avid reader, learning from her dad who

- ‘I hope my daughter is like me’

- The values of reading, non fiction

- 20 mins Studying Law at University, ‘I studied a subject that would allow me to have excuses to not be able to go out” because she was really ill.

- Not going to her own graduation

- Favourite quote ‘to be spoken about is a bad thing, but not to be spoken about is worse still’

- Not being boxed in as a creator, being a multi-hyphenate

- Why Life is like a chess board

- Losing her mum early in life.. her siblings becoming a mother figure as a unit

- Discovering her love for presenting by hearing Superdrug FM while shopping

- Loving to talk, craving human connection

- Why doing what you love can bring out dedication, working on Rinse FM and working a pub job. Why Rinse FM was and is a launching pad for great new presenters

- Rinse hosting a female only stage at Wireless Festival

- Why Equality is a trend worth pushing

- Why Yinka left Rinse

- Why working at Capital Xtra is so much fun

- Having ‘listen back’ sessions of Yinkas shows, quality assurance

- Preparing for interviews

- Not being a ‘celebrity’ and what its like being known and having a fanbase

- It takes 10 years to become internet famous and 10 seconds for your fanbase to turn on you

- Learning how to DJ and opening for Craig David at a Capital Xtra Event

- The difference between playing on Radio and playing Live

- Learning how to interview and stopping interviews mid-way if they’re not going right. Getting the best out of people

- Why Yinka refuses to let nerves get in her way

- Asking for what you want & doing what you need to do while getting what you want

- “If you’re not willing to do what you want to do for FREE, why should you get paid for it?”

- Being bullied online by an anonymous account by someone she knew in real life

- Dealing with people thinking she has more than she has

- Writing to her 15 year old self

- “When 2 people have the same opportunity, they do not do the same thing with it”

- Realising that she doesn’t get happiness from work, but rather from human interaction

- Keeping private things private, not doing everything for Instagram and social media

- The downsides of posting on instagram to thousands of followers

- Wanting to get into Television, ignoring YouTube comments

Links

Yinka TedX talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kczac6wWY9U

instagram https://www.instagram.com/yinkabokinni/

Website https://yinkabokinni.com/2018/07/26/2018-so-far/

@forthecreatorspodcast on insta

@for_thecreators on twitter

Hosts:

Ryan Nile - @journeyofthenile

Vernaire Bass - @vernairebass

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ITS EPISODE 50!!!!! Thank you to everyone that has tuned in and supported the show so far, its been an incredible journey.

We (Ryan and Vernaire) sit down to recount what steps we took to reach this milestone and what its really like to produce a podcast consistently.

There are some really good tips in here on how to get started with recording a podcast, attracting guests, producing shows, promoting them but also, the these are tips on how to get started on anything and stay consistent despite all of the roadblocks that come up! From Breakdowns to Breakthroughs, thats literally been our mantra this year.

So tune in and hear a bit about us, how we met, why we started the show and everything in between. We hope you enjoy this episode and are celebrating with us a little bit! Season 1 ends soon at the end of black history month aka blacktober :( but, we'll be back and we'll be kicking off Season 2 in January!

Show notes:

Equip:

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In this episode we sit down with incredibly talented Visual Artist and Photographer Asiko. Asiko is an artist who expresses his work through the medium of photography and mixed media. His work is constructed in a narrative that straddles between fantasy and reality as a response to his experiences of identity, heritage and culture. His work was featured on the @bbc and @huffingtonpost and has also been exhibited at the London Southbank, The Gallery of African Art in London and his first show was at the Rele Gallery in Nigeria.

My conversation with Asiko definitely took him on trip down memory lane. From his childhood growing up in Nigeria, his obsession with fantasy and graphic novels, his mothers reaction to his love of the arts, to studying to become a doctor at university and then that moment when he took up the camera for the first time. We also discussed his signature style of photography, his time spent living as a starving artist and the twists and turns he has encountered to become an artist whose work is revered internationally.

***SHOW NOTES/LINKS**

http://asiko.co.uk/

https://www.gafraart.com/artists/87-sk/overview/

https://www.instagram.com/asiko_artist/

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Jump into the rabbit hole today with our conversation with Joel CHIDI Sydenham, a poet and artist who has a background in chemical engineering.

In today's conversation we cover how your energy, and energy in general can affect your creativity. We go DEEP!

We went on the maddest tangents but if you want a conversation that touches on Black History Month and ventures beyond, hit play! We discuss being a product of colonialism, how chemistry relates to Art, African history, Aliens and many many more.. enjoy!

***SHOW NOTES/LINKS**

https://instagram.com/joelsydenham/

https://chidi3s.net/

Dr Masaru Emoto's Water Experiment - Words are Alive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au4qx_l8KEU

Synesthesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Stephen Wiltshire draws NYC for UBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsJbApZ5GF0

Endorphin Casually Walks to Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7UFDUcstW0

Things Fall Apart https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Fall-Apart-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141023384

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Welcome back to another episode of For The Creators, where its our job to demystify creativity. In these long form conversations, we tease out tips and tricks from creatives who are both in front and behind the scenes of the creative industry.

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In this episode we sit down with the founders of We Are Stripes, Nene Parsotam, Haydn Corrodus and Akama Davies. We Are Stripes endeavours to address the ethnic diversity imbalance in the creative industry, starting with the creative advertising subsector. They create and increase opportunities for individuals from ethnic backgrounds by educating on career entry into the industry and supporting current BAME individuals in the industry with career progression.

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During our conversation we touched on the barriers to entry faced by BAME creatives. We Are Stripes caters to creatives from all ethnic backgrounds, but because this episode has been published during the UK’s Black History Month, we decided to focus on the challenges faced by Black individuals trying to navigate their way throughout the creative landscape.

Our conversation with the team was informative and thought provoking, but we have also tried to provide you with a balanced view on the topic. This is because We Are Stripes endeavours to not only highlight the issues faced by BAME creatives, but to provide creatives and organisations with the tools to address the issue.

So, without further adue please enjoy my sit-down with, We Are Stripes!!

***SHOW NOTES/LINKS***

http://www.wearestripes.org.uk/

Sign up! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3qjkU-UgZRyJdjodz-QAlF6GqDd5OKkjkUJNKLr4Q1m0b3Q/viewform

Twitter & Instagram @WeAreStripes

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