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Buzz Interviews Megan Gallagher of Motivational Talks with Megan

Yes! So I am a 24 year old 2x TED Talk Speaker, 3x Best Selling Author, AfterBuzz TV Host + Writer,Anxiety Advocate for Teens & Podcast Host! I am very passionate about helping teenagers and raising awareness for mental health. Personally, I struggled for years as a teen- I noticed the lack of open conversations about these real life topics. So I took it upon myself to be the change I wanted to see, I really think things happen for a reason and I struggled severely with really intense daily anxiety and panic attacks. I know what it’s like to suffer in silence, I just don’t want any teenager to feel that they are alone. It’s hard enough just being a human being in today’s world, but being a teen, especially in 2020, things are really challenging and I want to be that role model and source of light they can look to! Over the last 5 years, I have spoken at over 500 middle schools + high schools! All across the country, I worked super hard to get started and I just didn’t give up. I know I’m going to be at the Tony Robbins level, I mean I’m only 24 and he is 60!

Buzz Interviews Mark Cross of Three Sides

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We’re five friends from Moorpark, California. We all met in grade school but connected musically after high school. Our different influences have helped shape our open-minded approach to songwriting. We’ve played everywhere from pizza places to LA Clubs like the Roxy. No matter the stage, you can expect a high energy rock n roll show from us.

Buzz Interviews Mike O of Drippy K Song of the Day

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My name is Mike Oellrich and I am a former Drummer, Rapper, Producer and Global Marketing Specialist at Sony Records. I have ALWAYS enjoyed making music, but my skills were limited in what I could create (aka I was mediocre at all those endeavors). My true skill and What I knew I always had at a very young age was a special ear for talent, for new trends in genres, and being able to dig and find up and coming musicians. I was an A&R at heart, but as the music industry started to shift and YouTube became the new A&R, I had to find another way to show off my talent. Thus, creating Drippy K song of the Day. The goal was simple, a song a day, every day to help new artists really shine. Eliminating the clutter of other blogs who make 15-20 posts a day or a new music Friday style playlist where an emerging artist has to share their single with 120 other songs at a time. People give back to their communities in all types of ways, I felt that helping out emerging artists was my way to give back. I enjoy the excited DM or Tweet I get when I tell an artists they are getting a full day feature. I love music, I love sharing music and I like watching an artist blow up and being like, yeahhhh – saw that one coming!

Buzz Interviews DaChri

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So I grew up in Detroit. I was raised pretty conservatively. I don’t have any musicians in my family but growing up in Detroit my dad introduced me to some great music and musicians. I’m talking the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Supremes and the like. We both really loved BoyzIIMen. Michael Jackson was the biggest deal to not just me but my dad, my cousins, the kids at school, pretty much everyone at the time. Such great melodies and such great songs and an incredible performer. Then I remember being introduced to rap and rock through MTV and my mind was blown. These sounds were very opposite of what I was used to. The pain and turmoil they were feeling were being expressed in ways that I had never really heard at that age. I remember hearing 2pac, Biggie, Ruff Ryders, No Limit and such and being real captivated by their grit and swag. Then I was also listening to rock like Linkin Park, Hoobastank and Incubus. Then on the other side you had mainstream pop music which seemed to be the polar opposite. NSync, Backstreet Boys, Craig David, Usher, etc. Light, catchy, easy to repeat the songs after the first listen and I was in love with all of it. Different days meant different moods. I had all this music swirling around in my brain and I didn’t know what to do with it.

At 15 I wrote my first song. I wrote the words and the melody and would just sing it a cappella. Then I started writing more and more and then some. My grandmother had gotten me a guitar when I was 13 for Christmas but it just collected dust under my bed at this point so every song I would just imagine what the music would sound like. When I was 18 I went into the studio for the first time. I met up with a producer and told him my ideas. I sang the words and melodies I had come up with and he put music under them. It was a life changing moment for me. From then on you would never catch me not in the studio. A year later I would pick back up my guitar and start digging into chords and actually putting my own music to my lyrics and melodies. From there I started getting singer songwriters and indie rock. Artists and bands that used their voices and guitars to make a statement. Artists like Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Indie Arie, Manchester Orchestra, Parachute. Anybody that had a guitar and sang no matter the genre I was all for it.

