Hello Everyone,
My guest for Live Your Music this week was Paul Miller.
To hear the podcast recording of this week's show, with Paul Miller as my guest, please click here.
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with Paul Miller.
Paul Miller is celebrating 50 years as a Student of the guitar and his 30th year as a Songwriter.
Paul's two great passions in life are Music and Fly Fishing.
His soon to be released CD — titled Mystic River — is a combination of vocals and instrumentals that use the voice of nature as the soundscape of life, as though it were a journey down a mystical river. The expected release for his new CD is Fall of 2016.
Paul Miller in the recording studio for his new album titled Mystic River and River Song which I played during today's show.
Stylistically Paul's music is written when the mood strikes, in his words, “A perfect example of Americana."
Paul says he has worked with the same musicians over the last 20 years. They include Deborah Winters on Vocals, Robert Powell on Guitar and Pedal Steel, and Ian Dogole on Percussion. The ‘Rivers’ project also includes two special guests, Paul McCandless on woodwinds and Dan Zemelman on Grand Piano.
Paul Miller's album Midnight Street
Paul was born in 1951 and was heavily influenced by early Rock 'N' Roll along with Rhythm and Blues.
As a Songwriter he writes about Love, Social Issues, Politics or anything else that his passion directs.
As an example, one of his favorite compositions is titled "American Dream " and it tackles the housing crisis and the collapse of the economy, which created a painful situation for many hard-working people in our country.
Paul believes that Music must be authentic and reflect the times that we live in. He has a need to express healing for the hard times that we go through with his music which is indeed an expression of his soul.
You can find Paul on Facebook with this link: www.facebook.com/PaulMillersMusic
Today Paul and I talked about how he is living his music with the new album Mystic River which is scheduled to be released in Fall 2016.
During the show I played a beautiful song by Paul titled River Song. I love the song and am looking forward to his Mystic River album coming out later this year.
I enjoyed talking with Paul on my show today!! We talked about music, songwriting, and living your life as a journey on a river. I loved what he had to say and I'd love for you to hear what he said during today's show.
Please listen to the show and share the replay link with your family and friends!
To hear the podcast replay of my show with Paul Miller, please click on this direct link: Live Your Music - Paul Miller 06/22/16
If you'd like to hear replays of any of my shows you can listen to online podcast replays of Live Your Music by clicking here.
Love,
Margaux
PS: My book, The Art of Living a Life You Love, which I mentioned during the show today, can help you feel happier, live your music, and love the life you're living. You can order my book online at either Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.
To find out more about me, and how my creative life balance coaching can help you, please visit my blog website at www.margauxjoydenador.com
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June 15, 2016
Live Your Music – Interview with Ilani Kopirvki 06/15/16
Hello Everyone,
My guest for Live Your Music this week was Ilani Kopiecki.
To hear the podcast recording of this week's show, with Ilani Kopiecki as my guest, please click here.
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with Ilani Kopiecki.
Ilani Kopiecki, CMT & CST, is an advanced level CranioSacral Therapist and California Certified Therapeutic Massage Practitioner. She has been in practice for sixteen years, and maintains her office in Novato, California. Her greatest reward is to help her clients become pain free, and regain their zest for life.
Ilani received her therapeutic massage certification in 2000 from the Institute for Conscious Bodywork in San Anselmo, California. She also has completed advanced certification for both adults and pediatrics in CranioSacral Therapy from the Upledger Institute in Palm Beach, Florida.
Vince Before and After CranioSacral Therapy with Ilani
Baby Luna with her parents
Ilani Kopiecki with one of her adult clients
Ilani welcomes clients of all ages; including infants, children, teenagers and adults. As you can see from the photos above, she uses a soft touch to do her work on clients of all ages.
Ilani enjoys giving talks about her work so if you have any questions about sessions with her or having her speak to your group, please send an email to: [email protected]
For more about Ilani Kopiecki and CranioSacral Therapy, please visit her website at: www.ilanisessions.com
Today Ilani and I talked about how she is living her music with her work as a CranioSacral Therapist. Ilani shared stories about her work and I especially loved the one about Vince, the baby in the before and after pictures above.
I had been curious about CranioSacral Therapy because I've heard of it through Hay House events. I was happy to hear Ilani explain what it is and how she uses it to help her clients.
