Filmmaker Max Joseph on Failure, Happiness, & Finding Your Creative Voice

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Max Joseph is a filmmaker, digital content creator, and former co-host of MTV’s Catfish. This conversation explores Max’s journey through the evolving media landscape and his search for creative fulfillment and happiness. We discuss his experience directing a Hollywood feature, the aftermath of a high-profile box office disappointment, and his new YouTube series on the science of well-being. He shares insights on straddling traditional and new media, creative struggles, the neuroscience of happiness, and the importance of connection. Max is a thoughtful, vulnerable storyteller. And this conversation is a reflection of resilience and creative reinvention. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Eight Sleep: Use code RICHROLL to get $350 OFF Pod 4 Ultra👉 eightsleep.com/richroll Roka: Unlock 20% OFF your order with code RICHROLL 👉ROKA.com/RICHROLL Bon Charge: Use code RICHROLL to save 15% OFF 👉boncharge.com Waking Up: Get a FREE month, plus $30 OFF 👉wakingup.com/RICHROLL Whoop: Unlock the best version of yourself 👉join.whoop.com/roll This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp: Listeners get 10% off their first month 👉BetterHelp.com/RICHROLL Check out all of the amazing discounts from our Sponsors 👉 richroll.com/sponsors Find out more about Voicing Change Media at voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange

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0:00.0	I kind of came up wanting to be this traditional filmmaker but traditional in the kind of 90 sense of you know art house filmmaking
0:12.0	But I was a web filmmaker I was making content like web
0:16.4	stuff which was this really exciting world of like oh my god like YouTube it's like
0:22.1	oh information can be made to be exciting.
0:25.2	Like that can go viral, educating people,
0:28.3	bringing these other interests I had in like geopolitics and social issues like there's a place to make stuff
0:35.8	here that can be really impactful and man was it powerful like the first couple
0:40.0	videos I made for good one of them went bananas viral in the first two days it got
0:45.6	five million views and I was like checking my phone every second like I would
0:50.1	just refresh and it would just jump up like a hundred thousand and that was like
0:54.5	welcome to the drug like what else can we do I'm going to take these lessons and
1:01.6	I'm going to translate them and
1:03.0	adapt them and scale them up to here.
1:05.0	And reinvent cinema.
1:06.5	Correct.
1:07.5	Yeah.
1:08.5	And reinvent cinema I did.
1:10.0	Zach Ephron movie makes no friends.
1:15.0	Biggest box office bomb since 1984.
1:21.0	I definitely went into a multi-year-long tailspin.
1:27.2	I was really paranoid that this failure was gonna define me.
1:31.9	And it was bad.
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