Marty Callner, Award-Winning Filmmaker
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Marty Callner, an award winning Producer and Director.
His diverse resume includes specials starring Chris Rock, The Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Jerry Seinfeld, Will Ferrell, Garth Brooks, Diana Ross, Britney Spears, and Robin Williams, to name a few.
He is also the creator of the immensely popular and Emmy award winning HBO series, Hard Knocks, which gives viewers a look into the inner workings of NFL training camp.
Marty has directed over 200 music videos, including such classics as Aerosmith’s ‘Crazy’ starring Alicia Silverstone and Cher’s ‘If I Could Turn Back Time’ filmed aboard the historic USS Missouri.
He’s earned five MTV Music Awards including ‘Video of the Year’ and forty-three Emmy nominations including Callner’s back-to-back directorial nods for “Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas” and “Garth Brooks: Live From Central Park”.
For Marty it all started with his learning to “dream big.”
His mom taught him that, “A man who doesn’t build castles in the air doesn’t build them anywhere.”
How cool is that thought?
Marty is a risk taker, an innovator, and to this day he’s looking for ways to reinvent himself.
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| 0:00.0 | You can't do anything about the past and make God laugh make plans for the future. |
| 0:04.0 | You just have to live in the moment. I live in the moment. This is a great moment. |
| 0:07.6 | All right, so I'm living in this moment right now. This is the most important thing to me |
| 0:11.5 | at the present moment. |
| 0:13.0 | This is what I'm doing right now. |
| 0:15.0 | I've always had that mindset, and I think that really helps when I do projects, |
| 0:20.0 | because I'm in the moment of that project, |
| 0:22.0 | and that's, I don't do multiple projects at once. All right. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and by Train and Training I am a sport and |
| 0:41.6 | performance psychologist as well as the co-founder of |
| 0:44.0 | compete to create and the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from |
| 0:49.3 | people who are on the path of mastery that was the original design of this |
| 0:52.0 | podcast and it has not disappointed I mean this has been an absolute |
| 0:57.1 | Treat and gem and steep learning curve I hope for you too but yeah so what we're trying to do is sort out their psychological framework. |
| 1:05.2 | Like how do they understand the world? |
| 1:06.9 | How do they organize their internal world and their external world to pursue the path of mastery. |
| 1:13.0 | And we also want to dig to understand |
| 1:15.0 | what is it that they're craving for, they're searching for, |
| 1:17.7 | what do they ache for, |
| 1:19.2 | as well as the mental skills that they've used |
| 1:21.0 | to build and refine their craft. |
| 1:26.0 | Finding Mastery is brought to you by Vitruvian. Vitruvian is on a mission to help people live longer, stronger lives. |
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