HISTORY
Midwest Talent Management, Inc. started out as Creative Talent Company, a talent agency in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio. Founder Betty McCormick decided she wanted to work more closely with a smaller group of talent. She found that, as a personal manager, there is a better opportunity to guide, create, and build careers. The personal manager compliments the agent with guidance, details, suggestions, understanding, and follow-up, ensuring the talent does not get lost. Agents understand the importance of having a proactive, caring, and detailed personal manager working with them.
Thank you, Ashley Miers, for the song.
Thank you, Paul Norman, for the video.
OUR NAME
Born and raised in Wisconsin, and schooled in Iowa and Ohio, Betty is a true Midwesterner. The solid family values and sense of loyalty from being raised in the Midwest have shaped Betty’s understanding of her roots. She decided that the name “Midwest Talent” embraces the brand of personal management that will attract attention and give comfort. Midwest Talent tells a bit about the type of talent on our roster but mostly resounds about the company's Midwestern values: hard work ethics, loyalty, and open, solid relationships. “We want the entertainment industry, our talent, and our future talent to recognize that Midwest Talent Management is a company that takes pride in the process and the successes of personal 'Midwestern' Talent Management.”
Midwest Talent Management Doormat Welcome
PLEASE:
WIPE YOUR NEGATIVE AND COMPLAINING THOUGHTS
ON THE MAT BEFORE ENTERING THIS DOOR.
We are a positive, happy, healthy, productive, and busy environment with open doors to those who have hopes and dreams for all that is good and creative. We love people who want to help others and themselves accomplish their hopes and dreams. We expect people to keep their big complaining and negative mouths shut upon entering this door, while they instead find constructive and positive ways to communicate, to share, to appreciate, to improve, to learn, and to grow.
Our goal is to make things happen. To finish what we start. To learn and grow for the good of all concerned; to smile for the good fortune to be around loving, caring, nurturing, mutually concerned, and creative people.
If you have negative thoughts, convert the bloody things to positive ones. Be constructive and replace the consequences of being in a funk, of belittling yourself and others, with doing something nice for yourself or another. Help make change for the greater good. Help make happiness for those around you. Remember when you are talking; listen to what other people have to say. Don’t carry on a one-way dialogue. A conversation works best when everyone listens with respect and is sensitive to each other. Then the ego is put in perspective.
But if you really have to have negative thoughts and want to enjoy them, please go back outside, open up your arms, breathe deeply, and complain to the ground, to the air, to the sun, to the sky, to the birds, to the leaves, to the flowers or to the dirt. Dump it! This is called the prayer dance of the negative. Hum a rhythmic tune. Keep dancing and complaining. Who knows, maybe you’ll create an earthquake! Better yet, you might create a new outlook on who the heck you really are.
If being negative still feels good, we do not want to take that away from you. But we do not have the time to undo the effect of being infected with ever-so contagious, negative, self-destructive, and complaining thoughts. We do not enjoy them; therefore, we will not share them with you. But we love to share everything else. We are so happy when we see smiles and appreciation. A happy face and a thank-you motivate us to accomplish more than we ever imagined, then we can all work together to make the world a better place because of who we are and what we intend to contribute.
If that mat gets full, just keep stepping on it, the negative thoughts will get squished quite easily. Consider yourself at home, a nice well-adjusted, fun home!
NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE
- We confront stressful situations as challenges.
- We view complications as opportunities.
- We take problems and solve them one by one.
- We guide you through the sensory overload.
- We stop venting and review and plan.
- We micro-manage with suggestions, sharing, and caring.
- We try to encourage instead of criticizing.
- We reverse the role - what if we were in the other person’s shoes?
- We listen so we can communicate together.
