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Jed Brewer

PresidentGood Loud Media

Chicago, IL

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Jed Brewer is the founder and President of Good Loud Media, a nonprofit record label that uses music as a messaging tool for public health applications. Jed is a skilled media professional with twenty years of experience in music, video, and audio production resulting in millions of plays and views online and tens of thousands of hours of airtime on traditional media. Jed creates media that audiences love across a huge range of styles, genres, and applications. Jed also has fifteen years experience in the nonprofit sector serving at-risk young people, returning citizens, people experiencing homelessness, and more. Jed is dedicated to using media to meet the needs of those who need it most.

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Eight Ways Business Leaders Can Become Better Mentors for Their Teams

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Mentorship can improve you as a leader as well — not just your mentee. Especially in creative-led industries such as music, art and even just general business, having a mentor can ensure someone starts on the path to success. A mentor can guide someone through the decision-making process, encourage a clever idea (or discourage a bad one) and help introduce them to other people and opportunities that could help define their career. However, mentorship is also leadership and, like any skill, can take time and intention to master. It may not come naturally to everyone, and those interested in taking on a mentorship role will need to first look at themselves if they want to later help others. Below, eight business leaders from Rolling Stone Culture Council share their insights on mentorship in the culture space and offer up their best advice for becoming a better mentor for any current or future mentees you may take on.

Six Ways Digital Platforms Can Change the Way You Interact With Your Customers

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Embracing these technologies can strengthen your bond with your audience. In 2025, digital platforms are nothing new. Individual users and businesses alike have grown accustomed to the nature of social media and how it has revolutionized culture and the way customers interact with and purchase from brands. However, these platforms have not only continued to evolve, adding new ways of shopping, streaming and consuming, but they’ve also multiplied in number, meaning businesses must always stay up to date on the latest innovations and how they must respond if they want to stay relevant to their customers. So how can brands keep up? The answer may lie in how brands have evolved their communications thus far. Thinking about the rise of digital platforms like TikTok, Instagram or even streaming platforms, the business leaders of Rolling Stone Culture Council discuss their experiences with digital platforms over the years and how they have changed the ways in which their brands interact with their audiences now and will continue to do so into the future.

Hustle Culture: Eight Ways to Avoid Toxic Productivity in Business

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Learn how to spot toxic patterns and find ways to approach work with a better mindset. The pursuit of success often comes with the pressure to constantly hustle. However, when you continuously push forward without balancing your own needs, ambition can lead to burnout.  Striking the right equilibrium between drive and downtime is essential for maintaining long-term productivity and well-being. To help you do this, the members of Rolling Stone Culture Council share strategies for balancing motivation with rest to ensure you create a sustainable and healthy approach to work.

Unlocking Team Potential: 13 Strategies for Managers

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Take your team to the next level with these expert-approved motivation strategies. Great managers know that bringing out the best in their teams requires more than just setting expectations. Your employees have to feel motivated, supported and empowered to excel — and that all starts with the work environment. Whether through fostering open communication or aligning employee strengths with responsibilities, the right strategies can unlock your team’s full potential. Read on for advice from Rolling Stone Culture Council business leaders about effective management approaches that drive performance and boost morale.

Boost Retention and Sales: Seven Ways to Measure Your Messaging's Impact

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If you want to retain more customers, take the time to listen to their opinions. When you’re trying to build a brand, it’s all about getting your messaging right. What type of reputation do you want to build for your business? What do customers need to know about your brand and the services or product you provide? How do you stand up to your competition? These are all important questions business leaders can ask themselves to help ensure the messages they are communicating to current and potential customers align with their mission and goals.  And while it’s vital to spend time generating ideas for and actually crafting these messages, it’s equally important to measure the impact of these messages. What do customers think of the messages you’re putting out? What actions (if any) do they feel persuaded to take? Without answers to these questions, business leaders likely won’t be as effective in their communications, meaning they could be missing the mark without even realizing it. In the culture space, connecting with your audience in the right way is key. Here, seven leaders from Rolling Stone Culture Council discuss some of the ways in which businesses can measure the impact of their messaging, and how doing so not only helps them improve customer retention but sales as well.

What a Wedding Song Can Teach Us About Creative and Commercial Success

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Let's look at a roadmap for artists and creatives to consider in crafting media that audience members will consider indispensable and irreplaceable.

Company details

Good Loud Media

Company bio

Good Loud Media is a nonprofit record label that creates music and video content with and for at-risk people and historically under-resourced communities. Our music is designed to make life better for our audience members. We do this by combining guidance and insights from physicians, psychologists, and social workers with the world-class talents of Grammy-winning performers, platinum-selling producers, and legendary recording engineers.

Industry

Music

Area of focus

Health Care
Music Label

Company size

Myself only