Tony Scott-Green spent years as a corporate consultant with an entire soundtrack playing in his head before he finally let it out of the speakers. This episode is about what happens when you actually listen to the thing that makes you different.

Tony walks Ilse through his path from a bedroom guitarist in Scotland too anxious to play live, through decades in tech consulting, to composing scores for feature films and building sonic branding for major companies out of his Chicago and LA studio. He gets into the exercise that changed everything, a literal hour by hour map of a Thursday ten years in the future that his wife made him write out, and how that became his real roadmap off the consulting track. The conversation also wanders into Scottish folklore, banshees, the muse, and a fully formed conspiracy theory about grapefruit juice. Follow Tony at @tonyscottgreen on Instagram.

Tony’s documentary First Feature recently screened at the Chattanooga Film Festival. Find it linked in his Instagram bio.

In this episode:

• 00:00 – Tony’s reformed chronic lateness
• 01:28 – Cold open and intro
• 03:42 – Growing up in Scotland, bedroom guitarist to engineering school
• 05:40 – The Thursday ten years from now exercise
• 09:59 – Why networking is really just being a good hang
• 10:22 – Music for Imaginary Films, the demo reel that got him his first score
• 13:05 – Hot Cakes
• 15:38 – How Tony learned to actually take a hard director’s note
• 16:56 – Scottish folklore and getting woo woo
• 19:30 – The Rachel Dratch line: if you believe in magic, you’ll see more of it
• 21:22 – The grapefruit juice conspiracy theory
• 22:44 – Tony’s documentary, First Feature

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