Breast Cancer Can Stick It w/April Samuels :: Ep 182 The Rich Redmond Show

April Samuels (born April 30, 1969) is an American rock drummer, breast cancer survivor, and founder of Breast Cancer Can Stick It! Foundation, Inc. - a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Breast Cancer Can Stick It has raised over $600,000 for breast cancer research and assistance for treatments. She is based out of Dallas, Texas. She is best known for her nonprofit and for playing drums as Crash Gordon in the 1980s hair metal cover band, Metal Shop Dallas. She is also known for co-writing songs for Discovery Channel's Outward Bound with her bandmates in Frognot. Samuels is endorsed by Aquarian Drumheads, Drumtacs, Humes & Berg Drum Cases, Los Cabos Drumsticks, Rockett Drum Works (founded by Rikki Rockett), Rock-n-Roller Multi-cart SABIAN Cymbals, and Wornstar Clothing, etc.      Things That Came Up:  -1:00 Growing up in Plano, Tx. -1:45 Celebrating release of her new book,  “Breast Cancer Can Stick It” -4:25 April’s Diagnosis: Oct 26th, 2010 -7:30 this year is the 10th anniversary of Breast Cancer Can Stick It’s DRUMMATHON. Sunday, October 20. 12-7 pm, The Grandscape in The Colony, Tx.  -9:50 Vast list of celebrity drummers have appeared at DRUMMATHON.  -11:11 DRUMMATHON origin story. The top 25 fundraising drummers get to play a one minute solo and then get half price to jam with a celebrity drummer -13:00 Planning Drummathon is a 10 month commitment -15:30 Press and Travel -16:15 Metal Shop band for 12 years -19:00 Backline electronic kits! -21:05 April’s drumming evolution. Lessons with Warren White  -23:20 April played trumpet in school!  -24:20 Attended UNT for 2.5 years -25:10 Sober since 1992 and a love of coffee -30:50 All girl band, Baby Jane Hudson -33:40 Peart, Bonham, and Sean Phillips of Sister 7 -43:00 April is a model for people to overcome -43:30 Diet, exercise and reduction of alcohol will help prevent cancer  -46:45 Ozempic? Know your risk. Genetic testing and body scans -51:50 Taking DRUMMATHON on the road! -55:40 Shawn Messick rocks! -57:00 The Fave 5    Follow:  www.aprilsamuels.com www.breastcancercanstickit.org www.drummathon.org FB: April Samuels FB: Breast Cancer Can Stick It  IG: @officialaprilsamuels @breastcancercanstickit   The Rich Redmond Show is about all things music, motivation and success. Candid conversations with musicians, actors, comedians, authors and thought leaders about their lives and the stories that shaped them. Rich Redmond is the longtime drummer with Jason Aldean and many other veteran musicians and artists. Rich is also an actor, speaker, author, producer and educator. Rich has been heard on thousands of songs, over 25 of which have been #1 hits!     Follow Rich: @richredmond www.richredmond.com   Jim McCarthy is the quintessential Blue Collar Voice Guy. Honing his craft since 1996 with radio stations in Illinois, South Carolina, Connecticut, New York, Las Vegas and Nashville, Jim has voiced well over 10,000 pieces since and garnered an ear for audio production which he now uses for various podcasts, commercials and promos. Jim is also an accomplished video producer, content creator, writer and overall entrepreneur.   Follow Jim:   @jimmccarthy www.jimmccarthyvoiceovers.com www.itsyourshow.co