March 5, 2026 • 33 mins
In this episode of Teach Me Something, hosts DJ Prostyle and Penny Dellas sit down with the one and only Liam Winn — the phenomenal Video Producer behind the Teach Me Something podcast and the creative force powering video across all iHeart NYC stations.
Liam takes us behind the lens and into his journey — a story built on grit, determination, and perseverance. From navigating his education to carving out his own lane in a competitive industry, he shares how an unexpected sports injury completely shifted his career path and ultimately led him to discover his passion for video production and photography.
Incredibly talented and endlessly creative, Liam opens up about how he got started, the countless hours he put into mastering his craft, and how strategic networking helped him land a role at iHeart — working alongside some of the biggest on-air talent in radio.
This episode is a deep dive into resilience, reinvention, and what happens when preparation meets opportunity. We loved getting to hear Liam’s story — and you will too.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up? This is DJ pro Style.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And this is Pennydellas.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
And this is teach Me Something.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Brought to you by Berkeley College.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we are back
with another one.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is teach Me.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Something Special editionsented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We actually DJ Prostyle and Pennydallas. What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We are uberly excited today because we have a special
guest here. He wanted to redeem himself for taking vacation
during our Christmas episode. We have the one, the only
kind of a v le I'm with, Yes, yes, I
feel like that was like the price is right, we
(00:44):
need the little music, that's right.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
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 Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay here, everybody, no, no, I'm grateful.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So we didn't have a guest, so we decided to
bring Liam onto the episode.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I just want to point out that in our last
so on our last episode of Ronic you gotta check
out the last episode, right, it was all about fashion.
She'd be totally upset with the way Penny showed up today.
Really anyway, let's just keep it going.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know what, I'm realizing. I'm realizing that when we
have team episodes, the disrespect that is thrown my way
in the shade.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But you know what, because I'm being a here because
you have a real fire fire shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And someone else here got some and decided.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I didn't know today was they.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Wanted to save it for a special occasion.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I thought that there was going to be a whole
day that we were supposed to match them or something.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I know we're supposed to twin all right, the next episode.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I got to say, though, the banter definitely hits like
a new level when you guys do the team episodes
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Like we haven't even talked to you. We've just been
going at it the whole time.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right, We're gonna have to cut all this out anyways, Tell.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Everybody watching and listening right now, what exactly your role
is here at IHEARTM.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So I'm a video for iHeart. I work with pretty
much every single station everyone. Yeah, I don't think that
there's a station I haven't worked with yet, at least
to my knowledge. Yeah, so I run Yeah, pretty much
just video. I don't have a favorite. We're we're not
We're not going to get the favorite. Pressure sitting right here,
(02:22):
done some good work, absolutely prior to Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Actually, but Liam's like, your show's on too late. I
can't stay literally we have like what time? Never mind, I've.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Been here for pro show and halfway through I'm like
one eye open.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, I'm so old, that's really the answer, but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, no, So I worked with Yeah, I mean pretty
much every single show. I don't I don't think that
there isn't a show nationally syndicated regular in general that
I haven't touched so far yet, whether it's coverage or
just yeah, just finding myself to be the right man
for the job.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You are so talented and you're so fun to work with.
And I know we have a lot of bands are
off camera and all of that, but you really are talented.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Liam just launched his own website, and I was very
important to website.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
By the website, it is a Liamwynn dot com, so
l I a m w i n n dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And when people go there, you know, what can they expect?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Honestly, the intention was really just to get my work
out there. I didn't really have I don't even have
like a contact me section. I really don't have the
bandwidth for it right now. But I know that I
needed to get it out there somehow, and I felt like,
you know, social media just isn't like the only avenue
to take these things. So I wanted to have like
(03:42):
a proper space for it to all live. And I've
done a lot of work here, and I've done a
lot of work prior to being here as a freelancer,
And yeah, I think it was just it was well
beyond time to be able to get that kind of
stuff out there.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I love that you said just press plan, let me
do it and spoke about it and you were like, yeah,
I was thinking about it for a month and I
just said, let me just throw it out there. And
sometimes we are our largest obstacle. We overthink things. We
don't want to put it out if it's not perfect,
and you don't have to be perfect. Imperfection it's what
gets to the consumer base. So just put it out
(04:18):
there and be authentic.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, I mean, imposter syndrome is like such a crutch
for a lot of like creators.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
What is it what is it called imposters?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, so just in a nutshell, it just feels like
you're never doing enough kind of thing, even when you're
working with like the biggest of brands or whatever the
case may be. Like it's something that every single creator faces,
like you just never feel like you've done enough because
at the end of the day, you know, once that
project's done, the project's done. Now you got to find
(04:47):
the next one. So and that was like my biggest
hurdle when it came to freelancing. It was just like
I couldn't do the chase anymore. It was just it
was just too much work and I needed something stable,
and luckily I found myself here.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So so 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, I mean into this field, into recording,
into everything you do.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's a crazy that's a crazy story. We have time. Yeah,
crazy stories do good? Liam, You know this, you know
you you make a great you make a great point.
So no, so.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, so I guess this starts pretty much at the
beginning of my college career. Uh, So, I was a
collegiate athlete. I played baseball, and I had this lingering
ankle issue when I was in when I was in
high school that never really got taken care of the
right way, like the trainers back there, like they did not.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It did not help me out. And he says this
as I'm wearing like a right time, it could be perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It couldn't be the better part of today complaining about
his ankle.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I have had a lingering ankle injury that I've never
taken care of ever. But later I'm wearing, he's young,
don't grow up anyway, just move on.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Hopefully this inspires you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
It inspires me to what I already have a boot
on my cat man.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
There you go. Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, so I had this lingering ankle issue just from
playing basketball and I mean pretty much every sport in
high school. And when I got to the college scene
and I started playing collegiate uh 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.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
There wasn't like an excuse for that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And even as a freshman like I was a leader
on that team, and a lot of guys looked up
to me, even some people that were older than me,
just because I like to try and carry myself 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 1 (06:53):
So I felt like I still needed to be around.
And so up until I.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Had the surgery, which is about two months 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 it was a brand new
baseball team, so they needed something to get out there
(07:19):
just you know kind of I feel like, more so
to just make sure that their investment was worth it
to create this team. And they had this massive gym
that they built and all that stuff whatever, and so yeah,
they handed me a camera and I would go on
the road with them and I shot photo. And my
dad was actually a photographer, so I think that that
kind of just like trained my eye, but subconsciously, you know,
(07:42):
it wasn't like something that was in the forefront of
my mind. But I played on a bunch of different
college I mean 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 it just kind of developed
(08:05):
this eye, like I said, subconsciously. And then fast forward
a little bit, I left. I ended up leaving that
school when I got surgery. I went to community college.
