The first step in breaking from the pack and disrupting the status quo is having the agency to do so. Mike Muse has made a career of doing just that at the intersection of politics and pop culture. He’s the co-founder of the record label, Muse Recordings, the founder and CEO of LawChamps, a TV personality and ABC News correspondent, and the host of the Mike Muse Show on Sirius Radio. Breaking Schemas hosts Marcus Collins and John Branch chat with Muse about his unique and accessible approach to talking about policy, how he ended up at the intersection of politics and pop culture, and why “find your passion” was the worst advice he ever got. *Breaking Schemas is a production of the Yaffe Digital Media Initiative at Michigan Ross and is produced by University FM.*
The first step in breaking from the pack and disrupting the status quo is having the agency to do so.
Mike Muse has made a career of doing just that at the intersection of politics and pop culture. He’s the co-founder of the record label, Muse Recordings, the founder and CEO of LawChamps, a TV personality and ABC News correspondent, and the host of the Mike Muse Show on Sirius Radio.
Breaking Schemas hosts Marcus Collins and John Branch chat with Muse about his unique and accessible approach to talking about policy, how he ended up at the intersection of politics and pop culture, and why “find your passion” was the worst advice he ever got.
*Breaking Schemas is a production of the Yaffe Digital Media Initiative at Michigan Ross and is produced by University FM.*
On the idea of knowing your audience
18:45: For me, it's all about knowing your audience and knowing who this audience is and how I can deliver the same message that will gravitate towards them, but without changing anything. I'm very anti-that narrative of dumbing things down or making things overly simplified. I don't do that. I always believe that the audience can rise to the occasion. It's just a matter of the particular word choice. How do you say it?
On thesis of intersection the muse
2:46: I believe that many individuals don't participate in our democracy because they don't feel they have a place in it. They don't feel like they have a voice. They always believe that it's for them, those, and others who work for some fancy law firm, possibly work on Wall Street, or work in academia. And so they feel like it's for them. But what I love about having the conversation is to introduce them to how policy is really the agitator of everything that they love.
Following your curiosity beats following your passion
34:02: If you just give me politics, I'm not going to be happy. I'm not going to enjoy it. If you just give me culture, I'm not going to enjoy it. I'm not going to be happy. I have to be intersecting at the same time in order to make me happy. And so from there, that is how I found my passion. But it was really just following my curiosity. And I feel like we don't tell our students, our youth, and our children; just follow your curiosity, and eventually you'll find the thing that works for you.