HP Podcast Backlog 1

Before you create something you probably pause and consider what it is you want to say. Sometimes that question can paralyze you though because you aren’t sure what your “message” really is. Maybe you are being drawn to create but you are stuck...how do you find your voice in all the noise? 

Sean Wes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0MQRMQGdbhhTHenNGUafMQ

 

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“I am not going to wait around for opportunities, I am going to create my own opportunities. ”

Growing up he never thought he could make a career being creative but a few years ago he decided to leave the corporate world and take the leap. Today our guest Dominick Racano shares with us what it takes to go the creative path and go all-in on what you love. 

 

Connect with Dominick:

https://www.shiftdrinkscomedy.com/

https://www.instagram.com/DominickRacano/

https://www.atlcomedyawards.com/

 

TOPICS:

• Going after what you love and ENJOYING it
• What do you do with all your ideas when you want to pursue them all
• Welcoming adversity and dealing with rejection as a creative

 

WHO IS DOMINICK?

Born in the Bronx, Dominick Racano, is the youngest of five. Growing up in a large, and oftentimes, loud Italian family led Racano to channel his energy and humor into entertaining friends and keeping out of trouble in his neighborhood. Like others before him, Racano got bogged down in the rat race of corporate America, but he continued to use humor as his outlet for stress; performing stand-up around town. Really enjoying the creative writing side and the platform to perform, Racano then decided to start acting in film, television, and improvisation. This led to his decision to walk away from a secure career to pursue what he truly loves, entertaining people. Today Racano has more than 60+ film and television credits to his name and is a co-founder of Shift Drinks Comedy, and Festival Director of All The Laughs Comedy Awards.

 

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“It takes guts to break out and change who you are.”

As a young man, he described himself as overweight and said that he only picked up boxing to get a date to the prom. He didn’t get the date, but his life completely changed. Today we have the former Captain of the USA National boxing team Cam F. Awesome to talk to us about the mindset you have to be all that you dream of being and why he is now steering his energy towards teaching youth cultural competence. 

Connect with Cam: www.camfawesome.com

TOPICS:

• Reinventing yourself and building confidence
• Finding freedom within and letting go of safety nets
• Teaching students how to be culturally competent and the message of “intent vs. impact”
• Reframing disappointment and failure and why people “relate to losers”

 

WHO IS CAM F AWESOME?

Cam F Awesome is a well-known professional speaker and personality. He is an Emmy Nominated, 6 time USA National Champion, 4 time Golden Gloves National Champion, 3 Time Olympic Trials Champion  Heavyweight boxer, and former Captain of the USA National boxing team. Cam F Awesome is also a proud member of the National Speakers Association.

Cam now focuses his efforts on teaching teens about diversity and cultural competence to better prepare them for the diverse world they will meet post-graduation.

 

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Does the subject of purpose and calling stress you out sometimes? A simple question I have been asking myself is: 

What is lighting me up right now? What am I curious about right now? Is that something that is distracting? Or is it something we might wanna pay a little more attention to?

 

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“Empathy always”

Jack Catalano is a high school accessibility specialist. He has been in the field for over ten years and said he was super inspired by the events of 2020 and the disability community on TikTok. What he has created since is nothing but Unconventional... 

 

TOPICS:

• What internal work needs to be done for “radical inclusion”?
• Overcoming your fear of putting yourself “out there” and creating content around things you are passionate about.
• Educating online and approaching big topics creatively

 

WHO IS JACK?

I am a public school teacher for students with disabilities. I teach a self-contained classroom for autistic students. I have a masters degree in educational leadership and I am an advocate for radical inclusion, acceptance, and greater opportunities for people with disabilities. I believe that when everyone is given room to be themselves, accepted for who they are, and given the proper accommodations to help them live and work like every other able-bodied human being, that there isn't anything anyone can't do.  Connect with Jack: https://www.tiktok.com/@mr.jackcat1

 

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“Do the Brave thing.”

