I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Boccarice Helms podcast today.

We actually have a very, very interesting episode.

We like to bring our listeners some brilliant folk.

And today is someone else brilliant in that same line of thought

and reasoning, but none other than Doug Melville,

how are you today?

I'm great, I'm feeling good and

energized. Happy to be here with you and your listener. You look good, man,

like you've just been mind of your business and drinking your water, man, you look good.

It's very important. Look my show is unique in that we

start each one of our shows off with the same question and we like to have our

guest walkers through the arc of their careers. So talk to us both about your

corporate career and how you come to a point where you're now juggling a senior

executive role and writing a book about your family's history?

Yeah, so the first 10 years of my career out of college,

I worked with entertainers to help them create their passion projects.

So more of a marketing background, licensing,

branding, name recognition spin-offs, different seats of the same table of how entertainers and people of note can control their name and

likeness and leverage that to create different monetary opportunities or support

existing monetary opportunities that weren't their primary form of revenue.

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