During my rehab, I probably was off for about two
semesters or so, so I was about a year behind
and that just kind of changed my mentality with how
(08:25):
I wanted to kind of approach life from that point on.
And so once I went to community college, I was
going with a friend of mine and we both just
well actually, and all kudos to him, because he's really
the one that kept me on college, like the college route.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
He wanted to go to Sunny Cortland, and I was
just like, I'll go with you, sure, why not? I
didn't really have any direction like college. Really, I don't
think it really was for me. But because I had
like a backbone with me in a place where I
really didn't have. He kind of kept me on that line.
And then we went to Courtland together and then I
(09:05):
shot for the media team out there, so I was
doing photo video for Kente events. I shot for all
the sports teams out there. And then there was a
professor I was working really close with. Her name is
doctor K, and she introduced me to the producer of
A Way Up with Yee's executive producer. Well now, at
(09:28):
the time when I met him, he was still working
with Breakfast Club, but Dan Green, Yeah, and then so
we met in an alumni engagement event that I actually
like put together with doctor K. And after that he
was like, I'm going to need a photographer, you know,
once you graduate, So give me a call once you're done.
And I rang him up in May, and then I
(09:51):
started working with ye Fast forward a few years of
just kind of paying my dues, and I found myself
over here.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
So, I mean, so Dan obviously brought you into the
the cluster here you could say, yeah, for sure, it's
all about like everything doesn't matter what episode.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We do, It's all.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
About you know who you know. Yeah, that's why networking
is so important, right.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, I mean Dan was the one that got me in,
but I worked with Tony Mulay, who's the Yeah. He
brought me in for a freelance event.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It was.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It was an event at UH. It was an event
for Infinity on the Edge. They were presenting a car,
which is crazy. They like reconstructed this car and like put.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It out and put it up, Yeah exactly, and took
a part and put it back together.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, you know, isn't it Isn't it insane? And it
was like the first car to ever do it or
something like that. And so I freelanced for them doing that.
And then fast forward a few months and he was like,
I want you on the team, and he brought me in.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, and you do everybody stuff, yeah, literally everybody.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I mean, I've worked at Breakfast Club, I've worked with Elvis,
I've worked with wor KT you obviously, I've worked with Ze,
you know. Aside from Elvis, I feel like I'm forgetting
oh Q of course.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I work with Ken plenty of times. Yep.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
But like the main squeezes that I kind of have,
Elvis is like more so coverage Breakfast Club. That's more
so coverage when people need it. But I more so
work with like KTU and Angie Martinez.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Those are like the two.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, let's unpack a little bit about your journey. First
of all, this is why we do what we do,
because everyone has a story and it's interesting when they
begin to unpack. You don't know where that journey's going
to take you, where the conversation is going to end.
But you spoke about your dad being an influence to you,
(11:49):
and it's interesting how our environmental influences play such large
roles in our lives, and like pro and I have
spoken about this, like our dads were musicians and we
ended up going you know, music and media and production routes,
and it's so interesting what we absorb as kids and
how we're sponges. But even beyond that, I admire your
(12:10):
open mindedness and willing to pivot and persevere through that journey.
There were so many instances where you could have said
this is it. I'm just gonna throw in the towel,
but you didn't do that. You continue to veer in
that path and try to find yourself within that time.
So that's extremely impressive.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, I appreciate that perspective for sure. I mean, you know,
at the end of the day, you had to pick
your feet up and do it yourself. But I wouldn't
be half the person I was without like the foundation
that I have around me. And that really comes down
to my mom, my sister, and my brothers.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
They're not actually my brothers.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
But obviously I treat them as such because I've known
him since I was in like second grade, and we've
been a very tight knit group. My boys Joe and Frankie. Yeah,
they've been holding it down since day one. So I
really wouldn't have gotten half as far. Like when I
had that ankle surgery, was with me every single day,
Like that's not even an exaggeration, and you know, he
has his own life to take care take to recover.
(13:05):
That was like an eight month recovery. Yeah, and then
I ended up And then fast forward like in college too,
I was playing basketball. I ended up tearing my acl
and that was like another whole recovery I had to
go through. And I had to wait on that one
because I knew I couldn't take any more time off
from school because if I did, I was not going
(13:26):
to go back. So the way that it worked was
when I tore my acl. I just had to go
with it. I wore a brace for like four months
of my spring semester to my junior year, and then
I got the surgery in June. Somehow was able to
make it back for you know, what is it like
end of August early September when you go back to school.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So yeah, that was all from sports. Yeah, m hmm,
that's rough.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I tore my MCL and my senior year and then
my junior year. Summer before my senior year, I was
in a car accident and I broke eighteen was in
my right hand, So no more drums for me.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So it was it was you're a drummer. I was, well,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's so coola not anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Like more like that's super cool though, how did you.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Tear your m c L.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah? Basketball?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Oh wow? Yeah? Basketball is that is an injury written
sport was not.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Let me just disclaimer for a shout out to uh
the Blue Devils, But no, I was not a basketball player.
I was in theater. And what they do is that
after I ran the theater production, I.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Was the stage you were playing.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So when we so when we tear down the sets, right,
we have like an ice cream social and then the
gymnasiums are open so they let us play basketball do
the things. And that's why I'm not a professional player.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And that whole story was so left though.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But you know what it happens.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You're talking to.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Somebody who can relate to, like, yeah, you know, you're
almost practicing. You know those early mornings and late nights
in the gym, No, no, late nights, and you tripped
over something and a person.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You tripped over a person.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No, I didn't trip over the person. The person pushed me.
And then I tripped over the ones sitting down.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That's terrible.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
The point is still it hurt for a very long time.
M hm.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Those recoveries are brutal, man.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, and then you have to like prop yourself up. Yeah,
you know what, let's veer off with. It's gonna go extreme.
