Mitchel Dumlao is a video producer, content strategist, and creator that’s the host and founder for Creative Haven - a podcast, video production, and content strategy company that helps people grow their brands through video content.  In this episode, I talk about my history as a creative, and why watching movies with my family when I was a kid inspired me to become a filmmaker because I believe movies bring people together, while telling stories from unheard cultures; my method of creating optimized videos to help people grow their brands by developing a solid content strategy, producing high-quality content that’s affordable, and social media optimized video files; and how music, movement, and objectives help me get into my flow state by giving me something to focus on while keeping aware and in the present moment.   Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Creative Haven

High Quality on a Low Budget, Creative Input From Domains Outside Your Own, And My Own Way of Getting Into a Flow State

James Shen is a former corporate slave turned independent creative entrepreneur. His ventures include LA Street Art Gallery, Pioneer Solutions Americas, Paint the town Podcast, Go Spray Paint, & not to mention a growing career in music production and DJing. In this episode, we talk about his journey from a pharmaceutical sales rep to music producer and why it’s important to pursue your passion even when you feel like no one is supporting you, how all artists have different goals and should define their own success on happiness rather than attaching it to material outcomes, the importance of working on your craft every day to prepare yourself for big opportunities, his 3 tips on what keeps anyone happy, and why it’s important to interconnect your passions with every aspect of your life so you're consistently improving your craft, growing towards your ultimate goal, and staying authentic as your true self. Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Sales Rep to Music Producer, How to Define Success, and The Three Tips to Happiness

Meghan Phillips is the Founder and CEO of Honey, a female-led creative studio that intersects design and marketing to create impactful work for the food, beverage, cannabis, and agriculture industries. In this episode, we talk about the struggles of being a business owner and the importance of clarity in your vision to lead a creative team and company, why marketers and designers need to collaborate on the same team to ensure that excellent creative works get seen, how the underrepresentation of female voices in creative agencies and the majority of consumers in the food and beverage industry being women creates a gap in marketing and advertising that she wants to fill with her team at Honey, the importance of collaboration and convening in-person to help creatives find their flow state, and her top 3 traits of what makes a successful brand which are cohesive design across all channels, transparency on how the product is made, and understanding the human component behind the product so people can relate more to the brand. Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

The Struggles of Being A Business Owner, Underrepresentation of Female Voices In Creative Agencies, And The Importance of Human Connections

Gerald Schoenhoff is an award-winning creative director who is the Chief Creative Officer of CREW Marketing Partners - A strategic marketing and creative agency specializing in food, beverage, and agriculture In this episode, we talk about his successful leadership style of managing creatives by giving people space, encouragement, and expectations to push them to the point where they are doing their best.  How a brand’s story starts with the fundamentals of a comprehensive creative brief that has the support from everyone involved at the company and contains solid brand and consumer insights to eventually find the 2 to 3 words that represent the brand. The top 3 things that make a successful food and beverage brand, which are staying true to the brand story, respecting and loving food, and understanding the human component of your product since you’re talking to customers in human terms. Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

How To Lead Creatives, Fundamentals of Branding, The Top 3 Things For A Successful F&B Brand

Eric “King Cre8” Walker is a graffiti artist, style writer, and artist from Los Angeles who has worked with corporations such as McDonald's, Nike, and General Motors; and has had his artwork featured at the LACMA, MOCA, and the Getty Museum. In this episode, we talk about his history as an artist and how he turned his high school teachers from critics to supporters through his passion for art, how his work with other graffiti artists at prestigious museums showed the positive side of the graffiti culture and exposed the art form to a broader audience; the importance of persistence, follow up, and knowing your value as an artist to build your career, and how success in his mind is about being able to wake up and feel good about your accomplishments and that you made a difference in someone’s life. Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Turning Teachers From Critics To Supporters, The Positive Side of The Graffiti Culture, And The Importance of Knowing Your Value As An Artist

