About this episode

Elad shares his journey from struggling with guitar to finding identity and purpose after significant life events.

Send Steve a Text Message A kid gets a guitar with strings so high it’s basically unplayable, struggles for two years, and then hears the sentence that can haunt a musician for decades: “Stop wasting your money, it’s hopeless.” Our guest Elad did what a lot of people do after that kind of moment, he quit. Then life happened in a big way: he grew up in the suburbs of New York, found himself pulled toward identity and purpose after the Yom Kippur War, immigrated to Israel, and helped build a br...

People in this episode

Host: Steve Stine

Guest: Elad

Topics covered

• guitar
• musical journey
• identity
• immigration
• personal growth

Keywords

• guitar
• musician
• identity
• Yom Kippur War
• immigration
• personal growth
• struggles

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New York, Israel

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