Empower Radio : Empowering You for a Better Life!: Balancing Creativity and Work with Devin Scillian

Balancing Creativity and Work with Devin Scillian
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Brent Carey on 28/12/2018 07:30:00
 
What does an American Journalist, award winning author of 15 childrens books, a
musician and one of Ellen Degeneres' favorite guest's have in common? They are
all one person! Devin Scillian will be joining Jill Jack on Dream Big to discuss
what it is like...well..to be him!
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On This Episode:
3:00 - Fitting creativity into a busy schedule
5:00 - The snowflake song
5:45 - The songwriting process
9:00 - Just get one book published
11:00 - What you want to write vs what you have to write
13:45 - Belief in journalism
14:15 - Vital part of a functioning democracy
17:45 - The Ellen DeGeneres show
21:15 - Prepping all the time
25:00 - Choosing your friends well
Devin Scillian is an American television journalist, musician and children's
author. While still a student at the University of Kansas, Scillian began his
television career at WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas. After graduating from the
William Allen White School of Journalism at Kansas, Scillian worked from 1985 to
1986 at WAND-TV in Decatur, Illinois. He spent the next three years as the main
anchor at KLTV in Tyler, Texas, before moving to KFOR in Oklahoma City in 1989.
He joined WDIV as a reporter in 1995, and took an anchor position in 1996.
Scillian has appeared as a television journalist in several films, including
Scream 4, The Double, and Mooz-lum, as well as a recurring role on the Ellen
DeGeneres Show as a news anchor in a "Breaking News" skit.
His books include A Is For America (2001), Fibblestax (2000), and Memoirs of a
Goldfish (2010). He has co-written two books with his wife, Corey. "One Kansas
Farmer," illustrated by Doug Bowles, was released in 2009. Their previous book,
S Is For Sunflower, won the Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book Award in 2007.