The JoshOptical Podcast: Recent Episodes
Joshua Shelton
Welcome girls and boys to The JoshOptical Podcast! This is your shotgun seat ride-along with Josh and all his friends as we discuss songwriting, entrepreneurship, and GUITARS (along with dogs, coffee, mental health, diners, small towns, gluten-free pumpkin spice bacon and whatever crosses our minds).
The ride starts here.
JOP #19: In our new season’s second interview, Mason & I sit down to answer the age-old questions: Who gets to be Country? Do people really go flatfoot dancing in 2023? Where is the line between performance and just living? And how did we first meet? We can’t remember. The two of us talk representation in Country music & culture, Fiddlers Conventions (and his blue ribbons), Martha Spencer’s new album Wonderland whose videos Mason graced, and Mason’s work with American Highways and his own outlet Real Country Music. ~~~~~~~ Mason P. Winfree is a writer, radio personality, musician, scholar, and award-winning dancer with deep North Carolina roots in Stokes & Rockingham Counties. You know there’s something happening when Mason shows up, even if there wasn’t before he got there. ~~~~~~~~~~ If you haven’t subscribed on your favorite podcast spinning app, now is the time! You’ll enjoy it thoroughly.
Daily Basket Co-Founder & Manager Miles Montgomery & partners take care of their own— and they’d love for you to be among them. Miles & Josh talk community, honoring tradition while pursuing innovation, the sustaining power of being neighbors, and how you’ll never survive without Bud Light.
Hey! Lemme tell you how I got from answering entitled contact lens wearer’s absurd requests to selling gear for the greatest music retailer on Earth, and the troubles in between.
How much time and energy are you spending debating how the industry SHOULD be- that you could be putting into actually making the industry more like you want it to be?
This episode is for you if: 1) you love Winston-Salem, Stokes County & the arts 2) you’re into self-experimentation 3) you want to be happy.
What does your business have that Amazon sort-by-price & next-day delivery doesn’t? How do you balance being a human in business with staying in business? And why on earth would I leave my couch to come to YOUR store? Hear ye hear ye, Season 3 opens with my FIRST INTERVIEW EVER!!! with Dawn Poole, founder/owner of Sunny’s Shoes, bonafide Shoe Dog, retail professional, and all around human of Winston.
“Sales” gets a bad rap, but what does it really mean, and how can we bring a new layer to that conversation to help achieve the things we dream for ourselves?
Josh catches you up on his professional adventures in light management and asks what exactly is keeping you from being you Youest You you ever knew.
Where does our attention in the future live? Who cares? Who are you living for? And who’s gonna be the next great beef jerky spokesman?
Josh catches you up on the goings-on of the past two months in this insane accidental experiment called 2020.
Josh checks in about quarantine performance life in May, disappointing dips in audience engagement, and the great honor of performing FloydFest 2020- if from afar.
Josh gives a quick rundown of life at home and the remarkable possibilities of the information super highway.
Josh gets back in the saddle to talk about why he fell out. ***the audio got cut off- I’d any of you make it that far I’ll call it a huge win.
Has the cult of security cause you to shy away from what you are most passionate about? Maybe even what you were put on this earth to do?
Welcome to your shotgun seat ride along with Josh as he adventures into musicianship, self employment, and other bad ideas. Huzzah!
Ever frustrated with the expectations other people have of you at work? Whatever gave them that expectation anyway?