Why I work at Causecast

For some time, my goal was to get an important record label job; find bands, and be a facilitator for people’s dreams. Over a few years of working for people that I did not see eye to eye with, I became increasingly disenfranchised with helping bring to fruition the dreams of marginally talented, selfish people. Even though I had what I thought I wanted (I was the youngest A&R person in the indie record label community at that time), I knew I couldn’t put my whole heart into it, but I didn’t see why.
As I began my work in self-realization and awareness, studying the likes of Swami Yogananda, and Sri Yuketswar; I felt my perspective would never be the same. Through my time in the music industry, I let my ego take full control; allowing a very negative, insecure, and selfish identity to flourish. These new views and lessons brought by my personal search, clarified with such profundity the real importance of this life; my path and priorities took a permanent turn towards others. Learning the perspective of those who spoke of the whole, and not the individual, that true happiness comes from creating happiness for others has led me in the direction of Causecast.
Along the path to my current location, I worked with a great indie publishing company, that had hopes to instill a renewed passion for reading in the youth. With our first release, we decided to donate half of all proceeds to the National Center for Family Literacy. As book nerds growing up, we didn’t understand the disconnect between other people our age, and books. It seemed that there was only a select crowd that was really proactive with reading, and even more importantly, when we realized the numbers of kids growing up illiterate, we knew we had to help.
Continuing on, I felt reconnected with my past. Thirteen year-old Nate collected toys and clothes for Orangewood Children’s Home, a place for abused and neglected children in the Orange County area. I will never forget the shock, discovering that such atrocities were a reality in my neighborhood. I feel that shock again; the blindside impact of emotion, when you are truly aware of others suffering. Feeling that shock now fills me with drive and desire, because now I know I can help those less fortunate to gain the basic human rights I mistakenly thought we all had. Their lives are no less important than any of ours, and as we are all one in the same, we need to work to make the whole of us free; enabling in them the optimism for better days ahead by bringing their dreams to fruition. It is this path that has led me to Causecast, and it is on this path I will stay.

We are all so connected. Even with technology making it as easy as a few clicks, I still get wrapped up in the daily noise, let communication with good friends become less frequent, and even less personal.
This week is the start of “catch up with those I care about and keep it that way”.
I’m tired of saying “yea it’s been way too long”.
This guy has the right idea.

grateful…

for so many reasons.  I work with amazing individuals… all of them very different… but where it counts, they are all very similar; they care. They care about about making changes where they see a dire need for it, instead of just being at the effect of, and complaining about it.  These are the people you think you are just like, until you know them… and know you have a long way to go.   It isn’t a bad thing.. they aren’t showing you what you can’t be… quite the contrary, really… they are your guide, because you are fully capable.
you can help.

I’ve created this page to focus on the way I see things.  There will be times when posts stay close to the namesake, or show something that catches my eye… but there will be more…
I took this photo on a tram heading into Beijing Airport on my way back home.  I never wanted to leave.