Where Are All My Friends | Discovering Creative Careers with Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Loren Wells is a music lawyer with an understanding and passion for the entertainment business unlike anyone I've ever met. He's also an owner and partner at Wells & Kappel, an entertainment and I.P. law firm with a focus on musical talent. Having a good lawyer in entertainment can be the single biggest piece of getting signed, and getting the best record deal possible. In this episode we come...

Maria Gironas has had an insane life! She was signed at 11 years old as an artist, worked in publicity, then at YouTube, and now is at Reddit as the Senior Media Partnerships Manager for Talent. In this episode she shares some extremely quotable wisdom on how to grow in your professional career, but more importantly as a person. She's been through some insane highs and lows in life and shares all...

Caterina Nasr is the Senior Manager, A&R at Elektra Music Group and Fueled by Ramen. She sets such a great example of being passionate about what she does, matched with hard work, and the success that it can bring! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:20 -  Who is Caterina 3:20 - Hard Work is Part of her Family Roots 7:30 -  Fandom 13:05 - Fans are an Asset in the Industry 17:06 - Can Artist C...

Mike Koziel is an incredible Director of Photography, a co-founder of Last Good Film Lab and ERA Studio in Los Angeles, and more importantly - an overall rad human being! Personally, I'm very inspired by his passion for perfecting his craft and constantly pushing himself to level up creatively. I hope you listen to this and feel the same way! And hey, if you do - share it with a friend or on socia...

Alex Garcia is the guitar player for Mayday Parade and an overall rad person! We've been friends for quite some time, but this was the first time I got to properly sit down with him and truly learn his story starting from the very beginning all the way up to now. We also discuss the current state of music and what he and Mayday Parade are up to in 2022.  If you're new here, please share this...

Jake Posner is a manager to various artists, songwriters, and producers. He manages the band A R I Z O N A and is the founder of The Culture Theory . More so than that he's a brilliant dude who I'm extremely inspired by. We talked specifically about his come up and the massive amount of work it took him to finally find his place in music, along with his outlook on a topic that I think is very impo...

This short episode features three of my favorite clips from a few recent Where Are All My Friends episodes featuring Aaron Gillespie from Underoath, Guardin, and Christine Osazuwa (Measure of Music). Let me know what you think of the format and if you want more episodes like this! Aaron Gillespie: @aaronrgillespie Guardin: @guardin Christine Osazuwa: @christineosazuwa Andrew Cramb: @andrew_ftw Pro...

Myrone or Pat Lukens is an artist, producer, and band member. And has had great success (and failures) in each of those lanes. He joins the podcast this week to talk about each step of his career and share some extremely valuable lessons he's learned each step of the way. Something that really stands out to me about Pat is his extreme honesty and self awareness. Each step of his career has come wi...

Drew De Leon is the founder of The Digilogue which is a community that focuses on education, artist discovery and careers in music. If you know me, you know those are three things I love a lot, so you can guess, this was a great episode! We talk about all of those topics, and specifically dig into jobs in music and how to find your place in the industry. If you like this episode, share it with a f...

Brad Frey is The Band Camino's tour manager and the founder of a brand called All Is Well . He joins this week to talk about how he got his start in touring, and breaks down what a Tour Manager really does. He also shares incredible advice to those who are trying to work in the touring industry and the advice that has helped him the most along the way in his career. If you get value out of this ep...

Aaron Gillespie returns to the podcast to talk specifically about his personal experiences and favorite moments of writing and recording Underoath's brand new album, Voyeurist . This ended up being an extremely personal interview in the best possible way. He shared such an honest perspective of what it was like to write this album with the rest of the band completely from his view.  In additi...

Guardin was one of the first ever guests I had on the podcast, and now after two years and what feels like a lifetime of events happening in between, he returns to the podcast to look back at everything and catch up on what he's been up to since then. Including signing to a record label, then going back to being independent, how he stayed sane during lockdown, and writing an entire new wave of mus...