Whether you are wanting to grow your business or promote the work you have probably been told that you need an email list. But that doesn’t sound fun, does it? It’s a GREAT tool for marketing but the stigma around email marketing is real. How can we make it creative and meaningful? 

 

TOPICS:

• What if you don't have an offering or monetize your audience- how can we use email lists?
• Coming up with content ideas and creative ways to serve consistently
• Can we make emails interactive and include media? Or will that hurt open rates?
• How to make email marketing feel less icky and something you are actually excited about
• Nurturing an email list you haven’t been consistent with 

 

WHO IS KATE?

Kate Doster is the host of the Inbox Besties Podcast, creator of the Love Your List 2.0 email marketing mega course, and is dangerously obsessed with helping ethical entrepreneurs carve out their slice of the interwebs. She helps her students woo open the hearts (and wallets) of their small but mighty audiences thanks to fun email marketing and easy yes mini-offers.

She believes you don’t need to bleed the alphabet or be a dirty rotten spam face to write emails that jolt subscribers into taking action, gobbling up your paid offers like candy… or kale if that’s their thing.

Connect with Kate: https://www.katedoster.com

Listen to her show: https://www.katedoster.com/inbox-besties/

 

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Sometimes I feel like there are two parties that I want to go to. There is the super driven/productive party and also the creative/“go with the flow” party. 

What are we avoiding when we only operate from a “creative” place or only a “productive space”?

How can we be intentional with the productivity and flow of creativity?

Can we marry productivity with the creative process? 

 

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Is struggle always a sign that something went wrong?...or could it be a sign of something else?

As creatives, business owners, those going the unconventional path, there are going to be struggling. I mean come on- we are pushing the envelope in our industries- it’s inevitable.  Sometimes we make “the struggle” about us or our work instead of understanding its role.

 

Connect with Grace: https://gracemarshall.com/

 

TOPICS:

• What do we do in the moment of struggle? When we notice fear trying to come in?
• How to best respond to someone who is struggling
• Not rushing through the struggle & confidently struggling in front of others

 

WHO IS GRACE MARSHALL? Author of the award-winning How to be Really Productive, Grace Marshall is known for her ‘refreshingly human’ approach to productivity. Featured in The Guardian, Forbes, and Huffpost, her work as a Productivity Ninja with global productivity training company Think Productive has helped thousands of people to replace stress, overwhelm, and frustration with success, sanity, and satisfaction.  Her new book Struggle: the surprising truth, beauty, and opportunity hidden in life’s sh*ttier moments is out in April.

 

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How much stress and anxiety do you put on what your next step is? If you are on the right path or not? What if your calling wasn’t a job description? 

 

Full Speech: Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at the 2014 MUM Graduation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V80-gPkpH6M

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He got kicked out of school at 15, left his dad’s bricklaying business, became a bouncer, and then built the world's Largest Concierge Company. Say what?

Yup. Steve Sims joins us today to share how he got in the right rooms, led with a spirit of service, and ended up working with people like Sir Elton John and Elon Musk to organize wild adventures and become according to Forbes and Entrepreneur magazine,  “The Real-Life Wizard of Oz".

Connect with Steve: https://www.stevedsims.com/

 

TOPICS:

• Breaking free of intimidation of getting out of “our pond into another pond” with people who think bigger.
• Using nerves and fear in your favor & being the SOLUTION to someone’s problem
• Asking “What can I bring to this party?” and a new philosophy to networking

 

WHO IS STEVE?  Do you know anyone that’s worked with Sir Elton John or Elon Musk, sent people down to see the wreck of the Titanic on the sea bed or closed museums in Florence for a private dinner party and then had Andrea Bocelli serenade them while they eat their pasta – you do now

Quoted as “The Real Life Wizard of Oz" by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine, Steve Sims is the best selling Author with "BLUEFISHING - the art of making things happen”, sought-after coach and a speaker at a variety of networks, groups, and associations as well as the Pentagon and Harvard – twice! 

 

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