March 25, 2024 • 33 mins
Join host Elisha Taderera as he sits down with guest David Pierson (from The Social Place). In this episode, they discuss the power of social media and how to use it as a tool for positive impact. David shares his experiences as a filmmaker and the importance of knowing your "why" when creating content.
They also dive into the balance between work and play, the significance of being a contributor rather than a passive consumer and leveraging digital media as a tool to share inspirational narratives and foster genuine connections.
Tune in for inspiring insights and practical advice for creatives and entrepreneurs alike.
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Hello and welcome back to the For The Creatives podcast. I'm Alasdair Tadarera
and today we're getting right to the heart of what drives us as creatives.
With stories of adventure, our guest David Pearson is here to inspire us to
look beyond the ordinary.
His journey takes him from sleeping in cardboard boxes for charity to flying
drones off the edge of New Zealand.
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And he's really about making a difference. If you're curious about how to turn
your creative pursuits into meaningful actions, this episode's for you. Let's dive in.
Hello, David. How's it going? Doing well, thanks. It's nice to be in the cozy little studio here.
Yeah, it's a nice small little room, humble beginnings.
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Mate, but it's exciting to be here and just have a conversation for the Creatives podcast.
Yeah, well, welcome. When did we talk about doing this episode?
Probably a couple of years ago, actually. Yeah, I think we briefly mentioned
to each other that That'll be good to connect and have a podcast together,
but a couple of years passed and then, but here we are now. Well, glad to have you.
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Now, before I get into an introduction of who you are, I just have one question.
So, before any context of what you do, what is the craziest thing that you have done recently?
Craziest thing? That's a good one. Just trying to think. I mean,
I've done a lot of crazy things. Yeah.
I can remember just off the top of my head, I think years ago.
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I think it was you, you slept in a cardboard box.
Oh, slept in a cardboard box. Was that? Oh, yes.
Yeah, we did a live stream and we did the- yeah, what did we do?
We just slept overnight like to see what it's like living on the streets.
Yeah. And yeah, we literally overnight just to raise a bit of awareness and
funds sleeping out for the homeless for that night, you know. Yeah.
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Yeah, so that was a bit of a crazy experience and a bit of a taste to see,
I guess what it would how the experience would
be if you were like doing it rough
and since then I've actually met some people that
are on the streets and have some conversations one of
the probably a crazy thing is one time I yeah when I was in South Australia
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there was a guy that I didn't even know he was homeless but I said hey do you
want to grab a burger grab a bite to eat and we kind of you know shared a bit
about each other and we have a story and things and like it It didn't end up well in the end.
We kind of left on different terms. But it was good just to have a conversation
with him and see where he's at. Yeah.
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So, yeah, I don't know if that's a crazy story, but probably I reckon New Zealand.
Probably the craziest things I've done would have been last year.
Yeah. I was in New Zealand and I went all the way to the top of New Zealand,
Cape Reanga. And there's a lighthouse there.
Yeah. But then I was like, no, I'm just going to see how far I can get.
And I went over the hill There was like a fence there,
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Not a fence, like a- A border. Yeah, like a- just some stone.
Yeah. We'll also show you like the boundary of it, but then I just kept going
and went over the edge, like right off the edge of New Zealand and then I flew
my drone off the edge of New Zealand. Sounds amazing.
Yeah. So, that was probably a crazy thing. Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
Nearly slipped off the edge, but it was because it was wet and raining and-
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They're the videos that I see
on Instagram in the middle of the day and I'm like, I want to be there.
Yeah, that's awesome. So, in this episode, I just want to have a chat and about
creativity, adventure, a bit of the balance that you might find with work and
play, that work-life balance, and yeah, creativity in the digital space.
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So, before we do that though, would you give a quick introduction of what you do?
Yeah. So, my name is David Pearson and I guess I'm a freelance filmmaker.
Maker so i run a production business video production business in harvey bay and i create.
Advertising short videos for clients in the region to help promote their business
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in the digital space and i also travel around being around australia new zealand
i service those areas with another company called you tour where we film virtual
tours for different schools schools, universities and tourism destinations.
Yeah, great. And all around just good guy.
But yeah, who are you beyond your job? Just a humble guy. I think for me, like a...
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I just love adventure, going traveling, camping and exploring life and really
just seeing God's creation in nature and yeah, just passionate about creating
meaningful relationships and friendships with people.
Yeah, awesome. And on that, you started The Social Place a while ago.
So, The Social Place, would you say that's like a culmination of all of that
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film, media, adventure, relationship building?
How would you explain? yeah so the social place has
gone through a few iterations in the past and
i think now i've come to to see
that as well it's a youtube channel primarily that's what
i'm focusing just building that channel and yeah just seeing you know just filming
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relationships and adventures and exploration and i think yeah it's a tool as
well like what am i saying it's yeah youtube like it's It's a tool to reach people. Yeah.
So, I think using my skills as a filmmaker and really filming like how,
like I do relationships and how I do adventure and have fun with people.
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And that's kind of my, yeah, my outlet, my vision to show to the world. Yeah. No, that's great.
Around that, I have a question. Like, there's been a lot of talk in so many
different spaces about the impact of social media and the impact of our phones on our mental health.
How do you maintain or do you maintain a
healthy relationship with technology in your
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personal and work life because i know that it sounds like
there's a lot of overlap between what you do in your personal time with media
film and what you do with work in that space how do you
find that do you have a balance yeah i think the kind of my view on social media
and media content yeah and all that is are we consumers or contributors love
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that and like i've definitely Definitely been on both ends of the scale where
I've consumed a lot of content,
social media content, and not contributed.
And I think in the recent kind of year or so, I've seen the platform like social
media and all those spaces as a place to be able to contribute meaningful content.
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Yeah. And of course, I do it for work and business and all that.
But I think even for myself and like what messages do I want to share with the people?
Yeah. And yeah, so I remember not too long ago, I've been traveling,
I've traveled all around Australia, New Zealand, different cool locations and
experienced amazing things like campsites and waterfalls and all these adventures.
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And I've kind of just filmed all this content, but left it on the hard drive.
And I think leading up to that, I've been probably consuming more content like
travel content or videos on social media.
And yeah, there was this one day where I felt.
It was like, it's time to start contributing content. And my view with the content
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that I put out there is I want to encourage people to hop off the devices and
go out and exploring and build relationships with people in reality.
And I think there's definitely that line with social media where we can replace
meaningful relationships with a phone screen.
