In this deeply human episode of the Artist Recovery Podcast, host Rich Wright sits down with Steve Boehm, aka Steve Sxaks—a multi-hyphenate creator whose journey spans punk rock stages, underground hip-hop culture, military service, homelessness, education, and authorship. This is not a highlight reel conversation. It’s a grounded, honest exploration of how identity is forged through adversity, failure, and relentless self-inquiry.
From growing up drawn to attention and performance, to being shaped by punk ethics and DIY culture, Steve opens up about what it means to learn everything the hard way. No shortcuts. No safety net. Just lived experience as the teacher.
As a former touring punk musician turned respected audio engineer, Steve is the co-founder of Marston House Recording, one of Philadelphia’s most influential studios. He is also the creator of Marston House Ciphers, a platform dedicated to preserving authentic underground hip-hop voices. But behind those accomplishments lies a quieter truth—periods of instability, couch surfing, shelters, and rebuilding from the ground up while becoming a husband, father, and mentor.
This episode dives into:
• Growing up between chaos and creativity
• Punk rock as philosophy, not fashion
• Learning through failure—and why Steve lets his students fail on purpose
• Integrity in music, education, and collaboration
• Teaching young artists how to earn trust, not just credits
• Navigating homelessness, grief, and responsibility
• Why creativity often chooses us before we’re ready

Steve also reflects on his role as an educator and nonprofit leader, sharing how his own unteachable tendencies shaped the way he mentors emerging creatives today. His approach is simple but radical: experience it, own it, fix it, and never repeat it.
Beyond music, Steve is also a published author. His debut novel, Invasion of the Punkcrackers Who Drink Blood, blends rebellion, horror, and coming-of-age themes—mirroring the same raw energy that defines his life and work.
This conversation isn’t about success in the traditional sense. It’s about integrity, resilience, and what it takes to stay creative when life keeps testing you.

Connect with Steve Sxaks:
https://letsgoguy.com
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/steve_sxaks
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ ⁨@stevesxaks⁩

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In this deeply human and expansive conversation, Rich Wright sits down with Alexandra Beller—award-winning choreographer, educator, and former principal dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company—to explore what it truly means to live, create, and lead from the body when the world keeps asking you to conform.
Alexandra’s story is not one of neat triumph or easy confidence. It’s a story of contradiction—of being celebrated and unseen, powerful and insecure, grounded and exposed—all at the same time. From growing up as a highly sensitive, imaginative only child in New York, to navigating elite dance institutions that didn’t know how to see her, Alexandra shares what it took to stay connected to her embodied truth when external validation failed.

This episode dives into:
~What it means to belong to your body before the world approves of it
~How artistic feedback can create lifelong wounds—and how to survive them
~The pressure placed on artists to become symbols, role models, or “exceptions”
~Why confidence is often a projection—and contradiction is the real source of power
~Neurodivergence, intuition, and pattern recognition as creative intelligence
~Letting go of external legitimacy (institutions, titles, citations) to reclaim authorship
~The difference between success that looks impressive and work that feels true
~How dance, grief, joy, shame, and magic can all coexist in one body

Alexandra speaks candidly about imposter syndrome, body politics in dance, and the quiet violence of being forced into narratives that erase complexity. She challenges the idea that healing, success, or confidence must be linear—and offers a more embodied, compassionate way of understanding creative resilience.

This is a conversation for:
Artists who’ve been told they “don’t fit”
Highly sensitive creatives navigating systems not built for them
Dancers, writers, educators, and performers questioning external validation

Connect with Alexandra:
https://www.alexandrabellerdances.org
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrabellerdances
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-beller-0a56a57
FB: https://www.facebook.com/alexandrabellerdances

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What happens when hard rock meets stillness?When power, rhythm, and spiritual inquiry collide?
In this deeply intimate episode of the Artist Recovery Podcast, host Rich Wright sits down with Clementine Moss—founding drummer of the all-female Led Zeppelin tribute band Zeparella, author of From Bonham to Buddha and Back, and a multidisciplinary artist whose life bridges rock performance and spiritual practice.
Clementine’s story is not about overnight success or tidy transformation. It’s about late beginnings, internal listening, and the courage to follow truth—even when it contradicts expectation.

Born in Southern California and raised in a household filled with music but not musicianship, Clementine didn’t discover the drums until her late twenties. What followed wasn’t just a musical awakening, but a complete reorientation of identity. Drumming became her language—one rooted in time, structure, mathematics, and intuition—while writing and meditation remained her compass.

In this conversation, Clementine reflects on:
• Growing up as an achiever and seeker in parallel
• How silence, reading, and writing shaped her inner world
• The tension between spirituality and rock culture—and why they’re not opposites
• Discovering meditation alongside music, including a life-altering 10-day silent retreat
• Why creativity isn’t about being seen—but about being true

Clementine’s voice is grounded, reflective, and honest—offering insight not just for musicians, but for anyone navigating reinvention, recovery, or the quiet knowing that there’s more waiting on the other side of fear.
This is not a performance.It’s a remembering.

Timeline:
00:00 – Meeting Clementine Moss
04:10 – Childhood, reading, and early sensitivity
11:30 – Achievement, identity, and internal pressure
19:40 – Spiritual curiosity before religion
28:15 – Junior high, depression, and self-attack
36:00 – Writing as survival and self-expression
44:20 – New York City & creative freedom
52:10 – Discovering drums later in life
1:01:30 – Seeing rhythm as blocks of time
1:12:00 – From silence to stage
1:23:40 – Spiritual practice meets rock performance
1:34:10 – Why drumming feels like home
1:46:00 – Unity, presence, and what music is really for

Connect with Clementine:
https://www.clementinemoss.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clementinemossmusic
FB: https://www.facebook.com/ClementineMossMusic
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@UCZdYUfNZ7MifaGf0mPa22aw

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