We were lucky to catch up with Eric Evans recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Eric, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
After getting hit by a train saving my dog , father passing, totaling my truck, losing my girl, among others in a year span, I literally went through hell. I get my resilience from staying true to myself and always saying: never ever ever ever give up to my friends and fam as well as myself. I believe there is much fun to be had. What was scary was the fear of being stuck in a Great Depression forever! Feeling hopeless of ever feeling well again, not being able to eat or sleep. Someone told me if I was better I said I don’t think so. It was after a year. He said, well , are you eating and sleeping yet? I said yes and he responded , “isn’t that progress?!”. Since then I realized that was the beginning of getting out of my funk. I love to help others and be a role model. I share my story to broken people and it def gives them assurance and hope. Being there and going to rough it personally helps people relate and believe. I then decided to travel and play my sax and work on myself. I was able to quit my job I hated, bought a USA rail pass and got a digital sax. I’ve been comfortable in my own skin lately and it’s incredible.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I’d love to get my channel going and tour the world promoting being yourself and not being afraid. Taking risks and never giving up. Taking the Amtrak scenic routes to LA to Texas to Chicago , Denver , Eugene, Montana , Santa Monica and many places in between bringing my sax with me and playing for people on the train and overcoming stage shyness and just doing it. Not caring what others think. Being naturally gifted at sax def helps people tell me not to shut up but instead tell me to play louder. I urge people follow their gifts and make that their benefit to themselves and turn that in to productive in society. I was a United States Marine, afghan 2002 iraq 2004. Commercial diver, EMT, real estate agent , engineer , planner , project manager. Never going to school (normal college) I asked many questions to climb the ladder in to mega projects. Biggest bridge in the americas , biggest chemical plant in the world etc… living in Asia , Middle East, carriebean and much of the USA I have learned people.
What would you advise – going all in on your strengths or investing on areas where you aren’t as strong to be more well-rounded?
Both , I have done a lot and excelled at many things input my heart in. Never feeling satisfied and getting bored easily I have taken all the skills learned and make it my point to apply them in all aspects of life.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: SeattleSaxE2
- Facebook: Eric Evans
- Youtube: SeattleSaxE2
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