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In today's episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with #1 hit music producer and composer Pascal Guyon about his creative process. See the full epsiode at https://wp.me/p6pllj-1zz #music #musicproduction #creativity #flow Pascal has worked with music artists like Leona Lewis and Anthony Hamilton, as well as smaller groups like Jazz musicians in Cuba. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 - How Pascal's creativity and music started at a young age & his big break in Los Angeles 00:06:15 - How he is now focused on several different creative endeavours, including coding and finance 00:07:30 - What a music producer actually does, and how he composes music 00:09:30 - How he has no interest in using pre-produced beats, as he seeks the moment of creation 00:11:30 - How he gets into flow in his creative process, and overcomes blocks 00:12:45 - How he fuels his creativity with new knowledge 00:15:15 - What is success? Especially when your biggest hits are behind you Links mentioned in this episode: Pascal's website: https://pascalguyon.org Pascal's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalclapsguyon/ Pascal's Twitter: https://twitter.com/pascalguyon Bonus: This episode was made possible by our premium innovation and creativity training. Take your innovation and creativity capabilities to the next level by investing in yourself now, at https://www.ideatovalue.com/all-access-pass-insider-secrets/ * Subscribe on iTunes to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/idea-to-value-creativity-innovation/id1199964981?mt=2 * Subscribe on Spotify to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4x1kANUSv7UJoCJ8GavUrN * Subscribe on Stitcher to the Idea to Value Podcast: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=129437&refid=stpr * Subscribe on Google Podcasts to the Idea to Value Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9pZGVhdG92YWx1ZS5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw Want to rapidly validate new ideas and innovative products and GROW your online business? These are the tools I actually use to run my online businesses (and you can too): * The best email management and campaigns system: ActiveCampaign (Free Trial) http://www.activecampaign.com/?_r=M17NLG2X * Best value web hosting: BlueHost WordPress http://www.activecampaign.com/?_r=M17NLG2X * Landing pages, Sales Pages and Lead collection: LeadPages (Free Trial) http://leadpages.pxf.io/c/1385771/390538/5673 * Sharing & List building: Sumo (Free) https://sumo.com/?src=partner_ideatovalue * Payments, Shopping Cart, affiliate management and Upsell generator: ThriveCart https://improvides--checkout.thrivecart.com/thrivecart-standard-account/ * Video Webinars for sales: WebinarJam and Everwebinar ($1 Trial) https://nickskillicorn.krtra.com/t/lwIBaKzMP1oQ * Membership for protecting content: Membermouse (Free Trial) http://affiliates.membermouse.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=735 * eLearning System for students: WP Courseware https://flyplugins.com/?fly=293 * Video Editing: Techsmith Camtasia http://techsmith.z6rjha.net/vvGPv I have used all of the above products myself to build IdeatoValue and Improvides, which is why I can confidently recommend them. I may also receive affiliate payments for any business I bring to them using the links above. Copyright https://www.ideatovalue.com
With distinctive and dynamic vocal artistry, unique and original songwriting skills and wide range of influences and inspirations, Jennie Laws has emerged as a beautiful and brilliantly talented new arrival on the cutting edge of today's music. Yet for all her extraordinary gifts, the Toronto-born singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist is perhaps most notable for her ability to bring it all together in one accessible and appealing package. Small wonder word of mouth has been spreading steadily since Jennie Laws first began recording and performing, both in her hometown and for a growing fan base from New York to Los Angeles and beyond. She has had the opportunity to work with such leading industry tastemakers such as THX, Jahi from State of Emergency, Mateo Laboriel, Pascal Guyon, Sebastian Rogers, Dayyon Alexander and more, as well as open up for Bruno Mars and sing background vocals for INXS and Michael Buble. Her buzz continues to grow louder with the release of her second independent project featuring such originals as “Your Love,” “Love Easily” and “I Need You” featuring soul sensation Dwele and co-written with legendary songwriter Leon Ware. It's a collection that effortlessly spans musical genres while at the same time laying claim to a style that is wholly and completely her own. Mixing contemporary urban grooves with folk flavored nuances and soul-tinged flourishes, Jennie Laws has fashioned an alluring soundscape that draws on a lifetime of music making and points to a promising future for this passionate and polished young artist. www.jennielaws.com www.joekelleyradio.com
Anthony Hamilton, Leona Lewis, Joe Budden, and Super Junior are among the many artists songwriter and multi-platinum music producer, Pascal Guyon, has worked with. Pascal has contributed to 3 Grammy Nominations. He’s also a coder currently involved with HyperloopTT, a tech investor, and a mentor for elite educational organizations worldwide such as the University Of Westminster, National Superior Conservatory Of Paris, and Berklee College Of Music.
