Set 3 - Rep 6 with John William Conner

Written By Metric Mate

Episode Summary

John Conner is all about educating and finding therapy through music! 

As a band teacher, the pandemic has taught John a lot about his students. He recognizes that through virtuality it is the student's decision if they want an education or not. The challenge has been creating interactive compelling classes to keep the students engaged. The pandemic cut one of his gigs too: playing at the Atlanta airport. John has several projects coming up besides his second album and teaching.

Join this episode to know about the experiences of someone that has taken advantage of every single opportunity. 

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M-T:
What's going on, everybody! This is your boy Brother M-T, and we're here with another Metric Mate Minute Podcast. On the Metric Mate Minute Podcast, we cover leaders from all over the world telling you about how they do what they do, why they do what they do and how staying fit keeps them in their best mindset. Let's go.

M-T:
What's going on, everybody? Man, this is your boy Brother M-T. And we're here with another Metric Mate Podcast, man, and I do my best. We have Metric Mate do our best. We put our heart and soul on the table to make sure that we bring you some of the hottest people, some of the best guests, some of the most influential influencers you'll probably see for a long time. You'll be noticing these people as they come through, but they're definitely on the bubble getting ready to burst. And today is no different. I can't let you down any week. It's just not what I do, man. We got my boy John Conner here. Known him for a while, seeing this man work, have been in all of the things that he has done. And it just takes it to another level. He just shoots off in another direction and pops up with the album, pops up with the single, pops up with all of it. As I know I'm not the person to tell you guys about these people, man. These people are the best person to tell you. I only know a little bit. I want this man to share everything that he's got going on. Man John, appreciate you, without a shadow of a doubt for taking the time to be a part of this podcast to come on and talk with us today about, man, just everything that you're doing. Man, you're doing some amazing things out on the street. Please tell the folks, introduce yourself to the community. I will get onto at end and start talking. Tell them who you are, man. What you got going on and how you're out here killing the game.

John Conner:
My man. Hey, first and foremost, man, thank you for having me is an honor and a pleasure to be a part of your podcast, man. Thank you so much. For those who don't know me, my name is John Conner, a.k.a. John William Flautist, out here on these flute streets of Atlanta. I'm two people. I'm a lot of people. But in the vein and what you're about to know me, I'm pretty much to people. I am a middle school band worker, that I've been for going on 14 years now. And I'm also a professional flute player, you know. So as we talk, you know, you'll find that you learn.

M-T:
Man, my man, is out here doing the most man. He's being modest and out of everything, really, because he's got some things going. So your middle school band teacher.

John Conner:
Yes sir

M-T:
Everything that's going on now in the education system has affected the people that directly affect the children, affect the youth, affect the future. And you are one of those people you went from being in these kids face, influencing them with your movements, with actions, with how you carry yourself, and what you present as far as information. And now you have to find a way to do it in a completely different way. Tell the people a little bit more about that and shine some light on the things that educators have had to go through.