As Ilani explained during the show, a CranioSacral practitioner is trained to read the cranial rhythm of the body. It is separate and distinct from the breath rate and heart beat. By putting hands on gently, the practitioner can feel this rhythm anywhere in the body. In particular, the therapist is looking for a lack of this rhythm, and by treating those areas he/she can treat the source of a wide range of physical problems, rather the just the symptoms.
If you are curious to learn more about CranioSacral Therapy — to find out if it could be helpful for you or someone you know — I highly recommend you listen to this show!
I enjoyed talking with Ilani on my show today! Please listen to the show and share the replay link with your friends!
To hear the podcast replay of my show with Ilani Kopiecki, please click on this direct link: Live Your Music – Ilani Kopiecki 06/15/16
If you'd like to hear replays of any of my shows you can listen to online podcast replays of Live Your Music by clicking here.
Love,
Margaux
June 08, 2016
Live Your Music – Interview with Michelle Gordon 06/08/16
Hello Everyone,
My guest for Live Your Music this week was Michelle Gordon.
Michelle is the author of The Earth Angel Academy and is also the author of a series of Earth Angel books and a collection called the Visionary series.
To hear the podcast recording of this week's show, with Michelle Gordon as my guest, please click here.
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with Michelle Gordon.
Michelle Gordon has been writing about the spiritual realm for twenty years. It started with poetry and short stories about ghosts and life after death, and has grown to novels about Angels and Faeries, alternate dimensions and parallel universes.
Five years ago, Michelle published her first novel in the Earth Angel series – The Earth Angel Training Academy. There are now six books in that series, and she has four individual novels in the Visionary Collection.
Michelle is an independent author, and has readers all over the world, many of whom have experienced positive shifts as a result of reading her books. She has many more books planned for the future, including a further seven books in the Earth Angel series and a brand new young adults trilogy.
When not writing, Michelle enjoys running her business, which helps other independent authors to publish their books, and doing oracle and tarot readings.
Michelle is very creative, and usually has a craft project or two on the go! She regularly writes her blog and does oracle card readings on her YouTube channel.
Today Michelle and I talked about why she wished to be a writer, the impact Doreen Virtue and Neale Donald Walsch have had on her writing, as well as the five year anniversary edition of her book The Earth Angel Training Academy which was the start of her two series of books.
Michelle Gordon is a great example of what can happen when you listen to your heart and feel inspired to live your music!
I began reading her book The Earth Angel Training Academy to prepare for the show and I am enjoying it very much – in fact I am super curious what's going to happen and am looking forward to reading the rest of it.
It was fun talking with Michelle Gordon on my show today!
If you're interested in Earth Angels – or are just curious about them, I recommend you get a copy of her book. You can get the five year anniversary edition of the book on Amazon by clicking on this direct link: The Earth Angel Training Academy.
Michelle is on a tour of the U.S. and has book signings coming up in the following locations: Tucson, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. For information on Michelle's book signings, please visit her book tour website: www.earthangelbooktour.wordpress.com/
For more about Michelle Gordon please visit her website:
www.michellegordon.co.uk
To hear the podcast replay of my show with Michelle Gordon, please click on this direct link: Live Your Music – Michelle Gordon 06/08/16
If you'd like to hear replays of any of my shows you can listen to online podcast replays of Live Your Music by clicking here.
Love,
Margaux
PS: My book, The Art of Living a Life You Love, which I mentioned during the show today, can help you feel happier, live your music, and love the life you're living. You can order my book online at either Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.
To find out more about me, and how my creative life balance coaching can help you, please visit my blog website at www.margauxjoydenador.com
Music Dreams – 50 Years Ago – Now!!!
This summer it will be 50 years since I picked up the belief that I "should" stop singing. I am so thankful that our son Zander inspired me to sing with him in 1993. I am also thankful that my husband has been encouraging me to sing with him.
What I have learned is that we are never too old to listen to our Heart and allow it to guide us!
Music gives me joy. All of my life I've loved music. How do you feel about music? Does it add joy to your life? As you can see in the photo of my husband and I love to sing!
When I was eleven years old I got my first Beatles and Beach Boys albums. I loved to sing with my favorite records in my room. (Especially songs by the Beatles, Beach Boys, Kinks, Yardbirds, Turtles, and Herman's Hermits.) I remember singing while riding my horse and I also enjoyed singing for my family. I began to dream of being a singer!
