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A Valentine’s Day Love Letter to Thoughtful Thought Leadership

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Love letters are a great way to let someone know exactly how you feel. Whether you believe today is simply an over-commercialized capitalistic run at greeting cards, chocolates and flowers, or that the day embodies the heart and soul of what makes us human and connected, today, I do reflect on the many kinds of love that fill my heart.

I love thoughtful thought leadership.

I love Thinkers that show-up without showing off.
I love Thinkers who sell their ideas without selling their souls.
I love Thinkers who bring ideas into this world without being a jackass about it.
I love Thinkers who present ideas instead of bloating their status.
I love Thinkers who don’t pander for likes, comments and subscribes.
I love Thinkers who know the difference between building a personal brand and self-marketing (they are not the same).
I love Thinkers who build frameworks without being a “market of one.”
I love Thinkers who are quotable and don’t create social media content quotes about their own work.
I love Thinkers who make money because their ideas get implemented/work and not because they simply said something on social media.
I love Thinkers who think deeply before hitting the publish button.

What is the heart of the Thoughtful Thought Leader?

Knowledge and expertise. A deep understanding of their domain of authority coupled with tangible results. Authenticity. Genuine and transparent. This leads to real trust and valuable audiences.Relevance. Unique thinking backed with results that create value and relevance.Consistency. How well they show up – time and time again. ‘How often’ is as important as the value in that frequency of connection.Creativity. How unique is the way that they solve a problem? How creative is the way in which they deliver this information?Boldness. Can they take risks, challenge the status quo and does this work drive change and progress?Adaptability. The true ability to change and evolve the thinking as the world changes… which is happening at an exponential pace.Communication skills. A strong ability to cogently share the thinking in a meaningful and resonant way.Credibility. A strong reputation is not defined by followers or subscribers. It how their domain of authority is accepted in the industry that they serve. Credibility and trustworthiness then creates lasting impact.Community. Audience engagement matters. Audience commitment to the work is paramount. How does everyone show up to make everyone better?

If you are a Thoughtful Thought Leader, I’d like to get to know you better.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Before you go… ThinkersOne  is a new way for organizations to buy bite-sized and personalized thought leadership video content (live and recorded) from the best Thinkers in the world. If you’re looking to add excitement  and big smarts to your meetings, corporate events, company off-sites, “lunch & learns” and beyond, check it out.

Dr. Tina Opie On Breaking Down The Walls Of Inequity At Work – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #866 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to

Founder of OCG, Dr. Tina Opie, brings over twenty years of expertise in strategic management and organizational behavior. She is an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, an award-winning researcher and a consultant. As a consultant, she provides organizational guidance to create more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces. Her work has been featured in O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, and more. Tina’s research has generated high-impact solutions that promote authenticity in organizations. Her latest book, Shared Sisterhood (co-authored with Beth A. Livingston), is for all of us and shows organizations and teams how to unleash their potential. In this episode, Tina shares the Shared Sisterhood framework and effective strategies to motivate everyone to become part of the effort. She explains foundational elements about workplace equity (and what it should look like), helping leaders and their organizations move forward faster… and together. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose):  #866 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast.

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SPOS #866 – Dr. Tina Opie On Breaking Down The Walls Of Inequity At Work

Welcome to episode #866 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #866. Founder of OCG, Dr. Tina Opie, brings over twenty years of expertise in strategic management and organizational behavior. She is an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College, an award-winning researcher and a consultant. As a consultant, she provides organizational guidance to create more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces. Her work has been featured in O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, and more. Tina’s research has generated high-impact solutions that promote authenticity in organizations. Her latest book, Shared Sisterhood (co-authored with Beth A. Livingston), is for all of us and shows organizations and teams how to unleash their potential. In this episode, Tina shares the Shared Sisterhood framework and effective strategies to motivate everyone to become part of the effort. She explains foundational elements about workplace equity (and what it should look like), helping leaders and their organizations move forward faster… and together. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 48:24.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.Check out ThinkersOne.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Dr. Tina Opie.Shared Sisterhood.Beth A. Livingston.OCG.Follow Dr. Tina on LinkedIn.Follow Dr. Tina on Twitter.This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #866.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #659

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another:

