Last season Emma Foster came by, to talk about the gut wrenching experiences, that lead to her book "The Lies I Told Myself"

I asked Emma to come back to talk about the release of the book (July 10), how life has changed in the 3 years of writing it, the importance of mental health, self worth, and empathy.

You can pre-order "The Lies I Told Myself" on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Lies-I-Told-Myself-ebook/dp/B0883DY775

Follow Emma Foster on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/missemmalaree

Young L.O.R.D of RawKey Beats (credits: Nicki Minaj, Saturday Night Live!, and more) and I discuss Sync Licensing, the importance of time management, growing as an artist, and more!

http://www.rawkey.com 

http://www.rawkey.com/playlists

http://www.instagram.com/rawkey

http://www.twitter.com/rawkey

Here's the tool Young L.O.R.D mentioned for time management - http://www.trello.com 

D. Lynch info: 

Website: https://www.dlynchforeal.com

Mentor program: https://www.sixfiguremusicians.com/home

Donations: https://streamlabs.com/danbyelich

Twitter: www.twitter.com/dlynchforeal

Instagram: www.instagram.com/dlynchforeal

Man oh man...what a year it's been.

On this episode, I uploaded a live workshop I did on Facebook, talking about building your team as a musician. 

We read from my favorite music book "All you need to know about the music business" by Donald Passman, covering what each member does, how to find them, and when you need to actually build the team. 

"California is on fire.

But this economic blaze will ignite abruptly on January 1st and will affect the California music industry so drastically that it could completely burn it down. As the fifth largest economy in the world and the entertainment hub of the world, this is a big fucking deal. And there’s one man who could put it out single handedly - and that’s Governor Gavin Newsom.

“This is an anti-creative economy bill for California. I’ve often wondered what could knock the LA music scene off it’s game. I think we’re looking at it.” - Ned Menoyo, EEM Law

What happened?

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez spearheaded a bill, AB5 which was intended to support workers’ rights - namely Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers. Rather than making a law targeting specific companies, they basically outlawed all independent contractors with few exceptions. It was signed into law on September 18, 2019 by Governor Newsom. Why haven’t you heard about it? Because it was run through committee so fast that no one really had time to process what was happening. So, no, we didn’t get to contact our representatives before the vote and plead with them not to vote for it or at least give the independent music industry an exemption." - Ari's Take 

I break down the new law passed in California titled AB5 which was intended on protecting gig economy workers, but was so broad it accidentally crushed the Music Industry. Apparently the RIAA pissed off the lawmakers, so we will be getting no exemption to this law...let's crack this can of worms open, shall we?