PODCAST · music
Thriving Rockstar
by Alex Raykin
Broad conversations with seasoned artists on topics ranging from health, relationships and lifestyle to social media and entrepreneurship.
Episodes
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E:35 Michael Abdow
Michael Abdow is an American guitarist whose playing is a mix of traditional and modern progressive elements. After spending a decade touring nationally and internationally, he arrives well-versed in jazz, all forms of rock and metal, and is recognized for his soulful character and technical...
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E:34 Cory Young
Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Cory Young is 23 years old and was born and raised in California. His raspy voice, and blues guitar riffs grabs the attention of many. He was featured on Season 2 of American Idol. Cory is currently releasing several singles throughout 2020.
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E:33 Caio Kehyayan
Caio Kehyayan is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and mixing & mastering engineer best known for being the session/touring lead guitarist of Vital Remains, lead guitarist of Dovas, and founder of the Symphonic Metal band FireWing. Caio is also a Berklee College of Music graduate in Music…
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E:32 Lee Litvin
Lee Litvin, or better known as Leezythegifted is an independent artist and producer from The Bay Area, CA. He fully produces all of his own music. He learned production in an effort to gain full control over the process of making his music. Leezy has also made it his mission to help…
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E:31 Adrienne Cowan
Adrienne Cowan is an American metal vocalist, poet, and musician best known for being the lead vocalist and orchestrator in the band, Seven Spires. She also sings for Avantasia, Masters of Ceremony, and plays keyboards in Winds of Plague. Adrienne is a Berklee College of Music graduate who has...
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E:30 Tracy Lambertucci
Born in 1990 in Caracas, Venezuela, Tracy Lambertucci began playing guitar at age 15 and started performing at 16. After studying with some of the best jazz artists in her country, she moved to LA to where she graduated from Musicians Institute with honors in Performance with a minor in Audio...
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E:29 Damian Erskine
Bassist Damian Erskine has played in the studio or on the stage with artists such as Peter Erskine, Vince Mendoza and the WDR Big Band, The Jaco Pastorius Big Band, Les McCann, Jeff Lorber, The Buddy Rich Alumni All-Star Band, & many others. He is an adjunct professor at Portland State University...
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E:28 Shauna Fallihee
Shauna Fallihee is a Classical new music specialist and voice teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. She's a two-time marathoner and instructor of alignment-focused Barre and Indoor Cycling. In addition to her M.M. in Vocal Pedagogy, Shauna holds certifications in Yoga, Myofascial Release, and…
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E:27 Kenny Werner
Kenny Werner is a Grammy nominated pianist and composer and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. He has performed with jazz greats such Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Bobby McFerrin, John Scofield, and many others. Kenny put out over 30 CDs as a leader & composer for many major Jazz…
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E:26 Marco Sfogli
Born in 1980, Marco Sfogli is credited as one of the most influential and followed progressive rock and metal guitar players of the last few years. he's worked with artists such as James LaBrie, Jordan Rudess, Mike Mangini, Bryan Beller, Guthrie Govan, Kiko Loureiro, Stu Hamm, Virgil Donati and...
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E:25 Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn't Work. His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, and many others. He is a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology Today and from 2015-2018, he…
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E:24 Andy Timmons
Andy Timmons is a world renowned guitarist who toured the world with Danger Danger opening for Kiss and Alice Cooper, sold over a million records worldwide, and had two #1 videos on MTV, plus amassing a discography of 7 solo releases that range from blazing guitar instrumentals, to blues, and…
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E:23 Dani Rabin
Dani Rabin was born in 1985 in La-Jolla CA and grew up in Rehovot, Israel. He moved back to the states in 2003 to study at Berklee College of Music. in 2007 he met Danny Markovitch and started the band Marbin. Marbin is a progressive jazz-rock band based in Chicago, touring extensively since…
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E:22 Austin Lucas
Austin Lucas is an accomplished second generation songwriter, and Muay Thai enthusiast from Bloomington, Indiana with a rich history in the music industry for over 20 years. His last album, Immortal Americans was written after a tumultuous period that found Austin getting sober, losing 100 lbs,...
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E:21 Brianne Borden
Brianne Borden is a trumpeter on an international level. As a certified yoga instructor, Brianne teaches and regularly leads trainings through CorePower Yoga. Brianne melds her two passions and is a devoted researcher in the field of wellness for musicians. She has published multiple articles and...
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E:20 Sarah JoAnne Draper
Sarah Draper is a multi-instrumentalist and artist currently based in Baltimore MD. She founded, does vocals and plays guitar in the progressive band Anchor Thought. When shes not playing guitar, she enjoys oil painting and being active outside. Look out for a new LP from Anchor Thought in late...
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E:19 Wyatt Stav
Wyatt Stav is a drummer and content creator from Toronto, Canada. His rapidly growing YouTube channel features content ranging from drum covers to lessons, interviews with other drummers, product reviews, reactions, and fitness. His story is one of sheer dedication and hard work. The video that...
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E:18 Angela McCuiston
Angela McCuiston is a Certified Personal Trainer and Corrective Exercise Specialist, Senior Fitness Specialist and Cancer Exercise Specialist and owner of Music Strong, a business that specializes in personal fitness training for musicians. She is also an avid flutist with a Masters of Music in...
