All Episodes

"I Can't Want This More Than You" | Chris Classick on What Artists Get Wrong About Teams

The Secret to Being "Believable" in a World of Fakes | Cansell & DagZ Interview

He Reversed Racism on Strangers and Got 300K Followers in 30 Days | Foreverband Interview

Lil Durk Slid in Her DMs After A Cover Post | Sydny August Interview

Hit $100K Months in E-com, Went Broke, then Built an AI Empire: Gera Baano Interview

How to Be a "Human-First" Artist Manager in 2026: Juliana Miller

Betting on Chicago Tech: Landon Campbell

Matt's Entrepreneurial Journey: 8 Years Distilled In 30min

Chicago’s #1 Music Business Lawyer: Artists, Understand Your Value!

The Stitch Gawd on Making Custom Jackets For Kendrick, Bad Bunny, and Kanye

Sam Thousand on Unity Through Art

Zehra Naqvi: From Art History to Venture Capital & Crafting Authentic Communities

Chris Vergara on Mastering The Creative AND Business Sides Of Directing. Shooting for Chance The Rapper, G-Eazy and more

Jaeson Ma on starting 88Rising, Bridging East & West, Moving Culture Forward

Jamie Cho on The Creator Economy And Empowering Creatives

Ruben Harris Breaks Down The Future Of Job Training

Georgia Dienst on Google X, Coaching CEOs, Global Entrepreneurship.

ThoughtPoet on Building A New Chicago From The Ground Up

TroyFromChicago on Directing for Chance The Rapper, Joey Badass, Vic Mensa, NIKE, Roc Nation & More.

Enitain Bereola on 3X Best Selling Books, Largest E-commerce Platform for Black Businesses and more.

Sonia Nagar on Pritzker Group And Going From Founder to VC

Gale Wilkinson on VITALIZE VC, Angel Investing, and 10+ years in Venture Capital.

Wally Green on Ping Pong in North Korea for Peace, Diminishing Ignorance, and more.

Ian Brock on Dream Hustle Code, Getting Kids Into Tech, and "The New Nerd"

Scott Kitun on SongFinch, TechNori, and disliking NFTs

Kim Aponi on Chi Products, Being an Artist, Traveling, Trusting Intuition.

NoCapSawBuck on Punk, Hollyweird, Music, Being Yourself.

Maddie Wang on Founders Communities & Community Building

Paige Finn on Behind Genius Ventures and Making VC Cool

Nait Jones on Chillin With Ye & Zuckerberg, Cultural Geniuses, And Being At a16z.

SoloCelo on Performing at SXSW & Summer Smash, Meeting ASAP Rocky, Going Viral on TikTok.

Sonny on Getting Offered 6-Figure Deals, Opening For Pusha T and more

Jeff Osuji on Creating The Premier Event Platform For The Culture

Claude Cimeus on Improving Chicago's Tech Ecosystem, Tech Week Chicago, And Chicago's Food Scene.

Senite on Backyard Shows To Headlining Concert Halls In A Year

Andy Dunn on BiPolar, Selling Bonobos For $300M, and His New Startup Pumpkin Pie

Jewel Ifeguni on Bringing Representation To Tech & Media

Baco on Being Dynamic And Thinking Outside The Box

Landon Campbell on Being a VC At 24 + Bringing More Early Capital To Chicago

Makafui Searcy on Creating An Art Renaissance And Running Fourtune House

Aaqib Usman on Launching Light Pong, Growing Up In Kuwait, and Moving To NYC From Chicago

Gabe Tavas on Creating Artificial Wood To Combat Deforestation And BioTech

Mirza Baig on Monk Mode, Fake Flexers, and Burnout

Ruben Flores on Creating Generational Wealth For Latinos World Wide

Jonah T. Wallach

Prod. Ra & GoldenBoyMnny: Performing At Summer Smash, Working With SupaBwe, Not Getting Paid For 150M Streams, and Moving In Silence.

Sir Trevor James & AM On: The Music Industry, Moving From Iran to Turkey to Chicago, and Building Their Brand “Collected”.

Trip On Dropping Out High School, Craftsmanship & Building “Rips”, Influence Of Street Culture, and Becoming Multi-Disciplined.

Mental Health And Relating As Young Peers w/ Graeme Phillips

Living Life By Your Own Design w/ Hayden Humphrey

Bryan Arriaga (Savybah) & Esteban Escobar (Made By Escobar)

Getting Untaped Youth Trained & Employed In Digital Marketing + Coaching Entrepreneurs w/ Kevin P. Davenport

Crypto Currency Revolution w/ CoinFlipATM

Diversity, Inclusion, And Race: Britney Robbins CEO of Gray Matter Experience

Three Young Midwest Creatives: NikosOnTheRun, Jared Avaloss, RoarJMckay

Freestyle Convo: Rob Baco, NoCapSawBuck, and Dutcho.

Freestyle Conversation: Kevin P. Davenport

Deadly Duo - Art + Culture + Events + Life: Kimisha Moxley & Makafuisearcy

Exploring Lucid Dreaming: Dashiell Bark-Huss

Upping Our Ability To Network With The RIGHT People: Spencer G.S CSO, Vintro

Esports, Weed Revolution, And Running A Venture Studio: Jeffrey Dirrenberger

Chicago DJ Take Over: Retro & DJ Royal

Redefining Human With Robotic Prosthetics: Psyonic

Improving The Renter’s Ecosystem of Chicago With Rentervention

Three Of Chicago’s Best Young Photographers: StevensJpeg, Trevor Parker, and Trip CP.

An Interview With Chief Hustle Officer: Illia Pashkov

Social Good, Non-profits, And The Business of Influencers: Steph Belsky

Your Friendly Social Media Expert: Troy Sandidge

A New Kind Of Leadership Training: Experience Ignite

Transforming The Insurance Industry For Positive Impact: Meg McKeen

Tech To Improve Education & Help Schools Collaborate: Fernando DeLeon

Cancer As An Awakening To Learn How To Love: Kathleen Brown

Improving Co-Working Spaces: Caitlin McAllister, Exec Director @ Catapult

On Being A Chicago Streetwear Creative: Des Money

How To Make Great Events with ESP Presents/Exchange 312

Best Practices Working In Multicultural Environments w/ Michael J. Asquith

Building Robots & Floating Gardens To Clean The Chicago River w/ Urban Rivers

Improving Chicago’s Music Scene & Freeing Yourself From Society’s Matrix w/ WemmyMo, Chris Vergara, and Preme

Closing The Future STEM Workforce Gender Gap w/ Maker Girl

Using 3-D Imaging to Prevent Sports Injury w/ Nilesh Mukherji

Empowering Professionals & At-Risk Youth Through Emotional Intelligence & Mindfulness w/TheSimpleGood

Improving Health Care In America w/ Gule Sheikh

Improving Non-Profit & Charity Branding w/ Jonny Imerman

Bridging The Gap, Young People & Cancer w/ Christine Adley

Improving Law School & Do Good’s Vision w/ Marut Shah

Spreading Financial Education & Resources w/ Marseil Jackson

Using Our Clothing Sustainably w/ Mona Fang