Hello World! Destiny was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and teaches Tangela how to pronounce the name of the city like an insider.

They talk about age and technology, and how the generation gap is increasingly fine grained in comparison to the tech innovation curve over the last couple decades.

Destiny and Tangela discuss finance, budgeting, the starving artist mentality and the learning curves they have each experienced in this area.

Book Recommendations by Michele Cagan: 

Investing 101 

Stock Market 101 

Personal Finance 101 

They discuss financial literacy in minority communities and how that relates to the creative community.

How did Destiny get into the world of audio? She played trombone in school, studied Arts Administration in undergrad, and studied abroad in Spain for grad school. There she chose to focus on audio technology. The final months of her program were accomplished online during the 2020 lockdowns.

How is Destiny continuing to grow in her craft?

Webinars and books on audio have been great resources for Destiny. Two books she recommends are:

Introduction to Live Sound Reinforcement by Teddy Boyce

All You Need to Know About the Music Business by Donald S Passman

Tangela also recommends:

Live Sound Reinforcement by Scott Hunter Stark

The Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook by Bill Gibson

Destiny describes her initial misgivings about trying to read a manual. Tangela's advice: "Gurl, it's like readin' the Bible ... you think people sittin' around readin' Deuteronomy like that?! NO!! ..."

Next they discuss festivals and other live shows. One of Destiny's favorite shows she's been to was George Clinton.

Destiny shares her experience being nearly the only woman of color studying audio in her college program. She says it's been empowering to see and talk to other women in audio.

They both are very interested in exploring the idea of summer camps or other kinds of education programs for middle and high school aged kids, to illustrate the breadth of kinds of career around music and audio technology.

Destiny contributed to a music project with an artist named Widdo. Destiny contributed some backing vocals and writing to this song.

Tangela mentions the band The Postal Service

Destiny's audio setup:

PreSonus Eris E3.5 monitors

Tascam TM-80

Focusrite interface

Tangela used to use the PreSonus Audiobox; now she's got a Motu M2, Rode PodMic, and the KRK monitors.

"Working with the resources you have access to is the biggest thing."

Destiny's advice to the