Mai Ikuzawa
Business of HYPE
HYPEBEAST
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week we welcome the magnetic Mai Ikuzawa. Many of our past guests have been single-minded experts in one particular field, Mai however is a creative entrepreneur with a pulse on a wide range of industries, including automotive, high-fashion, film and gaming. What makes her even more of an enigmatic figure is that her creative agency, Bow Wow International, has a staff of one--herself. So for this show, Jeff and Mai talk about the disadvantages of owning or working for a large agency, how to simplify your career and everything within it, how her legendary race-car driving father impacted her professional life, embracing your idiosyncrasies, and balancing the three F's.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Jeff Staples from HypeRadyo, and I'm here to make an important announcement. |
| 0:04.9 | As you know, Hype Beast Radio started off a year ago as just one single show. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, that one show has successfully grown into an entire platform. |
| 0:14.8 | And if you've noticed, we're now calling it Hype Radio. |
| 0:18.4 | Hype Radio currently has three shows. |
| 0:20.6 | One is my show, The Business of Hype. The other two shows are the |
| 0:24.7 | HBO show and Soundcheck. The HBO show, hosted by Hype Beast Senior Editor Robert Marshall, |
| 0:31.1 | is the original Hype Beast Radio show, hence the name, and it's where the industry's most |
| 0:36.2 | innovative and inspiring creatives come on |
| 0:38.4 | and talk directly to their fans, discussing their journey towards success, lessons learned along |
| 0:43.5 | the way, and thoughts on the state of the culture, all in real time. The soundcheck show, |
| 0:49.2 | hosted by Hype Beast music editor, Manny Medoculum, is our look at the entire music scene at large. Many brings you |
| 0:56.1 | in-depth conversations with your favorite musicians and industry figures, digging into their |
| 1:00.8 | origin stories and asking the tough questions that you want answered. Together, our three shows now form |
| 1:06.8 | hype radio. And you can bet there will be more shows on the horizon. Now this is where your part |
| 1:12.3 | comes in. As you might have noticed, currently, by subscribing to Hype Beast Radio or Hype Radio, |
| 1:17.8 | you're getting all three shows served up to you. Well, now we are going to separate them |
| 1:23.0 | so that you can choose which shows you want to subscribe to. And I highly encourage you subscribe to |
| 1:28.3 | all three. So this show that you're currently listening to, this will only serve out the business |
| 1:33.4 | of hype. And if you want to keep hearing the HBR show and the sound check show, you'll need to |
| 1:39.0 | right now, subscribe to them individually. And you'll definitely want to do that right away |
| 1:44.3 | because you never know who's going to drop into the studio. |
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