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Is space in music just as important as the notes? If you tuned into my episode with Grammy Nominated artist, Joseph Wooten, you'd know that rhythm forces you to not only give each other space, but to respect each other's space. Take a look at a website that you really like and notice how much space is in between the text and images. How chaotic would the website look if there was no space?

🎧 Listen now to learn:
✨ To shift your mindset & focus on joy and happiness rather than the negative aspects through gratitude
✨ How to avoid living on the edge of burnout
✨How to add space in your life, on your own terms

We're taking a look at health and wellness in the events and wedding industry. Do wedding pros sometimes forget to take care of themselves? Jai says that fitness doesn't have to equate to working out your body. It's also about the relationships with your family and your friends. Learn to shift your mindset and focus on joy and happiness rather than the negative aspects and distractions through showing gratitude.

Jenny and Jai Holla are the founders of 2JHolla, co-hosts of The Hollastic Life Podcast and are on a mission to help wedding pros set boundaries and protect their mental space emotionally, physically and beyond. They're known as The Wedding Wellness Experts who bring a unique approach and perspective to fill the gap that no one talks about in our industry. With Jenny's history as a top achieving corporate sales professional and Jai's deep knowledge in wellness, they focus on wedding pros as a person to help with burnout, stress, mindset, and overall lifestyle. Their goal is to help you step into the next level and redefine realign and redesign your lifestyle on your terms.

Learn More about 2JHolla
Web: http://2jholla.com/

IG: @2_jholla

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• Jai: @thahollasopher
• Jenny: @lifeadventurist

Join the Ohana: http://2jholla.com/ohana 

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Today, we're taking on the challenge to take multicultural education to the forefront and encourage kids of all cultures to learn about Zimbabwe and Africa. Yeve C. Sibanda lived in Zimbabwe up until the time she was 16 years old. Eventually moving to the states to become a lawyer, a mother, and the cultural curator and ambassador for Zimbabwe and Africa through her company,  Philisa Creatives. She's the author of the picture book, My First Book Of Shona and Ndebele Words.

ABOUT THE BOOK
My First Book of Shona and Ndebele Words is an accessible, engaging and easy-to-follow picture book. It is a multicultural picture book staged in Zimbabwe and designed to make learning Shona and Ndebele, the native languages of Zimbabwe, fun. The main character, Rufaro, takes the reader through her daily activities and helps the reader learn basic words for greetings, transportation, family members and many more. Picture books promote language development by allowing the reader to simultaneously see and name various objects.

 Yeve says that there's a lot of positive things coming out of Zimbabwe and that you should have a piece of that in your home.

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Colin Peterik is the son of Jim Peterik, who founded Survivor and The Ides Of March. Colin is stepping into the spotlight with his debut album, Everything and Nothing,  which releases August 30th, 2021. Imagine if Steely Dan, Genesis, and Todd Rundgren had a baby…Colin Peterik’s debut album is filled with endless grooves masterful arrangements and is a song cycle of pocket symphonies and suites that span genres including psychedelic and progressive rock, pop, soul, and everything in between. It's mixed by Grammy award-winning engineer, Craig Bauer! Colin is the owner of The Jam Lab in Brookfield IL and we’re going to chat about how Colin helps the Chicago music community scale their music globally through live streaming and recording in order to help musicians turn their craft into a solid product to put out there into the world.

• Colin's musical relationship with his dad, Jim Peterik, and what it's like to grow up with a dad who wrote hits like "Eye of The Tiger" and "Vehicle"
• What is The Jam Lab? (Brookfield, IL)
• How Colin uses The Jam Lab to help musicians scale their music to a global audience 
• How Colin transformed 10 years of written music into a debut album
• Colin talks about influences like Emmett Rhodes, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren
• Why "Everything and Nothing" needs to be on YOUR play list!

You can stream "Everything and Nothing" ahead of its release by visiting:  www.colinpeterik.com

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• How funk became the celebratory music and why it's known as the "free man's music"
• How harmony tells us how to feel and how rhythm gives the music a path forward
• Musical Concepts
• Joseph's relationship with Steve Miller, Victor Wooten and the rest of his brothers

Joseph Wooten is a three-time Grammy-nominated artist, songwriter, keyboardist, and vocalist. Since 1993, Joseph has been an integral member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, The Steve Miller Band. He is a producer, speaker, and fronts his own band, Joseph Wooten and The Hands of Soul. Joseph also serves as the keyboard is to his brother, Victor Wooten. On top of all of that, he's an author of It All Matters from which there's a Ted Talk delivered in Memphis, Tennessee called Why It All Matters.

Joseph says the most important thing you can learn from music is that in music, rhythm creates a relationship with things that are normally not compatible. Rhythm gives two different ideas a path forward because rhythm makes them respect each other's space. Joseph says that if you replace rhythm with respect off the stage, it will do the same thing.  Growing up, Joseph's mom told him and his brothers, "What does the world need with just another good musician? What we need are more good people." Their mom knew the music business would be tough and may or may not work out, but knew that they would survive it based on the quality of character that she raised Joseph, Victor, Reggie, Roy, Rudy, and Elijah to be. Sit back, relax, and enjoy as we dive into Music, Culture, Rhythm, and Respect.

