Franklin talks music, career and life with Orbert Davis, Jazz legend and Co-Founder of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic in July 2020.

Franklin talks to the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles in 2014 on careers and making dreams come true.

Franklin is interviewed on behalf of the company that manufactures his drumsticks on game changing moments in his career.

Franklin motivates a group of student musicians at the Drummers' Studio in Massachusetts in November of 2016.

Franklin speaks at the United Nations in New York City in December of 2017 on the development of healthy cities around the world.

Franklin speaks with students at Whitney Young High School in Chicago in February of 2019 on overcoming fear and making dreams come true.