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The Mike Show is a deep dive into the world of content creation. Exploring the adventures of new media creatives and the digital age of storytelling. Hosted by producer and podcaster Michael Slemmons.2022 Economía Exito Profesional
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  • 1.9 Billion Dollars and Hawaii Fomo - BenM (Ben Meiring, Music Producer and Songwriter)

    1.9 Billion Dollars and Hawaii Fomo - BenM (Ben Meiring, Music Producer and Songwriter)
    Feb 1 2023
    BenM (Ben Meiring) is a songwriter, producer, and film worker from Tulsa, OK. He jumped around in the music scene, accumulating gear and skills along the way. He applies these skills to helping others create music and also to create his own - keeping an approach of always continuing to learn, grow and stay passionate along the way. You can also find him on TikTok making fingerboarding videos - a fun hobby that he is quickly growing a following from. Mike and BenM dig into the world of music on today's episode. BenM breaks down some of his creative process, including brief explanations of what gear, software, and tools he's using to create. They cover music monetization, side hustles and day jobs, and some of BenM's favorite artists and musical influences. Mike also asks BenM to explain the growing viral trend of fingerboarding and how BenM carved out a little place in that world for himself. "It all starts with the idea and then you branch out from there. With this fun little interlude piece that I made, I wanted it to build and tell a story without any lyrics or any singing but just to be purely instrumental and tell a story that way." - BenM "If you have a computer and you have a DAW that you learn inside and out, you don't really need to come and see me. You can start making songs on your computer right now clicking around and dragging notes on the piano roll." - BenM "When an idea comes to you, you better be able to book it to an open project and be able to lay that shit out. Otherwise it's going to be gone. When you open up your VoiceMemo app, a lot of the times you're like where was this going? I know I had this idea. But it's amazing how quickly that idea can slip away and not be as exciting as you first imagined it." - BenM "I'm trying to upload more TikToks because that seems to be where actually where I'm having a lot of fun too. You'll have this idea and you're like I don't have to write any lyrics, I can just have some fun." - BenM "If people like it but you don't, you're not going to like making music. But if you like it and some people do, then you're going to keep people happy. It doesn't matter how many. If it's a million, great. If it's 100, you're still going to feel good about putting out that same style of music." - BenM "I made a TikTok and Instagram account after I had accumulated what I thought were pretty sick looking slo-mo shots of me doing these tricks. And you can open up CapCut and set some key frames and I'm learning a decent amount actually about video editing in the process." - BenM "And as soon as you have a community that you're tight with online, it's a really nice feeling. And I'd like if I could deepen that in the music world and focus more on getting more involved in the music community through TikTok and Instagram." - BenM "I think working on developing a nice finished polished product that you're proud of, if you can get there that's the first step and hats off. I think the next step is either going broke investing into that or just taking it step by step and building that fame and that clout as you go and get better." - BenM Highlights This Week: Mike and BenM talk about what's ahead for Ben in the short term including film jobs and future singles. BenM explains some of his process including the software he uses like Ableton and LogicPro with its drummer tool as well as how he uses prompts and a core idea to build a vibe and branch out from there.BenM breaks down what his rig looks like and what gear he's working with when recording and creating.BenM talks about how a computer has become a key tool for BenM to create music and how learning the basics with a computer and a DAW is more important than "all the shiny toys."Mike and BenM discuss how audiobooks are the future.Mike asks BenM about his recent work on a film in Hawaii as well as the day job grind while pursuing creative ventures.BenM gives his philosophy on how artists need to have their tools ready for when unexpected creative inspiration comes.Mike and BenM discuss the delicate balance between consistently putting out art and the perfectionism that goes hand-in-hand with creative pursuits.BenM lays out how and where he self-publishes his music from Soundcloud and other streaming platforms to TikTok. Mike asks BenM to explain how platforms like Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube allow musicians to monetize their work and how BenM navigates it himself with TuneCore.BenM shares some of his most played songs and artists of 2022.Mike and BenM discuss how important it is for artists to make music that they like rather than what they think will be popular or do well.BenM opens up about his hobby, and a new social media craze: fingerboarding. He explains how it grew from a middle school interest to a post-college hobby to a TikTok that helped him hone video editing skills.Mike and BenM talk about how embracing what can be fun and can be childish can actually help to ...