John Conner:
Well, to me right now, the whole virtual, man, is really, is hard. It's hard, is really hard because you see kids in a different light now. You know, to me, it reveals their true character. It reveals to me how they really feel about education, because for the most part, you know, when you're in their face or when you're standing over their shoulder, you know, they are more so inclined to do what you ask them to do. But you're not in their face. And when they're at home and we're mothers at work and it's down to the decision of the students to actually decide whether or not I am going to do education or not, that's what reveals how they really think about it and how they feel about education. And I'm saying and again, we talk about barbecue, a meal do. I've seen, you know, kids rise to the occasion and excel in a whole virtual set because Some kids have actually done better virtually than they have been face to face. But at the same time and I've seen a lot of kids just kind of fall by the wayside because they don't have that accountability, you know, to do what they're supposed to do. They don't have a mom and dad, a teacher standing over them to make them do that work, turn in at less and blah, blah, blah. We're talking about kids who have the world in their hands. This is the world, peers, files. And we pretty much combating all of this, middle school adolescents. So they don't sit in a science class and then I'm not home. Or are they going to put the zoom on mute, you know, turn the camera off and go play some madden Are they going to go outside? So is it so much? But we're doing the best we can. We as a teachers, we do our best to make our lessons interactive so the kids can remain engaged. And the biggest thing that I've always tried to do, because I'm a bander and I've always just tried to have some kind of camaraderie with the students. And I've also, I let them know that I understand, we understand that this is in a pandemic. All right. We understand the emotional, the psychological, you know, the physical toll it takes on you. Therefore, most teachers, they purposely just kind of watered-down, you know, a lot of the instructions as to bombard the mentally with everything they're supposed to do. Some kids, they appreciate it, but some kids, it doesn't matter what you do. They've made a decision that they're not going to do. They're not going to do that, they're not going to do. But my personal philosophy in terms of my band is two things. And I tell my kids, I only want two things from you. One, I want to exponentially improve your musicianship. All right. First and foremost, next, I want to improve your character because not everybody here won't continue to be musicians as they grow older. Everybody here won't go to college. Now, that's my goal for you, not settled in. My goal for you is to be in a position to get a college scholarship. That's what I want from you. That's what I'm trying to do. But if you don't, then you know it is what it is. But at the same time, I'm trying to improve your character because what you're in a band and not your character is going to be the element of you that's going to go further. That's going to put you in a right position for you to succeed. So that's pretty much I mean, that's what I hark on, man. And that's what I do.

M-T:
Yeah. You got to do the best you can, man. And it definitely looks like, it sounds like you're doing an amazing job with the students that are tuning in, that are plugged in with you and you're keeping them engaged and moving forward and everything that's going on. So kudos on that, man. I definitely wanted to talk about that because that's the superpower in and of itself. But on top of that, on top of that man, this guy is an amazing flutist, who is, has been doing shows all over the place. He personally did my wedding. And people still talk about it to this day.

John Conner:
Appreciate it.

M-T:
He was out there playing the flute. Mate, he was killing it like, hey, man, that's my guy and I appreciate him and everything that he's done. So how has this time, how has this pandemic affected your musician career outside of being a band teacher? Man, because you've got a lot going on.

John Conner:
This is definitely hindering Because I also, a lot of things I do as far as performance is really therapeutic to me but first of all, just performing within itself is therapy, is medicine. And when I mean performing, I mean everything from open mics, everything for weddings, again corporate events, whatever is great. But one of the biggest, I guess, gigs that I've gotten prior to pandemic was, well and I still have it. But I haven't been able to do it was playing at the airport. That's the one when I really just get it. And for those who don't know, is that Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, which is the largest and busiest airport in the world, I've had the pleasure to be able to play and minister to all these different types of peoples and individuals. And that got cut. You know, I was like, oh, man, that will hurt. And so pandemic has it really me just kind of just slow down and work on the ground. Like I know a lot of times people say you did come out of the pandemic with a different skill or different this, then you trip. I mean, people just need to be cool because everybody is in the same. You came out with a different skill or learn something new, cool. But if you just use the pandemic to just get your mind right, cool. You know, what can you do without the mind? So but I did use the pandemic to just kind of administer via Instagram live, Facebook live. I did a lot of playing I've done virtual performances. I've used the pandemic to just try to touch, I'll be on Instagram and I just try to get in contact with different people on Instagram, for instance. I went live with the United Master's day-to-day to open mic, course I hopped on that, I went live with a Georgia followers. That was cool. I went live with Eric craig and actually to be I was able to hop on song with him from hopping on his lot, went live with a deejay smart, aka Mr Callie part That was cool. So I mean, it was just the whole time I'm like, OK, if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be at home, I need to make the best, I need to get, just dig in and get to work. Also, finish I, I did some producing. OK, let me tell you that bit. I will call myself a glorified beat maker because I know there is a dichotomy between what's a producer now, we know who is... I would call myself a glorified beat maker. No, but I'm amazed, amazing some dope beats, also use this time to just work on my second album, which is coming out entitled Tomorrow's Yesterday. Shout Out to my guy Dj Burnone appreciate him, will be speaking on him a little later. He is definitely beyond influence, not only influential, but instrumental in making sure that I do what I supposed to do for me to get to where I'm supposed to be. So all of this is happening during the pandemic. Just using the time and I sit down, I think. I'm like OK. What else can I do? And that's my that's one of my philosophical trends. What else can I do? Because I always feel like I'm not doing enough. With that on mind I think. Oh yeah. Twitter. OK, let me tweet, let me share something. Let me just start and stay visual and try to stay a little bit relevant.