The bathrooms is a problem.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
But yeah, I actually do want to go onto that
note for a second because I think it's extremely important
because that was something that actually like like definitely changed
my perspective as a whole. Like when I had the
ankle surgery, I couldn't walk, I couldn't do much of
anything on my own. So whether it's taking a shower
or just trying to use the bathroom, those were new
(15:55):
experiences that I had to endure through. But it gave
me new perspective of just how grateful you get to
be just to even just to walk down the street,
you know what I mean. Not to say that I
could imagine what it's like to be a paraplegic or
anything like that, but you get a little bit of
an insight as to what those kinds of like imagine
having to deal with that your entire life. You know,
(16:16):
like you get a newfound like joy and having the
opportunity just to walk down the halls.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You know, it's just gratitude. We tend to take things
for granted while we have that, and you don't realize
how much you utilize an extremity or something until you
have an injury. Because pro was crawling into the studio today.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, well that's that's something different.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
But but one thing I do like about and going
back to your sports roots right is and it's and
I we emphasize this with our kids that since they're
into sports, and we look at it as like the
fundamentals you've learned from playing all you know.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Basketball obviously.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And and different sports and baseball, you know, and teamwork
and putting in the all those days and nights in
the gym, and that helped you out in life in general.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Absolutely, you know, And you build that camaraderie and that
you know, whether whether it's the sport or you make
fun but looking at theater or your inquire, you're in
bad Like you're with these people for a large part
of your week, right, it's just like it's just like
here you you build your ecosystem and you're a large
part with these people and it's you get out what
(17:22):
you put in, and that structure will.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Find you create a good routine for yourself, you know,
a daily routine of getting up early, putting in that work.
That not like it doesn't become so when later on
in life when you have to do a daily routine,
it's it's easy.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
It's a lot easier than somebody who hasn't.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It's super important to be a part of teams, like
in any capacity, whatever whatever the case may be. I
mean the lessons that you learn alone just from that,
like that that process is so crucial for everybody. Like
there's if there was one thing like to point out
that you need to be a part of. It's definitely
a team, like learn that ecosystem. It's not good to
try and handle the weight of the world on your own.
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You know, you need other people to be able to
rely on.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So you spoke about all of the brands that you
work with, both in media and out and you're also
a brand ambassador. I see you wearing the Comfort Mova.
How does that come about?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Comfort?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Honestly, that was just that actually happened like two months ago.
That was while I was here and people that we
so we have what's called the Power Pit. It's like
right next to where Breakfast Club records, and that's pretty
much where all of our digital team is, Like we
all kind of live over there. And everybody kept calling
me out for wearing Comfort all the time, and they
(18:38):
were like, why don't you just become an ambassador? So
I actually just looked into it and it wasn't like
a hard process.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So they just hit them up there like we're going
to send you some stuff, do some posts.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I didn't even have to make a post. It's amazing
how many companies actually do that. Yeah, my wife does that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
She reaches out every once in a while. Yeah, she
reached out. We got like some strange the point some pants.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
So you should reach out and get us some sponsors
for this podcast.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We have a lot already we have We have Berkeley College.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The present, So like, how can I steal that sweat shirt?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I mean you could go on to comfort and uh,
you can use my discount code I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
And we talked let's let's switch gears and talk about
some of these awards you've been winning, right, because just
won another award.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Let's talk about it. Which which one was this one? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
So I got the Best New Artist award, which is
basically just like if you were to put it in
sports terms, it's like Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I heeart for I heart well deserved. I appreciate that.
Actually you want some other ones also, right?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I got one other one and this was like really
early into my journey here, but it was a Heartbeat
of the month. We had Peter in here talking about that.
Shout out to Peter. I see the grin. I see
the grin. Shout out to Peter. Peter won that also yeah, yeah, yeah,
so look at that. You got two award winning.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Are they hanging back? I don't see them.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I've won that one. Also, hell, let's go pro. You
can't wain that unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, but I have a Davy but we have a Yeah,
I'm not gonna lie that.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That award is super.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Cool because the other one we just got an email
pretty much, we just got an email.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Email and the website awards.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, let's call it switches about me. What kind of
awards you have you?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I have worn quite a few. The award Extra Mile Award,
going the extra mall for your colleagues and students. So
I won that a couple of years ago. That I
have some Telly awards. I had a commercial in Super Bowl,
so that sweet. What was it if I produced that
for Berkeley?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It was for Berkeley. He's flexing heart and that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
A silver Telly and then the people's that for that
specific spot. And then I've gotten a couple of Davies
in the past couple of.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Years, so that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
But the first podcast this month, so.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Again, that was a good one. That's an album. Yeah
to Berkeley College.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That's like one of my favorite awards, by the way,
like the actual award itself. Yeah, because it's like it
is like, yeah, he came in like a real nice case.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah. Yeah, that thing was beautiful. It's beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I didn't get nothing like that for Heartbeater Best New Artists,
But I'll take the recognition though.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You get the email. Yeah, it's always great to have that. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I mean at the end of the day, like I'm
still young in my career, I'm only twenty six, so
it's like I'll put that on my resume and I'll
be one more than content with that, you know. And yeah,
I was definitely happy to get the recognition though, because
I worked.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I worked really hard.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I have two jobs, so I worked really hard that
lot this last year, so it meant a lot to
me to be able to get that award. I mean,
I don't know how many people I was competing against,
but at the end of the day, yeah, I needed That's.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
All matters people seeing you putting that hard work in. Yeah,
I needed that for me. You know.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
We'll eventually get to Pro's wall that he has.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I don't have any awards.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Our couple with his records on his walls.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Those are plaques, those are not awards. It's still really
cool though, it's just never.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Been putting in that work for years. Yeah, what's cool
about those plaques? I have plaques, Yeah, record plax Is.
It says the year in the bottom right. So for
my kids or when people do come over, they can
kind of see the year like, oh you got to
you know you have a Cameron or eminem plaque or
you know.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
They see the longevity, you know, they see they see
that entire range. It's not just like I got this
one year. Yeah no, no, no, I got like I'm gonna
have to actually go.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Back, like stand and look at it and be like wow, Like.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I don't you know, I've never been the type poop.
I've never taken a chance. I've never been No, I've
never been that. I've kind of just been to keep
it moving kind of person always my whole life.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
A lot of people like.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I've been through so many different things, right, so I
don't I've never taken a step back to to like
really but every once in a while, will you know, now,
like later in life, I think and think about some
of the accomplishments and things that I've done.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
But that kind of stuff is cool. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We're so difficult on ourselves and we just need to
allow ourselves a little bit of grace absolutely and appreciate
ourselves and what we've been through, even if you look at,
you know, the past three months or past thirty days.
