Meet Ben Pham

We were lucky to catch up with Ben Pham recently and have shared our conversation below.

Ben, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

I get my resilience from my dad. He was a fighter and taught me how to fight from an early age. He had a tough early life but fought through to raise me and my sister. I learned a lot about not giving up and fighting through tough times. Not running from tough times but going through them.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I am a professional drummer. Every week is different. In a single week I could be performing live with different bands on different gigs, recording drums on an album for a recording session, teaching drum clinics to students or traveling to a different state/country to perform in a live show. It’s simultaneously exciting, stressful and fulfilling. I think where I excel in and am most excited about week to week, is helping people accomplish their dreams and visions. Whether it’s a professional artist working on a new song or a student that needs help with their instrument, I help people reach their music goals and so that they can better tell their stories to other people.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Firstly would be communication skills. Being aware and communicating effectively is number one. Being able to get along with different people is very important in the music business. Second, my knowledge of my instrument and music. Not only do you have to communicate effectively to get gigs, you also need the skills to keep the gigs that you get. That is probably harder, just being able to keep the gigs! And lastly, I think my patience is a useful quality. Not rushing the process but enjoying the process and journey. I feel this is important in music because a lot of times, the results you want don’t come until after a long time.

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

I think currently a particular challenge I am facing is trying to learn marketing and understanding how to navigate social media as a musician. I think most musicians going into the music business think they are going to 100% only work on their music. But nearly every music career is centered around navigating social media today and understanding the business side of music. There are some helpful tips you can learn online but there is also a lot of uncharted waters, particularly in social media.

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