Yeah, for sure. Sure. And I think because of some of the extreme sides of that
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we've seen, you have a lot of people who sometimes have a really negative view
on social media or on digital devices.
So, I have a question around that. Do you think we can actually make a difference
and impact people through the content we post on social media?
Yeah, I think it's definitely we can, but it depends on the content that we're posting. Yeah. Right.
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And I think... like my monday morning coffee hey i mean that's an inspiration
for people it's like you know what are people doing in their lives you know
yeah and what sort of coffees are we drinking yeah,
yeah i think it's interesting what was
the question again about or can we contribute yeah like
do you think the content we post can actually make a difference like you
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know you might share a video film a video about something
and post it and you might have like 100 200 3000 people see
it do you think it actually can make a difference in their life
yeah I think it's really what's the
heart behind the content that we post yeah and I
think for me I want to be able to be posting
content that really helps people in life and contributes to their own walk and
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I think through filmmaking and building relationship with people yeah that's
the sort of content that I wanting to post to encourage others to maybe step
out grab a camera and do some filming or catch up with a mate and do adventures
so I think it yeah it really depends on people,
is the sort of content we're putting out there what's the heart behind the content
yeah yeah that's what it is like that but like yeah you've seen both you see
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both sides yeah don't you like.
You can get caught in the trap of scrolling on these social media platforms
and after the fact that if you're scrolling you're like oh you get like for
me if i'm scrolling you get i get a headache it's like what what sort of content
am i consuming and is it like is it helping me to be better myself in life?
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Or is it making me just sit on there and can consume that sort of- Yeah.
And you said contributors versus consumers.
One of the notes that I had down earlier today was contributors versus passive spectators as well.
It's like, and I think that's how a lot of people sometimes just walk through
life is they're just being that consumer, being that passive spectator to everything
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and just allowing themselves to be influenced by all this content,
whether it's in real life and the people around them or on social media.
And I think that idea of being a contributor, for me, I see this active participant,
this active person in life, whether it's through creating content on social
media or in how they just show up in general.
And I think we all have, which you probably would agree with,
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we all have something we can give, something we can share.
So, I really like that idea of a contributor, an active participant. the
pen i came to the realization one
day when i went out camping all by myself and i
stripped away the influence of people social media
and it was like you're scary because
i'm like man who am i because i've done life and
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maybe this is why i'm passionate about building healthy friendships and
relationships i've done life with people but it's
almost like they were the ones that were helping and drive who
i am and not discovering my identity and who
i was without people and social
media so yeah there was a there was a trip that
i went around queensland just solo or
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by myself but out of that i discovered you know my identity and who i am and
like what and what i enjoy yeah what i enjoy going out exploring and how was
that process like how was it for you it was challenging It was difficult because, yeah,
like I, leading up to that trip away, I had a relationship breakdown.
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Work had slowed down and I didn't have much work.
And I was just, I was, yeah, basically sitting at home and I'm like,
man, I'm feeling cooked.
Yeah. I was on my own and I didn't feel good about myself.
I'm like, what is happening? And I've realized that I had been almost relying
on people for my joy and happiness.
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Yeah. And yeah, so I just took that.
Time to get out and explore and discover
what i enjoyed for myself and you know we've got
friends and we hang out with people and we enjoy
things with other people but i think it's important to realize if we enjoy it
by ourself as well as our yeah ourselves yeah having that sort of strong personal
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foundation and then adding on the friends and the other elements and relationships yeah so So,
I feel like I probably had that around the wrong way when I relied on friendship.
But then when I was able to be okay myself, then I can build upon that,
which is a solid foundation.
Yeah, that's great. Thanks for sharing that. It's all right.
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So, talking about how the content we post can affect people,
have you had any story or conversation that comes to mind with someone that
has seen something you've posted or created online and they've shared that it's
impacted their life to some degree?
And this could be a Facebook comment, it could be a Facebook image,
it could be a YouTube video.
Does anything come to mind there?
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Yeah, I remember back in the early days when I, yeah, I just,
I wrote, it was interesting, I wrote a Facebook post and I think it's, I think I said,
you know, what's something encouraging that we can say to one another and I
had a lot of comments like, Like, heaps of comments.
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And out of that, I created a video about how we can be contributors to social media in that place.
I remember that. I remember that video.
Yeah. So, and I had, like, so many comments. And then what I did was I grabbed,
like, these comments and wrote them on sticky notes.
And I just, I guess I just talked about how we can encourage one another using
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this platform like social media.
And I, what did I do? yeah i had all these sticky notes
on me and yeah put all these sticky notes on
me and then in the video like i took them off and read them
to the screen and i was like staring at the camera but i was like i wanted to
connect with the audience you know connect with the people that were watching
it and yeah i've that video like when it was posted i just had a lot of positive
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response of it and i think yeah that was like really impacting in a positive
way yeah that's great Right. That's a really good example.
Yeah, it's crazy. Like, we can just comment or post anything on social media.
Like, you see it on all the Facebook forums for whatever area you live in.
And there's just so much negativity, so much hate. Like, people just seems like
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don't think about what they're posting.
And talking about being that active participant in life, but in In content and
social media, like, we're actively participating by sharing all this and sharing
all this negative stuff.
What's the purpose of it is what I think sometimes all the negativity and the
hate comments and stuff.
So, it's great when there's encouragement and, yeah. Yeah, and I think-
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I think it's a reflection of like how personal lives are going with the stuff we put online.
And I think social media is just a tool. Like I say, it's a tool.
And, you know, the way that we use it, for me, it's like it should be like an
outflow of what we're already doing.
Like for an example, we're going on a camping trip over the weekend and like
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we'll have cameras and be shooting some content there.
There but making sure that the
the content capture is a byproduct of
the enjoyment and the fun that we're having yeah just to capture that so i think
yeah primarily building relationship building friendships enjoying our time
together and then having these tools to capture and be like hey being encouraged
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to mentor other it's to others it's almost like sharing the story of us doing doing life,
doing a journey and encouraging others online to say, hey, you can do this too
and you can get out and explore an adventure. I've been loving the word narrative.
There's a guy, Shane Willard, he's a pastor and he uses that word a lot and
around storytelling and stuff.
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And I think like you're presenting a different narrative to people by posting
that adventure footage, posting that sort of even the everyday stuff,
but posting that more positive or uplifting It's real as well.
It doesn't always have to be positive, but it's that real authentic stuff.
You're showing people another narrative. You're being like, hey,
inviting people to step into that world, which I think is amazing that we can do that.
