Ep. 71 will.i.am Reveals All: Money-making, The Price Of Fame & His Secret Recipe For Creativity

Working Hard, Hardly Working

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Ceos, Unknown, Feminsim, Advice, Self-improvement, Business, Women In Business, Stories, Education, Marketing, Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Ceo, Women Leaders, Money, Careers, Success

4.4 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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It’s a big one, today on Working Hard, Hardly Working, we have the one and only will.i.am.

He’s a multi-platinum artist, he’s won nine Grammys, an Emmy and is an all-round incredible musician, both as part of the Black Eyed Peas and as a music producer. But what you might not know, is that he’s also a tech entrepreneur, and has been leading and investing in tech companies for over a decade now. I wanted to speak to Will about navigating two simultaneous careers, how they intersect, and what brought him to where his “career” lies now.

It’s such an honour to have Will on the podcast, I’ll be honest with you, I was pretty star-struck. Thanks so much for listening!

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0:42.9	Today on Working Hardly Working, Hardly Working, we have the one, the only will I am.
0:50.1	He is a multi-platinum artist.
0:52.2	He's won nine Grammys, an Emmy Emmy and is an all-round incredible musician,
0:56.0	both as part of the Black Eyed Peas and as a music producer. But what you might not know is that
1:01.5	he's also a tech entrepreneur and has been leading and investing in tech companies for over a decade now,
1:06.8	including being one of the founding investors in such a huge company and what ended up to be an
1:13.5	enormous very big news deal in Beats by Dre. I wanted to speak to Will today about kind of
1:18.6	navigating two separate, intertwined, but simultaneous careers. How they intersect, what brought him
1:26.5	to where his kind of career is now.
1:29.2	It is such an honour to have Will on the podcast. I'll be honest with you that I was, you know,
1:33.9	I was a little bit starstruck and it is so clear from talking to him how much of a purely creative
1:40.4	person he is. Please, if you do enjoy this episode, make sure to like and subscribe or
1:44.8	rate or literally whatever it is on the current platform that you are on. It helps the podcast.
1:50.4	It helps us get an amazing guess. And most importantly, it helps my ego. There are some truly
1:55.7	fantastic gems of moments in here. And I really enjoyed speaking to Will so clear, as I said,
2:03.4	just how creative he is. And I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed
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