Donny Jackson | Using Your Art to Create Empathy
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Donny Jackson talks about how he went from from being a doctor to becoming a television producer and how writing poetry has remained a constant throughout his journey. We also talk about the reality of racism in America as well as how to use your art to create empathy.
Visit Donny Jackson's website | https://donnyjacksonpoetry.com
Donny Jackson's book, boy, is available now | https://donnyjacksonpoetry.com/boy/
Find Donny on Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/doctordonny/
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| 0:00.0 | I figured it out, |
| 0:02.0 | it out makes me sound like I'm smart, you know, in that way. |
| 0:06.0 | No, I figured it out that is, no, just stick to it. |
| 0:09.0 | Just keep at it and the adage of the harder you work the luckier you get is what happened honestly. |
| 0:17.0 | And so I ended up, you know, tripping into reality TV at its, it's kind TV at its inception because somebody took a chance on me, you know, and it flourished from there. |
| 0:31.4 | The poetry thing continued just because I'll write all of my life, you know, regardless of whether I get paid to do it. I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving |
| 0:54.0 | businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 0:58.0 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com. |
| 1:07.4 | Donnie, welcome to the unmistakable Creative. Thanks to once for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:09.6 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:11.7 | Well, it is my pleasure to have you here. So as I was saying before we hit record, I found out about your work through |
| 1:17.0 | Sherhale who is literally the only publicist that we have never once said no to. She has a remarkable track record with us. |
| 1:25.5 | Anytime my friends ask who should I hire |
| 1:27.3 | as a book publicist, she's the person that I say they should go to. |
| 1:30.3 | So absolute pleasure to get here. |
| 1:32.2 | Before we get into your work, I want to start asking you, |
| 1:35.0 | what did your parents do for work? |
| 1:36.6 | And how did that end up shaping the choices |
| 1:39.8 | that you've made throughout your life and career? |
| 1:49.0 | My dad was a postal worker for 35 years after the Air Force and my mom was nurses' aid. So, you know, working class, family in Pittsburgh and in terms of how it shaped my |
| 1:57.9 | upbringing you know lots of ways I mean some of them invisible that I couldn't even tell you I'm sure but the ones that I'm super |
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