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Joseph Wooten is a three-time Grammy-nominated artist, songwriter, keyboardist, and vocalist. Since 1993, Joseph has been an integral member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, The Steve Miller Band. He is a producer, speaker, and fronts his own band, Joseph Wooten and The Hands of Soul. Joseph also serves as the keyboard is to his brother, Victor Wooten. On top of all of that, he's an author of It All Matters from which there's a Ted Talk delivered in Memphis, Tennessee called Why It All Matters.

Joseph says the most important thing you can learn from music is that in music, rhythm creates a relationship with things that are normally not compatible. Rhythm gives two different ideas a path forward because rhythm makes them respect each other's space. Joseph says that if you replace rhythm with respect off the stage, it will do the same thing.  Growing up, Joseph's mom told him and his brothers, "What does the world need with just another good musician? What we need are more good people." Their mom knew the music business would be tough and may or may not work out, but knew that they would survive it based on the quality of character that she raised Joseph, Victor, Reggie, Roy, Rudy, and Elijah to be. Sit back, relax, and enjoy as we dive into Music, Culture, Rhythm, and Respect.

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A renowned international trumpeter Michael Ray is a seasoned jazz-funk musician who has had stellar runs with Patti LaBelle, The Delfonics, The Stylistics, Kool and the Gang, Sun Ra Arkestra, and many other legendary bands. 

• How Michael Ray's Discography grew to 90+ album credits with Barenaked Ladies, Stanton Moore, Charles Neville, Kool & The Gang, Sun Ra, Jimmy Cliff, and more.
• How Sun Ra led Michael to Kool & The Gang
• Listen to Michael reflect on recording award-winning songs.
• Learn about Michael's band, Cosmic Krewe!

A professional musician for more than forty years, this Trenton, New Jersey native has simultaneously mined every side of the international music scene since the late 1970s playing his supersonic jazz/funk/future trumpet as the Intergalactic Research Tone Scientist with Sun Ra & His Arkestra, prancing around to the funky sounds of tho platinum-selling, stadium-filling, hella killer horn-driven Grammy Award-winning R&B/Funk best-sellers, Kool & the Gang and many other worldwide phenomenons.

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Today it's all about Bandzoogle! Built by musicians for musicians, Bandzoogle is an all-in-one platform that makes it easy to build a beautiful website and EPK for your music. Bandzoogle's team has worked remotely for over 18 years and artists have just surpassed $75 million in commission-free sales through merch, music, and ticketed events.

With Bandzoogle, your website works for you with hundreds of tools that will generate more revenue from your website than ever before.

• Why working remotely is the best way to run a business
• How to maintain company culture and foster a sense of togetherness in a remote work environment
• How not accepting venture capital has allowed Bandzoogle to not raise prices
• Stacey's growth at the company from Customer Support agent to CEO
• How to make your website the end of your marketing funnel
• How to drive live stream traffic to your website and monetize through tickets & tips
• How Printful takes the legwork out of providing merch to customers 
• How to test out different merch offerings to fans without having to invest in inventory upfront with Printful

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After 10 years of being predominantly a studio project, The Big Ol' Nasty Getdown is finally taking it to the stage, pulling a rotating cast of musicians from their massive alumni. Each show is unique and takes the crowd and the band on an unexpected fun-filled musical journey. Since the band's inception, many legendary artists have been part of studio projects and live performances.

• Giving members from Kool & The Gang, P-Funk, and more the green light for creativity freedom
• Preview of their new song featuring Taylor Dayne
• What it's like producing over 250 musicians (household names and local legends)
• How to get press and find writers
• How rotating musicians creates excitement 
• How to find sustainability through (COVID)
• How to find the right demographic
• Best business practices in the recording studio

Some of these members include members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, George Clinton, and Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and the family stone Jane's addiction, Earth Wind and Fire,  Living Color, 311, Taylor Dayne, Derek Trucks Band,  James Brown band, Fishbone, War, and a few of my other favorites, like The Meters, Dumpstaphunk, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Kool & The Gang, and The Bill Withers Band.

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Donnie Boivin is changing the game of business development. At the age of 22 right out of the Marine Corps, he struggled with what to do next. He landed his first straight commission sales job and has spent over 2 decades learning what it takes to be successful in sales, business & life. At the age of 40, he discovered he’d been living other people’s dreams and not chasing his own.

• Learn why YOU should start a podcast and how to become be the audio magazine of your industry!
• Are you building a great job for yourself or are you building a company?
• How to grow your podcast with NO paid advertising

Launching his own business, he found himself and grew an international business Success Champions. He is the Founder and CEO of the Success Champions family of companies. Success Champions Podcast, Success Champion Magazine, Success Champion Consulting, the Badass Business Summit, and Success Champion Networking.

His story about becoming a Success Champion in his own life has inspired thousands to get out of their own way and go for it. Get ready to have your fire lit and start chasing your own dreams.

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