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And, you know, you've probably seen it. You can post something and it can show
up on someone's phone in the Philippines. It's crazy.
Yeah, I think it's good luck in this world. We've got so much access to the
globe with our phones. and yeah, someone can literally, we can post something
here where we're sitting and they can be seen around all the globe.
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So, I think that's pretty exciting.
And we choose to rant about the Macca's worker who didn't put enough chips in
our medium fries when we went through the drive-thru.
Yeah. That's a literal comment that is stuck in my head that I saw on one of
the local forum groups like a year ago. Jeez. I just, in that moment, I was like.
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What is going on in your life anyway? I see these comments, right?
Like these negative comments and even like people take photos of other people
doing things wrong where they could have had a conversation with them in real life about it.
Yeah. And I think that's kind of, if we're talking about like that social media
and the way we're using it, I think why not just talk to them and have a conversation
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instead of blowing it up online? line.
And I think that comes down to like what you were saying before is that really
our actions and what we're doing on social media is reflection of what's going
on inside or it's a magnification of it.
And I think a lot of the times I've seen that, because I've been in that spot
myself, maybe not taking photos of other people, but just that pouring of a
lot of my own stuff on social media.
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A lot of the time I've found that it's people that are struggling with,
you know, their identity or they're struggling with their self-worth.
So, it's like, oh, if I, I, you know, show someone else that's doing worse,
it makes me feel better as long as I'm not as bad as that person,
which is sad, but it's a reality.
Yeah. And how do you think there are healthy ways to navigate that and to even
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identify if you've done it yourself or you know someone or even for myself,
I've done it and then had to check, hey, actually, what's going on here?
Why am I posting this content? What would your advice be to people?
Yeah. I liked what you said earlier. What is the the heart behind the content.
And I think it takes a bit of time to figure that out for yourself.
Like, it takes a bit of self-reflection to step back a bit for a moment and
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be like, all right, how am I showing up in life? How am I showing up on social media? And then why?
And actually, like, it takes a bit of work. Sometimes we need to invite other
people into that process.
I'm still going through that in different ways, but I had to do it at one point
when it came to social media content because...
Like early on in my social media days, I found a lot of my worth in like the
amount of Instagram likes I got or the amount of people that reacted to something.
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And I was one of those keyboard warriors like years ago, even though I felt
that it was for things that I was passionate about and I thought I was the good
guy, but I was still just like slamming people down on Facebook.
And a lot of that was just stuff that I had to work through inside.
I think for me, it's come down to that self-reflection, figuring out,
all right, what's going on?
Why is this coming out? yeah and like then
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thinking when i am posting what is the heart behind this content when
i go to post a story we don't always have to be this in depth but
if we want to really take account of that at some point i
think it's important yeah 100 and i think
on the other side of that i've seen people posting content that you
know like people that i know yeah and they're
i guess sharing views and opinions which well i
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guess have a negative effect online and like i
only recently commented on on someone's post and really
trying to break it down and explain like a
few things of how they post and things but for me
when i see something like that i would want to try and take that
conversation offline and maybe catch up with them and and see hey what's what's
going on here you know like just having it like a bit of care and compassion
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for them and trying to understand you know when i see something like that and
if they're in my close circle i would i'll send them a dm and and be like,
hey, how's things going?
And I think that's the important thing is like you mentioned a close circle.
It's having that relationship.
Like when we have that relationship, we have some level of influence.
When we have that relationship with someone, we have that level of influence
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to be able to, you know, have those conversations and speak into someone's life,
whether it's through message or in person. I prefer in person, but yeah. Yeah.
So, talking around creating digital content and how that's a big part of your
work, how do you maintain a healthy balance between work and play?
And I don't know if balance is the right word. It seems to be overused a lot,
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but... Yeah, I think that's a good question.
That's probably something that I've always, yeah, trying to maintain that, you know.
I haven't found it yet. That's why I'm asking. i think yeah
i remember a season where
i was like shooting commercial content for
business yeah and i just
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didn't have that passion i was like why why don't i feel like doing this sort
of work and and i realized i took a step back and i realized that i wasn't i
wasn't being creative in my own space like i'm not i wasn't creating like my
own content that i really enjoyed yeah And out of frustration,
it was coming through my work.
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And I think when you start feeling these things towards commercial side of things
or businesses, then there's something lacking in your own personal life.
Yeah. Yeah. So, that's when I kind of strip back and be like,
okay, what's going on here in that space?
And it's like I haven't created some of these like video montages that I enjoy
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and makes me like excited, I think.
And I think it's just that part of creativity that was
lacking and I was trying to do it in the business world but sometimes you get
clients that you have certain limitations and restrictions that you can do and
I think being able to know what you want for yourself but then know what the
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client wants as well. Yeah. They have that separation.
I think just a personal example from this morning, I was getting ready to hit
the day running, get into all this work.
And I just looked at my list of jobs and I was like, I have no motivation.
I feel drained and uninspired. So, I was like, all right, I just took a step
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back and sat down for a moment.
And then I started working on editing one of the last podcast episodes that's
gone up. It's like doing some social media graphics for it and just like playing
around with the description.
But it was something I actually really enjoyed and it was something personal.
I'm not making money from the podcast.
It's not viral or famous, but it's something I enjoy doing.
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But stepping back and having a bit of that, for me, was play in that moment,
I then was able to get into the work that I needed to do. I don't know.
I was just more inspired. Yeah.
Yeah, it's a perfect example. I think that was... Yeah.
It doesn't always happen, but it happened this time. It doesn't, but yeah. And I think...
Like, yeah, what are the things that I enjoy? And it doesn't even have to be
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not necessarily doing creative stuff, like a thing.
I think for me, like, going for bike rides, exercise, you know, that stuff.
Like, I love riding my bike down the Esplanade and Harvey Bay and just,
like, I'm, like, something just, it's just, I know what I need,
you know, to, I guess, thrive and, like, going for swim, ocean swims and things like that.
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And sometimes that's all, like, we need that to be able to function in other
areas because if we don't fulfill our personal needs, then it's going to outflow
negatively when it comes to even relationship, friendships and work.
Yeah, I agree. I agree. Well, one more thing I want to touch on.
I've been in a lot of conversations talking about the importance of understanding
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our why on a personal level, but also on a business level.
And it's something that most of us, I think, are still figuring out.