Hey everyone I’m super stoked for this episode because we get into poetry, trauma healing, the power of media and storytelling, and much more with my man James Nguyen James Nguyen is a serial entrepreneur and poet who has been a contributing writer on Forbes since 2016 and has been featured on global networks such as ABC, CNBC, and Sky News. He is CEO of Inflexion Media, which scales companies, brands, and individuals by building media brands. In this episode, we discuss his thoughts on work-life balance and how life should be doing work that’s fun for you but work for others so you live your life doing what you love on a daily basis; how his success as an entrepreneur and being featured in the press helped him see the power of media and how he wants to help non-profits and companies grow through the medium; how poetry has helped him heal past traumas and now is an integral part of his content strategy for himself and clients.  He also blesses us with one of his poems about unconditional love in this episode which is truly powerful. And how creativity shouldn’t be about just being an artist and how there’s a lot of power behind creativity because it comes from a place where you are truly aligned with yourself and congruent with your values and what you believe in. Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Work-Life Balance, The Healing Power of Poetry, And How Creativity Is Not Just About Being An Artist

Nicole Katz is the CEO of Paperchase Press, a second-generation, family-run press in Los Angeles, that has been providing clients bespoke, cutting-edge printed media since 1976.  In this episode, we talk about how growing up in a family-run press helped her appreciate high-quality productions, how to deal with people, and also how to run a business; why print is an important medium for artists and brands to explore because it brings relief from the digital exhaustion we get from technology and heighten your production value; why we should pursue our passions for the sake of fulfillment rather than making a career out of it; and that creatives should be patient with their careers and be grateful that they can make a living from their art, so stop comparing yourself to others and celebrate your daily wins. Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Taking Over a Family Business, Importance of Print In The Digital Age, And The Right Way To Pursue Passion

Albert Baez is the co-founder and President of Blended Sense; a media technology company in Austin, TX that matches the right creatives with small businesses to produce digital content to help them grow their companies.  In this episode, we talk about his journey as a baseball player to a B2B tech sales expert and how that helped him build his company, how Blended Sense uses data to match the correct creative with the proper company to create a safe work environment that produces effective content, why content is important for all parts of the business from marketing to sales to internal training, and why creatives need to get out of isolation and interact with other creatives to expand their opportunities and stay passionate. Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Baseball Player to Sales Expert, The Future of Creative Work, Importance of Networking For Creatives

Ivan “Flipz” Velez is a 3-Time World Champion Bboy and Dancer that has been a leader & influential figure in the BREAKING scene for nearly 3 decades, with his crew, SKILL METHODZ.  Flipz has also broken through and danced his way into 28 feature films in the industry, 84 Tv shows & even performed in the 2004 Olympics in Athens Greece.  Today, Flipz Velez has continued to coach, mentor & inspire the next generation by hosting & judging major dance competitions all over the Globe!  In this episode, we discuss how being prepared and constantly training on your craft allows you to take on challenging projects and use that mindset to evolve into more demanding roles, why paying it forward and helping your friends succeed is the best way to grow as a leader and creative professional, the reason why artists should consider developing other streams of income in case their main skill gets jeopardized, and that success in his eyes is being able to complete a lifelong dream regardless of how much money is given for compensation because actualizing a dream into reality is a success no matter how much you get paid. Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

How Being Prepared Helps, Importance of Multiple Income Streams For Artists, and The Best Way to Grow As A Leader

Ken Beasley is the managing director of Aid&Abet; a strategic branding design agency specializing in elevating food and beverage brands. In this episode, we discuss how he transitioned from working at non-profits to agencies because of the passion and energy he experienced while working in that world, how sustainability has been a key trending attribute for brand positioning for food and beverage brands, and to lean on your experience and ability to learn when dealing with imposter syndrome to take on challenges that seem out of reach. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenbeasleypro/  https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidabetagency/  https://aidabet.co/ Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Non-Profits VS Agencies, Key Trend Attribute in Food Brands, And Dealing With Imposter Syndrome

