Dec. 26, 2024

Unleashing Hidden Talents The Top Kat Talent Show Revolution

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Join us in this exciting episode of Living the Dream with Curveball as we chat with Susan Murray, the visionary behind the Top Kat Talent Show. Discover how her innovative mobile app is revolutionizing the way undiscovered artists showcase their talents, collaborate, and win cash prizes. Whether you're a singer, dancer, comedian, or magician, this platform is your gateway to global exposure and recognition. Susan shares her journey from childhood talent shows to creating a unique space for independent artists to shine. Tune in to learn more about the app's features, subscription options, and an incredible lifetime membership promotion. Don't miss out on this opportunity to unleash your creativity and pursue your passion!
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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Welcome, um, to the Living the Dream podcast with Curveball. Uh, if you believe you can achieve.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Chee Chee.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Welcome to the Living the Dream with Curveball podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate, and inspire. Today, I am joined by the founder of Top Cat Talent Show, Susan Murray.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Susan has put together this mobile app for undiscovered artists to be able to collaborate with other independent and undiscovered artists and showcase their talents and win prizes. So we're going to be talking to her about everything that she's up to. So all you independent artists listen up and share this episode to other independent artists. Susan, thank you so much for joining me today.

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> Speaker B>Oh, thank you for having me. I appreciate you.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself?

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> Speaker B>Yes. I'm Susan Murray. I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I started, uh, the Top Cat Talent show maybe a year ago, but we just got the mobile app together.

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> Speaker B>It's a platform for undiscovered and independent art. But all talent is welcome. Singers, dancers, rappers, comedians, magicians. If you do spoken word or even if you draw, your talent is welcome. If you can make a video of it, you can upload the video to the platform, let viewers vote for the video. The video with the most votes at the end of the week wins either $0.20 to $0.50 per vote, up to $100 a week, and it's less than $5 a month to join.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Okay, well, what made you want to start Top Cat Talent Show? Are you an artist or what made you want to start it?

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> Speaker B>Well, I kind of fell in love with talent shows when I was younger. When I was a kid, I grew up in a big family. It was, like seven siblings. And we used to put on family talent shows in our family den. So we would sing, dance, or anything like that. And if you were good, you were applauded. If you were not good, you were booed.

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> Speaker B>So that kind of got me in the, uh, in the swing of things. And then I started writing, like, pop lyrics.

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> Speaker B>And when rap hit the scene, I fell in love with rap. So I started writing rap lyrics, and I started performing in different talent shows. So I would perform solo. Sometimes I would perform with different male groups, and then I went solo again. Then after high school, I started promoting talent shows at the local library, community center, anything like that.

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> Speaker B>And then we would give, like, plaques or trophies. Now I'm giving away a, uh, cash prize.

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> Speaker B>So I've always been in love with talent shows. It's a passion all uh, right.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Does your app provide a separate platform for kids?

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> Speaker B>Now, we're in the process of working on a kids platform for under 18.

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> Speaker B>You have to be 18 to still upload the video, 18 or older to upload the video. But you can put your kids on there, and it's going to be a platform dedicated to kids, and it'll be the same concept. You get the most votes, you win a cash prize.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Okay, so where do the cash, uh, prizes come from? Do you find them yourself, or does the, uh, app, you know, people paying for the app fund. Um, it.

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> Speaker B>Yes, the app is. It's 5,199.

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> Speaker B>$1.99 a week for the silver subscription or$4.99 a month for the monthly gold subscription. And the. The money goes toward the prizes. So if you have a few votes, you can share your video out to your fans, your family, your friends to gather more votes. The more votes you get, the more chance, the greater your chance of winning and the greater your chance of earning at, uh, larger price, cash price.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>So kind of describe the difference between the two different descriptions.

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> Speaker B>Well, the $1.99 a week, you win 20 cents for each vote, and the $4.99 a month, you win 50 cents for each vote. That's the only difference. That's the only difference that comes to mind that, uh, artists can take in heed.

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> Speaker B>Yes.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>So when you upload your video, do you, uh, upload it, uh, from YouTube or, uh, how does it work?

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> Speaker B>Nope, you can use, um, your phone. You can do it live from your phone or upload it a video that you've already recorded from your phone. So from the comfort of your own home, you can gain global exposure, grow your fan base, and try to win a weekly cash prize from the comfort of your own home. You just need a phone, a mobile device.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Okay, so how many artists are on the app right now? And how many people would you say that are using the app right now?

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> Speaker B>We just started promoting, like, maybe, um, actually this the last couple of weeks because we were adding different features, uh, to the app. So we just started promoting. But I've seen, um, different artists on their singers, uh, some dancers, puppeteers.

