Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur. This episode was recorded at SXSW 2023 at the Label Coin house.

Janishia Jones is a music business executive, entrepreneur, and singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Raised in Paterson, NJ, Janishia began a long-standing passion for the performing arts as a violinist, self-taught pianist, classical dancer, and trained opera-singer earning her several titles in local talent competitions.​Upon graduating with an Associate in Recording Arts, Bachelor in Music Business, and Master in Entertainment Business from Full Sail University, Janishia has led a decade long career working for some of the most revered music companies in the world including SRC / Loud Records, eOne LP, and Kobalt Music Publishing. Currently, in her role as a music publishing senior executive at EMPIRE, her expertise in copyright & royalty administration has resulted in her becoming responsible for the success of some of the greatest songwriters & producers of our generation. Long-time advocate for artist's rights, Janishia founded the self-management & artist development platform Brok'n Records LLC in 2010 as a vehicle for DIY artists to maintain their independence in a changing music environment. Serving as a safe space and to bring awareness to socio-economic issues affecting black millennial women, she founded Fresh 'N Sassy Productions, a podcast & multi-media platform, whose premier exhibit 'Taking Up Space: a music + art pop up' showcased the talents of local black female artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Catera is a media production company that connects creatives with businesses through live event production, brand campaigns and content creation. Catera was founded and led by its owner Kennita Hickman, an award winning music entrepreneur, urban cultural micro-influencer, writer, content producer, and executive producer. Her 23-year career has spanned writing, public relations, voiceover talent, event production and artist management. Artists managed include The Cranberry Show, Tapebenders, and B ALXNDR. Prior to her work at Catera, she wrote for various music publications including Urbanology, Relevant, and The Source. She currently serves on #IVOTED Board and MIlwaukee Theatre Alliance. Previous boardwork includes Above the Clouds, faith-based art and youth organization, Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI) and Repairers of the Breach. She is also Radio Milwaukee’s 2021’s “Milwaukee Music Ambassador of the Year” and WAMI’s 2013 President’s Award recipient.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

After studying languages and literature, Coralie worked in higher education. She then moved into start-ups, innovation and project management, with a focus on the media sector. Today, she has made content creation and management her passion. She coordinates events and logistics in her job by working as part of Wallifornia - an Entertainment & Technology hub based in Liège (Belgium), where startups, professionals & investors develop together the future of their industries.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Wavlake is a Chicago based music and podcast technology startup that uses bitcoin Lightning payment technology to help creators worldwide unlock more value from their work. The company has raised a pre-seed funding round led by Trammell Venture Partners. The investment will be used to build and market tools that enable a new wave of digital audio content that is integrated with open payment technology, allowing for creators worldwide to unlock more value from their content and giving them the ability to universally accept near instant payments.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Emily White is a Partner at Collective Entertainment and the Founder of #iVoted Festival. She is the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling "How to Build a Sustainable Music Career" and "Collect All Revenue Streams", and hosts the book’s accompanying podcast of the same name. The podcast is the #1 Music Business podcast globally, charting on six continents with listeners in 115+ countries.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Sharon Tapper is Executive Director of the Music Managers Forum-US (MMF-US). Former SVP Music Publishing at Razor & Tie Music Publishing and VP Creative at Kobalt. In 2008 elected to and served on the NY Chapter of the GRAMMY’s for multiple terms as both Governor and Secretary. She served six consecutive years as Co-Chair of the NY Chapter Advocacy Committee and remains an active member. In 2019 she was elected to serve on the NY Chapter of the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP). Ten years ago, she Co-Founded the New York City Creative Community (NYC3).

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Andrea Wallace (aka Super Dre) is an entrepreneur, a software developer, a musician and a creative. Wallace wears many hats and that’s the way she prefers it. As a natural relationship builder, connections with people have taken her all over the United States from Los Angeles to Detroit and now back to Grand Rapids.

In this episode we will be talking to Andrea about her tech company Opnr - a B2B, double-sided marketplace platform that uses data to connect musicians with concert organizers offering performance opportunities. Its easy-to-use, organized system professionally harnesses all relevant social media and music distribution channel data with the purpose of being to book opening performance opportunities for artists and help concert promoters and venues sell tickets.

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Recap video of the work that we did in 2022.

Thanks to the Coleman Foundation for their support and our sponsors Dell Technologies - Dell for Startups, The John E.& Jeanne T Hughes Foundation, Shure, Wintrust Bank and Comcast Business.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Esau Melendez studied film & video at Columbia College in Chicago and soon after began working with the Spanish Broadcast Network, Telemundo, and WYCC.

