Scott spent 25 years of his life on the radio, rising from his high-school station in suburban Chicago to become America’s most-listened-to DJ throughout the 1980s on Z-100 in New York and his nationally syndicated show “Hitline USA” (listeners knew him as “Shadow Steele” or simply “The Shadow”). He’s one of a handful who’ve topped the radio ratings in America’s three biggest markets - New York, LA and Chicago. He went on to be a national programming executive for a major radio chain, and then a marketing and promotion executive for major labels in the record business.

Switching to film, he produced and directed Three Days of Glory, a feature documentary that premiered on HULU in 2018 (now streaming on TUBI), and created and produced the rock documentary John Waite - The Hard Way, released in late 2022 and currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Scott and his wife Martha split their time between an apartment in Paris, a condo in New Orleans, and a cabin on the White Salmon River in Washington State.

His latest film - The Next Chapter - Psychedelics, Healing, and the Second Half of Life will be released globally in June 2026.