Where Are All My Friends | Discovering Creative Careers with Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Sebastian Rodriguez is one of the most talented photographers I know. He shoots music and automotive, and has an incredibly distinct style combined with amazing taste.

He joins me this week to tell his come up story, starting at the early days of building cars, living on internet forums, learning photography, shooting underground hip-hop shows, and ultimately making a living out of doing exactly what he loves.

He also gives great advice on focusing on what you're truly passionate about, not what's cool in the moment, and the rewards of following that path.

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Matthew Morgan is a dear friend and very successful composer. He joins me this week to tell his story and share some great advice on the following:  

- Knowing when to pivot

- Learning how to produce

- Not overthinking your work and career

- Overcoming imposter syndrome

- The Hedgehog Concept (Jim Collins Good to Great)

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Matthew Morgan

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This episode is a little different from the others. Mike Ziemer joins me this week to talk about how coronavirus is affecting live music and touring. Mike is a concert promoter out in Texas as well as a long time friend of mine. We wanted to have a conversation about finding the positives in this and discussing things that can be done right now to come back even stronger than before.

Hope you enjoy it! If you do, let us know. I’m @andrew_ftw and he’s @mikeziemer

Danny Kurily has toured the world with a ton of artists including All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Demi Lovato, Sia, 30 Seconds To Mars and many others. He now owns his own property management company and has started to make some big waves. This is his story

3:20 - Who you are and what you do?

5:00 - The early days. Playing in bands growing up in Detroit

7:50 - Learning about the behind the scenes element of music

8:45 - Touring with Every Avenue

14:28 - Going back to college

15:50 - Finessing his way on the Alternative Press Tour

21:55 - Touring with All Time Low

28:00 - Touring at a professional level

32:40 - Going overseas and around the world for the first time

37:40 - Working with Pete Wentz

51:15 - Even bigger tours with All Time Low

56:00 - Touring with Fall Out Boy

57:37 - Touring Russia with 30 Seconds To Mars

58:58 - Touring with Demi Lovato

1:01:21 - Touring with Sia

1:04:25 - Getting off the road

1:09:05 - DK Home Management

1:17:30 - What it takes to get to where you want to go

1:20:15 - What to do when you don’t know the next step in your career or life?

1:25:50 - Advice for getting out of a funk

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Danny Kurily

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Me:

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This is a special one! Paul Conroy comes back on the podcast to give some great advice on how to set goals, and the importance of listening and staying true to yourself.

Timestamps

3:50 - Scheduling and time blocking.

5:00 - Preparing for everything // Giving yourself time to do so.

7:14 - Journaling // Identifying goals for the day and reflecting.

9:00 - What calendar are you using and how do you time block?

14:20 - How do you block out distractions and focus on your goals?

19:40 - Big picture goals filtering down to every day goals and actions to accomplish them.

23:10 - Breaking goals down one day at a time.

24:45 - When to bring on a team? // No longer have time to do it all yourself

29:00 - What happens when you empower your team (example of Biggie).

33:15 - What if you don’t have the resources to get a team, but know it’s time to get help? // Are you being the best version of yourself or do you hire someone?

37:25 - The importance of listening to yourself.

40:49 - Why defining your purpose is so important.

43:20 - What happens when you prioritize the wrong values.

50:00 - Finding joy in your purpose, not money or material things.

50:46 - Being honest with yourself about what really matters the most.

51:40 - What do you do when you know what your next step is, but you can’t confront doing it?

54:56 - How bad things can become when you repress listening to yourself.

55:23 - Dealing with panic attacks and the pros and cons of medication.

56:15 - How to come back from depression and anxiety when life gets bad.

57:40 - Becoming the best version of yourself.

59:00 - If this helped you, let us know!

Paul Conroy:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pauljoesphconroy/

Website: https://www.impactreallife.com/

Paul's First Podcast Episode: https://youtu.be/fFQQV_v1DMA

Me:

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Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/andrew_ftw/

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Thomas Falcone gets into his early days of discovering photography, touring with Mayday Parade and All Time Low, then pushing himself into an entirely different world and working with RL Grime, Big Sean and many others!

