EWE 103: Becoming Sober to be More Than Mediocre with Tommy Vext

Evolve With Emily

Emily Hayden

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Nutrition, Wellness, Self-improvement, Education, Personaldevelopment, Entrepreneurship, Health

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we dive into the life of the lead vocalist Tommy Vext from Bad Wolves, Snot, Divine Heresy, and Westfield Massacre. He Began music career in Brooklyn New York as a teenager singing in local hard core bands and participated in free-style rap battles. He has been a part of a few different bands which eventually led to Bad wolves in 2017. Bad Wolves blew up in 2018, with one of their most successful songs the cover of Zombie with 342 million youtube views. Enjoy this episode as Emily and Tommy discuss his childhood, overcoming addiction, surviving suicide, relationships, and how he became sober to be more than mediocre.

In this episode you will learn:

[00:52] Introduction to Tommy Vext.
[05:20] Childhood, adoption, almost murdered by own brother, and finding his drive for music.
[13:53] Musical inspirations and how The Beatles got him into cover bands.
[17:21] 1st performance and joining his first band.
[19:59] BMW commercial soundtrack leading to formation of Bad Wolves.
[20:44] Taking a month off at the beach sparking songwriting success.
[21:40] How he used 2020 to grow during quarantine.
[23:55] What led to drug usage and learning how it was a problem.
[26:10] Becoming like the musicians on his wall inspired by almost being killed.
[30:26] Becoming homeless after Tumultuous relationship that led to overdose and sobriety.
[35:15] Responsibility vs Accountability.
[38:48] Forgiving yourself and others and making mistakes.
[44:13] Finding and being a mentor.
[46:00] How to identify character defects. Get offended or uncomfortable, not triggered.
[48:00] Projection and losing humility.
[52:40] Anger as an alarm system.
[55:25] Fitness becoming a part of life.
[56:30] Relationship Status and views.
[58:30] Flipping view of the past.
[59:49] Didn’t become sober to be mediocre.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to the Evolve with Emily Show.
0:15.0	I'm your host, Emily Hayden.
0:17.0	And I just want to remind you guys that we are now broadcasting video live on YouTube.
0:21.1	So you will get all of the sessions on YouTube.
0:23.1	Please join us over there.
0:24.6	One of the reasons why I wanted to be on the YouTube platform with my podcast is because I watched some podcasts and I realize that you just have a deeper level of connection with people when you can see the way that they're saying things.
0:36.5	So you just have this opportunity
0:37.6	to connect with them deeper. So come connect with us, come see us on YouTube. The link will be down
0:42.3	below. All right, guys, buckle up. Today's show is going to be incredible. We have a very
0:48.0	special guest today. His name is Tommy Vexed. Tommy began his music career in Brooklyn, New York as a teenager
0:55.3	singing in local hardcore bands. He even engaged in freestyle rap battles in his neighborhood.
1:01.2	He was actually too young to go into the clubs or his band would perform. So he had to sneak in.
1:06.3	He was doing the whole sneak thing when he was a young kid. Since then, he's been part of a few different
1:11.9	bands, which led to him creating Bad Wolves in 2017 with drummer John, lead guitarist
1:17.8	Doc, guitarist Chris, and bassist Kyle, managed by Zoltan of five-finger Death Punch. Bad Wolves
1:23.8	ended up blowing up in about 2018, and he is toured multiple times.
1:28.9	One of their best songs is a cover called Zombie that has 342 million views on YouTube as of late.
1:36.5	All of his songs are incredibly successful.
1:38.9	Bad Wolves overall has been mainstream on the charts, especially songs like Remember When, Killing Me Slowly and Sober.
1:46.4	They have two albums out, Disobey in 2018 and Nation in 2019, currently working on the next release.
1:52.7	And the list goes on.
1:54.9	You guys, throughout 2020, this man has not stopped.
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