The Toronto Dreams Project. “Some of this is true. For years, a historian has been recounting—and sometimes imagining—Toronto’s history. From the Imperial Airship Scheme, to pet dissections at the Toronto Exhibition, to the Toronto Circus Riot of 1855, there’s a lot here. Adam Bunch, a local historian and journalist, pours his imagination and some incredibly old photos into his city.” (Alistair for Hugh). The Job Decision Matrix – Kindel . “A lot of people are changing jobs right now. Some of them are part of the Google/Facebook/Meta/Amazon/Microsoft wave. It’s a rough time, and like the pandemic, a chance to reflect on the life you want to lead. Our obsession with productivity means many of us spend our lives working to save for a day that may never come. The journey is the point, and this tool (written in 2012) is a simple, but obvious, tool. Too often we take a job and build our lives around it; what if, instead, we applied the same kind of strategic planning to life that we do in our day jobs?” (Alistair for Mitch, but only because he’s such a good example of how to embody a career that creates the life he wants). The Powerful Role of Magical Beliefs in Our Everyday Thinking – The MIT Press Reader . “How much of your time is spent thinking: ‘How could [group X] possibly believe [crazy idea Y]?’ My guess is, a lot. For me I think that often about, say, Flat Earthers, QAnonists, anti-vaccine folk, and that’s just this morning. Often my feelings are based on very specific knowledge. For instance, mid-Covid panic, I asked a friend who is an expert in designing large-scale medical trials what he thought of the papers/studies and evidence suggesting that Ivermectin was the miracle cure for Covid. He explained, sensibly, why the data in those studies was just not good enough (he was in favor of more study, fwiw), and explained why. But sometimes, my beliefs are indeed just a kind of ‘faith’ in a certain way of seeing the world. I’m a believe-the-science guy through and through, and yet, I’ve lived the foxhole experience countless times when something really bad might happen: I’ve made all sorts of deals with the cosmos over the years (‘If outcome A happens, I promise to do B’). I don’t believe in God, nor do I believe the cosmos cares what I do, and yet. And yet. I still make these deals on occasion. New research explains (maybe not so new?) that even the most non-magicy among us will use magical thinking to fill the void when there is high levels of uncertainty and stress. You do it and I do it. Not just [group X] with [crazy belief Y].” (Hugh for Alistair). That ’70s Show – Texas Monthly . “I’ve been listening to a lot of ‘outlaw country’ these days, a country music scene that emerged in (Austin) Texas in the 70s as an alternative to the strict rules of music coming out of Nashville in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Greats like John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, and of course, Willie Nelson. Here’s the story of the outlaws.” (Hugh for Mitch). Become a ChatGPT Pro – Business Breakthrough – Medium . “I am using ChatGPT (and other AI writing and editing tools, like Lex) much more than I would have believed, even a month ago. They have, without a doubt, become a personal assistant, Junior Copywriter, and brainstorming buddy for my work. If I am being honest, I am also using it this much because I am scared. I’ve had this feeling of being scared before. I recognize it. I had the same feeling when I logged on to another computer using a modem, the first time I saw a web browser, ecommerce, social media, smartphones, cryptocurrency, and a handful of other moments in time, when technology made me see the world in a way that I had not seen it before. I still believe that everything is ‘with’ and not ‘instead of’, so you can argue about whether or not tools like ChatGPT are going to change the world, I’m more interested in how they have already changed how I work… and how much more that is going to change with every passing day. Here are some tools if you start getting scared like me…” (Mitch for Alistair). The Future of Marketing is People – The Future Does Not Fit In The Containers Of The Past . “When ‘marketing experts’ talk about creating content as a way to build community, and how community is one of the highest forms of marketing, it makes me squirm (just a little). I think community – live going viral – is an outcome of things that a brand does (very well). Because a community is a group of like-minded individuals with a kindness towards a common denominator. When a brand is pushing content, it’s not (necessarily) building community, it’s getting attention (and, not just any kind of attention, but quality attention). What got me most excited about social media was not the connectedness of technology. It was also not the ability for an individual to have an idea, produce it and distribute it across a large network. Ultimately, it was one thing: real interactions between real human beings. No more corporate talk. No more mumbo-jumbo press releases. A human voice speaking, writing, communicating in a real way. This is not a new concept. I was wiring about this back in 2003, and there were countless others screaming about it before me (see: The Cluetrain Manifesto). Rishad Tobaccowala is one of the smartest people I have ever met in the marketing and business world. His latest newsletter (which can subscribe to for free right here) is always filled with wise words and reminders. The future of marketing is not about technology or community… it’s about people… I also (selfishly) love the fact that Rishad is one of the many Thinkers on my new platform, ThinkersOne.” (Mitch for Hugh).

Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.

Ahead of the Curve in 2023 with the Best Business Books from the World’s Top Thinkers

If you’re looking for something smart to read from some of the leading Thinkers in the world, look no further.

Following is a list of business books that have been (or will be) published in 2023 from some of the great minds that are currently available on ThinkersOne.

In case you didn’t know, ThinkersOne (my new business) is a new and easy way for organizations to buy bite-sized and personalized thought leadership video content (live and recorded) from the best Thinkers in the world. So, if you’re looking to add excitement and big smarts to your next meeting, corporate event, company off-site, “lunch & learn” or even as a gift to your clients, please do check it out.

Now, on to the books (in alphabetical order)!

Adam Alter releases, Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most, in May. Artfully weaving together scientific studies, anecdotes, and interviews, Adam teaches us that getting stuck is a feature rather than a bug on the road to thriving, but with the right tweaks and corrections we can reach even our loftiest targets.Jonah Berger releases, Magic Words: What to Say to Get Your Way, in March. Whether you’re trying to persuade a client, motivate a team, or get a whole organization to see things differently, this book will show you how to leverage the power of magic words.Rohit Bhargava releases, The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work and Thrive in the Next Decade, in March. For anyone looking to get ready for the future, this book will empower you to seize the opportunities that lie ahead in this crucial decade.Michael Bungay Stanier releases, How to Work with (Almost) Anyone: Building the Best Possible Relationship, in June. This book reveals the secret to better, more successful relationships at work (and in life).Laura Gassner Otting releases, Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should . . . and What to Do About It, in April. Success is wonderful, but it’s also kinda hell. It just might be that success is kinda wonderhell. This book is about how to thrive in those moments.Joe Pulizzi publishes, Epic Content Marketing, Second Edition: Break through the Clutter with a Different Story, Get the Most Out of Your Content, and Build a Community in Web3, in March. From the “godfather of content marketing”—this completely revised and expanded edition brings marketers fully up to date on the newest content marketing methods and tools, including Web3.Robert Rose releases, Content Marketing Strategy, in September. From the other “godfather of content marketing”- Instead of viewing content as a way to fit marketing’s purpose, change your marketing as a way to fit a content purpose.

Happy Reading and don’t forget to check out ThinkersOne.

TikTok Made Me Not Buy It

Did TikTok make you buy it? Was it as advertised?

Mitch Joel · TikTok Made Me Not Buy It – February 7th 2023

The way that we buy and TikTok’s influence over commerce continues to grow exponentially.
You know the hashtag #TikTokmademebuyit.
Or…
Amazon finds you need to know about!
These types of videos are all over TikTok (ad they’re highly addictive and satisfying to watch).
They are also training people (mostly younger ones) to buy, buy, buy.

Well, enter the “De-Influencers”

Read more about it here from the Wall Street Journal: ‘De-Influencers’ Want You to Think Twice Before Buying That Mascara.
TikTokers who are speaking critically about these “viral products” and advocating for throughful shopping habits.
What’s behind those who make us want to buy?
What’s behind those who want us to think twice?
What does Amazon’s third-party marketplace have to do with all of this?
Does commerce need to be more highly regulated?

This is a new era in commerce…

This is what Heather Backman and I discussed over on 95.9 Star FM for a couple of minutes today.

What is Tech Tuesday?

Every Tuesday – for just a few minutes – I join Heather Backman (my old buddy from her days on CHOM FM and Jack 103) on the air at 95.9 Star FM to give a quick blast about the current state of technology, media and Internet culture.
We call it Tech Tuesday (and we do it in just a few minutes).

Once the segment goes live on 95.9 Star FM, I will post it here for you to listen in, learn, share and engage.

Before you go… I just launched a new business called, ThinkersOne. It’s a unique way for organizations to buy bite-sized and personalized thought leadership video content (live and pre-recorded) from the best Thinkers in the world. If you’re looking to add insight, excitement, and big smarts to your regularly scheduled meetings, corporate events, company off-sites, “lunch & learns” and beyond, I think you will love this. We have democratized access to the smartest people by providing a platform for these incredible and personalized “moments in time.” Will you check it out?

