Cliff Beach: You Showed Me the Way

Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

Cliff Beach is an award-winning singer, songwriter, author of “Side Hustle and Flow”, podcast host, record label owner and also works fulltime as VP of digital and operations in the beauty industry. This episode focuses on his recent album and tribute to Ella Fitzgerald “You Showed Me the Way”, we also got into his funk hit “Confident” and the last part of the interview we talked about some of his valuable advice from his book. Most of the guests I speak with work in music full-time, but of course that always means having many skill sets, and a few musicians like Cliff have a day job and also work hard on their music which is central to their lives. Cliff didn’t write his book for musicians, but for anyone that wants inspiration and advice for making the best of their lives, and I found a lot of what he wrote about resonated with me. Take a look at the time-stamps below.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(02:34) jazz album “You Showed Me the Way” tribute to Ella Fitzgerald

(07:11) “You Showed Me the Way”

(13:13) Cliff’s childhood singing in harmony in church

(15:50) teen years and Berklee

(17:11) networking in LA

(19:27) cruise ship gigs

(22:26) Mestizo Beat, “Confident”

(26:38) ”Confident”

(29:58) winning the John Lennon song-writing competition

(32:27) playlist curation and pitching your music

(37:12) book “Side Hustle and Flow”, setting goals, self-reflection, gratitude and building habits

(53:16) new merch to support the podcast!

(54:09) more advice and perspectives from “Side Hustle and Flow”

(01:00:02) Bill Withers

(01:04:57) about “The Gift of Blues”

(01:08:3) “The Gift of Blues”

(01:12:14) Toastmasters

(01:19:19) creating the audio book and Udemy course

(01:24:32) the many roles we play in life and business, financial advice

(01:30:54) cold calls, taking chances and pitching

(01:35:33) making it personal, family stories

(01:38:09) telling stories with different media, how music helped Cliff through challenges