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by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
Yes, you can quit! But… in most cases, the reason you’re quitting is not acceptable.
You see, as far as I’m concerned, 99 out of 100 times, quitting is not allowed. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
& Producer, Co-Writer, Co-Director, & Co-Star of the feature film, “You Can’t Kill Stephen King”, a film I produced with Ronnie Khalil
Filmmaking, I now realize, is like a pirate ship. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
& Producer, Co-Writer, Co-Director, & Co-Star of the feature film, “You Can’t Kill Stephen King”, a film I produced with Ronnie Khalil
Why I Am Writing This
This is an amusing, but serious, account of the lessons I learned from 2008 – 2015 during the entire process of creating the feature film You Can’t Kill Stephen King, from conception, screenwriting, and fund raising to production, editing, Cannes!,… Read More
Book Review: Zen & the Art of Making a Living — A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design by Laurence G. Boldt
A review by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
This book has been with me for years. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, MBA, Esq, LLM
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
(c) 2017 by Monroe Mann
Chapter 1. Why Finding Potential Investors Is So Difficult
Great news! You already know the investors for your next project!
It’s true. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
T.R.U.S.T. is an acronym that I developed after first failing to raise money for a big project, and then six years later, successfully raising money for a big project. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
If you have a big decision to make, don’t just make it on a hunch.
Instead, use something I created called “The Big Decision Matrix”. It only takes about 5 – 10 minutes to set up, and when you’re done, you will be able to make a decision having considered all the possibilities.… Read More
Psychology 101: In a class on abnormal psychology, the instructor was about to introduce the subject of manic depression.
She posed this question to her students: “How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits down weeping uncontrollably the next?”… Read More
Active members of our Break Diving community (www.breakdiving.io ) are recognized with a blog post all about that person, in interview format! If you are an active member of our Break Diving Slack community or are currently enrolled in one of our awesome courses, we would love to brag to the world about you!… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
Well, I am officially a coder now! I can actually officially say it without any crack in my voice!
I graduated from the Firehose program in June of 2017 and since then, have already launched my first app, and am hard at work at my second!… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
It was sometime back in the 1980s. My family got two cool digital things for Christmas during that decade — though I suppose back then, they were two cool analog things, haha!… Read More
SSS3
That is pronounced Triple ‘S’ Cubed.
The three S’s stand for: Support, Scripture, Success.
As many of you know, Break Diving does have a Christian foundation. And I have learned over the years that my life without Christ makes no sense whatsoever.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, MBA, Esq
(with a graduate certificate in financial planning from Boston University)
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
We all know that we should be investing our money.
Many of us don’t know how to do that.… Read More
by Monroe Mann
Founder, Break Diving
I worked as a public defender for two years from 2012 – 2014. Here is what I learned:
10. If I decide to break the law, I will not take a selfie of myself doing it.… Read More
Interview with Joe Franklin conducted circa 2008 by Break Diving Founder, Monroe Mann
My advice to those who aspire to a spot in the business that there is no business like (the entertainment field) is the following:
This article was transcribed and edited from a phone interview in ~2008 with SammyPetrillo by the founder of Break Diving, Inc., Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA.
Living through the golden years of Hollywood was absolutely the apex of my life; it was the most marvelous thing to rub shoulders with the biggest stars of the time—the stars who I looked up to as a kid when I used to go the movie theaters.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, ME, LLM, EMT
Founder, Break Diving, Inc.
I am sometimes asked by folks, “Hey, what books are you reading?! You’re always reading interesting stuff!” So, I thought I would share some of the books I am currently reading!… Read More
By Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, ME, LLM, EMT
& Founder, Break Diving, Inc.
Note: this article, written by Monroe Mann, originally appeared as a chapter in the book, “Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines” by Jay Conrad Levinson & Mitch Meyerson, published in 2008
This is a story of overcoming odds, and turning the most sour of lemons into the most delicious of lemonades. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD
Founder, Break Diving, Inc., & Co-Author, “Guerrilla Networking” with Jay Conrad Levinson
(c) 2008 by Monroe Mann
Note: this article originally appeared on the CNBC Blog at https://www.cnbc.com/id/25939877/
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