Fast forward a few years and I find myself trying to implement all the music I loved growing up, with how I write songs, how I see life and where I want to go. This is where you get the crazy mash up that is DaChri.

Buzz Interviews Samantha Ramsdell

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Like many artists, I have been singing since and performing since I can remember. My dad was an opera singer and was really involved in the church, so I remember singing in church when I was as little as 6 and taking piano lessons at the age of 7. I am from a small town in Maine so there wasn’t a ton of opportunities for performers, but any chance to get on stage at local community theatres, sing in girl choirs, sing the national anthem at local games, take singing lessons and dance lessons, you named it and I would do it. My dream was always to be a professional singer since I can remember. When most kids were playing sports, going to parties, and hanging out with friends, I was either at a rehearsal, lessons or performances.
When I turned 17 and it was time to discuss college, deep down I really wanted to go to music school or go to the city to follow my dream of being a singer. But my parents and community were very apprehensive to doing anything outside of the norm, so I was told to go college and get a “realistic” degree like Business or Communications and get a “normal” job because singing was only for fun, not a career. So I quit singing, went to business school, got my degree, and got a job in Corporate Medical Sales. My corporate job brought me to Stamford but I found myself becoming severely depressed, I gained 50 pounds and started taking up drinking regularly, taking prescription meds and smoking up to a pack of cigarettes a day.
After almost 8 years of not singing or performing at all and becoming almost a shell of myself, I worked with an energy healer who saw the reason I was so lost was I was not practicing what I loved. I started singing lessons the next day, posting my journey on social media, and now a little over two years later I am a professional singer and performer. I’m the lead singer of the “9 of Hearts” Dance Band, I train with Manhattan Comedy, Upright Citizens Brigade, and Groundlings in improv and stand up comedy, and regularly takes the stage in both regional and Off-Broadway productions. Most recently, I released my first original single “Can’t Be the Only One”, now available on all streaming platforms, and was named one of the “Top 5 New Internet Comedians to Follow in 2020” and a “New Rising Artist to Watch” by New York Weekly.

Buzz Interviews Trevell Franklin of Only1Tipy LLC

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I’ve been doing music for over 15 years now. I started with rewriting major artist lyrics to their songs. I remember writing my first song in 5th grade and the rest was history. I always took Music very serious where many of my friends stopped making music throughout the years. I’ve been blessed to work with a lot of great musicians throughout the years. I never let my reality dictate my dreams. I’ve always put my dreams first.

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Buzz Interviews Terry Milla of 100 Trillion Entertainment

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I’ve been in this music game my whole life. I was about 12 when I started rapping and 14 when I got my first contract with Ghetto Records. That was in the “Golden Era” of hip-hop and I’ve seen the world and the whole game change. I got placements on TV, a video game, a movie, and traveled internationally to perform for large audiences. I got the coveted “Unsigned Hype” section in Source Mag in 2001. Common, Biggie, & Eminem all received the same honor.

I had major deals on the table at that time but 9/11 happened and the deals didn’t happen. I also turned down different deals with major labels and producers that many would have jumped at. I always wanted to preserve the quality and soul of the music while the labels wanted to exploit it to the fullest until I ran out of hits. Then they can go find another talented artist to leech on to.

I started my own entertainment company, 100 Trillion Ent. to offer what I feel is missing in the business: integrity, favorable deal terms, & giving artists room to be genuinely creative. I’m the first artist on the roster, Terry Milla.

