Authenticity, Risk, and Adjusting | Recording Artist and Composer, Stephan Moccio

Stephan Moccio (0:00)

My mom always taught me, someone's got to be great in the world, and if, why can't it be you? Why can't it be you? That's just such logic. It just makes so much sense to me. If someone's got to be the best at something, why can't it be you? As long as you work your ass off, and the discipline is a big thing for me. I mean, the discipline I learned as a musician, I've applied it throughout my entire life.

I've been practicing piano ever since I was three years old.

I know that same way that if I don't go to the gym in the morning, my body's not going to look the way it does.

If I don't put in the scales, I'm not going to be a great piano player.

Michael Gervais (0:44)

Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais, and by trade in training, a sport and performance psychologist, as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. The whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, is the opportunity to learn from people who are switched on, who flat out are investing their life efforts towards mastery of craft and self.

And what we want to do is dig to understand, like, what are they searching for? How do they organize their inner life? How do they make sense of the world around them?

And we also want to pull on that string to understand what are the mental skills that they use to build and refine their craft.

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Now, this week's conversation is with Stephan Moccio, a producer, composer, recording artist, and musician behind some of the world's most massive inescapable global hits. For example, in 2013, Stephan co-penned the quintuple platinum song. Think about that. People celebrate being platinum gold, whatever. This is a quintuple platinum song wrecking ball with Miley Cyrus. Following that song's success, Stephan obviously quickly became one of the industry's most sought after and in demand producers and songwriters. He went on to co-write and co-produce two songs on the 50 Shades of Grey. The quintuple platinum earned it with The Weeknd and I Know You with Skylar Grey.