The Creative Coach with Dan Brophy

The Creative Coach with Dan Brophy

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The Creative Coach with Dan Brophy episodes

  • Ep 9: Don’t Ask For Permission To Do What You Love with Jan Fran (The Feed, SBS Viceland)
    Today I’m chatting with Jan Fran: journalist, commentator, writer and host of the SBS nightly news show, The Feed.    We have a practical chat about how to define and grow a personal brand. For many, this concept is still a bit on the nose, but it interested me to talk to Jan about it because she’s not an ‘influencer' - she’s a current affairs journalist - and yet she still needs to think about how to represent her work and elements of her personal life and process via social media in order to define her personal brand so as to best reach her audience.   We talk about how she got her start and the importance of not just waiting for someone to give you an opportunity to do the thing you love - which for Jan meant moving to Uganda and shooting and producing her own documentary series.    This conversation offers great insight for anyone looking to get into journalism - or any sort of self-authored media gig.  It highlights the importance of creating opportunities for yourself - being your own writer, director, producer, editor, and not waiting for permission in order to do the thing you believe in.   IF YOU ENJOY THIS PODCAST, SHARE IT! You can send an episode link in a text or FB message,  Or you can even screen-capture a point in the podcast that resonates with you and post it to your Instagram Live Story tagging @danbrophy and a leave word or two about what you found inspiring (I will then repost, tagging you right back and sharing inspiration.) Or you can do things the old fashioned way by rating it and write a short review in iTunes.  It all helps to grow our creative community and continue to empower frustrated creatives to get their life!   xDB

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    1 hr 5 min
  • Ep 8: 'Be Relentless' with Nick Fordham
    Nick Fordham is a name that is mostly known inside the Australian media industry.  He is a talent manager for a number of Australia’s best known media and sporting personalities. Possibly his most celebrated client in recent months has been Lisa Wilkinson, who Nick has worked with for over a decade.    Nick Fordham is an ideas man. He belongs to a category of creative thinker that I like to call 'the strategist'. His super power seems to be in zooming out to see the bigger picture, observing how systems work and finding a way to connect disparate elements - usually for the purpose of satisfying a gap in the market.   2017 has seen many of Nick’s other projects blossom to fruition: Outback Wrangler - a 'Steve Irwin meets Bear Grills show for Nat Geo' is in its third season screened in over 130 countries; Nick’s re-invigoration of the Club Rugby has taken it from a forgotten subsidiary of Union to quite literally putting it in a league of its own;  He is co-owner of health food brand The Man Shake which is one of the biggest in its category and he has co-created a TV series called ‘The Mentor’ in which Mark Bouris of The Apprentice acts as a coach to small business owners. And to top it off, he has just landed The Ellen Show as a client.   All of these ideas originating from his observations of opportunities within the market - and doing the creative problem solving to fill in the gaps - usually with a solution that is innovative and enticing.   I haven’t always thought of business as being creative, but in getting to know Nick I can see how much his process is like so many other creative disciplines I have observed: there are a set problems that are presented for the purpose of achieving a synergetic resolve, a number of movable parts organised around fixed parameters, and a set of rules to each game - some of which are observed purely for the purpose of bending them.   This episode is especially inspirational for those who would like to be be more innovative in business - and in particular in the business of being a creative. As talking with Nick will show, the two are not mutually exclusive, rather they are a necessary part of each other - the yin to the other’s yang.

     

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    1 hr
  • Ep 7: "Go Niche to Go Big' - How to Engage True Followers.' with Em Rusciano
    My guest this week is Em Rusciano, who some of you may know as a top-rating breakfast radio host, a stand up comedian, singer, author, one time Australian Idol contestant and champion of all that is camp and glitter-encrusted.   Em and I go a long way back- like ‘90s' "a long way back" and when I first thought about doing a podcast, she was one of the first people I couldn’t wait to talk to because she is the living embodiment of so many of the ideals that I’m hoping to champion with this podcast.   In this episode we talk about: - Building your audience by getting really specific with who you are targeting and speaking directly to them; - Growing a viewership & fanbase online and then taking them with you to other projects. - The lack of self-censoring that has allowed her to move through so many mediums without hesitation around being the best at anything, but just to try it to see what sticks. It just so happens almost everything Em has put out there in the last couple of years have stuck.   This is a great episode for those looking to shake things up and experiment with different outputs - and it doesn’t have to be performative like Em.  You may use this inspiration as an excuse to pick up an instrument, learn a language, start a blog or go to a ceramics class. As Snoop Dog says: “Ain’t nothin to it, but to DO IT.

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 6: ''I Quit My Day Job' - From Chief of Staff to working at the Pub' with Naomi Shivaramen
    I like to start by asking my guests, 'when people say to you 'what to you do', what do you tell them?’ because for many people what we do can come to define who we think we are. Not having a job is often considered worse than having a job that makes you really unhappy. The security and structure offered by a role or a company is valued so highly, many people are content to stick around long after realising it’s not for them.   After 17 years, rising up the ranks working in radio and network television, Naomi Shivaramen quit her day job. In the last month she has gone from 'network news Chief of Staff' -  to working behind the scenes at her local pub.    I was so interested in speaking to Naomi at this exciting time in her life, to find out why, after 11 years with Channel 7, she chose to take the leap into the great unknown. I wanted to know what that process looked like for her - and what she wants her next chapter to be all about.   This episode is particularly useful for those who identify with the idea of wanting to quit their day job - but don’t know where to begin. Hopefully hearing a conversation where someone has gone through the paces will plant the seeds that will inspire you to begin your own journey of emancipation.

