Funktastic Chats

Mike Zabrin

Funktastic Chats is a podcast designed for creative entrepreneurs. I'm a musician in the wedding industry, but we're focusing on everything creativity. Topics include task management and outsourcing, because if other people in your business can't do what you do, you created a job for yourself and not a company, and maybe not such a good paying one either. Silencing your inner critic and reinventing yourself to business and workflow ideas. This is the business education that you may have always wanted.So why focus on creatives? Well, because there's not one clear path set out for you as a creative. The industry doesn't want you in it. This podcast is about combining your talent with business so that your industry cannot deny you and has no choice, but to open its doors for you. It starts with being in a mindset of understanding the value of investing in yourself, because if you don't invest in yourself, then who's going to invest in you. CEOs join me every week to help you monetize your passion, whatever that may be, into a full-time gig. read less
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Episodes

How to Close Buy-Later Couples with Book More Brides Co-owner Kate Storey
Nov 30 2021
How to Close Buy-Later Couples with Book More Brides Co-owner Kate Storey
Kate Storey is a digital marketing specialist, copywriter and social media expert. As co-owner of Book More Brides alongside her husband, Nick, she helps wedding business owners around the world better understand how to identify their perfect clients, what to say to get them to book, and how to create strategic online content that builds relationships and salesTopics covered include:How to close buy-later couples: Are couples ghosting you or are you ghosting them?How to bring in consistent leads on a regular basis (slow and fast methods)Blogging & Content Ideas for wedding prosHow to connect with couples on a deeper level and draw an emotional responseEmail Sequences to keep you front of mind and stand out from competitorsKate is passionate about helping wedding professionals find the right words that help them speak directly to their couples’ emotional needs (and buying triggers), and add a little fun and personality along the way. She is a big believer in being clear over clever - but her specialty is combining the two to create writing that helps wedding pros connect at a deeper level with the couples they want to book. Her experience extends beyond the wedding industry as well. With nearly 20 years in marketing, social media, public relations, and communications work, Kate has helped everyone from small start-ups, technology and manufacturing companies, national museums and even large corporations like Microsoft create a deeper connection with the people they serve through written and digital communications. Through it all, Kate believes that each business owner intuitively knows their perfect client - they just need a little help sometimes in putting it into words...and that’s where she comes in. When she’s not teaching marketing skills to wedding pros or recording content for the Book More Brides Podcast and YouTube channel, Kate loves going on adventures with Nick and their four children, savoring another cup of caramel creamer-laden coffee and watching way too many YouTube videos.About Kate Storey:Book More Brides WebsiteBook More Brides InstagramBook More Brides PodcastBook More Brides CRM - Book & manage leads like never before!Funktastic Chats website
How Auto-Booking and Auto-Pay are Getting Musicians Back On Stage
Nov 16 2021
How Auto-Booking and Auto-Pay are Getting Musicians Back On Stage
HOW TO SET YOUR MUSICIANS ON AUTO-BOOK! Tired of the back and forth trying to confirm all your musicians for gigs? This is the musician and crew scheduling system that manages itself. HOW TO AUTOPAY YOUR MUSICIANS! Do you really want to be wasting your time chasing your team for their gig invoices and burning cash on costly payroll or money transfer services? We hope not! Let's put it all on AUTO-PILOT.These are just two of the MANY features we'll be chatting about with Back On Stage founder, Reuben Avery, and Marketing Director, Eric Tsang​Back On Stage is a highly innovative, web-based productivity app that allows bandleaders and event pros to book gigs in minutes instead of hours. The software automates your gig-booking workflow with client relationship management (CRM), scheduling, communication, and repertoire management tools. It saves us up to 80% of our administrative time and helps eliminate those late-night phone calls and oh-so-familiar feelings of "did I remember to book a drummer for gig X" and "Am I forgetting something?" Back On Stage is an application that keeps bandleaders and event pros everywhere from losing any more hair! The goal of Back On Stage is to help musicians and event pros optimize their capacity, generate more revenue, and improve professionalism, using a single organizational application. It will provide equal opportunities for all by leveling the band management playing field. You can sign up for a free trial today at backonstageapp.comSign up and get a $15 Amazon Gift Card! You can organize your band and your gigs! Use the key 612211210 to get a $15 amazon gift card!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
Redefine Your Lifestyle To Avoid The Edge of Burnout
