Daniel McCartney | The Importance Of Mental Health

Daniel McCartney is a music agent at UTA and the founder of The Continuance Foundation, a non-profit organization to help touring musicians and artists with mental health. Before that he was an original member in the band Gideon, and toured the world with them.

This week he joins us to tell his story beginning with Gideon then making a huge career pivot and becoming a booking agent. Starting as an assistant and working his way up from the bottom, he’s now having great success at UTA. We also get into a very important discussion on mental health and actionable steps that can be taken to help yourself or others, and what he’s doing with The Continuance Foundation.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

2:15 - Who you are and what you do?

6:50 - Touring in bands is the college of life

8:40 - The early days of Gideon and touring the world

15:25 - The importance of treating people well and having good etiquette on tour

18:44 - Leaving Gideon and becoming a booking agent

21:25 - Keep your head down and work hard

25:29 - Having massive success as an agent, working with Young Thug, Clever, DaniLeigh, Hunny, Phora, Scotty Sire, Arrested Youth, Amber Liu from f(x), and many others

29:25 - What are the differences and challenges in booking so many different genres of music?

33:00 - What should artists be doing right now while they can’t tour?

37:48 - Starting The Continuance Foundation (A non-profit organization that offers counseling and coaching for artists and touring musicians to help with mental health)

44:34 - The importance of mental health. How to take care of yourself and others.

50:23 - Providing actual resources for anyone who needs help

53:58 - Where can people find you and The Continuance Foundation?

Hope this brings some good perspective and value to you. If it does, please share it with a friend! I’m @andrew_ftw and he’s @danielmccartney.

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