Leader of the Club, Builder of Leaders: Chasen Hampton

If you have spent any time around the Always In The Club Foundation, you have felt Chasen Hampton's fingerprints on it. He is our Executive Director and Board Chairman, the leader of the Club in the most literal sense. But the title only tells part of the story. Long before he was running the organization, he was doing the work at its center: mentoring young artists, one at a time, and showing them how to build a real life in the arts.

There is a nice symmetry to it. Chasen once co-hosted the "All New" Mickey Mouse Club. Today he leads Always In The Club. He has been a leader of the club, one way or another, for most of his life.

Co-Host of the Club

Chasen joined the "All New" Mickey Mouse Club in 1989 and became one of its most recognizable faces. When the producers pulled a teen pop group out of the cast, he was one of the five chosen for The Party. And when the show came back for its seventh and final season, he returned as a co-host, one of the faces out front who set the tone for the whole club.

He came up inside one of the most demanding talent machines in entertainment, and he learned early what real training and mentorship can do for a young performer. That experience is the seed of everything he does now. He came up because people invested in him, and he has spent his career paying that forward.

A Go-Giver, Not a Go-Getter

Ask Chasen about his approach and he will tell you he tries to be "a Go-Giver rather than a Go-Getter." He has been mentoring young performers for more than sixteen years, first as a music director and teacher in California and now through the Foundation. His reason is simple and a little stubborn: opportunity is bleak for so many kids, especially in music education, and sometimes all someone needs is a point in the right direction.

That point in the right direction adds up. Students he has mentored have gone on to tour with bands like The Wallows, Aly & AJ, and Lovely the Band. Several have earned platinum records, played festivals like Lollapalooza and Coachella, and taken home Billboard Music Awards. He measures success less by the stage he is standing on and more by the ones he helps other people reach.

It is the same idea at the heart of our mentoring and coaching program: teach young creatives to use their talents not only to build a career, but to help others, join a cause, and stand for something.

Still On Stage: Close Enemies

Here is what makes Chasen's mentorship land. He never stopped being a working artist. Today he is the lead singer of Close Enemies, the rock band he fronts alongside Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton. He is not coaching from the sidelines. He is still writing, still recording, still walking out under the lights, which means the advice he gives young artists comes from someone who is living it right now.

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Learn From Chasen

This is the quiet engine of the Foundation. The same person setting the strategy in the boardroom is the one a fourteen-year-old guitarist meets at a workshop. Leadership and mentorship are not two separate jobs to Chasen. They are the same job.

If you or a young creative in your life wants to learn from him directly, Chasen is one of the coaches in our program. You can book a coaching session with Chasen, or explore the full mentoring and coaching program to find the right fit.

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