So I think, pro you are a pillar in the
community of what you do. And I know you don't
like receiving flowers you get on comfy, but no, your
trajectory has.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I've been getting that more.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think as I've gotten older, I've been meeting you know,
and I still DJ, and I still go out and
I do clubs and I still do events. So I
meet a lot of times DJs who were like yo,
like you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
But your trajectory has inspired and opened the doors for
so many in the industry of entertainment, and it's important
that you see that and that you allow yourself to
reflect on that, because it is a big deal. Your position,
your stance, and what you've done for so many and
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what you've done for yourself and from DJing to TV
to radio to entrepreneurship and you know, to programming, you've
done so much. You've created spaces, safe spaces for others,
and you've mentored so many, both silently and non silent
and you know, like even me, and we've talked about it,
like you've just you've been that persona. Look he's getting uncomfortable,
(24:26):
but you've been that persona. But it's so important. It
is it is, Papa pro.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I totally agree though.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I mean, like I think when I first got here,
you were you were one of the first shows that
I work with too, Like right off the bat, I
think it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Was it wasn't it wasn't was it Shaggy and Sting? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I did. I think that was the first one that
I worked with.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, but that was like, uh, Shaggy and Stein interview
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That incredible, And Shaggy is my guy.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I've done like four or five but and Sting suspect
Shaggy the thing is just a different you know what
I'm saying kind of artists, so I'm not used to
seeing this thing.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So that was really awesome.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I think that was only like my second month of
being here, and you just you brought me into the
space and allowed me to help you out to the
best of my ability.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And you know what, We're going to break some possible
news right on this episode talking about Shaggy. We may
we may be doing our next live Teach Me Something
studio audience podcasts, but we need the board with with Shaggy,
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you know, with Shaggy and and maybe somebody else also
with him, so that might be on the way. Just
just stay tuned for that. We may be doing a
live here in New York Teach Me Something podcast recording
uh studio audience, so you guys would be you'll know
when we announce it, and Shaggy will be the guest.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
For those that are that are listening and not viewing.
Pro and I discussed these things and then we say
we're not going to say anything. You did to say that,
but then he says all the things. But since he's
the programming director, we're going to stay quiet and let
him drop whatever he wants.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
We're going to make it happen.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But no turning back now right there, that's manifesting.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Man, should we break some more news on this episode
so we have more news? I don't we do have
more news?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
What news is this?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Do we?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Wait? I don't even know what you're talking about. I
don't think baking. I don't know you're talking about either.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
All right, so we may cut this out, Peter about that.
But as y'all know, because we've spoken about this with
our episode of Carolyn Whitman about annual planning, but we
actually just finished our annual planning for the next fiscal
year between iHeart and Berkeley College, and we are signing
on for another year of teach me something I don't
(26:50):
even know. So we have more than us. As long
as Liam stays and doesn't leave, we'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Agree. I didn't agree to this yet. I gotta see
the terms now.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'm just playing all the deals go to pro before
it comes to me. Another year through twenty twenty seven.
It was so exciting.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
That's great. It's so sick.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
They're like, damn it, oh my god, these people.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Another year with the studio being taken out. That's awesome.
That's awesome. That's that's big news.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So yeah, all right, another year. We may cut that out,
but we'll see what Carolyn says. Okay, we still got it, Yeah, yeah,
of course, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I still we still got to confirm the room.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
We might cut this whole part off for the for
the shaggy situation, but for you're looking to do.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I already have the date. I have already have Shaggy
with Robin Thick. Wow. So now they're just waiting on
Carolyn has been waiting.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
On timing for upstairs, for Upstairs to write off giving
us the space. It'll probably like a five thirty or
she says, six pm type of thing.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
We'll have to get food. It'll be big though. That's
awesome there there.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Jill's in on it, like like for Kats was gonna
be a big giveaway love in. When you weigh in
blah blah, you're sharing a lot of secret. I mean,
this is not going to be on that.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Shaggy.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Can we can we like, guys, can we really just
can we just have a board?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Let's wrap this up? Yeah, I still go back. I
go ahead. Liam.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
It has been such a pleasure having you on the episode,
just because you're always behind the camera. Now people get
to see you, see who's yes your story, and see
who's the visionary behind the editing and going back and forth,
because let's just face it, we always crack jokes that
I edit, but really Liam does the hard work, sends
it and then I send him more work. With the
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breakdown of the time coding and all that, and he
doesnout complaining.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I respect it though, I mean because at the end
of the day, as as long as it comes, it
really comes down to this, right, like when when you
get to work with some type of blueprint like that
is so much better than working blind.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You know what I mean A hundred percent. I mean
just giving you everything and saying give me something back.
Yeah I will. I'll take that every day of the week.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
But I love that we help each other. Yeah, because
the way that you pre edit helps me when I
So when I edit the episodes, I actually watch twice
and listen twice. So I listen once, watch once, then
listen again on audio, and then watch Because for those
of you at home, we have different releases. We have
broadcasts on w R seven ten and then we watch.
(29:27):
So I'm always thinking, if I'm listening, how does that
project does it land? If I'm watching, how does that land?
So it's a lot of different audio visual But when
I cut the parts, then it's the marketing. What's the
attention grab er, What's what's that dropped pro say something
funny that it's going to go in or something insightful,
So it's.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
It's say something I need to remove.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
We have those those situations where we remove things because
we joke around and we're very much like a family,
and we tend to forget that we're representing various brands
as we're talking. But it's really cool to have a
solid team that we can bounce off of each other.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And I mean, I think it's I think that's the
best dynamic.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
If you're feeling like you're like you have to coddle
even a portion of your personality, like this thing doesn't work.
You know, it doesn't. It doesn't swim the same at all.
People can rip through that lack of authenticity in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
But I love it, and I love that you added
the episode with with Carolyn Whitman, a VP of sales
for iHeart You added the President of New York's phase
when you're like insert his face here, Liam put it
in there.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I actually had to reach out to Steve to get
that because I didn't. I know, I didn't. I took that.
That was so cool. I took that photo of him,
and I don't know where it went. I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
We had a designer that was here.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
He needs to do it.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, you do shout out to Steve and he has
his podcast as CEOs that you should know.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I've worked with that one. I worked with that too.
I was leading that for a little bit too.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, you worked on the episode where we had our
present Yes for that interview.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Well, Leea in true teach me something fashion. If you
could describe what your legacy would be in one word,
what would it be?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
You know, it's crazy because I've had all the time
in the world to be able to think of what we're.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
At the end of season two.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yep, No, I'm not gonna lie I have I have
no idea.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
One word is so limiting.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I mean, it speaks volumes right, one word, But it's
also so limiting at the same time, just because there's
a lot of words that I'd like. That's a great word, Penny,
But you came up with that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's well, you just said it's so limiting, so the opposite.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
It's a good point. It's a good point.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
But I would say 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 my That's the word.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I was thinking about describing everything you've been through.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
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 1 (32:19):
I'm sure they're extremely proud of you, for sure. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
That's why you got to give people their flowers while
they're still in front of you.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Because that that's one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's showing real love, you know.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Yeah, it's hard to be vulnerable, especially today, like especially
with how social media works, like sometimes it gets spun
the wrong way no matter you know what side of
the corn you're on.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So and that's the gauge that we we flow in
the podcast. It's authenticity is always right first and foremost.
