Culture Council

What happens at home is happening in Vegas. As an entertainment entrepreneur, I’ve seen firsthand from operating in the Las Vegas entertainment industry that the increasingly corporate approach to live entertainment seems to mitigate risk by putting out only “proven products.”My beloved Las Vegas is one of the greatest victims …

In the business world, a “growth mindset” is often prized for its ability to motivate employees and drive them toward success. Leaders and employees who pursue growth and improvement every day tend to give their all so that they can evolve as professionals and as people in general. As prominent …

Nordstrom, one of the first major retail brands to rely on influencers (to push their big annual sales event), announced this year they are cutting back on their investment in large-scale influencer marketing. Is this the beginning of a trend? Although influencer marketing spend is estimated to reach $4 billionby …

Blockchain provides the powerful potential to reinvent our financial system and disrupt archaic systems of work and enterprise. Prompted by the pandemic, society has already begun to inspect the models and systems that underpin our daily lives with greater scrutiny. Whether it’s how we save, how we spend, how we …

There have never been so many mediums to tell a single compelling story, and that’s good news for media companies spending billions to create content for streaming services. Where content traditionally flowed in only one direction — from books to movies or TV shows — the best stories are now …

Today, more people than ever are driven to create their own businesses. While the thought of being your own boss and creating something you love can be exhilarating, many entrepreneurs also experience that prickly feeling of fear when they actually launch. After all, the potential for failure is high in …

While the War on Drugs didn’t start propaganda against cannabis and other drugs, the movement ran full steam ahead from the 1970s onward. The cannabis community started striking back effectively in 1996, with California passing the first state medical cannabis law. Oregon and Washington State completed a West Coast sweep …

Despite Ariana Grande not releasing new music this past year, she was still nominated for an MTV Video Music Award last month. Her 2021 space-themed concert on Fortnitecompeted for the newly added “Best Metaverse Performance” category. She was up against Blackpink’s performance on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile, BTS’ on Minecraft, Charli …

What’s your story? I don’t know about you, but I did not plan to be in the career I am in today. I began my journey 20 years ago as a wedding DJ and moved on to becoming the CEO of a digital marketing agency, specializing in search engine optimization. …

People often say that human beings — especially entrepreneurs and business leaders — feel great dissatisfaction in life mainly in two ways. Either they’ve yet to hit a massive goal they’ve always wanted to achieve and they feel dissatisfied until they do. Or, they’ve just hit a massive goal they’ve …