In this entry, you’ll be introduced to a young business professional named Josh Savage, a Global Benefits Consultant at a huge multinational firm in Atlanta. So far, he’s done some interesting things in his career, but, in my opinion, the most interesting thing about him is that he’s a hip-hop artist and is 100% committed to that as his future path. If you spend 5 minutes with him, you’ll realize that his personality is not like most other folks in his corporate line of work and, given his sense of style and “swag”, he’s more of a “Pharell Williams”-type than a “traditionally corporate”-type. As such, we spent the majority of the time in the interview talking about his music career and I hope his story inspires other young corporate folks to consider thinking outside of the box in terms of their careers.

As you’ll be able to see from the interview, Josh and I are really good friends and have had many conversations about his careers in business and music. Also, he and I have a lot in common (including the same birthday and the same GMAT score), so this was an interview that I’d been looking forward to for a while. I should tell you guys up front that I’m a big believer in what this guy will be able to do because, knowing him as a person, he isn’t really used to taking “no” for an answer. Just remember that when he blows up because I’ll be out in the streets telling the world that I was the first one to interview him waaaaay back in 2011. B-)

If you’d like to learn more about Josh, you can either check out his blog at http://swinegrease.tumblr.com/ or follow his Twitter feed.

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Interview video:

Conversation with Josh Savage, Global Benefits Consultant and Hip-Hop Artist from Marquis Parker on Vimeo.