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.

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 addition we also talk about the pursuit to make honest art, our thoughts on overcoming doubt with creativity and some really great stories from the very beginning of Underoath.

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 music including the story of writing the 'things could be worse' EP.

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!

Moritz Grub is the founder and creative director of Amsterdam Berlin, an international creative agency. In this episode we break down exactly what a creative agency does, and what it takes to start a company like his.

We also talk about the drive to break corporate rules in pursuit of creating meaningful work, even if that means quitting high paying jobs with massive status and moving around the world to do so.

Ky Vöss is a producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. This week she joins the podcast to tell her story and talk about overcoming some insane obstacles in life to get to the point of making a career out of being an independent artist. Her song Masochism was my Spotify 2021 top song, so it was truly an honor to have her on this week!

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 Scott Graham, who was also on the podcast and is in State Champs.

Overall, he's an incredibly kind, excited dude always doing things from a place of passion. For all those reasons it was an honor to have him on.

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 outside of the box, in which he shares some very helpful tips for anyone to use and apply.

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 Sonic Highway and Sound City, plus a a ton of other rad projects.

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 honor to do his first podcast with him. If you liked this one, do us a massive favor and share the episode with a friend!

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.

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.

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 shares how he grew to be such a successful photographer, then how he took everything he learned to set himself up for success with his artist project.

Alexa Villareal is a Social Media Specialist at Spotify, however her story is so much cooler than just a job title! She got her start in the industry at a very early age in fan clubs and quickly learned how to leverage her love of music and understanding of communities into very valuable skills in the industry that she shares on this podcast!

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!

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 podcast inspires you to do that as well!

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.

Shane Told is the singer of Silverstein and the host of the Lead Singer Syndrome podcast. He joins this week to talk about the early days of Silverstein and the specific moments he remembers of the band having success and “making it”.

Then we talk about Lead Singer Syndrome and what it actually takes to keep a podcast going for 6+ years!

OKAY! KENJI shares the steps he's taken to successfully promote himself as an artist in 2021. We break it down and talk a ton of specifics like how to target and reach your ideal fanbase, then how to build real meaningful connections and how important that is. He also breaks down in detail the steps he took to get signed to help anyone else out there do the same.

Keith Canva$ draws musical inspiration from a wide range of genres in such a rad way. He’s been on my radar after being introduced to him by my previous podcast guest, Regular Marcus. This is one of my favorite kinds of episodes where I get to learn the come up story of an artist that I’ve been a fan of for a while. He shares how he got his start in hip-hop, and how lately he’s leaned into making music influenced by his love for pop punk.