We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jeremiah D. Higgins. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jeremiah D. below.
Alright, Jeremiah D. thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?
My job as a radio host requires, most of all, listening. It sounds easy, doesn’t it? Listening should be natural, but listening is hard. I have found it to be a worthy discipline.
Since each radio show is roughly 48 minutes, I am always up against the radio clock to get to know the person I am interviewing and tell their story in that short timeframe. That’s hard to do. Most people are guarded and a little shy about talking about themselves. I can go deeper by listening and not interrupting the person I am talking to, and the story unfolds in exciting and illuminating ways that I never imagined. By listening, the guest often opens up and shares things with me that they usually would not share.
Human nature is such that we all listen for our opening to talk and respond in a conversation. If you practice listening in everyday conversations, you will learn more about the person and discover that it helps your professional and personal relationships.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
It began with a little transistor car radio my grandmother sent me for Christmas.
That was the moment when I first became fascinated with audio storytellers. I would stay up late at night listening to the radio, secretly hidden under my pillow.
Other factors continued my love for good storytelling.
One was a claw-foot bathtub at an elementary school equipped with a tape player, endless books on tape, and massive headphones. Each day at school, I would crawl into the audio bathtub, put on the headphones, and close my eyes, letting the voices carry me away to exotic locations.
Years later, I worked as a server in a tourist restaurant by the beach and found that I loved hearing my guests’ stories. They, too, came from far away and from places I had only heard about through my headphones. My guests were always surprised when I knew some obscure fact about where they came from.
Telling stories is what we do. Storytellers are what we are.
On The Jeremiah Show Voices Carry. Share your story with us. I’m listening…Listen More and evolve.
BIO
Growing up between California and various Pacific Northwest states and Alaska, Jeremiah was enrolled in eleven schools in twelve years. Always the “new guy” Jeremiah turned to movies, books, and the fantasy world in place of friends in his youth. He saw his first major motion picture “Star Wars” with his father at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara when he was seven. Wired on Red Vines and Coca-Cola and a galaxy far, far away, from that moment on he was hooked on the silver screen.
For most of his life, Jeremiah thought of nothing but movies, instead of his schoolwork. One day after a particularly bad day of waiting tables in his early twenties, he saw a Vanity Fair cover of Young Hollywood Disruptors on a coffee table. He knew what he was meant to do: Produce movies.
He barely graduated high school, but enrolled in Santa Barbara City College with the goal of going to UCLA Film School. He graduated from SBCC with Honors and made the Deans Roll. He didn’t get into UCLA but he was accepted to USC Film School. Jeremiah began classes in the Peter Stark Producing Program and attended USC Cinematic Arts from 1998 – 2000.
While there, he met an elderly Jewish author in his 90s, Phil Albaum, who helped pay his way through school by hiring him to adapt the true story of his experience in WWII called “In The General’s House.” From this work, he got an agent at Paradigm Talent Agency, and the script was eventually optioned for six figures. Sadly it was never made.
While in school Jeremiah also worked at Miracle Pictures for Alex Kitman Ho. He was an Executive Assistant to Laurie Hansen from 1998 – 2001.
Jeremiah worked on pre-production on Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, and Bill Pullman’s movie called “Brokedown Palace.” Next came Sean Penn and Elizabeth Hurley’s “The Weight of Water.”
When Hollywood went on strike in early 2000, Jeremiah returned to the restaurant business and found great success.
Jeremiah has developed and opened over 200 music venues, hotels, nightclubs, restaurants, bars and retail stores. A few of the diverse building projects include Mick Fleetwood’s Fleetwood’s on Front Street in Maui, Santa Monica Seafood’s retail stores, The Landsby Hotel, the Pueblo Bonito Hotel, and The Cabo Wave Hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
He is a top-performing hospitality visionary with over thirty years of industry achievement analyzing business drivers, designing operational systems, building staff, and developing cost-cutting, profit-building initiatives to create new businesses.
Jeremiah hosts an internationally syndicated radio show on multiple stations globally and an award-winning podcast called “The Jeremiah Show.” He has served as Executive Producer for Mariel Hemingway’s podcast, It’s Radio with TVs Tim Stack, The Mike Gormley Show (Music Manager once for The Police, Rod Stewart, Oingo Boingo) The Arwen Lewis Show (Moby Grape and granddaughter of Oscar-wining actress Loretta Young) and The Kimi Kato Show (VP of Universal Japan for 12 years developing Taylor Swift, Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga, U2 and more.)
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
My goal with the evolve entertainment network is to provide good, inspiring content for our global listeners. Always positive content, never negative.
We approach each show and each guest with this goal: To bring light, inspiration, and optimism.
Through sharing our guest’s stories, we feel we can find commonalities and inspiration.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
Most artists survive these days through social media attention. Streaming their music, liking their posts, subscribing, and sharing. Doing one of these things for an artist is the equivalent of putting a tip in a tip jar so they can keep going.
Yet, for some reason, most people don’t go that extra step to click the little “approval” button or share or subscribe. It requires so little of us, but it really helps the artist.
Most music artists now make money from their ticket sales for live shows or their merchandise. They hardly make anything from streaming. You can support your favorite artists by buying merchandise and going to live shows.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://thejeremiahshow.com
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- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeremiah.higgins/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremiah-d-higgins-5b848321/
- Twitter: https://x.com/ShowJeremiah
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@therealjeremiahshow
- Other: https://linktr.ee/jeremiahdhiggins
Image Credits
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