025. How to Survive Creative Success, Pt 2 w/ Zack Arnold, ACE
04/29/22 • 38 min
What happens when you’ve reached what everyone else would consider success, and you’re miserable? What happens next?
Zack Arnold, ACE, is an award-winning film and television editor, documentary director, and founder of the Optimize Yourself program. Throughout his career in Hollywood, he found himself editing the biggest show on cable tv, then the biggest show on broadcast TV, and even the biggest show in the WORLD on the internet.
But the toll those achievements took on his family, his physical health, and his mental well-being forced Zack to rethink his life.
In this second of a two-part conversation, we’ll hear what Zack did next – including his four year journey to become an American Ninja Warrior – and what the lessons he’s learned mean for all of us.
🖥 Connect with Zack: www.optimizeyourself.me
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RESOURCES:
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, by Josh Waitzkin: https://amzn.to/3vxhp8c
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear: https://amzn.to/39dfRJ3
SHOW NOTES
00:00 Recovering from success
01:26 What’s better than “success?”
03:55 Beginning to optimize
07:17 Learn to manage failure
08:22 The need to fail when you’re young
11:57 Zack’s new definition of success
15:22 Zack’s plan to transition to his new goal
16:56 Stop “playing business”
18:33 Skills to providing value
22:18 Doubling business growth during a pandemic
25:16 The benefits of failure
26:32 The fear of success is real
29:16 Self-identity and the key to real success
30:41 Zack the American Ninja Warrior
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What happens when you’ve reached what everyone else would consider success, and you’re miserable? What happens next?
Zack Arnold, ACE, is an award-winning film and television editor, documentary director, and founder of the Optimize Yourself program. Throughout his career in Hollywood, he found himself editing the biggest show on cable tv, then the biggest show on broadcast TV, and even the biggest show in the WORLD on the internet.
But the toll those achievements took on his family, his physical health, and his mental well-being forced Zack to rethink his life.
In this second of a two-part conversation, we’ll hear what Zack did next – including his four year journey to become an American Ninja Warrior – and what the lessons he’s learned mean for all of us.
🖥 Connect with Zack: www.optimizeyourself.me
LEAVE A VOICE MESSAGE: Got comments, reactions, or just wanna say hi? Leave a voice message for us and we may use it in an upcoming episode: https://www.speakpipe.com/StoryGreenlight
RESOURCES:
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, by Josh Waitzkin: https://amzn.to/3vxhp8c
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear: https://amzn.to/39dfRJ3
SHOW NOTES
00:00 Recovering from success
01:26 What’s better than “success?”
03:55 Beginning to optimize
07:17 Learn to manage failure
08:22 The need to fail when you’re young
11:57 Zack’s new definition of success
15:22 Zack’s plan to transition to his new goal
16:56 Stop “playing business”
18:33 Skills to providing value
22:18 Doubling business growth during a pandemic
25:16 The benefits of failure
26:32 The fear of success is real
29:16 Self-identity and the key to real success
30:41 Zack the American Ninja Warrior
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If you like these kind of ideas and want to apply them specifically to YOUR content, consider joining our private community called The Green Room. It’s all about leveling up your content, leveling up yourself, and getting things DONE with the support of an active community of creators like you. You can access The Green Room for a month for free right now at https://www.storygreenlight.com/greenroomfree.
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💡 Download the simple steps to create powerful, high-leverage stories that move people emotionally to say “YES” to you and your business. Then use them over and over, anywhere you want!
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Previous Episode
024. How to Survive Creative Success, Pt 1 w/ Zack Arnold, ACE
As creatives, so many voices tell us that having the biggest audience is the ultimate goal. But when you talk to people who are there, we find that it’s not that simple.
Zack Arnold, ACE, is an award-winning film and television editor, documentary director, and founder of the Optimize Yourself program. Throughout his career in Hollywood, he found himself editing the biggest show on cable tv, then the biggest show on broadcast TV, and even the biggest show in the WORLD on the internet.
