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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“It was projected on a theater screen. Best supporting actor, Walter, played by sandwich. They didn’t even put my name on the screen.”
Somewhere in Annapolis there is an award for best supporting actor, and it went to a ham sandwich. Dan Sadler built the sandwich, puppeteered the sandwich, and did the voice. When the film played on a theater screen, the credit read “played by sandwich,” and his name was nowhere on it. He calls that the real award.
Episode 44. Dan Sadler is a drummer, a sound guy, a filmmaker, and, this week, a man with four jobs and a two year old. Joe knew him from the Ryan Keith Band, back when he covered Sturgill Simpson at Cult Classic and turned the whole room. Mike and Joe have wanted him in the room for a while.
Dan grew up in Annapolis with a twin brother he claims he kicked out of the womb first, an art teacher mom, and a sports dad. He came up drumming in a hard, loud rock band and did not touch country until he joined the Ryan Keith Band, and now he cannot stop listening to Waylon and George Strait.
Most of the hour is one man doing the math on a life in the arts. He runs sound for the Annapolis Maritime Museum, plays drums for hire with The Leftovers, shoots video and photos under his own name, and works a remote nine to five doing the paperwork that gets cellular antennas onto towers for first responders. His wife runs a veterinary clinic on one salary. His four are trying to catch her one.
The heart of it is Play A Song, the festival he brings back this year on Sunday October 4 at the Eastport Democratic Club. It started as a way to grieve Sean Hetrick, a best friend and Annapolis singer songwriter lost to addiction during COVID, when the memorial had to be livestreamed. One concert turned into a fundraiser, then an annual event, and then the Sean Hetrick Bereavement Benefit, a fund through AMFM for the family of any local musician who dies unexpectedly.
The money conversation is the one Mike and Joe keep coming back to, and Dan is plain about it. He quit bartending ten years ago to chase video and music full time, made salary, got let go overnight when a franchise decided he was not in the budget anymore, went jaded, and clawed his way back. Now he is bartending Sunday nights at the same bar he grew up next to, arriving on a little reggae penny board, because it is easy money and it is his neighborhood.
There is a whole thread on Mike McHenry, the local guitar player so intense on stage and so gentle off it that he once handed Mike his Acoustasonic, minutes after they met, and told him to take it to a gig. And there is the three day stretch nobody would script: Dan proposed to Stephanie on a Thursday with her parents watching from Florida on a livestream, a best friend married on the Saturday, and the first Play A Song ran on the Sunday, where the two of them sang a duet.
Play A Song runs 12 to 5 on Sunday October 4, doors at 11, all ages, at the Eastport Democratic Club in Annapolis. Mike McHenry, the Ryan Keith Band, the Timmy Metz band, and Dan’s own Leftovers close it out, with SoCo Butcher on the food and a tie dye station for the kids. Two police officers once called the last one of the most loving and peaceful events they had ever worked.
There is a lot of film in here too. Kensington Studio Sessions and its 200 episodes. Shrug Productions, the improv heavy crew he directs. The Remnant, an uplifting short about a plane crash survivor who will not eat his best friend, who happens to be a living ham sandwich. And a Barry style script he keeps trying to write, built around a real Hollywood stunt double.
And then the shift itself, which for Dan is not the nine to five. It is the freshman year of high school when he took in his niece, the moment his fiancee went all in, and the son who arrived and made all of it times a thousand.
What shift have you experienced in your life?
CHAPTERS
00:00 Wayfinders Testicular Health Fund
00:12 The pre-show ramble
00:48 Two plays and a pillow to the face
01:28 Beer dandruff and beard oil
02:13 Welcome to Episode 44
02:36 Sturgill Simpson at Cult Classic
03:02 Drums for hire: Ryan Keith Band and The Leftovers
03:43 Outlaw country was not his wheelhouse
04:15 “Hard drunk rock band”
04:45 Mike the metalhead
05:38 Music comes in waves
06:10 Born and raised in Annapolis
06:47 A twin brother
07:21 “I got tired of him and I kicked him out”
07:41 Danny Paul, Charles Clinton and Jon with no H
08:20 Joe’s first name is Charles too
08:54 The bands he plays with now
09:22 AMFM, the Annapolis Musicians Fund for Musicians
09:47 Play A Song, Sunday October 4
10:17 Sean Hetrick
10:49 “He lost a battle with addiction”
11:02 How one concert became a festival
11:52 The Sean Hetrick bereavement fund
13:13 What AMFM does for a musician who loses a gig
14:13 Nothing like it on this side of the bridge
15:49 The planning committee is Sean’s family
16:21 Joe: addiction is no joke
17:27 Good Samaritan House and the recovery tents
18:58 The lineup: Mike McHenry, Timmy Metz, The Leftovers
19:40 Mike McHenry offstage and onstage
20:09 “You want to borrow it? Take it to a gig”
20:47 A 45 minute jam with a guy who had no drummer
21:44 Dan’s update: the Ryan Keith Band
23:16 “Once you play one set, you’re a leftover”
24:03 The drummer who sings lead
25:40 He remembers the changes from the lyrics
26:24 Rehearsing Treaty Oak Revival in this room
27:11 Jesse’s wedding invitation
28:35 “Just play the song”
28:59 Twelve bags of beer and a host in recovery
29:59 “It was Yuengling Light, guys”
30:27 Quinn
30:56 Brad the fiddle player
31:34 Sponsor: Wayfinders THF and Putts Fore! Nuts
33:54 Tides and Tunes at the Annapolis Maritime Museum
35:46 “I didn’t have to play a single note”
36:33 The September sunset series
37:51 Thousands and thousands of viewers
38:06 Do you use AI to cut the clips?