It begins from a tiny village in France with fresh vegetables in backyard and we hear about Pascal as an incredibly young child and literally how toys and cabinets were the grassroots of his career. His creative side that led him to practicing piano for 10 hours a day for how long????The turning point that led him from being a performer to be a producer. How MY SPACE…Yes, My Space was huge in getting noticed and eventually getting to the United States, but he produced a song that ended up in a Ben Stiller movie all from France!His first two weeks in LA are mind-blowing, not even knowing who Heavy D was and how he is fluid in all genres of music. This transitions from music to stock trading and programming to being part of HyperloopTT which you can check in links below. His decision to be a public speaker and a video game that pays him but costs you NOTHING to play! You get a great social media tip, hear about his typical day (this is good) and advice for all you musicians. Links:Pascal Guyon Website: https://pascalguyon.org/HyperloopTT: https://www.hyperlooptt.com/Programming Proof of Concept: https://educationalgaming.org/The Point Of It All by Anthony Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGMje3QR2Ew&feature=youtu.be Buzzsprout Link- Tell them I sent for a $20 Amazon Gift Card: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=766057Subscribe to the Podcast: (Rate & Review): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/before-the-lights/id1501245041 Extra 5 (Be a Pateron Member): https://www.patreon.com/beforethelights?fan_landing=truePascal discuss how to past the middlemanHis passion for cooking that is on his blog along with recipesHow often he gets back home and if he is a BIG celebrity thereHear about his Coronavirus Development Tracking with the most current informationSupport the show (https://www.beforethelightspod.com/member-areas)
It begins from a tiny village in France with fresh vegetables in backyard and we hear about Pascal as an incredibly young child and literally how toys and cabinets were the grassroots of his career. His creative side that led him to practicing piano for 10 hours a day for how long????The turning point that led him from being a performer to be a producer. How MY SPACE…Yes, My Space was huge in getting noticed and eventually getting to the United States, but he produced a song that ended up in a Ben Stiller movie all from France!His first two weeks in LA are mind-blowing, not even knowing who Heavy D was and how he is fluid in all genres of music. This transitions from music to stock trading and programming to being part of HyperloopTT which you can check in links below. His decision to be a public speaker and a video game that pays him but costs you NOTHING to play!You get a great social media tip, hear about his typical day (this is good) and advice for all you musicians.LINKS:Pascal Guyon Website: https://pascalguyon.org/HyperloopTT: https://www.hyperlooptt.com/Programming Proof of Concept: https://educationalgaming.org/The Point Of It All by Anthony Hamilton: https://youtu.be/tGMje3QR2EwBuzzsprout Link- Tell them I sent for a $20 Amazon Gift Card: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=766057Subscribe to the Podcast: (Rate & Review): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/before-the-lights/id1501245041
With guest Pascal Guyon! Pascal is a musician, an investor, and more. In this episode, he shares his insights about the music industry and where it’s headed.
And the main trends in entrepreneurial marketing for the New Year I often asked how I choose my interviewees for this podcast. I imagine the main reason for the question is the high diversity of the eighty guests on the show since its establishment on March 2017. It’s not easy to find a clear pattern among them. Can you guess what the connection is between interviewees like: Kate Erickson, Guy Kawasaki, Pam Wasley, John Lee Dumas, Mike Stelzner, Jack Kosakowski, Andy Crestodina, Mark Schaefer, Mark Metry, Mike Allton, Chris Brogan, Pascal Guyon, David Beebe, and Lee Oden, just to name a few? You already know that they are all successful entrepreneurs and/or influencers (opinion leaders) in their fields… However, besides these common characteristics, they are all customer focused entrepreneurs, which is what marketing is all about, after all. They, as entrepreneurs, succeeded due to their customer focused approach, or as educators and influencers about this critical issue. I chose interviewees who left their mark on the field of entrepreneurial marketing. But before diving into the most meaningful interviews that marked the changing marketing direction for entrepreneurs in 2019, I would like to remind you about the main differentiation of entrepreneurial and/or startup marketing: It is the need to introduce, sell, and brand a new unfamiliar product or service at least in one aspect - It can be a totally new product, or a new target market for the product, or a totally new business model and the like. The biggest trends of entrepreneurial marketing for 2019 and who the trend setters and the early adopters of those trends are Entrepreneurial successes based on a failure When I joined the entrepreneurial industry, entrepreneurs were considered as magical geniuses, which were considered to be potential billionaires by the fact they established a startup. But with time many entrepreneurs and startups fell, and a lot of investments went down the drain. A few of my guests, like James Arthur Ray, Ovi Negrean, and Josh Elledge talked about the inevitable failures as a base for success. Ovi Negrean Even though you might be at