S1.E10 - The Continuous Creative Journey - w/ Special Guest Danielle Kvick

Welcome to Episode 15 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "S1.E15 - The 'P' Word"

We all are raised to wait for this word, to ask for it, to apply for it, and as someone creating... you sometimes never get it... It's PERMISSION...

It's a struggle we all have to face because we have to learn to create without permission and not to wait on someone else but to pull up our bootstraps and go for it. 

My Instagram: @MikeKvick
My Website: www.michaelkvick.com
Podcast's Instagram: @cluelesscreativespodcast
Podcast's Website: podcast.thecluelesscreatives.com

Love the content and want to help it keep going?
Support the show :) (https://paypal.me/michaelkvick)

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I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.

Through our work, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together.

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick.

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 14 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "S1.E14 - We're Back! - Founder Story Catchup

Well.... it's been a hot minute since the last episode... so I think we're do for a life update and some perspective when it comes to your story and the journey that you're on right now.

I'm pumped and ready to get back into this and I hope you'll be along for the ride!

My Instagram: @MikeKvick
My Website: www.michaelkvick.com
Podcast's Instagram: @cluelesscreativespodcast
Podcast's Website: podcast.thecluelesscreatives.com

Love the content and want to help it keep going?
Support the show! (https://paypal.me/michaelkvick)

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I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.

Through our work, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together.

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick.

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 13 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "S1.E13 - How to be a more EFFICIENT Creative - The Creative Dump"

It's been a wild ride so far and it certainly hasn't been the easiest transition into working for myself. But all that being said I've learned some incredible things along the way about business, work, and most importantly about myself.

One major thing I learned is that I need a way to process all the things that are on my plate while being able to motivate myself and to encourage myself even when the times get tough. In this episode, we unpack the top 3 tips I've learned so far as a freelancer and most importantly I share with you my TOP 3 EFFICIENCY TIPS that I have begun to utilize to make my time creating better and more efficient.

Top 3 Efficiency Tips that I have learned in the past 3 months:

1. Plan your time wisely & realistically
2. Prioritize your goals
3. Plan Fun

Being an inefficient creative can drain the creativity from you without you even knowing and it can ultimately cost you money in the long run. And finding tools that help you CREATE more EFFICIENTLY are essential to finding success as a creative.

I knew I needed something that would be there for me when I NEEDED it and when I would actually USE it. 

I combined the motivational, psychological, and time management strategies that I found that BOOSTED my workflow, into one short, cohesive, and no-nonsense Creative Dump Journal.

And I've made it free for you as well :) - Because you're worth it and I love you. 

The oh so glorious: "Creative Dump Journal" - Available for free

My Instagram: @MikeKvick
My Website: www.michaelkvick.com
Podcast's Instagram: @cluelesscreativespodcast
Podcast's Website: podcast.thecluelesscreatives.com

Love the content and want to help it keep going?
Support the show! (https://paypal.me/michaelkvick)

____________________________


I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.

Through our work, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together.

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick.

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 12 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "S1.E12 - Bridging the Creative Gap - From Concept to Business Reality - w/ Special Guest Chelsea Frischknecht"

From extorting siblings for 5$ for a batch of chocolate chip cookies to concepts of high fashion editorial fairytale stories and now all the way to being a personal chef and pop-up restauranteur. There hasn't been much in the creative realm that Chelsea hasn't dipped her metaphoric creative toe into along the way.

In this episode we break down her process and journey to creative discovery and how she has been able to successfully bridge the gap between Creative Business Concept to Full-Time Personal "Chef-ing". She shares her nuggets of knowledge on the steps you need to take to get the creative ball rolling and embark on your own personal creative journey. 

Email: chelsea@personalchefvienna.com
Tik Tok: @personalchefvienna
Instagram: @personalchefvienna
Facebook: @personalchefvienna
Website: www.personalchefvienna.com
My Instagram: @MikeKvick
My Website: www.michaelkvick.com
Podcast's Instagram: @cluelesscreativespodcast
Podcast's Website: podcast.thecluelesscreatives.com

Support the show (https://paypal.me/michaelkvick)

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I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.

