Hey everybody I just want to take a moment to talk about a new thing I'm doing.

Over the years many of you reached out to me telling me how much you love the podcast,

but also wish there were more personalized takeaways and more in-depth interactions with our guests

to hear what they think about comedy.

This is why I'm now launching my new digital academy, Blueprint for Success.

With exclusive interviews and comedy philosophies of stars and industry veterans, personalized

versions of the Industry Standard Podcast, commercial-free, and one-on-one coaching time with me.

Blueprint for Success will give you the powerful tools that will take you up the elevator

beyond the competition and reach the highest possible levels to achieve your dreams.

Whether it be stand-up sketch, improv, acting, writing, producing, directing, hosting, radio podcasting, social media influencing, or even if you want a career

behind the scenes as a manager or an agent.

Now I'm here to help, personally.

We'll go on an express train of comedy

and entertainment like nobody else has before.

You can find out more about Blueprint for Success

and the comedy business on my website at Barrycats.com.

Together will take your career where you want it to go.

Aaron Spelling, no one's up there with Aaron. And he told me, when he lectured one of my classes, he said that for five years he wrote every single day five and a half days a week

when he's driver's furniture truck in the morning he

wrote for five years and he never sold anything but he was honing his craft. Welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard with me, Barry Katz.

As I like to do in every one of these podcasts, I like to tell sort of a story that sort of relates to the person that I'm sitting across and this story involves myself and our guest today Peter Engel.

We work together which we'll talk about on a show called Last Comics Standing that was an incredible experience for both of us in many ways.

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