Patrick Nycz is the founding president of New Point Marketing, a CPG food & beverage marketing and advertising agency based in Lafayette, Indiana. In this episode, we talk about how a 360 review in his early career forced him to change his outlook on his management style to become a better leader and marketer, how inviting loyal customers into a focus group gives insight on what consumers want to buy so you can drive more sales, and the importance of surrounding yourself with people who can mentor and assist you in growing your brand.  Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricknycz/  https://www.linkedin.com/company/newpointmarketing/  https://newpointmarketing.com/   Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Career-changing 360 Review, Benefits Of A Focus Group, And The Importance Of Surrounding Yourself With The Right People

Aman Johnson is a producer, director, and founder of Johnson Media Co., a video production company specializing in storytelling in commercial, documentary, and narrative work. In this episode, we talk about how his experience in architecture taught him applicable and valuable skills that enhanced his confidence and problem-solving skills for his business, how he attentively listens to his clients’ stories to resonate with them to help him with his creative process, and the value of learning new skills and showing kindness to others to increase overall personal growth.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/aman-johnson-105ab818  https://johnsonmediaco.com/ Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

How Architecture Helps To Run A Business, Resonating With Client Pain Points, And The Value of Upskilling

Joe Harris is a director, editor, and cinematographer at the Dallas-based video production company; Side Chops. Joe also recently won a Gold Telly award for directing a commercial spot for Dr. Squatch-Shampoo. We talk about how his background in music shaped his creative thought process and has a vital role in filmmaking and content creation. We also talk about how his definition of success has adapted throughout the years as he matured in his life and career; how he found a work-life balance and engages with his family to find creative inspiration and support; and why you should make creativity a daily habit to work on your strengths and develop your craft. Links: https://www.joeharris.tv/  https://sidechops.com/  https://www.linkedin.com/company/side-chops-dallas-content-studio/  https://www.instagram.com/joeharris.tv/ Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

Work-Life Balance In Content Creation, How Success Changes As You Mature, And Importance of Creativity As a Daily Habit

Natalie Cass is a corporate photographer and filmmaker at Cass Studios: an entertainment, commercial photography, and video production company.  In this episode, we talk about how her knowledge of psychographics led her to create content for brands she wanted to work with; how music, being active in nature, and optimizing her health and wellness helps her leverage her flow state to be more creative; her method of focusing on five feelings she wants her audience to feel when developing stories for brands, and how artists can build their career by being comfortable in the unknown, learning necessary business skills, surrounding themselves with uplifting people, and consuming positive media. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassstudios/  https://nataliecass.com/  https://www.instagram.com/cassstudios/ learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com  

Psychographics And Content Creation, The Concept of 5 Feelings, And How Holistic Well-Being Helps With Creativity

Bill Kearney is a video producer, former aerospace engineer, creative technologist, and founder and CEO of LightShift Video, a video production company based in Austin, Texas.  We talk about how the accessibility of camera equipment and editing tools allows filmmakers to focus on storytelling while helping underserved companies with high-quality content, how he uses his experience and background in engineering to aid in the video production process in creating content that aligns with his clients’ specific needs in the tech industry, and the importance of having business skills when you own and grow a creative company.  Links:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-kearney/  https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightshiftvideo/ Learn more at TheCreativeHaven.com

How Engineering Helps In Video Production, The Importance of Business Skills, And How Modern Tech Helps Filmmakers To Focus On Storytelling

Creative Haven is a weekly podcast that interviews today's top artists and creatives, that will educate and inspire you to pursue your passions by giving you Information with Inspiration. Hosted by Mitchel "Doomz" Dumlao: a Dj, Video Creator, and Entrepreneur that loves inspiring others to pursue their dreams and live meaningful and fulfilling lives through creativity. Hear more at Creativehaven.libsyn.com/podcast

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