But do you know what your why is? like why
are you doing any of this and you can share
as deep or as surface level as you want yeah well it's
i think that's a really good important question knowing
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our why and like i've been finding
even with businesses when i do work with them i'm like hey what's your why why
do you do that and that's something that really interests me because like we
kind of work from our why like what's our purpose what's our you know why we
do what we do and for me i think it's taken it's It's taken some time like for
myself and to get some clarity.
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Some people don't figure this out until they're in their 50s.
Well, I hope we can encourage people to figure out that why.
Definitely. I think Simon Sinek, he's a good resource on finding your why.
He's the golden circle, I believe, as well.
Oh, yeah. I haven't really read too much about the golden circle.
But, yeah, I think for me, the why.
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I'm always reminded. You see this? I've got this flamingo shirt on.
Yeah, you're wearing a flamingo shirt.
Yeah, because I love it. because that reminds me of my why.
You're doing this for the flamingos? Yeah.
Hashtag save the flamingos. Hashtag save the flamingos. That might be the title
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of this episode. There we go, save the flamingos.
But yeah, I think the flamingo is such an interesting creature and what the flamingos do,
their behaviors, is they basically go to the most toxic environments and dig
down and find nutrients.
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Wow. And food. Yeah. So, they can filter out through all the junk and find the
good food to sustain them.
And I think if we want to even zoom further than that on a faith side of things,
I was looking up black flamingo because I was just so interested with the color
black and white and I looked at the black flamingo and the Black Flamingo was spotted in Cyprus.
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I think there was only one ever spotted in Cyprus and that's where Paul and
Barnabas did their missions work.
And basically, in the New Testament, Paul and Barnabas were commissioned to
share the gospel to the church and really bring a bit of correction as well to the church space.
And yeah, so I think that's an inspiration for me to really...
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What the Flamingo does is like it draws out the gold.
Like it draws out the gold. It draws out the good content, the good nutrients
and finds it and consumes it.
But I think in my, if I was to look at my why, it would be drawing out the golden people.
Yeah. And showing that and be like, hey, this is the gold in you.
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And that's in any space. Like video wise, yeah, that's a tool.
That's part of what I do. But if I can have conversations with people to draw
out the gold in who they are, I think that is my why.
And of course, we all have rubbish in our lives, right? Yeah, for sure.
But if we can draw out the gold and help people to focus on their identity,
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who they are, their gold, then that rubbish will fall.
Because if they can focus on their gold, then it's time.
Like time, the rubbish will go, I think. Yeah, it's all to the side.
Yeah, and I guess if we're looking from a faith perspective with our relationship
with Jesus, he sees the gold in people.
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You know, God sees the gold in us. And I guess when we come to Jesus,
he's like, I see this gold in you.
But there's all this other stuff like through life or experiences that essentially
is like rubbish or things we don't need.
And yeah, then we can go to him and surrender and release all the junk that we don't need in life.
So yeah yeah the wire yeah
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that's yeah do you have any last thoughts that you'd like to share so we've
this audience is usually a mix of creators entrepreneurs and also just some
everyday people that are looking for i mean we're all everyday people but everyday
people that are looking for some inspiration or to have some of these conversations
do you have anything else that you'd like to share.
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Around all this. Well, I think, you know, probably speaking to the creatives. Yeah.
I have a lot of people in my space, in my sphere that really want to step out
and do a podcast or YouTube channel or put content out there.
And I think a big thing stopping them might be like some fear or not feeling
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they're good enough to do it.
And I think I've journeyed through that myself, you know, putting out content.
And the one thing I would say is just take small steps.
Take small steps. Put that one piece of content out if you want to contribute
and know your why. Know your why. Why are you doing this?
Know your why. And then when things fall, like, because we can get caught up
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in the metrics of things.
Like how many views videos get or content.
But I think if we kind of
put out content knowing that our why is is why we
did it in the first place then the metrics don't matter
yeah because if we want to reach that one person if
you want to for me it's like planting those seeds
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like planting seeds that will sprout up and people can see content that
they consume and be encouraged so i think if you focus on the why instead of
the views and metrics you're able to build something with good foundations yeah
and that's where the content itself will take yeah i love that and i know i
asked earlier Are there any stories that come to mind of people that have been
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positively impacted by something you've posted?
But the reality is, is that we probably won't know the extent.
And this is true in what we're posting on social media.
Also true from a faith side of things when we're sharing the gospel and talking to people about Jesus.
We won't probably ever know the extent to that, what we have shared with people
and those seeds that we've planted, how it's impacted people.
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But yeah, I'm very, very strong about just that.
Like you're saying, knowing your why and just being consistent and just sharing
that message, whatever it is in whatever format, however that shows up in your life. Yeah.
It's good. Did I like explain that well, that last bit, I think?
Yeah. Yeah. And this is just a real conversation. So, it's not supposed to be perfect.
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Yeah. So, but that would be for creatives. Yeah. And like use the tools that
you got. Yes. Amen to that.
Oh, I used to think I needed all the best gear. I mean, we're sitting here now
with like $150, $200 mics, but yeah.
But you build on it, you know what I mean? And keep stepping,
keep stepping forward because then the gear will come, like the better equipment will come.
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Like I started, when did I start? I started with like a little DV camera and it shoot HD.
Yeah. But I was like, I was just keen and doing it. But then as I've progressed
and kept stepping forward,
all the equipment came and yeah that's like
a will that be like a an after kind of thing it's not a focus that's what comes
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after yeah yeah even with camping and things like that now i've got a camper
trailer and but but you were going camping with that yeah exactly without it
and then that's just the next progressive so i think yeah just take steps know your why Bye.
Send it. Love it. Send it. Well, thanks for coming on and just having a chat.
I love how you said, what's the heart behind the content? That's probably one
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thing that stuck with me at the moment.
And what are the things that I enjoy? Like, what are the things that I enjoy
and doing more of that mixed around the work?
Because I definitely personally get stuck in the work side of things because
part of the work for me is play. But then at some point, those lines get so blurred.
Yeah. So, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, it's been great, Elisha. So,
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yeah, happy to be here. Yeah.
And we'll share the links to your profiles on, I was going to say the wrong
platform. Sorry, I got distracted.
We'll share the links to your profiles in the description and on social media
and might see you on here another time.
Yeah, sounds good. Looking forward to it. Amazing.
Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the For The Creatives podcast.
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It was a pleasure having David Pearson with us today, sharing his incredible
journey journey, and insights.
Remember, in a world where you can be anything, be a contributor,
not just passive consumer.
Dive deep, find your why, and let it guide you in creating something meaningful.
