“Live Inspired or Don’t”
Adam Zand, a mad poster, blogger, utterzer, Zander, adman, madman caught me on video like Bigfoot….
If you are interested in the connection between emotional storytelling, film writing, and good connecting copywriting for things like salespages for internet marketing — have a listen.
http://www.utterz.com/all/t-Adam%20Gilad
And Mr. Zand…. thanks
How To Connect Emotionally With Copywriting
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So here I am at the New Media Expo — learning all about the wacky and wild world of blogging and podcasting.
So here I am with the publisher of of my podcast, The Fearless Lover, Susan and Tim Bratton of Personal Life Media, sitting in the hallway, talking to my beloved about my 17 year old and breaking trust and gaining trust and guiding him into the manhood as a man of integrity.
Integrity. Unlike television, with its shameful “news” divisions, false dramas and lost little white girls, and unlike television with its bloviating gasbags like Rush and Hannity — the new world of social media demands integrity. You will be outed if you are a liar. Character counts. Its a virtual community, yes, but the people are REAL.
And no matter what you’re posting or twittering or digging, it goes back to the oft-ignored slogan of the Hard Rock Hotel out my window here — “Love All. Serve All.”
And I am on the phone in a cavernous hall in Vegas - of all places - talking integrity.
What happens when my son promises no drinking at the house or on the property up in lovely Topanga while I’m away — and it happens? Even though just a little.
I publish The Fearless Lover to explore the spiritual roots of enduring love. I am about to heave all my dating advice books and audio series — The Right Man Online, Erotic Mastery, Tantric 101, The Complete Attractor, etc — over to a new heading: The Fearless Dater.
What is a Fearless Dater? It means bringing your whole self forward fearlessly and openly so that you can encounter another person as a whole and open being (I tell women, either convey that you are a whole woman, or guys’ll just treat you like a woman with a hole.)
And yet here I am, sitting on the carpet, cycling through a thousand thoughts on how to be the best parent I can be at the moment. How much discipline? How much consequence?
What my son will get is real consequences — loss of a trip he wants very much. But he will also get a vision of himself as a man of integrity — what I know, as is father, is his greatness, his offering, his gift to the world. It may take a few years…
But I want him to grow into a Fearless Lover. Not only of an intimate partner, but of truth, service, depth.
Discipline with one hand. Love and Vision with the other.
Any thoughts from you on that, oh parents or children of parents out there?
I am just packing up in Boston. I spoke at the Affiliate Summit on how to create a story, how to create a human element, and how to use the work of Joseph Campbell to tap into people’s emotional core in order to communicate how your product or service might help them alleviate pain in their lives.
In other words - using all the skills of a screenwriter to help marketers communicate in a human rather than in a b.s. or salesy way.
It was gratifying and folks wuz grateful — people get so lost in the minutia of their tech boundaries and internal marketing matrixes — they forget that we are all just people talking to people.
And that we all share the same slopes into grief and sadness, and gaze up at the same winding pathways to love, connection, meaning, legacy and hope.
I loved all the twittering and the tweets, though I wonder where all that is going. People seem giddy with this new toy.
Also touching — the enthusiasm of the new gen of social media freaks! Maria Thurrell, the fireball behind Media Awaken, social media Pr firm for non profits and other value-positive enterprises brings amazing intelligence and heart to this world. And Chrissie Brodigan - another nebula of heart and intelligence -
of BasketCase Media — a Social Media Product Strategist.
And Mr. Dave Evans - we have fun and profits in our future.
Special thanks to the amazing Lisa Riolo for making this all possible for me. Some people are just so innately good and thoughtful, you wonder how the world got into this state.
My lovely friend Christel Hughes, author of Be Love To Find Love, asked me this morning for one quick top relationship tip — and my head was buried in a marketing teaching web-site.
Here’s what I said — and where these two worlds meet:
“Treat your intimate partner like your best customer. Exceed her expectations and give awe-inspiring value at every turn — (which will help you maximize your return on investment).”
Mercenary? Or spiritually deep?
Or both?
I am getting ready to attend a series of Conferences, where I am speaking on powerful writing and expression in this loony 2.0 world, and am getting new business cards made.
What the hell do you write when you are a screenwriter and producer, an attraction and relationship and spiritual growth writer, an event producer and on top of everything else, honored with the job of helping writer and author, David Deida, build an internet platform so people can experience his work more fully?
I never define myself by job or title.
I define myself by passion. By motivation.
I was thinking: Gilad Creative Media: Create. Inspire. Prosper.
Then I just saw Peter Shankman’s logo: CEO. Entrepreneur. Adventurist.
I liked that better. It took it the game out of commerce on that last word.
I may borrow it for myself on my next card!
One of my favorite quotes is from George Bernard Shaw:
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I…
Continue reading ‘A Life of Bold Adventure and Success’
… or don’t get married at all.
One of the last places you’d ever expect to find a spiritual awakening is in an Adam Sandler movie. However, there is a big one at the end of 50 First Dates when Drew Barrymore — who has no short term memory (always a good thing) — wakes up and sees flowers and photos…
The photos slowly tell her the story of her romance, then marriage to Sandler - and then she sees she has children with him. It is all news to her!
The look of amazement and gratitude that washes over her perky-nosed face is absolutely inspiring.
It is the look we should all have every day as we realize whatever boons we have in our life - health, abundance, and most of all — love… Continue reading ‘Get Married Once A Day…’