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Meet Dylan Garcia – a singer/songwriter and mental health advocate
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Dylan Garcia, uses funk and neo-soul music and his smooth vocals to tell stories about the emotional side of being a man
Dylan Garcia is a successful singer and songwriter of songs that tell the emotional rollercoaster of life from the perspective of a man’s man. His lyrics evoke the inner strength of an honest man who is not afraid to show his vulnerability as he deals with the highs and lows of life.
For Dylan the ups and downs of life have included managing serious mental health challenges
In this episode of Rest and Recreation, the work life balance podcast from Abeceder Dylan explains describes to host Michael Millward how his music career started and how as he was learning to be an artist, he was also learning how to manage his mental health.
Dylan explores how the lucky connections he made helped his music career, and how finding effective mental health treatments for many people is also down to good luck.
Having battled bipolar disorder and lost loved ones to suicide, Dylan uses his platform to advocate for change and support for people struggling with mental health challenges.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Promotion
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Host and Guest Introduction
00:00:17
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Hello and welcome to Rest and Recreation, the work-life balance podcast from Abysida, where we don't tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think.
00:00:28
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I'm your host, Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abysida. Today I am talking to the singer, songwriter and mental health advocate Dylan Garcia.
00:00:40
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Dylan has been described by Dizzy Diddy magazine as blending smooth vocals with emotional storytelling. His talents have been honed by Diamond Certified Grammy nominated producer Ronnie King.
00:00:54
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Dylan has collaborated with icons such as Chicano rap pioneer DJ Tony G and Five Star Latin Grammy winner Kenny O'Brien.
Promotional Segment
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Dylan has headlined iconic venues like Whiskey A Go Go in Hollywood, the Las Vegas Hard Rock Cafe and the Montclair Canyon Club in California.
00:01:14
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Dylan's Relocation Story
00:01:39
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Now that I have paid some bills, it is time to make an episode of Rest and Recreation that will be well worth listening to, liking, downloading and subscribing to and good enough to share with your friends, family and work colleagues as well.
00:01:55
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It is great to be able to say hello or perhaps hola, to Dylan Garcia. Hello, Dylan. Hey, Michael. How are you doing? I am extremely well. Thank you very much and hope that you can say the same. I can.
00:02:06
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I can. So you're in Palm Springs. i'm about I'm about two hours from Los Angeles southeast. I'm about 30 minutes from Palm Springs. Right. I live in the desert. I moved here um in July of 2023. Yeah, you mentioned Ronnie King. He's from out here. They call it the Coachella Valley.
Journey into Music and Mental Health
00:02:25
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He's out here as well. So I made several trips to come visit Ronnie at his at his ranch that's out here. And my son's mother's from out here. and And my wife and I, the desert was always our favorite place. So we decided to find move to be close to my son.
00:02:38
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Nice. An oasis. Yeah, the desert oasis. The city I live in is about 30 minutes more southeast of Palm Springs. And it's called La Quinta. Sounds good. They have a big PGA tournament out here. It's really big. I'm about, I live about 15 minutes from the Coachella festival. That's the one that we get all the reports about as well. So that's, that's really cool.
00:03:00
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Well, tell me the story of how you've got the situation with your career at the moment. How did it all start and what have been the the great milestones that you've achieved on that career? Oh man, I think it started back when I was in my dorm room.
00:03:13
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I got dumped by my girlfriend because I wasn't going to be in a fraternity anymore. I was heartbroken. and That's quite a reason to be dumped. I know, right? That's a reason to be dumped. And so I wanted to buy a guitar and write a bunch of sad songs about being dumped.
00:03:28
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And my friends were in a band and my buddy, the guitar center, the the guitar store just opened up and they were having a big sale and I bought my first guitar. Then I started trying to learn how to re-tablish her and and try to ah do some cover songs. And I think a big milestone was that i was able to finally like cover a song by Sublime.
