The Other 22 Hours

Aaron Shafer-Haiss, Michaela Anne

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Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast about sustaining a meaningful creative life, featuring intimate artist-to-artist conversations with established musicians and occasional authors, visual artists, and actors. Credible pitches include accomplished songwriters, recording artists, creative educators, authors, actors, and visual artists with distinctive perspectives on artistic practice, career longevity, or the realities of creative work; booking difficulty is high because the show has recently featured prominent, award-recognized musicians.

Metrics

Episodes: 159

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.8k subscribers

Instagram: 1.7k followers

Contact Information

info@theother22hours.com

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Host

Aaron Shafer-Haiss - Working musician, producer, mixer, and podcast producer.

Michaela Anne - Working musician, songwriter, and creative coach.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established musicians, songwriters, authors, visual artists, actors, and creative educators with a substantial body of work and firsthand insight into sustaining a career in the arts.
Required Achievements:  
GRAMMY nominations or wins, Multi-platinum or widely recognized recordings, Major brand sync campaigns, Significant work in film, publishing, or other recognized creative fields, Long-term professional careers in the arts

Recent Guest Discussions

Amy Grant - Aging, Healing After Medical Setbacks, Slowing Down, Creative Sanctuary, And Sustaining A Creative Identity.

James Gardin - Music Licensing, Songwriting Education, Community, Creative Confidence, And Rejecting Narrow Definitions Of Success.

Lukas Nelson - Family Legacy, Sobriety, Physical Discipline, Health On The Road, Boundaries, And Developing An Independent Artistic Identity.

Recent Topics

Music, Songwriting, Artistic Careers, Creative Practice, Artist Wellness

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Other 22 Hours
:

Amy Grant on unexpected healing, the invitation of aging, and craftopia.

July 15, 2026

What does it mean to inhabit a creative life when that container itself changes? We sit down with GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum crossover superstar Amy Grant. Having shaped the landscape of pop and contemporary Christian music for over four decades, Grant found herself navigating an unexpected wilderness following a series of medical setbacks – including a traumatic bike accident – and a rewritten relationship with her own processing speed. In this soulful, luminous conversation, she explo...

James Gardin on deconstructing the sync world, overcoming over-analysis, and the male affordable Lizzo.

July 08, 2026

How do you build a sustainable life around your art when the traditional definitions of success feel increasingly narrow? In this conversation, we sit down with musician, songwriter, and educator James Gardin. While his joyous, infectious music has found a global audience through major sync campaigns for brands like Apple, Tommy Hilfiger, and Saks Fifth Avenue, James’s core creative philosophy is anchored in something much more grounded: community, education, and the refusal to second-guess t...

Lukas Nelson on shedding expectations, the antidote to egos, and training like an Olympian.

July 01, 2026

It is easy to look at a lifetime spent traveling on a tour bus in a famous family and assume the creative path was completely clear. We sit down with GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter and guitar player Lukas Nelson ('A Star Is Born,' Promise of the Real, Neil Young) for an incredibly honest conversation about moving past the shadow of his father Willie Nelson's towering legacy, and detangling his identity from the cliched drug-induced creative culture. We explore the distinct clari...

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