In addition to a very successful touring career, he also recently started first3 Agency with Adam Elmakias, an agency placing creatives on live music and touring jobs all around the world.

Timestamps:

18:00 Pros and cons of going to school for photography

24:00 Touring with Mayday Parade

36:00 Working with RL Grime

39:00 Stepping away from Black and White photography

40:30 Working with All Time Low and filming their DVD

49:00 Working with Big Sean

1:04:00 Not getting comfortable. Always pushing to progress.

1:07:30 Starting first3 Agency with Adam Elmakias

1:11:00 Taking your career seriously and not getting distracted

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Thomas Falcone

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thomasfalcone/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thomasfalcone

first3 Agency

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Website: https://www.first3.agency/

Me

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Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/andrew_ftw/

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This week I talk to AdamGoesHam about his come up story and how he built a massive underground music scene and community in LA with Ham On Everything. As well as learning self love and overcoming addiction.

He's booked artists like Lil B, Waka Flocka, Danny Brown, Playboi Carti, Lil Pump, SmokePurp, Earl Sweatshirt, Lil Peep, Wicca Phase, Coldhart and Brennan Savage extremely early in their careers, sometimes even being their first shows!

He also curated an extremely important stage at Emo Nite Day in 2017 including GothBoiClique, lil aaron, lil lotus, SMRTDEATH, familypet, shinigami, lil zubin and more In the second half of the episode Adam shares some incredible insight and advice on overcoming addiction, self love & care, building self esteem and more. 

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AdamGoesHam

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamgoesham

Ham On Everything 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hamoneverything/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hamoneverything 

Me:

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Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/andrew_ftw/

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Jonathan Wilson is a booking agent at TKO. He joins me this week to give some advice to anyone looking to tour successfully and get a booking agent in 2020. 

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Jonathan Wilson

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathanxwilson/

Website: https://tkoco.com/

Me: 

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Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/andrew_ftw/ 

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David Teitelbaum is the owner of the high fashion streetwear brand, Rose in Good Faith. In this episode David joins me to tell him his truly WILD story that brought him to where he is today, and takes the time to give advice to anyone interested in getting into fashion and building a similar business themselves. 

If you aren’t familiar with Rose in Good Faith, they’ve done collabs with Ghostmane, Ed Hardy, EmoNite, JINCO, WILIN OUT, and BB Simon. The brand has been worn by Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, Halsey, Ariana Grande, The Kardashians, and many more. And they’ve been featured on Complex, Forbes, Revolver, HypeBeast, high snob, playboy and ID. 

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David Teitelbaum:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/teitd243/  

Rose in Good Faith:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/roseingoodfaith/

Website:

https://www.roseingoodfaith.com/ 

Me:

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrew_ftw 

Loren Wells is an owner and partner at Pierson / Wells. A music, media, and intellectual property law firm. He's an incredible music lawyer with a knowledge and understanding of the entertainment business unlike anyone I've ever met. 

Having a good lawyer in entertainment can be the single biggest piece of getting signed, and getting the best record deal possible. 

Loren joins me to tell his story and break down the step by step process of exactly that. 

Time Stamps: 

4:51 Who Loren is and what he does 

8:05 Loren's come up story 

43:40 Q&As and practical advice 

45:45 How do you get a lawyer on your team? 

47:30 What do you do once you start to have success in music? 

50:00 How to pick the RIGHT lawyer? 

55:29 How to negotiate the right record deal for your project? 

57:38 How record deals have evolved in 2020 

1:01:15 How to tell when you’ve hit your ceiling and when to bring on help. 

1:06:21 Advice to everyone chasing a dream 

1:08:40 How to get in touch with Loren 

1:09:13 Everyone can succeed // Pay it forward 

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Loren Wells:

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Website: https://piersonwells.com/ 

Me:

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrew_ftw 

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