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Janie Jennings is a veteran music industry executive with over 30 years of experience in distribution, rights management, artist development, label operations, and business strategy. She is the Founder of Creative’s Flow Ecosystem, Mind Your Music Biz, and Industry Works, organizations dedicated to empowering independent artists, producers, labels, investors, and creative entrepreneurs with the education, infrastructure, and strategies needed to succeed in today’s music industry. Since 2017, Janie has contributed to over 8 billion independent label streams, specializing in catalog audits, metadata, global royalty tracking, DSP optimization, and rights protection. Her expertise spans DDEX, ISRC/ISWC/ISNI standards, PROs, SoundExchange, and the MLC, and her work has helped recover millions in uncollected royalties. A sought-after speaker, educator, and industry strategist, Janie has led more than 17 national music business conferences and is the author of Navigating the Modern Music Industry. Her mission is to build transparent, scalable ecosystems that help independent creatives protect their rights, maximize revenue, and build sustainable careers.

Yahli Malchin is the founder of Wayve, a natural fiber activewear brand based in Venice Beach, CA. After starting his career in tech, he walked away from the traditional path to build health-conscious clothing made from organic cotton and merino wool. In this episode, Yahli shares the story behind Wayve, the hidden dangers of synthetic workout gear, entrepreneurship, purpose-driven work, and why building community matters more than chasing money. We also dive into natural living, burnout, creativity, and the mindset required to build something meaningful from the ground up. From barefoot soccer on Venice Beach to building a one-man movement against toxic activewear, this conversation is packed with insight for entrepreneurs, creators, and anyone looking to live more intentionally.

Chris Plourde is a Los Angeles–based Conscious Performance Coach, facilitator, and breathwork/meditation teacher with 25+ years of experience helping people strengthen emotional fitness, resilience, and aligned action from the inside out. His work blends nervous-system tools, mindfulness, and performance coaching to help clients disrupt old patterns, build sustainable habits, and move toward what they want in life with clarity and integrity. Chris has created and led hundreds of workshops and retreats for individuals, teams, and organizations including Twitter, Conscious Capitalism, YPO, Equinox, Tender Greens, Explore.org, Worldwide Produce, and David & Goliath and more, and he’s known for a grounded, high-care style that challenges people with compassion. ⁠https://www.chrisplourde.com/

Josh Spitzen leads one of the most productive real estate organizations in the United States.As CEO of both Keller Williams Beverly Hills & Keller Williams Hollywood Hills, he oversees ~1,000 agents, 20+ staff members, and 4 Keller Williams offices. Under his leadership, KW Beverly Hills became the #1 office in California for both productivity and profitability, establishing the benchmark for operational excellence and scalable brokerage performance.Over the past 11+ years, Josh has launched, scaled, and optimized multiple Keller Williams offices across Southern California, consistently building high-accountability cultures rooted in disciplined systems and measurable results.He is also Co-Founder of Forward One Estates, a modern boutique platform built for elite agents seeking innovation, infrastructure, and performance at the highest level.Josh is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Pomona College (Mathematical Economics), former Captain and Quarterback of the Sagehens football team, and began his career in investment banking at Patricof & Co. in New York before moving into executive leadership at Equinox.His leadership philosophy is simple: discipline compounds, systems win, and culture drives scale.Today, a proud father and devoted husband to wife Lola, Josh’s primary source of strength and drive is his family. Having a solid structure and crystal-clear mentality, Josh gets it done. As Josh tells his son Max, aka the Dude, every day before leaving for work, “Disciplined and consistent… unstoppable together."

Syanna is the founder and creator of Interpersonal Embodied Healing and is both a lifelong student and teacher of relational and somatic healing. She began her work as a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and eventually expanded her focus to include trauma, recognizing its deep ties to her clients’ complex health challenges. Over the past decade, she has supported hundreds of clients in cultivating safety, connection, and ease in their bodies, minds, and relationships. Syanna is trained as a Functional Nutritional Therapist and has completed NARM Level 1 training for working with Complex and Developmental Trauma. She currently sits as the director and lead teacher at The Institute for Interpersonal Embodied Healing where she trains practitioners in the art of trauma work, grief work and recovery. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her partner, son, and their two dogs, and enjoys spending time in the beautiful mountains surrounding their home.

