Creative Haven

Tim Redmond is a successful entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and CEO of Redmond Growth Consulting, an organization designed to help you grow your profits, grow your business, and grow your life through Tim's innovative coaching process. In this episode, we talk about Tim's story of overcoming his speech impediment to building a successful coaching business by acting while he's afraid, how the first p...

Fred Joyal is a speaker, author, and business coach, who co-founded the 1-800-DENTIST referral service, which was the largest dental referral business in the country and generated over $1 billion in revenue.  He's also the author of SUPERBOLD, a book about the systematic approach to developing the superpower of boldness.  In this episode, we talk about his experience in advertising and TV commerci...

Heath Creech is a transmedia entrepreneur and founder of the African American Leadership Institute, also known as AALI. In this episode, we talk about his work with AALI and why it's important to cultivate and introduce leaders to enhance the Black experience in Austin, the benefits of working with a partner you trust when building an organization, how his background in design and marketing helps...

Harrison Roberts is an Executive Producer at Riotmaker. TV - a commercial production company in Los Angeles specializing in high-end branded content with clients such as Ring, Amazon, Oracle, Lowes, and more.    In this episode, we talk about his journey from medical sales to executive producing and what it takes to build a successful commercial production company, why it's important for creatives...

P.J. Leimgruber a professor of Technologies for Interactive Marketing at USC, influencer marketing master, and co-founder of the creator-centric, short-form video app, Clash .  In this episode, we talk about the rise of the influencer market and the evolution of the creator economy, the best ways to get brands working with creators so both sides are happy, the struggles creators have with making m...

Colt Briner is a Marketing Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Founder Of Scrappy AF Solutions.  In this episode, we talk about his creative process and the steps he takes to develop ideas, how creativity also exists in the management and operations of a business and not just content, the importance of authenticity when telling your brand's story so you build a community of followers who align with your v...

Nathan Labenz is the CEO of Waymark, a company that helps businesses of all sizes easily create professional video content without having to be creative.  In this episode, we talk about how video is the best way for local businesses to communicate with their customers and market their products, how his company helps uncreative people understand and apply video content, the best practices for posti...

Alison P. Sauter is the Principal and Creative Director at SHELF Studio : a packaging and branding studio based in Austin.  In this episode, we talk about the natural order of package design and the concept of selling your brand and not your product; how brands can pivot and adapt with supply-chain issues and inflation to still make a profit and grow; how painting, art, and printmaking is her form...

Karin Samelson and Alison Smith are Co-Founders of UMAI Marketing: A boutique, Austin-based marketing agency for CPG companies. In this episode, we talk about the importance of organic marketing, paid social, and email marketing when growing a CPG brand; how they get into their flow state by scheduling time to be creative, searching for marketing trends for inspiration, and getting focused at the...

Jarrod Haning is a classically trained musician and an award-winning speaker featured on ABC Nightline and TEDx, and the owner of Mindset Performance where he specializes in a Nobel Nominated process that teaches people how to think at a higher level. In this episode, we talk about how most creatives are still stuck in an employee mindset as they work as freelancers and need to set their own price...

Brennan Bliss is the founder & CEO of the award-winning SEO agency, PixelCutLabs, and also a member of the leadership team with me on Naturally Austin's Marketing Forum.  In this episode, we talk about his journey from dance to entrepreneurship and how creative projects helped him deal with feeling left out at school; the power of SEO in building a brand when budgets are limited by doing the oppos...

Mark Gallo is a creative director with 25+ years of experience delivering award-winning ideas for global brands.  He's the creative director at Traina Design, an independent, award-winning branding agency. In this episode, we discuss the importance of a creative brief in keeping a branding campaign on track and how problem-solving should be an important element; his process of branding by research...

Mitchel Dumlao is a video producer, content strategist, and creator that's the host and founder for Creative Haven - a podcast, video production, and content strategy company that helps people grow their brands through video content.  In this episode, I talk about my history as a creative, and why watching movies with my family when I was a kid inspired me to become a filmmaker because I believe m...

