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OhHello -Scott Schiller
36 Plays1 year ago
Scott is joining the OhHello tribe simply because he sees the joy, passion, and FUN that we're creating. "If you're not having fun...don't do it!" - well said, Scott. The passion of learning and education both reigns true in our convo and in most of our careers.
Business vs. Friendship, Fun vs. Money -- these themes don't have to compete!
#mentalhealth #joy #career navigation are all central themes that Scott offers as an OhHello.io mentor!
Scott wants to give a shout-out to the friendtors and mentors that have helped him along the way: Chuck Davis, Joe Marchese, Rich LeFurgy, Paul Hardart, Roysi Erbes, Wendy Aldrich, Nick MacShane, Amanda Richman, Jo Kinsella, Shelley Zalis, Jim Bankoff and many more along his journey.
What's most important to Scott is that everyone that books with him, on OhHello.io, please know that all of his proceeds will be going to Make-A-Wish Metro New York and Western New York (where he was a former Board Director)
Go get guidance and advice from Scott: https://ohhello.io/mentors/Scottyschiller
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Transcript
Introduction to Scott Schiller
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There we go, Scott. Getting down with your bad self. Oh, hello. When I listen to that, go ahead. Sorry. Don't feel old. Don't feel old at all. Oh, hello, Scott. How are you? Hello there, Jeremy. I'm late.
00:00:25
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Good, I'll take it, I'll take it. It's so good getting to know you over the past few weeks. We're so excited to have you as part of our Oh Hello Tribe, Scott Schiller.
Scott's Philosophy and Stoicism
00:00:36
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So Scott, tell us a little bit about yourself. Who are you? Who am I speaking with? Well, you know, I think the best answer for that is most of the time I'm a media executive, but the heart of everything is I'm a dad of two
00:00:56
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great kids in their 20s, big smart asses but great ones. And I am someone that just every single day I try to have fun and I have a rule. My rule is every day
00:01:12
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I have to do at least one thing that's specifically nice to someone. One thing, because I write it down every day for myself, not for keeping track just for myself. I love this. Where do you where do you keep track of it just in your phone and a diary? So so about two years ago, courtesy of Richie Glasberg, also a ho Oh, hello, member. He's great.
00:01:37
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turned me on to this great email and way of thinking stoicism, the daily stoic.
Mentorship and Career Insights
00:01:47
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they have a reading every day which they email you or you can have a book and I have built a journal every day where I reflect on the reading or something that's happening or something I want to do or something I didn't do good enough and then I close the book for every day and I go on to the next day because the principle learning
00:02:08
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you know, for me on stoicism is you only control what you can control and focus on today. And let me tell you something about every single person that's watching this doesn't do either of those things or think about them and it can help us all. So it's helped me a lot.
00:02:26
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I love that, Scott. Thank you for sharing that. That's stoicism right there, understanding just how you're going about helping others in an altruistic way, which brings us to the next question of what excites you about Oh, hello. What excites you about mentorship? What excites you about helping others?
00:02:45
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Well, you know, for me, a through line in my career is helping other people. I just, I'm motivated by it. I love to learn. I love to give. And for me, this is a perfect way to do it because I can meet people who come from all over
00:03:06
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the place who I may not run into in my day-to-day because they're not part of the media and entertainment world that I'm specifically in today.
Career Reflections and Advice
00:03:16
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They're not part of my life at NYU in New York where I am fortunate enough to be able to lead 120-year-olds through a journey on technology's impact on entertainment and media. And yet,
00:03:34
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They're people who I can apply the things I've learned in my career to do and share with them. And so this seems like a great place to do it. It's filled with a lot of energy. There's diverse talent here as you build out this incredible platform. But more importantly, it seems fun. So here I am. Fun has been a theme over the past few minutes. I love that you've referred to fun. Part of the reason as an entrepreneur
00:04:04
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who has loved building and being part of cultures and companies. I decided to do this because I wanted to be able to have more fun and I wanted to do with others that want to have fun and give back and just roll up sleeves, get shit done and have fun. So I love that you said that.
00:04:22
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That's genuinely what the Oh, hello tribe is about. Help us understand what defines you professionally. Just you've had an awesome journey. When you and I first talked about a month ago, understanding where you've been, I was sincerely impressed about just the, the ups, the downs, the everywhere in between tells, you know, for a minute or two, just on how those attributes have made you who you are.
00:04:48
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Well, it's a lot easier looking back than looking forward. And I'd like to believe since my dad is 100 and fully functioning, there's a lot to look forward to still. But for me, I have always been brought up and was brought up in a culture of the importance of learning.
00:05:09
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And I thought about over the years what my interests are and my interests, really professional interests, fall into the world of popular culture, media and entertainment. And I marry that with a desire that I have in any employee that I'm in to make stuff happen. And so I learned, however,
00:05:35
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about 10 years into my career that and it took 10 years so I'm trying to help people learn it sooner but if you don't have fun at what you're doing there's no point of doing it unless you're making so much money and that's your goal that that you know you're there but I will tell you that what I've also learned is if you have fun at what you're doing you do better at it.
00:06:00
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And if you do better at something or really good at something, the money and all that other stuff takes care of itself. Well said. Well said. I agree with that philosophy. It, it, you got to put your grit and passion into it. And if you're having fun, usually the money will show up. Usually the, the self-worth, the self actualization and so many other components of just the growing and learning and helping others, they all come hand in hand.
