We connected with some of the most resilient folks in the community and one of the most insightful questions we had an opportunity to ask centered around whether there was ever a time they almost gave up. Highlighting some of the responses below.
Edward Gazvoda
In 2009, I founded a company with the rights to market and sell low-temperature alkaline hydrolysis systems manufactured by Bio-Response Solutions. We sold the first human Aquamation® system in the U.S. to a funeral director, Jeff Edwards. Unfortunately, the system did not work properly. Read more>>
Brennah Rosenthal
Back when I was first starting off in production I worked on a music video where the EP they hired was ‘fraudulent.’ I ended up picking up his pieces and working 6am to 4am every day for 3 days straight. Read more>>
Michael Haspil
Oh yes. Very recently, in fact. I’m going to have to skip over some details to protect the innocent, but I have spoken of this before in different venues, and it is no secret. Yet, trying to distance myself from these wounds and revisiting them with increasing specificity is not constructive. Read more>>
Graffiti Johnson
Yes. Everyday. As the industry, media landscape and society is rapidly changing and as I grow and mature mentally and spiritually as a man, husband, father, creative etc. I constantly question if some of the things I do professional are worth the energy I’ve been putting into it at this stage in life, and if I even really want to do it anymore. Read more>>