00:03:47
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or cover the a song by the Foo Fighters. And from there, I just kind of, it gave me the confidence to start writing my own songs. And I, nobody ever really taught me guitar. So I'm like, I have like a quirky style, and which, you know, led into doing reggae music for a while. Cause honestly, that was the only thing I could play on guitar was reggae and rock. Other than that, I couldn't do fun. I couldn't really switch it up. Let's say in 2004,
00:04:13
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I lived in San Diego and one of my best friends was a rapper and watching him on stage, I was like, this guy's no smarter than me. I can do this. From there, I started taking it seriously. Fast forward to 2008. I started, I was rapping and I was putting on these these hip hop shows in my hometown of Oxnard, which is about an hour north of LA.
00:04:33
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I moved to Orange County, back to Orange County for a job that I had and I had formed a band. We won third place at the Warped Tour Battle the Bands and it came with free studio time.
00:04:45
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Well, the night before the studio, we were going to go in the studio. We had a show. we got in a big argument and I just disbanded the the band and I just was like, I'm going to do this solo because they're not on the same page as me.
00:04:56
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And then I met Ronnie King. He was working out of the studio that we had gotten studio time and met with him, that was kind of like the takeoff point because working with him, because he's worked with so many big names, that was really stepping into the next level of the music industry from just being a guy playing shows at bars to like really having ah a full on opportunity to go all at it.
00:05:21
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We cut some records, I got offered a record deal, I signed a record deal, but at that time, I was having these mental health problems. I was dealing with being undiagnosed bipolar probably since I was from 22 all the way up to about 20 or about six years.
00:05:38
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And I used to be able to manage it. But at that point, like I was living by myself with my dog. and My mental health just started getting worse and worse. I don't know i don't know if it was i don't know what triggered it.
00:05:51
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I can't really say what triggered it, but it started getting bad. So I was already going into this situation with the music, not with the good head on my shoulders because I was dealing with bipolar. And then it got to the point two weeks after the record deal, I was in ah institutionalized in a mental hospital.
00:06:07
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I stayed there for five days. They gave me medication that stabilized me. And it was just like, oh, my God, this is what I was dealing with. For all these years, there was something really wrong. i You know, there was something really wrong. I could put a name on it. Like, wow, something was really wrong. I wasn't just, you know, the abnormalities make sense now.
00:06:26
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It helps when you can put a label on it, doesn't it? The label helps for some reason or another. Yes. When I was ah released from the hospital, the record the record label wanted to kind of see how I was doing mentally. So I got booked to perform.
00:06:41
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I got out of the mental hospital on Friday and then I performed at the House of Blues that following, that Sunday, the same weekend. Because I knew, I finally had a name, so was like, oh my God, I got this, if I take medicine, I'm okay.
00:06:53
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About two weeks after being out of the hospital, they had given me medication to take home, but then I had a follow-up visit with a doctor and the the doctor was creepy. He asked me if I am still having these delusions and I told him no. And he suggested for me that that I didn't need medication anymore.
00:07:09
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And that I was fine. Well, they took me off medication. I was whacked out again within five days on all days the Halloween while everyone's dressed up in costumes. I'm hallucinating and having delusions. And instead of putting me on the medication that stabilized me, he tried something different.
00:07:24
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And it really wrecked my life because it took the life out of me. All I wanted to do was sit on the couch. I put on about 60 pounds. So here I go from a record label and then this all happens.
00:07:37
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And it was a progressive downhill from that until when the doctor realized I was putting on so much weight, he decided to switch the medication. And when he switched medications, the medication that he switched me to work, but then the real work had to begin because I was 60 pounds overweight.
00:07:53
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I was able to start writing music again. And i started playing guitar. i reached out to the record label. They brought me back on board. I was in the studio recording. And at the end of the whole process, um there was no business plan on how they were going to market my music. And
Independent Music Career
00:08:10
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I decided, well, I'm pretty sure I could do a better job than these guys.
00:08:14
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I got out of my contract and I was an independent artist ever since. I'm glad that everything kind of happened that way because it it gave me a glimpse of how things really are in the music industry. And it it made me realize I don't like not having control of my music.