Until next time, keep creating, keep exploring, and never lose sight of the adventure.
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Don't forget to check out David's amazing work. There's links in the description.
See you in the next episode.
Hello and welcome back to the For The Creatives podcast. I'm Alasdair Tadarera
and today we're getting right to the heart of what drives us as creatives.
With stories of adventure, our guest David Pearson is here to inspire us to
look beyond the ordinary.
His journey takes him from sleeping in cardboard boxes for charity to flying
drones off the edge of New Zealand.
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And he's really about making a difference. If you're curious about how to turn
your creative pursuits into meaningful actions, this episode's for you. Let's dive in.
Hello, David. How's it going? Doing well, thanks. It's nice to be in the cozy little studio here.
Yeah, it's a nice small little room, humble beginnings.
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Mate, but it's exciting to be here and just have a conversation for the Creatives podcast.
Yeah, well, welcome. When did we talk about doing this episode?
Probably a couple of years ago, actually. Yeah, I think we briefly mentioned
to each other that That'll be good to connect and have a podcast together,
but a couple of years passed and then, but here we are now. Well, glad to have you.
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Now, before I get into an introduction of who you are, I just have one question.
So, before any context of what you do, what is the craziest thing that you have done recently?
Craziest thing? That's a good one. Just trying to think. I mean,
I've done a lot of crazy things. Yeah.
I can remember just off the top of my head, I think years ago.
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I think it was you, you slept in a cardboard box.
Oh, slept in a cardboard box. Was that? Oh, yes.
Yeah, we did a live stream and we did the- yeah, what did we do?
We just slept overnight like to see what it's like living on the streets.
Yeah. And yeah, we literally overnight just to raise a bit of awareness and
funds sleeping out for the homeless for that night, you know. Yeah.
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Yeah, so that was a bit of a crazy experience and a bit of a taste to see,
I guess what it would how the experience would
be if you were like doing it rough
and since then I've actually met some people that
are on the streets and have some conversations one of
the probably a crazy thing is one time I yeah when I was in South Australia
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there was a guy that I didn't even know he was homeless but I said hey do you
want to grab a burger grab a bite to eat and we kind of you know shared a bit
about each other and we have a story and things and like it It didn't end up well in the end.
We kind of left on different terms. But it was good just to have a conversation
with him and see where he's at. Yeah.
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So, yeah, I don't know if that's a crazy story, but probably I reckon New Zealand.
Probably the craziest things I've done would have been last year.
Yeah. I was in New Zealand and I went all the way to the top of New Zealand,
Cape Reanga. And there's a lighthouse there.
Yeah. But then I was like, no, I'm just going to see how far I can get.
And I went over the hill There was like a fence there,
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Not a fence, like a- A border. Yeah, like a- just some stone.
Yeah. We'll also show you like the boundary of it, but then I just kept going
and went over the edge, like right off the edge of New Zealand and then I flew
my drone off the edge of New Zealand. Sounds amazing.
Yeah. So, that was probably a crazy thing. Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
Nearly slipped off the edge, but it was because it was wet and raining and-
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They're the videos that I see
on Instagram in the middle of the day and I'm like, I want to be there.
Yeah, that's awesome. So, in this episode, I just want to have a chat and about
creativity, adventure, a bit of the balance that you might find with work and
play, that work-life balance, and yeah, creativity in the digital space.
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So, before we do that though, would you give a quick introduction of what you do?
Yeah. So, my name is David Pearson and I guess I'm a freelance filmmaker.
Maker so i run a production business video production business in harvey bay and i create.
Advertising short videos for clients in the region to help promote their business
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in the digital space and i also travel around being around australia new zealand
i service those areas with another company called you tour where we film virtual
tours for different schools schools, universities and tourism destinations.
Yeah, great. And all around just good guy.
But yeah, who are you beyond your job? Just a humble guy. I think for me, like a...
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I just love adventure, going traveling, camping and exploring life and really
just seeing God's creation in nature and yeah, just passionate about creating
meaningful relationships and friendships with people.
Yeah, awesome. And on that, you started The Social Place a while ago.
So, The Social Place, would you say that's like a culmination of all of that
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film, media, adventure, relationship building?
How would you explain? yeah so the social place has
gone through a few iterations in the past and
i think now i've come to to see
that as well it's a youtube channel primarily that's what
i'm focusing just building that channel and yeah just seeing you know just filming
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relationships and adventures and exploration and i think yeah it's a tool as
well like what am i saying it's yeah youtube like it's It's a tool to reach people. Yeah.
So, I think using my skills as a filmmaker and really filming like how,
like I do relationships and how I do adventure and have fun with people.
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And that's kind of my, yeah, my outlet, my vision to show to the world. Yeah. No, that's great.
Around that, I have a question. Like, there's been a lot of talk in so many
different spaces about the impact of social media and the impact of our phones on our mental health.
How do you maintain or do you maintain a
healthy relationship with technology in your
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personal and work life because i know that it sounds like
there's a lot of overlap between what you do in your personal time with media
film and what you do with work in that space how do you
find that do you have a balance yeah i think the kind of my view on social media
and media content yeah and all that is are we consumers or contributors love
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that and like i've definitely Definitely been on both ends of the scale where
I've consumed a lot of content,
social media content, and not contributed.
And I think in the recent kind of year or so, I've seen the platform like social
media and all those spaces as a place to be able to contribute meaningful content.
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Yeah. And of course, I do it for work and business and all that.
But I think even for myself and like what messages do I want to share with the people?
Yeah. And yeah, so I remember not too long ago, I've been traveling,
I've traveled all around Australia, New Zealand, different cool locations and
experienced amazing things like campsites and waterfalls and all these adventures.
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And I've kind of just filmed all this content, but left it on the hard drive.
And I think leading up to that, I've been probably consuming more content like
travel content or videos on social media.
And yeah, there was this one day where I felt.
It was like, it's time to start contributing content. And my view with the content
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that I put out there is I want to encourage people to hop off the devices and
go out and exploring and build relationships with people in reality.
And I think there's definitely that line with social media where we can replace
meaningful relationships with a phone screen.
Yeah, for sure. Sure. And I think because of some of the extreme sides of that
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we've seen, you have a lot of people who sometimes have a really negative view
on social media or on digital devices.
So, I have a question around that. Do you think we can actually make a difference
and impact people through the content we post on social media?
Yeah, I think it's definitely we can, but it depends on the content that we're posting. Yeah. Right.
