Meet Richard Embry 3rd

 

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Richard Embry 3rd. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Richard below.

Hi Richard, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

As I can recall, I developed resilience during my childhood. I was an only child for nearly the first decade of my life while all of my friends had siblings. The age gap between myself and my siblings is a decent size (7 years). In addition to this, I grew up with my parents being separated; therefore, I did not have the same family opportunities that my siblings had. I wasn’t always around someone my own age so I grew up feeling mostly lonely and depressed. I found comfort, confidence and relatability in the activities I did: playing video games, watching professional wrestling and watching Anime. I’ve always known that the activities I immersed myself in were scripted and predetermined, but that didn’t halt the connection that I would feel toward what I was experiencing. I found comfort in characters/personas that were similar to my own. These connections did not transfer over to friends and family. I knew that I was different from them, and often felt the distance with others regardless of how physically close we were. I would watch the characters in shows, relate to them and their emotional situations; then watch how they were able to overcome those situations. This would stem my own resilience to situations I faced in my own life. As my life progressed, I found myself in very unique situations that no one else was able to help me with. I was always very careful to observe my surroundings, watch what others did, and how they handled their situations. My ability to absorb information has always been a great asset of mine and has allowed me to grow just from sitting in a room. As an adult I did struggle with the same loneliness and depression from my childhood until recently. For the majority of my life, I have lived as an emotionally detached terminator that is only goal orientated and willing to push through the mud to accomplish the task before me. Now, I am more accepting of myself and others. My core remains the same: I will be the best version of myself that I can be, and I can only stand on my own two feet to reach break my limits. To this day I truly believe that I am the only one that can fix what I am going through and there is no growth without hardship.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I was originally brought into the team as an inker/color artist. For those that don’t know what that is, an inker is someone who goes over drafted drawings and finalized the lines of the picture. I want to make it very clear that I am the least talented in the group when it comes to drawing in any capacity. After about a week of inking characters, I was given the script so that I can visualize the colors for the characters. Now, I will openly admit that I have never been and still am not fond of reading or writing; but when I was handed the first script, I could not read it at all. I spent 3 days editing just so that I could understand it and that’s when my role changed to editor. Fast forward a few years and episodes later, I am now one of the content writers and the main editor for DI-E:RA. Along with becoming the Vice president of the company, I never thought that I would have a career writing. Being a part of this brand has opened up opportunities that I otherwise would not have thought possible such as obtaining a Bachelors Degree in Game Design from Full sail University. My passion has always revolved around video games and I now have the ambition to create a gaming studio for the brand along with other game related creations.

The future is looking very bright for us here at DI-E:RA. Our current plan is to be present at various conventions involving Anime, Games, and Books to spread our knowledge, product, and inspirations. We are working on our next book, and are in the process of creating a table top game related to the graphic novels. We also aim to have a card game that connects to the series. In 2025, we are looking to once again attend Dream Con and spread the word about our kick starter for our new products.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

The qualities that I find most impactful happen to be the motto/message of our Company: Embrace, Expand, Exceed. This is great from a business standpoint because this is something that we are always willing to do in every aspect of business. For me, there is a deeper meaning to it. Embrace to me would be to willingly accept and nurture. This has a personal meaning to my life because I spent most of it doing the exact opposite to everyone around me including myself. Expanding is the willingness to learn, understand and listen to a different perspective. This is meant to open your mind to new angles, possibilities; meant to broaden your senses to your surroundings and use all of them to experience. It is meant to promote and encourage all growth. Finally, Exceed is to push beyond the limits that are before you. To break through the ceiling that you have placed on yourself and to float through the pressure that you place on yourself. Everyday, I make it a point to do more than I did the day before.

For everyone who is on a journey, be it early or far in, I would advise you to be humble with your knowledge and share it with an open mind. Not everyone thinks the same or sees the world the same, and there are many different perspectives that can open more paths for success.

We’ve all got limited resources, time, energy, focus etc – so if you had to choose between going all in on your strengths or working on areas where you aren’t as strong, what would you choose?

I personally think that it is best to hone in on your strengths and be willing to become more of a well rounded individual. Everyone is different and has different skills that they master. By adding various areas of knowledge to your person can only improve you. In seeking knowledge in a new area may have the benefit of adding to your strengthened skill; also, if it does not add to it, you now have a new skill and well of information that may have a purpose in the future.

I have always felt that it was a good idea to be a “Jack of all trades” just to be prepared for all situations. This belief has been reenforced on my journey with Marcus Spencer, Derod Garrison, and Daniel Pritchard. We each have very different strengths and yet we help each other in the weak areas to stay whole as a team. Just the 4 of us have come together and created the Brand/Company that we have now. The easiest way to explain it would be to tell the process on how we operate as a group.

When it comes to business, we are all new and have no prior experience. Therefore, we share everything with each other and no one moves alone on anything they find. We bring everything to the table, research it, discuss it and then make a decision.

In terms of producing content, we stick to our strengths. This process is very simple yet complex. Marcus and myself will write out the script. Marcus will develop the characters. I edit the script and add additional detail. Daniel will create backgrounds for the script. Derod gets everything and pieces it together while making and suggesting edits to make the product better.

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