Stevie here. Thanks for checking out the audio format of the show. You're about to listen to producer, musician, and beatmaker, Lisa Vesquez.

My favorite part of her interview was talking about criticism in the age of social media. Thanks for tuning in. Peace.

Welcome back to another episode of the Stevie Weebie Show.

We have a very special guest tonight. Please welcome for the first time on the podcast, musician, composer, beatmaker, Lisa Vesquez.

Thanks for coming. I just discovered you on an Instagram and we haven't had a lot of female, I think you're our first producer.

I've interviewed DJs, we've had shorty a couple other ones. This is the first for the Stevie Weebie Show and we're going on over 300 episodes.

Wow. Well, I'm honored and yeah, I had no idea you got the skills on the piano. And John, look out. I mess around.

Are you native of LA? No, I'm actually from Portland, Oregon originally. So I just moved here about three, four years ago and definitely different here.

But yeah, mostly I'm loving it, just the opportunities and everything.

Before you came over you, maybe we could start with this because you posted something very inspirational.

It's this thing that you're actually triggering a beat and it says allow or enable to escape from confinement.

Yeah. Now as a musician and with what you do, that's not a good place to be is confined.

Yeah, I mean, I think I mean, I could go fill the whole podcast just talking about that kind of, but, you know, in short, it's just, you know, as creating and trying to put stuff out there into the world, it's this kind of ebb and flow of like, you know, the joy of creation.

Like the ebb and flow part. Yeah. Yeah. But then the pressure to do something specific with it, you know, and then if it's not, it's not worthy if you're not doing this specific.

To a standard.

Yeah. And usually it's, you know, ourselves, we put the standard on ourselves, but you're a very high standard, isn't it?

Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm definitely a perfectionist as I'm sure you are. Me too.

Me too. And I, because I'm working on stuff too right now and now I hate it and I don't know, I don't want to put it out.

Yeah. Because I've heard it so many times and I'm like, and because I nitpick at every little, I'm like, nah, I didn't say that right or it's a little offy there.

Why do you think we're our worst, a lot of artists are the worst enemies?

I mean, I think that's just like kind of the nature of being human. It's like, especially when we care a lot about something, we really just, you know, we want it to be perfect.

But then that can obviously be to a fault when, you know, we let it get in the way of just moving forward, you know, we just can't.

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