Nick Venturella Endeavors, LLC

The weather is gorgeous today. Extending the summer vibes into September up on the rooftop patio of The Lone Girl Brewing Co. in Waunakee, WI. This performance is just one example how I work with companies to help them grow fans and more business. In this case, I’m helping The Lone Girl Brewing Co. activate their patrons with entertainment content (my music performance) to get them to come out, buy food and drinks and commune with their local neighbors. I get paid to put on a positive show and plug The Lone Girl’s products (food/drinks) — they sell more, the patrons have a good time escaping the pressures of life for a small bit as they enjoy their experience and are more likely to come back to The Lone Girl (building their fans), AND my own endeavor has a chance to cross-pollinate with the same audience to activate them as my own fans to learn more about my music and other marketing capabilities. Win-win all around.

I finished building the Godzilla guitar just before my family moved this summer, and now that we’re settled in the new place and the kids have started back to school, I’m finally getting some decent photos of this one-of-a-kind upcycled guitar build that glows in the dark. This guitar has a single bridge position P-90 pickup, a fixed bridge and low action. It’s definitely a very playable guitar, but like most of my guitar builds, it more of an art piece. Like my other guitar builds, I’m re-using guitar parts from other, discarded guitars as well as other materials - the body was crafted from an old dresser top. I hand-drew and woodburned the Godzilla design into the body, then hand-painted it using glow-in-the-dark paint all the way across the neck and headstock to convey Godzilla’s atomic blast. I then protected all the paint with polyurethane. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/gy6TVE6a

Everyone has some level of anxiety. As you feel it, label it to help minimize its power over you as you push through it. This post includes some mindfulness resources to check out, and a simple technique that can help calm your anxiety at home or at the office.

An easy formula for finding mentorship as a remote worker while also growing your LinkedIn network. Check it out.

It’s important to remember all work is a noble effort. If no one else has told you lately that your work is important, let be the one to say it, and here’s why…

We're constantly finding communities and navigating into sub-communities in life. This article outlines an example of how I was leveraging a community to feed another intentional sub-community. https://lnkd.in/guRDpAec

The size of a community matter less than the impact it has on it's members.

Today’s recommended reading. No one other than author Chuck Klosterman could write this book, The Nineties. Especially if you lived through the ‘90s, you’ll want to read this one — it’s fun, smart and full of nostalgia.

I've been experimenting and want you to participate...or not -- your action or inaction will inform me, so thank you in advance... I'm constantly looking for ways to meet my audience where they're at and provide content and experiences (via my Investors newsletter, LinkedIn posts, blog, YouTube channel, and published music and written works) that resonate in small ways with individuals, like you, who choose to share their attention with me. For that, I thank you for supporting my creative endeavors! Because I want to meet people where they're already at -- for those of you who are so inclined -- one of the easiest ways for you to help support what I do is to buy something on Amazon...Seriously. This is the experiment... You're likely buying things on Amazon anyway, right? Why not get the things you were going to buy anyway on Amazon, and do so in a manner that helps support my efforts to continue to provide you free content? It's a win-win! It's a way for me to be less intrusive about asking for your support in a way that is already familiar to your daily life. It's the "easy button" to support what I do while you continue to make the same kinds of purchases from Amazon you would anyway. Learn how here: https://lnkd.in/gzPmWP8j

Often learning by doing yields the most mistakes and as a result, the greatest gains.