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Alex Bedner
Alex Bedner spent his life becoming a professional musician. He grew up in his father's garage music studio, fell in love with the trombone at San Francisco's School of the Arts, trained at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Indiana University, and built a working life playing across Northern California's “Freeway Philharmonic”. Alex is still a professional musician — he simply chose a different path: a career in tech.
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Episode 002: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner
Alex Bedner
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When Everything You’ve Built Falls ApartFull conversation →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner Stop Being a Victim to Your Own CalendarFull conversation →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner keep your promises to yourselfContinue from 48:29 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner A musician's life fell apart overnight. The whole story in 35 seconds.Full conversation →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner He woke up unable to play. What he found was bigger than music.Continue from 12:01 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner Life is not an RPG — the stat you grinded goes back to zeroFull conversation →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner MRIs show nothing. But these musicians cannot play.Continue from 15:57 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner Two years of meditation gave the whole class perfect pitchContinue from 30:31 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner The day he got diagnosed, he felt freeContinue from 15:29 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner The Thomas Jefferson dinner rule that fixes every partyContinue from 37:32 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner One friend at a time — a story about belongingContinue from 14:07 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner The symphony about an opium dream that made him a musicianContinue from 6:37 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner If you can't keep promises to yourself, you can't keep them to anyoneContinue from 48:29 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner The inner voice said “now.” A year later, COVID shut down live music.Continue from 23:43 →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner It's not this or that. It's this and that.Full conversation →: The Freedom of Letting Go with Alex Bedner

