March 25, 2026 • 41 mins
This episode is extra special — we’re wrapping up Season 2 of Teach Me Something by celebrating the moments that made it unforgettable. From dynamic conversations with industry voices like J of World Latin Star, to behind-the-scenes insights with Angel Soriano from The Drew Barrymore Show, and standout moments with Lauren Scrima of NYCFC and Maxwell of 103.5 KTU — we’re taking a look back at the stories, gems, and lessons that stayed with us.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Teach Me Something Podcast, brought to you
by Berkeley College. I'm DJ pro Style. For our season
two finale, we're looking back at some of our favorite
moments with the incredible guests who joined us this season.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Let's roll the tape.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Ladies and gentlemen, Boys and girls, Welcome to season two
of Teach.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Me Something Seasday two. We have made it. Wow, I'm
so loud look at it? Can you really are excitement?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I just can't, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I go by to the name of DJ pro Style and.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I am Pennyzellas and this is Teach Me Something with
Berkeley College.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And yes, we have made this episode one of season two.
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I can't even.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I didn't think we were gonna make it through season one.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I had outs, I really did, but no, we are
so happy to be here because you all requested it
as listeners to go on tour.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
So where are we pro.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We are in Berkeley College, right here midtown, New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yes, we have a live studio audience.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Ya, we're home. Baby your hands.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
For those listening on audio, you gotta go to the
YouTube one oh three point five kt YouTube and stream
the live episode.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Hello everyone, I'm Jay from or Land Star, first time
ever doing this a special event. I'm really proud of
myself to do this a little bit nervous, but it's
an honor to be here with Pro Style and Penny,
(01:24):
you know in season two.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And it's it's more of an honor for us to
have you here.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Man, it is an honor, especially just being your first time,
first time stepping out like that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yes, it's my first time ever even cameras anything. Usually
it's I'm never found.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I know we have emojismo say something. It's always the logo,
not the face. Can I just say I am just
so proud of you. We met each other when we
were you know, young in kids, back in music, and
to see what you've done in life is incredible. All right, Hey,
welcome back to teach me something with Penny Dellas.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hey, what's up? But I'm Maxwell?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Wait, where's Pearl?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's what I'm saying, because he ain't.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Cls here.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to teach me something. All right, Well,
I still have a job here today.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
My brother Maxwell has bum rush the studio and the
most important thing about this let's just get right into this.
I'm calling this episode I'm taking control, Penny. It's called
on the Fly today with my guy on.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
The fly.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Something on because you see this people at home, so
you see this.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We're just just we're just gonna throw this away.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay, there's no script today, all right for the people
at home who don't know Maxwell from in Maxwell's House
on Instagram. Right, let's start from the beginning. What what
what got you into the career that you're in now
with radio.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
There was a buddy of mine. I played college football
and there's a buddy of mine. I was on a
football team and he was a DJ at the radio
station in the city and San Luis Obispo, California, small
Central Coast California, and like, for real, for real. I
was like, if he can do it, I can do it.
So I bugged him a lot, my buddy DK. He
was like my uncle, you know what I'm saying. He
(03:14):
was just my my, my big brother. And I was
just like, get me into the studio. How do I
get to be an intern? How do I get to
do something like that? Like if you know what age
I was like, nineteen twenty, yeah, you know, what I'm saying.
And I was just like, if you can do it,
And I just saw the way that he was he
was moving around the city, right, you could.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Do it, I could do it.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Well, I get that way.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I was like, I can do what I can do.
I'd like, fam.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What for me, what I get out of all these
episodes from people that are successful is the stories that
really make you say, wow. You know, the people that
really are successful these days have really had to go
through it all. And for the people listening who are
just getting started, just just remember that if you're going
through something now, that's something that you'll be able to
tell during your story you when you're successful down the
(04:01):
line and never quit right and just keep going. Says Look,
I mean you went to all these markets and and
then ended up in the biggest one.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
And it really was just, uh, it was like, let's
let's focus on on being great, but being great by
not compromising who you are and yet and and a
lot of those opportunities that you know, we'll discuss more
about they they came about just like you said, persistence,
working hard, being true to who you are, being a
(04:30):
team player, but also standing up for yourself in the
right moment, you know, not being a pushover, not getting
you know, uh, stepped over because you you acted a
particular way to a particular person. I mean, it's it
sounds cliche to say, but you know, good you know
good guys and girls. You know, at the end of
the day, it will happen for you, will win. But
(04:52):
you just got to remember that it's it's a it's
a marathon, it's not a sprint.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
I was really captivated by the story of the club,
and I met with all of the people that I
interviewed with. You could tell there was this culture that
was like a family, which I know sounds very cliche,
but it's true. And I've been in cultures that are
not like that, and so it really stuck out as
something that was really special. And then on top of
all of that, you know, this was back in twenty
(05:16):
twenty two when I was interviewing, they had just announced
during my interview process that they would be opening a
stadium in Queen's and I thought, wow, you know, that's
a once in a career opportunity to be able to
work on such a meaningful project for New York City,
which is you know, essentially my hometown.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Only the biggest city in the world, exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The FC made vice. That's the tagline, I Love you.
For those that are listening that perhaps aspired to be
a marketer or are just curious. Right, let's speak about
what a typical day in your life looks like in
sports marketing, because people tend to think that marketers do
a commercial or a billboard mm hmm, or social media maybe,
(05:57):
and we do. It's a marketing mix, but that's not
all we do.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Yeah, yes, well there is no typical day, which of
course is probably how everyone answers that question, but it
is true.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think yes.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
I mean so I wear so many different hats. So
not only is there sort of your traditional advertising and
the match presentation that we just spoke about, but I
also oversee retail, so the jersey design and the process
to sort of sell those and commercialize them.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That's under me as well.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Content, which we talked about a minute ago, and so
about half my team is dedicated just content production and distribution,
and so that's a huge job. We're essentially running a
media company if you think about it, because we've always
got to be feeding those social channels with new information
that's relevant. Reacting to what's going on in the world,
and so that's a massive part of what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Events is another one.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
So you see sort of like the big fan zones
outside of the stadium, but then we like to be
out and about in the city as well. So we're
at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, We're at the Dominican
Day Perie, all these kind of big events. We want
to make sure that our club is there so we
can kind of tell everybody about it. And then and
then there's there's all the other stuff, email sms, I mean,
so the list goes.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
On and on.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Meditating is funny. I've never never done that.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You've never meditated. It's life changing, it's life changing.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I can never meditate.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
If sext accounts you say to start with a very
short amount.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Of every time Penny goes and no meditating. That's that's interesting.
Does that has that helped you out with with work?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I think it has.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
I've actually never really thought about it until now, but
it has. I think my ability now to to focus
has really come from that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And so welcome to teach me how to meditate.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yes, exactly, No meditation helps. Yeah, a body body scans
are the best.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'm over here losing weight and telling her how to
help her, how to do a meal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You're like relaxing, losing weight.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You have that voice, Lauren, You're gonna come back.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
We're that voice if.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You close your eyes and has a meditating voice.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So Web three, like I says, I'm still trying to understand, right,
So for the person out there listening right now, what
exactly is web three?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (08:20):
So I'm going to start off with web two, which
is what we know everything like social our banks, our
social media platforms. Like I'm going to take this as
an example, like Facebook, for instance, that's a Web two
platform we have. There's an intermediary, there's a second party
that owns Facebook, right, which means Facebook owns our data.
(08:41):
Everything you post on Facebook is owned by Facebook. So
if you ever tried to delete something off Facebook, like
your profile or something old profile, it's it doesn't work.
Like I've tried for several years my old profile. It's
never going to go away. But with Web three, everything
is decentralized, so that means there's no intermediary, there's no
third party. We own our own data. Yeah, Berkeley is
(09:05):
definitely family for me. But I'm going to say transformation.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah. I like that transformation.
Speaker 10 (09:11):
Yeah, because the person I was when I arrived at
Berkeley and started my life in New York, I'm not
the same person now as I was then.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
New York will do that to somebody.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Yeah, So Berkeley has transformed me.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Whether you want to.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Or not, you're going to be like a little more
aggressive and be like wow.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
All right everyone, if you're driving, you're sitting, if you're
standing or on the treadmill, take a pause, sit down.
Because the Teach Me Something Podcast is officially an award.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Podcast insort the airhorns amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I love it. So we won the inaugural category of
educational podcast. We won the Silver Davy Award, which is
a prestigious creative marketing award, and we were right behind NFL.
