B. Jeffrey Madoff | Making a Living with Your Ideas
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
How do you make a living with your ideas? B. Jeffrey Madoff's done it, he's written a book about it and now he joins us to tell us how. Jeffrey is a director, photographer, writer, and professor in NYC. In this discussion, we talk about creative careers. What they look like, what they feel like, what they require of you, how to build one and much more.
B. Jeffrey Madoff is the author of Creative Careers: Making a Living With Your Ideas, available now | https://acreativecareer.com
Jeffrey is the Founder and CEO of Madoff Productions | https://madoffproductions.com
Follow Jeffrey on Instagram | https://instagram.com/acreativecareer
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| 0:00.0 | You just said the key word and that word is persistence and |
| 0:05.7 | Persistence is essential if you want to make a living with your ideas. |
| 0:10.1 | You have to keep added if you are someone who is easily discouraged or gives up easily |
| 0:16.0 | You're not going to make it as an entrepreneur and you're not going to make it as a creative |
| 0:20.1 | Because it's just too hard and there's this whole false notion out there I think |
| 0:25.0 | fostered by social media that everything is just great all the time and I'm doing |
| 0:30.7 | great all the time and it's a lot of work. |
| 0:34.0 | And the only way that you can continue to put out the energy that it takes is that you have |
| 0:40.5 | persistence and I think what fuels the persistence is |
| 0:43.8 | understanding what your motivations are for doing it in the first place. |
| 0:48.0 | Because it's really easy to lose track of that when you're just up against the wall all the time. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds, |
| 1:08.0 | started movements, built thriving businesses, written best selling books, and created insanely interesting art. For more |
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| 1:46.2 | Jeffrey, welcome to the unmistakable Creative. |
| 1:47.8 | Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:49.4 | Well, thank you, Srini, for having me on. |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. |
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