This week we travelled to Hollywood California to meet with someone everyone has seen, but might not yet know. Courtney started gymnastics at the age of 3. By 7 she was already in competitions. As the years went by and the dream of the olympics started to disappear, it was time to figure out a direction. She became a cheerleader and started applying to Ivy League schools. Despite a 4.0, she didn’t get accepted to any of them. Instead she attended college in Hawaii and started doing work in promotions. When a video of her twerking at a party went viral online, she realized that there were actually competitions for that. Naturally, her competitive spirits led her in that unique direction. Fast forward to today, and she now lives in Hollywood working as a dancer in music videos, a social media influenced, and teaches twerk classes all over the country. Don’t worry, we’ll tell the whole story behind her being featured in one of the most watched music videos of all time too. This interview lined up by random chance and I didn’t know what to expect. Courtney is a sweetheart and an incredibly hardworking and highly intelligent individual. There is a lot more to her story than just the viral videos of her shaking her booty. Tune in and find out 🤙

This week we travelled to Hollywood, CA to meet up with a singer, dancer, songwriter, producer, designer, style king, and overall really cool human. James Barmore has sang for major artists like John Legend and Chance the Rapper, but has been putting most of his focus on making his own music over the last few years. While I've had some really established guests from the music world, James is really just getting starting. In fact, when I interviewed him he had just gotten off his overnight shift at his regular job and took a bus to meet with me. It's not all sunshine and roses when you're out there just trying to make it. With a voice and presence like his, it won't be long before he blows up. Just check out his brand new EP "Lavender".

This week we welcomed a local youtube sensation to the show. Sven Johnson is a 21 year old college student in my hometown that has blown up over the last couple of years. Partially in thanks to some help from his older brother Gus, who has an even larger youtube audience (3.4M) and currently lives in LA doing a lot of work with Comedy Central, Sven has already built a subscriber count of over 600k. After listening to this interview, you're going to want to subscribe as well. Some people just have something special about them, Sven is one of these rare breeds. Tune in and hear how he started, broke his mom's ceiling light for views, and set himself up for the epic adventure of life that is waiting for him when he graduates.

This week we travelled to Venice beach, CA to chat with professional skateboarder Blake Johnson. Blake is a California native, but has been living in Barcelona since before the pandemic started. I was pretty lucky to have caught him while he was back visiting for a few weeks. Tune in and hear about his skateboarding journey, his passion for food, and what it was like being in a foreign country while everything shut down.

This week we travelled to Los Angeles, CA to hang out with Grammy award winning songwriter Dave Yaden. He welcomed me into his home with him and his son Wolfgang to talk about life, music, business minds, and a whole lot more. Dave is certainly a performer and a genuine character of a man, but in the best possible way. Tune in and find out why people call him a Techno Viking, and Cowboy Jedi, and so much more. He also drops some serious gems of knowledge that you’re gunna wanna hear.

Maestro Harrell and I couldn’t have had much more of a different upbringing which made this conversation incredibly interesting and enjoyable for me. Maestro has been in the public eye virtually his entire life. His parents had him taking piano lessons as a toddler, and he already had a major role on the tv show “Guys like us” at the age of 7. He’s originally from Chicago, but due to his early success in entertainment he’s been flying all over the world his whole life. He’s arguably known most as the character “Randy” from his years working on the hit tv show “The Wire”, but he’s a hell of a lot more than that. Just check out his Wikipedia page to find his very long list of credentials including putting out several rap albums, producing others work, making music for commercials, and designing clothing. Despite having such a different lifestyle, we really connected and this is one of my favorite episodes I’ve done so far. Maestro is such a down to earth, open minded, and kind individual. Give this a listen now. You can thank me later.

This week we welcomed a budding star to the show. Sawyer Brice is currently a student at UWEC right here in my home town, yet he is already making big moves and has worked with a ton of big names in the music industry. I meet people once in a while that I can just tell are going to blow up. Sawyer is one of those people. His journey is gunna be fun to watch.

I spent the first week of May staying in penthouse in Hollywood. Over 5 days I was able to record 9 episodes of season 6. The last one I recorded was with Myles. I didn't have plans to interview him. I didn't even know who he was until I arrived. Myles Hass is a very interesting entrepreneur. It was his place that I was crashing at. Remember that movie "Magic Mike"? Yeah, they stole that name from Myles's company Magic Men. Myles is originally from Detroit, and built himself an empire. For the last handful of years Myles and his "Magic Men" have been traveling the world as the biggest ladies night the world has ever seen. Then the pandemic hit. Nothing can stop this guy. Seriously, I can honestly say that I sat with him and watched him spend 12 or more hours a day working on his computer learning and building a new branch of his business. Around the same time I started my show, Myles started his own called the "Stripped Down" podcast. If you haven't heard of it yet, you will. Go check it out after you listen to this.

Johnny Rapp aka "J Rapp" is a humble, caring, successful, and incredibly interesting human. Some might refer to him as a social media genius, but I'd call him a helper of people. J Rapp found a love, interest, and home in the social media world growing up. His perspective is like none I've ever heard. To him, the idea of being able to be anyone or anything through a simple profile was extremely enticing. He built and managed accounts with millions of followers while still in high school. The really interesting thing to me is, that he did all of this without anyone really knowing who he was. He never wanted the notoriety or attention personally. Of course, this incredibly useful skill he developed eventually had him working behind the scenes with all kinds of super wealthy and famous individuals, but he still prefers to be in the background. In fact, his company J Rapp Media is much more focused on helping the little guy these days. This is one of my favorite episodes to date. We became instant friends recording this. You can expect to see more collab works in the future. Meet my friend J Rapp.

Kym Kral is a so called funny lady. I had to go find out for myself. We met up in Hollywood, but she's just a transplant like so many others in that city. Kym has the best vibes which made this conversation one of my favorites I've ever done. Her journey from cheesy dating shows, to stand up comedy, to starting her podcast, to writing her first book is one you're gunna want to hear.