We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Lorin Morgan-Richards. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Lorin below.
Hi Lorin, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
Where do you get your work ethic from?
I think like many in the arts, it’s a need to feel valued. To say I am here. I was here. To leave a mark in the same way people before us have created pictographs and dreamed, without prejudice.
It is all in the history of Expressionists, Dadaists, and Surealists. Present then and now is that thread of DIY mentality. Where one can create outside of the impenitrable ceiling that is controlled by an elite few. Telling us what to like, boundaries, and so forth. It was less fearful to think outside the box, when I never really fit in it.
Excuse me for a moment, I am being interrupted by a knock at the door.
(Opens door)
Otis? What are you doing here?
Otis: No, no. That’s all wrong and much too serious for this here magazine. They want to hear about my pickle collection.
Lorin: I assure you they do not.
Otis: At least, let me answer this question for you about work etiquette. It’s something I’d say I know more about as a grave digger with all the customs and hoo-haw than your doodles.
Lorin: the question was referring to work ethic not etiquette.
Otis: Right, that’s what I said. My work ethic starts at the crack of Cousin Crotch.
Lorin: Don’t you mean the crack of Dawn?
Otis: Can’t say I know a Dawn. Anyways, after I down a bowl of Pyridine’s famous dust soup, I have the energy to dig some graves. My daughter Orphie and I usually compete to see who get done the fastest. That is, if she’s not over at the jail finishing up an arrest. She’s a sheriff you know.
Lorin: I guess if your readers follow the Goodbye Family or its animated series on Tubi, Xumo or Youtube they may know this.
Otis: As I was saying, before I was rudely interrupted, I usually end the day walking my hat. You can’t keep it cooped up all day and expect not to clean up a mess.
Lorin: So, then where do you get your work ethic from?
Otis: well if you’d let me finish, I’d say it was from my son Kepla. He probably caught it digging around in the cemetery looking for crickets.
Lorin: Okay, there you have it. Hopefully, this experience has been enlightening for your readers. Be sure to go to www.lorinrichards.com for more info.
Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
You can check out all things The Goodbye Family on my website and social media. If interested you can see me create my animated series in parts on Youtube before it goes to the streaming platforms. I have many books on the market to tickle your fancy.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
1. Being thick-skinned. 2. Having skin.
3. Being stubborn.
Who has been most helpful in helping you overcome challenges or build and develop the essential skills, qualities or knowledge you needed to be successful?
For The Goodbye Family: The Animated Series – A shoutout to my editor Jessica Rose Felix, to all the voiceover actors: Nick Gligor (Lou Steed, Rusty Potts), Nana Grace (Lee Minor), Elijah Shaffer (Rowe Barrow), Richard-Lael Lillard, Amy Kern (Dr. Sam), and of course my amazing family Berlin (Orphie), and Valerie (Pyridine), among others. Special thanks and a deep respect to the Heathen Apostles for their killer soundtrack.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.lorinrichards.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/lorin_morgan_richards
- Facebook: https://www.youtube.com/@aravenabovepress
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@aravenabovepress
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Lorin Morgan-Richards
