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A podcast about people’s journeys to success in the sync licensing space. Top notch music composers, music supervisors, sync agents, label owners, and editors will drop gems and mindset hacks that will help you get to the next level in your sync career. Your host, Roy Matz, is a full time music composer for tv, film, ads and games. He is very passionate about decoding people’s mindsets and understanding people’s success. Say hi to roy at @roymatz

Sync Gems Roy Matz

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A podcast about people’s journeys to success in the sync licensing space. Top notch music composers, music supervisors, sync agents, label owners, and editors will drop gems and mindset hacks that will help you get to the next level in your sync career. Your host, Roy Matz, is a full time music composer for tv, film, ads and games. He is very passionate about decoding people’s mindsets and understanding people’s success. Say hi to roy at @roymatz

    Using Mistakes As A Way To Grow, Quantity vs Quality In Sync, Carving Your Own Path

    Using Mistakes As A Way To Grow, Quantity vs Quality In Sync, Carving Your Own Path

    In this episode I open up about Why Making mistakes is crucial, why I get taken advantage of on purpose in the industry, why experience and diversification are everything in this industry, why I think you want to try all sorts of sync income, why fluidity is a must in this industry, and why this doesn't matter if you're not appreciating yourself and your progress
    Please make sure to leave a review & rate the podcast if you haven't yet

    • 25 min
    Balancing Your Music Career (Being vs. Doing)

    Balancing Your Music Career (Being vs. Doing)

    In a world that glorifies doing more than anything, I find it important to stop and talk about balancing the doing and being. I also talk about about being able to feel successful even when I am not completely where I want to be. In this podcast I go on a walk with you and talk to you about my relationship with this balance as of late, about my recent burnout and many more things

    • 20 min
    A Technique To Deal With Your Flaws

    A Technique To Deal With Your Flaws

    On this episode I choose to take you into my current 10 deepest vulnerabilities and flaws.
    These flaws don’t serve me but they are a part of my journey.
    I dive into each one of them and I talk about an exercise I do to help me cope with these flaws.
    The reason I’ve made this podcast is the hope that someone out there has similar flaws and doesn’t know what to do with them. 
    I am not a doctor/ psychologist/ guru/ master but I choose to talk about this because this has helped me and will continue to.
    You can take this technique and adapt it to your rhythm and pace of life

    • 24 min
    Strategy Over Emotions, The Importance of Mentorship & Sponsorship w/ K Sparks

    Strategy Over Emotions, The Importance of Mentorship & Sponsorship w/ K Sparks

    On this episode I talk to Kyle Hunter (AKA K. Sparks). Aside from having sync placements everywhere possible, he is an industry vet and has shared stages and has done work with some of the greats in the music industry (The temptations, Kid Audi, Rapsody, Peter Rosenberg & more).
     
    His experience is second to none and we get into his mentality, his approach to mentorship, Importance of Network, Strategy, Misinformation. We also touch on fake gurus and why a 9-5 is necessary for a lot of people going into the sync space
     
    Connect with K sparks
     
    IG @Ksparks
    https://www.rhythmcouture.com/

    • 51 min
    Make Syncable Music & Get Out Of Your Own Way w/ David John Walker

    Make Syncable Music & Get Out Of Your Own Way w/ David John Walker

    On this episode we have David John Walker (AKA Imperial Beats) This episode is jam packed with amazing insights. Dave Walker gives you an insight to how he has gained some real success and full time income from production music in about few years. He talks about getting picked up by EMI, quitting his full time job as a teacher, and really leaning into the sync space. He also drops big gems about the role of a sync composer and how you can do it better.
     
     
    Connect with Dave
    https://www.imperialbeats.co.uk
     
    Other Resources
     
    Notion (time management app):
    https://www.notion.so

    • 1 hr 2 min
    That Voice In My Head, And What I Do About it

    That Voice In My Head, And What I Do About it

    I have been dealing with burn out a lot in this past year. A lot of it is because the voice in my head saying some ridiculous stuff that sound like truths to me.
    things like "man you suck", "man you're not doing enough, Step it up!", "Look how successful **** is"
    In this podcast I talk about what I do about this voice, what I do to keep myself accountable in life and some recent examples of things I do to get out of my head and how I put this voice to sleep.

    • 24 min

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hugo colquhoun ,

Roy is a gem… so is Sync Gems!

As a filmmaker and producer this is such an important topic and Roy is deep in on this making a life for himself and helping others do the same. So good.

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