So I don't know about you, pro, but.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
All right, what do you just yeah, just skyrocket it
just skyrocketed.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Props to DJ pro style. I'm not going to drop
the government, but props to you. Thank you in your promotion.
All right, tell the people what you've won.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What I've won?
Speaker 11 (10:30):
Won?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
More work?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, No, I was recently promoted to the APD position,
which is the assistant program director for five point one
New York. So definitely a huge accomplishment and something that
I'm very proud of and very happy to do.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I am so proud of you, and I'm so happy
for you because not many know all of the work
that you do behind the scenes, and you do quite
a bit.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Just I think it's something, first of all, some I've
already been doing for a long time, which in the
industry a lot of people know. So before before this position,
you know, around the right up to COVID, I was
already the music director for Power on to five point
one and I was.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
On air there.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Then I took an opportunity to go down to Florida,
move with the family, did the whole Florida thing for
a year, was down there, shot to the amazing people
in Florida, did a bunch of things out there. I've
been very blessed in my career to be able to
have these opportunities to expand the brand. And I think
it all goes back to and I always tell people,
I've never been scared, and I've never been scared to
(11:33):
step outside the box or your comfort zone, like people
say right, Like, there's a lot of people who say, hey,
I'm doing great. So you know, there's been plenty times
in my career where I've gotten to a point where
I'm very successful at something and I could sit there
and just do that, right, But I've always wanted more.
When I say I always wanted more doesn't necessarily mean like, oh, financially,
(11:54):
like I want more money or more of this. I
just wanted to learn more. I've always been a student
of the game, right.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But Peter, we did want to give you something very cool.
So for those of you listening, we have here the
Davy Award official certificate for Peter as the producer of
the teaching.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Me he's getting.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We haven't received ours yet, it's still in the mail,
but here's yours, Peter.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Very cool. Look at that, and it's framed and everything. Yes,
that's a nice that's a nice award.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Very cool, very nice, and it shines and everything. So
I'm I'm just gonna say this Peter on air. I
don't know about the other podcasts that you work with,
but we gave you a framed award.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yes, I'm putting this with my other awards. No, it's
very cool. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You deserve it, man, No, you deserve it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Are you going to hang it at home or in
your booth?
Speaker 11 (12:50):
In my booth, show off to all my coworkers and
you can.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Be like what I got guys, and you know you do?
You put that there to set the tone with everybody else?
Oh yeah, man? Christmas and happy holidays.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Welcome back to Teach Me Something Podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
This is our Christmas holiday episode. As you could clearly
see with the outfit. Okay, I don't normally or I
wear these on Mondays.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Are you feeling, Penny? Oh, I go by the name
of Santa Pro.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm blitz and p I thought we were going with Rudolph.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Okay, well we can plan so Victoria's so for the
people watching and listening, So at iHeart, what's your exact.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Title at my Heart?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Account executive now for And there's probably a lot of
people who are going to school for sales, for business
for something like that who are listening right now and wondering,
you know, how do I get into that?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
How did you get into this business? Essentially?
Speaker 12 (13:47):
Yeah, I was a communication major and I minored in
business down in Texas and I always wanted to do sales,
but I just kind of didn't know how I was
going to get there. When I graduated, COVID happened, so
I was kind of trying to get any job that
I could just because of the job market. And then
really it was through connections. I was kind of vocal
(14:07):
of like I still liked my old job, but maybe
it was time for something new.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
So it was really connections.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
And helping me kind of put my name out there
to people and let them know, yes, I do want
to do sales. I don't know where how that's going
to look, but it all kind of just fell into place,
and I moved up.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Here from DJ to working with CBS on the Drew
Barrymore Show. Shut Out to I.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Like that intron we are here.
Speaker 11 (14:35):
That was nice. I'll never get a nice intro ever again.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You could always grab this from the you know me
from wherever it air.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
So Angel, you entered the music industry at twelve years old,
You founded your own company by the age of eighteen,
and today you serve as the studio staff head for
CBS paramounts Emmy Award winning Drew Barrymore Show.
Speaker 11 (15:02):
Yes See, I'm gonna have to use this. It's gonna
be like the highlight of my whole career.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You've come a long way from interviewing pro style in
vintage yeah, right to that.
Speaker 11 (15:14):
I mean that was big too, That was you know, no, no,
it's a battle for the first, But I think I
think I'm gonna give that on the first because pros
right across from me.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Because I'm here.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
So I got into stage handing, which is basically uh
here in New York City as anybody that does entertainment
and you know, the theaters, and I became a sound engineer,
and I basically just started doing a whole bunch of
theater work. And you know, one job led to another.
During the pandemic, I ended up at CBS Broadcast Center,
(15:49):
and in that that turmoal of of change, everything was
shut down. Broadway was shut down, theaters were shut down,
there was no shows, there was nothing going on. A
ghost town out here. But TV was still going on.
And at this point in time, Drew Barrymore is coming
into New York City to basically start her show, The
(16:09):
Drew Barrymore Show. And here we are six seasons later,
going into seven hopefully, and that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's awesome, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And she pioneered during COVID she oh, yeah, absolutely, she
did the first of its kind of the live streaming,
having you know, the guests zoom in, having the audience Zoman.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
I'm talking about. These speakers were taller than me and
I'm short, you know what I'm saying. So I'm like
at this point in time, I'm probably like five to two.
These speakers are like what five eight, five nine, you know,
we're lugging these speakers around because that's all we had.
You know, like there was more modern equipment, but we
didn't have the money for it. So we had to
(16:51):
do with the means that we had in order to
make money to get to the next level of entrepreneurship
and eventship and you know, get the lights and newer
speakers and newer DJ gear, and you know, you you
did with what means you had.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I definitely could relate to everything you're saying. You used
to do BET of course, so you part for over
ten years, so you would know like basically, you know,
it wasn't oh I know, the hole behind the scenes. Yeah, yeah,
you know, a lot there's a lot of work. I
mean it starts in the morning, right, It starts in
the morning for meetings to walk through to you know,
(17:33):
stage set.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Up, and that thirty minutes to one hour show takes
like a lot hours hours, but we get it done.
You know, we make the magic happen.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
My job was easy. I just watched you on TV Proya.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
There's a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
There was a lot back then that you know, I'm
gonna I'm gonna reach out when they're in town. Actually,
that's you just brought up some great guests and hopefully
they're watching. We're Gonta get Terrence and Roxy or maybe
one of them in here, or even my man Tiger,
even Julisa somebody from that. From that was got the
honor work with all of them. But that would be awesome,
so they could explain really what was going down behind
the scenes leading up. They're cool conversation because what you
(18:08):
see on TV is one thing, but the preparation leading
up behind the racene, the changing the scripts and.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Back then and read.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's amazing because reading prompters, you know, live studio audience,
they're counting in your ear, they're telling you as you read.
There's a word coming up. Get past that word like
it's crazy, like the stop and go and the go
take a palls here, wait, wait here, We're gonna jump
past this line, go to the next one.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I remember having those.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I used to be the kid who wondn't even read
in school, like out loud and then I'm all finding
myself like TV with like a million people watching.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
So I actually have some memorabilia that I have from
the studio because I'm one of the studio heads now
and I would love to bring that for you guys
for when that interview does happen.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yes, I did come here as an international students many
moons ago. This is my twenty six.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I believe in the US wow alone of it in
any place in the world. And Berkeley was very kind
to me.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I was.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
BBA Management and had a minor in marketing and having
started off on Wall Street, I mean thanks to our
internship program. I worked on Wall Street Smith Barney, which
was part of City Group, and there was a top
intern there while I was there, and unfortunately I came
(19:29):
out of I graduated at the time when there was
a hiring freeze. But like I say, it's always important
for people to leave a mark. The person who opened
the door was a receptionist. I used to say good
morning to every day. She's the one who spoke to
the administrator. So you never know, never know, I will
open that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Door for you. Amazing twenty six. Did you make a
vision board?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I did not make a vision board yet because I
knew we were going to have a special guest today
that was going to explain to me exactly how I
should do a vision board.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I love this. Should we break up the magazines and
the scissors and all the crafties.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I want to do my vision board correctly.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
When is your next event?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
January twenty fourth at Berkeley College's coming up. It's coming
up and you're welcome to come to it. And we
need unshod Yes, you need to vision.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And it's the Berkeley College campus in midtown.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Midtown on three exactly right off.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Right down the block, right down the block.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
And when have amazing panels you can do a vision
board for the podcast? Yes, and how can you get
to that point? And what's what? What do you want
the impact and action to be?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And that's the most important thing I think of a
vision board. Also that people have to understand it's not
just saying hey, I want to do this, this, and this,
and they're not doing anything to accompany. They're not just
going to come to you because they're on a vision board.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, the vision board is not a wish list. That's
something that you're going to wake up and guy's going
to be.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Like, here you go. It's just a reminder of don't
forget to work on this.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Let's build together, you know, working together, that's.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
What it's all about. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I love that it's it's network.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And networking is so important, right we tell people everyone
who's been obviously on this show, and even people we
talk to on the side, I always says it's so
so much of becoming successful has to do with relationships,
who you know and networking. And just like you said,
look the receptionists open the door for you, and look
where you have never never know who's.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Going to give you the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Absolutely gatekeepers, right, Yeah, people who will get into a
certain position of power and then they don't want anybody
to come up. They feel threatened a lot of times
by people either taking their position or whatever the case is.