Through our stories, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life. 

We choose to work with businesses, brands, and organizations who embody that calling, providing them with professional photography and filmmaking, to increase their reach and impact.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together.

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick. ;)

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 11 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "The Creative Passion Struggle" - with Special Guest Paul De Leon Manuel

From getting into trouble for tapping his pencil in school all the time to performing live on stage for eager fans, Paul's music journey has been an adventure and a unique challenge.

In this episode we break down the process and journey of how Paul has come to where he is in producing and creating music, we talk about playing music until your fingers bleed, and we unpack the current hurdles of the loss of creative passion and the loss of the drive to create. 

Paul's Instagram: @pauldeleonmanuel
Band's Instagram: @pauldeleonmusic
My Instagram: @MikeKvick
My Website: www.michaelkvick.com
Podcast's Instagram: @cluelesscreativespodcast
Podcast's Website: podcast.thecluelesscreatives.com

Support the show (https://paypal.me/michaelkvick)
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I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.

Through our stories, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life. 

We choose to work with businesses, brands, and organizations who embody that calling, providing them with professional photography and filmmaking, to increase their reach and impact.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together.

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick. ;)

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 10 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "The Continuous Creative Journey" - with special guest Danielle Kvick.

From family portraiture to Nickelback concerts and all the way to working for a Non-Profit in Angola, this continuous creative journey has been an absolutely wild ride that keeps changing and leads to new adventures and new experiences.

I never imaged the creative journey would lead me to where I am today and it has been a long, slow process of discovering my passion, my purpose, and my reason for doing what I do.

In this episode we breakdown the transition in my life when I got bulldozed by the creative life and got absolutely hooked in capturing moments of meaning and emotion, we dig into the purpose behind my work now as a creative and the journey I took to get there, and we answer some questions you guys asked me on Instagram.

My Instagram: @MikeKvick
My Website: www.michaelkvick.com

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I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.

Through our stories, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life. 

We choose to work with businesses, brands, and organizations who embody that calling, providing them with professional photography and filmmaking, to increase their reach and impact.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together. 

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick. ;) 

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 9 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "Do Creatives have a Social Responsibility?" with special guest Josh Antonio

From the killer music videos for the rising musicians in Vienna all the way to working with some of Vienna's biggest businesses, Josh has years of experience and knowledge in the creative industry as a Videographer, Cinematographer, and Creative Conceptor.  He knows firsthand what value and impact creative content can have on his clients and viewers.

We pull back the curtain on the impact Social Media has on us as creatives and we ask ourselves the uncomfortable question "Do Creatives have a Social Responsibility?" - a challenging but necessary question on the impact of Social Media, the content we produce and publish, and the impact we inevitably have on society and culture as creatives and artists.

Do you think we have a social and moral responsibility when it comes to what we produce, what we publish, and what we portray as artists?

Josh's Instagram: @joshpop.viii
Josh's Band Instagram: @pauldeleonmusic

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I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.

Through our stories, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life. 

We choose to work with businesses, brands, and organizations who embody that calling, providing them with professional photography and filmmaking, to increase their reach and impact.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together. 

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick. ;) 

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 8 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "How to find more Joy, Passion, and Perspective in life".

In this episode, we unpack the hard questions to ask ourselves, we talk about my shower meditation, and I bring up my favourite motivation movie of all time. 

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The day-to-day life can become pretty mundane, can’t it? The endless rat race or the chasing after achievements or money. A pretty major thing that gets taken from us on and off in life is the joy in life. Doing the things that you love and the things that give you life. 

At the end of all this, I just want to say that you’re worth it. You’re worth choosing and pursuing a life with more joy, more passion, and at the end more meaning for yourself whatever that looks like. 

I just want to encourage you, ask yourself this week and in the weeks to come, what am I doing to feed passion and joy in my life? I know it can be tough and I know it can be difficult and you won’t always have the capacity to do it and that’s totally okay. 

But if you become complacent with it and neglect to love yourself enough to do those things then you continue to live the life of just getting by and in the end, I can tell you that you will want more.

