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Fuse Chamber
by Fuse Chamber
A place for artists and entrepreneurs to build the elite skills you need to live the life you want. It's not about what winners do, it's about who they become. Learn the secrets that successful people know, but nobody will teach you in school. Come here for weekly inspiration, motivation and coaching so you can start living your life without compromise.
Episodes
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Episode 61 - What Would You Do If You Won The Lottery
As an icebreaker, I frequently ask people - what would you do if you won the lottery? People give answers that reflect what they would do if there were no constraints or demands put on their time, location or finances This is where people describe their visionary work, OR the downtime things they...
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Episode 60 - Dealing With Creative Blocks
Despite your most disciplined attempts to show up every single day, inviting the muse, yet not leaving things to dumb luck, you sit down for your daily ritual, and nothing comes. This is made all the worse by a looming deadline, or being behind in production. So what do you do when you doing...
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Episode 59 - What If You Build It...And No One Comes?
So you’ve worked it all out - you have a master plan for launching your product….but what if you build it and nobody comes? This happens more than you think It’s important not to measure success against big league players that you’re trying to model. This takes a while, and there’s no such thing…
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Episode 58 - Between Confidence And Arrogance
Although we’d like to believe that we have what it takes, sometimes we worry that we’re going to be seen as ‘arrogant’, over-confident or full of ourselves. This alone can keep us from starting. What’s the difference between confidence and arrogance and how can you build the former without…
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Episode 57 - Upgrade Your Habits
There are two kinds of habits: good ones and bad ones. So often, we focus on the bad ones that we need to break, but how often do we take the time to focus on the good habits that we have integrated or need to integrate to continuously move us forward? You have to have a habit of having habits…
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Episode 56 - The Value of Releasing Frequently
The Public Demands more content, more frequently. This seems foreign to many of us as we grew up with a new book, music or movie release from our favourite artists maybe once per year or less. You need to change your mindset to reflect the new virtues and values in the marketplace.
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Episode 55 - The "Have-To" Trap, and How You Spend Your Time
People who achieve everything they set out to do in life are masters of protecting their time. How do they do it? Time is the only thing you can’t reclaim once its been spent Protecting your time is your right and your duty. You must actively and continuously monitor and protect it as you would…
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Episode 54 - Try An Experiment
Could we flip the script on our thinking about experimentation? Rather than seeing experiments as risky, or as a synonym for failure, we should be embracing experimentation as the fastest way to learn about what works, and what doesn’t.
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Episode 53 - How To Focus
If you’re making time for creativity, but you find yourself unfocused and unable to stay with it…there are some things that can help. I’m going to keep hammering this one - you have to set aside time To avoid intimidation, set a short timer Set an intention. What is the most important thing to...
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Episode 52 - The Myth Of Certainty And Safety
We all know about the paralysis caused by waiting for the right moment in the right conditions. So why do we continue to do it, and how can we stop? It’s normal, from an evolutionary/survival perspective, to want safety and certainty The need for certainty and safety, however, prevents us taking...
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Episode 51 - Get Inspiration From the Everyday
By now, we know that inspiration is as much about showing up every day, as part of a routine, and doing the work of writing - even if it is for the wastebasket. But there are times when inspiration just hits. Are there things you can do that create fertile ground for inspiration? There are….and...
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Episode 50 - The State of Coaching Right Now
Today's episode is an impromptu musing on the state of coaching, for those of you who feel like you might benefit from it, or are yourselves in the coaching business. in many ways, its a bit like being a therapist. People should find a good coach that is a balance of engaged and removed, that...
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Episode 49 - Fear, Anger, Bitterness, and Jealousy
As i work with many leaders in development, there is one thing that trips up more people than any other factor - and with each passing year, I see more and more of it. I call it FABJ - Fear, Anger, Bitterness, and Jealousy - but these things are all byproducts of one thing. Feeling not good…
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Episode 48 - Scheduling Daily Creative Time
Most deeply creative people know that you simply have to show up ever day - inspiration will never just come and pay a visit. So how do you show up every day? You schedule. it. In this episode, I discuss my daily routine for capturing creative thoughts and then filtering them and refining them…
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Episode 47 - Don't Let Your Competition Get Ahead of You
As someone with a creative offering, I’d like to wait until my product is perfect before I unleash it on the world. Is that really so bad? There are two big problems with waiting. One is that it fosters fear, and uncertainty, and the other is that it lets other people slip in the gap and beat you...
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Episode 46 - Rituals, and "Just Do 10"
One of the challenges of being a modern artist is that there’s a lot to do in a day. Your art might be your side hustle, so there’s a full time job, family, friends, and daily life all competing for attention with your core offering - your creativity. How can you get ultra productive and...
