DOOGIE GOLDSTEIN, known as ZAIRE in his youth grew up in Marin City, California during the 1980’s. During that time, he began playing organ for his church, his family and com-munity, discovering in that process, that he could create music in a recording studio for not a lot of money. He was poised and positioned, at the early age of eighteen-years-old, to be an integral part of the early nineties music scene ---he and his brother was involved in the early recordings of Tupac Shakur and many other artists in the rap music scene at that time. He started his own record label, Do It Again (D1A) Records, when he was still in high school—which involved writing and producing literally over 1,200 songs.

Doogie empowered many young black musicians—especially in the Bay Area and Los Angeles area. He has an inspiring and truly redemptive story, but by the time he was thirty he was “stunned” to discover that he was still actually alive. He realized, the hard way, that the path of fame, fortune and excess can lead to a life of great destruction.

After leaving the music industry and living in Paris France and New Zealand, Doogie has gone full circle, living in Marin City, and creating an enterprise known as “the DOOG WALKER”, a company that trains people through their dogs by providing dog walking services and many creative, fashion-forward accessories for canines. Through his dog walking service, as he puts it, “he is walking off his sins”.

I have known Doogie since I was fifteen-years-old. To connect with this wise and generous man after all these years, was a big gift for me in the making of this Podcast. Enjoy!

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thedoogwalker.com

IG @doogie_goldstein

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