00:08:30
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And that's kind of how it all started. So the mental health problems that you've dealt with have actually made you stronger, being aware of those issues, being aware of how you manage those issues.
00:08:44
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And then what that means for your life has made you a stronger individual all round, it sounds. Yeah. My brain is a lot more overactive than the regular person. And I used to question people, like how people's brain function. Like when you're just sitting there, like, what are you thinking about? Like somebody told, Oh, I'm not thinking about nothing. You know, other guy, I'm just thinking about lunch. But you know, for me, it was like the world was just 900 million miles an hour all the time.
00:09:11
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And, uh, that medication helped me. But then it got to the point where I was on that medication so long, it started causing some really bad side effects. and um And so they were trying to figure out a way so I wouldn't have side effects.
00:09:26
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from this medication. I'm telling these side effects. It's called dystonic reaction. I don't know if you ever heard of it. No. But you're like my facial, like your muscles, your muscles contract. So like my facial muscles, like in my cheeks and in my jaw would just contract.
00:09:39
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And it was like, it would take all my force to try to open my mouth. And I literally had, I've always had fake teeth in the front, but I've literally had to replace those fake teeth three times because of those reactions I was having. And they were terrible. and I have to take a bunch of medication to make it go away. And then the medication makes me fall asleep. And It was just such a rigorous regimen. And a doctor that I saw in Los Angeles when I was having hip surgery, I asked if I could see a psychiatrist while I was in there. I didn't think, you know, with mental health, you really got to advocate for yourself because a lot of these psychiatrists don't want to be at their job.
00:10:12
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They're not really looking for the patient's best interest. And sometimes they're there just for a paycheck. And, you know, I went through it. from the first doctor that I saw out of the hospital. Like I didn't really have the best of care because a lot of it was provided by the counties, like by the county governments.
00:10:29
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But i luckily I saw a psychiatrist that was out of the county system and he saw me in the hospital and he asked me some questions, did some blood work, gave me medication to take That night, I woke up the next day feeling normal again, just like I woke up when I was in the mental hospital. I'm like, oh, my God, I'm normal again.
00:10:48
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And advocating for myself got me a really cool doctor that was more holistic about it, like watch your diet. like he was so he was a He was the one that encouraged me and pushed me. like you know You say you've got this music career, but you've got to start working. like He really encouraged me and really pushed me. like He pissed me off sometimes, like, man, going prove this guy wrong. Mm-hmm.
00:11:07
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And started just building my life back from there. And he was the one that said, he was the one that said, he was like, ah you're you're they've been misdiagnosing you as being schizophrenic for a long time. He says, I really think you're just bipolar. And he gave me him you know a mood you know mood stabilizer medication. And that was just the kicker. Like, oh my God, everything is just at peace, normal. Now, some of the stuff I got to deal with,
00:11:33
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is when I'm in public and I'm around people, um my brain misinterprets their conversations as if they're talking about. And I could just, so literally one of the hacks that I do is is, I know a lot of people do it anyways, but I wear earbuds all the time with either listening to a podcast, listening to the ministry I follow or or listening to music. And that just helps me. So I've literally had to adapt to that. It's something that,
00:11:59
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that I deal with every day, but I've just learned to manage it. And I think medications help you, but you still got to learn how to manage your symptoms or you're just going to want to stay home. That's true. And not do anything. course, being a performer, I suppose the reality is that you're up there on stage.
00:12:15
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You're putting yourself out there as someone who is a performer or wants to perform and wants to sell people to buy the music so they can listen to it when you're, when you're not actually there physically performing.
00:12:27
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So people are going to talk about you as well. you're You're out there in the public. Yeah. Yeah, yeah I know. I know. It's a lot. It is being in the public eye. Now that I'm getting more popular, I'm starting to realize the job that it takes to be a professional while you're at it and not be a sleazeball. But the music is good.