And I've always been that person who always tries to
open the door for other people and help them, like
in the music industry, get them whether it's on the
radio or into clubs or anything in my and obviously
(21:51):
in my lane that I could help people out with,
or even sitting down and having great conversations with a
lot of people when we used to have interns to
just random even talking to them.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I see that personality. I mean, I saw you during
at Berkeley talking to the students, and for me that
was really inspiring because and.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm sorry, I find myself as I've gotten older, being
that person who who could, who gives a lot of advice,
and even sometimes at the end of conversations, I think
of myself like, wow, that's really good advice.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I So, what opportunities do you see emerging that excites
you the most about that representation?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Oh well, Penny, I want to meet that person. But
I must say Penny is also a very special person.
I must say, because she also thinks intentionally about people.
She's not transactional, and sometimes I think a lot of
people miss the mark by being so transactional. When they
meet people, they want to close a deal right there,
(22:53):
connect with people, form lean in, look at them, show interest,
not me, me, me, myself and I because that's a
turn off. But when you lean into people, they also
get well because people also want people to genuinely get
to know them, as opposed to what can you give me?
Or what or looking desperate? You understand? So I believe
(23:17):
it's that type of thing of connecting and then focusing
on excellence. I think all of us has an element
of excellence in us.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now you got to add it to your case.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I'm going to send a picture of this to all
the execs iHeart and say, you know, I've never won
a radio award. Hello, weird, only been here thirteen years.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Weird and interesting enough. We have an executive with us today.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Why it's perfect?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The one he reached out to me first and said, hey, pro,
what do you think about.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Doing a podcast? You know, Carolyn is the one who
reached out to me about it.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You know, we had this big, powerful introduction for Carolyn Whitman,
but honestly, we are overwhelmed with the emotion because Carolyn
is a powerhouse. She is a creative force. She is
a mama bear and she takes care of all of us.
(24:13):
But most importantly, she creates impact through strategy and creativity,
and she really builds a familial like ecosystem and that's
that's how I see her.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Thank you, paying me, goodbye, Welcome to Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Of sales for New York iHeart meeting in the building.
Carolyn Whitman is with us, so happy to be here,
book writer and everything.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
I think it's really different for every partner, right, because
every single partner has a different KPI, they have a
different direction, they have a different mission, and a lot
of it comes down to listening. Like if you're not
listening to people and you're not listening to what they're
looking to atchieve or where their challenges are, you can't
help them and you're gonna wind up just throwing darts
at a board and hopefully it sticks. But if you listen,
(25:07):
and you truly listen to somebody, you can come back
with something that's going to help them and help them
grow and help them meet what they need to, which
then turns into a long term partnership like for Berkeley College,
Like we started working together a year almost like a
year ago to the day, right, Ye, but you've worked
with thy Heart for twenty years. Twenty years, which is
(25:27):
incredible and such a testament to what a partnership is,
that a partnership should have longevity. But we did something
totally different together that hadn't been done before because we
were really sitting in it, I know, and with Victoria
and Jill and pro like, we really listened to each
other and really figured out something that would be really
special and really different. And that's what it all comes
(25:48):
down to. And then you take the creativity, and there's
different people who are good at different things and knowing
everybody's skill sets, and that's how you make magic.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And now we have awards and now look at these
bad boys.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Great Crow keeps looking at his and spinning it around.
Speaker 13 (26:03):
So like, for me, I think that's the most important
part of my job is watching people find their potential
and watching them do incredible things.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
And in the process I get to do that as well.
Speaker 13 (26:16):
A lot of my passion for what I do and
how I do it, and my work ethic and everything
that ties back to it comes down to when I
was an infant, I had a third degree brain hemorrhage.
They told me I never talk, I never walk, I'd
never be able to do anything. They actually told my
parents to put me in a home because I'd be
nothing more than a vegetable.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (26:34):
My parents my entire life have pushed me to be
better than I was, so like they never settled for Okay,
they never settled for She's just going to be like,
this is it, this is what it is. They've pushed
me every step of my life, and in turn, I've
always pushed myself. So in business and in this world,
like I always push everybody to get to where they
need to be because I can see their potential. And
(26:57):
if we all just keep doing what someone sets for us,
you'll never be able to be who you can be
or what you can achieve, because the sky is the limit.
So dream big, think big, and you never know the
seat you'll be sitting in in five, ten, twenty years
from now.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Wow. Incredible.
Speaker 13 (27:17):
That's it, guys, That's all I thought for you as leadership.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
As you know women in media, it's this is an
industry that is male dominated, and to be a powerhouse
at the top and getting into those conversations of you know,
how do those spaces look now? Being inclusive?
Speaker 13 (27:40):
It is a different world than where I started ten
years ago. Like some of them, there's so much female
representation and so much female leadership, not even from like
like looking around the room, like there's so many Like
I have other co managers who are female. Their senior
leadership that's female. The president of the markets group is
a female. But with that, I have to say, all
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my male counterparts are so supportive and I never feel
like the woman in the room.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
I feel like I'm a part of the room.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
Yeah, I think, which is that that's the company you
want to find yourself in. Is the company that makes
you a part of the conversation. But yeah, inclusivity is
I mean, it's it's an incredible place to be and
I think that's why I've been here for ten years.
Not only is it something new and it's like a
new company every six months. I feel like there's always
something new and something under the table. But the people
are incredible, Like I am so privileged to work with
(28:31):
some of the most impressive talented people across the board.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I always give things.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I always say that I always send emails, but send
people all the time to just gratitude, especially after certain
events and things like that.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Yeah, when you think about it, like.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Company culture is so important, it's and it's something that
many overlook.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, one word to describe this podcast in a hole?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Okay, pro right, go you got those of you that
are not watching.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's one word that keeps coming up, and we've hit
on it so many times and every other And I think,
what people really at the end of the day, no
matter what episode you watch, no matter what you do,
which you're going to find out in life the most
important part, if not one of the most important parts
of becoming successful or moving forward is network. Oh yes,
(29:21):
And I feel like every single person who sat here
has brought up networking and it's helped them open the doors.
And even with you if you didn't network in college
and then meet Steve.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's about being intentional, yes, but also leaving an impression.
Oh yeah, and this and age with digital marketing and
all of the different platforms LinkedIn, ninety five percent of
employers hire through LinkedIn.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Yeah, so everyone.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Should have a LinkedIn working on yours.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I don't have one.
Speaker 13 (29:48):
Find that kind of applies to you. Like you walk
into a room of strangers, it's intimidating. You're like, I
could either choose to talk to the people I know
or sit over there and eat an appetizer and call
it a day, but like, how do you bridge that conversation?
Like communication skills are so important.
Speaker 14 (30:04):
And yeah, two point of because I did it two
years ago when I first started.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
We just invite ourselves everything on this podcast.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I wish if you follow Pennies, she actually goes everything
I do.
Speaker 13 (30:21):
Go.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's all about that power of connection and keeping those
doors open and if they're closed, kick them. What I say,
you make your way.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, it's all about who you know though, it really is,
and building that portfolio up, carrying the bottles and there.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Above their heads. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was not
easy at the end of the day. It sounds like
the takeaway is teamwork makes you know the dream work
and you can do everything yourself, but you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Have to know Bloomberg money, stop playing.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
How does it feel to see your purpose come to fruition?
Speaker 14 (31:00):
I think it just went to full circle and coming
in here, honestly, being at Berkeley College alone just showcases
that anything is possible.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Take us back to your Berkeley college days where it
all started. What kept you going? Working full time, taking
full time courses.
