Successful Musicians

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click ⁠⁠ here ⁠⁠. Our special guest for today is a rapper and producer from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his songs such as "DTW", "No Cap" and "Money Moves". He has collaborated with artists such as Big Sean, Tee Grizzley, and Sada Baby. He is the founder and CEO of the company  Dead to the World. They empower a...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Jon Cheney is a multifaceted entrepreneur, composer, and adventurer. He is the founder and CEO of **Velocity Access**, an augmented reality platform that helps businesses create immersive experiences for their customers. He is also an angel investor, a student of the metaverse and Web3, and a lover of all things outdoors. He has a pas...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Our special guest for today’s episode is Eli Lev. Eli is a full-time grassroots folk-pop musician from Maryland. He’s raised tens of thousands of dollars through crowdfunding and has built a truly authentic and powerful connection to his tribe. Eli is a singer-songwriter known for his heartfelt lyrics, soulful melodies, and captivatin...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Our special guest for today is Tony Parlapiano. He is a piano instructor who specializes in teaching popular styles of music through interest-led learning. He is the creator of popMATICS, a course that teaches students how to play popular songs by breaking them down into smaller parts and teaching them how to play each part. Tony Parl...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Our dynamic guest for tonight is Maurizio Sera known professionally as IRKO. He is an Italian multi-platinum audio engineer currently based in Los Angeles, California. He has worked with artists such as Kanye West, Jay-Z, 88-Keys, Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Diddy, David Guetta, and many more. He is also the man behind the Spe...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Our special guest for today is Sherry Finzer. She is an acclaimed flutist, creative composer, and multifaceted musician. She was one of the first musicians asked to livestream on the Insight Timer app and performs weekly on this platform. Recently Sherry's song "Distant Rivers" was programmed on the PBS show "From S...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Our very special guest for today is Alexandria “Alex” Sharpe. She is one of the original members of Celtic Woman, a group that has become a worldwide sensation, enchanting millions with their unique blend of music. As a vocalist, Alex Sharpe has a voice that is both powerful and ethereal, with a range that can soar to the heavens or w...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Michael is the Willy Wonka of songwriting coaches, a skilled host, and a motivator who helped hundreds of artists along their path through his workshops and mentoring. He is committed to deepening that journey with Write Songs You Love. He has literally walked over 4,000 miles of Canada over an 8-year tour called “I’d Rather Walk,” sh...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Our special guest for today is Christopher Sutton, owner and director of UK-based Easy Ear Training Ltd. a London-based music education technology company. Their leading product is Musical U , a membership site providing comprehensive and fully-supported training for the “inner skills” of musicianship. Originally trained as a computer...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Kaytee Long Becker is the owner and founder of DIY PR, INC. in Los Angeles. She is a public relations and communications strategist. In addition to full-service PR and coaching, she has worked with many major recording artists and award shows such as the Grammys, Billboard Music Awards, and the American Music Awards. She is the creato...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Tobias Rauscher is a “Modern Percussive Fingerstyle” guitar player from Germany and part of the modern acoustic guitar movement that is led by players like Andy McKee, Mike Dawes, and Tommy Emmanuel. In 2015 Tobias created his own Guitar Academy to teach other aspiring guitarists how to play Modern Percussive Fingerstyle. In October 2...

For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here . Our special guest, Cheryl B. Engelhardt, is a GRAMMY®-Nominated New Age Composer and Recording Artist. She and her music have been featured in People, Bazaar, ABCFamily, GrammyAwards, Forbes, Keyboard, Newage and many more. Her creation “The Passenger” has been nominated for a Grammy for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album. Cheryl i...

Our special guest today is Chris SD. He is an award-winning music producer who’s helped hundreds of musicians and artists get their music placed in top shows on networks such as Netflix, Hulu, ABC, Fox, NBC, FX, HBO, CBS, and more. Chris shares his industry knowledge on his website, syncsongwriter.com , and offers a program called “the Art of the Song Pitch” to help musicians get their music licen...

Michael Elsner is a guitarist/songwriter/producer with over 2500 TV and Film placements to his name. His songs have been placed in over 180 individual television series, accounting for over 850 individual episodes. Some of these include American Idol, The Voice, Good Morning America, Impractical Jokers, EXTRA, The Sing-Off, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Tracks he’s written have been used in intern...