Will Guidara On Unreasonable Hospitality – This Week’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast

Episode #865 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to

No matter the business, providing exceptional hospitality is a key factor in success. If you don’t believe me, just listen to what Will Guidara has to say. Will was the co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, a two-star brasserie that rose to become the best restaurant in the world. In this conversation, he shares his secret to success: radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room, and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality. Will and his team went above and beyond to provide guests with memorable experiences, from a magical sledding trip to Central Park for a family who had never seen snow, to filling a private dining room with sand, complete with mai-tais and beach chairs for a couple with a cancelled vacation. Will believes that hospitality should extend beyond those dining at the restaurant to his own team, teaching them to deliver praise and criticism with intention, and to give more, not less. He encourages us all to find the magic in what we do for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve. By transforming ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences, every business can choose to be a hospitality business, and maximize their potential for success, and that’s the crux of his book (that isn’t a cookbook) called, Unreasonable Hospitality. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation here (or feel free to subscribe via Apple Podcast or whatever platform you may choose):  #865 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast.

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SPOS #865 – Will Guidara On Unreasonable Hospitality

Welcome to episode #865 of Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast.

Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #865. No matter the business, providing exceptional hospitality is a key factor in success. If you don’t believe me, just listen to what Will Guidara has to say. Will was the co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, a two-star brasserie that rose to become the best restaurant in the world. In this conversation, he shares his secret to success: radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room, and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality. Will and his team went above and beyond to provide guests with memorable experiences, from a magical sledding trip to Central Park for a family who had never seen snow, to filling a private dining room with sand, complete with mai-tais and beach chairs for a couple with a cancelled vacation. Will believes that hospitality should extend beyond those dining at the restaurant to his own team, teaching them to deliver praise and criticism with intention, and to give more, not less. He encourages us all to find the magic in what we do for ourselves, the people we work with, and the people we serve. By transforming ordinary transactions into extraordinary experiences, every business can choose to be a hospitality business, and maximize their potential for success, and that’s the crux of his book (that isn’t a cookbook) called, Unreasonable Hospitality. Enjoy the conversation…

Running time: 45:50.Hello from beautiful Montreal.Subscribe over at Apple Podcasts.Please visit and leave comments on the blog – Six Pixels of Separation.Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.Check out ThinkersOne.or you can connect on LinkedIn.…or on Twitter.Here is my conversation with Will Guidara.Unreasonable Hospitality.Follow Will on Twitter.Follow Will on LinkedIn.This week’s music: David Usher ‘St. Lawrence River’.

Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels of Separation – The ThinkersOne Podcast – Episode #865.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #658

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (Solve for Interesting, Tilt the Windmill, Interesting Bits, HBS, chair of Strata, Startupfest, FWD50, and Scaletechconf; author of Lean Analytics and some other books), Hugh McGuire (Rebus Foundation, PressBooks, LibriVox) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see.”

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another: 