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Episode 45 - Setting Intention
Your reason for doing everything matters more than anything. How can you use Intention to improve your outcomes? Begin with intention - know your reason for doing things before you set out to do them. This helps with motivation and prioritization. Use visualization to envision a successful...
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Episode 44 - How To Plan, Attack and Track Goals
On this show we cover the fundamentals - be visionary, get focused, work hard, get gritty, always improve. That’s general advice, and those fundamentals are lifelong lighthouses - you should seek to study and perfect your ability to live those values every day. But how do you actually achieve...
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Episode 43 - Be Limitless
What’s the Difference between people who dream massive dreams, and those who are living those massive dreams? They simply believe that they are limitless Obstacles become problems to solve Limitations become competitive advantages Hard work seems like nothing. Failures seem like victories
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Episode 42 - Service Is Not Divine
If you’ve been listening for a while, you know I’m big on service. To review, service is the thing that validates your vision. Without service, a vision can be nothing more than a wishlist….a catalog of benefits that only accrue to you. Service ensures that you know exactly who your vision…
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Episode 41 - Get Creative
I used to be one of those people who struggled with consistent creativity. You’ve heard me repeat that the secret to having good ideas is to have lots of them….so I prefer to take the disciplined work approach to getting a reliable creativity flow. You can either work on ‘inspiration’ at…
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Episode 40 - Turning Daily Life into Content
If you’re busy, especially if you are working on a day job to sponsor your passion, and you have family and social commitments the blend in there too…it can seem almost impossible to find time to create awesome core content, let alone marketing content. But I have really good news for you. That’s...
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Episode 39 - The Routines You Run
I want to do more. To be more. I get the feeling that maybe I could, or just that I should try to live a life more in line with my passions and principles. But I can literally feel myself getting in my own way. It’s like watching a movie of myself - I see it happening, I know its not good, but I…
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Episode 38 - The Artist And The Day Job
An artist is committed, heart and soul, to the work. So I have to quit my day job now right? You have to starve to create right? You have to be committed full time - 8+ hours per day, right? Times are changing. There aren’t as many ‘full time salaries’ for artists anymore. You have to balance…
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Episode 37 - The Qualities of a Leader
Does the Arts need Leaders? What are the qualities of a leader, and what does it take to become one? There is a huge demand for leadership in the arts and culture work It may seem like its difficult to be a leader, but a leader is just someone who goes first Leadership doesn’t require permission...
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Episode 36 - The One Trait You Need To Be Creative
Innnovators and artists alike both want more of this. Here’s how you get it. Discipline You have to set up time and work Many people are creative first thing in the morning. Fine. Set an alarm, get up early, set a 20 minute timer and go BUT - as soon as that's done, you take a 5 minute break and...
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Episode 35 - Practice Combat Every Day - 5 Steps to Beat Hesitation, Procrastination
What makes most dreams nothing more than a dream? What derails most people in their efforts to live the life they dream about? And how can you conquer it? That’s this week on the Fuse Chamber podcast. Assuming you make it past the initial fear, and decide to start on something…most people get...
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Episode 34 - Five Essential DIY Marketing/Content Skills
Being a team of one is extremely difficult. I never recommend shortcuts but there is something to be said for efficiency, and maximizing your time and investment. Here are five essential things that you need to do if you are producing your own marketing and content in support of your art and...
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Episode 33 - Marketing Your Brand
What is the importance of a brand, how is related to your vision, and how do you market it? A brand is your outward expression of your vision and purpose. It is your promise to the world You need to figure out your vision and how you serve your customers or community Marketing without a brand is...
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Episode 32 - Bonus Podcast - Excuses, Hard Work, And Shortcuts
There's a specific reason why you have unfulfilled dreams. Why there is somewhere you want to be, and you're not there yet. Want to know what it is? Nothing has changed - crazy hard work trumps all But the hard work isn’t hard work if you are locked in to a service-based vision/purpose it’s...
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Episode 31 - Why You Have No Competition
In this impromptu episode, we discuss why you have very little competition; and why that should inspire you to get your work out there - all it takes is just a little more work than the competition (which sadly isn't much). Take a good look around at what 95% of your peer group is doing and…
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Episode 30 - Do You Hustle?
What does hustle mean? No distractions Head Down Fearless Can’t hear the haters Start Early, End Late Basically, ALL YOUR FREE TIME goes to this thing This determines your success more than any other factor If you don’t hustle, YOU KNOW If you don’t know, or don’t care, the world will not wait…
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Episode 29 - Grit And Resilience (The Fight is the Thing)
There’s one thing that we’re not teaching our young people any more - in school or beyond - and that’s how to persist when things get difficult. If there’s a trophy for every participant, if there are no consequences to missing the mark, no negative feedback or criticism…how can you prepare a...
