Counterparts Show

Mr. ESQ

Based in Victoria, British Columbia, Mr. Esq had a rough time during his formative years, which threatened his musical career, but with determination and resilience, he is back on track Setbacks are inevitable in life. However, one can see them as positive lessons instead of demoralizing failures. Learning to deal with setbacks and obstacles is important in moving forward and achieving one’s goal. This is the story of Mr. Esq, a rapper, singer, and songwriter from British Columbia. Mr. Esq was born and raised in a somewhat troubled area with six siblings, three older boys, and girls. He was introduced to the realities of life at a very tender age, and the negative aspects of life seemed to appeal more.

Mr. Esq got into drug distribution and driving for illegal activities before he could possess a license. His association clearly defined his life at the time as Mr. Esq worked for people who were consistently disobedient to the law. Soon, that way of life became natural to him, and he continued to delve deeper into it.

When Mr. Esq was 18, he got a lady pregnant and decided to quit his violent lifestyle to cater to the needs of his unborn baby. As expected, leaving such a lifestyle and not suffering consequences is unheard of, and Mr. Esq had to ward off his former colleagues who were still demanding his services. Shortly after moving away, Mr. Esq’s child passed away at his birth. The unfortunate event introduced a dark chapter in his life as Mr. Esq started drinking heavily and getting involved in vices again.

Before long, Mr. Esq was faced with fourteen years of Federal Penitentiary. He got a little bit lucky, getting a combined sentence of ten years. While at the Penitentiary, Mr. Esq made several discoveries that established a pivot for his restoration. Speaking about it, Mr. Esq had this to say, “I recognized I never properly coped with the death of my son, and I drowned myself in alcohol instead. Doing so was a large contributing factor to my behavior that landed me in the bad situations I was in and was the result of why I was sitting where I was. I decided to make changes in my character that I hoped would result in a better quality of life. This was when I got back into writing.”

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George Batista is a Certified Nutrition Consultant and Wellness Specialist who was able to overcome his own health challenges using a combination of diet, lifestyle and supplements. George holds advanced certifications in Holistic Nutrition and is a member of the American Nutrition Association as well as the International Board of Nutrition and Fitness Coaching. He now uses his passion for health and healing to show others how they can take responsibility for their health.

George started the Wellness Talk weekly podcast where he focuses on the latest news in holistic nutrition and healing with a focus on nutritional supplements. We take the mystery out of vitamins and show you how to use them properly so you can better take control of your health.

https://www.georgebatista.com/

George Batista is a Certified Nutrition Consultant and Wellness Specialist who was able to overcome his own health challenges using a combination of diet, lifestyle and supplements. George holds advanced certifications in Holistic Nutrition and is a member of the American Nutrition Association as well as the International Board of Nutrition and Fitness Coaching. He now uses his passion for health and healing to show others how they can take responsibility for their health.

George started the Wellness Talk weekly podcast where he focuses on the latest news in holistic nutrition and healing with a focus on nutritional supplements. We take the mystery out of vitamins and show you how to use them properly so you can better take control of your health.

https://www.georgebatista.com/

We are happy to welcome William B. Davis to the show! X-Files fans tune in on Tuesday for our live show! Biography William Bruce Davis was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He began his acting career at age 11 when his older cousins needed a boy actor for the murder mystery they were staging for their summer theatre. Work on stage and radio followed. While at the University of Toronto where he graduated in 1959 with a degree in philosophy he turned his attention from acting to directing and continued down that path for the next twenty years. He spent a formative year at The London Academy of Dramatic Art in Britain before beginning several intensive years directing in British Rep, from Colchester to Dundee where he was artistic director for a year. He joined Britain's National Theatre in 1964, working with Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier, and returned to Montreal the following year to become the first, Assistant Artistic Director, and subsequently Artistic Director, of the National Theatre School of Canada. An active career in Canada followed, directing in many regional theatres and becoming the founding Artistic Director of Festival Lennoxville in Lennoxville, Quebec. While continuing to direct and teach he returned to acting in the late seventies, based primarily in Toronto, before moving to Vancouver, BC, in 1985. In 1989 he opened the William Davis Centre for Actors' Study in Vancouver. Beginning in the mid-nineties acting began to dominate his working life highlighted of course by the iconic role of The Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files. While continuing to act he has recently returned to directing and has published two books, Where There’s Smoke … Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, in 2011 and On Acting …and Life in 2022.  https://www.williambdavis.com/

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Ever since he was a kid, George was always active. He was an athlete growing up playing high school baseball, and football and was heavily active in martial arts and strength training. After high school, George’s passion for music led him to become a musician and he has been a part-time professional drummer for the last 20 years.

Through those years he realized he also was dealing with a lot of chronic conditions such as allergies, bronchitis, frequent sinus infections and lower back pain due to severe athletic injuries. He decided that he needed to take full responsibility for his health and not leave it in the hands of prescription and over-the-counter medications, which many times made the conditions worse. So he read and studied hundreds of books and tapes on nutrition, health, spirituality, and personal development.