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    1 hr 7 min
  • Ep 5 : 'Growing Your Passion Into a Profession' with ‘The Herb Nerd' Reece Carter
    My guest today is Reece Carter, AKA The Herb Nerd, who has taken his love of creating remedies from things grown in his garden to building a platform where he can share ideas via videos for social media, TV appearances, speaking gigs and now books.       Reece talks about his daily process, his mindset and even his fears in stepping out from his work as a naturopath working one-on-one with clients, into the media space where he is now sharing ideas with a much broader audience. This is one of my most favourite discussions I’ve had so far on the show because Reece is at such in interesting stage in his journey that many of the ideas he shares are directly relatable to anyone who is looking to turn what they love into what they do.   We discuss the benefit of making and sharing content for free in order to develop your tone of voice, your point of view, your ability to relay your message.    Another interesting topic that comes up is: in order to build your offering, you don’t need to know how to do every step of the process yourself. Instead, your role becomes one of a project manager as you pull in the skills of talented friends or professionals in order to share your message.         Another thing worth noting is how clever it is that Reece has branded himself ‘The Herb Nerd’ - it’s simple, it has a nice ring to it, but most importantly, you can tell exactly what he is offering: specialised knowledge in plant-based wellness. This idea of distilling your offering into key terms has come up a lot in interviews so far. You may do a lot of things really well, but it actually helps to pigeon-hole yourself as doing one thing better than anyone else - so that people know to come to you for that that thing.  It also acts like a filter so that you make sure all of your content, while establishing your place in the market, reinforces your key offering.  

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    58 min
  • EP 4: ‘The Drag of Landing Your Dream Job' with Callum Francis (Kinky Boots)

    This week my guest is Callum Francis, the star of Kinky Boots, which is just about to finish it’s Australian theatrical run after playing in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

     

    Kinky Boots is the Broadway & Westend hit musical about a guy who inherits a shoe factory and the drag queen who inspires him to think outside the box - and make women's shoes for men who dress as women.

    The show's themes of celebrating diversity couldn’t be more apt now. It’s almost as if it was meant to come into the mainstream when it did.

    The purpose of this interview wasn’t necessarily just for those who want to get into musical theatre - it’s about setting your sights on a seemingly unattainable goal - your dream job - or in this case, dream role, of which Callum has performed two musical theatre leads (that those in his industry would step over a bitch to get to play): Simba in The Lion King and now Lola in Kinky Boots. 

    What I wanted to find out in talking to Callum was the mindset and day-to-day process that gets someone to be a leader in their field. 

    No matter what your chosen vocation, the climb is never ending - your always competing with your previous bests, if not your peers. 

    So what is the mindset that allows you to not only target your dream role - but, once you get there, to continue to re-invest your passion and your energy in order to keep it fresh.

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    48 min
  • Ep 3 UPDATE: 'Writing, Directing & Starring in Your Life' with Jess Harris (Twentysomething)

    Jess Harris is the co-creator of the 'Twentysomething' - now screening on Netflix. Born out of the fear of not knowing how to 'be good at life' in her twenties - she and creative partner in crime, Josh Schmidt wrote, directed and starred in a no-budget series that went from community TV to the ABC - and even to flirtations with Hollywood. I caught up with Jess - appropriately raspy-voiced on the Monday morning after a big weekend - to talk about the highs and lows on her continuing journey of learning how to turn what she loves into a career.

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Ep 2: Lola Berry or 'How to Turn What You Love into a Personal Brand'
      When does time stop for you? When do you find yourself so deep in flow that an hour can fly by like a minute? Well that’s a great way to know that you are tapping your passions.    For my guest, who you may know as the wellness influencer Lola Berry, that feeling can come from cooking, writing about cooking - she’s now written 10 healthy eating books - teaching and practicing yoga and making video content.  She’s also a public speaker and TV presenter, she has a smoothie bar in South Melbourne called Happy Place, and she has leveraged her background as a nutritionist into being a brand ambassador and media personality.    Lola has taken what she loves and turned into a career and a personal brand.  The term personal brand seems to have a weird stigma around it, maybe because there are so many people trying to claim it, but when you are contributing as much to the health and wellness landscape as she is, I think it’s more than warranted.   I couldn’t wait to talk to her about her creative process, how she got into doing what she is doing and how she manages to fit it all in - and still find the time to vlog about it. She is thoroughly modern business woman and an absolute inspiration. Please enjoy my chat with Lola Berry.

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Ep 1: Harvey Miller (Client Liaison) or 'How to Create Your Own Gap in the Market'

    My guest this week is Harvey Miller. He and Monty Morgan are the front men and masterminds behind Client Liaison, who have been carving a niche in the Australian music scene for over five years.

    What started as the most ‘Melbourne' of concepts: a party-band with an irony-infused, 80’s pop aesthetic, has since become a national - and now international - sensation.

    There is so much to discuss when it comes to the Client Liaison offering: the music, the videos, the theatre of their live shows, their extensive merchandise and designer clothing collection and now their chauffeur driven off-white limousine service.

    So if you’re interested in how to create and grow a brand from the ground-up - or to make a place in the market for yourself when one doesn’t currently exist, this one’s for you.

    Please enjoy my chat with Harvey Miller.

     

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    1 hr 5 min

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Dan Brophy, The Creative Coach, is a thought-leader, speaker and educator, inspiring business teams and commercial creatives to tap their creative energy for the purpose of achieving their project goals.