38:45 Joe edits inside Resolve with Claude
39:37 “The only AI I’d be interested in”
40:51 The website that updates itself
41:36 Kensington Studio Sessions: 200 episodes
42:02 Shrug Productions
43:58 Erica Rowe and Wyatt Unger
45:34 Which Shrug is the real Shrug
46:20 The projects he is proudest of
46:49 The Remnant
47:26 “I was a ham sandwich”
48:32 The cameo rule: subtle or stupid
49:42 Best supporting actor, credited as “sandwich”
50:42 The Uninvited
52:32 The next scripts, and the two year old
53:18 Do short films make money?
55:09 A Barry style script
56:01 Rick Kane, Bruce Willis’s stunt double
56:38 “We better be having fun”
57:18 The marketing job
57:34 Sean’s father-in-law hired him
58:24 Let go overnight
59:24 Four jobs
59:48 The 9 to 5: cell towers for first responders
1:00:43 Flock cameras
1:02:25 Audio, video, photo: “it’s just me”
1:02:50 Bartending Sunday nights at The Point
1:03:40 Full circle, ten years later
1:04:13 His wife runs a veterinary clinic
1:04:36 “My four jobs is trying to catch her one salary”
1:05:03 How he met Stephanie
1:06:13 The penny board
1:06:46 “You seem a lot cooler than Mike”
1:07:07 The one session nobody names
1:08:05 A new question for the show
1:08:36 What the shift means now
1:09:03 The biggest shift: his family
1:09:15 His grandfather’s house
1:10:32 Thirty seven, married four years
1:10:54 Proposal Thursday, wedding Saturday, festival Sunday
1:11:32 The duet
1:13:11 Taking in his niece
1:13:49 “I got you”
1:14:43 When Stephanie went all in
1:15:28 Kids cause the shift
1:15:44 “My dad job”
1:16:26 Working remote
1:17:40 Play A Song: the details
1:18:12 SoCo Butcher does the food
1:19:33 Over $6,000 raised already
1:20:13 “One of the most loving and peaceful events”
1:21:04 All ages: tie dye and face painting
1:21:30 danielsadler.net
1:22:09 Wave to the cameras
THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY WAYFINDERS TESTICULAR HEALTH FUND
Be Bold. Be Brave. Be Aware.
Wayfinders THF is a Maryland 501(c)(3) dedicated to impacting the lives and health of young men by fighting testicular cancer through awareness, education, fundraising, and community support, with a focus on men aged 14 to 35. A component fund of Chesapeake Charities.
Website: https://www.wayfindersthf.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wayfindersthf
Donate: https://ccharities.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=2419
PUTTS FORE! NUTS – 2nd Annual Charity Mini-Golf Tournament
Saturday, October 17, 2026, 11:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Embers Island Mini-Golf, 2305 Philadelphia Ave Suite #4, Ocean City, MD 21842
Event info: https://www.wayfindersthf.org/putts-fore-nuts
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
AMFM (Annapolis Musicians Fund for Musicians) . Play A Song Music Festival . Sean Hetrick . the Sean Hetrick Bereavement Benefit . Eastport Democratic Club
Ryan Keith Band . The Leftovers . Ben Heemstra . Kensington Studio Sessions . Shrug Productions . The Remnant . The Uninvited . Rick Kane
Mike McHenry . Timmy Metz . Quinn . Brad . Treaty Oak Revival . Sturgill Simpson . Waylon Jennings . George Strait . Foo Fighters . Meshuggah . Barry (HBO)
Annapolis Maritime Museum . Tides and Tunes . SoCo Butcher . The Point . 49 West . Stan and Joe’s
CONNECT WITH DAN SADLER
Website: https://www.danielsadler.net
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dnlsadler
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dan.sadler.7
Shrug Productions: on danielsadler.net and YouTube
Play A Song Music Festival: Sunday, October 4, Eastport Democratic Club, Annapolis
AMFM: https://www.am-fm.org
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 44)
Cameras: Sony A7 IV, Sony A7 V, Sony FX3, Sony A7C II
Main Audio: Shure SM7B (Joe, Mike & Dan)
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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