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The JoshOptical Podcast
by Joshua Shelton
Welcome girls and boys to The JoshOptical Podcast! This is your shotgun seat ride-along with Josh and all his friends as we discuss songwriting, entrepreneurship, and GUITARS (along with dogs, coffee, mental health, diners, small towns, gluten-free pumpkin spice bacon and whatever crosses our minds). The ride starts here.
Episodes
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UP(and)COMING!- Show, Podcasts, Collabs
-CONCERT: Stokes Co. Songwriter Showcase 4/10 - PODCAST appearances: Tone Nerds, Western NC Original Music Podcast -COLLAB: Stewart Macdonald instrument tools content -RECORDING: new stripped down EP in the works Shoutouts to musician Anna Mertson, ReString Appalachia org, and The “B” String…
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This instrument could get you Disappeared- Ken Bloom on Ukrainian music & its iconic Bandura
From the world’s capital of the Bowed Dulcimer, I interview Kenneth Bloom about the iterations of the Ukrainian Bandura, the legendary Kytasky musical family, imperial imposition through the redesign of the traditional instrument, and the failed Russianization of Ukraine. Ken is the world’s…
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IT IS SUMMER- what’s happening?
Updates and downdates on upcoming content, projects, gigs and more.
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A Lotta Bit Country- Flatfooting, Imposter Accounts, & Taking Tradition to School with Mason Winfree
JOP #19: In our new season’s second interview, Mason & I sit down to answer the age-old questions: Who gets to be Country? Do people really go flatfoot dancing in 2023? Where is the line between performance and just living? And how did we first meet? We can’t remember. The two of us talk...
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“A Strong & Particular Bond”— The Power of LOCAL with Miles Montgomery (JOP Episode 18)
Daily Basket Co-Founder & Manager Miles Montgomery & partners take care of their own— and they’d love for you to be among them. Miles & Josh talk community, honoring tradition while pursuing innovation, the sustaining power of being neighbors, and how you’ll never survive without Bud Light.
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How Sweet it Is!: From Optical to Sweetwater
Hey! Lemme tell you how I got from answering entitled contact lens wearer’s absurd requests to selling gear for the greatest music retailer on Earth, and the troubles in between.
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Your Ideology is Holding You Back as a Musician
How much time and energy are you spending debating how the industry SHOULD be- that you could be putting into actually making the industry more like you want it to be?
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Podcasts, Poison, & Positivity
This episode is for you if: 1) you love Winston-Salem, Stokes County & the arts 2) you’re into self-experimentation 3) you want to be happy.
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Is Your Business Worth Getting Out of My Pajamas For? -Hosting & Humanity in Brick & Mortar
What does your business have that Amazon sort-by-price & next-day delivery doesn’t? How do you balance being a human in business with staying in business? And why on earth would I leave my couch to come to YOUR store? Hear ye hear ye, Season 3 opens with my FIRST INTERVIEW EVER!!! with Dawn…
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What are you actually selling?
“Sales” gets a bad rap, but what does it really mean, and how can we bring a new layer to that conversation to help achieve the things we dream for ourselves?
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What lights your way?
Josh catches you up on his professional adventures in light management and asks what exactly is keeping you from being you Youest You you ever knew.
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Audio, Attention, Consciousness & Commerce
Where does our attention in the future live? Who cares? Who are you living for? And who’s gonna be the next great beef jerky spokesman?
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July, Glasses, TikTok collabs & that other thing
Josh catches you up on the goings-on of the past two months in this insane accidental experiment called 2020.
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Mayday! Mayday! Floydfest, Social Media Lulls, & that thing called The Internet
Josh checks in about quarantine performance life in May, disappointing dips in audience engagement, and the great honor of performing FloydFest 2020- if from afar.
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April Catchup: Corona, Cattle Dogs, & Content
Josh gives a quick rundown of life at home and the remarkable possibilities of the information super highway.
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Life is just a Flesh Wound
Breakups, Australian Cattle Dogs, & Why Vintage Gibsons make the best content.
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I Don’t Know Where We’re Going
Josh gets back in the saddle to talk about why he fell out. ***the audio got cut off- I’d any of you make it that far I’ll call it a huge win.
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Spitting in the Face of God: Ep.2
Has the cult of security cause you to shy away from what you are most passionate about? Maybe even what you were put on this earth to do?
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Introducing...The JoshOptical Podcast
Welcome to your shotgun seat ride along with Josh as he adventures into musicianship, self employment, and other bad ideas. Huzzah!
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Who is JoshOptical?
Letting listeners know where they can go for more content from our host.
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You don’t have a boss: the masquerade of work
Ever frustrated with the expectations other people have of you at work? Whatever gave them that expectation anyway?
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Camel City Calling Card- The Launch!
If you wait til you know how to do it to do it, you’ll never know how to do it...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome girls and boys to The JoshOptical Podcast! This is your shotgun seat ride-along with Josh and all his friends as we discuss songwriting, entrepreneurship, and GUITARS (along with dogs, coffee, mental health, diners, small towns, gluten-free pumpkin spice bacon and whatever crosses our minds). The ride starts here.
HOSTED BY
Joshua Shelton
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What is The JoshOptical Podcast about?
Welcome girls and boys to The JoshOptical Podcast! This is your shotgun seat ride-along with Josh and all his friends as we discuss songwriting, entrepreneurship, and GUITARS (along with dogs, coffee, mental health, diners, small towns, gluten-free pumpkin spice bacon and whatever crosses our...
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The JoshOptical Podcast is created and hosted by Joshua Shelton.
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