Speaker 14 (31:19):
I got a job at DAYE Made Pharmacy. I started
off as a cashier with there found out they got
paid more in the pharmacy tech section and you know,
so I was just like, oh, they're making twelve fifty
an hour back then, and I.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Was just like, this is great.
Speaker 14 (31:36):
So I studied and got my hippo training and everything
and got that job. So I was around the same time,
I was going to Berkeley College studying business administration management,
and you know, it was it was rough in the
beginning and working like eight hours a day, going to
school at night, and I was just you know, I
(31:59):
was driven by the potential of what I could do.
And when I was working at Doing Reid, somebody was
talking to me about bartending.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So I ended up.
Speaker 14 (32:10):
Using some money that I made from doing read, went
to bartending school, got a bartending job, and then got
a second jomp during the time it was at Berkeley
College bartending at night, Friday and Saturday nights. So that
actually boomed up even more so for me because I
was like, I think the hustle was real at that
time as well.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
At college, your potential is our promise.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
First of all, I love I love the drive right
and the passion to want more and to do more.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
How does it feel to see your purpose come to fruition.
Speaker 14 (32:43):
I think it just went to full circle and coming
in here. Honestly, being at Berkeley College alone just showcases
that anything is possible. And I always said, I don't
really know, but back then I was like, that's not possible,
like I don't believe in these things, like any thing
is possible type of situation like everyone goes through. Like
(33:04):
people said, it's luck, it's about.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Who you know.
Speaker 14 (33:07):
It's just true, actually who you know at the same time.
But I'll get to that later. But at the same time,
I think it's just amazing that it came to light
where I came back and understood my whole purpose, because
back then I didn't know my purpose. I was just
taking a different things and just curious and driven not
(33:31):
just with the money but also the experiences that i've
that led me to where I am right now to
at the same time and Berkley College, you know, I
had to let go of my dreamy job at that
time because I got an opportunity from one of my
macro economics professors told me that there was an opportunity
at Bloomberg for an internship. So I was like, Okay,
(33:55):
interviewed for it. I got the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls man pro style.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Of course it's pennies and this is.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Teach me something presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Meeni and Kel became friends of mine. So when it
came time for like Good Burger, the reboot for the
movie that they were doing, they were like, yo, I
hit him with the text do you need me to
do anything? But he was like, bro, you want to
be in so of course I want to be in
a Good Burger too, Like this is crazy, But where's Max?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't know. Max was supposed to be right on time?
Are you right time? What?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
What?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I just got off. I just hold on.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
You rolled up and everything.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, coming to missus for the world, So teach us
something about uh where you just came from?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Talking about it?
Speaker 11 (34:43):
For real?
Speaker 5 (34:44):
It's the kick off of Marty Grass season. So they're
getting ready to roll the parades and the beads and
the what you got to do to show to get
the beads?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
What do you gotta do to get beats?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Are we taking the pod?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I mean, if you want to go alive from Bergon
Street another crazy. We can make it happen.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You can make it happen, he said, to not just
gonna look up stuff because you want her too, just
like this origin.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
You want her to like go through and like.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Do the research.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Tell me wait for the episode.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
So we have I kept today. That's the second time
you've almost hit me.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Thro It was just the wanting to be able to
represent for where I was kind of like we were
saying on part one. It's like I just wanted to
be that person they you know us Right now, that's
a blank.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Chair that gripped his flip because usually it's where's pro?
But where's Max?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
One?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I don't know. Maxwell was supposed to be right on time?
Are right time?
Speaker 6 (35:37):
What?
Speaker 5 (35:39):
What?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I just got I just hold on. I'm trying to.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Roll up and everything.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, the travel cushions. Okay. Maxwell definitely did not just
get out of the team.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
I forgot, bro.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I forgot when you said you were.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Headed to headed to the station that like you know, no,
like for real, I was like, where you're coming from?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I was in New Orleans, of course you were, Yeah,
of course he has New Orleans. I got you back
some King cake though, you yeah, because it's Martin right.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So I got something I can't eat because I'm on
you can smell it, bro, How can I shake it
up a little bit? How can I make some noise?
Speaker 5 (36:16):
And I went to one of the Nick executives at
the time that was with the Nickelodeon Music team. His
name is Doug Cohen, and I told Doug. I was like,
hey man, we need a face for this radio station.
Let me brand a show, let me create benchmarks. All
the things that we do on our radio shows regularly.
I thought, why can't I do this for Nick Radio?
(36:37):
And you know, some of it was next time you
guys are doing these TV shows, why do you have
like a random DJ that you hire that's an actor
when it could be DJ Maxwell branded Nick Radio. Here
I am in the background of I Carle, you know
what I mean? Like that could be our way to
keep it all under the same umbrella. When it's you know,
(36:57):
when it's Good Burger, when it's these movies, Like, why
does it have to be just some random other actor
that's back there playing the part.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
An actual emigration.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Way to tie exactly, to integrate Nick Radio into the shows.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I was trying Alimation. It told me was like Wow.
For them, I think they were like, yo, that's wild.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
So that led to that led to me first being
able to host all the like the the Green Carpet
and the Orange Carpet award shows that we were doing
at like Kids Choice Awards, Kids Choice Sports Awards. So
here I am out there representing Nick Radio as a
true face and talent for the brand at these other
(37:36):
Nickelodeon events. And I think that that really was kind
of like, Okay, we got something going here. And it continued,
it just continued. There were opportunities after opportunities that I
was just blessed and fortunate enough to be the one
to step into those roles.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
We have the one, the.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Only kind of av leam wet. I feel like that
was like the price is right, we need the little music,
that's right.
Speaker 15 (38:02):
I can't believe that you guys just gave me like
a Bruce Buffer intro. You guys know that, like he
only does that for like very special people, the one,
the only.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yes, Okay, I appreciate what liams here.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Everybody, No, No, I'm grateful. I'm so grateful.
Speaker 15 (38:17):
The banter definitely hits like a new level when you
guys do the team episodes for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Like, we haven't even talked to you. We've just been
going at it the whole time. Being that you're here.
Let's backtrack, right, how did you get here? Let's let's
go back to look what got you into this? Oh
that's a crazy I don't mean into iHeart.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I mean into this field, into recording, into everything you do.
Speaker 15 (38:34):
That's a crazy that's a crazy story.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
We have time.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, crazy stories do good lim You know this.
Speaker 15 (38:42):
You know you you make a great you make a
great point. So when I got to the college scene
and I started playing collegiate baseball, like the workload was
just really really taxing on my body and I ended
up blowing out my ankle like completely, But I still
had to travel with the team. There wasn't like an
excuse for that. I like to try and carry myself
(39:02):
in a certain kind of way with a certain kind
of cadence, and a lot of guys like to follow
in line with that.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
So I felt like I still needed to be around.
And so up until I had the.
Speaker 15 (39:12):
Surgery, which is about a two month span or break
in between, I was shooting photo like the the athletic
director gave me a camera. It was nothing special, but
they needed somebody to get some type of content for
the for the team, and my dad was actually a photographer.
So I think that that kind of just like trained
(39:34):
my eye. But subconsciously, you know, it wasn't like something
that was in the forefront of my mind. But I
played on a bunch of different baseball teams when I
was younger basketball teams, and so I was delivering all
these photos to all my friends and stuff like that
who were playing on the team. And so just from seeing,
you know, thousands of photos that he took, I think
(39:54):
it just kind of developed this eye. Like I said, subconsciously, if.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You could describe what your legacy would be in one word,
what would it be?
Speaker 15 (40:05):
You know, it's crazy because I've had all the time
in the world to be able to think of.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
What we're at the end of season two. Yeah, to
comfort go use.
Speaker 15 (40:19):
No, No, I'm not gonna lie. I have I have
no idea. One word is so limiting. I mean, it
speaks volumes right one word, but it's also so limiting.
At the same time, if I had if I had
one word to use for myself, I'd probably use perseverance,
that'd probably be that'd probably be.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
My That's the word I was thinking about describing.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
A person choice. Everything you've been through.
Speaker 15 (40:41):
Yeah, I would choose. I would choose that for sure.
I hope that my friends and family would feel the
same way. I think that they would, they would align
with that.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I'm sure they're extremely proud of you, for sure.
