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Creativity Excitement Emotion

By: David Andrew Wiebe
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  • Creativity Excitement Emotion features award-winning composer, best-selling author, and professional podcaster David Andrew Wiebe formerly of The New Music Industry Podcast. In addition to offering expert tips for musicians, artists, and creatives, the podcast delivers candid conversations, interviews, and roundtables with an array of artists, creatives, executives, marketers, coaches, and entrepreneurs. Favoring a storytelling approach, Wiebe’s new podcast is chock-full of personal stories and examples that equip the listener with valuable takeaways they won’t soon forget.
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  • 056 – Creating Your Freedom Lifestyle – with Evan Price

    056 – Creating Your Freedom Lifestyle – with Evan Price
    Apr 22 2024
    Would you like to spend more of your time doing what you love to do? Would you like to be able to pick and choose the projects you want to work on? Are you thinking about becoming a digital nomad? In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David interviews Evan Price, who shares the steps he took to create his freedom lifestyle. Download the PDF Transcript Sponsors: Productivity, Performance & Profits Blackbook: Get a free copy of the “Definitive Guide to Productivity for Artists and Entrepreneurs.” Highlights: 00:17 – Returning guest, Evan Price 00:31 – How do you package your creative skills to create a viable business? 03:08 – Streamlining you and your customer’s focus 09:26 – The value of being unfocused for a time 10:19 – Improving your product vs. improving your marketing 13:48 – Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich 15:11 – How do you identify your ideal customer? 17:40 – Evan’s best tips for building a team 20:24 – Content creation and giving away the keys to the kingdom 24:04 – Building trust with people 26:15 – The importance of networking 29:12 – What’s the right time to scale your business? 33:23 – How did Evan decide to take the leap of faith? 38:59 – What is it like to live nomadically? 45:39 – How much money do you need to live a freedom lifestyle? 51:12 – Closing thoughts Summary: The very idea of trying to create a freedom lifestyle can sometimes appear an uphill battle. You’ve got to get your finances in order. You’ll probably need a passport. On top of that, you’ve got to plan the logistics of where you’ll be going and when, where to stay, whether to bring your car with you and more. In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David and Evan break down and simplify the process of becoming a digital nomad. Bundle Up Your Expertise and Sell it Evan emphasizes the value of the DLB (Do Less Better) offer model. Nowadays, many businesses are a little bloated – they offer dozens if not hundreds of products and services, and this scatters the focus of the business owner as well as the prospects and customers who might otherwise be interested in buying. Evan suggests that you should find something you can do that no one else can. The more specific, the better. This allows you to create what Evan calls a “luxury” offer, something that can be sold for thousands of dollars rather than pennies. Evan says this is how he streamlined his business. David offers that minimizing and optimizing seems to be the direction things are going in now. As opposed to having dozens of websites and products, marketers are creating central portals and leading prospects on different journeys depending on their interests. David also shares an example from his life, stating that when he had one or two books, his customers knew what to buy and were happy. But as his catalog increased, his customers became paralyzed and bought fewer books. Which explains why he’s only promoting his latest book on his website. Spreading Yourself Thin Evan shares that it’s easy to spread yourself thin. When you’re young, and you’re not sure what you want to focus on, you feel like you could take on the world and try your hand at dozens if not hundreds of different things. At the time, Evan was learning how to use Facebook ads, managing acts, booking tours, and more. But he noticed that none of the things he was working on were reaching the tipping point of success. If you keep on that path, says Evan, you will eventually reach a point of burnout. So, he stopped doing what he was doing, made an assessment of his strengths and weaknesses, and bundled up his expertise to streamline his business. David admits to having too many things to fulfill in recent years, including Members Only Audios, which he quickly realized was akin to running two podcasts at the same time. He would often think to himself, “I’m a superhero, and I can do it!” But he would either end up disappointing himself or his pr...
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    53 mins
  • 055 – Breakthroughs in Confrontation

