The word Health is defined as:
- The state of being free from illness or injury.
- A person’s mental or physical condition.
- Used to express friendly feelings toward one’s companions before drinking.
And while it’s a simple enough topic to understand on the surface, putting it into practice can feel damn near impossible. Because staying healthy isn’t about one magic-bullet trick allowing you to live forever. Instead, it’s a multitude of small life decisions that compound throughout a lifetime.
This is especially true for those working in the music industry, as the high stress, rigorous touring schedules, daily uncertainty, and more all take their taxes out on the body in their own ways. Slade Templeton has experienced the full spectrum of impacts one’s health can have on their career. Having done everything from touring with a band, gigging as an international DJ, running a recording studio, and running the operations at Black Octopus Sounds, he knows full well how staying healthy can change your life and define your career.
In the eighth episode of the podcast, Slade dives deep into some of the following topics.
- How his approach to staying healthy changed over the decades, he’s been working in music (…and ways to adapt so you can have a lifelong career in the industry)
- What the stakes are for living an unhealthy lifestyle, but for you and him personally (…he was recently diagnosed with a serious health condition but manages to stay ahead of it by staying healthy).
- Why developing unhealthy habits early in life is dangerously easy (…and why they are exponentially harder to kick down the line).
- When he started taking his health seriously (…so you don’t need to hit the same lows he did before you take your health seriously).
- …and much more.
WHAT IS THE MAGNETIC MEANING PODCAST?
This podcast about words and music is sponsored by Point Blank Music School. Too often, people working or pursuing careers in the music industry get so caught up in the excitement, clout, and daily grind that they forget this whole industry is just about communication.
Magnetic Meaning unpacks this notion and dissects the words and ideas that connect the music and resonate with those who work with it. Each episode will feature different guests from the music industry, each doing amazing things in their own right. These guests will each bring a word that has impacted their life or career in one way or another.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
