672: How to Break Into Filmmaking and Brand Strategy With Jude Charles, JudeCharles.co [Espresso Shots]

Jude Charles is a filmmaker, brand-strategist and entrepreneur who founded his company, Jude Charles, when he was only 17-years old. As a story-driven filmmaker, Jude works within the documentary genre to tell his clients’ stories and showcase the successful businesses they’ve created. Among his clients: celebrity makeup and fitness entrepreneur, Keyshia Ka’oir Davis; $700mm in sales, copywriting entrepreneur, Stefan Georgi and business coach and entrepreneur, Darnyelle Jervey Harmon. Jude attended Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida for a year before leaving to pursue filmmaking.  His first documentary took a year to complete and showcased the city of Pompano Beach for its 100-year anniversary. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: How to break into the filmmaking industry (1:11) How Jude got into filmmaking (2:22) Why perseverance is the most important skill you can have (8:44/20:30) Why a teenage Jude wrote books about what his future would look like (11:24) What sucks the most about working in filmmaking during a pandemic (17:58) How Jude learned to keep going no matter what (20:33) Why filmmaking is so easy: take advantage of the stories around you (23:44)