Meet Caleb Pearson

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Caleb Pearson. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Caleb , so happy you were able to devote some time to sharing your thoughts and wisdom with our community. So, we’ve always admired how you have seemingly never let nay-sayers or haters keep you down. Can you talk to us about how to persist despite the negative energy that so often is thrown at folks trying to do something special with their lives?
I have a couple ways I like to persist against the naysayers so to speak.

Firstly, if I know these people in real life, I don’t talk about my creative work with them. You have to meet people where they are. Most of it, in real life, to me, isn’t personal. People just don’t care about it. If they say something negative or condescending, I take it in, process it, and let it go. It’s fine. I can’t control other people’s opinions on my wants to make it in something creative, I can only try to better myself.

Secondly, I’d say finding and surrounding myself with a core group of creative people who are honest with their opinions of my work is key. If you can’t find people you trust or are willing to take apart your work, then you’ll never learn. If you feel strongly about certain concepts, debate them, let the battle of ideas wage on and see if it’s well thought out enough, interesting enough, or engaging enough. Pain and pleasure are both part of the process,.

Finally, if it’s something from people online who don’t know me, my process, or anything I’m trying to do, screw ’em.

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?
Hey!

My name is Caleb Pearson, 33, living out of Milwaukee, WI and pursuing podcasting and writing while working full time as a coach bus and chauffeur driver. I’d love to be able to do writing or podcasting professionally, and am working everyday on getting a little closer to that goal.

I grew up wanting to be a professional golfer. Played competitively in high school and college, but when I went to Arizona to work at a high end golf club, I realized my dream was steeped in delusion. Physically I could play, but mentally I was a mess.

I play piano and organ and read quite a bit for hobbies, I’m a master of puns(challenge me if you dare), and enjoy the comfort of good loyal friends and a supportive family.

I am excited about all the projects below because I want to create entertaining content, some heavier with meaning, and some good old fashioned fun where people can get away from the world for a little while. It engages me and challenges me to be better every single day. If it isn’t a challenge, why do it?

I’m currently working a plethora of projects, one being my weekly Substack where I’ll be posting movie reviews, short stories, and my thoughts on things I find interesting in the culture. Those will be out weekly starting January 24th.

I have a podcast called The Variety Hour where I interview creatives, do comedic sketches, play classical piano music, read stories I’ve written, and talk about the hijinks of being a professional driver. Those episodes will be dropping weekly, beginning January 24th.

I’m working on a one act play dealing with the male suicide issue that I think could be something really special. As someone who has dealt with depression on and off my whole life, it’s very very personal. Think of a cross between The Twilight Zone and It’s a Wonderful Life.

There’s a feature length film script I’m working on as well. It’s a sleek combination of a David Fincher thriller and the cosmic horror of HP Lovecraft.

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?
Two of the most important qualities I’ve put into practice more and more over the years in my small creative work are patience and consistency.

I think there’s such an immense pressure culturally with putting content out there. It all becomes a blur. You have the constant mental questioning of if your stuff is going to be any good or not, and then you see other things and go, well crap, my stuff will never be this good.

Who cares.

There is only one of you. Remember that. Don’t focus on what you don’t have, but build around what you do have.

Find what’s interesting to you, your habits, how you work best, how you think best. If you are passionate about something, and put it out into the world, people will gravitate towards it.

It takes time.

And that’s ok.

With consistency, find a sweet spot, even if it’s an insanely small amount, and do that. If you do that, before you know it, you’ll have lots of work to show, and you’ll have grown as an artist and as a person.

You don’t want to wake up ten years from now and wish you had worked on that project. Time is fleeting. Use it wisely. It’s the most valuable currency you have.

Finally, I would say an area of knowledge that helped me exponentially was being a theatre minor in college and working from the actor and director’s point of view. I never grasped all the subtextual and objective work until I took classes here. It has, and still does, help my writing tremendously.

It helped me on becoming a better collaborator as well. I am someone who gets inside his own head on how things should work for a film or a theatre project with others, but rarely does that work. You have people there who want to make it great, so let them help.

Sometimes, making choices takes you to places you’ve never thought you’d go, and it ends up being the best thing.

Try. Fail. Repeat.

It’s like painting. Everyone is a color. It’s up to you to make them the most vibrant in a beautiful painting.

How can folks who want to work with you connect?
I’m always looking for people to collaborate with!

I want to work with people who want to tell great stories that entertain and appeal to a broad audience, whether it’s my podcast or writing projects of any kind. I’m not saying superhero films, but movies like early Spielberg without too much schmaltz. Adventure, excitement, romance!

And if you’re not into broad fun film or projects, I like movies or projects with heady ideas. I like to be thinking about something for awhile after I’ve seen or listened to it.

I personally hate how everything is political. I just want to make things that are entertaining and meaningful. I’m a simple guy.

If you perchance wanted to collaborate on anything, feel free to reach me here below!

Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/caleb.f.pearson
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CmpWriter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calebmpearson/

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