We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Cole Johnson. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Cole below.

Cole, appreciate you joining us today. Do you wish you had waited to pursue your creative career or do you wish you had started sooner?

Do I wish I stated my creative career sooner or later? Hmmm. I’d say I started it at the right time. I was always creative. I didn’t understand the full power of what my art would bring to the world. When I was much younger, I only thought the art I created was for me. Now, I realize that the best art is when others appreciate it.

I needed to undergo a lot of maturity in order to get the proper perspective. Now that I have it, my art has gotten better. When the power of your creativity has a positive impact on others – that’s when your whole essence gets taken to the next level.

I wish I started my creative career when I did. And the beauty of it is this: The older I get, the more expansive my creative tapestry becomes. That means I can touch more people because I understand better the power of what I create.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I saw my father draw and paint when I was a child. Seeing how into the process he was at the time, I knew, then, I had to develop some of that within me. My father draw – so I drew. I am not as skilled of a painter or artist as he is … but I still tried my hand at it. I liked what I did, but I knew creating would have to come from other disciplines.

They slowly came to me as time passed. I learned I had a voice – and sang when I was in grammar school Again: My father sang, and that meant I had to sing. Stating when I was 15, my father and I sang in choirs for the next 20 years. I picked up on music so fast, my father would ask the notes to his parts … as I sang a different part than he did. Like our bond, my love affair with creativity blossomed.

Then, the next development came in the form of writing music. I have had a legitimate love/hate relationship with writing music. I shaped, honed and crafted my songwriting and production style to fit my personality. It took about five years, but it finally got to the point where I could be proud with what I created. It took three different men to get me where I was proficient as a creative songwriter. A friend of mine, nicknamed Water, wrote with me the most of any collaborator I had. Another friend of mine, Torrien, stretched me outside of my creative zone. Because of him, I learned a whole new way to create music, altogether. With my cousin, Sid, I was easily my most emotionally vulnerable. There was just something about his notes which made me get in touch deeply with myself. With him, it was more than just reps and style. it was about feeling. Water, Torrien and Sid were the perfect songwriting collaborators for me. Because when it came to writing music on my own, I was able to do it with the full body each composition deserved. And when I was able to produce other songwriters’ songs without creating something of my own … I knew, then, I arrived as a songwriter/producer. Unfortunately, that time period came to a sudden halt.

Then, I discovered podcasting. People said I had a voice for radio. It was time to put that to the test, and people were right. And that has extended itself to producing television programs, video segments/intros/outros/commercials – as well as audio production of different podcasting genres.

I am now at a space where I lead journalists in creating the right kind of content for a reading and viewing audience. Now – I look forward to creating video content that features my music as well as my voice. As I said in the beginning: I am finding my create palette growing by the day. Because of it, more and more people will appreciate the beauty which lies inside of me. They will feel, see, touch and hear themselves through my expression.

COMI Media, Inc. encompasses voiceover needs, podcasting production, television production, video creation, music composing/arranging and we’ll dip our toes in other waters such as movie scoring and movie video production work. The growth is exciting!

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Back when I wrote an album’s worth of songs, my friend, Torrien, listened to the music. He said, “It’s no question you know how to write music. You know how to arrange it. The problem is that your music is too old.” I didn’t quite understand the criticism, and I took umbrage with it. “This was me! This is how I express myself. How DARE you say that when I wrote is old?” He stuck to his criticism.

I distanced myself from it for about a year. During that time, I learned more techniques in songwriting and production. The collaborations I formed helped in making my art grow. It grew to the point where Torrien listened to a new set of songs, I was shocked that he was impressed by them. He heard the growth … and so did I. It all made sense as the creative process made songwriting even more fun than ever before.

The lesson learned in that experience is this: Make your art something remarkable and unique. Your art will thank you for it.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

Taking someone’s property, and giving it a voice – is one of the greatest blessings. Making the content creator feel as though you tapped into what they are about gives me the sweetest joy possible.

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