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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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In this episode, I share how putting your creative work into the world—no matter how small—can lead to massive, unexpected impact. I open up about my early days as a self-taught photographer, the pain and joy of learning through film, and how a backpacking trip with my wife turned into the start of an unconventional creative career.
This is a syndicate episode from the B&H Photography Podcast, where I sit down with Derek, Jill, and Mike to trace the arc of my journey—from building the Best Camera app and pioneering mobile photography, to founding CreativeLive and finding purpose through community. We talk about the cost of taking creative risks, the billion-dollar idea that got away, and the deeper why behind making and sharing your art. If you’ve ever doubted whether your creative voice matters, this episode is for you.
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0:00.0 | I think that's another major takeaway. It's like you never know where your art could possibly take you. |
0:06.8 | You never know where the art that you put out in the world, how much good it can do. |
0:14.6 | Hey, everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. Grateful to be in your |
0:18.0 | years right now. Today's show is special and different, |
0:21.2 | and here's why. Number one, it's different because I am actually the guest on this show. That's right, |
0:27.7 | this is a syndication. And I like to think this is special because this is, I would say, |
0:32.5 | one of the first times where I have revealed a lot of what was going on during a bunch of different stages |
0:40.8 | of, let's say, the last 15-year arc of my career. It's right. I was interviewed on the B&H show, B&H, the |
0:48.5 | big photo video store in New York, by someone who's really a pool of people who are really up to speed on the entire arc |
0:55.8 | of my career. |
0:56.7 | And I like to think this is maybe one of the first and only sort of interviews like this I |
1:01.3 | have given that I can remember about everything from my early start as photographer to doing |
1:05.8 | the best camera app, which was the app of the year and the Apple app platform, the beginnings, middle, and |
1:12.0 | growth rocket ship that was Creative Live, and then the acquisition of Creative Live and this |
1:18.1 | next chapter that I'm in right now, coaching and building this little incubator where we're |
1:23.0 | releasing all sorts of startups and other exciting stuff to the world. So it is literally like |
1:27.3 | a 15-year |
1:28.6 | arc. And it's not just the details, like what was happening. It was what was going on behind the scenes. |
1:34.9 | So it's a treat to be able to release this to you. This was, again, this was syndicated off the B&H |
1:39.6 | podcast. I agreed to be on their show and do this sort of like a once in a decade broadcast for them. |
1:45.6 | It was about maybe two months ago on their show and they have very kindly allowed me to syndicate |
1:50.6 | it here to you. So it brings me great pleasure and a whole lot of a little bit of nervousness and a |
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