Achievements & Strategies w/Brian Franklin

In the wake of a failed congressional race and divorce, Andrew began climbing mountains, and started a journey that would literally take him to the top of the world, Mount Everest. Andrew has completed the seven summits, six of the seven volcanic summits, and the South Pole. He and his climbing part…

LA Weekly dubbed Fernando Perdomo as “The millennial answer to Todd Rundgren.” A scene veteran at 37, he has made a name for himself as an in-demand producer, singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is a featured guitarist in the Netflix documentary "Echo In The Canyon" where his is seen ba…

Long before Daxx Nielsen joined his dad's band, Cheap Trick, Daxx was paying his dues playing drums with Brandie Carlile, Dick Dale, Smashing Pumpkins, working as a session player in Los Angeles, and touring with his brother Miles in Harmony Riley. Now, 10 years since joining Cheap Trick, he’s recor…

Brendan Buckley’s career as a drummer has taken him around the world, performing and/or recording with greats such as Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction, founder of Lollapalooza), Shakira, Miley Cyrus, Mellisa Ethridge, Julio Iglesias, DMX, Gloria Estefan, and many more. From his beginnings in NJ, to h…

Shelby Young is a Los Angeles-based actor with an extensive background in voice over, motion capture and on-camera and has over 1.8 million followers on TikTok, with over 48 million likes. She’s best known for her work on Disney Channel's Star Wars Forces of Destiny, where she voices both Princess L…

Oz Fritz’s long list of credits include engineering albums for Tom Waits’s Grammy Award winning Mule Variations (as well as Blood Money, Orphans: Bawlers, Brawlers, & Bastards), Oysterhead (where he was the subject of the song “Oz is Ever Floating”), Primus, Meat Loaf, Elvis Costello, Bill Laswell, …

Ambassador Kirk Wagar ran the American Embassy in Singapore between 2013-2017. In this episode, we talk about his time years as a fundraiser for Senator John Kerry and later then Senator Barack Obama, the process of becoming an Ambassador, what it was like to work with the diplomats of the embassy, …

There are few modern day political consultants as successful and as well regarded as Joe Slade White. From decades of working with the Bidens (including Beau Biden’s campaigns), to his start working in the inner circle of George McGovern’s presidential campaign—Joe has more stories and lessons than …

Described by NPR as an “old school troubadour”, Matt Pond has made album after album of fantastic indie-rock music, with melodies that stay in your head and lyrics that often catch you off guard. In this podcast, we talk about the writing process, his partnership with guitarist Chris Hansen (includ…

Ron Sexsmith's talents as a singer-songwriter have earned him praise from the likes of Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello—and his songs have been covered by Costello, Rod Stewart, Nick Lowe, Feist, Emmy Lou Harris, K.D. Lang, and Michael Bublé. He's been produced by Steve Earle, Mitchel Froom, Danie…

Sam Fogarino of Interpol discloses—for the first time publicly—the brain aneurysm he had last summer, talks about his recovery, the new material Interpol is working on, his origins in the band the Holy Terrors, our shared love of the Terrors’ founder Rob Elba’s songwriting, his near-miss with Marily…

Tim Quirk is the lead singer of Too Much Joy - a darling of indie/alternative radio in the 90s - which has just reunited to make their first album after 25 years, Mistakes Were Made. Tim is also a pioneer in the music tech circles - first with Listen.com's Rhapsody, and later Real Player, Google Pla…

Jon Macks’ career ranges from political consulting to being a writer for Jay Leno’s tonight show for 17 years - to being a writer for Chris Rock (who calls Jon "one of the greatest comedy writers of all time"), Steve Martin, Marty Short, Hugh Jackman, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and much more. We talk w…

Tom Dowd is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for his work as both an engineer and producer of some of the most important music in Rock & Roll, including Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Cream, Eric Clapton, Derek & the Dominos, the Allman Brothers, Rod Stewart, and many, many more. We talk with his dau…

Adam Zimmon has shared the stage as either a band member or sideman for a long list of great artists, including Ziggy Marley, Vida Blue (w/ Page McConnell of Fish, Oteil Burbridge of The Allman Brothers Band & Dead & Company, and Russell Batiste (The Meters), Dido, Glen Campbell, Iggy Pop, The Spam …

Keith Raskin is an Emmy award winning producer and partner in Raskal Productions, and has produced shows such Key & Peele, Teachers, Big Time in Hollywood, FL, The League and many more. Most recently he is producing the upcoming NBC sitcom, Kenan - featuring Kenan Thompson. We talk about how he star…

David Thomas is a Grammy Award winning singer in Take 6, one of the most accomplished jazz and R&B a capella vocal groups in music. With 10 Grammy's David's career has taken him all over the world, and his work has led to collaborations with artists from Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, and Ray Charl…

Ryan Arciero is one of the most accomplished off-road racers in its history. A trophy truck racer, he's won the Baja 1000, Nevada 2000, and many more over decades of racing. Son of Off-road Hall of Famer Frank Arciero, Jr., hjis family has been in auto racing for nearly 70 years and has helped launc…