Raised On The 80s? Sounds rad. Tell me more!
If you are a fan of the 80s and that glitter bomb of creativity that the pop culture spawned, then you are in the right place!
My name is Chris Clews and I’m a keynote speaker, 80s pop culture guy and author of the best selling book series - The Ultimate Series on Essential Work & Life Lessons from '80s Pop Culture.
I speak and write about the lessons for life and work we can learn from 80s pop culture. Yes, believe it or not, ‘80s pop culture and particularly the great movies that defined the decade can teach us a lot about our workplace, business, career and our lives.
The lessons apply to people of all ages, career levels and generations. Lessons for life, leadership, teamwork, communications, workplace culture, and more from the movies and music that defined pop culture’s most excellent decade.
Here at Raised On The 80s I take a unique look at that most excellent decade of pop culture. Yes I’m nostalgic for the 80s. Yes I’m enamored with the 80s. And yes I still wear parachute pants. No I don’t. Really honestly I do not. But just having a love for the 80s - the decade that formed who I am today - wasn’t enough. I wanted to find a way look at 80s pop culture in a very different way. A fun, educational, inspirational and thoughtful way.
One day, in my mid 40s, I was on my couch having a self pity party of one over a job that just wasn’t working out for me.
I was watching The Breakfast Club when John Bender said, “Screws fall out all of the time. The world’s an imperfect place.” I sat straight up and said to myself, “I’m an imperfect place. My screws have fallen out. What am I going to do to put them back in?” Continuing to flip channels I stopped on the classic 1983 movie The Outsiders and literally jumped off my couch when I heard Johnny Cade say, “You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.” Yes I do still have a lot of time to make myself be what I want, I thought to ,myself.
I took the advice of Johnny Cade and left my corporate career of 20 plus years to become a keynote speaker and author on the topic of lessons from 80s pop culture for life and the workplace.
Why subscribe to Raised On The 80s?
If you made it this far, you are most certainly righteous and totally awesome! Thanks for your interest and curiosity.
It’s free. Like really free. For now anyway. Save that “two dollars cash” for Johnny the paperboy and pay him on time unlike that dastardly Lane Meyer. Just select no pledge when you subscribe.
I mean if in the words of the immortal Jeff Spicoli, you are feeling “awesome, totally awesome”, you can always pledge your support via a future subscription by clicking the subscribe now button and selecting a paid plan. There’s no immediate charge and you only be billed if/when Raised On The 80s implements a paid model.
For now, my goal is to publish 4 times a month or roughly once a week for those good at math unlike myself. Once they put numbers with letters, I was completely lost. Stupid Algebra. But that is a story for another day.
You’ll get unique, one of a kind content focused on different aspects of our life and work seen through the lens of 80s pop culture and those philosophers of 80s yore such as Jeff Spicoli, Prince Akeem, Clark Griswold, Axel Foley, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies and so many more!
I’m also considering a podcast via Substack that would provide even more content for subscribers.
As the poet laureate, Ferris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once, you could miss it.” Here’s hoping you stop to look around here at Raised On The 80s.
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I should also mention that I'm passionate about animal rescue and donate a portion of the proceeds from my book sales, speaking gigs and in the future my Substack subcriptions, to Wonder Paws Rescue in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl which is the rescue that saved my pit mix rescue Bodhi boy.
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