Safe Spaces Series

This series is shining a light on mental health within the nightlife music industry. Sharing individual experiences might help others realize that they are not alone with their mental health issues. It is a safe space to be open and vulnerable. We are not doctors or mental health professionals, just people and their stories. follow me on Instagram @tonyynot._

Safe Spaces Series: Rocío Flores 05/09/2025

Safe Spaces Series: Rocío Flores With over 10 years as a music journalist and as one of the most recognized editors and PR consultants in Latin America, Rocío Flores brings a sharp and unique perspective on the music industry. We talked about her experience working in Europe versus reintegrating into the Mexican market, the role of social media, and why the industry still has a long way to go when it comes to diversity and authenticity. Her best advice? Always be kind. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/36510110

Safe Spaces Series: MASCHA 03/13/2025

Safe Spaces Series: MASCHA Mexico/Berlin DJ MASCHA shared her experiences living and growing a career in two countries, toxic masculinity, female empowerment and substance abuse. Lots of sweet reminders that you are not alone! March 12, 2025 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/35678720

Safe Spaces Series: Jkriv 03/01/2025

Safe Spaces Series: Jkriv DJ & musician Jkriv opened up about his recent cancer recovery, sharing lessons learned, new practices, and the mindsets he’s leaving behind. He is grateful and embracing a fresh perspective on letting love and support into his life when he needed it. February 26, 2025 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/35494570

Safe Spaces Series: The Juan Maclean 02/19/2025

Safe Spaces Series: The Juan Maclean I had an awesome chat with The Juan Maclean about the right intentions when it comes to navigating a career as a DJ, how nightlife and wellness can be more similar than not, getting comfortable in discomfort and so much more. A truly fresh perspective on the topics that make nightlife difficult for our mental health and also the ones that are healing. Thank you! Feb 19, 2025 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/35357655

Safe Spaces Series: Eluize 02/06/2025

Safe Spaces Series: Eluize DJ, producer and dear friend Eluize shared a ton about her life in Australia in contrast to living in Berlin in terms of juggling life and mental health. What an incredible, open and vulnerable chat that touched me very deeply. We also touched on neurodivergence and her strategies to keep her mental health in check. February 4, 2025 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/35176760

Safe Spaces Series: Cristiana Votta 01/30/2025

Safe Spaces Series: Cristiana Votta With a decade of experience in the the music industry, Cristiana is the managing director and artist manager at Alegria Agency LLC and represents artists like Black Coffee and THEMBA. Cristiana is also a passionate advocate underrepresented groups in the industry and an active mentor and role model for aspiring music industry professionals. We talked about what it means to take care of artists and their mental health, as well as her own. Check out this episode to hear some insightful tips on how to navigate this industry. January 29, 2025. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/35087055

Safe Spaces Series: Niamh Ingram 12/05/2024

Safe Spaces Series: Niamh Ingram Niamh is a wonderful young artist, broadcaster and journalist from the North East of England and we connect over the fact that we both live with chronic illnesses that are invisible. In this episode we talked about how this is affecting Niamh's personal and work life. Accessibility for people with disabilities is a very important subject that is not being discussed enough and a lot of awareness and improvement around the topic is still needed. We also chatted big things social media and how you can use it before it uses you. December 5, 2024 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/34308215

Safe Spaces Series: Awarehouse 11/25/2024

Safe Spaces Series: Awarehouse My guests in this episode are Bobby and Christine from Awarehouse. They share how their practices working with meditation, sound healing and teaching wisdom from Buddhism are crossing over into their careers in nightlife and how the two worlds of rave culture and wellness can meet in a very holistic and healing way. November 20, 2024 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/34147490

Safe Spaces Series: Neil Davis 09/26/2024

Safe Spaces Series: Neil Davis My guest in this episode is holistic therapist, coach, artist, producer and promoter Neil Davis. His 20+ years of wellness and music industry knowledge brought him to found Future Vibes and his clinic where people from the music industry can get mental, physical and spiritual care. We talked about his story and what the niche of 'helping music people in need' means. he basically gave me a live therapy session and it was very insightful! /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/33223437

Safe Spaces Series: Joanna Barber 12/07/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Joanna Barber Amazing chat with my agent and life /recovery coach Joanna (and her daughter Honey) about her story and relationship with drugs and alcohol, being a mother in the music industry and what her Six Zero Experiment is. Dec 7, 2023 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/28978618

Safe Spaces Series: Kelly Clague 11/22/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Kelly Clague Great, informative conversation with artist manager Kelly Clague from SafeTour.org about what the non-profit does and what it means to keep everyone involved in a tour safe and educated. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/28764738

Safe Spaces Series: Black Light Smoke 11/11/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Black Light Smoke So inspired after talking to electronic music artist Jordan aka Black Light Smoke about his experience transitioning into a more quiet life, working on music and his personal story with sobriety. So many good points about learning how to be sober and still expose yourself to a nightlife environment. Nov 10, 2023 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/28594958