For the last 12 years, George has been using Strength training, yoga, meditation, and high-level nutrition to enhance his healthy lifestyle. He has since used all these principles to help heal the injury, heal all his other chronic conditions and keep himself in shape. He has studied, Ashtanga Yoga, Hatha Yoga, sports nutrition, and various forms of meditation.

His goal is to help spread the message of natural health and healing and to do his part to help people take responsibility for their health. His philosophy is that healing is not only physical but mental as well. Your outlook on life and your ability to be in the moment have just as much to do with healing as eating right and exercising. He also believes that making a few simple changes over time can lead to a major difference. It all starts with taking responsibility for your health and letting your body’s natural healing ability take over.

https://www.georgebatista.com/

Ever since he was a kid, George was always active. He was an athlete growing up playing high school baseball, and football and was heavily active in martial arts and strength training. After high school, George’s passion for music led him to become a musician and he has been a part-time professional drummer for the last 20 years.

Through those years he realized he also was dealing with a lot of chronic conditions such as allergies, bronchitis, frequent sinus infections and lower back pain due to severe athletic injuries. He decided that he needed to take full responsibility for his health and not leave it in the hands of prescription and over-the-counter medications, which many times made the conditions worse. So he read and studied hundreds of books and tapes on nutrition, health, spirituality, and personal development.

For the last 12 years, George has been using Strength training, yoga, meditation, and high-level nutrition to enhance his healthy lifestyle. He has since used all these principles to help heal the injury, heal all his other chronic conditions and keep himself in shape. He has studied, Ashtanga Yoga, Hatha Yoga, sports nutrition, and various forms of meditation.

His goal is to help spread the message of natural health and healing and to do his part to help people take responsibility for their health. His philosophy is that healing is not only physical but mental as well. Your outlook on life and your ability to be in the moment have just as much to do with healing as eating right and exercising. He also believes that making a few simple changes over time can lead to a major difference. It all starts with taking responsibility for your health and letting your body’s natural healing ability take over.

https://www.georgebatista.com/

We're excited to have Kelly Hall Tompkins on the show!! 

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Acclaimed by the New York Times as “the versatile violinist who makes the music come alive” and as a 2017 New York Times “New Yorker of the Year,” for her “tonal mastery” (BBC Music Magazine) and “Groundbreaking” recording projects (STRINGS Magazine), and featured in the Smithsonian Museum of African- American History, violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins is trailblazing an innovative, creative and entrepreneurial career as a soloist and chamber musician. Winner of a Naumburg International Violin Competition Honorarium Prize, Concert Artists Guild Career Grant, and Sphinx Medal of Excellence, Ms. Hall-Tompkins has appeared as a soloist as the Inaugural Artist in Residence with the Cincinnati Symphony and with orchestras including the Dallas Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, Greenville Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Gateways Music Festival, for the Manhattan School Centennial Gala at Carnegie Hall with co-soloist Glenn Dicterow, under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, and a Brevard Festival Orchestra under the baton of Keith Lockhart. Additional concerts and recitals include the cities of Kiev, Ukraine; New York, Washington, Cleveland, Toronto, Chicago, Baltimore, and Greenville, South Carolina, and at festivals in France, Germany, and Italy. For more information on the show, visit our website: www.counterpartsshow.com

 . . . . #Violinist #musician #broadway #fiddlerontheroof #johnhenrysoto #counterpartsshow #motivational #inspire

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Wellness Talk is a weekly podcast where we focus on the latest news in holistic nutrition and healing with a focus on nutritional supplements. We take the mystery out of vitamins and show you how to use them properly so you can better take control of your health.

George Batista is a Certified Nutrition Consultant and Wellness Specialist who was able to overcome his own health challenges using a combination of diet, lifestyle, and supplements. George holds advanced certifications in Holistic Nutrition and is a member of the American Nutrition Association as well as the International Board of Nutrition and Fitness Coaching. He now uses his passion for health and healing to show others how they can take responsibility for their health.

George started the Wellness Talk weekly podcast where he focuses on the latest news in holistic nutrition and healing with a focus on nutritional supplements. We take the mystery out of vitamins and show you how to use them properly so you can better take control of your health.

David Sancious is an American musician and member Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band.

He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on the Human Touch (1992), Tracks (1998), and Western Stars (2019).

Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and guitarist.[1] He left the E Street Band in 1974 to form his own band, Tone, and released several albums. He subsequently became a popular session and touring musician, most notably for Stanley Clarke, Narada Michael Walden, Zucchero Fornaciari, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Jack Bruce, and Sting among many others.

In 2014, Sancious was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band.

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SOULCHESS is a band based in Nashville, Tennessee that defies what you may typically think of as ‘Nashville music’. Consisting of members from wildly varying musical backgrounds, the band has a sound that is the epitome of a musical fusion.

From tight rhythms and strong melodies to sweeping melodic bass lines reminiscent of funk and progressive rock. All the way to the aggressive beats of drum n bass and punk rock. These defining features make up their expansive sound that is packed with energy and genre-blending.

They are:

Chris Goodyear - lead guitar, production/programming, background vocal.

Derrian Childress - lead vocal

Jameel Aziz - drums/background vocal

Jason Fruchey - Bass

Follow them at: https://express.adobe.com/page/zwesHW0aDZBMe/

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