We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Peter G. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Peter below.

Peter, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

Risk taking doesn’t feel as bad when you truly believe in what you’re doing. I think that everybody has the thought of wanting to be a rock star or famous in some form or fashion, however for the many it just remains a thought because if it were easy everybody would be doing it. Many start, but few finish. It is a very tough road and very risky. You have to be good with yourself when the world is quick to judge you and most the time never really gives you the chance. Now more than ever almost anybody can make a video or go live on any given platform and some are organically decent right out of the gate, but how long can they go for before running out of gas is the question? Do you have it in you to go the distance no matter what? That’s where the risk comes in. To give up what most won’t in order to be what most aren’t. I have always since childhood been entertainment minded, mostly musical. Through my life growing up I would rather be broke and trying, then have money being normal and never knowing on what might have been. I have always been a dreamer, but at the same time I was pretty self aware that I had enough talent and determination to be in the entertainment industry. It’s who I am and who I have always been. I have sacrificed a lot in my life to go down the path I chose, but that’s me I and I have always felt this way. So when you naturally feel that way the risk doesn’t seem that risky to you, it’s just par for the course. Make no mistake though, the phrase One In A Million came from lots of winners and losers experience, but somebodies got to do it.

Peter, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

For Starters I have always believed in doing what makes you happy, and for the most part of my life since childhood that happiness was playing drums and being a musician. I knew I wanted to be a drummer since I was 5. I couldn’t wait to get out of school because in my head school wasn’t going to attribute much to the skills I was wanting to acquire. I was a kid and at that time that was my beliefs, but I knew what I wanted to do. I never strayed from my course which many do through time. I always had a passion for playing and more importantly I got pretty good at it and it showed. As a young musician I’d go to a concert and see Rush or Van Halen and while the show is going on I’d look around the arena and see what a command of the audience these 3 or 4 guys on a stage had on them and more importantly it made people really happy. I realized if I could make people happy through my talent of playing music, that’s a good thing right? I loved it enough that I eventually moved I moved from Florida to Los Angeles to further my musical career. In short I quickly started to learn the difference between making it, and having it made in the business. I was lucky enough to have done some great things with some great people over the course of about 15 years before things started to shift, but there was a lot packed into that time period and you’ll have to wait for the book. One thing for sure it was a roller coaster of ups and downs, but I loved what I was doing and wouldn’t have traded it for nothing.
I eventually got married in my early 40’s and a year later had a little girl. I figured at my age nothing much will change because I was pretty stable and I wasn’t 20 anymore. I thought I had a pretty good grip on life by then. Things did start to change and in many ways a lot. I loved being this little girls father and I loved being married for the most part, but as time went on unfortunately my marriage started to fall apart 5 years in and I knew that it wasn’t going to end well. At the same time the music business was slowly eviscerating and even the biggest of the big were having to reevaluate how to navigate the industry to survive, let alone the smaller fish like myself. So between that and my divorce it was doing a number on me. Being present 50 percent of the time was not how I intended to be a father, but after almost 3 years in court it was the best I could do and quite frankly grateful because people do stupid things when they’re pissed off and then you’re at the mercy of strangers in a courtroom making decisions on your life because 2 adults couldn’t. All I can say is, it sucked bad and for some it will destroy you if you let it. I stopped everything including music to make sure I was there to have my daughter every minute that the court appointed schedule said I could have her. To me there was nothing more important. I swore that this little girl was not going to pay the price of our divorce. I just dropped out of sight almost over night and all that mattered to me was having my time with my daughter. I can’t say it enough how important it is for children to have balance. Make no mistake this life change was tearing me up. I was living off of saving and had little to no cooperation with my x. Everything was a fight. It really gets to you. Thank God I had a handful of close friends that didn’t get sick of hearing me vent, plus even though you know how common this crap is nowadays you become more aware and start to hear more and more stories from everywhere the minute you mention the word divorce. I mean realistically it’s like most of the world is going through a divorce, been divorced, or a product of divorce. Now this is where the purpose or Shall I say new purpose comes in.
I started talking to people about surviving divorce and single parenting over casual conversation and finding out that a lot of people were lost and needed to talk and let it out, and some needed guidance and had nowhere to turn too.
I was really starting to feel something deep in my gut that was telling me to take this mess I was in and turn it into something good, and slowly but surly I started putting together Life With Peter G, The Peter G Show. It was and has been a great evolution and journey on how the show has grown and evolved. The first couple of years I was primarily talking about surviving divorce and single parenting for both men and women, but as time went on I’ve broadened the horizons and I talk about anything having to do with life’s ups and downs from alcoholism to narcissism to health and wellness because it’s all important. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not all doom and gloom. We do have some fun and laughs given the opportunity. Somehow I find a balance in there. I have managed to find a niche that I am truly enjoying that is not only informative on whatever topic for each show, but that is fun to do knowing that it’s going to connect with peoples souls as well. I somehow recreated myself and found that purpose that makes me get up everyday and love what I’m doing.
I became show host for Life With Peter G, The Peter G Show. Entertainment With A Purpose.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

