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010: Molly Henery | Slashing Your Way Into the World of Film Criticism

Eric Skwarczynski — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Molly Henery is an avid horror fan who began her own website, TheBloggingBanshee.com, dedicated to horror film reviews in January of 2015. Since early 2018, she began contributing to multiple entertainment websites such as NightmarishConjurings.com, 1428Elm.com, and TheCodaFilms.com. In November of 2018 Molly earned an MA in professional creative writing, which she plans to use to write her own horror fiction and horror film screenplays.

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009: Fred Ashman | The Sky is NOT the Limit

Eric Skwarczynski — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Fred Ashman is a director, writer, producer who built a multimillion dollar production company before the age of 30, mostly outside Hollywood, earning over 100 major awards along the way. Fred is also the CEO and creative chief of a production company for 45 years that has worked in film, video, documentaries, IMAX films, feature films TV pilots, entertainment shows, very large corporate shows and events.

But, wait there’s more.

 He’s also Pilot with 4500 hours including Learjet and extensive experience directing air to air.

But wait… there’s MORE He’s ALSO a Professional musician classically trained in trumpet, he’s lead a successful rock band, bands at Disney, produced studio music, conducted orchestras in studio and on location.

Needless to say, the stories he shared are INCREDIBLE - you won’t want to miss it.

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Telling the Story of Orphans in Asia | Andrew Smith

Eric Skwarczynski — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500

In March 2020, Andrew Smith founded Orphans In Asia, a nonprofit dedicated to serving orphans throughout Asia. His main focus is to help orphans by equipping and empowering local leaders and communities. An ongoing goal is the securing of funding for current projects at their orphanage.

In addition to rescuing and caring for orphans overseas, they are also excited to offer financial help to families that are in the adoption process.

Orphans in Asia

Website: https://www.orphansinasia.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orphansinasiaOIA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orphansinasia/

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Making Storytelling Accessible | Michael Aubry

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 07:15:00 -0500

Michael Aubry is the mind behind Storycreator – an online content creation tool to help digital agencies and entrepreneurs create winning videos.

Michael Aubry

Website: https://storycreatorapp.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-aubry-497796104/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelaubry/

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How to Become a USA Today Best-Selling Author | Russell Nohelty

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 07:00:00 -0500

Russell Nohelty is a USA Today bestselling author, publisher, and consultant. He runs the small press publisher Wannabe Press and The Complete Creative, which helps creatives build better businesses.

He’s run successful Kickstarter campaigns for Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter, Katrina Hates the Dead, My Father Didn’t Kill Himself, Spaceship Broken: Needs Repairs, and I Can’t Stop Tooting: A Love Story, Monsters and other Scary Shit, Cthulhu is Hard to Spell, The Godsverse Chronicles, and Pixie Dust raising over $135,000 on the platform to date, including three campaigns that raised over $25,000 each, and one that raised $39,000.

He’s also written several graphic novels, novels, and children’s books which all can be found on his site, www.russellnohelty.com.

For the last several years, Russell has cataloged and documented his own journey to build a creative business.

He has interviewed hundreds of other successful creators and dissected their stories to find out how they built and sustained their careers. He compiled all the lessons, successes, and failures he learned into his creative academy, The Complete Creative, www.thecompletecreative.com, which includes, courses, a podcast, a blog, and two books How to Build a Creative Business, a practical guide to building a sustainable business as a creative, and How to Become a Successful Author, a focused compendium of everything Russell has learned becoming a six-figure author.

He is dedicated to showing other creatives how to build their own businesses through his company, The Complete Creative. He truly believes anybody can be a success as long as they treat themselves like an entrepreneur and run their career like a business.

Russell Nohelty

Website: https://www.russellnohelty.com/
Twitter: @russellnohelty
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Marketing Lessons From THE TOXIC AVENGER with Jeff Sass

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 07:00:00 -0500

On this episode of the Good Story Podcast, your host, Eric Skwarczynski is joined by Jeff Sass.

An established and successful chief marketing officer and entrepreneur, once upon a time Jeff Sass spent seven years making low-budget action/horror films for legendary independent movie studio Troma, home of THE TOXIC AVENGER. It turns out there are a lot of similarities between filmmaking and starting companies, and the lessons Jeff learned making B-movies have served him well in the C-Suite.