So here are the two questions for you.

1. What are you doing to feed your life with passion and joy this week?
2. What is something you've done this week that you're proud of?

And if you feel you have never answered this question or feel like you for some reason can’t answer, then there's something very simple that you have to do, something that takes a small act of faith and an act of self-love. It doesn't have to be grand or life-altering, it's just something simple and it starts with the small things. 

Simply have to answer the call...

The call to pursue a life lived wholly, with passion and authenticity. 

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I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria.

Through our stories, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life. 

We choose to work with businesses, brands, and organizations who embody that calling, providing them with professional photography and filmmaking, to increase their reach and impact.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together. 

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick. ;) 

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 7 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "Creative Thankfulness".

In this episode, we unpack the past month for myself and my creative journey and chat mindset and motivation - we take a look at the highs, the lows, and the necessity to remember to be thankful along this creative journey no matter what.

We unpack the mindset difference between PRODUCTION VALUE perspective and OPPORTUNITY VALUE perspective and the little things I've done this month to shift my perspective to the OPPORTUNITY VALUE and to remember all the opportunities that I have and to be thankful for in this crazy creative journey!

Since we're chatting thankfulness I just want to say a big thanks to everyone who has listened so far. It means the world that you have taken the time to listen in and to give feedback and share the podcast with those who you think would benefit from this community. For me, it's not about the number of listeners but it's all about the impact that a positive creative community can have on one another and I just want to say thank you so much for doing exactly that.

You guys are awesome and I look forward to this creative journey with you!
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In this episode, I share the following quote that inspired me this past month to help me shift my perspective.

It’s all in your head - Russ

“Get lost in playing the game and stop worrying about the points. Points are just small tokens put there to distract and limit you. If you play for the points, you will get rich and stop trying. Play for the love of the game”

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And here is my new business, podcast, and personal creative mantra to help myself stay focused when things become distracting, to help me know what kinds of projects I want to focus on, and what kind of guests I want to feature on this podcast over the next 12 months!

The new creative mantra
Through our stories, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life.

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I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. 

Through our stories, we amplify the voice of those in pursuit of living life wholly, with passion and authenticity. We tell these stories to inspire that call - the call to pursue the extraordinary in life. 

We choose to work with businesses, brands, and organizations who embody that calling, providing them with professional photography and filmmaking, to increase their reach and impact.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together. 

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick. ;) 

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story. 

Welcome to Episode 6 of The Clueless Creatives Podcast "Creation over Consumption Part 2" with special guest Jonathan Manning
 
From million-dollar investments to a flopped drop shipping company, our guest has gained years of experience and knowledge in what it means to be an entrepreneur and what it takes.  He's a near and dear friend of mine, he's an entrepreneur, business owner, realtor, investor, actor, comedian, and an all-around great guy.

In this episode (part 2 of 2) we chat all about getting started as an entrepreneur,  the mindset and motivation behind entrepreneurship, we pull back on the nitty-gritty of networking and getting started, we talk about how creativity and business have to go hand in hand, and we share that in life if you want to succeed you have to be willing to take a risk and create instead of just consume.

Jonathan's Instagram: @jonathan.manning
Jonathan's Comedy Instagram: @manning.comedy

I'm your host, Mike Kvick. I'm a photographer and videographer based in Vienna, Austria and I work with businesses, brands, and organizations to help them tell the right story for the right reasons.

I believe you deserve to thrive in your creative journey and that you don't have to settle and be another clueless creative doing this. And that’s what the Clueless Creatives is all about. It’s a community - banding together, eager to learn, to listen, and to live out their creative dream. Together we'll pull back the curtain on my personal creative journey, we chat business, mindset, and motivation, have some laughs, and together, well… we'll figure this whole thing out.

It's gonna be a great journey together. 

It'd be awesome if you decided to share this episode on your Instagram Stories and while you're at it, make sure to tag me @mikekvick. ;) 

If you have any feedback or questions, head on over to Instagram and message me @mikekvick or visit my website at michaelkvick.com. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about your creative story.