John Classick is the author of a forthcoming memoir that traces an unlikely path from hardcore drug addiction and nine years in prison to a life rebuilt through literature, discipline, and mentorship. Once written off by nearly everyone—including himself—John’s turning point came through an unexpected relationship with a high-school teacher who challenged him to read, wrestle with, and live out the ideas found in the Great Books of the Western World. Through years of incarceration, John immersed himself in the works of history’s greatest thinkers, discovering that the same ideas that shaped civilizations could also reshape a single, broken life. His story is not one of quick fixes or inspirational clichés, but of slow transformation—earned through study, suffering, and personal responsibility. On podcasts, John speaks candidly about addiction, prison culture, redemption, and the power of serious reading in an age of distraction. His work explores a provocative question: What happens when a man with nothing left is given the best ideas humanity has ever produced—and takes them seriously? Tik Tok: @johnclassick Insta: www.instagram.com/johnclassick/

Sean Meier, professionally known as Sean Myer, is a multi-platinum American music producer and songwriter with over 6 billion streams worldwide. Best known for his work on top 20 radio hits like Ava Max's "Sweet But Psycho" (additional production with Cirkut), Trevor Daniel and Selena Gomez's "Past Life" (co-written and produced with FINNEAS), Maggie Lindemann and Cheat Codes' "Pretty Girl," Sean's catalog spans the industry's most influential artists—including Demi Lovato, G Eazy, Bazzi, Illenium, Pentatonix, Meghan Trainor, Rachel Platten among many others. Beyond music, Sean is locked in on the future of authenticity as co-founder of VRFD (pronounced ver•i•fied), a human-only, human-first network and AI detection startup launched with hitmaker Maejor that empowers people to identify what's real in a world increasingly saturated by AI slop.

Jean-Marie Jobs is a master trainer, having delivered over 20,000 hours of training time since 1997. Her experience ranges from corporate marketing in the US and international markets to intercultural work in Canada, Holland, Africa and the Middle East. Jean founded Yellow Marker with the vision of bringing character and values to the foreground in the commercial sector. also was CEO of Culture ROI. She developed and co-authored training materials and resources for their corporate clients as well as several non-profit and humanitarian organizations. In 1999, Jean became a Law Enforcement Chaplain, serving nine different law enforcement agencies in Sonoma.  She graduated from Jack Hayford’s School of Pastoral Nurture in 2006 and Dallas Willard’s Spiritual Formation for Pastors in 2009.  Jean is also the Director and Founder of GAP Youth Training Services, a ministry founded in 1998 dedicated to character development training for young people around the world. In 2012, GAP Youth became GAP Community and expanded to include work with adults and families both locally and internationally. Jean has trained over 100 facilitators and trainers in various organizations, developing both their skills and opening up new ways of thinking about themselves, others and their environment. Working in small businesses as well as Fortune 100 companies, she has developed custom curriculum and training programs to meet the specific needs of her clients.

Emil is a conscious entrepreneur, holistic chef, transformational leader, and plant medicine guide based in Los Angeles, California. He’s the founder of 72 Breakthrough, a transformational retreat and coaching experience that helps people reconnect with nature, release emotional blocks, and create rapid, lasting change in their lives. Emil is also the creator of DIOS, a premium line of organic magic mushroom products designed to help people awaken their potential. Through his work, Emil blends high-end culinary artistry and hospitality with spiritual guidance, crafting transformative experiences that unite food, nature, and healingwww.emildefrancesco.comIG @letsgoemilio

Arturo Stable is a proven cultural entrepreneur and Grammy Award-winning artist with decades of experience in both the artistic and operational sides of the creative economy. With a background that spans performance, education, business development, and multimedia production, the leadership behind The Arts Bank has a uniquely integrated vision of what artists, audiences, and investors need in today’s cultural marketplace.