But when you pair that with vulnerability, it's how much
do you want to share? How much access do you
want to give people?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
To progress? Everything? But open book over there.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Head on that note, thank you all for tuning in
today to Teach Me Something.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
DJ Prostown. Let's not forget.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
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Speaker 1 (33:10):
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Speaker 2 (33:12):
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
We are uberly excited today because we have a special
guest here. He wanted to redeem himself for taking vacation
during our Christmas episode. We have the one, the only
kind of a v le I'm with, Yes, yes, I
feel like that was like the price is right, we
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need the little music, that's right.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
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 Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay here, everybody, no, no, I'm grateful.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
So we didn't have a guest, so we decided to
bring Liam onto the episode.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I just want to point out that in our last
so on our last episode of Ronic you gotta check
out the last episode, right, it was all about fashion.
She'd be totally upset with the way Penny showed up today.
Really anyway, let's just keep it going.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You know what, I'm realizing. I'm realizing that when we
have team episodes, the disrespect that is thrown my way
in the shade.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But you know what, because I'm being a here because
you have a real fire fire shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And someone else here got some and decided.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I didn't know today was they.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Wanted to save it for a special occasion.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I thought that there was going to be a whole
day that we were supposed to match them or something.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I know we're supposed to twin all right, the next episode.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I got to say, though, the banter definitely hits like
a new level when you guys do the team episodes
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Like we haven't even talked to you. We've just been
going at it the whole time.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right, We're gonna have to cut all this out anyways, Tell.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Everybody watching and listening right now, what exactly your role
is here at IHEARTM.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So I'm a video for iHeart. I work with pretty
much every single station everyone. Yeah, I don't think that
there's a station I haven't worked with yet, at least
to my knowledge. Yeah, so I run Yeah, pretty much
just video. I don't have a favorite. We're we're not
We're not going to get the favorite. Pressure sitting right here,
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done some good work, absolutely prior to Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Actually, but Liam's like, your show's on too late. I
can't stay literally we have like what time? Never mind, I've.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Been here for pro show and halfway through I'm like
one eye open.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, I'm so old, that's really the answer, but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, no, So I worked with Yeah, I mean pretty
much every single show. I don't I don't think that
there isn't a show nationally syndicated regular in general that
I haven't touched so far yet, whether it's coverage or
just yeah, just finding myself to be the right man
for the job.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You are so talented and you're so fun to work with.
And I know we have a lot of bands are
off camera and all of that, but you really are talented.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Liam just launched his own website, and I was very
important to website.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
By the website, it is a Liamwynn dot com, so
l I a m w i n n dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And when people go there, you know, what can they expect?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Honestly, the intention was really just to get my work
out there. I didn't really have I don't even have
like a contact me section. I really don't have the
bandwidth for it right now. But I know that I
needed to get it out there somehow, and I felt like,
you know, social media just isn't like the only avenue
to take these things. So I wanted to have like
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a proper space for it to all live. And I've
done a lot of work here, and I've done a
lot of work prior to being here as a freelancer,
And yeah, I think it was just it was well
beyond time to be able to get that kind of
stuff out there.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I love that you said just press plan, let me
do it and spoke about it and you were like, yeah,
I was thinking about it for a month and I
just said, let me just throw it out there. And
sometimes we are our largest obstacle. We overthink things. We
don't want to put it out if it's not perfect,
and you don't have to be perfect. Imperfection it's what
gets to the consumer base. So just put it out
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there and be authentic.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, I mean, imposter syndrome is like such a crutch
for a lot of like creators.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
What is it what is it called imposters?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, so just in a nutshell, it just feels like
you're never doing enough kind of thing, even when you're
working with like the biggest of brands or whatever the
case may be. Like it's something that every single creator faces,
like you just never feel like you've done enough because
at the end of the day, you know, once that
project's done, the project's done. Now you got to find
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the next one. So and that was like my biggest
hurdle when it came to freelancing. It was just like
I couldn't do the chase anymore. It was just it
was just too much work and I needed something stable,
and luckily I found myself here.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So so 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, I mean into this field, into recording,
into everything you do.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's a crazy that's a crazy story. We have time. Yeah,
crazy stories do good? Liam, You know this, you know
you you make a great you make a great point.
So no, so.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, so I guess this starts pretty much at the
beginning of my college career. Uh, So, I was a
collegiate athlete. I played baseball, and I had this lingering
ankle issue when I was in when I was in
high school that never really got taken care of the
right way, like the trainers back there, like they did not.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It did not help me out. And he says this
as I'm wearing like a right time, it could be perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It couldn't be the better part of today complaining about
his ankle.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I have had a lingering ankle injury that I've never
taken care of ever. But later I'm wearing, he's young,
don't grow up anyway, just move on.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Hopefully this inspires you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
It inspires me to what I already have a boot
on my cat man.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
There you go. Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, so I had this lingering ankle issue just from
playing basketball and I mean pretty much every sport in
high school. And when I got to the college scene
and I started playing collegiate uh 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.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
There wasn't like an excuse for that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
And even as a freshman like I was a leader
on that team, and a lot of guys looked up
to me, even some people that were older than me,
just because I like to try and carry myself 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 1 (06:53):
So I felt like I still needed to be around.
And so up until I.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Had the surgery, which is about two months 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 it was a brand new
baseball team, so they needed something to get out there
(07:19):
just you know kind of I feel like, more so
to just make sure that their investment was worth it
to create this team. And they had this massive gym
that they built and all that stuff whatever, and so yeah,
they handed me a camera and I would go on
the road with them and I shot photo. And my
dad was actually a photographer, so I think that that
kind of just like trained my eye, but subconsciously, you know,
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it wasn't like something that was in the forefront of
my mind. But I played on a bunch of different
college I mean 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 it just kind of developed
(08:05):
this eye, like I said, subconsciously. And then fast forward
a little bit, I left. I ended up leaving that
school when I got surgery. I went to community college.
During my rehab, I probably was off for about two
semesters or so, so I was about a year behind
and that just kind of changed my mentality with how
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I wanted to kind of approach life from that point on.
And so once I went to community college, I was
going with a friend of mine and we both just
well actually, and all kudos to him, because he's really
the one that kept me on college, like the college route.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
He wanted to go to Sunny Cortland, and I was
just like, I'll go with you, sure, why not? I
didn't really have any direction like college. Really, I don't
think it really was for me. But because I had
like a backbone with me in a place where I
really didn't have. He kind of kept me on that line.
