Following Your Intuition | Comedian, Brian Volk-Weiss

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Brian Volk-Weiss, the founder and president of Comedy Dynamics.

Brian stands at the forefront of comedy’s evolution in the 21st century.

Since the launch of Comedy Dynamics in 2008, he has guided the award-winning brand to becoming the nation’s largest independent producer and distributor of one-hour comedy specials, while initiating innovative partnerships with Amazon, ROKU, and HULU—where it ranks as one of the platform’s top three most popular comedy channels.

The company has worked with a wide range of established and emerging comedic talent including Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Jim Gaffigan, Ali Wong, David Cross, and many more.

17 Comedy Dynamics releases have been Grammy-nominated (with three wins), including the unprecedented all 5 nominations in the Comedy Album category for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

And while comedy is Brian’s passion, this conversation is about intuition and risk.

It’s about having a tolerance for failure and being willing to take a chance when you see there’s an opportunity on the table.

It’s about having a vision for what’s possible and chipping all in.

I found this conversation to be super inspiring – there’s something in it for all of us, regardless of your craft.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Most successful breakthroughs coast on the backs of prior breakthroughs.
0:07.0	Great example is Facebook.
0:09.0	Facebook probably would have not done so well without the Harvard infrastructure.
0:14.6	Netflix is another great example.
0:17.4	They were shipping plastic discs of movies they did not make to people paying for them.
0:24.4	They had a brilliant idea, brilliant technology,
0:27.9	brilliant everything, but still they built Netflix
0:32.0	on the backs of the Warner Brothers in Disney and Paramount libraries.
0:36.6	So I always thought it was crazy to have a website that you would drag people to.
0:41.6	So we started building this infrastructure that put us where everybody was.
0:46.7	So if you're in Alabama, we're on Cox. If you're in Denver, we're on dish.
0:54.6	Yettie, yettie, yett, welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervais, and by Trade and and Training a Sport and Performance Psychologist as
1:14.8	well as the co-founder of Compete to Create and the whole idea behind this
1:19.4	conversation behind these conversations this podcast is to learn and to apply the insights from
1:24.8	people who have dedicated their life efforts towards mastery and it's a unique
1:29.6	conversation because we're not just looking for the tactics and there are no tricks, there's no
1:34.9	hacks, there's no shortcuts, there's no secrets, but we're working to
1:38.8	understand their psychological framework. That sturdy, resilient, flexible, dynamic approach to life.
1:45.0	We want to understand what they're searching for, and as well we want to understand the
1:49.1	mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft.
1:52.0	Finding Master is brought to you by
1:55.0	Nuts.com.
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