one peak at one point, if you want to go to an even higher peak, you will have to go through some valleys. After 10+ years of experience working in various firms, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, having also some entrepreneurial ventures in between, Ovi jumped full time into the startup world with nugget (acquired) and is now focused on SocialBee (https://socialbee.io/) . He has experience in building and managing software development teams; building SaaS and mobile products; creating ROI-positive social media; marketing and product launches. He is passionate about helping startups succeed in building great products, finding the appropriate launch sequence, and the best levers to grow. He’s also an idea machine and can really help with brainstorming. His imaginary friends say he’s a fun guy. When I was growing up, I used to climb mountains and I still do. I still like to go snowboarding from time to time and I’m really looking forward to being able to go to Switzerland again. Those are the most beautiful mountains that I’ve ever seen. I think also, coming back a bit in the metaphorical world from the physical world, but keeping with the mountain part, I also found that our life is also like mountains; even though you might be at one peak at one point, if you want to go to an even higher peak, you will have to go through some valley A link to Ovi’s podcast interview: Ovi Negrean: Even though you might be at one peak at one point, if you want to go to an even higher peak, you will have to go through some valleys (http://www.reachormiss.com/ovi-negrean-even-though-you-might-be-at-one-peak-at-one-point-if-you-want-to-go-to-an-even-higher-peak-you-will-have-to-go-through-some-valleys/)
Many people are dreaming of leaving their 9 to 5 jobs and becoming entrepreneurs. But how do you make that first step? Being an entrepreneur means finding what will work for your unique skill set. Aiming to gain income and profits as fast as possible and grow your entrepreneurship quickly from a one-person show to a substantial 6 or 7 figures company within a few years. In this episode, I bring you the stories about the first steps of the most successful of this new breed of entrepreneur. Who is the new kind of entrepreneur? John Lee Dumas (JLD) is the founder and host of the leading entrepreneurship podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, and is one of the founding fathers of this new age of entrepreneurship. John established his podcast after finding himself unhappy with traditional 9 to 5 jobs and frustrated with the weekly podcasts he listened to on the road because there wasn’t enough content. So, he decided to create a daily podcast for entrepreneurs. It quickly grew into a huge success and John, along with Kate Erickson, his partner, built a successful seven-figure business around the podcast. The new entrepreneurs are building businesses around their unique skills, and by doing so, are creating new market categories. They start from scratch, and unlike the earlier model of startup entrepreneurs, they are not looking to raise someone else’s money; instead, they build their businesses aiming to gain income and profit quickly. Bruce Van Horn’s entrepreneurial journey is an incredible story about the fresh start of a man who survived prostate cancer, the death of his daughter, a divorce, and 2 bankruptcies; and transformed his life, becoming a bestselling author, speaker, thought leader, transformational life coach, and business and leadership coach. I was in total victim mode in my life. I had a long list of everybody and everything that was responsible for what had gone wrong in my life. But I wasn’t on the list. Running a marathon changed me. I learned what was holding me back in my life. In marathon training, if you aren’t successful, the only one to blame is you. You can’t blame someone else. And I realized the top problem I had was a thinking problem. My brother, who got me into running marathons, said the hardest part of running a marathon is making the decision to do it. And he was right, but I misunderstood him. I thought i was a decision you made once. But actually, it’s a decision you have to make every single day. And when I realized how training transformed my body, I started to apply that philosophy to every area of my life, so my finances started to turn around after my second bankruptcy, my relationships got better; I started to enjoy my life again. People noticed I’ve changed and asked about it, and I told them. And one day I got an invitation to be someone’s life coach (I didn’t even know what that was at the time). It worked well and I discovered my gift: working with people on their mindsets about their businesses and their lives. . I’ve been doing it for six years now. I had to take a year off in 2014; I was diagnosed with stage 4 of prostate cancer, and the treatment and surgery had a lot of complications. I had to focus on recovery and my mindset. While I was focusing on my mindset, I realized we always get more of what we focus on. It’s all about what you believe you are capable of. And from that place, there are no obstacles. This is what I always tell the businesses I work with: you have to forget about competition and focus on creating your thing. Pascal Guyon lived in France and loved American music. He discovered MySpace and used it to communicate his skills. That led him to start producing music. However, the brilliant part was moving to the US and mastering social media. I love modern, popular music, however, I am French and all my heroes were in America. So, I thought, ‘I want to be there! How do I do that?’
