TEM100: A thought about each interview from the first 100 episodes of The Entrepreneurial Musician

I can't believe it but TEM has hit its 100th episode! Tens of thousands of downloads in 77 countries and all 50 states. That's hard to wrap my head around!

A huge thank you to everyone who has listened, commented, shared TEM with a friend, supported me through Patreon or in some other way helped to make the podcast a success. Also, to our producers and interns at Pedal Note Media, you guys rock!

And of course thank you to the incredible guests who have all donated their time to being interviewed. Turns out the most successful people in the music business are incredibly busy so it really is a sacrifice for them to carve out an hour for some tuba player to grill them about their career path. If you had told a younger me the list of people I would someday interview I would have told you you were nuts!

Even though it is a crazy amount of work, I'm having a blast doing this so no plans to stop any time soon. Here's to the next 100!

Topics Covered:

7:22 - TEM 1 Ranaan Meyer: Being first in a category 8:45 - TEM 2 Pat Sheridan: "For Band, Chorus and Orchestral Winds" 9:58 - TEM 3 Gavin Chuck & Michael Clayville: Make art people couldn't live without 11:39 - TEM 4 Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser: Communication and persistence are cornerstones of success 13:44 - TEM 5 Jeff Nelsen: Fearless Performance as it relates to be an entrepreneur 15:44 - TEM 6 Brian Pertl: The perfect meld of artist and businessman 17:32 - TEM 7 Jeff Conner: Networking is a longterm process 19:13 - TEM 9 David Vining: His battle with dystonia taught him to not always approach problems in a linear and traditional manner 20:50 - TEM 10 Jonathan Kuuskoski: The importance of getting into the Build->Measure->Learn feedback loop as quickly as possible 22:37 - TEM 11 Jim Stephenson: The value of humility in a sustainable career 24:10 - TEM 13 Alan Baylock: Let them tell you no 27:01 - TEM 15 Mike Nickens: You do you and don't worry about fitting into a pre-existing mold 29:08 - TEM 17 Lance LaDuke: What else do you do? 31:06 - TEM 19 Ron Davis: Being fungible means you've already lost 33:29 - TEM 21 Max and Scott McKee: Surround yourself with the right people and anything is possible 34:25 - TEM 23 Michael Davis: Funded over 10 recordings through various creative ways 35:40 - TEM 25 Jennifer Rosenfeld and Julia Torgovitskaya: Why even in the worst case scenario you will learn a lot when starting a new venture 37:23 - TEM 27 John Kellogg: Why you need to define for yourself what your own definition of "making it" is 38:37 - TEM 29 Peter Seymour: Being willing to hear the word no literally thousands of times to get things moving 39:19 - TEM 32 Sam Pilafian: How having strengths where others have weaknesses will make you useful and hirable 40:30 - TEM 36 Michael Harley: Southern Exposure New Music Series has a very small yet incredibly dedicated niche 41:56 - TEM 38 Dan Gosling: The incredible ability to go from self-pity to launching your next plan overnight 44:03 - TEM 40 David Cutler: How impact and income are linked if you do it right 45:03 - TEM 42 Nate Zeisler: The importance of knowing your risk tolerance when plotting your career 46:55 - TEM 45 Drew McManus: How his Adaptistration blog not only solved problems for people but also created a community 48:10 - TEM 47 Mike Robinson: Going from the production line making drum heads to a job as the research and development coordinator in six months 49:53 - TEM 49 Ariel Hyatt: Evaluating ROI on social media is like try to monetize a cocktail party 51:32 - TEM 54 Hugh Sung: How they redesigned the AirTurn website a dozen times and paid attention to what worked and what didn't work with each version 53:20 - TEM 57 Lauren Pierce: - She learned how to code and was willing to email Wordpress support 10x a day until she understood everything 54:48 - TEM 59 Garrett Hope: The audacity of asking (including getting a Seth Godin talk onto his podcast) 56:33 - TEM 62 Jason Heath: The best time to start a podcast is five years ago and the second best time is today 58:04 - TEM 69 Seth Hanes: The importance of pitching people the right way (where they are getting at least 51% of the value of the exchange) 1:00:38 - TEM 71 Susan de Weger: Her time in IT helped her realize the importance of having a unique value proposition 1:03:00 - TEM 73 Jessica Meyer: The importance of intentionally networking/reaching out to people you don't know in an organized fashion 1:05:11 - TEM 79 Emilio Guarino: Why if you have no entrepreneurial experience, designing and selling a sticker for a project (like a band you're in) will teach you a lot about business 1:07:44 - TEM 83 John Beder: His use of deadlines to finally ship his documentary after years of making it 1:09:45 - TEM 85 Dana Fonteneau: Figuring out your why before deciding the tools to use and actually building stuff like websites 1:10:58 - TEM 87 Pete Meechan: Finding your niche (like he has with brass music) 1:12:43 - TEM 92 Steve Dillon: How his passion has helped him become an authority on certain subjects which in turn has helped him to solve problems for people 1:14:04 - TEM 95: Tim Topham How he built a community he could serve and then monetized it 1:16:58 - TEM 97 Mark Rabideau: His least favorite thing is a great idea that doesn't get executed

 

Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed, links to all books and websites referenced can be found at:

http://www.andrewhitz.com/shownotes

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