One of the values of being in the room. Thank you again to @Eddie Blackmon for sharing your insights and @Andy Almada for offering support to our group. @Kosine Palacios Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to pouring into the Academy, much apperciated. The intern never graduates. 📚🎓

FYI: the site shows that the grant submissions are closed but it should've opened on April 1st... Outside of that if you scroll down, there's a Voices of Tmw opportunity if anyone is interested.. Www.bmacoalition.org/jamandlewis

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The Internz Report goes LIVE today at 4 PM PT. Free game for everybody. If you know someone who needs to hear real industry talk, send them the link. Then at 5 PM we go members only with a very special guest. Eddie Blackmon is in the building tonight. Eddie is a veteran in this industry. He's been in rooms most people will never see. He gave me my first real shot in this game. I used to sleep on this man's couch. He believed in me before the Grammy nominations, before the platinum records, before any of it. Tonight he's sitting down with us to share what he's seeing in the industry right now, what's working, and what the next generation needs to understand. I'm also going to break down the last 7 days of my life as a real time case study. No theory. No hypotheticals. Actual moves I made this week, the systems behind them, and what it looks like when you stop playing defense and start building offense in your career and your business. This is what the Academy is about. This is the room. 4 PM — The Internz Report (free, open to everyone) 5 PM — Internz Academy members only session with Eddie Blackmon The intern never graduates. LET'S KOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ## ZOOM LINK (for members) https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89691830849?pwd=lGabEp0l2bpD6vzSYo1W9UaphofHzM.1 Meeting ID: 896 9183 0849 Passcode: 688802

Andy Almada spent six years as part of the leadership team at 1500 Sound Academy, the institution built by Rance Dopson and James Fauntleroy. He wasn't a student there. He wasn't visiting. He was the Director of Operations who helped launch and run that 25,000 square foot facility in Inglewood from the ground up. He eventually became their Director of Strategic Partnerships, building the relationships that connected that academy to the industry at the highest level. Before that, he was a professor of audio engineering at Golden West College. He ran his own studio called Essense Studio as a producer and engineer. He's worked with The Recording Academy. He currently serves as Director of Strategy and Partnerships at LANDR, one of the biggest music technology platforms in the world. This man has seen music education from every angle. He's built it. He's taught it. He's partnered it. And now he chose to invest in Internz Academy. Andy, welcome to the family. You bring a perspective that makes all of us sharper. The intern never graduates and you just proved it by walking in the door as a student again after everything you've already built. Everybody say what's up to Andy and let him know what you're working on. This is a room full of builders and you're going to fit right in. Let's work.