In this episode, we sit down with ⁠Haiden⁠, a talented musician and songwriter, to discuss his journey as an artist and how he has learned to focus his creative energy.

Haiden opens up about his journey, starting from growing up in a small town to moving to Los Angeles where he initially had to live out of his car. He shares the moment when everything clicked, and he knew that music was his calling. We also explore his success on TikTok with his first viral song "Can't Hurt Me" and the importance of authenticity despite the pressure to sell out. Haiden reflects on what he learned from touring and what's next for him on his journey as an artist.

In this episode, we had the pleasure of sitting down with the talented musician and artist, Jordy. We dive into the making of his new album 'BOY' and the importance of authenticity in his music. Jordy shares his experience of finding music and songwriting, meeting his manager, and the DIY growth that led him to where he is today.

n this episode, we chat with artist and designer Hanna Schönwald about her journey to becoming a successful artist. Hanna shares how she found her artistic style and built a foundation for her work.

In addition, she shares the story of how she took a risk to work with Porsche, and the business of being an artist. Finally, Hanna talks about where her work is headed, and why she believes there is no right path in pursuing your dreams.

The first ever Ellise podcast is here! I'm so impressed by Ellise's story. She started her musical career at an extremely young age and ever since has had a laser focused vision of her goals as an artist. In this episode she shares her entire story up until now along with her mindset that has helped her throughout the entire journey as well as her views on keeping her artistic integrity at a time where so many values are thrown away just for viral songs.

Tatiana DeMaria brings together music, tech, NFTs and mental health all from first hand experience. For that reason I'm extremely excited to have her on the podcast this week. We talk about her origin story, having early success in music, the importance of mental health, and how she's fully embracing the future and incorporating tech and NFTs into music in a very unique way.

Chad Tepper is an artist with one of the craziest stories I've ever heard. He joins the podcast this week to share it all. He's lived a TON of life including going pro skateboarding, growing a huge following on YouTube, having a show on MTV, and now signing to Epitaph.

MILES joins the podcast this week to share his come up story and talk about his brand new EP 'Never Have I Ever'. Do people read podcast descriptions? If you do, let me know.

Travie McCoy is an artist, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of Gym Class Heroes. Most importantly, he's one of my biggest influences in finding and falling in love with the golden era of Fueled by Ramen bands and the Vans Warped Tour. I have so much respect for this dude, it's crazy!

This was a truly special episode where we got to talk about the very beginning of his career, starting Gym Class Heroes, and signing to Fueled By Ramen. We then talk about his astronomical growth into becoming a full on celebrity, and the new era of music he's currently working on.

44Blonde comes on the podcast this week to share the story of how he got signed, moved to LA and found his sound with the help of some rad friends like Lil Aaron and many others.

Bruce Wiegner is a rad artist. This is his story <3

DYSN is an artist that I've followed for several years now and we finally got to do a podcast together! He shares his story of humble beginnings growing up in Texas and learning how to record in a home studio, all the way to the point of making it out to LA, connecting with some exceptional friends, and being pushed to pursue is own artist career.

Chris Ruediger is the founder of The 615 house, and is an artist / songwriter. Typically I've found people to be great at making music, or to be great at business - but the combination of the two is a little more rare. Chris joins the podcast this week to tell his story and share exactly what he did to become exceptional at both.

Part 2 of the Cody Carson (Set It Off) podcast is here! In this episode we talk about the growth and evolution of Set It Off, Cody's personal milestones and memories, and the most important lessons he's learned along the way.

Him and I celebrated episode 100 of the podcast by talking about our early days and how both of our careers got started together. We got so deep in the stories that we didn't get talk much about the growth and progression of Set It Off. In this episode Cody came back onto the podcast to talk about exactly that!

Alex Garcia is the guitar player for Mayday Parade and an overall rad person! We've been friends for quite some time, but this was the first time I got to properly sit down with him and truly learn his story starting from the very beginning all the way up to now. We also discuss the current state of music and what he and Mayday Parade are up to in 2022.

Myrone or Pat Lukens is an artist, producer, and band member. And has had great success (and failures) in each of those lanes. He joins the podcast this week to talk about each step of his career and share some extremely valuable lessons he's learned each step of the way.

Something that really stands out to me about Pat is his extreme honesty and self awareness. Each step of his career has come with so much personal growth which he articulates and shares so well on this podcast.

Aaron Gillespie returns to the podcast to talk specifically about his personal experiences and favorite moments of writing and recording Underoath's brand new album, Voyeurist. This ended up being an extremely personal interview in the best possible way. He shared such an honest perspective of what it was like to write this album with the rest of the band completely from his view.

In addition we also talk about the pursuit to make honest art, our thoughts on overcoming doubt with creativity and some really great stories from the very beginning of Underoath.

Guardin was one of the first ever guests I had on the podcast, and now after two years and what feels like a lifetime of events happening in between, he returns to the podcast to look back at everything and catch up on what he's been up to since then. Including signing to a record label, then going back to being independent, how he stayed sane during lockdown, and writing an entire new wave of music including the story of writing the 'things could be worse' EP.

Ky Vöss is a producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. This week she joins the podcast to tell her story and talk about overcoming some insane obstacles in life to get to the point of making a career out of being an independent artist. Her song Masochism was my Spotify 2021 top song, so it was truly an honor to have her on this week!

Sho Mitsui is a dear friend of mine with a very cool story. He's from Japan and works as a Japanese to English translator for a lot of streetwear brands. In addition, he was in a band called Alternative Medicine, and now has a brand of his own called Plastic Lab, where they do really cool custom one-off vehicles and plastic figures.

To add to the full circle moment, he's close friends with Ryan Scott Graham, who was also on the podcast and is in State Champs.

Overall, he's an incredibly kind, excited dude always doing things from a place of passion. For all those reasons it was an honor to have him on.

Jim Rota, has had a very successful career in both music and film and production. His band Fireball Ministry got signed back in 1999. They toured way before GPS and social media. Hearing him explain what it was like to get signed back then and how it all happened was awesome.

In addition, he's had a super successful career in film and production! He's worked with Dave Grohl in therapy studios on Sonic Highway and Sound City, plus a a ton of other rad projects.