Christine Osazuwa is the Strategy Director of Pollen , and the Founder of Measure of Music . What stands out to me most, is her genuine love for building community. In this episode she shares her come up story in music, along with some incredibly inspiring stories that will remind anyone that if you truly love something, you can find a way to work in it! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:30 - Humble Begi...

Welcome to The Second Annual Where Are All My Friends Holiday Cop Out Update Episode 🎄  I'm always trying to improve the podcast and love hearing from every single listener. Sometimes it's nice to take a second to record an episode to say exactly that, and ask YOU what you want to hear more of! So let me know! And I hope you have a rad holiday season ⛄  Me: @andrew_ftw My Rad Producer...

Sho Mitsui is a dear friend of mine with a very cool story. He's from Japan and works as a Japanese to English translator for a lot of streetwear brands. In addition, he was in a band called Alternative Medicine, and now has a brand of his own called Plastic Lab, where they do really cool custom one-off vehicles and plastic figures. To add to the full circle moment, he's close friends with Ryan Sc...

Moody Jones is the SVP of Digital and Creative at EMPIRE . He’s been able to work with some incredible artists like Iggy Azalea , XXXtentacion , Tyga , Snoop Dogg and many more. In this episode we talk a lot about understanding rules, then breaking them, and breaking them for the reason of pushing culture and music forward. He’s extremely good at thinking of how to promote music differently and ou...

Jim Rota , has had a very successful career in both music and film and production. His band Fireball Ministry got signed back in 1999. They toured way before GPS and social media. Hearing him explain what it was like to get signed back then and how it all happened was awesome. In addition, he's had a super successful career in film and production! He's worked with Dave Grohl in therapy studios on...

Simon Crahan is the drummer of the band Vended . This episode was recorded at a monumental part of his career, where he was about to leave for the band's first ever proper tour! In addition to that, we talk about where Vended draws inspiration and what the evolution of the band's sound has been, new music to come, and so much more. I'm genuinely stoked to see his career grow and it was an hon...

Joe DiSanto joins this week to talk "Personal Finance 101". In this episode we cover how to start tracking your own personal finances and how to level up and get a basic understanding of the entire subject. His website www.playlouder.com is all about investing, personal finance, and retirement that does a great job explaining all sorts of technical details on all of these topics. If you like the p...

Kevin Romar is a professional skateboarder and a DJ. He tours with Hopsin and produces his own music as well. We talk about the parallels of going on tour as a professional skateboarder and as an artist, along with how important it is to be unique and have a personal brand. He also shares an inside look on his upcoming new brand World Premiere. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 3:20 - Who is Kevin Romar 4:...

Nathan James is a photographer / rockstar which is a combo that you don’t hear all too often. He’s had an extremely successful career as a photographer. Having worked with artists like Lil Wayne, Justin Bieber, shooting Machine Gun Kelly's album cover and so much more. He’s now working on his own artist project and it’s GOOD! And that’s exactly what we talked about on this podcast episode. He shar...

Alexa Villareal is a Social Media Specialist at Spotify, however her story is even cooler than her job title. She got her start as a teen running a fan account, and quickly learned how to leverage her love of music and understanding of communities into very valuable skills in the music industry that she shares on this podcast. If you liked this episode do me the biggest favor and share it with a f...

Ed Walker is the VP of Original Content & Production at Vevo . He joins the podcast this week to teach you how to get better music video engagement no matter what budget you're working with and so much more! If this episode helped you out, please do me the biggest favor and share it with someone else who would enjoy it as well! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:30 - Ed’s Early Days 4:40 - Freelancing...

Gordy comes from the world of music and touring in bands, then went all in as an artist and creative director and has an incredibly successful career since doing so. In addition, he's an all around rad dude with a super inspiring story! My favorite part of his story is his genuine love of creating and non-stop pursuit to push himself to do exactly that on the biggest level possible. I hope this po...

Will Tenney is the head of Streaming Strategy and Promotion at Crush Music , he was the co-founder of Sun Pop Records out of NYC and currently plays in the alternative band EXIT .  In this episode we take a deep dive into the current state of music streaming and promotion in 2021 and what the best practices artists and industry can use to stand out amongst so much noise.  Will also share...