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And I think... like my monday morning coffee hey i mean that's an inspiration
for people it's like you know what are people doing in their lives you know
yeah and what sort of coffees are we drinking yeah,
yeah i think it's interesting what was
the question again about or can we contribute yeah like
do you think the content we post can actually make a difference like you
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know you might share a video film a video about something
and post it and you might have like 100 200 3000 people see
it do you think it actually can make a difference in their life
yeah I think it's really what's the
heart behind the content that we post yeah and I
think for me I want to be able to be posting
content that really helps people in life and contributes to their own walk and
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I think through filmmaking and building relationship with people yeah that's
the sort of content that I wanting to post to encourage others to maybe step
out grab a camera and do some filming or catch up with a mate and do adventures
so I think it yeah it really depends on people,
is the sort of content we're putting out there what's the heart behind the content
yeah yeah that's what it is like that but like yeah you've seen both you see
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both sides yeah don't you like.
You can get caught in the trap of scrolling on these social media platforms
and after the fact that if you're scrolling you're like oh you get like for
me if i'm scrolling you get i get a headache it's like what what sort of content
am i consuming and is it like is it helping me to be better myself in life?
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Or is it making me just sit on there and can consume that sort of- Yeah.
And you said contributors versus consumers.
One of the notes that I had down earlier today was contributors versus passive spectators as well.
It's like, and I think that's how a lot of people sometimes just walk through
life is they're just being that consumer, being that passive spectator to everything
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and just allowing themselves to be influenced by all this content,
whether it's in real life and the people around them or on social media.
And I think that idea of being a contributor, for me, I see this active participant,
this active person in life, whether it's through creating content on social
media or in how they just show up in general.
And I think we all have, which you probably would agree with,
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we all have something we can give, something we can share.
So, I really like that idea of a contributor, an active participant. the
pen i came to the realization one
day when i went out camping all by myself and i
stripped away the influence of people social media
and it was like you're scary because
i'm like man who am i because i've done life and
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maybe this is why i'm passionate about building healthy friendships and
relationships i've done life with people but it's
almost like they were the ones that were helping and drive who
i am and not discovering my identity and who
i was without people and social
media so yeah there was a there was a trip that
i went around queensland just solo or
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by myself but out of that i discovered you know my identity and who i am and
like what and what i enjoy yeah what i enjoy going out exploring and how was
that process like how was it for you it was challenging It was difficult because, yeah,
like I, leading up to that trip away, I had a relationship breakdown.
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Work had slowed down and I didn't have much work.
And I was just, I was, yeah, basically sitting at home and I'm like,
man, I'm feeling cooked.
Yeah. I was on my own and I didn't feel good about myself.
I'm like, what is happening? And I've realized that I had been almost relying
on people for my joy and happiness.
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Yeah. And yeah, so I just took that.
Time to get out and explore and discover
what i enjoyed for myself and you know we've got
friends and we hang out with people and we enjoy
things with other people but i think it's important to realize if we enjoy it
by ourself as well as our yeah ourselves yeah having that sort of strong personal
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foundation and then adding on the friends and the other elements and relationships yeah so So,
I feel like I probably had that around the wrong way when I relied on friendship.
But then when I was able to be okay myself, then I can build upon that,
which is a solid foundation.
Yeah, that's great. Thanks for sharing that. It's all right.
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So, talking about how the content we post can affect people,
have you had any story or conversation that comes to mind with someone that
has seen something you've posted or created online and they've shared that it's
impacted their life to some degree?
And this could be a Facebook comment, it could be a Facebook image,
it could be a YouTube video.
Does anything come to mind there?
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Yeah, I remember back in the early days when I, yeah, I just,
I wrote, it was interesting, I wrote a Facebook post and I think it's, I think I said,
you know, what's something encouraging that we can say to one another and I
had a lot of comments like, Like, heaps of comments.
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And out of that, I created a video about how we can be contributors to social media in that place.
I remember that. I remember that video.
Yeah. So, and I had, like, so many comments. And then what I did was I grabbed,
like, these comments and wrote them on sticky notes.
And I just, I guess I just talked about how we can encourage one another using
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this platform like social media.
And I, what did I do? yeah i had all these sticky notes
on me and yeah put all these sticky notes on
me and then in the video like i took them off and read them
to the screen and i was like staring at the camera but i was like i wanted to
connect with the audience you know connect with the people that were watching
it and yeah i've that video like when it was posted i just had a lot of positive
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response of it and i think yeah that was like really impacting in a positive
way yeah that's great Right. That's a really good example.
Yeah, it's crazy. Like, we can just comment or post anything on social media.
Like, you see it on all the Facebook forums for whatever area you live in.
And there's just so much negativity, so much hate. Like, people just seems like
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don't think about what they're posting.
And talking about being that active participant in life, but in In content and
social media, like, we're actively participating by sharing all this and sharing
all this negative stuff.
What's the purpose of it is what I think sometimes all the negativity and the
hate comments and stuff.
So, it's great when there's encouragement and, yeah. Yeah, and I think-
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I think it's a reflection of like how personal lives are going with the stuff we put online.
And I think social media is just a tool. Like I say, it's a tool.
And, you know, the way that we use it, for me, it's like it should be like an
outflow of what we're already doing.
Like for an example, we're going on a camping trip over the weekend and like
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we'll have cameras and be shooting some content there.
There but making sure that the
the content capture is a byproduct of
the enjoyment and the fun that we're having yeah just to capture that so i think
yeah primarily building relationship building friendships enjoying our time
together and then having these tools to capture and be like hey being encouraged
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to mentor other it's to others it's almost like sharing the story of us doing doing life,
doing a journey and encouraging others online to say, hey, you can do this too
and you can get out and explore an adventure. I've been loving the word narrative.
There's a guy, Shane Willard, he's a pastor and he uses that word a lot and
around storytelling and stuff.
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And I think like you're presenting a different narrative to people by posting
that adventure footage, posting that sort of even the everyday stuff,
but posting that more positive or uplifting It's real as well.
It doesn't always have to be positive, but it's that real authentic stuff.
You're showing people another narrative. You're being like, hey,
inviting people to step into that world, which I think is amazing that we can do that.
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And, you know, you've probably seen it. You can post something and it can show
up on someone's phone in the Philippines. It's crazy.
Yeah, I think it's good luck in this world. We've got so much access to the
globe with our phones. and yeah, someone can literally, we can post something
here where we're sitting and they can be seen around all the globe.
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So, I think that's pretty exciting.
