About the show

The Rogue Academic is an organization dedicated to fostering collaboration between creative folks to share crucial information left out of the standard academic training program. We cover four main pillars of missing information: Mental Health and Wellbeing for Artists, Financial Literacy, Leveraging Technology, and Building Community. If you feel like your institution hung you out to dry and left you with a phat bill for the pleasure... welcome to the path of the Rogue! We're here to help.

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Episodes

  • Episode 7: Gunhild Carling "Dare it, DO it!"

    January 2nd, 2026  |  Season 1  |  58 mins 7 secs
    album, career, daring, eurocentric, gender, gunhild, jazz, jukebox, music, music theory, philosophy, postmodern, project, social media, trad, trad jazz, trumpet

    The world renowned multi-instrumentalist, and star of stage and screen Gunhild Carling joins us for a fabulous discussion about her experiences and adventures making music all over the world!

  • Episode 6: Clare Longendyke "...that's another story."

    December 19th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 16 mins
    album, business, crowd, crowd sourcing, discrimination, entrepreneurship, funding, grant, misogyny, mom, mother, mothering, music, performance, piano, project, promotion, story, success, writing

    Clare and Lexie didn't cross paths until attending the Mostly Modern Music Festival even though they went to grad school together at IU. Here, they discuss the performance world, the pitfalls of the conservatory system, and ponder solutions for problems in performance spaces.

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    Episode 5: Joe Leyva "This is Quality Control..."

    December 12th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 15 mins
    big break, blues, break in, business, finance, funk, how to, industry, money, music, professional, r&b, referrals, showbiz, travel, trumpet

    Joe and Lexie talk about the nuts and bolts of breaking into the performance side of the music industry.

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    Episode 4: Brandon Hall "Theories on Penis Envy and Higher Ed."

    December 5th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 34 mins
    colleagues, envy, freud, higher education, major, minor, music business, penis, psychology, story, struggle, success, trumpet, trumpeter

    Brandon and Lexie went to the same school and took two VERY different paths to escaping it.

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    Episode 3: Q0 Check in with your Anti-Establishment Fairy Godmother

    December 1st, 2025  |  Season 1  |  47 mins
    brand, branding, building, business, compassion, ghosting, help, interview, sabotage, self, storytime, success

    I was ghosted for an interview for the show. Did I let it stop me? Hell no.

  • Episode 2: Sam Javitch "AI will never have SOUL"

    November 28th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 15 mins
    ai, business, computer, courage, gender, identity, jazz, music, narrative, rights, soul, trans, ucla

    Sam graciously shares her story of learning about her most authentic self through her study of jazz.

  • Episode 1: Cassie O'Hanlon "The Universe Delivers"

    November 21st, 2025  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 5 mins
    assistant, audio, benefit, building, business, cat, classical, cost, dog, education, fee, flute, interview, jazz, job, lesson, mental health, profit, rate, seo, teaching, virtual, well being, working

    This week, we are joined with the internet famous Cassie O'Hanlon- an absolute go getter who built her entire lesson business from the ground up!

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    Episode 0: Lexie's Villain Origin Story

    November 11th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 23 mins
    academia, business, ceo, founder, independent, music, musician, origin, original, other, rogue, self help, survivor

    Co-Producer Eric Schwarz interviews Rogue Academic founder Dr. Lexie Signor about why she was inspired to start The Rogue Academic.