Buzz Interviews Mariel Alvarado of CommunicArte

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Oakland, California is where my story starts in the mid-80s, where I born to a Polish-American mother that left the mid-West for sunnier California, and to a Venezuelan father that was studying holistic health on scholarship. They met in an Indian ashram, and within a week, they fell in love and departed for Venezuela to attempt a life there. Plans changed, and they quickly returned to California, I was born, and we spent four relatively happy years in the Bay Area. We lived humbly, but we were happy. We moved to Portland, Oregon in 1988 after close friends encouraged us to come north. Portland is the city I will always call home. Despite living abroad and moving to the East Coast to make a life in NYC, I always returned to Portland. For so long I resisted the thought of living in Portland long-term, but as time has passed, I think this is the city for me.

That being said, my identification with my Venezuelan culture and the years I lived and traveled abroad in Latin American have been equally as important to my personal and professional formation as Portland has been. Freshly graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a double major in Psychology and Hispanic Studies, I had the vague desire to “be of help” and live in Latin America, so I applied to the Peace Corps. Six months later, I was on a plane to Nicaragua to train as a Community Health Educator and live for 24 months in San Sebastian de Yalí, a small semi-urban village nestled In a valley between lush, green mountains. In my official role, I taught sexual and reproductive health education classes to high school students, and nutrition classes to pregnant women. We also organized activities and festivals about HIV/AIDS prevention. It’s important to note that I learned even more outside of my official educator role by listening to and learning from my community. I immersed myself in Yaleño culture by watching Nicaraguan matriarchs make sopa de gallina con albondigas (chicken soup with meatballs), playing soccer at night with my teenager male buddies in the concrete plaza, and exploring the hills and rural communities that surrounded the town with the high schoolers I taught during the week.

Upon my return to Portland, I still had the desire to be of service. During four years, I worked in direct service at Planned Parenthood, and at a local rape crisis center, the Sexual Assault Resource Center. I worked closely with men, women, and youth of many backgrounds, cultures, ages, socioeconomic statuses and abilities. My experience as a middle class, straight, cis-gendered, white Venezuelan young woman with little experience of firsthand trauma oftentimes didn’t mirror that of the people I worked with. I think my innate desire to listen to understand, and my genuine interest in their experience was what allowed me to connect with the people I supported, and to do my job well, despite the differences between us.

And then in 2013, I surprised everyone by making a career shift into graphic design. (I promise it will all make sense – keep reading on!) I deeply loved the field work I was doing but after years of not taking care of myself and overpromising my time, the burnout was real. I realized a long-term career in public health was not sustainable. I set out to be the graphic designer behind non-profits and global health organizations to the end I could still exercise my support of social justice, but from a different angle. And that is the journey I have been on these past seven years.

Buzz Interviews Keith Andrew of KeithAndrewNetWork.com

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June 13, 2013
I created my very own Talk Show.

Reason for the Talk Show was to turn myself on to example for people who are dealing with any type of learning disabilities and disability’s to never give up and prove people wrong.

Idea show you that labels do not dictate who you are and who your going to be so #BreakTheLabels

Buzz Interviews Jalia Pettis of 3Jay Productions

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My story is a testimony of perseverance and passion. I have always had an interest in entrepreneurship however my career began in retail management which quickly shifted to working in human resources. I worked my way up through the ranks into a leadership role. However that wasn’t enough for me, I kept applying for various promotions but was tired of always adding skills yet hitting a brick wall. So I decided it was time to do something I enjoyed which involved fashion and talent management. I had attained experience in these areas at a young age by being in front of the camera. It became second nature so much so that it turned into a part-time job. I juggled a full-time career and a part-time passion for several years. That passion birthed a business called 3Jay Productions. Five years after it’s inception I quit a full-time job with benefits to move across the country. Of course most people thought I had lost my mind, little did I know this was going to be one of the best decisions not only for me personally but also for my budding business. That was eight years ago and I’ve created a brand that is thriving.
3Jay Productions is a multi-faceted B2C and B2B that caters to those in the beauty fashion and entertainment industries.