Nate Israel's Blog
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Why I work at Causecast
- Posted on 10.27.08
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 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.
Related causes: Arts, Community, Health, Human Rights, Youth
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Awesome Nate.. thank you for all that you are, all you have done and all you will continue to do.
Nate, Thank you for being so honest and coming forward with your story. It is easy to sell your soul to corporate America. I did and only have the scars of two heart attacks and a empty bank account to show for 20 years of following blindly. I believe now in balance of body, mind, heart, and soul. I know what goes around comes around. I know that I do not have to sit in judgment of others for one day they will have to pay for their actions. I am very eager to help you on your path in anyway that I can. Ryan has told me to sit tight... That is very hard for me to do. I do understand that the vision is starting to grow. I think you have decided to be part of something that will be huge... I just wish I could have been a few years younger, have a little less on my plate, and live in California... Oh well... for another life:)!