From Avocation To Vocation: How I Turned My Hobby Into A Career” With Nick Gross, musician, entrepreneur and philanthropist

An Interview With Phil La Duke

Dream hard and dream long. It’s important to manifest what you want and knock out your goals by writing them down. I used to watch Youtube videos for 6 hours a night watching drummers I aspired to be and put myself in their shoes until it finally happened for me. I used to love watching Blink 182 play TRL back in the day and I always wanted to do the same thing. I made sure to make that happen and when I was 18 got to play TRL!

Nicholas William (Nick) Gross (born July 19, 1988) is a musician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the Founder & CEO of Gross Labs, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Find Your Grind and Find Your Grind Foundation, CEO of Big Noise, and Co-Founder of Rogue eSports. Nick (also drummer for LA’s alternative pop-rock band Half the Animal) is leveraging his artist relationships as mentors for students through Find Your Grind. They also connect these high profile artist…