B-Roll

Today, I interview a man who works with people in both the world I came from (Construction) and the world I’m entering (Creative). Wes Towers, founder of Uplift 360 and author of The Simple Manifesto. On paper, he builds websites for construction companies. In reality, he’s spent twenty years learning the hard lessons most of

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I wanted all day, rather than just one hour to pick this man’s brain. Richard Moon is one of those people. If you don’t know Richard yet, you will. He’s an award-winning screenwriter, indie film producer, novelist, physics tutor, SF nerd, history obsessive, musician, hiker, curler, kitten foster, and all-around storyteller. His debut historical fantasy

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Every once in a while, I meet someone whose story doesn’t just inspire me — it re-calibrates something in my brain. Not because they’ve lived some glamorous Hollywood life or because they’ve “made it” in the traditional sense, but because they’ve carved out a life that looks suspiciously like freedom. That was my conversation with

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Every once in a while, you do something sneaky. Not illegal-sneaky, not “hide the body” sneaky — more like the creative version of quietly rearranging the living room and hoping nobody notices until they sit down and go, “Huh… this actually works better.” That’s basically what I just did with one of my old book.

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We love to slap labels on things. Debt? Oh, that’s “bad.” Or wait, maybe it’s “good” if you’re building credit. Or “ugly” when it spirals out of control. But here’s the truth: debt isn’t a moral character in your latest novel. It doesn’t wake up in the morning plotting against you. In fact, and this

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Every once in a while, I sit down with someone who reminds me why I started this whole “hammer to Hollywood” journey in the first place. Someone who embodies the messy, beautiful, stubborn heart of creativity. Someone who proves that the path from struggling artist to working creative is rarely straight, never predictable, and always

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Here is a pretty simple analogy. If money is a battery, how does that change the way you look at it? Before we get too deep into this, lets consider for a moment that you want money, and a lot of it. I think that’s a reasonable assumption. Who doesn’t want more money. The question

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Every once in a while, I sit down with someone whose life feels like a movie script waiting to happen. And then, halfway through the conversation, I realize the script is already written — in the way they talk, the way they think, the way they’ve lived. That was my experience interviewing Christopher “Coyote” Choate,

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What do you get when you cross a marketer, musician, cancer patient advocate, and espionage novelist? You get Ray Hartjen. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ray on the Light-Minded Arts podcast, and let me tell you—this guy has lived a few lifetimes. From investment banking to SaaS software, from writing about hockey

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Our culture has weird ways of kicking us in the pants. Everything from toxic expectations to unhealthy relationships with people and everything around us. One of those big challenges is when it comes to money. Yes, money! Let me ask you this, do you want to be rich? If I polled a thousand people, I’m

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