Speaker 15 (40:52):
Absolutely. That's why you got to give people their flowers
while they're still in front of you, because that's that's
one that's showing real love, you know, real.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Hey, thanks for listening. Tune in next.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Week for all new episode of Teach Me Something
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Brought to you by Berkeley College
Welcome back to Teach Me Something Podcast, brought to you
by Berkeley College. I'm DJ pro Style. For our season
two finale, we're looking back at some of our favorite
moments with the incredible guests who joined us this season.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Let's roll the tape.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Ladies and gentlemen, Boys and girls, Welcome to season two
of Teach.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Me Something Seasday two. We have made it. Wow, I'm
so loud look at it? Can you really are excitement?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I just can't, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I go by to the name of DJ pro Style and.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I am Pennyzellas and this is Teach Me Something with
Berkeley College.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And yes, we have made this episode one of season two.
I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I can't even.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I didn't think we were gonna make it through season one.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I had outs, I really did, but no, we are
so happy to be here because you all requested it
as listeners to go on tour.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
So where are we pro.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We are in Berkeley College, right here midtown, New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yes, we have a live studio audience.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Ya, we're home. Baby your hands.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
For those listening on audio, you gotta go to the
YouTube one oh three point five kt YouTube and stream
the live episode.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Hello everyone, I'm Jay from or Land Star, first time
ever doing this a special event. I'm really proud of
myself to do this a little bit nervous, but it's
an honor to be here with Pro Style and Penny,
(01:24):
you know in season two.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And it's it's more of an honor for us to
have you here.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Man, it is an honor, especially just being your first time,
first time stepping out like that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yes, it's my first time ever even cameras anything. Usually
it's I'm never found.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I know we have emojismo say something. It's always the logo,
not the face. Can I just say I am just
so proud of you. We met each other when we
were you know, young in kids, back in music, and
to see what you've done in life is incredible. All right, Hey,
welcome back to teach me something with Penny Dellas.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Hey, what's up? But I'm Maxwell?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Wait, where's Pearl?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
That's what I'm saying, because he ain't.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Cls here.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to teach me something. All right, Well,
I still have a job here today.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
My brother Maxwell has bum rush the studio and the
most important thing about this let's just get right into this.
I'm calling this episode I'm taking control, Penny. It's called
on the Fly today with my guy on.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
The fly.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Something on because you see this people at home, so
you see this.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We're just just we're just gonna throw this away.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay, there's no script today, all right for the people
at home who don't know Maxwell from in Maxwell's House
on Instagram. Right, let's start from the beginning. What what
what got you into the career that you're in now
with radio.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
There was a buddy of mine. I played college football
and there's a buddy of mine. I was on a
football team and he was a DJ at the radio
station in the city and San Luis Obispo, California, small
Central Coast California, and like, for real, for real. I
was like, if he can do it, I can do it.
So I bugged him a lot, my buddy DK. He
was like my uncle, you know what I'm saying. He
(03:14):
was just my my, my big brother. And I was
just like, get me into the studio. How do I
get to be an intern? How do I get to
do something like that? Like if you know what age
I was like, nineteen twenty, yeah, you know, what I'm saying.
And I was just like, if you can do it,
And I just saw the way that he was he
was moving around the city, right, you could.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Do it, I could do it.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Well, I get that way.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I was like, I can do what I can do.
I'd like, fam.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What for me, what I get out of all these
episodes from people that are successful is the stories that
really make you say, wow. You know, the people that
really are successful these days have really had to go
through it all. And for the people listening who are
just getting started, just just remember that if you're going
through something now, that's something that you'll be able to
tell during your story you when you're successful down the
(04:01):
line and never quit right and just keep going. Says Look,
I mean you went to all these markets and and
then ended up in the biggest one.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
And it really was just, uh, it was like, let's
let's focus on on being great, but being great by
not compromising who you are and yet and and a
lot of those opportunities that you know, we'll discuss more
about they they came about just like you said, persistence,
working hard, being true to who you are, being a
(04:30):
team player, but also standing up for yourself in the
right moment, you know, not being a pushover, not getting
you know, uh, stepped over because you you acted a
particular way to a particular person. I mean, it's it
sounds cliche to say, but you know, good you know
good guys and girls. You know, at the end of
the day, it will happen for you, will win. But
(04:52):
you just got to remember that it's it's a it's
a marathon, it's not a sprint.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
I was really captivated by the story of the club,
and I met with all of the people that I
interviewed with. You could tell there was this culture that
was like a family, which I know sounds very cliche,
but it's true. And I've been in cultures that are
not like that, and so it really stuck out as
something that was really special. And then on top of
all of that, you know, this was back in twenty
(05:16):
twenty two when I was interviewing, they had just announced
during my interview process that they would be opening a
stadium in Queen's and I thought, wow, you know, that's
a once in a career opportunity to be able to
work on such a meaningful project for New York City,
which is you know, essentially my hometown.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Only the biggest city in the world, exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The FC made vice. That's the tagline, I Love you.
For those that are listening that perhaps aspired to be
a marketer or are just curious. Right, let's speak about
what a typical day in your life looks like in
sports marketing, because people tend to think that marketers do
a commercial or a billboard mm hmm, or social media maybe,
(05:57):
and we do. It's a marketing mix, but that's not
all we do.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Yeah, yes, well there is no typical day, which of
course is probably how everyone answers that question, but it
is true.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think yes.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
I mean so I wear so many different hats. So
not only is there sort of your traditional advertising and
the match presentation that we just spoke about, but I
also oversee retail, so the jersey design and the process
to sort of sell those and commercialize them.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That's under me as well.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Content, which we talked about a minute ago, and so
about half my team is dedicated just content production and distribution,
and so that's a huge job. We're essentially running a
media company if you think about it, because we've always
got to be feeding those social channels with new information
that's relevant. Reacting to what's going on in the world,
and so that's a massive part of what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Events is another one.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
So you see sort of like the big fan zones
outside of the stadium, but then we like to be
out and about in the city as well. So we're
at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, We're at the Dominican
Day Perie, all these kind of big events. We want
to make sure that our club is there so we
can kind of tell everybody about it. And then and
then there's there's all the other stuff, email sms, I mean,
so the list goes.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
On and on.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Meditating is funny. I've never never done that.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You've never meditated. It's life changing, it's life changing.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I can never meditate.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
If sext accounts you say to start with a very
short amount.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Of every time Penny goes and no meditating. That's that's interesting.
Does that has that helped you out with with work?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I think it has.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
I've actually never really thought about it until now, but
it has. I think my ability now to to focus
has really come from that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And so welcome to teach me how to meditate.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yes, exactly, No meditation helps. Yeah, a body body scans
are the best.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'm over here losing weight and telling her how to
help her, how to do a meal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You're like relaxing, losing weight.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That's why.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You have that voice, Lauren, You're gonna come back.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
We're that voice if.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You close your eyes and has a meditating voice.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So Web three, like I says, I'm still trying to understand, right,
So for the person out there listening right now, what
exactly is web three?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay?
Speaker 10 (08:20):
So I'm going to start off with web two, which
is what we know everything like social our banks, our
social media platforms. Like I'm going to take this as
an example, like Facebook, for instance, that's a Web two
platform we have. There's an intermediary, there's a second party
that owns Facebook, right, which means Facebook owns our data.
(08:41):
Everything you post on Facebook is owned by Facebook. So
if you ever tried to delete something off Facebook, like
your profile or something old profile, it's it doesn't work.
Like I've tried for several years my old profile. It's
never going to go away. But with Web three, everything
is decentralized, so that means there's no intermediary, there's no
third party. We own our own data. Yeah, Berkeley is
(09:05):
definitely family for me. But I'm going to say transformation.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah. I like that transformation.
Speaker 10 (09:11):
Yeah, because the person I was when I arrived at
Berkeley and started my life in New York, I'm not
the same person now as I was then.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
New York will do that to somebody.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Yeah, So Berkeley has transformed me.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Whether you want to.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Or not, you're going to be like a little more
aggressive and be like wow.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
All right everyone, if you're driving, you're sitting, if you're
standing or on the treadmill, take a pause, sit down.
Because the Teach Me Something Podcast is officially an award.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Podcast insort the airhorns amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I love it. So we won the inaugural category of
educational podcast. We won the Silver Davy Award, which is
a prestigious creative marketing award, and we were right behind NFL.
So I don't know about you, pro, but.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
All right, what do you just yeah, just skyrocket it
just skyrocketed.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Props to DJ pro style. I'm not going to drop
the government, but props to you. Thank you in your promotion.
All right, tell the people what you've won.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What I've won?