He has directed and produced various commercials and music videos with his production company, Clandestino Films Inc. The award-winning documentary Immigrant Nation!: The Battle for the Dream was featured on PBS nationwide and was funded by Latino Public Broadcasting in 2010.

He was part of WGHB Producers academy in 2013, a fellow of Kartemquin diverse voices in 2015, and a classic member of New day films.

In 2017 he produced a series of short documentaries for WTTW’s project Pilsen: My Neighborhood which illustrates stories of people who lived in Pilsen and made a positive impact in the community and also did work for the FIRSTHAND series on Segregation in Chicago.

He recently finished editing the eighty-episode series The Chair for spirit used media. The Chair tells the story of the history of Catholicism in the United States.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Amalie Briden is a director, founder, mother, artist and music specialist, currently serving as Innovation Manager at BPI - British Phonographic Industry.

BPI represents the UK’s recorded music industry, which is one of the most exciting and thriving music sectors in the world. British artists account for one in eight albums purchased by fans around the globe.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

CEO & Co-Founder of Let's GIG - Booking & Music Services, Ricardo acts as manager and agent since 2016 working with artists such as Luedji Luna, Mel, Majur, Giovani Cidreira, Tuyo, Rico Dalasam, FBC, and more. Also member of the Consulting Board of São Paulo Internacional Music Week - SIM São Paulo. As Festival Producer and Curator, he is the co-founder of Festival CONTATO that takes place in São Carlos, countryside São Paulo, since 2007. As entrepreneur was owner and programmer at the music venue GIG also in São Carlos (2013/18). At the moment is also majoring in a MBA on Business Management at USP/ESALQ (University of São Paulo).

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Brice Albin Yamedzeu has over 13 years of experience in the media and audiovisual, first as a radio host, then as a producer and TV host.

Currently, Brice Albin is the founder and CEO of Y Productions (Y Prod), focusing on content production and development of cultural and creative industries in Cameroon. Brice has equally been the Cameroon correspondent for the program 'Couleurs Tropicales' by Radio France International' ( RFI) since 2013. In addition to this, he is the Brand Ambassador for the highly esteemed Cognac Brand, Hennessy.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

DAWn Audio exists because the creation process for musicians and artists today is broken. The team has developed a new category of software that enables artists anywhere in the world to plug-in and co-create real-time with their favorite production tools. Rather than build a new tool for artists, DAWn Audio's web-app bridges compatibility with the existing tools artists use and love today.

A New Orleans based startup, DAWn Audio's mission is simple: to promote artists creativity. We envision a world in which a global community of co-creators finds a common home to further share the passion that already drives the music industry. Our technology is the foundation to making DAWn Audio that home.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

The Huntsville Music Office serves to create a more dynamic music environment that supports and strengthens Huntsville’s growing economy, attracts visitors and enhances the quality of life for current residents. It nurtures the city’s music ecosystem through advocacy, policy and strategic planning initiatives focused towards ensuring that our thriving music sector reaches its full potential.

As Huntsville’s Music Officer, Matt Mandrella will advocate for the City’s growing music sector and help oversee music-related strategic planning initiatives and economic opportunities.

Prior to relocating to Huntsville in January 2022, Mandrella worked at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. There, he was involved with all aspects of marketing for the iconic Graceland campus and for Graceland Live, a new music venture with Live Nation focused on bringing renowned touring acts to venues at the property. Before working at Graceland, Mandrella spent more than a decade in one of the nation’s foremost music cities – Austin, Texas – where he worked for a variety of different venues, festivals and companies involved with booking and promoting live music across the USA such as Fun Fun Fun Fest, Mohawk, SXSW and Do512 (DoStuff Media).

Mandrella originally hails from the Mobile area and earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of South Alabama.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Pixie has been the sole owner and operator of one Australia's longest running live music venues The Zoo for the past 6 years and has experience as an artist and venue booking agent, head of A&R, within record labels, distribution, publishing, artist management and closely with festivals and international touring promoters.

She has a deep appreciation and understanding of small business and has been self-employed and working in live music over the past 10 years.

