Bruce Wiegner is a rad artist. This is his story <3

Danny Rakow is an Artist Development Specialist, Manager, and Platinum Songwriter. He manages Brakence and Peter McPoland, he’s written platinum and gold songs with Jeremy Zucker, and now has a joint venture record label with Republic Records.

What stands out to me most about him is his ability to find and develop talent so early, and his genuine passion for the craft. It’s rare to meet a manager with such a clear vision and personal connection to all of the fans and music industry alike. In this episode we reverse engineer exactly how he got to where he’s at now, to share some knowledge and help anyone else looking to have a similar career path.

Max Funk is one of those people who's great at a lot of things. He's a designer, event creator, and the co-founder of Craftwerk Berlin, an incredible community garage for motorcycles. In this episode we talk about the universal language of creativity, what it takes to teach yourself new skills, and how to elevate your attention to detail.

Chase Bell is an artist and songwriter who has written with some incredible artists, and is now focusing on his own artist project. In this episode we specifically discuss the differences between being an artist, performer, and songwriter and how he finds unique fulfillment in all of them in their own respects.

This short episode features three of my favorite clips from a few recent Where Are All My Friends episodes featuring Loren Wells (Music Lawyer), Caterina Nasr (A&R at Elektra & Fueled By Ramen), and Mike Koziel (Director of Photography).

Sydney Hamm is an actress, model, and host. We met while hosting Porsche Unseen together at Porsche SXSW and became instant friends! She’s got a certain energy and passion to her that translates into everything she does which I truly love.

In this episode she shares her come up story and an inside look into just how much work it takes to become a successful actress!

Bisi Ezerioha is somewhere between a mad scientist, engineering wizard, and mechanical genius. He's built an incredible name for himself by creating some of the most iconic car builds of the decade and by being an overall incredible human. He's built a huge online community by consistently live streaming and answering community questions, and has built a rather successful business out of that as well.

DYSN is an artist that I've followed for several years now and we finally got to do a podcast together! He shares his story of humble beginnings growing up in Texas and learning how to record in a home studio, all the way to the point of making it out to LA, connecting with some exceptional friends, and being pushed to pursue is own artist career.

Chris Ruediger is the founder of The 615 house, and is an artist / songwriter. Typically I've found people to be great at making music, or to be great at business - but the combination of the two is a little more rare. Chris joins the podcast this week to tell his story and share exactly what he did to become exceptional at both.

Part 2 of the Cody Carson (Set It Off) podcast is here! In this episode we talk about the growth and evolution of Set It Off, Cody's personal milestones and memories, and the most important lessons he's learned along the way.

Him and I celebrated episode 100 of the podcast by talking about our early days and how both of our careers got started together. We got so deep in the stories that we didn't get talk much about the growth and progression of Set It Off. In this episode Cody came back onto the podcast to talk about exactly that!

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 back to that exact topic and discuss how much has changed since the last time we spoke in 2020, then Loren breaks down the new step by step process of exactly how to get signed in 2022.

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 of those experiences and the lessons she's learned through all of it.

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!

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 social media.

Olivia Rudensky is the Co-Founder & CEO of FANMADE. She got a very early start into the music industry in a very cool way. She started by making a Miley Cirus fanpage, which ultimately led to her working directly with Miley. We talk about how being a genuine fan can make you the most qualified person to work in a role, and how we need to embrace that more in music! In addition to that, she shares a ton of actionable advice for anyone looking to get started in a career in music and the steps and lessons she personally learned.

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.

Jake Posner is an artist, songwriter, and producer manager. 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 important "THE GREAT FOLLOWER DISCONNECT"

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!

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 with so much personal growth which he articulates and shares so well on this podcast.

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.