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    1 h y 9 m
  • The Best Plan is No Plan - DR. K (Dr. Alok Kanojia) | HEALTHY GAMER

    The Best Plan is No Plan - DR. K (Dr. Alok Kanojia) | HEALTHY GAMER
    Jan 20 2023
    Doctor K is a psychiatrist and streamer whose work focuses on helping to encourage mental health within the gaming community. From a burnt out pre-med student with a video game addiction to a meditation student at an ashram in India and eventually now a streaming doctor who is renowned for helping gamers, it's fair to say that Doctor K has taken an uncommon route in his career and life. His work ties together his experiences practicing meditation, studying Western medicine, and a long history playing video games to provide unique mental health coaching for gamers specifically directly to his audience on Twitch. This episode Mike and Doctor K cover a plethora of topics from the organic way Doctor K's Healthy Gamer has grown to his philosophies on mental health. They discuss the unorthodox way Doctor K found himself in the field of psychiatric medicine as well as his own struggles with mental health and video game addiction. Doctor K talks about how his experiences in India influenced how he looks at mental health and where he believes the American psychiatric system can grow and adapt to better meet the changing needs of patients, the trials and tribulations of living in a technology-filled world, and how to responsibly adapt Eastern ideas with Western medicine. For more from Doctor K, check the links below to check out his Twitch, Twitter, and join his communities on Discord and Reddit. "After working with gamers for a couple years, I started to realize that a lot of what they need is not necessarily therapy but just understanding. There's just so many basics about how technology interfaces with your mind that we don't understand as a society." - Dr. K "In the West we have formal education in subjects like mathematics and science. Soo every kid is taught mathematics and science. But even if you look at our formal study of psychology, we don't teach you about you. We teach you about general principles of populations." - Dr. K "What I really discovered in India was a formal education in the self. So how does a human being work? Where do thoughts come from? What's the relationship between thoughts and actions? Where do desires come from? How does one overcome your desires? Why do we give into our desires? All that basic stuff. And I thought it was fantastic. So we take that approach. Understand yourself in a very practical way if you want to improve your life." - Dr. K "People can't wait 10 years for a solution, even if it's the most beautifully produced solution. So there was a real sense of urgency. People's lives were being ruined one semester at a time. People can't wait 10 years let alone 10 months and let alone 10 weeks. People need help today." - Dr. K "So we started on Twitch because that's where my people are and the people that I was trying to help. And by my people, I mean gamers." - Dr. K "When I started streaming on Twitch, I didn't anticipate having a company. We may have incorporated by that point, so we did some due diligence there, but that was just to separate out my clinical practice from the entity that does Twitch. So some diligence there, but we didn't plan on becoming a thing. If 5 people show up, that's a win in my book." - Dr. K "One of the big things I learned in India is that we attach ourselves to some kind of fiction. The big problem with plans is that we make them in the beginning, but in the beginning is when we understand the least." - Dr. K "I don't consider the [generational] disconnect a bad thing, if that makes sense. I've just acknowledged that I'm not going to understand half of what goes on on Twitch. Every year that goes by, I'm going to understand less and less. And that's okay. And so part of what I love about Twitch is that Twitch helps me understand. So if I don't understand something, which is happening more and more, I will literally, I want to say once a week or once every other week, I will just ask Twitch." - Dr. K "That's the big lesson that we've learned, mental health and mental illness are not things that you need to carry alone. We can come together and support each other as a community. Use tools like peer support to discuss traditionally taboo topics because everyone is suffering from it and we're not talking about it." - Dr. K "I remember when I was a kid, I always got the feedback that I need to focus more. I would do so much better, I would live up to my potential if I could focus more. And my parents would tell me to focus more, my teachers would tell me to focus more. But no one ever taught me how to focus. They just said you need to be better at it. They never sat me down and said here is how you get your mind to focus on one thing for an extended period of time. And that's what I loved about India. They were like, by the way, here's how you ride a bicycle, except the bicycle is your mind. Here's how you get your mind to go in the direction that you want it to go." - Dr. K "I don't think that 95% of people ...
