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Have you a thirst for knowledge, creativity and the business side of the arts?

This third edition of World Equal Magbook 2023, has a bounty of excellent stories, experiences and colours to broaden your horizons. If you, like us, have an interest in learning how the creative arts and business worlds tick and click together then look no further and dive in. Some of the best movers in the creative industry of film, music, theatre and life in general share their journeys on how they got involved in their respective careers and how they’ve learned to navigate and succeed in them.

Our front cover is Stephen Garrett, a British film producer extraordinaire - Salmon Fishing In The Yemen 2011, Spooks 2015. Inside Stephen gives us an incredible insight into the inner workings of how a movie or TV series begins from a seedling idea to a completed project and the mammoth task that a producer must bear on their shoulders from start to finish. For those with an interest in films and storytelling and who want to move in bigger ways in bigger circles, strap in as it’s no easy task, Stephen will teach you what the word courage, belief and endurance means.

We interview gatekeepers to the highest musical people of Motown as Karla Gordy Bristol talks to us about the family business with the legendary founder of Motown, Berry Gordy, her work with Smokey Robinson and many more.

You will learn that in many cases in the world of arts, it can take a lot of failures before you become a success

Times are changing so fast in this modern world where convenience via A.I. technology is replacing traditional human thinking, elbow grease and human trial and error. Take our James Lee Taylor story for example, a regular guy, who may never have learned professionally to play the guitar, drums, piano, or sing but loved music so much he played local DJ sets for £100 to £150 per night, then started getting up to £10,000 per night and offers into movies and now his business ENTERTAINERS is the leading UK tribute act provider selling almost a million tickets a year fresh out of a pandemic. James provides a huge amount of work for live singers, performers, instrument musicians and live bands all across the UK. We all love a good zero-to-hero, rags-toriches story and it is even better when it happens to someone with a job they actually enjoy within the arts. James sounds like a fab boss in music and theatre.

We welcome back our like-minded friend, Grammy recognised singer-songwriter Skyler Jett and his team at Music For Global Change who have delivered fantastic interviews with singers who have worked with Disney and incredible leaders in business who are engaging in the commercial world of Cannabis, Music and Wellbeing, a future big boom industry to come.

As we end here on a high note (pardon the pun), check out the beautiful images throughout. As always World Equal delights in making our Magbook as nourishing to your eyes as it is for your mind, body & soul. We hope you enjoy it.

Partner at World Equal ® Owner and Founder at musicforglobalchange.com

Skyler Jett leads the way as the 'Global Messenger' in his quest to make the world a better place; with his musicforglobalchange.com platform as a driving force. This is done through songwriting, singing, and inspiring positive lyrical content within the genre of socially conscious music. He is an award-winning, Grammy Recognised vocalist and one of the most sought-after singersongwriters and vocal producers in the music industry today. Skyler's impressive resume includes some of the biggest recording artists of our time. His accolades include receiving a Grammy Award embossed plaque from NARAS for singing with Celine Dion on her Grammy-winning hit song My Heart Will Go On, adapted from James Cameron's blockbuster hit film Titanic. This was also record of the year (1998) and is still the highest- grossing movie theme song of all time. Prior to this Skyler succeeded in becoming the new front-man for The Commodores after Lionel Ritchie's departure.

Corinne O'Neill

Assistant Editor & Graphic Designer at World Equal. Owner & Founder at Mourneprints.com

Corinne O'Neill is an artist with over fifteen years of experience in metal smithing, embroidery textiles, drawing, painting & digital art /graphic design.

She runs and owns her company mourneprints.com which specializes in personalized clothing and gifts. From digitizing embroidery of her own artwork, she runs a popular stall at the famous St Georges Market in Belfast City Northern Ireland nearing ten years.