Pixie is the founder of FEED MUSIC, a tech based platform where musicians, businesses and fans can connect and engage in mutually beneficial collaborations.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Félix Barros Ribalta, serial entrepreneur working since 2011 in innovation and associativity for the music industry. Founder of Evento Medido / Measurevent, impact measurement and sustainability analytics for events. President of MUSTACH - Music Tech Association Chile (+20 companies). Co-founder and former Secretary of IMUVA, Association of the Music Industry of the Region of Valparaíso, and Content Director of VAM / Hub Musical music conferences. Artist Incubation & Acceleration Director at Probeta Music (feat. Veró, Luciano Altair, Bahía Conejo, SIMH).

https://www.measurevent.org/

http://mustach.cl/

https://imuva.cl/

https://valparaisomusical.cl/

https://hubmusical.cl/

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Jocelyn is a self-taught fashion designer, dream chaser, chicagoan, wife, dog mom, get sh*t done kind of gal. She founded her clothing brand, Swap & Strut, after realizing she was in an unfulfilling finance career. After years of feeling stuck in her 9-5 job, she became fed-up with playing small and decided to quit her career and commit to pursuing her dreams of becoming a fashion designer.

Now, she is building her fashion brand, with a mission to make the world a better place for women. In 2022, she started the “Quit your Job and get Creative” podcast to empower women to pursue their dreams.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Bio: Drew truly embodies what it means to be a musical entrepreneur. He's toured the country as a guitarist, found his passion as a DJ/MC and co founded Fun House in 2016 where he's helped other artists, entrepreneurs and creatives scale their business. Drew's natural energy is incomparable, contagious, and is something every brand or event needs to be elevated to the next level.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Bio: As the very first Executive Director of Illinois Women in Cannabis, Amor leads a vibrant community of women interested in working in the Illinois’ nascent regulated cannabis industry. IWC champions women with diverse backgrounds, entrepreneurial spirits, and innovative ideas, and so does Amor. As the former Director of Strategic Initiatives for 2112, Chicago’s first incubator for creative industries, she focused on creating meaningful programming, raising capital, and developing advanced professional development initiatives. Within Illinois’ burgeoning cannabis industry, Amor sees vast opportunity to use her experience in order to create more equitable economic opportunities, drive innovation, and encourage entrepreneurial initiatives.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Sam Hulick is CEO of ReelCrafter, a platform for musical artists including composers, musicians, and songwriters, to showcase their music to potential clients. He has a dual background as both a BAFTA-nominated and NBC News award-winning composer, most known for his work on the Mass Effect Trilogy, and as a web developer, having worked with global brands such as Coach, 1-800-Flowers, Diageo, and Crate & Barrel, among others.

Over a decade of art directing for national and regional brands has built Sara Pocius's experience in all aspects of advertising strategy and design. Her integrated experience stretches from Las Vegas to Kansas tourism, fried fish to lactose-free milk, fine spirits to peanut butter—and covers social, digital, broadcast, eCommerce, and print.

Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, she co-founded ReelCrafter, a SaaS for audio professionals to showcase their work to potential clients, and heads creative & strategy.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

CHAN C. SMITH is a multi-platform filmmaker and content creator. She is currently a represented Director with Tessa Films. Her work includes narrative filmmaking, documentary, editorial and branded content.

Chan has created content for brands such as Nike Chicago, Parents Magazine, the NBA, and the Biden/Harris campaign. She is committed to exploring unique methods of storytelling, from the inception phase to final deliverables.

Previously, she served as the Multimedia Producer at EBONY and JET Magazines. Chan has directed, captured and produced interviews and cover shoots with high profile celebrities such as Ava Duvernay, Kevin Hart, John Legend, Jurnee Smollett, Chance the Rapper, NBA Stars Carmelo Anthony and Russell Westbrook, and notable public figures including Nikki Giovanni, Van Jones and Sandra Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal.

Chan is passionate about telling stories that are centered around the human experience in an effort to inspire, inform, and invigorate the masses. Chan can pivot from being a one “Chan” band to directing vast stories with her trusted ensemble.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Bio:
Mario is a Puerto Rican filmmaker & photographer based out of Brooklyn, NY. He fell in love with street photography the first time he picked up a camera, and hasn’t stopped shooting (or evolving) since. He has worked with Fania Records, Museo del Barrio, Discogs, Jameson, Remezcla, Tasting Table and the Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute. He has curated and directed teams of visual artists for the New York Latino Film Festival and Afro Latino Festival NYC. He has been resident documenter for nightlife events such as Rosa Perreo, Oriza, Vibras NYC, Que Bajo?! and has been published by Rolling Stone, Vibe, Complex, El Nuevo Día and Okay Africa, among others.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Michael Hoffman is the co-founder and CEO of Gather Voices, a technology company that automates the creation, management and publishing of video content. He is also the founder of See3 Communications, a digital marketing agency in Chicago and founder of the DoGooder Video Awards which honors the best social cause video on YouTube each year. Hoffman teaches marketing at the University of Chicago and is an internationally sought-after speaker and trainer who is a trusted advisor to business leaders on engagement strategy.

