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In this episode, I’m joined by Dariel Leiva, the founder of the popular dance music brand Electric Hawk. Dariel and I chat about how he grew Electric Hawk from a blog built for sharing new music to a full blown brand that now includes a record label, artist management services, consulting and PR. Dariel also shares some tips for aspiring musicians and gives advice for anyone looking to create their own company in this industry.

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In today's episode, I’m going to be discussing the current state of the live events industry, my thoughts on when large scale events will come back and how I’m personally feeling about festivals health & safety plans. I'll also be addressing where my level of comfort is at at this point in the pandemic and if I'd feel safe returning to events right now. 

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In this episode, myself and my friend Jess, a music festival content creator otherwise known as @livingbythe.fword, are going to be breaking down the different categories of music festivals there are including: city, camping, transformational, destination, music & arts and cruises.

We’re going to give examples and characteristics of each, pros and cons and share some experiences we’ve had at each type of festival. I hope this episode is really helpful for anyone looking to learn more about electronic music events!

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In this episode, I’m joined by one of my favorite YouTubers Olivia Cara. Olivia grew a massive following online through her raw & honest story time videos and has also shared her love of dance music on her channel with her festival vlogs.

Today we chat about her favorite Insomniac Events, her long journey on YouTube and she shares some tips & advice for aspiring creators! We also swap our favorite EDC Las Vegas stories and read some of the emails you guys submitted for your craziest festival stories.

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In this episode, I’m joined by two incredible shufflers who are literally rave couple goals - Amy Conte and Jake Kerins. Today Amy & Jake share some advice and words of encouragement for anyone out there who’s thinking of starting their shuffling journey. They also chat about how they met and fell in love and what it’s like having a partner who shares the same passions. We’re bringing all the feels and good vibes with todays episode so get excited.

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In this two part episode, I’m sitting down with my good friend Brandon Gray, an OG raver who’s been involved in several aspects of the rave scene since the early 90s. In part 1 of this episode, we discuss how to balance your professional life and raving as you get older, the misconceptions that come along with this hobby and how raving changes when you have kids and your friends move on.

In part 2, we chat about how Brandon got involved with the lunchbox team, our thoughts on music festivals reopening and how idolizing DJ’s can negatively affect this community.

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In this two part episode, I’m sitting down with my good friend Brandon Gray, an OG raver who’s been involved in several aspects of the rave scene since the early 90s. In part 1 of this episode, we discuss how to balance your professional life and raving as you get older, the misconceptions that come along with this hobby and how raving changes when you have kids and your friends move on.

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In this episode, I’m joined by Doug Lau (@fatboy_doug), a raver from California whose interest in the EDM community lead him to create a YouTube channel as well as the group The Gay Rave And Circuit Almanac. His mission is to help other LGBTQ+ ravers connect online and in real life at events. Doug is also recently pursuing a coaching career to help people land their dream jobs and he's been killing it with his TIkTok lately so we chat about all of this as well!

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In this episode, I’m joined by Stuart Roberts, the director of Future Sound of Egypt and manager of trance act Aly & Fila. Stuart and I chat about his career growth from throwing his own local events, to managing top tier trance acts and working with the recording label FSOE. We also discuss what makes the trance community so special and his advice for aspiring artists and people who want to get into this field of work!

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In this episode, I’m joined by Perry (@partyperryy) a Vegas raver with a passion for hooping and festival fashion! Today Perry shares some tips and advice on hooping and describes what it's like working with rave wear brands as a model. We also chat about how to successfully pull off an at home photo shoot!

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