Speaker 11 (10:30):
Won?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
More work?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Okay, No, I was recently promoted to the APD position,
which is the assistant program director for five point one
New York. So definitely a huge accomplishment and something that
I'm very proud of and very happy to do.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I am so proud of you, and I'm so happy
for you because not many know all of the work
that you do behind the scenes, and you do quite
a bit.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Just I think it's something, first of all, some I've
already been doing for a long time, which in the
industry a lot of people know. So before before this position,
you know, around the right up to COVID, I was
already the music director for Power on to five point
one and I was.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
On air there.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Then I took an opportunity to go down to Florida,
move with the family, did the whole Florida thing for
a year, was down there, shot to the amazing people
in Florida, did a bunch of things out there. I've
been very blessed in my career to be able to
have these opportunities to expand the brand. And I think
it all goes back to and I always tell people,
I've never been scared, and I've never been scared to
(11:33):
step outside the box or your comfort zone, like people
say right, Like, there's a lot of people who say, hey,
I'm doing great. So you know, there's been plenty times
in my career where I've gotten to a point where
I'm very successful at something and I could sit there
and just do that, right, But I've always wanted more.
When I say I always wanted more doesn't necessarily mean like, oh, financially,
(11:54):
like I want more money or more of this. I
just wanted to learn more. I've always been a student
of the game, right.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But Peter, we did want to give you something very cool.
So for those of you listening, we have here the
Davy Award official certificate for Peter as the producer of
the teaching.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Me he's getting.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
We haven't received ours yet, it's still in the mail,
but here's yours, Peter.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Very cool. Look at that, and it's framed and everything. Yes,
that's a nice that's a nice award.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Very cool, very nice, and it shines and everything. So
I'm I'm just gonna say this Peter on air. I
don't know about the other podcasts that you work with,
but we gave you a framed award.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yes, I'm putting this with my other awards. No, it's
very cool. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You deserve it, man, No, you deserve it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Are you going to hang it at home or in
your booth?
Speaker 11 (12:50):
In my booth, show off to all my coworkers and
you can.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Be like what I got guys, and you know you do?
You put that there to set the tone with everybody else?
Oh yeah, man? Christmas and happy holidays.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Welcome back to Teach Me Something Podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
This is our Christmas holiday episode. As you could clearly
see with the outfit. Okay, I don't normally or I
wear these on Mondays.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Are you feeling, Penny? Oh, I go by the name
of Santa Pro.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I'm blitz and p I thought we were going with Rudolph.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Okay, well we can plan so Victoria's so for the
people watching and listening, So at iHeart, what's your exact.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Title at my Heart?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Account executive now for And there's probably a lot of
people who are going to school for sales, for business
for something like that who are listening right now and wondering,
you know, how do I get into that?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
How did you get into this business? Essentially?
Speaker 12 (13:47):
Yeah, I was a communication major and I minored in
business down in Texas and I always wanted to do sales,
but I just kind of didn't know how I was
going to get there. When I graduated, COVID happened, so
I was kind of trying to get any job that
I could just because of the job market. And then
really it was through connections. I was kind of vocal
(14:07):
of like I still liked my old job, but maybe
it was time for something new.
Speaker 9 (14:12):
So it was really connections.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
And helping me kind of put my name out there
to people and let them know, yes, I do want
to do sales. I don't know where how that's going
to look, but it all kind of just fell into place,
and I moved up.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Here from DJ to working with CBS on the Drew
Barrymore Show. Shut Out to I.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Like that intron we are here.
Speaker 11 (14:35):
That was nice. I'll never get a nice intro ever again.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You could always grab this from the you know me
from wherever it air.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
So Angel, you entered the music industry at twelve years old,
You founded your own company by the age of eighteen,
and today you serve as the studio staff head for
CBS paramounts Emmy Award winning Drew Barrymore Show.
Speaker 11 (15:02):
Yes See, I'm gonna have to use this. It's gonna
be like the highlight of my whole career.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
You've come a long way from interviewing pro style in
vintage yeah, right to that.
Speaker 11 (15:14):
I mean that was big too, That was you know, no, no,
it's a battle for the first, But I think I
think I'm gonna give that on the first because pros
right across from me.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Because I'm here.
Speaker 11 (15:27):
So I got into stage handing, which is basically uh
here in New York City as anybody that does entertainment
and you know, the theaters, and I became a sound engineer,
and I basically just started doing a whole bunch of
theater work. And you know, one job led to another.
During the pandemic, I ended up at CBS Broadcast Center,
(15:49):
and in that that turmoal of of change, everything was
shut down. Broadway was shut down, theaters were shut down,
there was no shows, there was nothing going on. A
ghost town out here. But TV was still going on.
And at this point in time, Drew Barrymore is coming
into New York City to basically start her show, The
(16:09):
Drew Barrymore Show. And here we are six seasons later,
going into seven hopefully, and that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's awesome, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
And she pioneered during COVID she oh, yeah, absolutely, she
did the first of its kind of the live streaming,
having you know, the guests zoom in, having the audience Zoman.
Speaker 11 (16:31):
I'm talking about. These speakers were taller than me and
I'm short, you know what I'm saying. So I'm like
at this point in time, I'm probably like five to two.
These speakers are like what five eight, five nine, you know,
we're lugging these speakers around because that's all we had.
You know, like there was more modern equipment, but we
didn't have the money for it. So we had to
(16:51):
do with the means that we had in order to
make money to get to the next level of entrepreneurship
and eventship and you know, get the lights and newer
speakers and newer DJ gear, and you know, you you
did with what means you had.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I definitely could relate to everything you're saying. You used
to do BET of course, so you part for over
ten years, so you would know like basically, you know,
it wasn't oh I know, the hole behind the scenes. Yeah, yeah,
you know, a lot there's a lot of work. I
mean it starts in the morning, right, It starts in
the morning for meetings to walk through to you know,
(17:33):
stage set.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
Up, and that thirty minutes to one hour show takes
like a lot hours hours, but we get it done.
You know, we make the magic happen.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
My job was easy. I just watched you on TV Proya.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
There's a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
There was a lot back then that you know, I'm
gonna I'm gonna reach out when they're in town. Actually,
that's you just brought up some great guests and hopefully
they're watching. We're Gonta get Terrence and Roxy or maybe
one of them in here, or even my man Tiger,
even Julisa somebody from that. From that was got the
honor work with all of them. But that would be awesome,
so they could explain really what was going down behind
the scenes leading up. They're cool conversation because what you
(18:08):
see on TV is one thing, but the preparation leading
up behind the racene, the changing the scripts and.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Back then and read.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's amazing because reading prompters, you know, live studio audience,
they're counting in your ear, they're telling you as you read.
There's a word coming up. Get past that word like
it's crazy, like the stop and go and the go
take a palls here, wait, wait here, We're gonna jump
past this line, go to the next one.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I remember having those.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I used to be the kid who wondn't even read
in school, like out loud and then I'm all finding
myself like TV with like a million people watching.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
So I actually have some memorabilia that I have from
the studio because I'm one of the studio heads now
and I would love to bring that for you guys
for when that interview does happen.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yes, I did come here as an international students many
moons ago. This is my twenty six.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I believe in the US wow alone of it in
any place in the world. And Berkeley was very kind
to me.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I was.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
BBA Management and had a minor in marketing and having
started off on Wall Street, I mean thanks to our
internship program. I worked on Wall Street Smith Barney, which
was part of City Group, and there was a top
intern there while I was there, and unfortunately I came
(19:29):
out of I graduated at the time when there was
a hiring freeze. But like I say, it's always important
for people to leave a mark. The person who opened
the door was a receptionist. I used to say good
morning to every day. She's the one who spoke to
the administrator. So you never know, never know, I will
open that.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Door for you. Amazing twenty six. Did you make a
vision board?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I did not make a vision board yet because I
knew we were going to have a special guest today
that was going to explain to me exactly how I
should do a vision board.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I love this. Should we break up the magazines and
the scissors and all the crafties.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I want to do my vision board correctly.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
When is your next event?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
January twenty fourth at Berkeley College's coming up. It's coming
up and you're welcome to come to it. And we
need unshod Yes, you need to vision.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And it's the Berkeley College campus in midtown.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Midtown on three exactly right off.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Right down the block, right down the block.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
And when have amazing panels you can do a vision
board for the podcast? Yes, and how can you get
to that point? And what's what? What do you want
the impact and action to be?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And that's the most important thing I think of a
vision board. Also that people have to understand it's not
just saying hey, I want to do this, this, and this,
and they're not doing anything to accompany. They're not just
going to come to you because they're on a vision board.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, the vision board is not a wish list. That's
something that you're going to wake up and guy's going
to be.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Like, here you go. It's just a reminder of don't
forget to work on this.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Let's build together, you know, working together, that's.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
What it's all about. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I love that it's it's network.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And networking is so important, right we tell people everyone
who's been obviously on this show, and even people we
talk to on the side, I always says it's so
so much of becoming successful has to do with relationships,
who you know and networking. And just like you said,
look the receptionists open the door for you, and look
where you have never never know who's.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Going to give you the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Absolutely gatekeepers, right, Yeah, people who will get into a
certain position of power and then they don't want anybody
to come up. They feel threatened a lot of times
by people either taking their position or whatever the case is.
