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

Chris Georggin managed Blink-182 with Rick DeVoe during the golden era of the band’s career. From Enema Of The State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Self Titled, and Neighborhoods. He joins us this week to share some INCREDIBLE never before told Blink-182 stories, and talk about the beginning of his career in the music industry. The conversation was so good, it ended up being over 2 hours long. T...

Pritty is a songwriter from St. Louis now living in LA. He’s come up and worked with some incredible producers including Dylan Brady, Judge, and Yung Skrrt. He’s having a crazy amount of success lately and joins us this week to tell the story of how it all began, starting from the early days of sleeping in cars and grinding to make it happen at any cost. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:44 - Who you are...

Lil Narnia joins us this week to tell his come up story. We get into his early days and inspirations, finding his sound, getting early love from Astari, working with Dylan Brady, and how to stay inspired. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:05 - Who you are and what you do? 3:23 - Discovering music and early inspirations 11:50 - Playing in bands and majoring in music 17:15 - Finding his own sound as Lil Na...

Zac Carper is in the band FIDLAR, and is also an incredible producer. This week he joins us to discuss the future of music and what he's currently inspired by.  We also get into his early days of getting into trouble and growing up in Hawaii, finding music, chasing a dream to become a producer, and the success of FIDLAR.  He's got a truly amazing story and is just a rad dude in general....

Daniel McCartney is a music agent at UTA and the founder of The Continuance Foundation, a non-profit organization to help touring musicians and artists with mental health. Before that he was an original member in the band Gideon, and toured the world with them. This week he joins us to tell his story beginning with Gideon then making a huge career pivot and becoming a booking agent. Starting as an...

yung van joins us this week to tell his story! He's released music with guardin, powfu, fats'e, thebreathingbackwards and many others. He grew up in a musical family and got into it at an early age himself. Now he's made it a career as an independent artist. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:43 - Who you are and what you do 4:50 - Growing up and getting into music 10:46 - What were you like in school? 14...

This week we talk specifically about singles and albums. How often you should be releasing them, the pros & cons to both, and how you can effectively market them. The last episode with Josh Epple and Ben Farber did so well, and I wanted to keep the vibe of short “how to” episodes going. If you’re into it, please shoot us a message and let us know! Also let me know other topics you’d like to he...

Evange is an artist manager who owns Alternate Side Management and has a record label with Elektra Music Group called Public Consumption. She's been in the music business for almost 20 years and is an absolute BOSS! Her come up story has already been told, so we changed it up for this episode and went straight into the good stuff! I pick her brain on very specific questions like how to position yo...

Danny Cocke is a very successful composer. He’s had his music in trailers for Spiderman, The Avengers, Star Trek and more. On top of that he’s got a great story. His first band was signed to Linkin Park’s record label and he’s overcome cancer at a very young age! He shares deep details about his entire journey and gives great advice on the importance of perseverance when chasing your passion. Time...

Big Baby Scumbag is an independent rapper based out of Tampa, FL. He's performed with legends like Lil Pump, Smokepurpp, XXXTentacion and Ski Mask the Slump God. He's released music with Lex Luger, Lil B, Oliver Francis, Meltycanon, lil aaron, and several others.  This week we sit down with him to hear his story and learn how he got so good at executing a vision and building an incredible bra...

Andy, or thebreathingbackwards is an internet friend of mine and an incredible artist. This week he joins me to tell his story of finding music, learning how to engineer, then committing fully to his solo artist project. He’s early into his career and has already gone on tour with guardin and released music produced by his all time favorite artist - nothing, nowhere. This is a great episode for al...

Jack Payne is a merchandise manager who has toured the world with some remarkable acts such as Why Don’t We, Sigur Rós, Stormzy, Bring Me The Horizon, PVRIS, Carlos Santana, Foals, Gus Dapperton and many others. Jack and I have known each other for a very long time. I was with him on one of the first tours he ever did and from there watched him grow to an insane level of success as a merchandise m...

