Listener Favorites: Eric Gorges | A Craftsman's Legacy
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Eric Gorges grew up not caring about school and then developed a panic disorder early on in his professional life. It got to the point where his panic and anxiety made him nearly agoraphobic. But he was able to overcome that obstacle and get back to his craftsman roots from his childhood, and now he’s gone on to be a successful businessman and host of popular television series. Hear his story on our latest episode!
Eric Gorges is the owner of Voodoo Choppers and host of the TV show A Craftsman’s Legacy, which airs on Monday's and Friday's.
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| 0:00.0 | During all these travels and stuff like that I met a lot of different crafts people |
| 0:03.8 | a lot of different people that work with their hands and an artist and I thought man |
| 0:08.2 | it'd be a really cool television show you know to to showcase all these different people that make so many cool things. |
| 0:16.6 | And to show people that, you know, crashmanship is alive and well today, it's just, you don't really see that anymore. |
| 0:25.0 | And because, you know, oftentimes television is all about ratings and drama and they don't give a |
| 0:39.7 | shit about craftsmanship. they just want drama. |
| 0:43.2 | They want yelling and screaming and arguing and fires |
| 0:46.6 | and anything that captures attention. |
| 0:49.7 | They don't really want to showcase craftsmanship. And I thought, man, that'd be awesome to do that. |
| 0:55.6 | So that's where the idea for craftsmanship's legacy started. I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative |
| 1:07.2 | podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most |
| 1:10.7 | innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, |
| 1:15.0 | written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:18.0 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com. |
| 1:29.0 | Eric, welcome to the unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:30.0 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:32.0 | I appreciate it. Yeah, it is having me. I appreciate it. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, it is really cool to have you here. |
| 1:34.7 | So I was actually introduced to you by way of your publicist who told me a bit about your story and |
| 1:39.0 | the fact that you took a hobby turned into a business which subsequently was turned into a television show, all of which we will get into. |
| 1:46.0 | But I want to start by asking what did your parents do for a living and how did that end up influencing the choices that you've made throughout your life in your career? |
| 1:56.0 | Sure, yeah. So, you know, my mom was sort of a stay-at-home mom for a large part of my life. |
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