Magazine: Macadam Surfers 1989

EVERYTHING I’VE LEARNED COMES FROM RISKS, TRIALS AND ERRORS.

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Short version:

When I was a kid, I didn’t want to be an artist, I just wanted to have a lot of fun and hope to be the best in my discipline. But in fact, I became an artist and then an entrepreneur without even realizing it!

Long version:

Start by watching this video clip:

My name is Tom Shanon, I come from a street freestyle sport, than I learned “alone” in the streets of Paris since 1976. It was much more than a passion, it was an art of living, a philosophy, a transcendent way to be connected with the cosmos … and blah blah blah. Is it possible to earn a living from your talent this way? My answer is NO! Stay with me, I’ll explain how from the streets, I became a Red Bull trophy winner, World Class Artist and Entrepreneur!

I started from nothing and all my successes come from risks, trials and errors. I fully understand your difficulty with this problem: how can I make money from my talent?  I climbed my way up, step-by-step. I had to innovate, create, make my props, take risks, fail over and over, learn from my mistakes, practice, and perform the “show” as well as manage the “business”. It’s not easy but with my team I do my best to help you. If you don’t have the soul of an “artist-warrior”, forget it! For those of you who are still with me, I help you become killer in SHOW and BUSINESS by giving the Keys and Secrets of Pros.

Creating a show is the best way to make money!

I taught myself my freestyle sport on the streets. I wanted to earn a living doing what I loved, but my sport was still too unusual at the time. Shifting from sports to shows seemed like a good solution. But that meant I had to invent everything … but how? When I started performing in 1992, I didn’t know anything about show business, worse, I was afraid of doing business. I didn’t even have the words to describe what I did! I knew I wanted to make money from my talent, but nobody believed in me, and even worse, there was nowhere for me to learn about the artistic profession. When you’re at this point, either you enjoy living dangerously, or you’re oblivious! It was a very long and difficult process, but I persevered and was successful in the end. It would have broken my heart to have missed my true calling. And I can now say that creating a show is the best way to make money!

Tom Shanon and “the keys to a successful show”

I developed my talent by experimenting as much as possible, and through trial and error I taught myself how to transform what looked like “nothing special” into a money-making show (see videos below). I also learned a great deal from other pros, my fellow performers: singers, magicians, producers, etc. And I ended up creating a wide variety of shows, since I had discovered “The Keys to a Successful Show!“

I do my best to help you with:

• VIPs give advice: VIP
• Search engine: ATLAS
• Social Network: TSOPEN
• Address book: MY BUSINESS
• Guide: The keys to a successful show
• Guide: 5 fatal mistakes that pros no longer make

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