Jeff Leisawitz, Musician Producer and Author of "No F*ing Around"
Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5.0 • 45 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Jeff Leisawitz
Jeff Leisawitz burns with a mission—to inspire humans with a heartbeat and every flavor of creative to live their gifts and create meaningful lives of purpose, success, connection and creativity. As an award winning musician/ producer, college songwriting prof, critically acclaimed author, distributed filmmaker and internationally in-demand coach, Jeff has devoted his life to empowering creatives. “At its best, creativity is a way for us to be seen, expressed and connected.” With this philosophy as a guiding principle, Jeff has helped empower countless people to tap deeply into their creative hearts to live richer, more fulfilling lives. Not F*ing Around— the No Bullsh*t Guide for Getting Your Creative Dreams Off the Ground is Jeff’s first book.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy to your most original thinking, organize your ideas, and create the opportunities to launch your creative work. |
| 0:14.0 | Unlocking your world of creativity, with best-selling author and brand innovator, Mark Stinson. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome back friends to our podcast Unlocking Your World of Creativity. |
| 0:27.0 | And on this podcast we've talked to musicians, producers, songwriters, professors, authors, film makers, coaches. |
| 0:35.0 | And today we're going to talk to someone who's worked in all of those fields and combined them very successfully. |
| 0:42.0 | My guest is Jeff Lizawitz. Jeff, welcome to the program. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, hello, thank you so much for having me here. |
| 0:49.0 | And in addition to all those talents, Jeff has just published a book, not effing around the no BS guide for getting your creative dreams off the ground. |
| 0:59.0 | And if I've ever heard of a theme song, a theme book of this podcast, Jeff, it's no effing around. Let's get the work off the ground. |
| 1:07.0 | Let's do it. |
| 1:09.0 | You know, almost you're the rocky theme in the background, right? |
| 1:11.0 | There you go. Well, my son produced a little ditty a while back about to the theme of we didn't start the fire. |
| 1:19.0 | And it's we didn't start the projects. We bragged about it. We talked about it. |
| 1:25.0 | But now the world is burning, you know, what is it about creatives where we spend so much time effing around as you would put it. |
| 1:33.0 | Right. Well, I, you know, creatives are humans, right? So we like to procrastinate. We like to dream of the thing and the possibility of the thing. |
| 1:46.0 | But it gets real when you start doing it, whether it's a business, whether it's, you know, a painting, a screenplay movie, a song, anything, right? |
| 1:54.0 | It's all potential until you start doing it. So when you start doing it, then suddenly the rubber meets the road and we can see where we're at. |
| 2:04.0 | Ooh, is this song as good as I dreamed it or is this song not as good as I dream it like where is it going. |
| 2:12.0 | So I think it's an easy out for creatives are really anybody to dream of or think of or imagine a thing. |
| 2:21.0 | Right, because there's no proof of it not working that way. |
| 2:26.0 | Once we actually do a thing, we, you know, people get freaked out. Ooh, there's failure. There is it's not working the way I would like it. |
| 2:34.0 | So, you know, sometimes people stand there and and think and dream and don't act and, you know, we're all about the action around here. |
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