Then, one summer, 50 years ago, after staying with my grandparents for a month at their home in Los Gatos, I overheard my grandmother telling my mom that I "should" forget about singing. My grandmother sounded so sure I "should" give up singing that I gave up even trying to sing. I believed that she thought I had a "bad" voice.
Looking back on the situation I realize that my grandmother wanted two things — she wanted me to be an artist and paint oil paintings and she wanted to keep me away from the Rock 'n Roll music I loved to hear and to sing.
During college I worked part-time in record stores because I loved music — even though I majored in art as grandma wanted me to do at the time. While working in the record store I met three members of a rock 'n roll band called HUSH. One of them, Robert Berry, became one of the most treasured friends I've ever had in my life. I loved to go watch and listen as he worked at a recording studio. I also loved to watch his band play. My joy came from listening to music and from watching my friends and other people who were living their music!
My husband, Dudley, has always loved music — it's his passion. (You can see his passion for music in the photos in this message.) Before I met him, Dudley started his own business, DeNador Design & Photography. I've enjoyed working with Dudley in his graphic design business for many years.
When I first met Dudley I was thankful that he was only doing music as a hobby because I knew the time and travel it takes to be on the road and perform in a rock 'n roll band!
When our son, Zander, was about three years old, I started to sing again — with him when we were alone in my car. We used to sing songs from the Disney movies "Aladdin" and "Lion King" and also the songs from the movie "The Little Mermaid" while driving around doing errands. After lots of practicing with Zander I got brave enough to sing with Zander when we were with Dudley — going on trips in our car. I was amazed when Dudley told me that I did a good job singing Jasmine's part in "A Whole New World" with Zander singing Aladdin's part of the song. It was FUN being able to sing with my boys in the car!!!
In 2003, ten years after I began to allow myself to enjoy singing again — we attended a family reunion, at my mom's home, in Shasta County. I was thrilled that Dudley and Zander helped me learn to sing the song "Perfect Day" by Hoku for the event. I learned that it takes lots of practice to sing — to remember the words, the way the music goes, and it was fun practicing singing while driving my car.
Then, for awhile, I went back to listening and watching as Dudley and Zander wrote their songs and had them recorded. It was exciting to watch and listen as their song ideas became reality!
Robert Berry, who is now a treasured friend to all three of us, has a recording studio in Campbell, California. He recorded Dudley and Zander's songs. Robert is a very talented musician and he added keyboards, bass guitar, drums, and backup vocals to the tracks with Dudley and Zander playing their guitars and singing.
Going to Robert’s recording studio to watch, to listen, and every once in awhile make a suggestion for lyrics — words that might work better — makes me feel fully alive and full of joy. I love being part of it all — even in tiny ways. I asked Dudley to write a song called "Holiday on Earth" as a tribute to Earl Nightingale and he created a wonderful song we love to hear.
I've been writing lyrics for songs to go with my book, The Art of Living a Life You Love. The first one is called "Imagine" and we've recorded it as a single. We're planning to record "Believe" this year.
There are more songs we've been working on and I am so excited to have them all recorded so you can hear them and let them uplift you, inspire you, and remind you to live your music.
Dudley and Zander have two albums of original songs. Both albums — and the single of our song "Imagine" — were recorded at SoundTek Studios. If you are curious, click on this link to hear The DeNadors on CD Baby.
You can also hear all of the songs on both albums plus the single of our song "Imagine" on Spotify. Just do a search for The DeNadors on Spotify and/or CD Baby and you'll find us.
We'd love to have you hear our songs and let us know which are your favorites. :-)
Robert Berry helps make music dreams come true. He has helped Dudley, Zander, and me — and many, many others — turn their music dreams into reality. I would like to say a big THANK YOU to our treasured friend, Robert Berry, for all he did to make these albums sound so great. Robert is a very talented musician and singer. To find out more about Robert and his music please visit his website at www.RobertBerry.com. On his website you will also find a link to his recording studio, SoundTek Studios.
Do you dream of making music? What do you dream of doing? What would you like to create? What do you feel inspired to share? What are your true Heart's Desires?
On my blog talk radio show Live Your Music I interview people who are living their music. You can hear all of the episodes of my show by clicking on the link.