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E:17 Rusty Osborne
This episode is Rusty Osborne. Rusty helps musicians lose weight and feel great forever, so they can look, feel, and perform their best on and off the stage. After overcoming obesity and unhealthy habits for himself and numerous clients, he knows first hand what works and what doesn't work when…
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E:16 Craig Stickland
Craig Stickland is a singer and instrumentalist who has performed in front of millions. We spoke about the importance of finding a manager, acting, modeling, bartending, working with an M.D. on his voice, training on tour and in venues, building and touring in a sustainable sprinter van, being an...
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E:15 Coby Linder
I spoke to Coby Linder, a former drummer of a major band called Say Anything, about his personal health transformation and transition into being an online health coach. We spoke about your fitness impacting your musicianship, having workout equipment on tour, feeding your brain with good books,...
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E:14 Balance - Chrism
Christian "Chrism" Pulkkinen is a progressive metal keyboardist, audio/video engineer and producer with Dark Noise Productions, a company that he founded. We plays in numerous projects. We spoke about exercise for mental benefits, drinking casually, marketing music, building audience, getting to...
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E:13 Lorelei McBroom
Lorelei McBroom is a singer who has worked with A-listers like Billy Idol, Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones. We spoke about her fundraiser, jewelry business, turning down big opportunities to raise her child properly, doing session work, parental consistency, homeschooling, music business…
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E:12 Amelia Rosenberger
Amelia Rosenberger is a trombonist and yoga teacher who has dedicated her career to helping musicians relieve tension, pain, and performance anxiety through the practice of yoga. We spoke about yoga, breath work, getting through being an undergraduate music major, intuitive eating, staying...
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E:11 Ray Hearne
Ray Hearne is one of the top drummers in progressive metal, playing with Haken. I spoke to Ray about touring relentlessly, freelance work, climbing, being vegan on and off the road, impact of touring on relationships, relating to band members like being in a marriage, teaching on tour, hot sauce,...
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E:10 Ryan Van Poederooyen
Ryan Van Poederooyen is a world-class drummer, best known for his work with Devin Townsend. Among other things, Ryan is an educator and motivational speaker. He spoke about negativity in music, calculated risk, shooting high, basing success on happiness level, living with purpose, goals, healthy...
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E:9 Mats Haugen
Mats Haugen is the guitarist and a founding member of Circus Maximus, He also plays with some of the top rock, pop and hip-hop artists in Norway. He spoke about family, video games and how they influenced his writing, performing and producing for other genres and artists, equipment endorsements,...
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E:8 Steve Soboslai
Steve Soboslai is a founding member of the top charting rock band Punchline. He has a marketing company called Craft Services. Steve spoke about starting his band in high school, his career evolution, dieting, supplementation and training on and off the road, intermittent fasting, cold and heat...
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E:7 Ben Cohen
Ben Cohen, a Berklee College of Music grad, plays guitar for Video Game Metal band Powerglove and modern progressive metal band Lattermath. They tour regularly with bands such as Dragonforce, MC Chris, Symphony X, and Sonata Arctica. We discussed Ben's moving to LA and establishing himself, being...
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E:6 Sahil Makhija
Sahil Makhija is the front-man of Demonic Resurrection, and host and chef of Headbanger's Kitchen which has 400k+ subscribers at the time of this writing. His show mostly features him cooking food for the keto diet while having metal music on. We spoke about his new cookbook, YouTube, the keto...
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E:5 Matthew Dylan Diana
Matthew Dylan Diana is an American vocalist, musician, song writer, and lead singer of Message to the Masses. He also runs a meal prep business, eats extremely healthy, and works out daily. He discussed his meal prep company, deciding to go solo, utility of having a recording setup at home, meal...
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E:4 Rusty Cooley
Rusty Cooley is one of the fastest guitarists in the world. We discussed his new solo record for having material to tour with. He also discussed teaching, diet & fitness and being a "hard-gainer", accountability, motocross, his childhood, being a night owl, touring, fans, meditative guitar...
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E:3 Leslie Hunt
Leslie is an extraordinary singer and performer who has reached the semi-finals of American Idol, performing for millions on live TV. She has her own record label, several solo albums with star artists, and front-woman of prog rock band District 97. She shared about her focus on diet over...
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E:2 Casey Grillo
Casey Grillo is a world-class drummer, most known for his work with Kamelot, and now Queensrÿche. He also has an LED drum skin company Drumstatic which has produced skins for many A-list artists. Casey has a long list of prior accolades as well. He shared his thoughts on many things including...
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E:1 Neal Morse
Neal Morse is a star multi-instrumentalist and singer in the progressive rock world, mostly known for his work with Spock's Beard, a prog supergroup called Transatlantic as well as his solo work. Neal shared his thoughts on diet & exercise, addiction, fun he likes to have outside of music, his...
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Broad conversations with seasoned artists on topics ranging from health, relationships and lifestyle to social media and entrepreneurship.
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Thriving Rockstar is created and hosted by Alex Raykin.
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