Composer Tony Manfredonia discusses his journey through mental health challenges, finding a healthy balance between vocation and life, and building a career while living in a rural location.
Topics discussed on this episode:
- Video games
- Mental health awareness
- Writing from experience
- Chiptunes & videogames
- Kharon’s Crypt
- Having two audiences
- Managing it all
- Have far-away deadlines
- Turn everything off & just work
- Don’t check email
- Living where there is no scene
- Networking online
- Creating opportunities
- Talking to everybody
- Having a Portfolio lifestyle
- Getting up early & having a schedule
- Ep 169-Re-Defining Success
- Need to have skills & learn tricks of the trade
- Network & find work early
- Make social media about everyone else
- Stop working so much!
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Recommended Listening:
- Nobuo Uematsu, “To Zanarkand,” Final Fantasy X Original Soundtrack
- Nobuo Uematsu, “Opening Sequence,” Final Fantasy VI Original Soundtrack
- Julia Kent, Nina and Oscar
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This episode was edited by E.J. Sadler at Studio184.