Jay Clouse — Commitment, Creatives and Community

10/15/20 • 61 min

Jay created Unreal Collective which is a community of creators and he built Freelancing School to help you become your own boss. In his podcast Creative Elements, Jay talks to high-profile creators about the nitty gritty of building their creative careers.

In this conversation, Jay talks about the years he spent not believing he was creative and we talk about how he’s grown his business over the past four years—including when and how he thinks about outsourcing tasks, so he can focus on what he does best.

Jay shares his thoughts on building habits versus making commitments, getting intentional about what he wanted to achieve when he began the Creative Elements podcast, and reflects on how all the high profile guests he features on the show spent years in the trenches before they began to recognise the level of success they’re known for now.

Jay has a lot to share about building community, having built his own online community and advising other brands and businesses on how they establish successful communities of their own.

You can find Jay on twitter and instagram @jayclouse. If you enjoy this episode I’d love for you to reach out to Jay and tell him so.
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Jay Clouse: How to Build an Online Community

Jobs to be Done Framework

Read a full transcript of this episode here.

Jay has a lot to share about building community, having built his own online community and advising other brands and businesses on how they establish successful communities of their own.

Jay Clouse: How to Build an Online Community

Jobs to be Done Framework

Read a full transcript of this episode here.

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Angelica Richie — Every Voice is Worthy of Being Heard

Shining Light has been working with correctional facilities for over 20 years, creating opportunities for artistic expression in prisons across the US and giving incarcerated men and women new ways to find their voices and have them heard.

Angelica and her colleagues usually do in person workshops with inmates, helping them create presentations that they then showcase to peers in their facility. The COVID 19 pandemic forced prisons to limit access to visitors and the regular workshops had to be cancelled, but Shining Light devised a way to continue to serve their artists and alumni on the inside and create a piece that they are able to share with the public for the first time.

Creations of a Caged Bird is the hour long presentation featuring work written and devised by inmates that has been performed and produced by artists like Angelica. It’s available on youtube and I’ve shared the link in the show notes. Creations of a Caged Bird is powerful and very moving and I wanted to learn more about it.

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Links and show notes from this episode:

Shining Light
Creations of a Caged Bird
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