Everything I Know about Business and Marketing, I Learned from The Toxic Avenger (One Man’s Journey to Hell’s Kitchen and Back) is full of practical business and marketing insight and inspiration drawn from the often comical trials and tribulations of creating cult-classic independent films. Sass shares lessons learned from his experiences ranging from RABID GRANNIES to READING RAINBOW (yes, at one time, Troma actually represented licensing rights to the Emmy Award–Winning PBS TV series!), and he cleverly turns his tales of moviemaking mayhem into useful nuggets of business and marketing wisdom applicable to any industry, including yours.

Jeff Sass

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"No Script, No Problem!" | Producing Reality TV with Steve Berkowitz

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 07:00:00 -0500

On this episode of the Good Story Podcast, your host, Eric Skwarczynski is joined by Steve Berkowitz.

Steve has been producing, developing, writing and directing groundbreaking, dynamic and compelling unscripted television for over 15 years, working with everyone from ABC to TLC to Discovery to Bravo, Netflix, YouTube, MTV, ESPN and Lifetime.

As a seasoned showrunner, development executive, storyteller and interviewer, Steve has worked on projects all over the world across a wide variety of genres: docu-series, home renovation, competition, game, house reality, documentary and dating.

Furthermore, he's interviewed and/or collaborated with dozens of the biggest celebrities and athletes in the world, such as: James Harden, Damian Lillard, Jessica Alba, Ashley Graham, Shaquille O’Neal, 50 Cent, Anthony Anderson, Macklemore, Dennis Rodman, David Duchovny, Emma Roberts, Snoop Dogg, Fetty Wap, KISS, Dane Cook, Jewel, Jamie Chung, Eddie Huang, Ariel Winter, Christie Brinkley, Coach John Beilein, Carrie Underwood, Leanne Rimes, Randy Couture, Roy Jones, Jr., Goldberg, Rachel Zoe, Howie Mandel, Nick Cannon, Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, Jim McMahon, Too Short, Jerome Bettis, Adam & Danielle Busby, and Bo Jackson.

Most recently, as SVP of Development at Maverick TV USA & IDTV USA, both All3Media companies, Steve helped sell 2 projects. Prior to All3Media, he served as executive producer and showrunner on YouTube’s sneaker design competition series, “The Ultimate Sneaker Challenge,” TLC’s hit family docu-soap, “OutDaughtered,” Esquire’s youth football docu-series, “Friday Night Tykes,” and FYI’s backyard makeover series, “Outback Nation with Jamie Durie”. Steve also directed and supervised Season 5 of Bravo’s acclaimed fashion docu-series, “The Rachel Zoe Project” and supervised seasons 7 & 8 of the Emmy-nominated “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” on ABC.

Before embarking on his reality TV journey, Steve spent almost 5 years as a local TV sports reporter and anchor in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Tennessee.

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The True Crime Story You've Never Heard with Mary Kay McBrayer

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 07:00:00 -0500

Mary Kay is a contributing editor for Book Riot, where she co-hosts the literary fiction podcast, Novel Gazing, and writes their weekly horror newsletter, The Fright Stuff. If you want to hear her country mouse voice talk horror, you can also listen to the podcast she co-founded, in which they analyze horror movies, Everything Trying to Kill You. Mary Kay's writing can also be found on Fangoria, HorrorDNA, Killer Horror Critic and Narratively.

She is also the author of the forthcoming book, "America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster" from Mango Publishing.

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The Power of Empathetic Storytelling | Casey Levins

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:00:00 -0500

On this episode of the Good Story Podcast, your host, Eric Skwarczynski is joined by Casey Levins – an Idaho based filmmaker who is crushing it in the world of marketing and branding! They discuss how to build a creative team, how to successfully ambush clients, and even the taboo subject of working for free!

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Creativity for a Cause | Rasheena Phinisee

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:00:00 -0500

On this episode of the Good Story Podcast, your host, Eric Skwarczynski is joined by Rasheena Phinisee.

Rasheena is a force when it comes to organ donation. Her motivation is personal: Her daughter Assiah went into liver failure as an infant.

It wasn't long before Phinisee realized she is not alone. Many families dealing with pediatric transplantation suffer similar traumas when they are forced to abandon their lives to fight for their child's health.

As a result, Phinisee founded Assiah's Liver Fund to raises awareness about organ donation and transplantation, as well as to train parents on how to advocate for their chronically ill child.

She has traveled the country speaking at medical conferences and other huge events, including the Essence Festival. Rasheena has also published six children’s books and had appearances on The Breakfast Club.

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