Conversation with Academy Award Winning Producer Rob Fried

Rob Fried has produced or served as executive producer on 15 films, including RUDY, COLLATERAL, HOOSIERS,  and THE BOONDOCK SAINTS.  Mr. Fried’s films have won numerous awards,including an Academy Award for the Live Action Short Film, SESSION MAN; the ASCAP award for COLLATERAL; the Christopher Award for RUDY; and Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe awards for WINCHELL.
 
 Mr. Fried was President and Chief Executive Officer of Savoy Pictures from December 1994 to June 1996.

In 2007, Mr. Fried founded Spirit EMX, an Internet video content company that focuses on short narrative, animated, and documentary films.
 
SpiritClips is an extraordinary, online collection of Academy Award-caliber, inspirational short films produced in a variety of formats: live action, documentary, and animation. SpiritClips was founded by Academy Award-winning producer Rob Fried, whose films include the classics Hoosiers and Rudy. SpiritClips films can be viewed online or sent as beautiful, personalized filmcards. The company’s mission is to create high-quality, inspirational content that can be watched, felt, and shared worldwide.

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Interview with Rachel Feinstein from “Last Comic Standing”

Rachel Feinstein grew up outside Washington DC, the daughter of a civil rights lawyer and a blues musician, giving her a keen eye for the absurd and unjust. She developed her hilarious, character driven style by opening for her father’s blues band as a kid and doing impressions of various loud and jarring relatives.

Rachel has made numerous appearances on “Comedy Central” and can also be seen on upcoming episodes of “Comics Unleashed” as well as the “ Just For Laughs” comedy series on TBS.

She’s written for “The Onion” and “Heeb Magazine.” Rachel has voiced various characters on Adult Swim’s “Venture Brothers,” the animated Comedy Central web series, “Samurai Love God” and Spike TV’s web series “Battle Pope.” She has also appeared on VH1’s, “Jewtastic” and CNN’s “Not Just Another Cable News Show.”

International spots include “ Montreal Comedy Festival”, Scotland’s “Glasgow Comedy Festival,” Amsterdam’s “Comedy Factory” and a U.S Military tour in Korea.

Check her out in the upcoming independent films, “Circus Maximus” and “Turbo Charge”, a mockumentary about ‘The Cars.’ She can be seen on Russell Simmons new “Def Comedy Jam” series for Comedy Central. Rachel also just taped her own half hour special, “Comedy Central Presents Rachel Feinstein” which aired in March, 2010.
For more information, visit www.rachel-feinstein.com

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Interview with “America’s Got Talent” Featured Musician Cam Hodges

Cam Hodges is an up and coming musician from Seattle, Washington originally born in Vienna, Austria. He describes his sound as a soulful/pop/rock collaboration of genres.
In this interview, Cam discusses what it was like to be on America’s Got Talent, offers advice for other artists and shares tips for living a successful creative life. Additionally, this episode features 2 NEW TRACKS of Cam’s music. Don’t miss this very special episode!

For more information visit:
www.youtube.com/user/CamHodgesTV
www.myspace.com/camhodges

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Interview with Screenwriting Guru Syd Field

 

Acclaimed as “the guru of all screenwriters” (CNN), Syd Field is regarded by many Hollywood professionals to be the leading authority in the art and craft of screenwriting in the world today. The Hollywood Reporter calls him “the most sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world.”

His internationally acclaimed best-selling books Screenplay, The Screenwriter’s Workbook, and The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver have established themselves as the “bibles” of the film industry. They are used in more than 395 colleges and universities and have been translated into 19 languages.

Field chaired the Academic Liaison Committee at The Writer’s Guild of America, West, is currently on faculty at the USC Master’s of Professional Writing Program, has taught at Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, the AFI and many other noted institutions. He has been a special script consultant to 20th Century Fox, the Disney Studios, Universal and Tristar Pictures.
For more information, visit www.sydfield.com

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Getting Things Done: Interview with David Allen

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Productivity guru David Allen shares tips and principles for being more productive. He also shares a link for a free productivity assessment! For more information, visit http://www.davidco.com

“Refuse to Choose”: A conversation with Barbara Sher.

