How To Bring a Big Idea to Life
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Mia is a professional violinist. She's played in symphonies. She's played in improv groups. She's played as a form of personal exploration. But now she's taking on a big, conceptual project that may have nothing to do with music. Instead, she wants to create a piece rooted in connection. The only problem? She doesn't know what she wants to create. On this episode of How To!: Carvell Wallace brings in storyteller extraordinaire Michaela Leslie-Rule. Michaela talks Mia through the process of bringing a potentially overwhelming idea to life. Check out Michaela's work with Spiritual Technologies Project, the group we mention in the episode.
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| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. |
| 0:21.8 | Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. |
| 0:27.8 | Available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:32.3 | Hey listeners, we have an exciting announcement. |
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| 0:48.6 | All right. |
| 0:49.2 | On to How to. |
| 1:01.0 | Some of you may not know this, but I didn't go to school for advice podcasting. |
| 1:06.9 | I actually went to school for experimental theater at NYU. |
| 1:10.5 | And while I was there, I saw and did my |
| 1:13.1 | fair share of experimental, weird downtown naked theater where we screamed at the audience, |
| 1:18.8 | doused ourselves in red paint, led them into dark rooms, recited Greek texts over country music. |
| 1:24.9 | It was good times. But there's this one piece that I saw there that I always |
| 1:29.3 | think about. This kid, I can't remember his name, told us this story about his childhood, about |
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