Today’s guest is Grammy nominee, Kristen Klehr. Kristen has been a friend of mine for some times, as forms part of my monthly dinner party, which had become a recurring event in the months leading up to the pandemic. At these parties I would host a group of Los Angeles musicians to spend an evening socializing away from the gig-economy “hang.” She is one of the hardest working people I have ever met, and also a brilliant entrepreneur.

She hit the ground running when the pandemic first hit, starting the Den Collective’s online platform for musicians even before the official closure of the Los Angeles scene. With her hawk vision, she saw by late February what most musicians would only come to terms with by the summer of 2020. The result is that she has not simple “made the best” out of the pandemic. She has employed musicians, enabled their livelihoods, and built something meaningful and functional, when so many others with colossal credentials are still panicking and hoping people’s hard paid taxes will bail the AFM’s local 47’s insanely mismanaged pension fund.