September 9 2020
Wed, 9/9 3:36PM 9:38
Hey how are you doing? My name is Scott, and welcome to Digital Zen.
This is a new podcast that we're doing here that I'm doing here. And hopefully I'll be doing it with
you just about every day. And hopefully, you'll join. So I want to tell you a little bit about what
digital Zen is in digital Zen pretty much is a place where we can talk about pretty much anything
digital, whether it's content creation, or whether it's digital marketing or anything in the digital
space. Really, I mean, I'm open for some discussion, that's not digital as well. But you know, we're
Digital's in. So, let me give you a couple. Let me give you a little background on myself.
I was born in Massachusetts, grew up in New Jersey moved down to the state of Florida, when I
was around 15 years old, had a had a rough beginning as a childhood came from very modest
background and when I say rough beginning, my parents were divorced when I was young.
You
single digits still, you know, I had a had a dad that I really didn't see too much till I got to be
around 15 or 16 years old when I went down to live with him. But, you know, those those early
days were pretty emotionally scarring.
But in all honesty, sometimes the emotional scars are the best thing for us in life. We just don't
realize it at the time. And I know for me, it was probably one of those things because I think it
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caused me to go inward and started to teach me how to be a creative person.
When I say a creative person, that's really how I've done most things in life is with my brain and
my creativity.
And luckily, it's been a very natural process for me, and I think it came from from those days and
just allowing myself to live in my head and, and, and, and grow and grow spiritually. You know, so
as I was growing up, like I just said spiritually was really
One of the main directions of my life I was always looking at, you know, the spiritual inside and I
don't mean religious, by any stretch. I do mean spiritual. And if you notice in the name of the
podcast is digital Zen.
Zen was a was an early theme in my life on a few of my companies are Zen related we have Zen
monikers. I have a yoga store that sells items. It's called Zen mushroom. My one of my video
companies is Zen Digital's and here we have this digital Zen podcast, which is
which is part of that. But anyway, going back to the early days, I was I was very, very fortunate
and that I had really what I would consider a gift of creativity. I was able and I'm still able to be
creative spur the moment
was really really, really lucky and I grew up with a few in high school, some super talent.
Guys, some other musicians and I had a great writing partner, a guy named James Wisner, who,
who used to he and I wrote a lot of songs in high school and really experimented with our
creativity. And we had like, no boundaries, you know, I mean, we would, we would just write and
we were really prolific and had an incredible group of guys playing music with us,
Mark Knight and Bill Murphy and his brother Steve Murphy, who's still really prolific and plays
with, you know, tons of amazing bands out there and guys, probably one of the most talented
people I've ever met or even, you know, really had the privilege to work with, but on. And then
there's my friend, Mark Serota, who's my business partner and stuff now. And he's a very famous
photographer, very accomplished, and he and I own our video company together and have done
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a bunch of stuff there. But I think it all stems from those early days and allowing that creativity
To really get out there and flourish, you know, I'd always dreamed of accomplishing things in, in
the creative space. And I'd always had at the same time, a struggle, because I had a really, I think
good business mind and I was always, you know, from the early days when I first started to see it,
you know, it's interesting I'm,
I'm in my mid 50s. So I was part of the transition and a lot of ways between analog and the digital
world. So I was part of music. I was making music down in Miami, during when the Miami bass
sound started to happen.
And during that time, it was the time when music really started to go from analog into the digital
space. And ever since then, I got really infatuated with digital, such that nowadays starting a
couple of years ago, I really
Found the love for digital marketing and everything that's involved with it the strategies, the
creativity, even the teaching of it, you know, so it was, you know, it, there was always that pull
from from the one side of the video production and creativity and I know I jumped from music to
video production but I did that in the in the early 90s. I made that I made that transition. But in In
short, that's, you know, who I became I became somebody who was very interested in and you
know, and prolific in creating not only video assets and digital content, but digital marketing as
well.
But
I'm a family man as well. So I have a wife and I have a child and I have a stepdaughter and my
stepdaughter is already through college, but my son is very young or I'm 11 years old.
And I'm a family man. So you know, I do have to put food on the family all of the time, every
single day. So one of the things that, you know that I come up against, in, in my,
in my life as an entrepreneur is the continual fishing the continual having a cast that rod out
there, reel it in and bring food to put on the table. Now, I'm sure a lot of you guys can, can relate
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to that struggle.
You know,
but not too long ago, I had a real breakthrough in in my life. And I realized, you know, fully, that
the only limitations we have are the ones we put on ourselves, okay. There's always a way to
learn. There's always a place to learn. There's always a way to break through. And right now I'm in
that breakthrough process. I believe. I just got out of a tough business deal where I was
in my
Mind at least taken advantage of by a former partner sort of induced into a deal
in a not so truthful way, and things ended up not being what they were promised and I lost a
bunch of money over over there. So I'm kind of reeling from that a little bit, but emotionally I'm
not because in my spiritual life,
I realized it was really easy to put that down and walk forward. So my breakthrough hopefully is
coming in here in the future. It's in the process of being created, so to speak.
So, you know,
I don't have much conflict over the direction I'm going in life except for the fact that on the one
hand, I love absolutely, working with my video production company and doing all of the creative
arts that go along with that. music and video and in editing, which is something that I love and
being and splitting my time between the digital marketing space
which becomes more and more and more consuming, the more I get engaged in it, because it's
just an awesome space. And there's so much to learn and, and recently I've been involved with,
with doing some stuff with Russell Brunson and Click Funnels and not with him necessarily
personally but with his courses. So I've been involved in a great course there.
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And since this is my first podcast, I'm going to end here, because I'm going to leave you a little, a
little bait for tomorrow.
Tomorrow I'm going to be on and I'm going to tell you a little bit about the first film I made and
some of the stuff that happened there because I have won some awards in the filmmaking
process. And I'm going to show you how some certain things tie in together. And hopefully this
wasn't such a terrible first podcast, like it might like it might easily have been able to be. Hopefully
you like it. If you do like it. Please subscribe to the channel. It's number one. It's gonna I don't
mean the channels.
Number one, but I mean, this is my first podcast. I will be doing it regularly. And from time to time
we'll be putting some stuff out there where you guys can win some stuff and, and other things like
that I will be bringing people on to do cool interviews with sometimes.
I may announce them, I may not announce them. I know some pretty cool people that you'd find
some, some really interest in. Anyway, y'all have a great day. Thanks for tuning in. Whoever did
tune in
and I will see you next time. I'll see you tomorrow.
September 9 2020