James Shen is a former corporate slave turned independent creative entrepreneur. His ventures include LA Street Art Gallery, Pioneer Solutions Americas, Paint the town Podcast, Go Spray Paint, & not to mention a growing career in music production and DJing. In this episode, we talk about his journey from a pharmaceutical sales rep to music producer and why it's important to pursue your passion eve...

Meghan Phillips is the Founder and CEO of Honey, a female-led creative studio that intersects design and marketing to create impactful work for the food, beverage, cannabis, and agriculture industries. In this episode, we talk about the struggles of being a business owner and the importance of clarity in your vision to lead a creative team and company, why marketers and designers need to collabora...

Gerald Schoenhoff is an award-winning creative director who is the Chief Creative Officer of Crew Food & Beverage Marketing Partners - A strategic marketing and creative agency specializing in food, beverage, and agriculture In this episode, we talk about his successful leadership style of managing creatives by giving people space, encouragement, and expectations to push them to the point where th...

Eric "King Cre8" Walker is a graffiti artist, style writer, and artist from Los Angeles who has worked with corporations such as McDonald's, Nike, and General Motors; and has had his artwork featured at the LACMA, MOCA, and the Getty Museum. In this episode, we talk about his history as an artist and how he turned his high school teachers from critics to supporters through his passion for art, how...

James Nguyen is a serial entrepreneur and poet who has been a contributing writer on Forbes since 2016 and has been featured on global networks such as ABC, CNBC, and Sky News. He is CEO of Inflexion Media, which scales companies, brands, and individuals by building media brands. In this episode, we discuss his thoughts on work-life balance and how life should be doing work that's fun for you but...

Nicole Katz is the CEO of Paper Chase Press, a second-generation, family-run press in Los Angeles, that has been providing clients bespoke, cutting-edge printed media since 1976.  In this episode, we talk about how growing up in a family-run press helped her appreciate high-quality productions, how to deal with people, and also how to run a business; why print is an important medium for artists an...

Albert Baez is the co-founder and President of Blended Sense; a media technology company in Austin, TX that matches the right creatives with small businesses to produce digital content to help them grow their companies.  In this episode, we talk about his journey as a baseball player to a B2B tech sales expert and how that helped him build his company, how Blended Sense uses data to match the corr...

Ivan "Flipz" Velez is a 3-Time World Champion Bboy and Dancer that has been a leader & influential figure in the BREAKING scene for nearly 3 decades, with his crew, SKILL METHODZ.  Flipz has also broken through and danced his way into 28 feature films in the industry, 84 Tv shows & even performed in the 2004 Olympics in Athens Greece.  Today, Flipz Velez has continued to coach, mentor & inspire th...

Ken Beasley is the managing director of Aid&Abet; a strategic branding design agency specializing in elevating food and beverage brands. In this episode, we discuss how he transitioned from working at non-profits to agencies because of the passion and energy he experienced while working in that world, how sustainability has been a key trending attribute for brand positioning for food and beverage...

Patrick Nycz is the founding president of New Point Marketing, a CPG food & beverage marketing and advertising agency based in Lafayette, Indiana. In this episode, we talk about how a 360 review in his early career forced him to change his outlook on his management style to become a better leader and marketer, how inviting loyal customers into a focus group gives insight on what consumers want to...

Aman Johnson is a producer, director, and founder of Johnson Media Co., a video production company specializing in storytelling in commercial, documentary, and narrative work. In this episode, we talk about how his experience in architecture taught him applicable and valuable skills that enhanced his confidence and problem-solving skills for his business, how he attentively listens to his clients'...

Joe Harris is a director, editor, and cinematographer at the Dallas-based video production company; Side Chops. Joe also recently won a Gold Telly award for directing a commercial spot for Dr. Squatch-Shampoo. We talk about how his background in music shaped his creative thought process and has a vital role in filmmaking and content creation. We also talk about how his definition of success has ad...