Navigating The Geography of Life as a Filmmaker with Zeke Zelker
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Zeke Zelker is a creative entrepreneur and filmmaker who recently finished producing the feature film, Billboard. Zeke started out working in an amusement park, founded by his grandfather. He then began his career in filmmaking and refinanced his Jeep to produce his first film. Now, Zeke has been producing films for over 20 years and is the founder of the production company, iDreamMachine. In this episode we get to hear about his journey and his present-day work, as well as gain perspective on how he has navigated the geography of life without losing himself along the way.
Zeke has a blog where he shares his knowledge, experiences, and passions. You can find it by visiting zekezelker.com
His company website can be found at idreammachine.com
You can also find the company on all social media platforms as iDreamMachine
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| 0:00.0 | enjoy. I like things that are really well done and really well crafted, whether it be a jacket, |
| 0:09.4 | whether it be a cigar, whether it be certain things. |
| 0:13.0 | Like, my biggest thing is, it's like I measure success, |
| 0:15.7 | it's not only the things, not necessarily the things you have, |
| 0:18.2 | because that's BS, |
| 0:19.8 | but it's literally those amount of things |
| 0:21.4 | that bring fulfillment and joy to your life |
| 0:23.4 | of having that time that you can actually spend the time to enjoy |
| 0:26.9 | means that you're successful. |
| 0:29.2 | Those people that are unfortunately live in challenging times in their lives |
| 0:35.2 | and that aren't doing the job |
| 0:38.3 | that they want to be doing and these sorts of things |
| 0:40.3 | are not living your lives full of joy. |
| 0:44.0 | And it's a matter of, I find, |
| 0:46.2 | I feel that you are, that you can say that you're |
| 0:48.7 | successful when you do more things that create joy in your life than create hardship. |
| 0:55.2 | Or do the things that you want to do |
| 0:56.9 | versus the things you don't want to do. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm very, you know, I've worked for everything that I have. |
| 1:01.7 | Like I've not been lucky a damn day in my life. |
| 1:04.0 | I haven't. |
| 1:05.0 | But you know, I just, I'm willing and determined |
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