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Episode 28 - Stop Being So Cheap About Art
If we expect there to be a future in the arts, we have to help guarantee it. Nothing about art has to be free. Like so many other ‘public’ professions that don’t have a pure profit focus, we have learned not to value it. When do don’t value it, the quality starts to decline. How can we as artists...
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Episode 27 - Your Own Voice
To be a true artist, you must reject the mindset and habit of sameness. You can learn and borrow from those who have come before, but you must never duplicate. But how do you come to your own voice? Nothing is more powerful than your own authentic voice People who changed the world drew new lines...
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Episode 26 - The Inspiration Habit
Inspiration Can Be Hard To Come By. What’s the Secret The good news is….hard work is the answer. The bad news is…its hard work. Generating rich and novel ideas is the by product of living a rich and novel life, internally and externally I’m big on mindset and habit pairs, meaning right thinking...
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Episode 25 - Getting It Done
I have all these great plans, but I don’t know where to start, and it all seems so overwhelming Focus on Go. You have to move. No one else will do that for you - it’s the one skill you have to master and get disciplined around all by yourself, or you will ultimately struggle with failure too…
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Episode 24 - Be An Owner, Not Just an Author
In the age of digital distribution, where everything is free - is it still possible to make a profit in the arts? New models require self-agency - you are own bookings manager, producer, director, publisher and promoter The bad news is - its a lot of hard work and a steep learning curve The great...
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Episode 23 - Choices
Choices are what got you everything you have and everything you are. Choices will also get you everywhere you want to go and make you everything you want to be. How to do you take control of you choices, and consistently make good ones. Too often we accept what is happening to us Many people view...
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Episode 22 - Scarcity vs. Abundance
This world seems so have so many opportunities and good fortune for everyone but me. What do I need to do differently to have better luck and success? You have to stop seeing those things - resources and opportunities - as scarce. They are infinite. The best way to unlearn scarcity is to act as...
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Episode 21 - The Laws Of Success
What is it that makes successful people successful? Are there things I can model and repeat? There are six fundamental keys to being successful at anything They are the same across all cultures and forms of enterprise You may hear it 100 different ways, but they always boil down to the same things.
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Episode 20 - Dealing With Obstacles
What do you do when you hit obstacles. Really hard ones? Challenges of some kind are inevitable. Occasionally, they will seem really bad. Avoiding these challenges is not the goal. Accepting them head-on with dignity, grace and skill is a talent that is definitely worth having How you think about...
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Episode 19 - This Is Gonna Take A While
Can I have Overnight Success? I personally don’t believe you should seek that. Hurrying success means you want it for the wrong reasons This will take time. But where that frustrates 90% of your peers, forcing them to compromise and quit..you will learn to enjoy the ride, enjoy the wait, taking...
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Episode 18 - Efficiency Tips for Writers
Are there any tools for people who write that can help boost productivity and fire up the the creative engine? Have fun experimenting with tools. Tools should be accessible (ready when you need them). They should be portable. Create your own workflow and creative schedule Combine creative work…
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Episode 17 - The True Original - Why You Could Be The "Next Big Thing"
True Originals Change the World. What do they do differently? They remain true to their vision, and their unique voice. They don’t compete against everyone riding a popular wave. They create their own trends. They are experimental and avoid the current flavours, yet are not trying to be different...
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Episode 16 - Millennial Leadership - The Myth of 'Paying Your Dues'
Don't I have to ‘pay my dues’ before I can leap, before I can lead? Anyone with a Vision Can Lead You will need confidence, and confidence must be tempered with Humility A service based vision ensures you are seeking to make some impact in the world, and that is reason enough to lead.
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Episode 15 - Outcome Independence
What single thing could I change to combat self-doubt and anxiety in my art, business and life? Attachment to specific Outcomes Deferring Happiness to sometime in the future or past Seeing the world as scarce rather than abundant
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Episode 14 - Coaching Check-In
How is your creative habit and leadership development doing this week? What inspiration and support do you need? In order to excel, you need to look back periodically and identify progress and problem areas Make note of successes - things that move you toward your goal, enhanced confidence,...
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Episode 13 - Millennial Leadership Part I
Why are Millennials so ‘messed up’? How are we going to develop them into future leaders? There’s nothing really wrong with them. They are a product of certain values. They are still the future, and they are uniquely qualified to succeed as leaders as we shift away from centralized, big-box…
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Episode 12 - Fear
What Causes Procrastination, Performance Anxiety, and Lack of Confidence. Fear. It’s hideously destructive….How can you understand it so you can master and eliminate it? It’s not all ‘in your head’. Fear is very real. Your fears serve a biological function that no longer makes sense. But your…
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A place for artists and entrepreneurs to build the elite skills you need to live the life you want. It's not about what winners do, it's about who they become. Learn the secrets that successful people know, but nobody will teach you in school. Come here for weekly inspiration, motivation and coaching so you can start living your life without compromise.
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