00:06:26
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But one of the things I've learned today, and it's been accentuated since COVID, is that there's a lot of stress out there for people in their first second, third job, first five, 10 years of career. There is personal stress from how do I navigate this world that everything's getting turned upside down?
00:06:49
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The world is a crazy place. For those in college today, mental health is a big, big issue. And they need support.
00:07:00
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And most institutions don't provide the kind of support that people need. Now, I'm not talking about having a dedicated one-hour daily meeting with a psychologist to really help you. I'm talking about, hey, am I doing this right? Does this work? What happened when you made that mistake?
00:07:22
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You know, how to navigate from this industry to that industry. How do you get started? Because most young people who are beginning careers approach careers like college, meaning there's an exam, they do the homework, they hand it in, they go on to the next thing. And we all know that's not how it works. So learning how to deal with that, learning how to manage your bosses versus just having them manage you,
00:07:51
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and learning that even though you're new in business.
00:07:56
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You can add a lot to a business because you understand social media better than your bosses probably do. And so I have seen a lot of this, and I certainly can't say I've seen it all, but I have seen a lot. And you have to learn how to navigate in the dips as you've talked about the twists and turns of a career, because this is a marathon as much as today's early career folks
00:08:24
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want to be an SVP and a VP and the head of this and the head of that fast.
Networking and Relationship Building
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It's much more important that you get the skills and that you build yourself a professional network to build upon. And I've been fortunate to make lots of friends along the way. In fact, I would say that's probably the best and worst thing that's happened to me. The best thing is I've made some of my best friends
00:08:48
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in the media and entertainment business. The worst thing is it's really hard to work with friends at times in tough situations and times when they have to pick the business over you, not purposely, but the situation they're in. And I've learned how to get through all that in a way that works for me. And so now I sit here and I can see it and I can help answer those questions
00:09:15
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in a way that a current boss may not provide that to an employee and they may want to talk to someone who understands it but isn't living in the day-to-day with them.
00:09:29
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that's so invaluable, that advice that you're giving. And that is part of the reason why we're creating the community and the platform of ovolo.io for that exact reason, what you're saying. And that's why I genuinely have appreciated our conversations for that exact reason of when you just, you gotta put the reps in, you gotta roll up your sleeves, you gotta be there and you can't just think, well, I want this title, I want that title.
Supporting Make-A-Wish and Learning from Youth
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You have to just be able to understand how to work with people.
00:09:56
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Listen learn and evolve throughout your career when you look back you and I were talking before we start recording just you've got a large group of friend tours and mentors and your own personal board of directors.
00:10:13
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what will hit on that after the recording i wanna make sure that we would tackle everyone that you had mentioned but when you think through just any. Overarching causes philanthropic causes what are some causes that are near and dear to your heart your family's heart in areas where you wanna be able to give back outside of providing the advice when people are gonna be booking with you a cause that's important to you.
00:10:39
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100% of everything I do is going to go to Make-A-Wish. I was the board of Make-A-Wish New York chapter for six great years and I saw the great work that they do and how by helping young people it helps a whole family that is going through a stress that is
00:11:00
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unimaginable by providing something fun, something that has always been in their heart, that gives them a desire to want to live, and I will entirely focus anything I do on that.
00:11:17
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That's amazing. And per our conversation, we will have Make-A-Wish added into our platform. What if they're just parting words of wisdom? Between teaching at NYU, running business strategy, commercial ops, sales teams across
00:11:35
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Comcast, Disney, MTV, you've been in this business. And if you were to sum up just a very quick reason and rationale of why people will benefit from meeting with you, what would those be?
00:11:51
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I can help them simplify their professional journey, helping you focus on what you need to focus on and dissect with folks where they're wasting their time. Or how do they learn how to say no, which is a common problem that I see for young people, even mid-level people. And when you brought up the mentor thing, I think it's really worth noting that
00:12:21
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For me, it used to be I wanted mentors who had 20, 30, 40 years experience to be able to reflect on, you know, what is important and their journeys. But what I have learned, particularly in the last five years, is that the 20 and 30 year olds are teaching me more than I ever thought I would have known.
00:12:45
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And it happens every day and it was my motivation for joining NYU because they know what's going on. Even though often in business, they'll be put into a little slot and they'll be conditioned that they're just helpers. I think that I will teach you how to build a network, how to go beyond your core group,
00:13:12
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to out a ring or two of the people who you don't come in contact with every day and figure out how you can do it and how to make it easy because the other mistake people make when they're networking is they think of it like they're at a deli counter.
00:13:30
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And they want, you know, one of these jobs, and I want to meet one of these people, and that's not how true mentoring works.
Conclusion and Farewell
00:13:37
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You want to nurture and develop relationships. It's got to be a two-way thing. And it easily can be. And we'll talk about those things, too. Amazing. Scott, you're so right. It's a two-way street. I love that you brought up that mentors are also in their 20s and 30s. It's not just the middle-aged guys and ladies.
00:14:00
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the elder generation. Thank you so much. This has been fantastic. We are so excited to have you on the platform. Thank you to our viewers, our listeners, for being part of this. Thank you, Scott. This is awesome. Glad to have you on the platform. Thanks, everybody.