Authenticity, Risk, and Adjusting | Recording Artist and Composer, Stephan Moccio

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Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Stephan Moccio, a producer, composer, recording artist and musician behind some of music’s most massive, inescapable global hits.

In 2013, Stephan co-penned the quintuple-platinum song “Wrecking Ball” with Miley Cyrus.

Following the song’s success, Stephan quickly became one of the industry’s most sought-after and in-demand producers and songwriters, going on to co-write and co-produce the two end credit songs for the film Fifty Shades of Grey: the quintuple-platinum "Earned It" with The Weeknd and "I Know You" with Skylar Grey.

Stephan also co-wrote the Celine Dion come back hit “A New Day Has Come” and produced/co-wrote the quintuple-platinum song “I Believe” for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

I really enjoy getting a chance to speak with artists on Finding Mastery because there is this tension that exists between art and commerce, and it’s something I want to continue exploring.

Art is subjective – yet commerce is not.

We live in an era where data driven decisions have become the norm.

For some lines of business this can be great, but it also can limit creativity and stifle innovation.

Many of us experience these same pressures – whether you work in the corporate world, entertainment, or sport.

So while Stephan’s craft is music, I really think this applies to all of us.

In Stephan’s case – his conundrum is centered on the type of music he chooses to make. Make music he know will sell? That the labels will love? Or music that he connects with? Music that touches his heart.

That’s at the center of this conversation – Stephan shares how he’s gone about navigating that tension between selling out and making music true to him, why he’s been willing to take risks, and how’s he gone about adjusting as the music industry has rapidly evolved.

Authenticity. Risk. Adjusting.

Three components that I think are at the foundation of mastery.

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0:00.0	My mom always taught me, someone's got to be great in the world and if, in
0:03.2	you why can't it be you? Why can't it be you? This is such logic, it just makes so much
0:07.7	sense to me. If someone's got to be the best at something, why can't it be you?
0:12.4	As long as you work your ass off and
0:15.0	you're the discipline is a big thing for me I mean the discipline I learned as
0:19.8	musician I've applied it throughout my entire life you you know, because I've been practicing piano
0:24.5	ever since I was three years old.
0:26.1	Because I know that same way that if I don't go to the gym in the morning, my body's not
0:29.7	going to look the way it does.
0:31.4	If I don't put in the scales, I'm not going to be a great piano player. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and by trade
0:50.1	and training a sport and performance psychologist as well as the co-founder of compete to create. and from people who are switched on, who flat out are investing their life efforts towards
1:05.9	mastery of craft and self.
1:08.6	And what we want to do is dig to understand, like what are they searching for? How do they organize their inner life?
1:14.0	How do they make sense of the world around them?
1:16.0	And we also want to pull on that string to understand
1:19.0	what are the mental skills that they use
1:21.0	to build and refine their craft.
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1:34.0	From my lens, it's a great way to reinforce a desired culture,
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