Our special guest for today is Ion Zanca, a violist and the principal founder of the Dallas String Quartet. In October 2022, Zanca charted at #2 on the Classical Album and Classical Crossover Album Billboard Charts with DSQ's latest album, "Love Always." Under Zanca’s tutelage, The group has played for multiple sitting U.S. presidents, the NFL, the NBA, performed at the wedding of music legends Gw...

Tiamo De Vettori is the Founder of the Musicpreneur Academy. He is an acoustic-pop singer/songwriter and was recently named as "Singer/Songwriter of the Year" by LA Music Awards. Tiamo has been featured on FOX, CBS, NBC and MSNBC. He performed live for over 100,000 people, and recently performed on stage at the Jimmy Kimmel Show. He is also a motivational speaker who combines his on-stage charisma...

Our guest for today, Derick Sebastian , is an accomplished international ukulele virtuoso. Derick’s critically acclaimed instrumental album, “From His Heart” , earned a Na Hoku Hanohano 2010 nomination. Derick has shared the stage with singer/songwriter pop star Jason Mraz, the melodic Raining Jane, powerhouse Trombone Shorty, country star icons Thompson Square and Sara Evans, fellow ukulele ace J...

Our special guest for today is Chris Greenwood A.K.A Manafest. He is a Canadian Christian rapper and rock artist from Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He has won multiple awards for the GMA Canada Covenant Awards, GMA Dove Awards, and has been nominated for multiple Juno Awards.  He is a billboard charting artist with over 1,000,000 monthly Spotify listeners. Chris Greenwood launched Fanbase Unive...

Our special guest is a vocal coach, studio owner, singer/songwriter and creator of the Singing / Straw™ & the S/S method which helps singers develop a healthier, stronger and more balanced voice. She is the Founder and Lead Vocal Coach of Songbird Studios - a premier vocal coaching studio that offers singing lessons, voice lessons, vocal coaching, songwriting workshops, group classes, master c...

Our special guest today is Isabella Bedoya, founder of Fame Hackers, an artist accelerator that helps independent artists establish profitable and sustainable music careers so they can get paid doing what they love. As a former A&R for a label under Sony Music, and working for an award-winning social media marketing agency in the past, Isabella helps artists excel in the new music industry by...

Jason Lyle Black is an award-winning piano entertainer, published arranger and composer for the piano, having authored three bestselling piano books with the world’s largest music publisher, Hal Leonard.  His most popular book, Disney Medleys for Piano Solo, is an Amazon bestseller, with over 10,000+ copies sold nationwide. Jason performed on the Ellen Degeneres show in Hollywood, where Ellen...

Aoife O'Leary,  Aoife (pronounced “EE’fa”) is a composer, producer, songwriter, singer and founder of PoppyMoth Productions - a one-stop music production company for music, film, TV, games and session services. Aoife created 3 songs for the movie, Code Name Banshee, starring Antonio Banderas and Jaime King, including Banshee, for the end credits. She is also the female vocalist of the band Mo...

Our special guest this week is Kris Bradley, a songwriter/producer who has done some amazingly cool things with Sony BMG, Rolling Stones Magazine, Fox, LinkedIn and Miramax. She’s the founder of Produce Like a Boss and BoomFox Productions . Kris is a 6-figure musician and a producer business coach.  She teaches musicians how to produce their own music from home, and how to build a business as...

Our special guest for today’s episode is Michele McLaughlin. She is a self-taught contemporary solo pianist and composer. She has released twenty-one albums, many of which have received multiple nominations and awards. She has over 1.5 Billion spins on Pandora radio and has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, both online and in print. Her albums “ Undercurrent ”, “ Life ” and “ Memoirs ” all...

Our guest for today is a multi-talented pianist and composer who’s worked with a lot of notable musicians over his career. Steve chose to work with one of the premier new age and contemporary instrumental producers in the world; the GRAMMY-winning founder of the legendary Windham Hill Records, Will Ackerman. Along with Will’s roster of world-class studio musicians at Imaginary Road Studios, Steve...