# Ethan Buckner on Music, Activism and Living a Life By Design

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Podcast: [Dream Life Club](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dream-life-club-6959250)
Published: 2026-06-09T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://dreamlifeclubpodcast.captivate.fm
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Duration seconds: 2835

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Ethan Buckner is a singer-songwriter, community organizer and activist based in Venice, California. He's spent years fighting big oil pipelines, organizing solidarity fundraisers for communities in crisis, hosting backyard concerts during the pandemic, and building Westside Sounds, a monthly music showcase highlighting local talent in LA. In this conversation we get into what it really looks like to build two careers at once without sacrificing either. Ethan shares how a trip to Poland at 16 shaped his entire life's mission, why he dropped his pseudonym and started releasing music under his own name, and what happened when a disc in his back exploded in India and forced him to slow down for the first time in his life.

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