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> Speaker B>So all talent is welcome. And we're just trying to get the word out for this platform for the independent artists to come out and join. Even if you're trying to kickstart your career or trying to restart your career, this is the platform for you.

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> Speaker B>Yes.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Yeah, I'm definitely glad that you are, Are doing this for us. Independent artists like that.

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> Speaker B>Yes. It's a passion of mine. I've always wanted to give people the spotlight, and I've always liked the spotlight myself, but I always wanted to give people the spotlight so they can shine and show off what they have, show their talent and give them a cash. A cash prize. Or back then, like I said, it was a plaque or a trophy. But now you're going to be winning the cash money.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Is there any limit of how long the videos need to be?

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> Speaker B>Um, I've seen a video that was, like, up to five minutes.

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> Speaker B>So you can do snippets, you can do long videos. There's really no, um, limit on the size of the video.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Okay.

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> Speaker B>Yes.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>All right, so tell us about any upcoming projects that you're working on that people need to be aware of.

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> Speaker B>Well, right now we're offering a free lifetime promotion. Um, all you have to do to earn and to keep the lifetime promotion membership is to upload a video every week. You upload a video every week, you can keep the lifetime, um, membership, and you won't have to pay the 199 a week or the 499amonth. You just upload your video every week and enter the contest and try to win the cash money.

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> Speaker B>So that promotion is going on now until January 2nd.

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> Speaker B>So all you independent artists out there try to get on this lifetime membership offer, and you can try to win that cash money.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>So I know in the green room, we were talking that the app is called Top Cat Talent Show.

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> Speaker B>The app is called TK Talent Show.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Right? That's what I was going to say.

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> Speaker B>Yeah.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>So was this T.K.

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> Speaker B>Yes. On the stores? Is T.K.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Talent show okay?

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> Speaker B>Yes.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Can podcasters also take part of this? Have you ever had any podcasters or not?

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> Speaker B>No. I would love to have a podcaster if you want to enter. Yes, absolutely. We welcome you.

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> Speaker B>Yes. We're looking for anybody that wants to show off what they do. If you think you have a skill and you like to show it off. If you're.

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> Speaker B>You usually sing in the shower and you're afraid to go on stage, you can just sit in your comfort of your own living room, put turn your phone on and record and enter the contest.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>So is it TK Talent show on our, uh, App Store as well?

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> Speaker B>Yes, App Store and the Google Play Store.

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> Speaker B>It's T as in Tango, K as in Kilo Talent Show.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Okay.

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> Speaker B>Yes, sir.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Throw out your contact info so people can keep up with everything that you're up to.

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> Speaker B>Absolutely, absolutely. My website is topcattalentshow.com and that's Kat with a K.

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> Speaker B>Topkattalentshow.com and I'm on, uh, link tree. My link tree is linktree tomcat1.

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> Speaker B>And I'm on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.

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> Speaker B>And, uh, in the app, if you have any questions, we've added a chat feature where you can chat with an admin at any time. If you have any questions or concerns, you can chat with an admin.

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> Speaker B>And on the website, it's a chat option as well. So if you guys have any questions for me or concerns, just reach out and I'll be happy to answer.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Okay, we'll close this out with some final thoughts. Maybe if that was something I forgot to talk about that you would like to touch on or any final thoughts you have for the listeners.

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> Speaker B>Um, just keep following your dreams.

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> Speaker B>If you're an artist or a juggler or fire breather and it's something that you're passionate about and you like to do, just keep following your path.

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> Speaker B>Because if you wake up thinking about it, go to sleep thinking about it, it's something that's put on you and it's a passion for you. So I say just keep following your passion and your dream. That's what I did, and I'm still doing it.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Hey, ladies and gentlemen, Top Cat Talent Show TK Talent show on the app stores. Please be sure to follow rate review Share this episode to as many people as possible, especially the independent artists out there. Let's let them know about it and let them try to get discovered and win some money.

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> Speaker B>That's right.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>Yeah. So not only that, jump on your favorite podcast app, follow the show, check it out, review it, share it. If you have any guest or suggestion topics, Curtis Jackson1978att.net is the place to send them. As always, thank you for listening and supporting the show. And Susan, thank you for all that you're doing and thank you for joining us.

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> Speaker B>Thank you for having me. I appreciate you guys and everybody. Enjoy your holiday season.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>For more information on the Living the Dream podcast, visit www.djcurveball.com.

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> Curtis Jackson (also known as DJ Curveball)>until next time, stay focused on Living the Dream.