And we choose to rant about the Macca's worker who didn't put enough chips in
our medium fries when we went through the drive-thru.
Yeah. That's a literal comment that is stuck in my head that I saw on one of
the local forum groups like a year ago. Jeez. I just, in that moment, I was like.
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What is going on in your life anyway? I see these comments, right?
Like these negative comments and even like people take photos of other people
doing things wrong where they could have had a conversation with them in real life about it.
Yeah. And I think that's kind of, if we're talking about like that social media
and the way we're using it, I think why not just talk to them and have a conversation
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instead of blowing it up online? line.
And I think that comes down to like what you were saying before is that really
our actions and what we're doing on social media is reflection of what's going
on inside or it's a magnification of it.
And I think a lot of the times I've seen that, because I've been in that spot
myself, maybe not taking photos of other people, but just that pouring of a
lot of my own stuff on social media.
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A lot of the time I've found that it's people that are struggling with,
you know, their identity or they're struggling with their self-worth.
So, it's like, oh, if I, I, you know, show someone else that's doing worse,
it makes me feel better as long as I'm not as bad as that person,
which is sad, but it's a reality.
Yeah. And how do you think there are healthy ways to navigate that and to even
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identify if you've done it yourself or you know someone or even for myself,
I've done it and then had to check, hey, actually, what's going on here?
Why am I posting this content? What would your advice be to people?
Yeah. I liked what you said earlier. What is the the heart behind the content.
And I think it takes a bit of time to figure that out for yourself.
Like, it takes a bit of self-reflection to step back a bit for a moment and
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be like, all right, how am I showing up in life? How am I showing up on social media? And then why?
And actually, like, it takes a bit of work. Sometimes we need to invite other
people into that process.
I'm still going through that in different ways, but I had to do it at one point
when it came to social media content because...
Like early on in my social media days, I found a lot of my worth in like the
amount of Instagram likes I got or the amount of people that reacted to something.
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And I was one of those keyboard warriors like years ago, even though I felt
that it was for things that I was passionate about and I thought I was the good
guy, but I was still just like slamming people down on Facebook.
And a lot of that was just stuff that I had to work through inside.
I think for me, it's come down to that self-reflection, figuring out,
all right, what's going on?
Why is this coming out? yeah and like then
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thinking when i am posting what is the heart behind this content when
i go to post a story we don't always have to be this in depth but
if we want to really take account of that at some point i
think it's important yeah 100 and i think
on the other side of that i've seen people posting content that you
know like people that i know yeah and they're
i guess sharing views and opinions which well i
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guess have a negative effect online and like i
only recently commented on on someone's post and really
trying to break it down and explain like a
few things of how they post and things but for me
when i see something like that i would want to try and take that
conversation offline and maybe catch up with them and and see hey what's what's
going on here you know like just having it like a bit of care and compassion
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for them and trying to understand you know when i see something like that and
if they're in my close circle i would i'll send them a dm and and be like,
hey, how's things going?
And I think that's the important thing is like you mentioned a close circle.
It's having that relationship.
Like when we have that relationship, we have some level of influence.
When we have that relationship with someone, we have that level of influence
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to be able to, you know, have those conversations and speak into someone's life,
whether it's through message or in person. I prefer in person, but yeah. Yeah.
So, talking around creating digital content and how that's a big part of your
work, how do you maintain a healthy balance between work and play?
And I don't know if balance is the right word. It seems to be overused a lot,
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but... Yeah, I think that's a good question.
That's probably something that I've always, yeah, trying to maintain that, you know.
I haven't found it yet. That's why I'm asking. i think yeah
i remember a season where
i was like shooting commercial content for
business yeah and i just
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didn't have that passion i was like why why don't i feel like doing this sort
of work and and i realized i took a step back and i realized that i wasn't i
wasn't being creative in my own space like i'm not i wasn't creating like my
own content that i really enjoyed yeah And out of frustration,
it was coming through my work.
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And I think when you start feeling these things towards commercial side of things
or businesses, then there's something lacking in your own personal life.
Yeah. Yeah. So, that's when I kind of strip back and be like,
okay, what's going on here in that space?
And it's like I haven't created some of these like video montages that I enjoy
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and makes me like excited, I think.
And I think it's just that part of creativity that was
lacking and I was trying to do it in the business world but sometimes you get
clients that you have certain limitations and restrictions that you can do and
I think being able to know what you want for yourself but then know what the
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client wants as well. Yeah. They have that separation.
I think just a personal example from this morning, I was getting ready to hit
the day running, get into all this work.
And I just looked at my list of jobs and I was like, I have no motivation.
I feel drained and uninspired. So, I was like, all right, I just took a step
(22:36):
back and sat down for a moment.
And then I started working on editing one of the last podcast episodes that's
gone up. It's like doing some social media graphics for it and just like playing
around with the description.
But it was something I actually really enjoyed and it was something personal.
I'm not making money from the podcast.
It's not viral or famous, but it's something I enjoy doing.
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But stepping back and having a bit of that, for me, was play in that moment,
I then was able to get into the work that I needed to do. I don't know.
I was just more inspired. Yeah.
Yeah, it's a perfect example. I think that was... Yeah.
It doesn't always happen, but it happened this time. It doesn't, but yeah. And I think...
Like, yeah, what are the things that I enjoy? And it doesn't even have to be
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not necessarily doing creative stuff, like a thing.
I think for me, like, going for bike rides, exercise, you know, that stuff.
Like, I love riding my bike down the Esplanade and Harvey Bay and just,
like, I'm, like, something just, it's just, I know what I need,
you know, to, I guess, thrive and, like, going for swim, ocean swims and things like that.
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And sometimes that's all, like, we need that to be able to function in other
areas because if we don't fulfill our personal needs, then it's going to outflow
negatively when it comes to even relationship, friendships and work.
Yeah, I agree. I agree. Well, one more thing I want to touch on.
I've been in a lot of conversations talking about the importance of understanding
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our why on a personal level, but also on a business level.
And it's something that most of us, I think, are still figuring out.
But do you know what your why is? like why
are you doing any of this and you can share
as deep or as surface level as you want yeah well it's
i think that's a really good important question knowing
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our why and like i've been finding
even with businesses when i do work with them i'm like hey what's your why why
do you do that and that's something that really interests me because like we
kind of work from our why like what's our purpose what's our you know why we
do what we do and for me i think it's taken it's It's taken some time like for
myself and to get some clarity.
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Some people don't figure this out until they're in their 50s.
Well, I hope we can encourage people to figure out that why.
