Cody Martin has been writing cinematic music for Soundstripe since 2016, out of a home studio he paid for with two years of water damage restoration work. He and Jeff cover skipping music theory, building convincing orchestras out of virtual instruments, the composers behind his sound, and writing for a licensing catalog versus scoring to picture.

Jim Cook is a producer, director, and co-owner of CookHouse Media, a Nashville production company whose work includes campaigns for Qualcomm and Adobe. He and Jeff cover his punk band days in San Diego, 14 years selling cars up to GM at a Mazda dealership, the importance of music in video, and why weddings train better filmmakers.

Walker Beard is the CEO of Super Canoe, an Atlanta production company, and was head of business and legal affairs for Netflix's experiences team behind the Stranger Things Experience. He and Jeff cover playing in the District Attorneys in law school, why venues lose money on a packed calendar, Netflix House, and his upcoming docu-series about developing bands and the scenes they come from.

Teddy Cheek is VP of retail operations at Great Big Game Show, from the team behind The Escape Game, where he led marketing for close to a decade as it grew to 60 locations. He and Jeff cover his years in a Nashville boy band, artist marketing at Crowdsurf, how games get built at the Adventure Factory, the pivot to virtual escape rooms during COVID, and why he'd trade budget for NPS points.

Rebecca Rechtszaid is a Harvard Law grad who was senior director of business and legal affairs at Global Music Rights and lead counsel for creator programs at Meta before founding Rechtszaid Law in Los Angeles. She and Jeff cover why music licensing is so tangled, exclusivity and perpetual usage traps in brand deals, IP disputes between creators, and free legal help for artists.

Jennifer Pyken is an Emmy nominated music supervisor who won a Guild of Music Supervisors Award for This Is Us, with credits including Happy Gilmore, Felicity, and Workaholics. She and Jeff cover learning the job as a coordinator on Pulp Fiction, commissioning an original song for Hallmark's The Way Home, why clearance shapes what makes the cut, and the course she teaches aspiring supervisors.

Joe Koufman is the founder and CEO of Setup, an Atlanta marketing matchmaking firm that has made over 1,400 introductions between brands like Coca-Cola and Chick-fil-A and the agencies that serve them. He and Jeff cover his retail management years, why networking is the wrong word for what he does, replacing the four-month agency RFP with a one-week match, and his book The Connector's Compass.

Steak Shapiro has been a fixture in Atlanta sports radio for 30 years, including 17 as owner of 790 The Zone, and he now runs the content agency Bread & Butter. He and Jeff cover mailing cassette tapes to 14 program directors, writing the business plan that got him a station, building Atlanta Eats, and why the 30-second commercial is finished.

JR McNeely is Soundstripe's senior mix engineer, a Grammy winner who has mixed more than 300 albums over three decades for artists like Underoath, Relient K, TobyMac, and DC Talk. He and Jeff cover his path from studio janitor to chief engineer, his art-over-science approach to mixing, working with Soundstripe composers, and his one-man band YouTube channel where he plays every instrument himself.

Thomas Golubic is an Emmy and Grammy nominated music supervisor behind Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Six Feet Under, and Apple TV's Silo and Pluribus. He and Jeff cover his path from journalism into music supervision, collaborating with Vince Gilligan, why he presents multiple song options instead of advocating for one, and what makes a strong music brief.