And then we went to Courtland together and then I
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shot for the media team out there, so I was
doing photo video for Kente events. I shot for all
the sports teams out there. And then there was a
professor I was working really close with. Her name is
doctor K, and she introduced me to the producer of
A Way Up with Yee's executive producer. Well now, at
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the time when I met him, he was still working
with Breakfast Club, but Dan Green, Yeah, and then so
we met in an alumni engagement event that I actually
like put together with doctor K. And after that he
was like, I'm going to need a photographer, you know,
once you graduate, So give me a call once you're done.
And I rang him up in May, and then I
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started working with ye Fast forward a few years of
just kind of paying my dues, and I found myself
over here.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
So, I mean, so Dan obviously brought you into the
the cluster here you could say, yeah, for sure, it's
all about like everything doesn't matter what episode.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We do, It's all.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
About you know who you know. Yeah, that's why networking
is so important, right.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yeah, I mean Dan was the one that got me in,
but I worked with Tony Mulay, who's the Yeah. He
brought me in for a freelance event.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It was.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It was an event at UH. It was an event
for Infinity on the Edge. They were presenting a car,
which is crazy. They like reconstructed this car and like put.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It out and put it up, Yeah exactly, and took
a part and put it back together.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah, you know, isn't it Isn't it insane? And it
was like the first car to ever do it or
something like that. And so I freelanced for them doing that.
And then fast forward a few months and he was like,
I want you on the team, and he brought me in.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, and you do everybody stuff, yeah, literally everybody.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I mean, I've worked at Breakfast Club, I've worked with Elvis,
I've worked with wor KT you obviously, I've worked with Ze,
you know. Aside from Elvis, I feel like I'm forgetting
oh Q of course.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I work with Ken plenty of times. Yep.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
But like the main squeezes that I kind of have,
Elvis is like more so coverage Breakfast Club. That's more
so coverage when people need it. But I more so
work with like KTU and Angie Martinez.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Those are like the two.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, let's unpack a little bit about your journey. First
of all, this is why we do what we do,
because everyone has a story and it's interesting when they
begin to unpack. You don't know where that journey's going
to take you, where the conversation is going to end.
But you spoke about your dad being an influence to you,
(11:49):
and it's interesting how our environmental influences play such large
roles in our lives, and like pro and I have
spoken about this, like our dads were musicians and we
ended up going you know, music and media and production routes,
and it's so interesting what we absorb as kids and
how we're sponges. But even beyond that, I admire your
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open mindedness and willing to pivot and persevere through that journey.
There were so many instances where you could have said
this is it. I'm just gonna throw in the towel,
but you didn't do that. You continue to veer in
that path and try to find yourself within that time.
So that's extremely impressive.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, I appreciate that perspective for sure. I mean, you know,
at the end of the day, you had to pick
your feet up and do it yourself. But I wouldn't
be half the person I was without like the foundation
that I have around me. And that really comes down
to my mom, my sister, and my brothers.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
They're not actually my brothers.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
But obviously I treat them as such because I've known
him since I was in like second grade, and we've
been a very tight knit group. My boys Joe and Frankie. Yeah,
they've been holding it down since day one. So I
really wouldn't have gotten half as far. Like when I
had that ankle surgery, was with me every single day,
Like that's not even an exaggeration, and you know, he
has his own life to take care take to recover.
(13:05):
That was like an eight month recovery. Yeah, and then
I ended up And then fast forward like in college too,
I was playing basketball. I ended up tearing my acl
and that was like another whole recovery I had to
go through. And I had to wait on that one
because I knew I couldn't take any more time off
from school because if I did, I was not going
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to go back. So the way that it worked was
when I tore my acl. I just had to go
with it. I wore a brace for like four months
of my spring semester to my junior year, and then
I got the surgery in June. Somehow was able to
make it back for you know, what is it like
end of August early September when you go back to school.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So yeah, that was all from sports. Yeah, m hmm,
that's rough.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I tore my MCL and my senior year and then
my junior year. Summer before my senior year, I was
in a car accident and I broke eighteen was in
my right hand, So no more drums for me.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So it was it was you're a drummer. I was, well,
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's so coola not anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Like more like that's super cool though, how did you.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Tear your m c L.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah? Basketball?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Oh wow? Yeah? Basketball is that is an injury written
sport was not.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Let me just disclaimer for a shout out to uh
the Blue Devils, But no, I was not a basketball player.
I was in theater. And what they do is that
after I ran the theater production, I.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Was the stage you were playing.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So when we so when we tear down the sets, right,
we have like an ice cream social and then the
gymnasiums are open so they let us play basketball do
the things. And that's why I'm not a professional player.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
And that whole story was so left though.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But you know what it happens.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You're talking to.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Somebody who can relate to, like, yeah, you know, you're
almost practicing. You know those early mornings and late nights
in the gym, No, no, late nights, and you tripped
over something and a person.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You tripped over a person.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No, I didn't trip over the person. The person pushed me.
And then I tripped over the ones sitting down.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That's terrible.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
The point is still it hurt for a very long time.
M hm.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Those recoveries are brutal, man.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, and then you have to like prop yourself up. Yeah,
you know what, let's veer off with. It's gonna go extreme.
The bathrooms is a problem.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Oh yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
But yeah, I actually do want to go onto that
note for a second because I think it's extremely important
because that was something that actually like like definitely changed
my perspective as a whole. Like when I had the
ankle surgery, I couldn't walk, I couldn't do much of
anything on my own. So whether it's taking a shower
or just trying to use the bathroom, those were new
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experiences that I had to endure through. But it gave
me new perspective of just how grateful you get to
be just to even just to walk down the street,
you know what I mean. Not to say that I
could imagine what it's like to be a paraplegic or
anything like that, but you get a little bit of
an insight as to what those kinds of like imagine
having to deal with that your entire life. You know,
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like you get a newfound like joy and having the
opportunity just to walk down the halls.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You know, it's just gratitude. We tend to take things
for granted while we have that, and you don't realize
how much you utilize an extremity or something until you
have an injury. Because pro was crawling into the studio today.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, well that's that's something different.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
But but one thing I do like about and going
back to your sports roots right is and it's and
I we emphasize this with our kids that since they're
into sports, and we look at it as like the
fundamentals you've learned from playing all you know.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Basketball obviously.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And and different sports and baseball, you know, and teamwork
and putting in the all those days and nights in
the gym, and that helped you out in life in general.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Absolutely, you know, And you build that camaraderie and that
you know, whether whether it's the sport or you make
fun but looking at theater or your inquire, you're in
bad Like you're with these people for a large part
of your week, right, it's just like it's just like
here you you build your ecosystem and you're a large
part with these people and it's you get out what
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you put in, and that structure will.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Find you create a good routine for yourself, you know,
a daily routine of getting up early, putting in that work.