Definitely. I think Simon Sinek, he's a good resource on finding your why.
He's the golden circle, I believe, as well.
Oh, yeah. I haven't really read too much about the golden circle.
But, yeah, I think for me, the why.
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I'm always reminded. You see this? I've got this flamingo shirt on.
Yeah, you're wearing a flamingo shirt.
Yeah, because I love it. because that reminds me of my why.
You're doing this for the flamingos? Yeah.
Hashtag save the flamingos. Hashtag save the flamingos. That might be the title
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of this episode. There we go, save the flamingos.
But yeah, I think the flamingo is such an interesting creature and what the flamingos do,
their behaviors, is they basically go to the most toxic environments and dig
down and find nutrients.
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Wow. And food. Yeah. So, they can filter out through all the junk and find the
good food to sustain them.
And I think if we want to even zoom further than that on a faith side of things,
I was looking up black flamingo because I was just so interested with the color
black and white and I looked at the black flamingo and the Black Flamingo was spotted in Cyprus.
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I think there was only one ever spotted in Cyprus and that's where Paul and
Barnabas did their missions work.
And basically, in the New Testament, Paul and Barnabas were commissioned to
share the gospel to the church and really bring a bit of correction as well to the church space.
And yeah, so I think that's an inspiration for me to really...
(26:36):
What the Flamingo does is like it draws out the gold.
Like it draws out the gold. It draws out the good content, the good nutrients
and finds it and consumes it.
But I think in my, if I was to look at my why, it would be drawing out the golden people.
Yeah. And showing that and be like, hey, this is the gold in you.
(26:59):
And that's in any space. Like video wise, yeah, that's a tool.
That's part of what I do. But if I can have conversations with people to draw
out the gold in who they are, I think that is my why.
And of course, we all have rubbish in our lives, right? Yeah, for sure.
But if we can draw out the gold and help people to focus on their identity,
(27:21):
who they are, their gold, then that rubbish will fall.
Because if they can focus on their gold, then it's time.
Like time, the rubbish will go, I think. Yeah, it's all to the side.
Yeah, and I guess if we're looking from a faith perspective with our relationship
with Jesus, he sees the gold in people.
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You know, God sees the gold in us. And I guess when we come to Jesus,
he's like, I see this gold in you.
But there's all this other stuff like through life or experiences that essentially
is like rubbish or things we don't need.
And yeah, then we can go to him and surrender and release all the junk that we don't need in life.
So yeah yeah the wire yeah
(28:05):
that's yeah do you have any last thoughts that you'd like to share so we've
this audience is usually a mix of creators entrepreneurs and also just some
everyday people that are looking for i mean we're all everyday people but everyday
people that are looking for some inspiration or to have some of these conversations
do you have anything else that you'd like to share.
(28:25):
Around all this. Well, I think, you know, probably speaking to the creatives. Yeah.
I have a lot of people in my space, in my sphere that really want to step out
and do a podcast or YouTube channel or put content out there.
And I think a big thing stopping them might be like some fear or not feeling
(28:47):
they're good enough to do it.
And I think I've journeyed through that myself, you know, putting out content.
And the one thing I would say is just take small steps.
Take small steps. Put that one piece of content out if you want to contribute
and know your why. Know your why. Why are you doing this?
Know your why. And then when things fall, like, because we can get caught up
(29:12):
in the metrics of things.
Like how many views videos get or content.
But I think if we kind of
put out content knowing that our why is is why we
did it in the first place then the metrics don't matter
yeah because if we want to reach that one person if
you want to for me it's like planting those seeds
(29:32):
like planting seeds that will sprout up and people can see content that
they consume and be encouraged so i think if you focus on the why instead of
the views and metrics you're able to build something with good foundations yeah
and that's where the content itself will take yeah i love that and i know i
asked earlier Are there any stories that come to mind of people that have been
(29:52):
positively impacted by something you've posted?
But the reality is, is that we probably won't know the extent.
And this is true in what we're posting on social media.
Also true from a faith side of things when we're sharing the gospel and talking to people about Jesus.
We won't probably ever know the extent to that, what we have shared with people
and those seeds that we've planted, how it's impacted people.
(30:14):
But yeah, I'm very, very strong about just that.
Like you're saying, knowing your why and just being consistent and just sharing
that message, whatever it is in whatever format, however that shows up in your life. Yeah.
It's good. Did I like explain that well, that last bit, I think?
Yeah. Yeah. And this is just a real conversation. So, it's not supposed to be perfect.
(30:36):
Yeah. So, but that would be for creatives. Yeah. And like use the tools that
you got. Yes. Amen to that.
Oh, I used to think I needed all the best gear. I mean, we're sitting here now
with like $150, $200 mics, but yeah.
But you build on it, you know what I mean? And keep stepping,
keep stepping forward because then the gear will come, like the better equipment will come.
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Like I started, when did I start? I started with like a little DV camera and it shoot HD.
Yeah. But I was like, I was just keen and doing it. But then as I've progressed
and kept stepping forward,
all the equipment came and yeah that's like
a will that be like a an after kind of thing it's not a focus that's what comes
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after yeah yeah even with camping and things like that now i've got a camper
trailer and but but you were going camping with that yeah exactly without it
and then that's just the next progressive so i think yeah just take steps know your why Bye.
Send it. Love it. Send it. Well, thanks for coming on and just having a chat.
I love how you said, what's the heart behind the content? That's probably one
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thing that stuck with me at the moment.
And what are the things that I enjoy? Like, what are the things that I enjoy
and doing more of that mixed around the work?
Because I definitely personally get stuck in the work side of things because
part of the work for me is play. But then at some point, those lines get so blurred.
Yeah. So, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, it's been great, Elisha. So,
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yeah, happy to be here. Yeah.
And we'll share the links to your profiles on, I was going to say the wrong
platform. Sorry, I got distracted.
We'll share the links to your profiles in the description and on social media
and might see you on here another time.
Yeah, sounds good. Looking forward to it. Amazing.
Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the For The Creatives podcast.
(32:27):
It was a pleasure having David Pearson with us today, sharing his incredible
journey journey, and insights.
Remember, in a world where you can be anything, be a contributor,
not just passive consumer.
Dive deep, find your why, and let it guide you in creating something meaningful.
Until next time, keep creating, keep exploring, and never lose sight of the adventure.
(32:47):
For more stories, please follow us at For The Creatives Podcast on Instagram.
Don't forget to check out David's amazing work. There's links in the description.
See you in the next episode.
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