Tai Verdes joins us this week to tell the story of his current single “Stuck in the Middle” blowing up in real time right now! Tai has an amazing story having tried many different creative lanes and now finally finding his true calling as an artist. In addition he’s just an incredibly down to earth dude who has a great way of telling stories. He breaks everything down in such a relatable and inspi...

Patrick CC is a Hip-Hop YouTuber who has had an incredible amount of success growing his channel and brand. Prior to YouTube he's worked in all sorts of other lanes in music which led to him having a great mind for marketing and content creation. This is his story of perfecting his craft until all of his skill sets aligned and the Patrick CC channel was created! If you like this episode, share it...

Regular Marcus has produced for blackbear, Felix Snow, Tinashe, Wintertime and many others. In addition he has an incredible artist project of his own. In this episode we cover his come up story, moving all around the country, the initial spark of getting noticed on Soundcloud, that leading to producing for other artists, into this turning into a full time career. At the end of the episode he give...

Christian or Colliding With Mars is a solo artist with a very cool story. He got into music at an extremely early age growing up in a musical family. When his band didn't work out, he learned how to produce and decided to go solo. Since then he's had quite a lot of success.  He's toured with love-sadKID, Hobo Johnson and Oliver Tree. He's also worked on several projects with artists and frien...

Tim McTague plays guitar in Underoath and is a co-founder of King State Coffee . He joins us this week for an extremely special episode. We get into life before music, the rise of Underoath during the ‘They’re Only Chasing Safety’ era, and how the band has stayed successful for so long. Then we get into a much bigger discussion on life, hard work, and how to succeed in general. SPECIAL NOTE! &nbsp...

Ryan Soroka is a well accomplished booking agent at UTA and dear friend of mine. He started his own booking agency (The Soroka Agency) at a very early age and grew it to be a huge success. From there he went on to work at UTA (United Talent Agency). His roster includes - flor , The Aces , slenderbodies , ONE OK ROCK , David Garibaldi , and many more. The common theme in his story has always been b...

Deanna Chapman is the host and creator of two podcasts ( Welcome to Geekdom & Chat Sematary ) and and the producer & editor of The Punk Rock MBA + several others. In this episode we break down podcast best practices, tips and tricks for anyone starting a podcast, the future of where the industry is going, and Deanna’s come up story! If you liked this one, you know what to do! Tell a friend...

Christian Villacres went from working retail, into touring, then becoming a marketing manager at Zumiez. He's got an extremely relatable story that I think will inspire many to make the career pivots needed and keep chasing dreams! Here are a few topics we cover: - Early days of growing up in NYC - Working some whack jobs - Working at Glamour Kills - How important networking is  - Touring on...

Hey friends, just wanted to let you know I’m switching new episode drops to Monday’s instead of Thursday’s. That’s it really.

This week we cover how to promote your music and get playlisting in 2020! Josh Epple & Ben Farber join me to do so. Both of them work in the sales and streaming at two different record labels and are truly incredible at their jobs. Here’s a breakdown of what we cover: 1:52 - Basic practices | What should every artist be doing right now 5:10 - Putting out new music right now vs. waiting until t...

Sebastian Rodriguez is one of the most talented photographers I know. He shoots music and automotive, and has an incredibly distinct style combined with amazing taste. He joins me this week to tell his come up story, starting at the early days of building cars, living on internet forums, learning photography, shooting underground hip-hop shows, and ultimately making a living out of doing exactly w...

Matthew Morgan is a dear friend and very successful composer. He joins me this week to tell his story and share some great advice on the following:   - Knowing when to pivot - Learning how to produce - Not overthinking your work and career - Overcoming imposter syndrome - The Hedgehog Concept (Jim Collins Good to Great) If you liked this episode, please share! Matthew Morgan Instagram: https:...

This episode is a little different from the others. Mike Ziemer joins me this week to talk about how coronavirus is affecting live music and touring. Mike is a concert promoter out in Texas as well as a long time friend of mine. We wanted to have a conversation about finding the positives in this and discussing things that can be done right now to come back even stronger than before. Hope you enjo...