Safe Spaces Series: Josh Donaldson 09/29/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Josh Donaldson Had the pleasure to talk to Josh about his organisation When The Music Stops, which is a nonprofit supporting suicide prevention and mental health through music, love and community. We also chatted about his own experience with mental health struggles and what he does know to keep himself grounded. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/28181243

Safe Spaces Series: Rosanna Grüter 09/14/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Rosanna Grüter Not only is Rosanna so fun to be around but she is also an excellent DJ and journalist, talking about gender equality in night life. Talking about what it means to be a woman in the industry and Rosannas own personal experiences from this summer to that topic, was what was on our plates today. September 14, 2023 /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/28037148

Safe Spaces Series: Vanessa Maria 07/28/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Vanessa Maria Wonderful conversation with DJ and podcaster Vanessa Maria about her projects Dont Keep Hush, creating spaces to talk about mental health outside club settings and her work with Resident Advisor. she also shared her advice on how to learn the language to talk to people about their individual struggles. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/27590259

Safe Spaces Sereis: Saskhia Menendez 07/15/2023

Safe Spaces Sereis: Saskhia Menendez Bad internet connection didn't stop Saskhia Menedez and I connecting and talking about diversity and inclusion in the music industry. Saskhia spilled all her knowledge about what it means to be trans and female in the industry and how everyone can do a better job at keeping underrepresented groups safe. Such a great talk about how people in minority groups can support each other and how we are slowly but surely inching towards changing the industry towards equality. Thank you thank you thank you /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/27472194

Safe Spaces Series: 4AM NYC 06/08/2023

Safe Spaces Series: 4AM NYC A talk about what it means to be a DJ, booker and promoter for 4AM NYC and reminder why they do the things they love, talking about paranoia within the industry, learning how to ask for help and sharing tools, tips and tricks on how to keep the sprit, mind and body healthy. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/27078732

Safe Spaces Series: Louisahhh 05/26/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Louisahhh DJ, producer, label owner and podcast host Louisahhh speaks about mental health, sobriety and healthy cooping mechanisms to aid anxiety and depression, especially for people on the road like us. She also shared her own story and explained the concept of an intervention on how to approach someone who is struggling. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/26957394

Safe Spaces Series: Kris Berle 05/10/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Kris Berle Deep diving with Mexico / Norway based DJ and producer Kris Berle about her experience with tinnitus and how the ears represent balance in the body but also balance in the nervous system. Lots of different ways from western to eastern medicine to overcome the struggles dealing with this issue that affect a lot of people working in the night life industry. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/26802843

Safe Spaces Series: Larissa J. Maier 04/06/2023

Safe Spaces Series: Larissa J. Maier Talking with Swiss psychologist and international drug policy expert Larissa Maier about drug use and harm reduction in nightlife - where you can go if you feel you have a problem and we even got a bit philosophical on how a dance floor is therapy vs needing therapy from the dance floor. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/26466837

Safe Spaces Series: Sarah Wild 12/17/2022

Safe Spaces Series: Sarah Wild My guest in this episode is Berlin based DJ, musician label owner Sarah Wild. We talked about the never ending love-hate relationship with social media and the authenticity of art through these platforms. Sarah even shared some of her own experience with mental health and tools that keep her happy. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/25364322

Safe Spaces Series: Judith van Waterkant 10/13/2022

Safe Spaces Series: Judith van Waterkant A great conversation with Leipzig artist Judith van Waterkant about having a prevention tool kit before mental struggles even hit and how talking about periods shouldn't be an issue - the event industry needs to respect womens needs. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/24889572

Safe Spaces Series: Callum Padgham 10/05/2022

Safe Spaces Series: Callum Padgham We can all go to happily bed tonight after this motivating chat with Callum Padgham, talking about how drugs, community and social media are tools and with the right intention they can be a good thing. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/24889557

Safe Spaces Series: Jorkes 08/19/2022

Safe Spaces Series: Jorkes Multimedia artist Jorkes is talking about what makes people happy than rather what makes people sad. This chat is insightful focusing on the importance of love, community and the belief in yourself. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/24889509

Safe Spaces Series: Coloray 07/28/2022

Safe Spaces Series: Coloray Dutch DJ and producer Coloray has been in the nightlife industry for a while and speaks about authentiic art looking within yourself and not being blinded by the noise around us and especially not being distracted by social media. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/24692586

Safe Spaces Series: Miss Sabado 02/07/2022

Safe Spaces Series: Miss Sabado Second episode is with Farrah aka Miss Sabado talking about the up-down cycles of mental health as an independent artist, sitting with your thoughts and using that as an empowering tool, social media's influence wiith perception and more! Farrah is a classically trained Brooklyn based DJ and performing artist with roots from LA. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/24692298

Safe Spaces Series: Joanna Barber 01/30/2022

Safe Spaces Series: Joanna Barber First episode with Berlin based Joanna Barber. She has been working as a DJ agent in nightlife ans is now running programmes to help people within and surrounding the music industry find a better balance with drugs and alcohol and their destructive habits. /episode/index/show/e5abc714-e625-4029-8636-33245ba7adf8/id/24692262

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