Your "music" might be music and it can be whatever you feel you are meant to do. For example, my "music" includes being a Mom, hosting my Live Your Music radio show, being a Creative Life Coach, writing my book, and writing lyrics for songs and singing for the joy it give me and to inspire others to do what they feel called to do.
Do you feel you're meant to be a parent? A doctor? An author? A speaker? An actor? A dancer? A visual artist? A teacher? What gives you joy? What do you love to do?
What I know for sure is that every person on the planet has "music" they are here to play. It's why I host my radio show, it's why I became a Creative Life Coach, and it's why I wrote my book The Art of Living a Life You Love.
Here is what Abraham Maslow reminds us: “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.”
I am also thankful that Zander and Dudley and my friend Robert have encouraged me to keep singing.
Now Dudley and I are co-managers for West Coast Songwriters in San Rafael, California. We are having so much fun performing together. Each time I get a bit closer to believing in my dream of writing lyrics for songs and singing on stage with my husband, son, and our friends.
We all need to do what gives us joy. We all need to create whatever we feel inspired to create. It helps us love our life and enjoy our "Holiday on Earth."
Whether your "music" is actually music or something else you feel inspired to do or create — do it. We must each allow our “music” to flow freely from us while we are alive!
Please, everyone who is reading this message — Live Your Music!!!
June 01, 2016
Live Your Music – Interview with Brett Boyd 06/01/16
Hello Everyone,
My guest for Live Your Music this week was Brett Boyd.
Brett is a guitarist and music industry professional who works as a musician, teacher, composer, lyricist, and producer. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists in genres from rock to pop to electronic and world music.
To hear the podcast recording of this week's show, with Brett Boyd as my guest, please click here.
Since 2006, Brett has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two boys, teaching at his music school Guitar School Rocks, and making music in a number of projects including the new band The Marinfidels.
Brett Boyd performing with The Marinfidels. Click on the photo for more information.
Before settling in Marin County, Brett lived in Japan for over ten years where he worked for EMI Music Publishing and Virgin Music Japan and later became an independent artist writing, recording, and performing original music with his band The Beautiful Losers as well as a number of Japanese artists including the very popular punk band Hi-Standard. He is credited on over a million CD sales world-wide, and his music has been featured on MTV dramas and commercials by Disney and Toyota.
Raj Ramayya and Brett Boyd - The Beautiful Losers.
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As a guitarist, Brett has performed on stages and in studios in the Untited States, Canada, Asia, and Europe and has shared the bill with notable artists like Coldplay, Indigo Girls, and Matt Nathanson.
Brett is also involved in organizing and performing for benefit events to raise awareness and funds for organizations like Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, Harmonic Humanity, and Nepal Freed.
The Marinfidels are performing at Fenix in San Rafael, CA the third Wednesday of the month.
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Today we talked about how Brett is currently living his music in a variety of ways. One of the ways is by performing at Fenix in San Rafael, California. The Marinfidels will be performing on the third Wednesday of each month for the Pro Blues Jam. Their next performance will be on Wednesday, June 15, 2016. For more information, and to get tickets, click on this link: www.fenixlive.com/
During the show I played a beautiful song titled Here In Our Dreams which was written and performed by Brett Boyd and Raj Ramayya and it's on their third Beautiful Losers CD. Brett and Raj wrote the song several years ago but it proves that great music is timeless.
Brett Boyd is a wonderful example of what can happen when you listen to your heart and have the courage to live your music. As Brett said, it's not always easy but the joy you feel – and can give to others – makes it well worthwhile to live the music you hear calling you.
Brett is also an example of how you can have a family, enjoy time with your family, and blend in plenty of time to enjoy playing music.
You can connect with Brett Boyd online, and find out more about his Guitar School Rocks music school, by visiting his website: www.guitarschoolrocks.com/
To hear the podcast replay of my show with Brett Boyd, please click on this direct link: Live Your Music – Brett Boyd 06/01/16
If you'd like to hear replays of any of my 100+ shows you can listen to online podcast replays of Live Your Music by clicking here.
Love,
Margaux
PS: My book, The Art of Living a Life You Love, which I mentioned during the show today, can help you feel happier, live your music, and love the life you're living. You can order my book online at either Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.
To find out more about me, and how my creative life balance coaching can help you, please visit my blog website at www.margauxjoydenador.com
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