The Shift with Mike & Joe
The Shift with Mike & Joe
Podcast Description
Welcome to ”The Shift with Mike and Joe,” the podcast that takes you on a journey into the world of entrepreneurship with your hosts, Mike and Joe! Mike is an 9-year veteran of the self-employment game and Joe is a recent entrepreneur who kicked off his journey about 3 years ago.
Both hosts are not only business-savvy but also talented musicians, adding a unique twist to the entrepreneurial conversation. Mike runs the ”Kent Island Academy of Music,” a successful music school, while Joe operates ”Image & Sound Media,” a thriving photography and videography business. Beyond their entrepreneurial endeavors, these dynamic individuals are also solo musicians who occasionally team up in Joe’s band, ”Heavy Fred.”
”The Shift” strives for biweekly episodes filled with insights, advice, and real talk about breaking free from the traditional 9-5 job and making your own path in the business world. Mike and Joe will cover a variety of topics related to entrepreneurship, including the highs and lows of their own journeys, lessons learned, and tips for success.
Beyond the world of business, the podcast will dive into various aspects of their lives, from hobbies and self-care to the adventures of fatherhood. Expect a mix of valuable insights and lighthearted banter as they share their experiences, challenges, and triumphs.
Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur, just starting out, or simply curious about the entrepreneurial lifestyle, ”The Shift with Mike and Joe” is your go-to podcast for inspiration and entertainment. Don’t miss out on the fun—subscribe now and join them every two weeks for a dose of wisdom, laughter, and the occasional dose of nonsense!
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Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on entrepreneurship, personal growth, and balancing work with life, with episodes covering topics such as transitioning from traditional jobs to self-employment, productivity tips, and relationship dynamics within the business world. For example, episodes feature discussions on the creative process with musicians and entrepreneurs, insights from guests like J. Coursey Willis on managing multiple projects, and humorous reflections on personal interests such as music and hobbies.
Real conversations with Eastern Shore musicians, makers and business owners about the shift that changed their lives.
Every other Wednesday, Mike Waskey and Joe Bryan sit down at Mike’s studio on Kent Island, Maryland with someone from around the Shore and ask about the moment everything changed. The job they walked away from, the gig that turned into something bigger, the thing they almost didn’t try.
Mike runs the Kent Island Academy of Music. Joe runs Image & Sound Media, which films and produces every episode. The show is video first, so every episode is on YouTube too.
Every episode ends with the same question: what shift have you experienced in your life?
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“I don’t see any other life where I’m not doing this.”
The last time Julian Ewald checked, the playlist holding everything he has released ran four minutes under twelve hours. He is 21. As Mike puts it, he is releasing albums at the rate most people release singles.
Episode 46. Julian is a producer, singer and drummer who grew up around the Annapolis music scene, and the son of Bryan Ewald, the guest on Episode 43. He releases music under three names: his own, brantt, and an instrumental electronic project.
It started on the family computer in GarageBand, then a phone and an iPad. His first instrumentals went up on SoundCloud when he was 13. Skrillex was the way into electronic music, Daft Punk’s sampling was the obsession, and a Gotye making-of documentary convinced him some people were working on another level. He sang Phoenix songs over his Legos as a toddler, but it took years, and a dad who kept telling him to throw some vocals on there, before he sang on his own tracks.
His first real setup fit in a backpack: a MacBook Air, his dad’s hand-me-down keyboard controller, a two channel interface, an SM57, twenty dollar headphones, and a computer speaker his mom was not using. He made songs in his parked car and whole tracks in a phone app called Auxy. In high school he cut the occasional class to record in a practice room, and his teachers let it slide as long as he passed.
There is a detour through the day Joe clicked the listen button on Julian’s website and was told his computer had been taken over. Julian fixed the dead link during downtime on a shift at his day job. Mike gets the last word on that one.
Asked about money, Julian says the most he ever made from music came during COVID, on two Bandcamp releases, and all of it went to AMFM, the Annapolis Musicians Fund for Musicians. He makes his own album covers, has watched a school friend post her way to millions of likes, and is still deciding how much of that game he wants to play.