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Laura Castellanos is CEO and founder of CASTELLANOS Communications, a communication studio in the Dominican Republic specialized in podcast production, audiovisual and digital content creation. She has a Master's degree in Communications and Culture, at the University of Seville, and a Bachelor's degree in Advertising Communications from APEC University, in Dominican Republic.
Her podcast, Gente Brava or 'brave people', in English, has been highly praised and is an intimate dialogue about identity, courage and motivation which aims to highlight different Dominican and Caribbean personalities.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Anthony Spina is a highly creative and collaborative beverage leader, with a proven record of success in leading innovative marketing initiatives for nationally recognized organizations.

Together with Matt Sievers, he is creating SYSTEM ELECTROLYTE CHARGED SELTZER - The First Inclusive Drinking System, meant to fill the void in a rapidly changing beverage industry and give choice, control and consciousness to the modern beverage drinker. A variety 9 pack that includes (3) 12oz cans of 0% ABV, 5% ABV and 8% ABV.

Prior work experience has included senior brand manager for White Claw hard seltzer, brand manager for Old Style beer and field + culture marketing for Pabst Blue Ribbon.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Bio: Anthony Spina is a highly creative and collaborative beverage leader, with a proven record of success in leading innovative marketing initiatives for nationally recognized organizations.

Together with Matt Sievers, he is creating SYSTEM ELECTROLYTE CHARGED SELTZER - A variety 9 pack that includes (3) 12oz cans of 0% ABV, 5% ABV and 8% ABV. The First Inclusive Drinking System, meant to fill the void in a rapidly changing beverage industry, and give choice, control and consciousness to the modern beverage drinker.

Anthony's prior work experience has included senior brand manager for White Claw hard seltzer, brand manager for Old Style beer and field + culture marketing for Pabst Blue Ribbon.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Bio: Melissa Thornley is a leadership consultant, content producer, and writer specializing in emotional intelligence and media arts. She is also the Director of Marketing for Pravda Records, one of Chicago’s longest running indie record labels celebrating its 38th year working with artists across a wide variety of genres including indie rock, alternative, pop, soul, experimental, alt country and punk.

Over her two decades in advertising and film production, she led world-renowned creative editorial and visual effects teams in Chicago, New York, and London. She also represented music houses and production companies for broadcast and content projects.

She is Chair of the Board of Directors for Free Spirit Media, a not-for-profit whose mission is to transform media and society by partnering with emerging creators primarily from Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood.

Tickets to the Pravda Records' Anniversary Concert: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pravdafest-sketchbook-brewing-celebrating-38-years-of-music-tickets-311148051197?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Michelle Breyer is the Chief Marketing Officer at SKU, the nation’s first CPG accelerator. She joined SKU after spending 20 years in the beauty industry.

Named one of the 50 Most Influential People in the Multicultural Market by Women's Wear Daily in 2015, Michelle Breyer is a visionary entrepreneur who took a personal frustration over her curly hair and built it into the largest social-media platform for hair. Numerous haircare brands launched on NaturallyCurly.

The company, which grew to include an ecommerce site, a consumer insights division and an experiential marketing company, was acquired in 2018 by Essence Ventures.

Over the past two decades, Michelle has consulted with numerous beauty companies to help them develop, position and launch right products and to create the most effective communication strategies to connect with this valuable consumer.

Before launching NaturallyCurly, Breyer was a business reporter with daily newspapers in Texas and California, focusing on retail, real estate and consumer products. A year-long special project on the explosive growth of Whole Foods Markets won several state and national awards.

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Global Industry Spotlight is a conversational series focused on providing resources and insight for the creative entrepreneur.

Bio: Aimy Steadman is a Co-Founder and COO at Future/Proof, creators of BeatBox Beverages - the World's Tastiest Portable Party Punch™ one of the best-selling US RTD cocktails. Future/Proof, recently awarded one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 5000 Fast-Growing Privately Owned Companies in America, is a disruptor in the beverage alcohol market that provides innovative solutions that drive incremental profit in high-growth categories.

Aimy Steadman serves on the following nonprofit boards: Naturally Austin, Naturally Network, and Entrepreneurs Organization: Austin. Steadman has also received a handful of notable national as well as global accolades, most recently Austin Chamber’s A-List 2020 in addition to being featured in a recent book entitled The Immigrant Hustle.

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Podcast law: Explaining Fair Use with Ilya Zlatkin (Part 2)

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