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Josh鈥檚 advice for entertainers

Managing your wealth responsibly preserves creative freedom. 鈥淚f money is invested in a smart way, it takes the pressure off of taking the next job. It鈥檚 scary to have to take a job purely for the money. It could compromise you creatively. Trying to be creative out of fear is not good.鈥

Down-to-earth Providence

Josh and his siblings enjoyed a comfortable upbringing in Providence, RI, among friends whose parents were doctors, attorneys and other professionals. His father was the president of Playskool, a division of the toymaker Hasbro. His mother was a realtor who started her own business. 鈥淲e never wanted for anything, but the environment wasn鈥檛 materialistic. Rhode Island is more blue collar and less ostentatious. Affluence wasn鈥檛 necessarily prized.鈥 Everyone鈥檚 first car was a hand-me-down that had been in the family for years. Josh鈥檚 earliest memory of money was when a local newspaper published his father鈥檚 salary because Hasbro was a public company, but he 鈥渄idn鈥檛 know what it meant.鈥澛

Hollywood calling

A movie buff from an early age, Josh had his own subscription to the entertainment trade magazine Variety by the time he was 12. In high school, he wrote scripts and acted in plays. Already he felt the allure of Hollywood. He enrolled at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts to study film. Los Angeles, a mecca for the entertainment industry, was a stark contrast to his hometown. 鈥淲hen I got to USC, I saw a whole new level of materialism.鈥

For a homework assignment, Josh wrote a screenplay, Providence, based on his high school experiences. His work was awarded the school鈥檚 Jack Nicholson Scholarship for writing, but the prize was rescinded as only juniors and seniors were eligible to compete. Josh was a sophomore. The next year, Sony Pictures bought the screenplay for six figures. 鈥淚t was pretty wild. The total payout would have been $1 million if a film was made.鈥 For Josh, 鈥済etting launched as a working writer was a much bigger deal.鈥

An outsider in The O.C.

At 26, he became the youngest person at the time to create and run a series on network television with The O.C., a teen drama set in the wealthy enclaves of Orange County, California. The show鈥檚 protagonist, Ryan, is a juvenile delinquent from working class Chino who is taken in by an affluent Newport Beach family. In crafting the story, Josh drew inspiration from his time at USC. Like Ryan, he was an outsider to the world of Southern California鈥檚 wealthy gated communities. He found the lives of his classmates from Newport Beach to be interesting because drama and conflict brewed beneath the surface of their ostensibly perfect lives. The O.C. premiered on Fox to top ratings in the summer of 2003 and ran for four seasons.

Josh received a six-figure deal from Sony Pictures for his screenplay when he was a junior at USC. 鈥淚t was pretty wild. The total payout would have been $1 million if a film was made.鈥澛犅

Money and creative freedom

Like many creatives and entertainers, Josh isn鈥檛 particularly financially minded. 鈥淚 never took a business class in college and I wish I had. It鈥檚 like a foreign language. I don鈥檛 watch the market every day.鈥 However, early in his career he realized that managing his wealth responsibly would preserve his creative freedom. 鈥淚f money is invested in a smart way, it takes the pressure off of taking the next job. It鈥檚 scary to have to take a job purely for the money. It could compromise you creatively. Trying to be creative out of fear is not good.鈥

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