This special episode features my conversation with bestselling author and “godmother of life coaching” Barbara Sher, as we discuss “scanners.” According to Ms. Sher, scanners are people who have many natural interests, and can’t seem to choose “just one.”  Ms. Sher shares about her scanner retreats held in France, and offers tips and support for fellow scanners about how to live in a world where scanners are seen as flighty or unfocused! This episode contains great content as well as Barbara’s trademark warmth, humor and creativity.

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Care of the Soul in Medicine: An Interview with NYT Bestelling Author Thomas Moore

Join me for a conversation with New York Times bestselling author Thomas Moore for a discussion about bringing more soul and humanity into healthcare. In this episode, Thomas Moore shares tips for healthcare providers, as well as patients. Learn about ways in which you can be a more “soulful” patient! This episode is a special one in which Thomas Moore shares his insights with great passion, wisdom and humanity.  

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A Conversation with Michael Gates Gill, author of “How Starbucks Saved My Life.”

This episode features an interview with New York Times bestselling author Michael Gates Gill. Michael shares his “riches to rags” story about “having it all” as a high powered advertising executive, and then losing it all, after being fired from his job in his fifties. After doing something he never imagined he would do, taking a job at Starbucks, Micheal found a better, deeper and more fulfilling life on the other side. Michael has a wonderful presence, and shares both about his book “How Starbucks Saved My Life, as well as his more recent book “How to Save Your Own Life” and shares tips for living life more fully and passionately. He also shares his own amazing continuing journey, which includes his life story being optioned by Tom Hanks’s film production company.

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A Conversation with America’s Forefront Creativity Coach: Dr. Eric Maisel

Dr. Eric Maisel is an author, family therapist and cultural observer and is widely regarded as America’s foremost creativity coach. His more than 30 books include Coaching the Artist Within, Creativity for Life, Creative Recovery, Fearless Creating and The Atheist’s Way. Dr. Maisel has written on a wide variety of subjects, from handling toxic criticism and performance anxiety to living the writing life in Paris and San Francisco, and his special interests are the classical existential themes of making meaning and taking personal responsibility. Dr. Maisel trains creativity coaches and meaning coaches, provides core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association, and works with individual clients on issues of creativity and meaning.

Dr. Maisel holds degrees in philosophy (B.S.), psychology (B.A.), creative writing (M.A.), counseling (M.S.), and counseling psychology (PhD). He is a California licensed marriage and family therapist, hosts two shows on the Personal Life Media Network, and writes a monthly “Coaching the Artist Within” column for Art Calendar Magazine. He lectures and provides workshops nationally and internationally at venues like the Design Your Creative Life Conference in London, the New Shoes Creativity Day Conference in Antwerp, and the Paris Writers Workshop.

Dr. Maisel has presented on creativity issues and creativity coaching at venues like the American Psychological Association annual conference, the Romance Writers of America annual conference, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Conservatory Theater, the Writer’s Digest Writers Conference, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Savannah College of Arts and Crafts, and many more. For more information, visit http://www.ericmaisel.com

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Persevering and Living Your Creative Dream: Interview with Amadea Bailey

 

Amadea Bailey is a formally trained and experienced expressionist painter whose artistic exploration is captured in large scale. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibits both nationally and internationally, and six of her paintings grace the walls of Halle Berry’s home. Amadea’s commissioned artwork has also been featured in television, films and commercials. 

Amadea’s work is influenced by the years she spent as a child living Kenya, East Africa, where she was free to express herself as she played and danced in a playground of vast fields. 
Upon graduating from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, Amadea went on to further develop as an artist by training at The New York Studio School in drawing and painting and was tutored by figurative expressionist painter George McNeil. After graduating from The New York Studio School, Amadea was dedicated to painting daily in her studio and spent 11 years in New York nurturing her craft. 

To regain a sense of openness and connectedness to nature, Amadea moved to Los Angeles  20 years ago.

Amadea’s creativity doesn’t stop at the art she creates: she’s also creative in the way that she sells it. She’s listed her home as a shooting location for film and TV, which recently led to a national magazine shoot at her studio. The editor from the magazine was so impressed with Amadea’s work that she called a friend in New York, who is now showing Amadea’s work in her new gallery.

Amadea is living her dream as an artist residing in Southern California. When she is not painting she enjoys surfing, dancing and traveling and finding inspiration in everything and everyone she meets. For more information, visit www.amadeabailey.com

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