M-T:
Yeah, I can dig it, man, I, but it sounds like the relevancy is coming, brother. Like you have songs, you have done things with some monumental folks man and you've got the content to prove it. It's not like you've done it somewhere. No one's been able to capture it and understand it. No man, you've got the content to prove that you have done these things and you have performed as expected or even better than expected in some of the cases, that I'm gonna say like man, this guy is killing the game. He is destroying it. I knew John was hot, but I must have missed the vast progression over the time, man, because he is coming out fire. So you talked about that, your second album's coming out. How has that journey been with the pandemic? You know what I'm saying because you can't necessarily get into studios with a large amount of people, but everybody's had to find a way to kind of navigate between that and have gotten like a rock and a hard place, because I know I have. I've had to go to meetings and it's like always more people here than I thought, but, know what I'm saying, lemme strap my mask on super tight. It makes sure that I keep up with it. How has that helped you or hindered you, or change the way that you've done your studio time and building the second album compared to your first, which I'm sure was pre-pandemic?

John Conner:
Yeah. Yeah. Oh man. So what it would it allowed me to do was as again sit back and just like map out exactly how I want to do things. It allowed me to sit back and just do a compare contrast with my first album and everything I did for that. In this album and everything I want to do, and this whole album is just a game-changer, man, because I mean for me as an independent artist because I've learned so much more I need to do just on the back end rather than just have an album, now finish it, release. And that's what I did, like the first album. I mean, there was no promotion and there was no singles being released. I just finished it, uploaded to .... It was out there, you know, I had an album release, a party that was cool. But that's pretty much that's all I did. This go around and I've had council you from different individuals. Again, I was able to just sit down, and be like OK, how do I want to do this to the point where it can get mass recognition and I'm going to tell you something that I've just thought of. I just realized that I've kind of never shared before is one thing that kind of humbles yourself, you know, one person singing when people at the end of the year they post their Spotify end review, people like you see all these people that'd be the stream or follow, from different corners of the world. You know, that's the music has made to. So it's like I'm like, OK, do I do dope work? Yeah. You know, it feels pretty nice. It was OK, but it doesn't matter if you can't get to people if I'm just in this one little corner and just want to sit there and I'm just, you know, fluting alone, the people, the people in Japan are hearing it, people in Russia out hearing it, in Artica for all I care, you know. So looking at this album, I mean, I just know I want to do a couple of things. I wanted to release more singles first, all right, and also got I'm probably at least one of them. I got some singles or two songs on the new album, but I'm going to release the song with Dwayne Dugher, shout out of Dwayne, my CV. But I'm like, OK, I want to release more singles. That's one thing I want to do. I want to do artwork. For every single that I'm releasing there is artwork that goes with it. So I'll contact different artists. You know, all this is doing on the pandemic, all right. They're lo-fi, hip hop type art. It looks like it has a little Asian influence in it. And I'm like, man that's dope. So I went on youtube, look it up, hit the description, find out who did what. Boom, found them, went to Instagram, slide in the dm's to see if they can reply, I did that a lot You know some people reply. Some people do, but I have artwork for a lot of my singles and just being more cognizant of the art behind it rather than just here it is.