00:12:50
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Yeah, I like to say the music is good, too. Not just because I wrote it, but it's something I would listen to while was in the car. Yeah. All I can say is that I've listened to some, I'm sure I haven't heard everything, but what I have heard is really good.
00:13:03
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There's an element of the Teddy Pendergrass about your style. It's very, it's an adult music and it's very romantic type music when I'm listening to some of your violets. I'm 44 years old.
00:13:16
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I'm 44 years old and I can't. It would be really awkward trying to make music for a younger generation that I'm no longer in. you know Yes. Because I remember running into a guy. you know He was doing rock in Espanol.
00:13:29
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I was doing this sales job and I'm sitting in my car wondering what the hell am I doing? Yeah. And sure enough, I get out of the car and the third business that I walk into was a recording studio. And I was like, oh my God, you're giving me signs and I'm not supposed to be doing this job, but I need to be recording music.
00:13:45
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And we were sitting there and this guy was bragging so much about how he does the shows at the casinos. And, and then, i would I finally get in there like, yeah, I do music too. Oh, let's see it on Spotify. And and he saw my numbers and he was just like, oh, my God, who are you?
00:14:00
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And we started talking and he's talking about that, you know, I sold him a majority of my fan base is between the ages of 30 to 65. And he had this impression like, no, you got to make music for the younger. And I'm like, but why would I do that?
00:14:13
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I want to make music for people my age that they can listen to and it's original. And to be able to be, how you say it gives you that Teddy Pantagrass kind of feel, that's a really big compliment.
00:14:26
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And the fact that you do realize it is made for adults, you know, it's adult contemporary music and that's the genre that I want to fit in, but just my own style. Yes. The videos are good as well.
00:14:37
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Yeah. They so match with the music and the mood. I think the music creates a mood. which is very romantic and listening to some of the music and you can dance to the music. It's dance music as well as the ballads.
00:14:50
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And you can imagine you'd be dancing with someone and in a club in a club, but you'd be feeling as if it was like the, it was just you two there. There's no one else around. it You can focus in on yourself, so to speak. There's a very nice feel to it as well. it's like It is smooth. I want the people to feel liberated.
00:15:11
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Yeah, liber i want to feel I want people to feel liberated when they listen to the music that they just want to dance. Like I've had some people send me some TikTok videos of some of the song making bits dances to some of the songs that I've done. And it's just like so cool. it's like, wow, I actually made a song that somebody in another part of the world is making a video to dancing. And it's just like, how cool is that? That's like the greatest compliment.
00:15:33
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It is. But as as you start to grow, like I'm really getting popular. Like I have a show tomorrow. And it's at a brand new venue that opened up a week ago last Friday. And I'm the first act that's not like rock or metal or punk.
00:15:47
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And we have low, I don't know off familiar you are with low riders. We have low riders coming out tomorrow. I have, I've had so many people confirming that they're coming. Like I have a feeling this is going to be such an amazing show with the amount of people that show up in the energy and,
00:16:02
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You know, I've done shows like at the how you mentioned the whiskey at GoGo. And those are really cool. But it's one thing, like, when you have a whole bill of people at the show, you know, so you get a mix of fans. like yeah You have, but like, you know, six, five, six people on the on the bill that night.
00:16:18
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But for me, just to be alone, it makes me feel really special that, like, wow, I've finally gotten to this point. You're the headliner. Yeah. I don't have an opener or anything. And it's just, like, I can't.
00:16:30
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finally And it took a lot of work. I ran ads. I did a lot of content. Luckily, a content creator out here discovered my music and he wanted to do some shoot an interview with like just everything just lined up. And, you know, I heard this other artist. He's from the Northern California. And he said, you know,
00:16:47
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You can't just post something and expect that everyone's going to see it. And you can't get that ego side of you where you're just expecting to have success. Like you got to put in the same amount of energy and time that you did to promote your, like it was your very first show.
00:17:01
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Because once you start losing the sight of that, you're really, you're really running off of ego and you just expect things and, and, uh, entitled, you know, but no, nobody's entitled to success. You got to work for it.