That not like it doesn't become so when later on
in life when you have to do a daily routine,
it's it's easy.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
It's a lot easier than somebody who hasn't.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It's super important to be a part of teams, like
in any capacity, whatever whatever the case may be. I
mean the lessons that you learn alone just from that,
like that that process is so crucial for everybody. Like
there's if there was one thing like to point out
that you need to be a part of. It's definitely
a team, like learn that ecosystem. It's not good to
try and handle the weight of the world on your own.
(17:58):
You know, you need other people to be able to
rely on.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So you spoke about all of the brands that you
work with, both in media and out and you're also
a brand ambassador. I see you wearing the Comfort Mova.
How does that come about?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Comfort?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Honestly, that was just that actually happened like two months ago.
That was while I was here and people that we
so we have what's called the Power Pit. It's like
right next to where Breakfast Club records, and that's pretty
much where all of our digital team is, Like we
all kind of live over there. And everybody kept calling
me out for wearing Comfort all the time, and they
(18:38):
were like, why don't you just become an ambassador? So
I actually just looked into it and it wasn't like
a hard process.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So they just hit them up there like we're going
to send you some stuff, do some posts.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I didn't even have to make a post. It's amazing
how many companies actually do that. Yeah, my wife does that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
She reaches out every once in a while. Yeah, she
reached out. We got like some strange the point some pants.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
So you should reach out and get us some sponsors
for this podcast.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We have a lot already we have We have Berkeley College.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The present, So like, how can I steal that sweat shirt?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I mean you could go on to comfort and uh,
you can use my discount code I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
And we talked let's let's switch gears and talk about
some of these awards you've been winning, right, because just
won another award.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Let's talk about it. Which which one was this one? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
So I got the Best New Artist award, which is
basically just like if you were to put it in
sports terms, it's like Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I heeart for I heart well deserved. I appreciate that.
Actually you want some other ones also, right?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I got one other one and this was like really
early into my journey here, but it was a Heartbeat
of the month. We had Peter in here talking about that.
Shout out to Peter. I see the grin. I see
the grin. Shout out to Peter. Peter won that also yeah, yeah, yeah,
so look at that. You got two award winning.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Are they hanging back? I don't see them.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I've won that one. Also, hell, let's go pro. You
can't wain that unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, but I have a Davy but we have a Yeah,
I'm not gonna lie that.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That award is super.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Cool because the other one we just got an email
pretty much, we just got an email.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Email and the website awards.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, let's call it switches about me. What kind of
awards you have you?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I have worn quite a few. The award Extra Mile Award,
going the extra mall for your colleagues and students. So
I won that a couple of years ago. That I
have some Telly awards. I had a commercial in Super Bowl,
so that sweet. What was it if I produced that
for Berkeley?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It was for Berkeley. He's flexing heart and that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
A silver Telly and then the people's that for that
specific spot. And then I've gotten a couple of Davies
in the past couple of.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Years, so that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
But the first podcast this month, so.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Again, that was a good one. That's an album. Yeah
to Berkeley College.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
That's like one of my favorite awards, by the way,
like the actual award itself. Yeah, because it's like it
is like, yeah, he came in like a real nice case.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah. Yeah, that thing was beautiful. It's beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I didn't get nothing like that for Heartbeater Best New Artists,
But I'll take the recognition though.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
You get the email. Yeah, it's always great to have that. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I mean at the end of the day, like I'm
still young in my career, I'm only twenty six, so
it's like I'll put that on my resume and I'll
be one more than content with that, you know. And yeah,
I was definitely happy to get the recognition though, because
I worked.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I worked really hard.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I have two jobs, so I worked really hard that
lot this last year, so it meant a lot to
me to be able to get that award. I mean,
I don't know how many people I was competing against,
but at the end of the day, yeah, I needed That's.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
All matters people seeing you putting that hard work in. Yeah,
I needed that for me. You know.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
We'll eventually get to Pro's wall that he has.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I don't have any awards.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Our couple with his records on his walls.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Those are plaques, those are not awards. It's still really
cool though, it's just never.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Been putting in that work for years. Yeah, what's cool
about those plaques? I have plaques, Yeah, record plax Is.
It says the year in the bottom right. So for
my kids or when people do come over, they can
kind of see the year like, oh you got to
you know you have a Cameron or eminem plaque or
you know.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
They see the longevity, you know, they see they see
that entire range. It's not just like I got this
one year. Yeah no, no, no, I got like I'm gonna
have to actually go.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Back, like stand and look at it and be like wow, Like.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I don't you know, I've never been the type poop.
I've never taken a chance. I've never been No, I've
never been that. I've kind of just been to keep
it moving kind of person always my whole life.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
A lot of people like.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I've been through so many different things, right, so I
don't I've never taken a step back to to like
really but every once in a while, will you know, now,
like later in life, I think and think about some
of the accomplishments and things that I've done.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
But that kind of stuff is cool. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We're so difficult on ourselves and we just need to
allow ourselves a little bit of grace absolutely and appreciate
ourselves and what we've been through, even if you look at,
you know, the past three months or past thirty days.
So I think, pro you are a pillar in the
community of what you do. And I know you don't
like receiving flowers you get on comfy, but no, your
trajectory has.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I've been getting that more.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I think as I've gotten older, I've been meeting you know,
and I still DJ, and I still go out and
I do clubs and I still do events. So I
meet a lot of times DJs who were like yo,
like you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
But your trajectory has inspired and opened the doors for
so many in the industry of entertainment, and it's important
that you see that and that you allow yourself to
reflect on that, because it is a big deal. Your position,
your stance, and what you've done for so many and
(24:04):
what you've done for yourself and from DJing to TV
to radio to entrepreneurship and you know, to programming, you've
done so much. You've created spaces, safe spaces for others,
and you've mentored so many, both silently and non silent
and you know, like even me, and we've talked about it,
like you've just you've been that persona. Look he's getting uncomfortable,
(24:26):
but you've been that persona. But it's so important. It
is it is, Papa pro.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I totally agree though.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I mean, like I think when I first got here,
you were you were one of the first shows that
I work with too, Like right off the bat, I
think it.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Was it wasn't it wasn't was it Shaggy and Sting? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I did. I think that was the first one that
I worked with.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, but that was like, uh, Shaggy and Stein interview
at the same time.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That incredible, And Shaggy is my guy.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I've done like four or five but and Sting suspect
Shaggy the thing is just a different you know what
I'm saying kind of artists, so I'm not used to
seeing this thing.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So that was really awesome.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I think that was only like my second month of
being here, and you just you brought me into the
space and allowed me to help you out to the
best of my ability.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And you know what, We're going to break some possible
news right on this episode talking about Shaggy. We may
we may be doing our next live Teach Me Something
studio audience podcasts, but we need the board with with Shaggy,
(25:34):
you know, with Shaggy and and maybe somebody else also
with him, so that might be on the way. Just
just stay tuned for that. We may be doing a
live here in New York Teach Me Something podcast recording
uh studio audience, so you guys would be you'll know
when we announce it, and Shaggy will be the guest.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
For those that are that are listening and not viewing.
