Building a healthy team where each member flourishes individually while also having a strong team-oriented mindset is not an easy task, nor does it happen on its own. My guest today, Joey Mathews, has built his video production businesses to feel like family. From immense empowerment and trust in each individual to creative profit sharing, Joey has built a business that is focused on creating absolutely stunning work all while fostering individual and business health.

Joey’s insights on leading a creative business are so refreshing and inspiring. Don’t fall for the lie that you can’t have beautiful work, a healthy team, and a profitable business; it’s how we should all operate!

Key Takeaways

Create a culture for your team that is built on mutual trust, an attitude of helping others, and wholeness of health.
You limit yourself and your business if you don’t find a way to tap into healthy collaboration.
Be creative to make sure that your business is efficient and profitable.
Charge what your work is worth, but make sure you are adding so much value that your client feels like they underpaid.

About Joey Mathews

Joey is an Emmy award winning filmmaker, business owner, husband and father based out of Houston, Texas. He founded 31Films in the early 2000’s, capturing luxury weddings around the world, and launched Filmlab in the early 2010’s, producing story-driven commercial films for brands including: Disney, CBS Sports, Four Seasons and Microsoft.

In This Episode

[00:00] Welcome to the show!
[02:45] Meet Joey Mathews
[06:47] Balancing creativity of your product with business success
[13:18] Building a culture in your business that feels like a family
[27:56] Joey’s greatest business milestones
[34:22] Making your business profitable
[42:10] Passion projects
[45:15] Outro

Quotes

“Being able to say no to some opportunities is hard but I think for the betterment of everyone to not be burnt out, you know, I think it's really important.” [15:18] - Joey Mathews

“I think when you're growing a team there has to be, I mean, you have to treat it almost like a marriage, you know, where you're working together towards a common goal and you're helping each other and it's a give and take.” [18:43] - Joey Mathews