M&M Dance

  AARON SCALES is a visual artist and the founder of the creative architectural design company, BroCoLoco. Aaron is as seasoned as anyone in the tussle between creativity and business needs and speaks eloquently about both. He has a built successful business built around his art: “There’s something exhilarating and something exhausting about it.” He explains how “you can’t be driven by elation or deflation.” Rather, the task of the modern artist is to value communication, both with the client and in the expression of the work itself. He or she must lead the audience "from what is to what is POSSIBLE."He also eloquently makes the case for branded art around the 20-minute mark. Perhaps his most fascinating point about the character and disposition of creatives is this: Humility is the middle ground between pride and depression. Pride is greater than you really are. Depression makes you think you’re less. “Humility is having an accurate assessment of who you really are. You know...

ALLYSON BRIGGS, aka Fleur Seule, is a New York City-based singer, songwriter and performer. Her 1940s jazz band "brings the glamour and swinging sounds of the Golden Age of Hollywood to life." Listening to Allyson sing is a time portal to an era of romance, charisma, speakeasies, gin fizzes by the barrel, flapper dresses, fedoras and men fidgeting with matchbooks on train platforms. Talking with Allyson was a rare chance to get the insights of someone who has built a full life on the foundation of her dreams. She is exceedingly modest about what she has achieved, but has managed to carve out a successful career and original brand in the most competitive city in the world. We talk a lot about the traditional definition of "making it" and how that notion probably deserves an upgrade. Allyson is honest and unsparing in telling the story of her journey and in imparting her philosophies on music, modern society's relationship with it, her love of bygone vocalists...