Michael Lee is a mechanic running his own shop here in Birmingham, AL. He has raced nearly every kind of vehicle in his time and now his kids are following suit. How do you get into racing? How can you afford to go drifting? Does it scare you when your kids are doing backflips at 14? All this and more will be answered on this WOM!

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0:00 intros

1:00 Growing up

9:00 Working on cars

24:30 Starting your own auto shop

36:00 Professional racing 

51:00 The kids 

1:02:00 How to encourage your kids to be safe but do extreme sports

1:13:00 The shop

1:19:00 2 Car Garage 

1:26:00 fin

You should never be afraid of putting out your art. Put it in places where people will see it. You never know who is watching.

Liz Allison was a wedding photographer. After sharing a mural she painted in her house, she now travels the world painting murals in homes, chateaus, and storefronts. Liz's career is exploding and I sat down with her to learn all about the journey of becoming one of the only muralists in the USA.

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0:00 intros 

3:45 Why can’t art be your job?

5:00 Becoming a photographer

12:00 Buying first house 

17:00 Going viral on instagram 

25:00 Learning how to build an art business

33:00 AI in art

41:00 Mentors and people who inspire you 

46:00 How do you manufacture inspiration?

53:00 Coolest places you’ve painted

60:00 What’s the dream?

David Mccaw makes really funny comic strips and paintings. We wanted to ask him about how you get into this line of work and what it takes to keep creating when your livelihood depends on it. He's also just a super fun hang so that makes for a great conversation always. :)

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High Dive is Alabama's first listening lounge. Bart Stephens is our guest and the founder of High Dive. Bart spent years traveling the world visiting all of the best listening lounges in the world. He took all that experience and channeled it into what will certainly go down as one of the best listening lounges in America. World class food, amazing service, and most of all incredible music. This is a must visit!

Visit Fish Creek!

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SOCIALS

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0:00 intros

1:30 Favorite album this week?

5:30 Growing up

11:00 The college years

19:00 Moving back to Birmingham

22:00 Becoming an audiophile 26:00 Career before High Dive

34:00 The birth of High Dive

60:00 What is the future?

The SEC mind cannot comprehend. We've talked about this once before, Step Sing is show choir for adults. It's a riot of a time where an entire college campus buys into making a singing and dancing show for 100,000 people to watch. It's wild.

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Tyler Gilbert is a painter based out of Birmingham, AL. His primary subject is the automobile. His fascination with cars has been a lifelong pursuit and he is taking the leap to make art and cars his full time gig. We brought him on to learn how about his artistic process and where he is planning on taking this passion of his.

Check out Tyler's art!

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0:00 intros

5:00 College and orthodontic school

17:00 Finding art 

25:00 Where the passion for cars started

45:00 Buying the dream truck

51:00 Art techniques

58:00 2 car garage

1:15:00 fin

Merritt is a jack of all trades. She's a hustler, an entrepreneur, and she's pretty funny. From the MET Gala to South Africa to building businesses, she does it all.

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0:00 intros

4:00 Day in the life

11:00 Making money

25:00 College years

37:00 Social media good or bad

50:00 What’s the dream

58:00 The Met Gala

1:10:00 fin

Duquette is a man of many, many talents. His life is a wild one. From touring with the Foo Fighters, going to prison, starting a mens retail store, to fighting the FED in Washington DC. It seems like he has lived 5 lives in 50 years. He is one of the most beloved people in Birmingham, AL and a seriously cool dude.

https://clubduquette.co/

https://ruggedandfancy.com/

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0:00 intros

2:00 growing up

17:00 Getting into the music scene

31:00 The business of music and art

40:00 The Lost Years and getting arrested

1:01:00 Economic impact of music on a city

1:10:00 Doing new things

1:17:00 A new way of doing business

1:32:00 Club Duquette and fashion

1:55:00 Getting involved in politics 

2:26:00 fin

Cole Stefanek is the founder of Over The Mountain Cruisers. He has built an auto shop solely focused on making Land Cruisers outlive people. These are some of the most robust vehicles ever built and Cole has built his career around making them last forever.

Check out OTM here!

https://otmcruisers.com/about/

SOCIALS

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0:00 intros

3:00 The love affair with Land Cruisers begins 

8:00 the business starts 

27:00 Off-roading 

40:00 2 car garage 

47:30 The future

57:00 fin

We have been putting out Word of Mouth episodes for 2 years now. Hard to believe it sometimes. Our friend AK was around when Stephen and i first became friends. This week we wanted to spend some time reflecting on the years being friends and making the podcast together.

0:00 intros

1:00 Who is AK

12:00 What were our first impressions of each other?

25:00 When was the podcast born

30:00 the name 

38:00 The newly wed game

1:18:00 the mission of WOM

1:29:00 fin

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