The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 42

Let’s Talk About The Power Of Hope With Tomas Rimeika

Tomas has been a singer/songwriter in three different bands the last twenty years, who have had singles rotating on Swedish and German radio and hundreds of gigs in nine countries in Europe and North America.

Tomas has been a founding member of the Escape Ark Incubation & Acceleration Mastermind basically from it’s conception and he is a huge believer in the work that Carl and I are doing and an active participant in the growing community and culture we are building at Escape Ark.

He is with us today to talk about the importance of patience and the importance of FOCUSSING on what you love and what you're good at, and not focus too much on the rest.

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The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 41

How We View Simplification At Escape Ark

As many of you might already know, Carl and the other co founders of Escape Ark, namely myself (Dan Shaw), David Miranda and Jamie Mustard have set out to achieve a crazy, huge goal with our newly founded company Escape Ark to build the biggest and fairest music company in the world and in the process, create a brand new music industry where artists don’t just survive, they thrive.

This is a truly huge goal and one that require a massive amount of time and consideration into simplifying the steps and processes in order for it to be the success we know that it can be.

Today we are going to be talking about our journey till now and the process involved in getting to where we are.

Escape Ark:

Our Massive Transformation Statement

‘Solving the worlds problems through art’

Our Vision

Our vision is to build an entire ecosystem that is removed from the constraints of the existing world - empowering people to unlock their true potential, and in doing so, make the world a better place for all of mankind

Our Mission

Our mission is to show every single person on earth, through education, that it is entirely possible for people to see the world how it truly is; a place where our purpose is to create, innovate, and to pioneer, and that all constraints are entirely manufactured by man and seeded through society to create positions of power for a select few.

Our Initial Objectives

Our initial objective is to build an incubation platform designed to educate, support, mentor, and foster a truly empowered community, who are able to create and grow their own self-sustaining businesses.

This incubation platform will feed into our own investment system, allowing those who excel to receive investment into their art and in turn, create jobs and roles for people within our empowered community.

Secondly, we have a clearly defined mission for a key component of our ecosystem, which is to build the ‘Biggest & Fairest Music Company in the World’ and in the process, create a ‘Brand New Music Industry’, where artists don’t just survive, they thrive.

When this becomes a reality, we will achieve a connection with every human on earth, thus creating an accelerated pathway towards our vision.

Topics of conversation today:

The journey till now.

The connections we have managed to develop over time.

The steps involved in simplifying the process.

Where we’re headed.

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The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 40

The Steps Involved In Mapping Out A Path To Success   

As Carl often describes it, many of us are just ‘drifting’. Drifting through life, going with the motions and never really feeling grounded, purposeful, motivated consistently or like we have any clear direction of where we are going or how we intend to get there.  

If we do not take the time to set clear goals and intentions, how can we ever expect to know what steps to take in order to progress to the level we know we are capable of achieving? & how can ever we expect to reach our full potential or our end destination if we don’t begin to take those necessary steps? It all kinda just comes hand in hand.  

Let’s discuss…

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The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 39

Staying The Course & Why Most People Just Give Up When Times Get Tough

Staying the course involves a great level of clarity and understanding of where you are, the path you need to take in order to get where you’re going and the grit and stronghold that it takes to not let anyone or anything get in the way of your intended path.

There are many people who set out to pursue goals but never land up staying the course and therefore, never end up with their desired outcomes.

On this episode, we discuss how to best set yourself up for success from the get-go.

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The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 38

The Search Within With David Miranda

Today we spoke with and introduced you to our brother, David Miranda, AKA 'The Primate' and fellow co-founder of Escape Ark.

We touched on various topics, ranging from questioning our habitual reality to understanding the importance of stillness and meditation to master the intricacies of life and your relationship with everything and everyone around you, most importantly, your self.

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The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 37

Focus All Of Your Energy On The Step That You Are In, EVERYTHING ELSE IS A DISTRACTION

Carl often says it, ‘we can only ever truly focus our energy on one thing at a time’. Yet so many of us are trying to do 100 things at once and are not actually able to get much done as a result of that.

Matthew Kelly really puts things into perspective when he says that ‘’Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a month. We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade."

Let’s discuss how you can get better at eliminating procrastination and distractions and achieve more in your day, in your week, in your month, in your year and in your life.

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The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 36

Using Reflection To Create A Clear Path On Your Journey To Living An Abundant Life With Brian Seymour

We tend to fall in love with the stories we tell ourselves about our past successes and failures. Rather than drawing on valuable life lessons, we tend to mire in the past and this blocks the way ahead.

Similarly, when we dream of the future without a coherent plan we set ourselves up for frustration and disappointment. There is a better way. We need to become more reflective. We can begin with asking ourselves questions like: Where are you now? Why are you there? Where do you want to go? What must you do to get there? A more serious version of you awaits…

Brian Seymour's Bio: 

Brian Seymour has been writing and recording his own music for three decades. Raised in Springsteen’s Red Bank NJ, he emerged as a singer/songwriter in the 1990s in Philadelphia where he still lives with his wife and 8 year old son.

He has released seven full-length records, continues to get prominent placements in film and TV, and has high profile covers of his songs by major artists.

Along the way he earned a Ph.D. in the history of art, with research focused on art and the public sphere, and teaches at the Community College of Philadelphia, as well as at Villanova University, and the Barnes Foundation.

At this moment, in October, 2020, he arrives with new focus and a willingness to continue to forge a fresh path in the new music industry. Building upon the vast experience of his younger days on stage, as well as writing and recording, he is finding a way to re-engage his audience and meet new fans.

He claims his secret is learning to be reflective in everything he spends time on, and to see his creative life as part of his every day.

The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 35

The Power of Routine & Creating Habits

Intention is powerful and having a willingness and desire to achieve certain goals is super powerful too but the reality is, that without setting daily, habitual routines that help you to take steps towards achieving those goals and fulfilling those intentions, you’ll likely never make it there.

We need to focus on implementing habits and routines in our daily lives to help us to progress towards the best version of ourselves that we aspire to be.

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The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 34

Being Present & Aware Within & Around Yourself

This is an incredibly prominent topic of conversation on this podcast purely because of the fact that we exist in the now and there is no reality other than in the present moment. With that in mind, unless we are truly embracing the present and fully living in the now, we will always find misalignment within and around ourselves because we are unconsciously allowing external factors, the past and the future to cloud our present reality.

Being present and having self-awareness is so so so critical to living a fulfilled life with balance and perspective.

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The Baker & The Butterfly Podcast - Episode 33

How To Ignite Your Passion

Passion can be described as a feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or compelling desire for someone or something. It is an emotion that gives you a reason to keep learning and to want to work toward mastery.

As the late and great Steve Jobs used to say “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

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