Mike Schmitz

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559 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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Creator News Live: Discussing the latest tools, tips, and tactics with industry experts, innovators, creators, and storytellers · AI Is a Dial, Not a Switch (How Creators Win in the AI Era) · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

I was in charge of the blog.

We had a new article that went out every week.

So I was writing half of those and managing guest articles the other half.

I was creating a completely new productivity video course

and publishing it in the community every single month.

And I just did it, you know?

And then as I was thinking through, like, how am I able to do this?

I've kind of run with this idea, steal like an artist, but there's gotta be a system below this.

That's where the creativity flywheel framework came from.

Yeah, so that's kind of the thing.

It's still like an artist, you know, creativity is a formula.

So at that point, creativity really is like a system, okay?

And if you're, I'm a systems thinker, worked as an integrator at a digital marketing agency for a while.

I think in systems.

So when that light bulb went on, creativity is a system, it kind of, I realized that I don't really have to do all of these pieces.

So when you're talking about labor in the creative process, typically what you think of

is like stephen pressfield the war of art it's this big battle i'm going to go away to the cabin in the woods and write walden you know and that works for some people i actually uh just read a book how to try again by steve cam he's talking about the different creative processes and he talks about the guy who wrote the james bond series he goes to his private island and types every day at a certain time on his gold-plated typewriter you know if you're able to do that great right

But if you're a solopreneur trying to make a living, get some help.

And so that's where I realized that there are so many options for getting help now.

One of the big unlocks for me, I mentioned this in the MaxDoc talk, was I look up to these creators like Ali Abdaal, a YouTuber I really admire.

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