The Entertainment Engine

We’re excited to be back with Season 3, and the first guest on the show is Paul Duddridge, Hollywood director, producer, writer, comedy agent and former manager of Michael McIntyre and Rob Brydon. Paul has 30 years of experience in creating projects and careers for some of the biggest names in showbiz. He has worked with Hollywood legends Susan Sarandon, Selma Blair, Christina Ricci and Sharon Stone...

In this episode, we are back with Part 2 of the conversation with Paul Duddridge. This week Paul talks about his Entertainment Coaching app which is UBER and Airbnb for performing arts coaches. Paul has worked extensively in UK comedy management and TV production and shares his story and views of the Entertainment industry today...

We’re excited to be back with Season 3, and this week we have an inspirational chat with Phil Guerini who climbed his way to the top of one of the world’s most iconic family entertainment brands, The Walt Disney Company for over 25 years. Phil oversaw music strategy for Disney Channels Worldwide networks, alongside all aspects of Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country...

This week we welcome legendary bassist and musician Leland Sklar on the podcast show. He is a member of the Los Angeles-based instrumental group The Section, who served as the de facto house band of Asylum Records and were one of the progenitors of the soft rock sound prevalent on top-40 radio in the 1970s and 1980s...

Marcus Welch, co-founder & CEO of Quadio. Marcus is a lifelong fan of emerging, genre-blending, and experimental music who DJ’d his first radio show at 14 and entered the music industry by joining Twitter’s music partnerships team, where he worked with artists including Lizzo, Hinds, Erykah Badu, and Pusha T. He later joined BlizzardActivision in operations and digital marketing strategy roles for Hearthstone and World of Warcraft, becoming a certified Scrum Master along the way...

This week we had a great opportunity to speak with Nick Beveridge "Senior Investment Manager at The Ingenious Group & Head of Finance at Made Up Ltd". Nick has worked in the commercial team at Ingenious Media, focusing on music and live events since 2007. 

In the past year alone Made Up have created stage headers at Glastonbury, bespoke visuals for Blondie, and the applauded Radio One Escape Room...

This week we speak with Super Producer, Victor Merritt, who has sold well over 30 million records in Pop, Hip Hop, Gospel, and R&B. Victor has received a Grammy nomination and numerous Billboard and BMI accolades, including having the largest selling male R&B artist RCA has had in over 31 years. Victor work over the years has included working with these iconic artists; Diana Ross, Brownstone, BabyFace, Kirk Franklin, K-CI & JOJO, Bobby Brown, Rome, 3T, U2 and countless others...

This week we speak with renowned film and tv composer Randy Edelman who is responsible for creating the soundtracks to legendary films including: “27 Dresses”, “While You Were Sleeping”, “The Last of the Mohicans”, “ Kindergarten Cop”, “Dragonheart”, “XXX”, “Twins”, “My Cousin Vinny”, “The Mask”, “Beethoven”, “ Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”, “Anaconda”, “Mummy 3”, “Ghost Busters 2”, “Gettysburg”, “Billy Madison”, “Leap Year”, “ The Whole Nine Yards”, and an endless array of others...

This week we speak with Chris Korbey who is co-founder and CEO of StagePilot. Chris has spent nearly a decade creating technologies and services that empower artists to grow, analyze, and monetize.

Chris started off as a designer and worked with top agencies in Boston, NYC and SF. Then he fell in love with photography and shot campaigns for Stetson, Scio, Southwest Airlines & more...

This week on the podcast we welcome Greek American actor and voice-over artist Katie Chonacas. Growing up in the Detroit music underground scene Katie recall's “knowing” to remember that it would be some of the most preciously precarious moments of her life that would lead and be a part of something big...