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Ep. 85: Donovan Melero (Hail The Sun / Kill Iconic) | Developing Projects From Natural Talent
Where Are All My Friends | Discovering Creative Careers with Inspiring Entrepreneurs
English - February 22, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 79 MB - ★★★★★ - 245 ratingsMusic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Donovan Melero joins me to talk about Hail The Sun's new music, Kill Iconic, and everything else I listed in the timestamps. Do y'all use the timestamps? I hope so. They take a long time to write out.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro - Who Donovan is and what he does.
6:03 - Balancing different projects at once and doing it well.
8:10 - How to develop projects out of natural core talents.
11:26 - Donovan's sobriety "obsession" and how that has affected his career trajectory.
15:35 - Early days of Hail The Sun and how it all came together to be what it is now.
25:00 - Hail The Sun + side project songwriting - what is the process? How to get from an idea to a good product.
28:50 - Donovan discusses the visual components of Hail The Sun and the importance of uniformity and quality.
30:44 - "The Kill Iconic Ecosystem" - building the magazine and the community that surrounds it. Donovan explains where the idea came from and how it grew.
44:26 - Integrity in Kill Iconic - chasing goals with your friends and coming up together.
47:30 - Distributing Kill Iconic - learning how to book magazines in record stores and other subscription methods.
53:47 - Money as the scorecard not as the end goal for new projects.
56:12 - Kill Iconic podcast and label coming soon.
57:20 - Donovan discusses how Episode 50 of the Short Story Long podcast changed his mindset for business and life beyond.
1:04:25 - The importance of thinking before you even write ideas down - start "working" in a traditional sense.
1:03:29 - Donovan discusses taking pilot lessons during these times to develop a different way of thinking.
1:04:27 - Where to find and contact Donovan.
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Donovan Melero: @donovan_hts
Hail The Sun: @hailthesun
Kill Iconic: @killiconic
New Single: Parasitic Cleanse
Andrew Cramb: @andrew_ftw
Where Are All My Friends Podcast: Website