You now can earn college credit through YouTube videos – Mashable. “Hank and John Green have helped millions of people graduate from high school. Amidst an ailing educational system and the trainwrecks of YouTube and TikTok, Crash Course—a channel filled with amazing online classes—has been a bright light. YouTube, Crash Course, and Arizona State University just launched Study Hall, as an onramp to university. As Hank said on Twitter, ‘there’s $1.75 trillion of student debt in America held by around 43 million Americans. This seems like a… kinda bad thing, but it is actually worse than it sounds… 40% of those 43 million people do not have, and will not get, a degree.’ Is this finally the rebuild of higher education we need?” (Alistair for Hugh). Police Squad Epilogues – Ash Bowie – YouTube . “Police Squad was a high bar for subversive TV. In its short life—later reprised by Leslie Nielsen in the Police Squad movies—it broke a lot of ground. But perhaps the funniest part was how they lampooned the ‘freeze on credits’ trope of seventies sitcoms. This cliché was pretty common: The show ended on a high moment, then froze, and the credits rolled. In true Police Squad style they… modified this. Figured I’d introduce some lightness into these links.” (Alistair for Hugh). Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit – Science . “I suppose I’ve known this for a while, in some kind of background sense, but I’m not sure I ever realized the extent to which your gut/stomach/intestines are brainlike: they contain 100 million nerve cells. A new study shows the gut can actually communicate with the brain through a neurocircuit in seconds. So, a gut feeling really means something.” (Hugh for Alistair). The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok – Cory Doctorow – Wired . “Been a while since I read or posted a good Cory Doctorow screed against rapacious tech companies. This one outlines something we’ve seen over and over: new social platform is awesome by creating a new/easier way for people to connect. Grows like wildfire, with uncertain revenue model, benefitting users. Builds in revenues through advertising and promotion of stuff. Promises growth to investors. Starts privileging ads and promoted content — stuff that generally users don’t want to see — and eventually drives users away. There’s a missing part of this process somehow in the scale of the network (small networks seem to work well, but as they get bigger, the early value starts to fade, as noise starts taking over signal).” (Hugh for Mitch). Crushed – The Atavist . “Being an ‘influencer’ or a ‘YouTuber’ seems as viable of a career path for young people as accounting, law or science. In a sense, this makes me shudder. I wonder if we’ve completely contaminated the idea that great work gets noticed and when it gets noticed, it’s possible to become famous for this work. I feel like the world of influencers and YouTubers almost inverts this concept… as if the reason for doing something is the likes, follows, subscribes, etc… As if fame is the job… and then, again, maybe I am The Olds. This is a deep dive into the craziness that can be this chase for attention at all costs. Now, we can zoom out and see this type of behavior in any industry. Long before YouTube, we had many professionals burning out at work… chasing the dragon… and so on. In this instance, we’re talking about tweens… and maybe that is what makes this constant push for more (and the fame of it all) so disturbing?” (Mitch for Alistair). The People Who Don’t Read Books – The Atlantic . “I feel like this share needs me to state that some may see reading books as a kind of privilege. I could argue that your local library might disagree. Some might be right in saying that we should look at how public libraries and school libraries are funded in areas that have more marginalized groups. This is all fair, but reading books (to me) is a strong judge of someone’s character. Patently stating that ‘I don’t read books’ might point to how busy you are, but one could argue that it does (as this article states) point to a ‘larger deficiency of character’. I am a big believer in time spent between the spine of a book. And, it goes well beyond it being good for you. Books, unlike any other form of art, really do help you to grow in ways that are unimaginable. I can only relate it to the way that many people describe the powers of a regular meditation routine. You don’t have to read many books to get over the hurdle of not reading… just one… one book… start there…” (Mitch for Hugh).

Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.

Stu Brooks On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Stu Brown is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #98 – Stu Brooks.

Groove – Episode #98: Stu Brooks by No Treble

Who is Stu Brooks ?

Bass reverberates through the body. The reaction to those root notes and grooves actually manifests physically. Two-time Grammy Award-nominated bassist, producer, songwriter, and Dub Trio co-founder, Stu Brooks, beckons this response every time he picks up a bass. Sharing the stage or the studio with everyone from Lady Gaga, Danny Elfman, Lauryn Hill, 50 Cent, and Mary J. Blige to Mike Patton, Slick Rick, and even a posthumous recording for Tupac Shakur, his playing reverberates on an emotional and spiritual level. The Toronto native eventually attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and then moved New York. Three years later, he co-founded Dub Trio. Among early gigs, 50 Cent’s G-Unit recruited him for the six times platinum-selling Get Rich Or Die Tryin‘. He notably handled bass on Tony Yayo’s platinum-selling, Thoughts of a Predicate Felon, and Lloyd Banks’ Rotten Apple. In 2014, he received a Grammy Award nomination for his contribution to Pretty Lights’ A Color Map of the Sun. Along the way, he lent his talents to the Saturday Night Live Band. He served as music director for Matisyahu for ten years, co-producing and co-writing albums such as Akeda and Undercurrent. Stu also launched a signature P-Bass with Olinto a.k.a. La Bella Strings—a renowned 400-year-old string manufacturer. Now, Stu is producing and co-writing for the likes of Perry Farrell and Fever 333 and has played a pivotal role in Danny Elfman’s Big Mess release and live band. Throughout 2023, Stu will be releasing an album of new recordings he’s written and produced with his friends including Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Angelo Moore of Fishbone and more. Enjoy the conversation…

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Listen in:  Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #98 – Stu Brooks.

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