M-T:
Right.

John Conner:
Also smooth jazz, smooth jazz, one hundred, 101.1 That's another opportunity I've been able to thankfully be a part of. I've had my music played on that. And I guess the name of the game with me now with this second album is just promotion, just promotion. Making sure that the money I spend with promotion is intentional is just not being waste, marketing, promotion, making sure is getting out. But that's a big one of the biggest changes between the last and this one.

M-T:
Good stuff, man. Hey, man, look, he's dropping undercover gems on y'all. Like more people, a lot more blatant with it. But I told you, this man is a humble individual and he's dropping fat gems in between this because to be able to have done those things and capture those opportunities, he had to have a mindset of growth. He had to have a mindset of looking for these opportunities and taking advantage of them. And that's what a lot of people aren't doing right now. Like everybody, everybody's jumping on the stock market because it's like, oh, my God, people making money in the stock market. I know. And this stuff is going crazy because you got to have some historical context. But he's investing in itself. He has an art. He has a beautiful art. He has, he's an amazing musician. And he was like, I'm a be more intentional about the way that I apply myself in the pandemic than I was pre-pandemic. And that takes a whole mindset shift, bro. Is jewels being dropped all through here. Don't let the modesty of this man fool you. Oh, cool. So you found a new way to be able to apply yourself for your album. You got your second album coming out. What is next after that for John William Flautist? The man, the myth, the legend. What's after that?

John Conner:
Oh, man, this is my do I hear y'all, I don't know man. Straight as my gut. what's next after that man just pretty much keep performing. You know, I'm going to keep, I'm going to definitely keep performing. I'm never going to not do that. I know that's a double negative, but I'm always going, I'm always going to perform. That'll never stop. Ultimately I am going to eventually get a band together, you know, I guess my own personal band to where I will go out to, I guess, jazzy band instead of just being me playing, it'll be I have a whole band, that is in the works. I have concepts and ideas with other things I plan on, on dropping.

M-T:
Yes! You know, you were talking about what you weren't going to tell us, but is you should tells us, man, put that jar out in the universe, man, this podcast is going nowhere. It'll be out there to hold you accountable and make sure that you make it happen and the universe will start moving in the direction you needed to move so that you can get what you need. Man, with what you got going, if you can tell us if it's not for privates.

John Conner:
So, one thing that I plan on, three things basically plan on doing. One little of Christmas. Christmas music has always been one of the, I guess, forms of music that always fed my passion growing up. So eventually I'll do a Christmas album. If you all were not able to see, just take all my social media, I release a little sesh called Christmas in the Trap, to where I played a lot of Christmas music to trap beats And I think you guys would enjoyed it. But I do plan on releasing a Christmas album. That's one. One thing I plan, also plan on releasing a flute pack, sample pack to where producers can you know, I mean, it'll be royalty, royalty-free. And they can just. I can just do a lot of sounds that I do, and they will be able to use those in their productions, like a lot of times I'm in class and while I'm waiting for my students to come to zoom, I'll just, to play and I might play something just random like. And it may just be something just a producer may be able to oh, man.

M-T:
I can take that!

John Conner:
There's you know, there's been a wave of flute usage and a lot of these hip hop songs lately, you know, so.

M-T:
Yeah.

John Conner:
So, again, everything in man from ... Is just a flute pack, you know.

M-T:
No, no. Put it all out there. We got the concept, we've seen where you're going. You got the time, bro. That's an excellent way to be able to make it happen.

John Conner:
And the third, third thing I want to do, I eventually want to put out something in the title I'ma call it Flutes and Flow. Which more is in line with the most recent single entitled Night drive featuring Big Gipp and James Worthy. And it's basically, the concept is me, a type of beat or production and was you know, my flute is heavily favored and rappers rap or do spoken word or just speak or I'm rapping on so again, Flutes and Flow, you know, that's the concept.

