Stay Risky with Dee Annis (HI-FI/MOKB Presents)

Stay Risky

Making a career in music is both amazing and terrifying at the same time. If you try to make it as a musician, I wish you the best of luck and may god have mercy on your soul.

Between myself being a performer and running a company in the entertainment industry, I’ve experienced first hand the struggles both financially and mentally that go into chasing that dream. The reality is there are other opportunities to establish a career whether you’re a booking agent, stagehand, or box office attendant. There’s plenty of roles in the industry where you can still be part of the show and have a healthy career balance. The reason why I’m sharing my experience is because our guest today and I both have worked for the same company.

MOKB Presents, a live event production company based in Indianapolis, was my first graphic design internship that helped shape everything that I do today with 40FI Creations. Working in the office helped me network and make connections with other designers, booking agents, and production managers that I still have relationships with to this day. Although our guest started working for the company years after I left, I can tell that she has the same drive and spirit that all the great people before her possessed in the day to day operations of the shows.

She is a true music fan, and might hold the all time record for most concerts attended in the United States.

This episode’s trailblazer shout out goes to Tonic Ball

tonicball.org

The Stay Risky theme song "Figure Me Out" by JD Eicher

Podcast recording photos by Tyler Muir

Images designed by Bram Epstein

The Stay Risky Podcast is recorded at Engine Room Recording Company in Indianapolis, IN and brought to you by 40FI Creations.

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