Alfonso G. Rodenas is a five-time Grammy Award winning engineer with over 35 years of music industry experience, encompassing a wide range of musical styles.   Alfonso’s professional career began in Valencia-Spain, where he was the chief engineer in  acclaimed studio, Tabalet Estudis. Alfonso climbed the engineering career ladder, assisting and later recording some of the best World Orchestras to visit Valencia in the nineties, as well as some of the most relevant contemporary and classical music ensembles from Valencia and the Spanish national scene of the time. He also enjoyed the great opportunity to work with some of the most important jazz groups and orchestras in Valencia’s rich jazz circles.   Singer songwriters and bands of all styles paraded through Tabalet Estudis and Mr. Rodenas was an important part of the Studio's music production proposal. Additionally, music for Movies, Theatre, TV serials and commercials were also a part of his daily work flow.    In 2003, after his meteoric rise to the top of the music scene in his home town Valencia, Alfonso decided to take a big chance and moved to America. Thanks to the early mentorship and good advice of acoustic and studio designer, Vincent Van Haff, Alfonso started to hang out with and assist renowned Latin engineer Benny Faccone working with Maná, Marco Antonio Solis and bands like Pito Perez.   Mr.Faccone introduced Rodenas to 2001's producer of the year, K.C. Porter and he became KC’s house engineer at his Calabasas Home Studio, engineering projects for Algerian singer Khaled, including his collaboration with Carlos Santana, Spanish Reggaetón artist Huecco, Iraqui singer Kadim Al-Sager and Paula Cole, Los Angeles based band Ozomatli or Tracy Lions.   In 2006 thanks to songwriter Rafael Esparza, Alfonso was introduced to BMI Icons, Los Tigres del Norte, with whom he has enjoyed working with for the last 15 years and with whom he has won three Grammy awards, two Latin Grammy Awards and several nominations.   In between Los Tigres del Norte albums, Alfonso has worked with producers Like Ben Vaughn, Paul Lacques, George Calderon or Dennys Dreith among others.   Top L.A. Americana bands like I See Hawks in L.A., Old Californio and singer songwriters Like Mark Olson (The Jay Hawks), John Coinman or Gerry Spehar. Artists like Francis MacDonald (Teenage Fan Club) , Malcom King Fontana, Mark Miller, Rafael Moreira's Magnético, The Furious Seasons, Tony Gilkyson, Paul Nelson, Adam Lambert, Steve Cook, Dan Krikorian, Johnny Corralitos, Sulli, Anthony Lacques' Stoney Spring, Tim O’Gara, Shannon Michael Terry, Phil Crosby, El Twanguero, Los Pinguos, El Pescao, Austin Rogers, Analog Dog, Chris Elliot, Cesar “Vampiro” Lopez, Monoplasma, Victor Monroy y Pastilla, Cuevo, Mike Murray, Raphael Schmidt, Killing Casanova, Sugar in the Gourd, Juan Vinuesa, Scott Hartwig, Roberto Hermosillo, New Maximum Donkey, Pablito & Su Pandilla, Rick Ellis, Sayed Sabrina, Jeff Kossack, Sophia Elena and The Citie to name a few. A whirlwind of very diverse and rich musical styles to say the least..   As a composer Alfonso is in demand for library’s musical cues and film television scores.   In addition he is chief composer, producer and writer for his band The Blue Dolphins. The Blue Dolphins have been showcased throughout the world on radio and tv, played in the US, Mexico, Spain and UK on a regular basis.   A high-end music editor, vocal producer, recordist, mixer and mastering engineer, Alfonso excels in all audio techniques and disciplines. As a freelance engineer Alfonso is comfortable and at ease in all types of studio environments with all kinds of equipment. His preferred studio being his home studio in Malibu Canyon, California.

This episode features Jon Maki, a float facilitator and energy healer at Nalu Float. He has committed his life to raising consciousness and assisting individuals to understanding their authentic selves. He has lived a full life, from being a real estate investor to living on a sailboat in Guam and being an avid "fair weather windsurfer" he surely has a lot of experiences. This is a great listen and goes to a further dimension in the meaning of energy and our existence. Enjoy!

In this rare interview, Ethan shares his journey of growth over the past year since his last appearance on the podcast. Tru-u is back, and in this special episode, Ethan’s coach takes the lead, interviewing him for an in-depth conversation. Together, they dive into practical insights and profound reflections that we hope will resonate with listeners. #God #PersonalGrowth #Relaunch #Tru-u #PracticalLessons #Vision #Seasons #Marriage #Rebirth #Insight

Greg Singleton is a life coach, keynote speaker and business analyst that has spent over 20 years in IT and worked for a law firm that protected data for Fortune 500 Clients. With 13+ years of research, trial and error, failures and success, combining ancient teachings with modern science and psychology; he now has the freedom to live in each moment life gives him and is incredibly gifted at sharing it with the world.

Mike and Renee buss quit their jobs in 2022 at the age of 50, sold everything we own, packed 3 suitcases and hit the road to Mexico! They decided to start the channel our3suitcases for fun and to share their experiences with family and friends who by the way thought they were absolutely CRAZY! Turns out they were RIGHT! But we are truly enjoying our travels and don't plan on stopping anytime soon! They hope to inspire others like us to travel more, eat more and enjoy LIFE! Traveling has truly improved their health, our mindset and we feel years younger than we have in years! The world is ever changing, there is no reason you can´t change too! No matter your age. Find your passion and thrive! LINKS: YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@3suitcases2022 TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@3suitcases INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/3suitcases2022/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/3suitcases Since starting this youtube channel we have also started 2 others channels. A product review channel called BESE Buys: https://www.youtube.com/@besebuys2023 A cooking channel called Whatcha Cooking Babe: https://www.youtube.com/@whatchacookingbabe We are also launching our own merchandise soon! That is very exciting for us.Currently we have an Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/3SuitcasesTravelShop