Jun 29 2021
Redefine Your Lifestyle To Avoid The Edge of Burnout
Is space in music just as important as the notes? If you tuned into my episode with Grammy Nominated artist, Joseph Wooten, you'd know that rhythm forces you to not only give each other space, but to respect each other's space. Take a look at a website that you really like and notice how much space is in between the text and images. How chaotic would the website look if there was no space?🎧 Listen now to learn:✨ To shift your mindset & focus on joy and happiness rather than the negative aspects through gratitude✨ How to avoid living on the edge of burnout✨How to add space in your life, on your own terms We're taking a look at health and wellness in the events and wedding industry. Do wedding pros sometimes forget to take care of themselves? Jai says that fitness doesn't have to equate to working out your body. It's also about the relationships with your family and your friends. Learn to shift your mindset and focus on joy and happiness rather than the negative aspects and distractions through showing gratitude. Jenny and Jai Holla are the founders of 2JHolla, co-hosts of The Hollastic Life Podcast and are on a mission to help wedding pros set boundaries and protect their mental space emotionally, physically and beyond. They're known as The Wedding Wellness Experts who bring a unique approach and perspective to fill the gap that no one talks about in our industry. With Jenny's history as a top achieving corporate sales professional and Jai's deep knowledge in wellness, they focus on wedding pros as a person to help with burnout, stress, mindset, and overall lifestyle. Their goal is to help you step into the next level and redefine realign and redesign your lifestyle on your terms.Learn More about 2JHollaWeb: http://2jholla.com/IG: @2_jhollaClubhouse: Jai: @thahollasopherJenny: @lifeadventuristJoin the Ohana: http://2jholla.com/ohana
Everything and Nothing: The Culmination of Colin Peterik's Life Work
May 25 2021
Everything and Nothing: The Culmination of Colin Peterik's Life Work
Colin Peterik is the son of Jim Peterik, who founded Survivor and The Ides Of March. Colin is stepping into the spotlight with his debut album, Everything and Nothing,  which releases August 30th, 2021. Imagine if Steely Dan, Genesis, and Todd Rundgren had a baby…Colin Peterik’s debut album is filled with endless grooves masterful arrangements and is a song cycle of pocket symphonies and suites that span genres including psychedelic and progressive rock, pop, soul, and everything in between. It's mixed by Grammy award-winning engineer, Craig Bauer! Colin is the owner of The Jam Lab in Brookfield IL and we’re going to chat about how Colin helps the Chicago music community scale their music globally through live streaming and recording in order to help musicians turn their craft into a solid product to put out there into the world.Colin's musical relationship with his dad, Jim Peterik, and what it's like to grow up with a dad who wrote hits like "Eye of The Tiger" and "Vehicle"What is The Jam Lab? (Brookfield, IL)How Colin uses The Jam Lab to help musicians scale their music to a global audience How Colin transformed 10 years of written music into a debut albumColin talks about influences like Emmett Rhodes, Steely Dan, Todd RundgrenWhy "Everything and Nothing" needs to be on YOUR play list!You can stream "Everything and Nothing" ahead of its release by visiting:  www.colinpeterik.comColin's Facebook PageThe Jam Lab: Music Production Studio, Rehearsal Facility, VenueMentions:Jim PeterikThe Ides of MarchCraig BauerThe North 41Khari Parker
Joseph Wooten Part 2: Music, Culture, Rhythm, and Respect
May 18 2021
Joseph Wooten Part 2: Music, Culture, Rhythm, and Respect
How funk became the celebratory music and why it's known as the "free man's music"How harmony tells us how to feel and how rhythm gives the music a path forwardMusical ConceptsJoseph's relationship with Steve Miller, Victor Wooten and the rest of his brothersJoseph Wooten is a three-time Grammy-nominated artist, songwriter, keyboardist, and vocalist. Since 1993, Joseph has been an integral member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, The Steve Miller Band. He is a producer, speaker, and fronts his own band, Joseph Wooten and The Hands of Soul. Joseph also serves as the keyboard is to his brother, Victor Wooten. On top of all of that, he's an author of It All Matters from which there's a Ted Talk delivered in Memphis, Tennessee called Why It All Matters.Joseph says the most important thing you can learn from music is that in music, rhythm creates a relationship with things that are normally not compatible. Rhythm gives two different ideas a path forward because rhythm makes them respect each other's space. Joseph says that if you replace rhythm with respect off the stage, it will do the same thing.  Growing up, Joseph's mom told him and his brothers, "What does the world need with just another good musician? What we need are more good people." Their mom knew the music business would be tough and may or may not work out, but knew that they would survive it based on the quality of character that she raised Joseph, Victor, Reggie, Roy, Rudy, and Elijah to be. Sit back, relax, and enjoy as we dive into Music, Culture, Rhythm, and Respect.Listen to Part 1Joseph Wooten's websiteFunktastic Chats website