    055 – Breakthroughs in Confrontation
    Apr 2 2024
    Do you struggle with confrontation? How does it make you feel? Does it hold you back from expressing yourself? In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares about the challenges he’s experienced in confronting others. Download the PDF Transcript Sponsors: Productivity, Performance & Profits Blackbook: Get a free copy of the “Definitive Guide to Productivity for Artists and Entrepreneurs.” Highlights: 00:17 – Labels 01:17 – Sensitive-intuitive 02:16 – Avoiding confrontation 06:11 – You need to speak up Transcript: I'm not a very confrontational person and I have a feeling it's one of those things that has held me back in my life. My friend Maveen Kaura always said, “Don't give yourself labels.” You might've heard a little bit of that kind of conversation on Using Your Power. And I agree with him. I never labeled myself as something permanent. We’re not all fixed. We're all changing. The only reason a label would stick is if you’re telling the story over and over. Even as I say that I think I'm kind of realizing the insanity a little bit in what I'm saying, which is helping. I'm trying to identify or distinguish something in the way that I've been so that I can be freer. And I think that's what today's conversation is about. Why I’m sharing this with you, is because of what I understand about being a sensitive-intuitive… I'm not saying that description fits me to a T or exactly. All I'm saying is there was a period in my life where that was something that I needed to hear and it helped me heal in a very difficult situation where I was feeling very depressed and I don't use that word casually at all. It was the summer of 2014, and my prayers were hitting the ceiling, and I didn't feel like living anymore. So, I was in that state and that's when I discovered “sensitive intuitive,” what that meant, and that made a difference for me. So that's where the identification originally comes from. Like I said, it doesn't have to be set in stone and it doesn't even have to be permanent. It's just something that helped me through a period of my life. But what I know about being sensitive-intuitive is we have trouble with confrontation. There is something physical that happens. When the need for confrontation arises, usually it's in our gut. We feel pain when there's something that needs to be said to another person. Now, throughout my life and my personal development journey, I have gained a lot of ground in terms of self-expression. I'm more self-expressed than I've ever been. But if there's a part of me or there's an aspect of myself that has held me back from being everything, I think I'm capable of being, and from being totally and completely free, it's probably this – confrontation. Now, when you hear “confrontation” you might immediately think to yourself, “Okay, so like yelling and shouting matches and that types of scenarios.” And yes, that can apply, but it can be something as insignificant as “There's something I need to tell someone,” but knowing that you have to go and tell them makes you feel nervous. So, that's the physical reaction that I'm talking about. It’s not just some minor butterflies in your stomach. You feel pain. That's the kind of physical reaction that I'm talking about. So, are there situations where I've stepped through pain, the butterflies, the fear to tell people things? Absolutely. That's a deviation from the norm. That's a deviation from how I've described myself. That’s why I say, “Labels are a moving target.” So, at times, I have been able to be fully self-expressed in these scenarios, but there've been scenarios where I also wasn't able to express myself in the way that I needed to. I have tended to get away from those scenarios as quickly as possible. And there are situations where maybe I wasn't fearing for my life, but a little bit. At least fearing for my possessions and my finances because of the people I met who are sociopaths, psychopaths,
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    8 mins
  • 054 – Podcast Update for April 1, 2024

    054 – Podcast Update for April 1, 2024
    Apr 1 2024
    We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to bring you an important update. There are several great announcements in this episode, and you won’t want to miss out! In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares essential updates concerning his business as well as the podcast. Download the PDF Transcript Sponsors: Productivity, Performance & Profits Blackbook: Get a free copy of the “Definitive Guide to Productivity for Artists and Entrepreneurs.” Highlights: 00:17 – Podcast update 01:17 – David’s grandfather passed away 02:18 – How DavidAndrewWiebe.com is transforming 03:54 – The launch of MusicHackers.org 06:23 – The launch of Better Ways to Survive 07:28 – The future of the Creativity Excitement Emotion podcast 08:29 – Closing thoughts Transcript: Welcome to Creativity Excitement Emotion. I know this is one of the few times I’ve even given an intro like that, and there is a reason for it. I began recording episodes for Creativity Excitement Emotion in July 2024, so aside from the interview with Jody in episode 9, as well as episode 30, in which I talked about why I deleted Music Entrepreneur HQ, you’ve been hearing episodes I recorded months ago The last few episodes, specifically, were captured around October of last year. But today’s episode is more current, meaning I’m capturing it at the end of March 2024, to give you a timely update. And I know it’s April 1, but I’m letting you know at the outset that what’s covered in this episode is not an April Fool’s joke – we truly are moving forward with the things talked about here. Either way, there is much to talk about today, so let’s go item by item. The Passing of David’s Grandfather Last weekend, I got the news that my grandfather had passed away. So, I decided to honor him with a week of silence – you may have noticed that I didn’t post any new podcast episodes last week. I know that may sound kind of convenient, but they say everyone mourns differently, and the main way it’s been showing up for me is exhaustion, so I’ve been resting a lot and taking things slow. There has been no reason to overexert myself, and in fact, I’ve kind of been enjoying more of a relaxed pace lately. I’m discovering more and more that I don’t need dozens of projects in my life to sustain or fulfill me. Anyway, I plan to honor my grandfather in the written word, and I’m going to write something for the man who never taught me anything but showed me several things, like how to fish, how to drive a lawn tractor, or how to drive a truck. And yes, I will be sharing that piece publicly, so keep an eye open for it on DavidAndrewWiebe.com. DavidAndrewWiebe.com’s New Look and New Focus Speaking of DavidAndrewWiebe.com, I needed to make some decisions concerning how I wanted to continue to build my brand. There were a couple of big considerations, with the first being that I hadn’t brought the styling of the website fully up to date. I got some great photos done in February, and I hadn’t gotten around to using them across the entire website yet. So, it was time to get on top of that. We also chose the specific fonts and colors I’m to be using on the website. If you go to the website now, while it’s still somewhat of a work in progress, you’ll find that we’ve largely implemented the new style. The second consideration was deciding on a specific direction for my site. It was far too general to appeal to anyone, and that put me in a position of having to work for attention and business instead of attracting and earning it. So, I now have a very simple sentence explaining exactly the purpose the site serves: Here I document my journey of music, starting businesses, and personal growth. It took some time to land on that one, but that’s almost exactly what the site already is, so I’m very happy we were able to condense it into that. Additionally, I’ve warned in the past,
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