Episode 212: What Would Prince Do?
Description
We’re stealing pages from Prince’s playbook so you can build sovereignty, not just content. You’ll see how he negotiated creative control at 19, weaponized pseudonyms (Camille, Christopher, Alexander Nevermind) to outmaneuver contracts, and used Paisley Park as a vertically integrated engine for music, video, live performance—and myth.
We decode Prince’s sovereignty so we can build ours.
Negotiating total creative control at 19
Why pseudonyms were both creative and legal strategy
How Paisley Park became a full-stack content & distribution engine
Pre-building the “vault” so partners join momentum, not control it
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Credits
Production: Shannon Kuehl
Cover Art: Beau Stanton
Podcast Artist: Amanda No
Intro by Micky Four
Outro by Marmaduke Dando