Hello dear listener. Whoever you are and wherever you are welcome to episode number Eight. I’m Lauren Wood, your host here on The Pursuit Pod where I chat to artists abroad about the pursuit of their creative careers.

On this week’s show I had the very easy pleasure of meeting and chatting with someone who has followed a somewhat similar path as myself and I say easy folks because, quite simply, I didn’t have to work out any time difference to chat with my guest today.

Mr Ben Chambers like me, hails from the other side of the world, originally from New Zealand but studied at the conservatorium of music in Brisbane and has trudged the well-worn path over here to London where he now lives and works as an artist.

It’s not the first we’ve heard of Ben’s name here on the show. He was mentioned by two of my previous guests earlier in the season, Chris Fung and Matthew Samer as he intertwined with both of their stories and today he’s here to tell us about his journey of navigating auditions, agents, touring work and the ever-important money job as we sometimes call it in other words, the job on the side of your performance career that helps you to maintain some semblance of stability between gigs.

It’s been a great source of comfort for me not just throughout this show but in my life in general over here in the UK to connect with artists who have made the same journey from Brisbane to London as I have and although we’ve heard a couple of these stories already and no doubt there will be plenty more to come I still find it really interesting to hear about how everybody’s experience is different and full of hurdles and triumphs that are completely unique to them and because of that there’s always something to learn from each individuals perspective on their experience.

Throughout my time with Ben I came to realise that he is an incredibly mindful and reflective young person and the roller coaster of emotions that he has experienced since moving over here in his early twenties is definitely shaping him up to be a formidable artist.

So without further ado, let’s get to it.

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