174: Build a Business Centering Content Creation and Art with Charlie Vazquez, Storyteller + Consultant

Written By Rhodes Perry

Charlie Vazquez is a storyteller and consultant with over thirty years’ experience as a creative entrepreneur. He has built his business around creation as an author, musician, photographer, cultural producer, and creative writing program director. He studied story craft for over twenty years and has created storytelling programs for the New York Public Library, the New York City Department of Health, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and PEN America, with an emphasis on LGBTQI+ persons, undocumented immigrants, and communities-of-color.

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Questions Answered in this Episode

·      How did Charlie get started in business?

·      What does it mean to be a creative entrepreneur?

·      Is it possible to build a business around your personal story?

·      How does Charlie empower his clients to share their personal stories?

·      What can those aspiring entrepreneurs learn from Charlie’s journey?

·      How can you connect with Charlie after today’s show?

Resources Shared in this Episode

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Rhodes Perry

Rhodes Perry, MPA is an award-winning social entrepreneur, best-selling author, and keynote speaker. He helps leaders build belonging at work to achieve industry breakthroughs. His firm offers transformative leadership development, change management, and capacity building solutions for senior executives focused on advancing their organizations’ diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitments. Nationally recognized as a LGBTQ+ thought leader, he has two decades of government and nonprofit experience having worked at the White House, PFLAG National, and the City of New York. Media outlets like Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press have featured his powerful work as a (DEI) influencer.

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