But the toll those achievements took on his family, his physical health, and his mental well-being forced Zack to rethink his life.
In this first of a 2-part conversation, we’ll hear how it all went down, what Zack learned, and what those lessons mean for all of us.
🖥 Connect with Zack: www.optimizeyourself.me
LEAVE A VOICE MESSAGE: Got comments, reactions, or just wanna say hi? Leave a voice message for us and we may use it in an upcoming episode: https://www.speakpipe.com/StoryGreenlight
SHOW NOTES
00:00 Surviving success
01:35 What is an ACE editor?
04:37 How to become an ACE editor
06:52 What does “cinema” mean?
07:54 What is the difference between “scripted” and “unscripted”
11:14 Zack’s journey as an editor
16:11 Zack’s first definition of a “successful” editor
17:37 What it’s like to cut the number one show on TV
20:15 Being successful and doing everything wrong
23:08 Setting boundaries for success
24:40 The danger of “hustling” as a creative
26:10 The alternative to “hustle culture”
30:05 The pitfalls of “overnight success”
34:34 Changing the definition of success
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💡 Download the simple steps to create powerful, high-leverage stories that move people emotionally to say “YES” to you and your business. Then use them over and over, anywhere you want!
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026. Multiply Your Content, Multiply Your Income w/ Shelly Saves The Day
As creators, it’s easy to focus on creating content and to hope and pray for views, subscribers, and money. It’s a terrible business model.
If we really want to achieve the income and the impact that we know is possible, we’ve gotta play a bigger game.
Shelly Saves the Day began in the world of computer programming and expanded to manage projects and teams at Amazon, Google, and TubeBuddy.
She is a speaker, creator, and coach who specializes in helping creators to share what they love with the world through video and to make money doing it. For that to happen, we have to multiply our content and our income without going crazy in the process. Start taking notes, and start imagining what’s possible for you in this conversation with Shelly Saves the Day.
🖥 Connect with Shelly: https://shellysavestheday.com/
📹Shelly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC38J-aPD-0BZ5GMWg-HWEag
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RESOURCES
TubeBuddy: https://www.tubebuddy.com/
Shelly’s Monthly Revenue Report for March 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yKxhwo_drk
Dan Currier Episode: https://www.audible.com/pd/019-Using-Your-Creativity-to-Create-Your-Freedom-w-Dan-Currier-Podcast/B09VXN36LK
iMovieMadeEasy: http://www.imoviemadeeasy.com
Descript: https://www.descript.com/
Jarvis, now called Jasper: https://www.jasper.ai/
SHOW NOTES
00:00 Building your income pie
01:38 Shelly’s road to content creator
04:35 Technical Program Managers and Producers
07:38 Gender disparity on technical and content platforms
09:39 Shelly’s journey to TubeBuddy
13:05 Jeff’s journey learning about gender and racial privilege
14:57 The need for an income pie
16:20 The dangers of only one income stream
17:11 How to build your income pie
18:52 Shelly’s income pie
20:31 The power of the Amazon Influencer Program
24:11 How to think about getting more income streams
25:25 When should you create a course?
28:45 The power of repurposing content
29:30 Strategies for repurposing content on multiple platforms
32:00 Super Tool: Descript
34:26 Define success by the right metric for YOU
36:59 How to use content to speed up business tasks
38:11 How to build affiliate marketing and create sponsorship opportunities
40:06 Shelly's latest content creation projects
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If you like these kinds of ideas and want to apply them specifically to YOUR content, consider joining our private community called The Green Room. It’s all about leveling up your content, leveling up yourself, and getting things DONE with the support of an active community of creators like you. Get started now at
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💡 Download the simple steps to create powerful, high-leverage stories that move people emotionally to say “YES” to you and your business. Then use them over and over, anywhere you want!
Get your free worksheet right now at https://www.storygreenlight.com/powerstory.
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