"Be Yourself" Marketing 101 || SpeakReel Mark || Irvine
Channel: Speak Reel
Date: 2015-02-04

I love this episode and I love this man (yeah, I said it, you want to fight about it? I mean SpeakReel about it?) Mark is one of my very close friends on a number of different levels: personality-wise, spiritually (even though he might not define it that way), musically, etc. When I first edited this video, I did not want to include swear words because I had filmed a few episodes on Freedom Schools, a summer program for elementary, middle, and high school kids in Long Beach. I would not be ok with kids searching SpeakReel in youtube and watching videos of people swearing. 

But....

This episode was so much fun! Mark is so passionate about the concept of being yourself. And I thought "Well, if I just make the episode age-restricted, then we're all good."

I have so many favorite SpeakReel episodes, and you're going to hear me call a lot of episodes my favorite, but yo, this is one of my favorites haha. Its a beautiful thing to see someone completely be themselves and own up to who they are. So thank you Mark. 

As you can tell from the video, he's a monster piano player. So there's two places you should go:

www.Pianobreaks.com
youtube.com/mmeronek

Both showcase his passion as a musician and as an entrepreneur. I thought it was really cool to edit through this footage again and watch it, because he is speaking the truth. The more we can put ourselves into our marketing, our business, our art, our lives, etc, the greater we benefit and the rest of the world benefits. And I'll admit there is a fear around self-expression and being our truest selves because we may be rejected, ridiculed, and pushed aside. But the option is always there, we can play it safe and be as everyone else is (or in Mark's words, "Suck shit") or we can live from the fullest, deepest, most joyous place that God intended for every single person in the world to have. 

I'm trying for the latter. 

Thanks again Mark!

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