I don’t think that most people really understand the desire and determination that it really takes to do something that most say is one in a million. Sure people have a perception of what they think it takes, but but all that most see is one day your name becomes know or relevant to them and you just appeared out of nowhere. An over night success. The reality is that overnight success is normally the farthest from the truth. Everyone is living in the moment and including myself, but know one knows the past 10 t0 15 years of ups and downs both mentally and financially month after month and never saying I quit because you believe in yourself and your following your dreams regardless of the sacrifice. There’s a reason why they say one in a million. So many quit at a certain point, and I can’t say that I blame them. It’s not for everyone. That’s why you find that years later in someones career who’s gone against the odds and became successful ends up writing a book about it, because majority of the people never knew the back story. They just knew from where they picked up on you as a fan never knowing what it actually took to get there.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

I like many started from (Zero). If you already happen to be popular from doing something else and then jump into a different form of entertainment I would think it’s somewhat easier because you’re established to a certain extent. I was not that person and a lot of my friends thought I was crazy to switch horses in mid life after working so hard as a musician and for those who knew me respected me as a musician. I never thought I would ever do anything else other than play drums after all the years I’ve put into it and managed to still hang in there, but life changed for me and so was the music business for that matter and I actually felt good about my decision. It’s not like I’ll never play again, but right now I’m so busy with the show that I just don’t have the time. I know that it will all come back around again and I’ll figure out a way to even incorporate it into the show at times, but let’s get back to starting at zero. When I started I really didn’t know much about the streaming internet marketing side. I just knew what I wanted to do and eventually started doing it. At first you’re hitting up all your friends to follow you, but what you really need is the real world to pick up on you, the people that don’t know you. it’s a big world out there however it all starts with one. The internet has gotten complicated with all the manipulation of algorithms and whatnot.
I didn’t have a clue other than to create content and lots of it. I knew if I was going to do this starting from scratch and with little money that I was going to have to do this the hard way by putting out lots of consistent content in hopes to grow The Peter G Show organically through lot’s of content and hoping for the content of my show to eventually cross your path. It’s hard and I’m on it everyday like clockwork, but as I said earlier the algorithms of all these internet platforms are tough, not to mention all the unfortunate censorship shadow banning that’s going on behind the the platforms agenda as well. Its a long way to the top unless you have the ability to hire someone proficient in internet strategy or you happen to have that nerd gene in you which I don’t have. Things are forever changing too, especially now with all the AI talk.
Anyone new that’s starting is normally hot out of the gate, but within 6 months or so can quickly start to fade especially when not getting the results they were expecting. I see it all the time and that’s what separates the men from the boys. It also blows my mind when I see people with pretty blasé production like just doing stuff off their phone and they are killing it and have a million followers. You just don’t know what’s going to catch on, and if it does the next question is can you hold onto it or is it just going to be 6 months of fame.
I do a long form show and produce many short clips weekly from each show, but its hard. You have to want to watch for the entertainment and information, and most of all I guess you have to like the person who’s delivering the information to you as well. I don’t do shocking 5 minute videos which I think grabs a lot of peoples attention. People love train wrecks and those type of videos get a lot of traction, but again for how long and how many can you make to continue to hang on. The world has developed a very short attention span so they have to really like you. I think regardless of whether or not you have five true fans or five hundred thousand true fans the key word is true fans. I’ll take the smaller number of true fans any day with the intent to keep building from that than a bunch of fly by nights that watch but don’t support.
I tell my tru blue fans on every show how much they mean to me because I realize that life is full of choices and the fact that they take the time every week to watch my show means to world to me because at the end of the day my goal is to give people something that they want to watch and listen too even if I’m telling dumb Joke, at least I’m real and I think people sense that.
To sum things up If you truly believe in what you’re doing, Don’t Stop. Don’t ever stop because the one fact about stopping is if you do stop you lose, game over. And Lastly, always leave yourself open for change. It takes time and patience’s. It really isn’t over night success, that just perception.

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