Welcome to the first episode of Screw the Cloud. I'm your host, Steve Staniwis Each week, we're going to have amazing guests share their stories of saying,

Screw it.

But for the first episode, I adore to share a few of my own.

Tune in each week, this is Screw the Cloud.

So the reason I changed Indie World, which was doing well pre-COVID, and it's something I'm proud of

and something that I'm mostly known for, and my roots, the indie roots, it kind of pigeonholed

me to, you know, indie films, indie music, and, you know, I just wanted to make the platform bigger.

My whole life's been about, just screw it, just do it. Whether it, where you succeed, you do not,

you know, do it. And a lot of my success and a lot of my failures is because I've done it and I've just said

screw it, screw the clout, let me, let me deal it my way. And if it fails, it fails,

if it's successful, it's successful. And I just don't want to live my life as an 85-year-old

man saying, I wish I did this, I wish I did that. And again, the one thing that would

kill me is if I have an idea and I want to do something one way and I get talked out of it

and do it the other way and fail, that pisses me off. So screw the cloud, it just opens up my

world. It's more of what I'm about and it's why I became who I became. An example,

a whole screw of the cloud is I'll go back to my first day of college, and I was looking for a job,

and my first class, I was a sociology class, and I sat next to some dude, and we kind of hit it off,

and he's like, I got to work tonight. So'm like oh man i'm looking for a job what do you

and he goes well you're not going to believe it i work at chippendales and i'm like what and i'm like

how cool is that you know and he's like why would you be interested and i'm like uh yeah so so he's like all right

you know what you do you come tonight check it, see if you like it. If you like it, then, you know, I'll put a good word in for you. And I was always into working out and stuff. So, so I went and, uh, you know, I saw these, my, this dude and all these other guys and a room full of screaming women, like 400 girls.

And they would do their routine.

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