NOVUL is an independent female pop artist with a super fun take on her branding and sound. I really like what she’s doing and figured she’d have a great story behind it all. Turns out, she did!

Johnny Minardi is the VP of A&R at Elektra Music Group, Fueled By Ramen and Roadrunner Records. He came on the podcast last year and had one of the most popular episodes to date! This is a “Best Of” version of that episode filled with his craziest stories, and most inspirational quotes.

This week Andrew Doyle joins the podcast to teach you everything you need to know about making high quality merch for your artist project.

We get into all of the essentials like: estimating quantities, understanding different garments, what it should cost to get merch made, getting designs, different payment terms, and different fulfillment options, and how to make extremely custom clothing.

Lee Shaner is the host and creator of the Kinda Neat YouTube channel and podcast. In addition he raps under the name of Intuition. He's been involved with the the underground hip hop scene for the the better part of two decades.

He joins us this week to bless us with his wisdom on growing podcasts and YouTube channels the right way in addition to telling his incredible come up story.

Mazie is an independent artist with a rad story. She came up in Baltimore with a close circle of friends in music and continued to grow from there. She’s proof that you don’t need to conform to the typical path or standards of the music industry to have success. Stories like hers are truly my favorite and she joins us this week to tell it in detail, and share some great advice as well!

This episode we get into the next chapters. He shares his personal thoughts on why the band broke up for the first time. Him and Rick managing Angels & Airwaves. A tragic event bringing Blink-182 back together. Along with his incredible perspective all of the most valuable life and industry lessons he learned along the way while working with Blink-182.

Chris Georginn managed Blink-182 with Rick DeVoe during the golden era of the band’s career. From Enema Of The State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Self Titled, and Neighborhoods.

He joins us this week to share some INCREDIBLE never before told Blink-182 stories, and talk about the beginning of his career in the music industry.

Pritty is a songwriter from St. Louis now living in LA. He’s come up and worked with some incredible producers including Dylan Brady, Judge, and Yung Skrrt. He’s having a crazy amount of success lately and joins us this week to tell the story of how it all began, starting from the early days of sleeping in cars and grinding to make it happen at any cost.

Lil Narnia joins us this week to tell his come up story. We get into his early days and inspirations, finding his sound, getting early love from Astari, working with Dylan Brady, and how to stay inspired.

Zac Carper is in the band FIDLAR, and is also an incredible producer. This week he joins us to discuss the future of music and what he's currently inspired by.

Daniel McCartney is a music agent at UTA and the founder of The Continuance Foundation, a non-profit organization to help touring musicians and artists with mental health. Before that he was an original member in the band Gideon, and toured the world with them.

yung van joins us this week to tell his story! He's released music with guardin, powfu, fats'e, thebreathingbackwards and many others. He grew up in a musical family and got into it at an early age himself. Now he's made it a career as an independent artist.

This week we talk specifically about singles and albums. How often you should be releasing them, the pros & cons to both, and how you can effectively market them.

Evange is an artist manager who owns Alternate Side Management and has a record label with Elektra Music Group called Public Consumption. She's been in the music business for almost 20 years and is an absolute BOSS!

Danny Cocke is a very successful composer. He’s had his music in trailers for Spiderman, The Avengers, Star Trek and more. His first band was signed to Linkin Park’s record label and he’s overcome cancer at a very young age! All around he has an incredible story!

Big Baby Scumbag is an independent rapper based out of Tampa, FL. He's performed with legends like Lil Pump, Smokepurp, XXXTentacion and Ski Mask the Slump God. And has released music with Lex Luger, Lil B, Oliver Francis, Meltycanon, lil aaron, and several others. This is his story.

Andy, or thebreathingbackwards is an internet friend of mine and an incredible artist. This week he joins me to tell his story of finding music, learning how to engineer, then committing fully to his solo artist project.

Jack Payne is a merchandise manager who has toured the world with some remarkable acts such as Why Don’t We, Sigur Rós, Stormzy, Bring Me The Horizon, PVRIS, Carlos Santana, Foals, Gus Dapperton and many others. This is his story!

One song changed his life! Listen to find out how.

Patrick is mad smart. Listen to this if you wanna level up on YouTube.