Jason is a writer in NYC who just cannot believe it's not butter. He has an MFA in creative writing and a horrible amount of debt from a University in Pennsylvania that shall not be named. Over the years, he's held the title of juggler, college recruiter, adjunct professor, headhunter, and is currently a senior copywriter at a VaynerMedia.
In this episode, we chat about how we were recording in the room where VaynerMedia CEO, Gary Vaynerchuk, shoots his #AskGaryVee Show (which eventually became a book) for the last time as VM gears up for a big office move to Hudson Yards. Jason talks about struggling in school only to end up finishing two Master's degrees, moving across the country for jobs that didn't work out, the various processes he used to complete four books, his struggles with depression and his writing, juggling his creative endeavors with a full-time job and more on this episode of The Angry Millennial.
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Jeff is a photographer and author based in New York City. His primary body of work includes portrait and fashion photography that has been published in both Elle and Esquire. Jeff also frequents as a photography instructor. His teaching experience includes platforms like CreativeLive, WPPI, Photo Plus Expo, Imaging USA and APA.
In this episode, we chat about having his mother being the most amazing creative he's known with her realistic drawings, dropping out college studying to be an aerospace engineer, and his move to NYC to switch to a career in data recovery. However, the death of a co-worker pushed him to the realization nothing is guaranteed, causing him to quit + pursue his career in photography. Being part of CreativeLive had a profound effect on him in terms of the business structure behind the amazing platform, writing his Photographing Men book, and more on this episode of The Angry Millennial.
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We chat about how we met at WPPI, her studying Art History + Broadcast Journalism in college, the importance of her business chops coming from her first job out of college helped her photo work, her work with Heart Gallery + the world of adoption including her own adopted children, being part of Nikon's Behind The Scenes Series, being a CreativeLive alumni across various programs, and more on this episode of The Angry Millennial.
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On this episode of The Angry Millennial, we're chatting with author and mentor's mentor, Ken Rabow.
Today's episode is a bit longer than usual so get comfortable as we'll be talking about Ken's career and towards the end we'll even be doing a live meditation walk-through. Ken Rabow has lived quite a storied career with various positions in music, adolescent development, holistic healing, and teaching music as a music director, Reiki healer, cantor, professional jazz drummer, + author of The Slacker's Guide to Success.
We chat about starting his early successes in drumming, turning pro at 17 playing all around Canada at jazz clubs six nights a week. Early on just when Rabow was finding his stride teaching others, he came into contact with his drummer mentor that he'd serve under for years. As Ken went along through out his career he started working with kids as a music director, then later as a life empowerment coach for troubled teens which he continues to this day.
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In this episode, we chat about his feelings when his alma mater is no longer around anymore, relocating to Atlanta which spurred the idea behind Grits + Grids, having his first big client be a restaurant out of Hawaii, GRYLT, instead of a local joint, writing two books about restaurant branding + email marketing, making shirts with hilariously horrible restaurant names, his real beef with Yelp, later in life teaching at the college where he graduated, the funny coincidence about knowing upcoming guest Jason Donnelly and more on this episode of The Angry Millennial.
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On this episode of The Angry Millennial, we're chatting with renowned photographer, APA National EVP Emeritus + Chair of the APA Advocacy Committee, Michael Grecco.
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In this episode, we chat about how Chris was originally Episode 3 then became Episode 46, how I came across the Assholeologybooks, how creatives have been embracing the hyphenate approach having their hands in various projects at once, us reviewing the #AskGaryVee book, how technology has opened up so many doors for today's entrepreneurs, why our society is sacred about free-form creative thinking, the broken system of having highly talented staff editors polish pieces by freelancers for little money instead of them writing great pieces, the mob mentality of the Internet, why any freelancer could walk into an office to get the interaction they ordinarily don't get & go unnoticed and more on this episode of The Angry Millennial.
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We chat about Steve's early beginnings with radio playing DJ in his house, his foray into podcasting in the early beginnings some 11 years ago, how he came into contact with Toronto native Donna Papacosta with whom he wrote The Business of Podcasting, how he found success in podcasting consulting for corporate clients, recently picking up new organizations as clients like NJ Spotlight, and lots more on this part one episode of The Angry Millennial.
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