00:17:15
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Very much so. And of course, Because you're an independent artist, all of those different jobs fall on you. Everything. I have a woman that's been helping me. She's got me really plugged in. She's a college radio DJ out here, DJ V-Dub. She's got me really plugged into the community. But everything really started taking off again in, like I would say, March of last year. i had about three or four shows out here where I live in the Coachella Valley.
00:17:40
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But she believed in me. And I think that's the biggest thing is like when you have people... around you that are supporting you with nothing to gain.
00:17:50
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Those are the people you got to treat the best because they see something in you that maybe you don't see. And having that extra, you know, and my publicist won, you know, at one point last year, my money was running low.
00:18:02
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i wasn't working. And he just said, just keep going. Cause I was like, I don't know if I could do this financially because everything falls on me. I got to pay for ad. there's You're the, you're, You wear a ah hat of many seats, I don't think people have realized how expensive it is to make music. Yes.
00:18:17
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I got to pay the the co-writers that write the music for me. You know, you got, if you want to shoot a video, you got to find a good video guide. That's why I started teaching myself to shoot my own videos. Yeah.
00:18:28
Speaker
I mean, you want to market, you got to have a marketing budget. And I think people have this fantasy that you're just going to make a video and throw it on YouTube. And then it's just, you know, it's going to blow up. But I get it because I used to have that same mentality when I was younger doing this. like wow, it's the greatest music ever. It's going to blow up. And you got to have the grit to keep going because this this business this industry will eat you up and spit you out like i've gone through bad deals i've been burned for money i've had people try to take advantage of me i've had people talk negatively about me because i didn't let them take advantage of me and i've always learned instead of being a loud mouth and it's not always the loudest one in the room
00:19:08
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And I usually tend to keep myself quiet on a lot of stuff. But i once when I know that, okay, you have a different type of intention with me, I'm quick to cut people off. Because the longer you keep those people around, they'll just drag you down.
00:19:22
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so it's a lot of stuff. You've got deal with so much stuff as an independent artist. But it's so worth it because of the freedom that you have. That I'm not tied to any contract. I'm not tied to any label. I'm not owned.
00:19:34
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you know When you sign that contract, they own you, basically, for whatever percentage you collect
Balancing Life and Mental Health
00:19:38
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in the end. and you know a A favorite artist of mine, Mayor Hawthorne, he said he makes more money as an ender. He lost money as an artist while he was on a major label.
00:19:48
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i mean Because they advance you all this money. and If you don't sell, they want it back. they wanted back Or they just won't release your music. and You can't do anything because you're in a contract. you know and Then you're paying lawyers to get out of that contract. It just...
00:20:02
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It never gave me the desire to go that route. yeah Yeah. It sounds like you've, you've been through the, what we would say in Yoshi, been through the mill a little bit with all the various different challenges, but you've really come out of it on the, on the bright side with a very clear vision of what it is that you want to do and also how you're going to do it.
00:20:24
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But we talk, this program is called rest and recreation. So what do you do to let off steam? What do you do to relax? Because you've said, you know, your brain, the challenge is sometimes making your brain stop.
00:20:38
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Yeah, that um meditating, meditating, that really helped me out a lot. Like I was on a regimen where i was meditating every morning for like six months straight before work.
00:20:50
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It's really cool because when you snap out of it's like a brand new day. And also to rest though, like this last, in December, the ministry I follow was talking about resting, you know, resting in the in the month of December, like but like resting, like really resting, not wasting time, not scrolling through social media, just resting, just resting, letting your body recoup after the year.
00:21:15
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And it was really tough hearing it from a guy that works all the time, this minister. And I was just like, man, I really need to experience rest because I'm always going, I always feel like I got to do something. I always feel like, if I have ah an hour window, okay, i got this hour window, going to get on the stationary bike. Like I always have to keep myself busy.
00:21:34
Speaker
And it really helped me so much to just kind of unplug and be normal, whatever normal is. But it really, it really showed me that like it's okay to rest because i always felt guilty, like as if I was wasting time if I was resting. So, and plus because my father's the same exact way and so was my grandfather.
