Become a Rockstar on Whatever Stage You Touch with Sekou Andrews

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Do you want to make your art your commodity? Answer that. Because that choice is the most difficult choice you’re going to have to make. That’s going to guide and effect everything else that you’re doing. When I think about how that’s shown up in my life, it’s shown up in some incredibly beautiful ways and some incredibly difficult ways. When your art is your commodity, when you’re just a poet, and you’re doing it as a hobby, it’s like “I want to show up at this open mic and rock my love poem, you know I’m in love. I want rock my heartbreak poem because she just left me. Or I want to do my suicide depression poem because I’m feeling down.” And now when your art becomes your job, it’s like “I’ve got to rock this phone bill poem” – Sekou Andrews

As the world’s leading Poetic voice, Sekou Andrews creates powerful poetic presentations that give voice to the missions of organizations and help them tell their most powerful stories. He’s also the creator of Stage Might, unique training to help you stand out on any stage, and inspire any crowd by becoming more authentic, moving, and memorable.

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0:00.0	Do you want to make your art your commodity?
0:05.0	Answer that because that choice is the most difficult choice you're going to have to make
0:11.0	and that's going to guide and affect everything else that you're doing.
0:14.5	And when I think about how that's shown up in my life, it's shown up in some incredibly beautiful
0:21.9	ways and some incredibly difficult ways, you know, I mean when you're when your art is your commodity you you know when you're just a poet just doing it for your hobby
0:30.3	It's like oh, I want to I want to show up at this open mic and I want to rock my
0:33.2	my my love poem you know I'm in love I want to rock my heartbreak poem because I'm my I just you know she just left me or I want to I want to you know do my suicide depression poem because I'm
0:44.3	feeling down you know and now when your art becomes your job then it's like you
0:49.7	know I got to rock this phone bill poem.
0:53.0	I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most
1:04.6	innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses,
1:08.7	written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
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