This month, CatalystCreativ has partnered with Endemol Beyond on a week centered around the evolution of storytelling. We look forward to exploring how the digital world has affected the way media, television, and content in general are evolving to meet our mobile and social culture. We are excited to feature a Chief Social Media Officer, the team behind YouTube celebrity Michelle Phan, and an MTV producer from the days of Road Rules.
Endemol Beyond is the largest independent television production company on the planet with credits that include international hits Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Wipeout, and more. Endemol Beyond leverages its world-class creative capabilities, global reach, vast resources, and powerhouse reputation to build a portfolio of premium digital networks anchored by marquee talent.
Led by a team of award-winning executives and entrepreneurs, Endemol Beyond is collaborating with acclaimed artists, performers, and thought leaders to bring their creative visions to a mass global audience—developing properties, driving value for partners, and building a new generation of content brands with unprecedented cross-media appeal.
We are so excited to welcome their team and others leading the charge in cutting edge media and television production.
Thursday, August 21st
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Friday, August 22nd
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Inspire!
Saturday, August 23rd
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The Inspire! Series was created as an offshoot of Delivering Happiness, a movement that started with a book by Tony Hsieh called Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose. This book inspired an outpouring of positivity from people who wanted to make the world a happier place. The Inspire! Series, hosted by CatalystCreativ and Rukesh Samarasekera, is a chance for members and visitors of the Downtown Vegas community to share their wisdom and deliver happiness to those around them.
If you missed last month’s talks, here are some highlights:
Pat Solomon
Company: Pat and Pat
Summary: Pat Solomon recently began the process of releasing his award winning feature length film Finding Joe. This film featuring stars such as Tony Hawks presents the centuries-old concept of the hero’s journey in a modern light. Inspired by Joseph Campbell, who coined the concept of the hero’s journey after studying patterns in mythology and other literature, Pat Solomon set out to use film to present the idea that all humans undergo their own hero’s journey.
Benjamin Altman
Company: Charisma on Command
Summary: Benjamin Altman is cofounder of Charisma on Command, a company whose goal is to help individuals master their charisma in order to improve their own lives and make stronger impacts on others. Through high school and college, Altman always was happy, made connections with others, and did well in his studies, yet he would get terribly nervous in certain situations, and he believed that this held him back from his full potential. He began studying the science of charisma and began applying it to his own life. Inspired by the difference mastering charisma had in his life, he now tries to influence others lives by helping them master their own.
Marc Coppola
Company: Valhalla Movement Foundation
Summary: Marc Coppola is out to make a difference by inspiring others with his mission to grow “freedom culture” by creating passion about sustainability, self reliance, and collaborative action. His movement that encompasses this goal, the Valhalla Mission, uses the core tenets of sustainability, community, knowledge, and action to make a difference. The Valhalla Movement also started Valhalla’s Superhero Academy, empowering people to be social entrepreneurs.
Dan Adams
Company: The Higher Purpose Project
Summary: Throughout his life, Dan Adams has held the belief that physical and mental limitations should not keep someone from attaining their goals—from representing the US National Team at the IFAF World Championship to starting Mission Kilimanjaro. Most recently Dan founded the Higher Purpose Project whose goal is bring together individuals who share the common drive to make a difference and accomplish unimaginable goals.
Tanya Thompson
Company: ThinkFun
Summary: As a teacher Tanya Thompson was innovative, using games and projects to help students learn in new and enticing ways. She recalls some of the life-changing experiences she had, such as when she had a student who was generally uninterested in school take pride in himself when he was able to solve a hard math puzzle and the praises of parents when students felt a new vigor for math concepts through their own math fair projects. Thompson now works for ThinkFun, whose goal is to create innovative methods and games to help students learn.
Jenna Phillips
Company: I’m On A Mission
Summary: Jenna Phillips has truly been on a mission since her teenage years. Her life was changed when she ended up in a coma her senior year of high school. When she awoke with brain damage and with the news that she was a Type 1 Diabetic, she was told she shouldn’t try to finish her senior year of high school. She was determined, and she did finish high school despite the fact that she had to relearn many basic skills such as reading. After being diagnosed with diabetes she decided to study nutrition and became a personal trainer.
Preston Smiles
Company: The Love Mobb
Summary: Preston Smiles started The Love Mobb, a community connecting 3.6 million people through organized acts of love. Smiles discovered the power of love at a young age after relocating to Pittsburgh from LA after friends of his were shot on a night that he decided to stay in. He noticed huge differences in his life because of the community he moved to. He improved in school and dropped many bad habits he had acquired back in LA. He now knows that love can make such a huge impact in someone’s life and knows that if there is a large enough community devoted to small acts of kindness, a huge difference can be made.
Alexander Rose
Company: The Long Now
Summary: Alexander Rose shares the story of the revolutionary 10,000 year clock since the birth of the idea almost 20 years ago. He also shares the message that comes with making this clock of “the long now” about looking at time from the right perspective. He hopes that this clock will inspire people to realize the importance of taking care of the planet and preserving it for future generations.
Tennille Amor
Company: EPIC~Everyday People Initiating Change
Summary: Tennille Amor is an artist who is not only passionate about her music, but also about using her musical talents to make a difference in the world. With this mentality, she began the A.M.O.R (Artists Motivating Optimistic Revolution) with the goal of spreading love and hope through artistic expression. She also cofounded E.P.I.C after feeling led to take part of a project to build wells in Africa. E.P.I.C encourages others that anyone can make a difference in the world.
Michael Trainer
Company: Global Citizen Festival
Summary: Michael Trainer spent a long time overseas enriched by the sense of community there, but distraught by the immense amount of poverty. He returned to the US unsure of what exactly he could do, until he met a friend with the goal to end poverty completely. Together they created the Global Citizen Festival with the profits going to help end poverty. They have raised more than $1.3 billion hosting artists such as Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, and Neil Young.