Pro and I discussed these things and then we say
we're not going to say anything. You did to say that,
but then he says all the things. But since he's
the programming director, we're going to stay quiet and let
him drop whatever he wants.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
We're going to make it happen.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But no turning back now right there, that's manifesting.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Man, should we break some more news on this episode
so we have more news? I don't we do have
more news?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
What news is this?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Do we?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Wait? I don't even know what you're talking about. I
don't think baking. I don't know you're talking about either.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
All right, so we may cut this out, Peter about that.
But as y'all know, because we've spoken about this with
our episode of Carolyn Whitman about annual planning, but we
actually just finished our annual planning for the next fiscal
year between iHeart and Berkeley College, and we are signing
on for another year of teach me something I don't
(26:50):
even know. So we have more than us. As long
as Liam stays and doesn't leave, we'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Agree. I didn't agree to this yet. I gotta see
the terms now.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
I'm just playing all the deals go to pro before
it comes to me. Another year through twenty twenty seven.
It was so exciting.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
That's great. It's so sick.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
They're like, damn it, oh my god, these people.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Another year with the studio being taken out. That's awesome.
That's awesome. That's that's big news.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So yeah, all right, another year. We may cut that out,
but we'll see what Carolyn says. Okay, we still got it, Yeah, yeah,
of course, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I still we still got to confirm the room.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
We might cut this whole part off for the for
the shaggy situation, but for you're looking to do.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I already have the date. I have already have Shaggy
with Robin Thick. Wow. So now they're just waiting on
Carolyn has been waiting.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
On timing for upstairs, for Upstairs to write off giving
us the space. It'll probably like a five thirty or
she says, six pm type of thing.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
We'll have to get food. It'll be big though. That's
awesome there there.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Jill's in on it, like like for Kats was gonna
be a big giveaway love in. When you weigh in
blah blah, you're sharing a lot of secret. I mean,
this is not going to be on that.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Shaggy.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Can we can we like, guys, can we really just
can we just have a board?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Let's wrap this up? Yeah, I still go back. I
go ahead. Liam.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
It has been such a pleasure having you on the episode,
just because you're always behind the camera. Now people get
to see you, see who's yes your story, and see
who's the visionary behind the editing and going back and forth,
because let's just face it, we always crack jokes that
I edit, but really Liam does the hard work, sends
it and then I send him more work. With the
(28:44):
breakdown of the time coding and all that, and he
doesnout complaining.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I respect it though, I mean because at the end
of the day, as as long as it comes, it
really comes down to this, right, like when when you
get to work with some type of blueprint like that
is so much better than working blind.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You know what I mean A hundred percent. I mean
just giving you everything and saying give me something back.
Yeah I will. I'll take that every day of the week.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
But I love that we help each other. Yeah, because
the way that you pre edit helps me when I
So when I edit the episodes, I actually watch twice
and listen twice. So I listen once, watch once, then
listen again on audio, and then watch Because for those
of you at home, we have different releases. We have
broadcasts on w R seven ten and then we watch.
(29:27):
So I'm always thinking, if I'm listening, how does that
project does it land? If I'm watching, how does that land?
So it's a lot of different audio visual But when
I cut the parts, then it's the marketing. What's the
attention grab er, What's what's that dropped pro say something
funny that it's going to go in or something insightful,
So it's.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
It's say something I need to remove.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
We have those those situations where we remove things because
we joke around and we're very much like a family,
and we tend to forget that we're representing various brands
as we're talking. But it's really cool to have a
solid team that we can bounce off of each other.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
And I mean, I think it's I think that's the
best dynamic.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
If you're feeling like you're like you have to coddle
even a portion of your personality, like this thing doesn't work.
You know, it doesn't. It doesn't swim the same at all.
People can rip through that lack of authenticity in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
But I love it, and I love that you added
the episode with with Carolyn Whitman, a VP of sales
for iHeart You added the President of New York's phase
when you're like insert his face here, Liam put it
in there.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I actually had to reach out to Steve to get
that because I didn't. I know, I didn't. I took that.
That was so cool. I took that photo of him,
and I don't know where it went. I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
We had a designer that was here.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
He needs to do it.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, you do shout out to Steve and he has
his podcast as CEOs that you should know.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I've worked with that one. I worked with that too.
I was leading that for a little bit too.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, you worked on the episode where we had our
present Yes for that interview.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Well, Leea in true teach me something fashion. If you
could describe what your legacy would be in one word,
what would it be?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
You know, it's crazy because I've had all the time
in the world to be able to think of what we're.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
At the end of season two.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yep, No, I'm not gonna lie I have I have
no idea.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
One word is so limiting.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I mean, it speaks volumes right, one word, But it's
also so limiting at the same time, just because there's
a lot of words that I'd like. That's a great word, Penny,
But you came up with that.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's well, you just said it's so limiting, so the opposite.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
It's a good point. It's a good point.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
But I would say 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 my That's the word.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I was thinking about describing everything you've been through.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
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 1 (32:19):
I'm sure they're extremely proud of you, for sure. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
That's why you got to give people their flowers while
they're still in front of you.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Because that that's one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's showing real love, you know.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Yeah, it's hard to be vulnerable, especially today, like especially
with how social media works, like sometimes it gets spun
the wrong way no matter you know what side of
the corn you're on.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So and that's the gauge that we we flow in
the podcast. It's authenticity is always right first and foremost.
But when you pair that with vulnerability, it's how much
do you want to share? How much access do you
want to give people?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
To progress? Everything? But open book over there.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Head on that note, thank you all for tuning in
today to Teach Me Something.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
DJ Prostown. Let's not forget.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Leam Wins presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
We will see you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Vibe Hey, thanks for listening. Tune in next week for
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