And I've always been that person who always tries to
open the door for other people and help them, like
in the music industry, get them whether it's on the
radio or into clubs or anything in my and obviously
(21:51):
in my lane that I could help people out with,
or even sitting down and having great conversations with a
lot of people when we used to have interns to
just random even talking to them.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I see that personality. I mean, I saw you during
at Berkeley talking to the students, and for me that
was really inspiring because and.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm sorry, I find myself as I've gotten older, being
that person who who could, who gives a lot of advice,
and even sometimes at the end of conversations, I think
of myself like, wow, that's really good advice.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I So, what opportunities do you see emerging that excites
you the most about that representation?
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Oh well, Penny, I want to meet that person. But
I must say Penny is also a very special person.
I must say, because she also thinks intentionally about people.
She's not transactional, and sometimes I think a lot of
people miss the mark by being so transactional. When they
meet people, they want to close a deal right there,
(22:53):
connect with people, form lean in, look at them, show interest,
not me, me, me, myself and I because that's a
turn off. But when you lean into people, they also
get well because people also want people to genuinely get
to know them, as opposed to what can you give me?
Or what or looking desperate? You understand? So I believe
(23:17):
it's that type of thing of connecting and then focusing
on excellence. I think all of us has an element
of excellence in us.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Now you got to add it to your case.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I'm going to send a picture of this to all
the execs iHeart and say, you know, I've never won
a radio award. Hello, weird, only been here thirteen years.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Weird and interesting enough. We have an executive with us today.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Why it's perfect?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The one he reached out to me first and said, hey, pro,
what do you think about.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Doing a podcast? You know, Carolyn is the one who
reached out to me about it.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You know, we had this big, powerful introduction for Carolyn Whitman,
but honestly, we are overwhelmed with the emotion because Carolyn
is a powerhouse. She is a creative force. She is
a mama bear and she takes care of all of us.
(24:13):
But most importantly, she creates impact through strategy and creativity,
and she really builds a familial like ecosystem and that's
that's how I see her.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Thank you, paying me, goodbye, Welcome to Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Of sales for New York iHeart meeting in the building.
Carolyn Whitman is with us, so happy to be here,
book writer and everything.
Speaker 13 (24:46):
I think it's really different for every partner, right, because
every single partner has a different KPI, they have a
different direction, they have a different mission, and a lot
of it comes down to listening. Like if you're not
listening to people and you're not listening to what they're
looking to atchieve or where their challenges are, you can't
help them and you're gonna wind up just throwing darts
at a board and hopefully it sticks. But if you listen,
(25:07):
and you truly listen to somebody, you can come back
with something that's going to help them and help them
grow and help them meet what they need to, which
then turns into a long term partnership like for Berkeley College,
Like we started working together a year almost like a
year ago to the day, right, Ye, but you've worked
with thy Heart for twenty years. Twenty years, which is
(25:27):
incredible and such a testament to what a partnership is,
that a partnership should have longevity. But we did something
totally different together that hadn't been done before because we
were really sitting in it, I know, and with Victoria
and Jill and pro like, we really listened to each
other and really figured out something that would be really
special and really different. And that's what it all comes
(25:48):
down to. And then you take the creativity, and there's
different people who are good at different things and knowing
everybody's skill sets, and that's how you make magic.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And now we have awards and now look at these
bad boys.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Great Crow keeps looking at his and spinning it around.
Speaker 13 (26:03):
So like, for me, I think that's the most important
part of my job is watching people find their potential
and watching them do incredible things.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
And in the process I get to do that as well.
Speaker 13 (26:16):
A lot of my passion for what I do and
how I do it, and my work ethic and everything
that ties back to it comes down to when I
was an infant, I had a third degree brain hemorrhage.
They told me I never talk, I never walk, I'd
never be able to do anything. They actually told my
parents to put me in a home because I'd be
nothing more than a vegetable.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Wow.
Speaker 13 (26:34):
My parents my entire life have pushed me to be
better than I was, so like they never settled for Okay,
they never settled for She's just going to be like,
this is it, this is what it is. They've pushed
me every step of my life, and in turn, I've
always pushed myself. So in business and in this world,
like I always push everybody to get to where they
need to be because I can see their potential. And
(26:57):
if we all just keep doing what someone sets for us,
you'll never be able to be who you can be
or what you can achieve, because the sky is the limit.
So dream big, think big, and you never know the
seat you'll be sitting in in five, ten, twenty years
from now.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Wow. Incredible.
Speaker 13 (27:17):
That's it, guys, That's all I thought for you as leadership.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
As you know women in media, it's this is an
industry that is male dominated, and to be a powerhouse
at the top and getting into those conversations of you know,
how do those spaces look now? Being inclusive?
Speaker 13 (27:40):
It is a different world than where I started ten
years ago. Like some of them, there's so much female
representation and so much female leadership, not even from like
like looking around the room, like there's so many Like
I have other co managers who are female. Their senior
leadership that's female. The president of the markets group is
a female. But with that, I have to say, all
(28:01):
my male counterparts are so supportive and I never feel
like the woman in the room.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
I feel like I'm a part of the room.
Speaker 13 (28:08):
Yeah, I think, which is that that's the company you
want to find yourself in. Is the company that makes
you a part of the conversation. But yeah, inclusivity is
I mean, it's it's an incredible place to be and
I think that's why I've been here for ten years.
Not only is it something new and it's like a
new company every six months. I feel like there's always
something new and something under the table. But the people
are incredible, Like I am so privileged to work with
(28:31):
some of the most impressive talented people across the board.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I always give things.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I always say that I always send emails, but send
people all the time to just gratitude, especially after certain
events and things like that.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Yeah, when you think about it, like.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Company culture is so important, it's and it's something that
many overlook.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, one word to describe this podcast in a hole?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Okay, pro right, go you got those of you that
are not watching.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's one word that keeps coming up, and we've hit
on it so many times and every other And I think,
what people really at the end of the day, no
matter what episode you watch, no matter what you do,
which you're going to find out in life the most
important part, if not one of the most important parts
of becoming successful or moving forward is network. Oh yes,
(29:21):
And I feel like every single person who sat here
has brought up networking and it's helped them open the doors.
And even with you if you didn't network in college
and then meet Steve.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's about being intentional, yes, but also leaving an impression.
Oh yeah, and this and age with digital marketing and
all of the different platforms LinkedIn, ninety five percent of
employers hire through LinkedIn.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Yeah, so everyone.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Should have a LinkedIn working on yours.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I don't have one.
Speaker 13 (29:48):
Find that kind of applies to you. Like you walk
into a room of strangers, it's intimidating. You're like, I
could either choose to talk to the people I know
or sit over there and eat an appetizer and call
it a day, but like, how do you bridge that conversation?
Like communication skills are so important.
Speaker 14 (30:04):
And yeah, two point of because I did it two
years ago when I first started.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
We just invite ourselves everything on this podcast.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I wish if you follow Pennies, she actually goes everything
I do.
Speaker 13 (30:21):
Go.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's all about that power of connection and keeping those
doors open and if they're closed, kick them. What I say,
you make your way.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, it's all about who you know though, it really is,
and building that portfolio up, carrying the bottles and there.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Above their heads. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was not
easy at the end of the day. It sounds like
the takeaway is teamwork makes you know the dream work
and you can do everything yourself, but you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Have to know Bloomberg money, stop playing.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
How does it feel to see your purpose come to fruition?
Speaker 14 (31:00):
I think it just went to full circle and coming
in here, honestly, being at Berkeley College alone just showcases
that anything is possible.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Take us back to your Berkeley college days where it
all started. What kept you going? Working full time, taking
full time courses.