00:21:55
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so you're a bit of a workaholic. The mental health issues create an element of workaholism in you, an ah element of guilt about what am I doing? I should be doing something constrictive. I should be doing something purposeful, but actually learning how to just rest and not worry about it not feel guilty about it and do some meditation i got to give the credit to my wife my wife is like complete opposite of me she can go to work and shut it down when she gets home and just veg on tv and i am not like that so having having that kind of 180 it brings a balance
00:22:38
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It reminds me, she'll tell me, I think you need to take some rest or i think you need to you know slow down. Yeah. And to have somebody that that I've been with now coming up on nine years, to be able to have someone to to put me in check like that when I need to is really helpful.
00:22:58
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you know So shout out to all the awesome wives out there. Sounds like you've got yourself a good wife there. Keep her happy. A happy life is... happy life, happy wife, happy wife, happy life. Yes.
00:23:12
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And the coolest thing about it, she's from Argentina. She's from Argentina, my wife. Wow. So growing up, I spoke with like a Mexican dialect, Southern California, you know, ah Chicanos is what they call us.
00:23:27
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ah But after being married now for so long, I speak like a, that she would say like a gringo. I speak like a gringo in Argentina. like a white Argentina guy. Right.
00:23:39
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It's very multicultural. You've got all sorts of various different influences on your music, and yet you're creating something that is very romantic sound, a very adult, grown-up romantic sound.
00:23:55
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And yet also when you started talking about, or when you were talking about how your musical career started, there were similarities between what you,
00:24:06
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how your career started and people like Taylor Swift and Adele talking about all of the the heartache that you were going through as well. Yeah, it definitely, you know, I got some songs like personal songs. I got like a song that I wrote about sobriety.
00:24:23
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um I got another song that talks about, you know, the pain that I've been through. That's actually the title song of my album. My album is called Regardless of the Circumstances.
00:24:35
Speaker
And, um you know, I lost my brother. Good title. Yeah, that's part of the reason why I moved out here to get away because I lost my brother in 2023. And um I had a lot of shows booked that year, really big shows. And that was like the moment for me when it was like, I mean, i got signed contracts to do these shows. I'm invested financially. And it's like, I don't know.
00:24:59
Speaker
I felt like I didn't have a choice. i had to do it. I had to do it to show how to show myself how strong I am after such something so tragic, like losing my brother. And, ah you know, prea prior to that, I lost another friend to suicide. And when I headline headlined the whiskey, a go go, I made it a mental health awareness event.
00:25:19
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And so we had guest speakers come in and speak on their experiences, first responders. And it turned out really great. And, um The fact that I was able to use my evening that night to not only just perform my music and make it all about myself, but make it about everyone there.
00:25:35
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These mental health awareness events that I do, and I'm planning on doing another one.
Episode Conclusion
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That's the biggest reward out of everything that I get to use my platform and not only for music, but to speak on things and people will listen and hopefully save some lives.
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Yes. It's a great place to be, to be able to help other people and In helping other people, you help yourself as well. I don't know if you've ever heard of a ah gentleman by the name of Ed Milet, but he says you're most qualified to help the person that's going through what you went through.
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Very true. Very true. and ah And a really good positive thought to end what has been an all too short and all too quick conversation.
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I know. I wish you great so great success with the the gigs that you've got coming up and I'm looking forward to hearing more of your music because I really did rather enjoy it. but Thanks Michael.
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Dylan Garcia, thank you very much. It has been really interesting. i do appreciate your time and I know you're very busy but I've really enjoyed our conversation. Thank you very much.
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from Dylan Garcia from Southern California Coachella Valley sending much love to all your listeners. Thank you. Thank you. I am Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abbasida.
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In this episode of Rest and Recreation, I have been having a conversation with Dylan Garcia. You can find out more about both of us and listen to some of Dylan's music by using the links in the description.
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Until the next episode of Rest and Recreation, thank you for listening and goodbye.