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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Key to Unlocking Your Creative Side | Interview With Cirque du Soleil Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board, Daniel Lamarre

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Lamarre, Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of Cirque du Soleil, shares some of the most valuable insights gained from his decades as CEO of Cirque, which can be found in his new book Balancing Acts: Unleashing the Power of Creativity in Your Life and Work. Lamarre and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a variety of topics including the passion that comes from waking up every day and knowing your purpose, using technology as a springboard for creativity, as well as how its role at the junction of sports and entertainment has helped Cirque du Soleil appeal to a wider audience. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And sometimes, again, people are looking to so many things at the same time that they forget

0:05.6

what is going to be the most impactful thing that they can do today.

0:11.2

This is the blabber.

0:14.3

I'm here live at the Blue Wires Studios in the lobby of the Win Hotel in Las Vegas.

0:19.3

I am so excited because I have someone that actually I've wanted to meet Daniel Lamar.

0:24.4

He is the executive vice chairman of the board of the infamous Cirque du Soleil.

0:30.8

Welcome to the playbook.

0:32.0

Thank you, David. I'm so excited to finally meet you.

0:35.0

It's so amazing because, you know, being a fairly notable sports agent around

0:39.3

celebrities, athletes, and entertainers, it's always the more eclectic people that I fan

0:44.5

boy over. And I am just a huge fan of Cirque, been to all the shows, and I'll tell you why,

0:51.3

is that, you know, coming from the sports and entertainment world, I know the general mass

0:57.3

of the popular content. Football, for example, my favorite, popular two to one to any other sport,

1:05.5

it doesn't have the same frequency or creativity, or what I call genius, which I define as

1:13.1

an expression of God. That's something like Cirque has. And the very first time I experienced,

1:19.0

I said, wow, this may not speak to everyone, but it is so powerful that it's going to resonate

1:26.7

deeply with many people. And being the executive vice chair of such a content platform,

1:34.0

you must have an interesting perspective on that frequency and how it is relative to creativity.

1:41.9

Yeah, I do for sure. And, you know, having been the CEO of the company for 20 years,

1:47.0

and now in my new capacity, I can appreciate even more. And the one thing I'd like to come back,

1:53.9

because you mentioned a lot, sports and entertainment. And I think that Cirque du Soleil is just

2:00.1

at the junction of sports and entertainment. Agreed. Because a lot of our artists are a

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