The other dream is film. He wore out a Tron: Legacy soundtrack CD as a kid, rescores movie scenes for practice, and wants to score a film or a video game. A short he made for a high school film class won an award and a standing ovation. He was not there. A friend texted him the news.
He has played exactly one show of his own songs, an opening slot at the Let’s Go! Music Festival in 2023 with his dad and his brother in the band. What he wants next is to perform the electronic music with his hands, the way Fred again.. does, instead of pressing play.
Two albums are on the way: Drive Me Home, played on real drums, bass and guitar, some of it with no metronome, and Airline Meal, written face to face with his friend Josh, the collaborator who talked him out of drowning his voice in reverb.
Josh gets a long stretch of the hour. He journals, writes lyrics Julian calls poetry, and tells the truth about a take. If he says keep it, Julian trusts him. If he says it may not be the one, Julian runs it back. Julian credits him with a lot of the confidence to release whatever feels right, whether or not it sounds like the last thing.
He produces for other people too: a country song for someone, beats for rappers, and a whole album with a friend during COVID that was recorded on two phone mics, with the vocals sent over as video files through Google Drive. He is still finding black screen videos of raw vocals from high school.
And then there is the family business. His brother is a drummer too. His dad plays the guitar solo on “Addicted.” The time Bryan offered to record his vocals properly, Julian had finished them before he got home. His parents met at a gig, and his mom was the one on stage.
The house has two studios in it. Julian and his dad pass on the stairs at dinner and end up talking about a new vocal plugin, and when Bryan is out on tour, Julian edits vocals in Pro Tools for his clients.
It ends with Joe pointing out that Bryan’s episode ran almost three hours, a rundown of where to find everything, and all three of them waving at the wrong camera.
What shift have you experienced in your life?
CHAPTERS
00:00 What do you think of this song?
00:33 Welcome to Episode 46: Julian Ewald
04:51 Four minutes under 12 hours of music
11:49 The side project: brantt
17:57 Finding his voice
21:49 His first recording setup
26:00 Cutting class to record
27:45 The scary link on his website
30:25 “I don’t see any other life”
34:22 Airline Meal with Josh
39:06 The most money he ever made from music
44:44 His brother and the ’80s album
49:09 The dream: scoring films and games
53:45 The standing ovation he missed
56:30 Playing his music live
1:03:28 Drive Me Home: no metronome, one take
1:05:51 Albums at the rate of singles
1:22:43 His dad’s solo on “Addicted”
1:26:59 His mom was the one on stage
1:31:32 Where to find Julian
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Bryan Ewald, The Shift EP 43
AMFM, the Annapolis Musicians Fund for Musicians
Let’s Go! Music Festival
Priddy Music Academy
Daft Punk, Skrillex, Gotye, Phoenix, Justice, Aphex Twin, The Horrors
Fred again..
Jason Falkner and Jellyfish
Tron: Legacy
Auxy, the phone app
Isabel LaRosa
MIGGS, a past guest of The Shift
CONNECT WITH JULIAN EWALD
Website: https://www.julianewaldd.com
All three projects, every release, and the updates list are on the site.
SUPPORT THE SHIFT WITH MIKE & JOE
Website: https://www.theshiftwithmikeandjoe.com
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CONNECT WITH MIKE & JOE
Michael Waskey Music
https://www.michaelwaskey.com
Kent Island Academy of Music (Mike)
https://kentislandacademyofmusic.com
Image & Sound Media (Joe)
https://www.imagesoundmedia.com
Joe Bryan Music
https://www.joebryanmusic.com
PODCAST PRODUCTION GEAR (EPISODE 46)
Cameras: Sony A7 IV, Sony A7 V, Sony FX3, Sony A7C II
Main Audio: Shure SM7B (Joe & Mike), studio condenser (Julian)
Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 18i18
Audio Software: Reaper
Video Editing: DaVinci Resolve Studio
Lighting: Amaran 100x & 200x softboxes plus Amaran tube lights
The Shift with Mike & Joe is fully produced by Image & Sound Media.
https://www.imagesoundmedia.com
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