M-T:
Hey, I'm trying to try to get up in there, man. I'm trying to be up on Flutes and Flow, man, keep me posted on that. I'll put some words together for a brother.

John Conner:
I will indeed. I will indeed. Yes, sir!

M-T:
Hey, that's dope.

John Conner:
Yes. I mean, just be a little EP, you know the saying, it won't be this s USithis That's what I have. That's pretty much.

M-T:
Forward-thinking. Bro, forward period. I don't know if no one's telling you this or putting you on game but your mindset, man. Where you thinking, where you going, where you're seeing is amazing. You're fitting yourself in the spaces that exist with your flute pack. I have a unique thing to add to this marketplace and to this community. And then you're coming up with new stuff, you know what I'm saying, and new concepts, new ideas that you want to bring things together that have never been done before. Bro, a lot of people not thinking on that way, period.

John Conner:
And all it is, is just what I do anyway. It's not anything that I mean, I, I don't do. I've been rapping. We'll call them myself rapping since I've been in, like high school. Back at the bus game, going ahead into the game, you know, freestyling. You got to get the college, back of the bus. You know, this is ...

M-T:
And you and you had an affinity to it so much so that you were part of the band and you brought a flavor and a uniqueness to that. And now you're imparting that knowledge on your students and then taking your time in between that sharpening your skills for what you're doing because it all is in align with what you do. There's no extra extension, there's no jumping off, no crazy bridges. Like, no, I already do this. And this is something that I know I can do with this. Let's go do it. You know, claps, claps, claps to you, bro. You are out here doing the damn thing, man. I and I appreciate that I know you because you keep me on my toes as well.

John Conner:
That's what we do for each other.

M-T:
I love it. I love it. I love it. That's what's up man. That's what's up. So I always ask all of my guests. Always ask my guests at the end since you dropped so many jewels, I ask you for an intentional jewel do because you were dropping some undercover jewels, the undercover landmines, hopefully, these people are blowing up in and just taking all the jewels, little like they ... and gathering that here. But if you had to take all of your experiences, all the things that you've done, all the things that you've seen over your time growing to this point, and probably some that you'll reinforce as you go along. But what is your one big old ... the belly size jewel that you would drop on the community that keeps you moving forward, keeps you out placing, and keeps you, keep having that fit mind, body and spirit to go forward and keep influence in the world?

John Conner:
Oh. I would say if it's something that you want to do, doesn't matter what it is, don't take it to the grave, simple as that. Something you want to do, do it. And a lot of time on Twitter, I mean, I'm trying to get into Twitter, man, because I haven't really been on Twitter, like for real for real. But I'm trying to, you know, I'll tweet something. Keep going. Keep going. I've had a conversation where I guess, a homeboy, man, he's older, you know, he drops jewels all the time, set out to Coach Hampton. Coach, he went and he asked me a question, how do you eat an elephant? And I'm like, You know what I'm saying because we work now in the gym. He caught me off guard what he's like, how do you eat an elephant? And then at the end he was like yeah, one bite at a time. And that's the approach to finish my dissertation. That's the approach that I'm taking to this musical journey that I'm on now is not I don't expect anything to happen overnight. It takes, it simply takes time. And what's problematic with this day and age, because in the age of Wifi, cell phone, people want instant gratification, instant notoriety, you know, they want it to happen just like that without putting it to work. Even if you like working out, losing weight, they want it to happen just like that. But you have to put it in work. One bite at a time. And so whatever it is, whether or not, and I really want to say this to a lot of my teacher friends, especially if they are in music education, because a lot of times they are professional singers, they are professional composers, arrangers and whatnot. And I often earn in my way, if you ever wanted to put a song together, do it, all right. I say don't take it to the grave because we're in a pandemic and so many people that we know and love have passed away from this virus. So in my mind, I'm like, OK, you never know. You never know what tomorrow brings. You never know the day nor the hour. So go ahead and do it. I mean, even if you're not a musician, if you want to write a book, a book of poetry, if you want to be published, do it. Just start. Just start. And so that's what I would leave people, you know, just don't expect for it to happen overnight. But, and do it because you want to do it, because it's intrinsic within you. I know a lot of times, people are intrinsically motivated Due, Due to the money, messed up. But if it's something that you love to do, something that you want to happen, then just do the research, talk to people, communicate with people, and just make it happen. I'm sitting on this. I'm still doing it myself. But I'm not I don't ever tell anybody anything that I don't do myself. So take your time, get it done. Do it. Don't take it to the grave. You never know how what you want to do may impress somebody else is like ...

