Frequency Podcast

We have a super-size installment of Wise Words for you this week. Effectively, this means it’s an eight-minute episode rather than a four-minute episode. We caught up with our friend, Travis Thrasher, an author who spent 13-years working in the publishing industry before moving to writing full-time. In our brief chat, Travis discusses the pros and cons of the current self-publishing trend – especially as compared to working with an established publisher. As a bonus, we get a little time to talk about his new novel, Marvelous, the first in his new series, The Books of Marvella.

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On Episode 18, we’re featuring an interview with Jared Haschek, a founding member of Compliments of Gus, perhaps the best Christian rock band you’ve probably never heard of. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Compliments of Gus has been a fixture on the down under music scene for 16+ years. In 2013, they released their 10th and perhaps most definitive album, The Black and the White of It. Jared discusses the band’s longevity, the changes in his songwriting approach, and the influence different mainstream artists have on their sound. They also chat about the Christian music scene in Australia, balancing day jobs with their roles in the band, and Melbourne’s record-setting fascination with P!nk.

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It’s time for the fourth installment of our Wise Words series of mini-posts. Joe connected with Ross King, our guest on Episode 10. Ross had recently shared via Twitter a post addressing some hard truths associated with the music industry: What People Don’t Want to Believe. We asked him to address one of those truths.

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For those of you thought it would never arrive, that it was a mythical creature like a unicorn or a Texas Democrat, we are ridiculously thrilled to present you with the long-awaited Gabriel Allred interview. To bring you up-to-date, we interviewed Gabe on Halloween 2013, just a couple of days before the release of a new CFNI recording (No Ordinary Love) and during the week of their annual worship retreat, Resonate. After a lot of great conversation, it became abundantly clear that I had an editing nightmare on my hands. Gabe laughed at me. So…six months later, we are finally rolling it out.For the record, Mr. Allred is one of our favorite people. He’s thoughtful, intelligent, clever, and fun. And he is unabashedly passionate about worship. Gabe talks with Joe about leaders that inspire him, why Christian creatives are 20 years behind popular culture, and why playing the accordion is not a simple bid to jump into the hipster movement. Oh, and CFNI’s latest album. Honestly, this interview is so chock-full of great insights on creativity, we can’t list them all. Just queue it up and listen, for goodness sake.

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For our latest full episode of the podcast, we’re pleased to feature guest Claire Díaz-Ortiz. Some of you may already be familiar with Claire as an author, speaker, and technology innovator who has been named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company.Claire has published a number books that address topics such as business, productivity, or technology. But her new book is very personal. She just published Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption, a joint memoir written with her Kenyan foster son, Sammy. Joe and Claire discuss the how the book came into being, why now is the right time to share the story, and what Sammy is up to now.

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I (Dan) recently had the opportunity to read Tullian Tchividjian’s latest book One Way Love – Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World. This book was highly anticipated – not only because of his relationship to Billy Graham (Tullian is his grandson), but also the subject matter on “Grace”, which is the very topic of The Gospel Coalition – Atlantic Canada‘s conference this coming August 5-7, 2014 in Charlottetown PEI.I will say it’s easy to be cynical of an author that has a total of 28 endorsements at the front of the book from all walks of life. It seems that there is a lot of convincing to do at the front end to get you to read the book, but all-in-all, the book is well worth the read and will give you an immense sense of hope in your position and relationship with Christ and literally rock your world if you come from a legalistic background.This book is full of quote-worthy statements and definitely will not leave you questioning what Tullian’s point is. This having been said, it is a tad repetitive and you may find Tullian’s perspective on Grace to be radical – even uncomfortable – grace. I submit, though, that you can’t read the Old and New Testament without coming to the realization that God’s grace is indeed radical; Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection miraculous; and His call to follow Him uncomfortable.

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Here is episode 3 of our Wise Words series of mini-posts featuring Gabriel Allred. Your response has been great so we’re going to take you right to this next episode. We have two more episodes before the full interview so stay tuned!

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Last week, we introduced our Wise Words series of mini-posts featuring Gabriel Allred, and your response was great. Now that Joe has (finally) completed his edit of the interview with Gabriel, we can confidently report that this will be a five-episode series. So, we won’t bore you with any additional fluff – we’ll just get this published so that you can enjoy.

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A few months ago, we had the pleasure of interviewing Gabriel Allred, worship director at Christ for the Nations Institute (Dallas, Texas) about his perspectives on ministry, music and leadership. The conversation covered a breadth of topics, and some content – for the sake of time – had to end up on the cutting room floor. Because we think highly of you, our listeners, we decided to get creative and produce a series of mini-segments we’re calling Wise Words that feature standalone bites of the conversation. Here is our first mini post – we hope you enjoy! We’ll be featuring a new Wise Words post every couple of days leading up until the full episodes is published. Based on Joe’s editing pace, you can expect that to be sometime in early 2015…Stay tuned!

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Great to have you with us for Episode 15! There are many cools things happening at Frequency.fm in 2014, and we’re blessed to be able to share another excellent interview with you – the singularly stupendous, social media Jedi, Jim Gray. Set aside a little drive time and learn from the wisdom shared by this industry veteran.Jim Gray and FamilySelf-promotion and marketing are an oft ignored necessity of the artist. After sweating blood and tears to produce an album or write a book, many artists neglect the work required to get their work recognized in a busy marketplace. If you caught our last episode with Ellie Holcomb, you understand how an established platform can be the key difference between stratospheric success and obscurity. Jim has spent years in the trenches working with authors, musicians, and artists in general building platforms so that all the hard work isn’t lost in the noise created by everyone else trying to get noticed.

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