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    1 h y 6 m
  • Like Running a Daycare - Zach (Hammurabae on Twitch and Youtube)

    Like Running a Daycare - Zach (Hammurabae on Twitch and Youtube)
    Jan 14 2023
    Zach "Hammurabae" is a streamer by craft but a raconteur at heart. He started his Twitch stream to explore storytelling through a mixture of role playing and multiplayer video games, using characters and nations as vehicles into creating game-driven shared narratives. Through this pursuit, he's created a gaming community open to all centered primarily on the video game Hearts of Iron IV. You can find his playthroughs on Twitch and his community on Discord. This episode Mike and Hammurabae talk about the unique community he's built through his streaming on Twitch and the content he's created on YouTube. Regularly running games with as many as 90 players on strategy games with an emphasis on roleplay, Hammurabae breaks down how he uses his staff of nearly 50 to help facilitate games and organize the community. Hammurabae explains why he thinks learning vital skills like communication, editing, and filming are vital to creating the best content possible. They also discuss consistency in scheduling, how to ask for help and resources when you're just starting streaming or creating content, the effects of obsessing over viewership on mental health, and more. Check the links below to watch more of Hammurabae's content or if you're interested in learning more about his community or joining one of his games. "As a streamer, as a content creator, as a YouTuber, there are so many skills you need to learn and they're all useful. So I felt I was doing a disservice to myself by not building that skillset because for one it's useful just to have for the rest of your life and for two you will make better stuff if you know it very well yourself." - Hammurabae "You have a game which is innately story based and it gives you options to express yourself. Some people play games just to shoot things. Or to just watch the story go. But there's many people who would much rather get themselves into that world and put themselves in it." - Hammurabae "I think our community is very positive and that's something I've been really proud to see happen. It makes it so that people will also defend it because any group has a culture. And ours is at the point now that when toxic people or people who want to screw around want to come in, sometimes staff doesn't even have to do anything. It's the people themselves who say that's not going to happen." - Hammurabae "For anyone who wants to stream and to do well in streaming, don't do that. Switching around a lot is an easy way just to make people not watch you, to be honest. Because people are habitual. We're all habitual. We build habits for what we do, what we watch, and things like that. And streaming is one of those things that if you watch streaming for streaming, it's to interact. And if it's not happening on the same day, you will lose lots of people." - Hammurabae "My biggest piece of advice is consistency. And start with YouTube. Consistency on YouTube, like with uploading, with putting up videos and stuff like that. Don't just put up a couple of videos, wait a while, and then do some more. You need a consistent schedule. Match that to what you can do, whatever that is. Maybe that's bi-weekly, once a month. It doesn't matter. But having some kind of consistency, certain days, certain times, that is huge." - Hammurabae "The YouTube space is just so much bigger. YouTube is a much better platform than Twitch in many ways. And it is, I think in many ways, more rewarding to you to build the skills on YouTube and then go to Twitch." - Hammurabae "I really didn't put a lot of time and effort into YouTube in the beginning and I regret that. Not just for the limitations of Twitch, but because I feel much more fulfilled with what I do with YouTube." - Hammurabae "Just slowly build up. I've talked to many people who do and don't have YouTube channels or stream on Twitch and some of them are very nervous about that. They're like: I want it to be perfect. I want this to be just amazing. And then they just don't do anything. And that will stop you before anything else will. So, being ready to accept that in the beginning you will not make perfect stuff." - Hammurabae "And there's going to be what you want to do and then there's going to be what people want to see. And they're different. They are. They'll always be different. And you've got to find what you can enjoy but also what people want to watch and that helps you. And there is an overlap there." - Hammurabae "It's unhealthy. It really is. With anything like that, especially if you have expectations of any sort. It is really draining. It will make you less passionate. It will make what you do worse. And it's just not mentally healthy, to be honest. If you're obsessing over your sub count, your view count on Twitch, how well a video is doing… outside the context of analyzing." - Hammurabae "Finding de-stressors and setting apart your personal life is huge. Even if you're massively successful. Even if ...
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    1 h y 18 m
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