M-T:
Can't you say no better than that? How do you eat elephant? One bite at a time and persevere. Take it one step at a time. That's what Metric Mate's trying to help y'all do. Shameless plug. I don't care. You said it. I like it. This is perfect time. Yeah. No, Metric Mate tries to help you be able to take that one step at a time and give you all the resources that you need to be able to take that step at a time, for your start trying to work out so you can continue to be better and be best. And this is what this man, John Conner, out here is doing. He's being best. So I know you're a fit guy and we will run it through the band ranks doing our thing. It seems like you got to be with everything that you got going on, and the hours that you pulling, man, you got to be in shape, bro. How has keeping that fit mind, body and spirit across the whole board? Because everything's got to be aligned to be able to move and shake and do the things that we're doing. How has that helped you continue to change the world, changed the game, and see these different pathways to bring your unique style to music?

John Conner:
A lot of times people say health is, wealth. What can you do? What can you contribute to society? What can you give people if you're not there to give it to them? Nothing, because unfortunately, you may have died so one of the first things you kind of always want to be mindful of is your own health. I won't be so contradictory to say that I go to the doctor like I should. I should go more and I will work on it. But I am cognizant of my health, and of my body and the crazy things, parts of the pandemic like I would heavily go to the gym. I mean, look, it must be a marching band thing. You know, I was in a band in high school, college. So it's like on a drum major hill. This is always kind of mindful of your body composition and just being in shape. So going to the gym for me, not only was it healthy, but it was a release. The work, because I'll be at work all day breaking up fights, dealing with kids, you know, and then I just come on to the gym and release, just workout release and it will feel good and it will be good for my body. So when the pandemic hit, gyms shut down, it hurt, and what I did was I started just walking. I would walk around my neighborhood and I do that to this day and I just walk more and more. And during that time I think about stuff, different bars, different melodies. And when I think of a different melody I just recorded, I whistle it, hum it, record it, so I won't forget it and you know, you just clear your mind. And so that's been the one thing that has really kept my body intact during the pandemic. I've started going back to the gym slowly, very slowly, not knocking anybody, but the whole thing and even going to gig more like this weekend has been a great one for gigging. I've had like two zoom performances. I had a lovely performance, you know, for my friends, on auntie's birthday. It's been great. But I haven't I just haven't been gung ho about jumping out because I'm ass man I can't afford to roll the dice on what covid may do to me and my ass so slowly. I do definitely plan on getting the shot. You know, the vaccine, but above all, just trying to just keep your body as healthy as possible and you have that healthy body, I think it definitely filtrates to my playing, you know, and believe it or not, you got to be a shape to play, man, because when I play, I'll play for a long period of time.

M-T:
Right.

John Conner:
If I got to gig, people may be like, yeah, keep playing for a couple of hours. I'll be like cool. And what they don't know is I will play for hours straight. I don't take a break. I don't stop. They'll ask me to. But, you know, in order to do that, you kind of got to be.

M-T:
In shape.

John Conner:
Gotta be in shape.

M-T:
Hey, if anybody know, we know. Real talk, this is good stuff.

John Conner:
And so yeah man, so that definitely super vital part to everything being in shape, being ready.