Pascal Guyon Show Notes Pascal Guyon is a multi-platinum music producer who contributed to 3 Grammy nominations. He’s also a programmer, a social media strategist, and a speaker. 3 facts about Pascal: I am proud to have contributed to 3 Grammy nominations and to over 15 million albums sold worldwide I have served as a mentor to 10,000’s of artists and business owners worldwide, through my video game, speaking en-gagements and education programs I have also helped some of the most disruptive brands in transportation, cryptocurrency and food dominate social media Most passionate about Most people are known to be specialists in one field, and that’s about it. I’m more like a polymath if you will; I get bored extremely quickly. So basically, I have different specialties. Of course, my first specialty is music. I ended up doing a lot of live music, playing with bands, but I figured out that I prefer to create; so that’s how I became a music producer. So actually, my passion for computer science came way later, after I spent 15 years producing music for very famous people as well as less famous people, and mentoring these people as well. What I really like to do is combine all my specialties to create a unique experience. This is how I managed to create a video game six month ago, which pays me every time the game, which features my music, is played, at no cost to the player. I think my game is the best thing I’ve created. So I decided to go into computer science; it always made a lot of sense for me. I decided I was going do a game, but an educational game. And since I know quite a bit about social media, I hid information about social media marketing in the game, so when people play the game, they actually collect information, and avoid the enemies of course, and that’s where they learn how to do better in social media and also, they are hearing my music! That’s one of the really cool things I did last year. (http://educationalgaming.org/) When did you fall in love with social media? So basically, I am French and I love modern music, modern, popular music, and all my heroes were in America, and I was like: ‘I want to be there! How do I do that?’ So, this was when Myspace became really big, so basically, I used Myspace to communicate about my skills. So, I maximized my opportunities, I was also using additional software that was running in parallel of Myspace to maximize my visibility and it worked out really well, this is how I started producing songs to like, really big stars, from my French village. Who are your customers? As a music producer, at first my customers were mainly music artists, music labels, that kind of stuff. But since I got bored of that circle, and also because I found out it was a very inefficient circle, I moved on to get to know the entrepreneur circles; basically, I moved from producing music and mentoring artists to mentoring business owners on how to do well on social media. So now my customers are mostly brands, startups, and celebrities in business, and because they are hungry people, it’s perfect for me; they are willing to learn, they want results, and it’s very satisfying for me too. Pascal’s best advice about approaching customers I think there are two things. When people ask what it’s like to produce music for an artist, my answer is that it is to realize an artist’s dream. I think that if more businesses would think like that instead of pushing to sell stuff that people don’t necessarily need, they would get much better results. And then the second thing is definitely the use of social media because when people see you are here to serve them, it builds trust, and we know that trust is everything. Biggest failure with a customer I think the first mistake I did is, I thought artists would be the perfect customers for me, and they are not, because my services at the time were mostly producing music and mentoring...
Pop Art Painter Jamie Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes Anja Kotar, (Pop) to the Show! www.anjakotar.com There is a reason Anja Kotar has been called the "new pop artist you should be obsessed with” by Bitch Magazine. The 20-year old Slovenian singer-songwriter is bringing the essence of Europe to California. In 2017, she released her full-length debut album, NOMAD, working with a three-time Grammy-nominated producer, Pascal Guyon. The album, featuring the single “Too Cool,” led to her being awarded Best New Artist at the Slovenian Song Festival and Best Pop Song at the American Songwriting Awards. The music video for her album's first single was featured on VEVO’s New Music playlist. Kotar’s music has been played on all of the major US college radio stations and has generated nearly 100k streams on Spotify. "'Poster Child of California' is an 80s synth inspired female empowerment anthem about the real, raw and unconventional California girl. I wrote it as an as an ode to accepting yourself, your story and being confident in your uniqueness. For the video, we wanted to represent a variety of strong women so we paired unique outfits and looks with significant locations across California." - Anja Kotar Media Inquiries: LaFamos, Marketing & Publicity Dept. www.Lafamos.com
Pascal Guyon is a creative powerhouse. He is an award winning and multi-platinum musician and producer. He has contributed to three Grammy nominations and was shortlisted for a Latin Grammy. He is a world renowned artist mentoring expert. Pascal has been a mixing engineer for live shows since age 17 and was invited to play on stage with the #1 salsa band in Cuba at 20. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Pascal’s background and how he got into music Why organization is difficult for most artists and what Pascal does differently to help artists become organized The mind map that Pascal uses with his clients What the mentoring mind map program looks like How artists can find a balance creating art and putting it out there How Pascal weaves time management into this mentorship What Pascal is most proud of with his system Why it’s so important to have a mentor and how to get mentor What’s next for Pascal Ways to contact Pascal: Website: pascalguyon.wixsite.com/therise/pascal-guyon
In this episode we opened with some recent feedback we've gotten on the show from podcast veteran Lance Anderson and YouTuber Jaquan Da Hooligan, we looked at Slim's AWful prom picture talked about Rick and Morty and the final episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. We talked to Comedian Jud Travis, 3x Grammy Nominated Musician Pascal Guyon, Guitarist Kris Hitchcock, Relationship Expert Liz Mandel, Producer Jay Pluss, and Ralph Mastromonaco. AWWW YEAAAHH!!!