Live Life Creative

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Think back to some of your first accomplishments when you started your creative venture, and how that felt. How did that encourage you and propel you forward to keep learning more and doing more? For me and photography, all it took was a piece of paper and a little ink.

Full show notes at: https://llcpodcast.dkphoto.xyz/index.php/2018/10/01/llc004-working-on-new-skills-look-for-signs-of-progress/

Aaron Dowd is THE Podcast Dude (of the Podcast Dude podcast)!

He got started in his creative journey through music, learned how to record music, and made his way into podcast editing and producing, first by freelancing, then for seanwes.com. Now he works for Simplecast, an easy platform for hosting and distributing podcasts.

Aaron’s love for content creation comes from his desire to help people and to make the world a better place. In this interview, Aaron and I talk about:

Find the full show notes at: https://llcpodcast.dkphoto.xyz/index.php/2018/09/17/llc003-helping-others-boosts-your-creativity-with-aaron-dowd-the-podcast-dude/

One day when I was just getting started with photography, Nicole and I went out just to have some fun taking photos of each other. We actually both, separately, had the idea to go out that weekend for it, so it worked out great that she was down for it too. She knew about this really nice little park about 20 minutes away, it’s got a little pocket pond and a nice big fountain, lots of trees, very picturesque.

So we got dressed up in relatively nice clothes, got to the park, and I started taking pictures just of things that were just around. The neighborhood around the park had painted some pumpkins and put them around the park – this was around Halloween time. They were pretty well done! I took pictures of a few of them, but in particular, I took a few of this first pumpkin and I didn’t remember that I had put the white balance was in manual mode, and was way off from what it should have been. Basically the orange pumpkins came out blue.

So, that was my mistake – I gotta take a few test shots first next time.

To kick off Live Life Creative, I thought it would be good to give you a little context on where I’m coming from as a creator and as a person. I asked my wife Nicole to interview me for that background, and we share a few laughs on the episode and dive into why this podcast exists and how it’s going to help you.

I want to help you break out of your creative rut through these conversations, by hearing from guests about how they’ve struggled and overcome, and one-on-one episodes with ideas to help you be more creative.

I want to create two basic formats of episodes: guest interviews and one-on-one. The guests will be local creators that I know personally in my area that are making cool stuff, as well as reaching out to people online who perhaps have a bigger platform and are respected for their work on a larger scale.

The one-on-one episodes will be lessons I’ve learned in my creative journey that I want to pass on to you, to help you break through a creative barrier you may be facing in your own life. One of the first of these will be about using mistakes you’ve made and using them as tools to springboard into a new level of creativity.

Find the full show notes at: https://llcpodcast.dkphoto.xyz/index.php/2018/09/03/llc001-the-host-interviewed-by-his-wife/