M-T:
Love it, man. And that's amazing that you're attacking your craft that hard, that you're taking it to the point that it was like, nah man, I got to be a shape for this. I got to make sure that I can over perform. No, no, .....

John Conner:
I mean, I want y'all to be ready, you know.

M-T:
I love it, man. That's amazing, brother. That's amazing. Well, again, I appreciate you, John, for joining us for this podcast. Man, are inspired by all that you're doing and can't wait for the next album to come out with the enhanced promotions and direct marketing and all that stuff to make sure that everybody knows what's going on. Man, I'm a pass the word as much as possible and I'm going to pass it on this podcast as well. So appreciate you coming on to share your gems, and your jewels, and be a part of our community.

John Conner:
Thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, and everybody you can follow me all streaming, we're on all social media platforms at JohnWilliamFloutist. Again, that is John William Flautist, Flautist is spelled F L A U T I S T. OK, so Instagram, SoundCloud, all that goo stuff John William Flautist, check me out. My single is out right now entitled Night Drive featuring Big Gipp from the goodie mob, there's go bunch of family and James Worthy produced by D.J. Burnone in Five Points Bakery is doing some numbers right now, so. We need your help. Need your help. Help us do more numbers and push pushed all the way to the top. All right. The video is also out now. Night Drive video. Just go to my YouTube page. John William Flautist. It is there, let's get these streams, you know, because I need them. Let's go join the movement. Let's get it.

M-T:
Love it. I love it. I love it. Yeah. We got to get that in and we got to tell people what they can keep up with you, but they can follow everything that's going on. Man and Night Drive is the jam, is the flow. I'll mess with it. I definitely added it to the playlist on title. I don't know how much longer will be untitled because ... Sold everything. But you know, we'll see what's going on. We can go talk about that's, another show, another show, another.

M-T:
So appreciate you for joining us, community appreciate you all for listening, man. Whether you're listening to and now on Clubhouse or you listening to it after we actually publish it. Man, appreciate you all for joining us. You can spend your time anywhere else before the fact that you all spend your time with us here in the Metric Mate Podcast. And that means amazing amount. So definitely check out his podcast anywhere. You stream your podcast, check it out on YouTube as well. We'll be starting to release the YouTube video. Go to YouTube now and check out this awesome interview with this awesome guy, Man. John appreciate you, brother.

John Conner:
Yes sir.

M-T:
Until the next time, y'all. This has been Metric Mate. Check us out at TheMetricMate.com for all the information on the Metric Mate device that will come in to change the way that everybody does, just trying to work out, straight up and forever. This is your boy Brother M-T. Until next time. Peace!

M-T:
Man, thanks everybody, for joining us for another Metric Mate Minute. We appreciate everybody that comes through and shows us love in the Metric Mate community. Make sure that you stop over at TheMetricMate.com to find out more information about the podcast, about what we're doing, any of our blog information, the transcript of the show and just to show us massive support. Also, remember to follow us on social media at Metric Mate. Check us out, y'all. Peace!

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Get to know John Conner

John Conner is currently the band director at Crawford W. Long Middle School in the Atlanta Public School System. He is also a performer and husband. 

John is vastly emerging as one of the premier flutists in the music industry. The Atlanta native prides himself on producing a unique sound that keeps his audience captivated until the very last note. From the mesmerizing melodies to the hypnotic harmonies, John believes that music is a conduit for one to achieve inner peace and tranquility.

On May 8th, 2019 he released his debut album entitled "Melodic Ascension". John's sophomore album, "Tomorrow's Yesterday" will be released in early 2021.

Source: http://www.johnwilliamflautist.com/about/ 

Key Take-aways: 

  • Accountability is absolutely necessary to get things done. 

  • John always asks himself: “What else can I do?”

  • Align your core values with what you want to do in the time you have at hand. 

  • If there’s something you want to do, don’t take it to the grave. 

Resources:

Metric Mate https://themetricmate.com
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