Singer Kristine Mirelle (The X Factor) stops by the studio and discusses hustling in both music and the chips / salsa business, the power music has on people and more!

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- Box rants confusing words that have positive / negative meanings, like 'bomb' and 'kill'.
- Drinking and rituals and sleep.
- Growing up in Roswell and starting piano at four years old.
- Starting a business - Lil' Kristi's chips - to make money and increase brand.
- The power music has and doing classical piano competitions in high school.
- Selling music - and chocolate - to classmates as well as door-to-door across the country.
- Moving to Los Angeles and landing an Australian tour from a modeling gig.
- Landing a cruise ship gig and landing The X Factor.
- Favorite part of LA and how internet has opened up the music industry.
- Kristine describes what she does in three words and gives her logline.
- Kristine discusses who she enjoys to listen to and who she'd like to work with.
- Kristine's favorite thing she has done and how she defines success.
- Closing line / sign-off.

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Actor Zach Graves stops by the studio and discusses the importance of positivity, how he left basketball after discovering acting and more!

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- Box rants people that leave their blinkers on through off ramps.
- Staying positive and growing up in Sacramento.
- Playing sports as a youth and taking basketball to the college level at Montana.
- Transferring to Chico and studying communications / marketing.
- Switching focus to entertainment and working as intern for a news station.
- Discovering Studio 24 acting classes and finishing college.
- Leaving a good government job and moving to Los Angeles.
- Crashing with family and getting an agent.
- Working odd jobs like being a production assistant for the Tonight Show
- Zach's favorite part of LA and doing sketches on Conan.
- Zach describes what he does in three words and gives his logline.
- Zach discusses who he enjoys to watch and who he'd like to work with.
- Zach's favorite thing he has done and how he defines success.
- Closing line / sign-off.

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