The Breakthrough Creative

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  • Ep 17 - Pop-Up Floral Shop and Creative Director: Jessi Levine

    Jessi is a Breakthrough Creative!

    Jessi is a Creative Director with a copywriting background. She recently opened a floral business named Gary (after her dad). A surprising twist to Gary is the 'pop-up floral shop' ingredient made possible by the purchase of a mobile camper. (Way to be an imaginative entrepreneur, Jessi!)

    You can find Jessi on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/pensivegirl/ or https://www.instagram.com/alwayswanderhome/

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    1 hr 16 min
  • Ep 16 - Industrial Design, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the 'WHAT' before the 'HOW': Dave Starr

    Dave Starr is a Breakthrough Creative!

    Dave is an industrial designer in the product development space whose recent journey has landed him at Tesseract Ventures leading R&D for a Robotics and AI start-up in Kansas City, and a side gig teaching design at the University of Kansas. (Boy, are those students fortunate!)

    We jabber about product development, design-thinking, and... Adam West.

    You can reach Dave at [email protected] or hit him up on LinkedIn!

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    50 min
  • Ep 15 - Producing Video Marketing Content, Failing Forward and... Boxing: Brandy Sales

    Brandy Sales is a Breakthrough Creative!

    Brandy is the owner of WeCast Productions, a video marketing content company that helps non-profits fundraise through video and provides on-camera coaching for real estate agents.

    Brandy's journey has grown from a one-man show to a largely hands-off operation that he oversees from a creative managerial position.

    An important aspect of Brandy's journey has been his ability to turn his failures into success!

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    48 min
  • Ep 13 - Figure it out! - Photographer, Performer, Storyteller, Musician: Mark Wedow

    Mark Wedow is a Breakthrough Creative!

    Mark is a civil engineer who spends the rest of his time playing guitar in his cover band, Centerfold, creating majestic images as a photographer, fabricating character costumes, playing Chicagoland's Best Santa every Christmas all while finding time to design and execute a haunted attraction for Halloween.

    You can reach Mark at [email protected]

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    53 min
  • Ep. 11 - Engineer to Fine Artist: Changing Lanes with Ricky McEachern

    Ricky McEachern is a Breakthrough Creative!

    Ricky shares about his creative journey to Fine Artist via engineering, sales and the internet, his creative process, how he manages his time by making 'lanes' and his podcast, Eager To Know (E2K). You can find Ricky at rickyartist.com.

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    44 min
  • Ep. 10 - Completing the Client Project: John McDavitt

    This is a follow-up episode to last week's topic, 'How to Manage a Client Meeting.'

    If Client Meetings can MAKE or BREAK your business, then Completing the Client Project is just as important.

    In this episode I give you a behind the scenes play-by-play of how I manage and deliver a quality project on time despite a number of challenges working against me.

    Please let me know what you think and share this with your creative biz friends!

    For questions, Business Coaching or Design/Art Lessons email: [email protected]

    27 min
  • Ep. 9 - How to Manage a Client Meeting: John McDavitt

    Client Meetings can MAKE or BREAK your business. In this episode I share how I manage client meetings with a real-life, play-by-play meeting I had not to long ago.

    There is A LOT of helpful info in this episode.

    Please let me know what you think and share this with your creative biz friends!

    For questions, Business Coaching or Design/Art Lessons email: [email protected]

    21 min

About The Breakthrough Creative

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The Breakthrough Creative with host John McDavitt is for the Creative Entrepreneur as we look behind the scenes at the 'business of art' and the 'art of business!'