Speaker 14 (31:19):
I got a job at DAYE Made Pharmacy. I started
off as a cashier with there found out they got
paid more in the pharmacy tech section and you know,
so I was just like, oh, they're making twelve fifty
an hour back then, and I.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Was just like, this is great.
Speaker 14 (31:36):
So I studied and got my hippo training and everything
and got that job. So I was around the same time,
I was going to Berkeley College studying business administration management,
and you know, it was it was rough in the
beginning and working like eight hours a day, going to
school at night, and I was just you know, I
(31:59):
was driven by the potential of what I could do.
And when I was working at Doing Reid, somebody was
talking to me about bartending.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So I ended up.
Speaker 14 (32:10):
Using some money that I made from doing read, went
to bartending school, got a bartending job, and then got
a second jomp during the time it was at Berkeley
College bartending at night, Friday and Saturday nights. So that
actually boomed up even more so for me because I
was like, I think the hustle was real at that
time as well.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
At college, your potential is our promise.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
First of all, I love I love the drive right
and the passion to want more and to do more.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
How does it feel to see your purpose come to fruition.
Speaker 14 (32:43):
I think it just went to full circle and coming
in here. Honestly, being at Berkeley College alone just showcases
that anything is possible. And I always said, I don't
really know, but back then I was like, that's not possible,
like I don't believe in these things, like any thing
is possible type of situation like everyone goes through. Like
(33:04):
people said, it's luck, it's about.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Who you know.
Speaker 14 (33:07):
It's just true, actually who you know at the same time.
But I'll get to that later. But at the same time,
I think it's just amazing that it came to light
where I came back and understood my whole purpose, because
back then I didn't know my purpose. I was just
taking a different things and just curious and driven not
(33:31):
just with the money but also the experiences that i've
that led me to where I am right now to
at the same time and Berkley College, you know, I
had to let go of my dreamy job at that
time because I got an opportunity from one of my
macro economics professors told me that there was an opportunity
at Bloomberg for an internship. So I was like, Okay,
(33:55):
interviewed for it. I got the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls man pro style.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Of course it's pennies and this is.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Teach me something presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Meeni and Kel became friends of mine. So when it
came time for like Good Burger, the reboot for the
movie that they were doing, they were like, yo, I
hit him with the text do you need me to
do anything? But he was like, bro, you want to
be in so of course I want to be in
a Good Burger too, Like this is crazy, But where's Max?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't know. Max was supposed to be right on time?
Are you right time? What?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
What?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I just got off. I just hold on.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
You rolled up and everything.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, coming to missus for the world, So teach us
something about uh where you just came from?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Talking about it?
Speaker 11 (34:43):
For real?
Speaker 5 (34:44):
It's the kick off of Marty Grass season. So they're
getting ready to roll the parades and the beads and
the what you got to do to show to get
the beads?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
What do you gotta do to get beats?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Are we taking the pod?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I mean, if you want to go alive from Bergon
Street another crazy. We can make it happen.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You can make it happen, he said, to not just
gonna look up stuff because you want her too, just
like this origin.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
You want her to like go through and like.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Do the research.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Tell me wait for the episode.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
So we have I kept today. That's the second time
you've almost hit me.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Thro It was just the wanting to be able to
represent for where I was kind of like we were
saying on part one. It's like I just wanted to
be that person they you know us Right now, that's
a blank.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Chair that gripped his flip because usually it's where's pro?
But where's Max?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
One?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I don't know. Maxwell was supposed to be right on time?
Are right time?
Speaker 6 (35:37):
What?
Speaker 5 (35:39):
What?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I just got I just hold on. I'm trying to.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Roll up and everything.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, the travel cushions. Okay. Maxwell definitely did not just
get out of the team.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
I forgot, bro.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I forgot when you said you were.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Headed to headed to the station that like you know, no,
like for real, I was like, where you're coming from?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I was in New Orleans, of course you were, Yeah,
of course he has New Orleans. I got you back
some King cake though, you yeah, because it's Martin right.
Speaker 12 (36:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So I got something I can't eat because I'm on
you can smell it, bro, How can I shake it
up a little bit? How can I make some noise?
Speaker 5 (36:16):
And I went to one of the Nick executives at
the time that was with the Nickelodeon Music team. His
name is Doug Cohen, and I told Doug. I was like,
hey man, we need a face for this radio station.
Let me brand a show, let me create benchmarks. All
the things that we do on our radio shows regularly.
I thought, why can't I do this for Nick Radio?
(36:37):
And you know, some of it was next time you
guys are doing these TV shows, why do you have
like a random DJ that you hire that's an actor
when it could be DJ Maxwell branded Nick Radio. Here
I am in the background of I Carle, you know
what I mean? Like that could be our way to
keep it all under the same umbrella. When it's you know,
(36:57):
when it's Good Burger, when it's these movies, Like, why
does it have to be just some random other actor
that's back there playing the part.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
An actual emigration.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Way to tie exactly, to integrate Nick Radio into the shows.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I was trying Alimation. It told me was like Wow.
For them, I think they were like, yo, that's wild.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
So that led to that led to me first being
able to host all the like the the Green Carpet
and the Orange Carpet award shows that we were doing
at like Kids Choice Awards, Kids Choice Sports Awards. So
here I am out there representing Nick Radio as a
true face and talent for the brand at these other
(37:36):
Nickelodeon events. And I think that that really was kind
of like, Okay, we got something going here. And it continued,
it just continued. There were opportunities after opportunities that I
was just blessed and fortunate enough to be the one
to step into those roles.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
We have the one, the.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Only kind of av leam wet. I feel like that
was like the price is right, we need the little music,
that's right.
Speaker 15 (38:02):
I can't believe that you guys just gave me like
a Bruce Buffer intro. You guys know that, like he
only does that for like very special people, the one,
the only.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yes, Okay, I appreciate what liams here.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Everybody, No, No, I'm grateful. I'm so grateful.
Speaker 15 (38:17):
The banter definitely hits like a new level when you
guys do the team episodes for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Like, we haven't even talked to you. We've just been
going at it the whole time. Being that you're here.
Let's backtrack, right, how did you get here? Let's let's
go back to look what got you into this? Oh
that's a crazy I don't mean into iHeart.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I mean into this field, into recording, into everything you do.
Speaker 15 (38:34):
That's a crazy that's a crazy story.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
We have time.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, crazy stories do good lim You know this.
Speaker 15 (38:42):
You know you you make a great you make a
great point. So when I got to the college scene
and I started playing collegiate baseball, like the workload was
just really really taxing on my body and I ended
up blowing out my ankle like completely, But I still
had to travel with the team. There wasn't like an
excuse for that. I like to try and carry myself
(39:02):
in a certain kind of way with a certain kind
of cadence, and a lot of guys like to follow
in line with that.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
So I felt like I still needed to be around.
And so up until I had the.
Speaker 15 (39:12):
Surgery, which is about a two month span or break
in between, I was shooting photo like the the athletic
director gave me a camera. It was nothing special, but
they needed somebody to get some type of content for
the for the team, and my dad was actually a photographer.
So I think that that kind of just like trained
(39:34):
my eye. But subconsciously, you know, it wasn't like something
that was in the forefront of my mind. But I
played on a bunch of different baseball teams when I
was younger basketball teams, and so I was delivering all
these photos to all my friends and stuff like that
who were playing on the team. And so just from seeing,
you know, thousands of photos that he took, I think
(39:54):
it just kind of developed this eye. Like I said, subconsciously, if.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
You could describe what your legacy would be in one word,
what would it be?
Speaker 15 (40:05):
You know, it's crazy because I've had all the time
in the world to be able to think of.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
What we're at the end of season two. Yeah, to
comfort go use.
Speaker 15 (40:19):
No, No, I'm not gonna lie. I have I have
no idea. One word is so limiting. I mean, it
speaks volumes right one word, but it's also so limiting.
At the same time, if I had if I had
one word to use for myself, I'd probably use perseverance,
that'd probably be that'd probably be.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
My That's the word I was thinking about describing.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
A person choice. Everything you've been through.
Speaker 15 (40:41):
Yeah, I would choose. I would choose that for sure.
I hope that my friends and family would feel the
same way. I think that they would, they would align
with that.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I'm sure they're extremely proud of you, for sure.
Speaker 15 (40:52):
Absolutely. That's why you got to give people their flowers
while they're still in front of you, because that's that's
one that's showing real love, you know, real.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Hey, thanks for listening. Tune in next.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Week for all new episode of Teach Me Something
Speaker 3 (41:06):
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