I was fortunate to get a front row seat to an interesting discussion with Kevin Smith at SXSW. Smith is a screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer and content creator. He shared enlightening details about his career and childhood. His career has continuously transformed based on his desire to follow his passion as an artist. 

While breaking out through his unique story telling abilities debuting with Clerks in the mid-nineties, his passion to tell stories through film waned in the late 2000s. He felt that he had already told all of the stories he had inside eithin that format. Therefore making the difficult financial decision of walking away from film and pursue other avenues.

He currently produces and stars in his Smodcast show with childhood friend and Producer Scott Mosier. The show started as a simple weekly podcast but has grown into a very powerful format and the two along with Jason Mewes travel the country selling out venues and performing their show live. The show currently has over. 100,000 weekly listeners.

The new business has finally allowed Smith to once again enjoy some financial success however as he puts it, it isn’t the crack that is movie money.

He cued in on how you if you truly engage with your internal passion you will ultimately find a level of success. Ultimately you must follow your muse and serve the artist inside of you. This mantra has allowed him to continually evolve his businesses and keep him excited about this work.