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Because there are too many good stories and music to share in our main episode, let's take it to the next level with this podcast extra!

Do'a tells how a bold email led to her collaborating with one of her musical idols.

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Songs:

Shai Maestro "Angelo"

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Do’a inhabits multiplicities. A PhD student of mathematics at the University of Maryland, she is also a former artist-in-residence at Strathmore Arts Center. Her influences range from Bossa Nova to Albanian folk music, and she sings in a variety of languages, including Spanish and Portuguese. It’s worth noting Do’a spoke neither of these languages growing up: she is the daughter of Iranian-Italian and Iranian-German parents who immigrated to Albania to share the teachings of the Baha’i Faith.

In this episode, Jack talks to Do’a about and the many spaces she occupies and how she is still evolving as a musician.

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Learn more:

https://doasings.com/

Songs:

Do'a "Flor de Lis"

Do'a "Lampara"

Do'a "Unidad"

Toquinho "Como Dizia O Poeta"

Nina Simone "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free"

Abbey Lincoln "Throw it Away"

Do'a "Krijim"

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Because there are too many good stories and music to share in our main episode, let's take it to the next level with this podcast extra!

Osa and Jack reflect on sharing hip hop with their children.

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https://www.osathehealer.com/

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Nigerian-American rapper Osa the Healer believes in the “present tense mentality” — a term that describes the ongoing process of improving, healing, and learning something new. “I haven’t arrived, I’m not done,” he says. It means asking, who am I? Where do I come from? What do I leave for others? As a father of three, Osa finds that these questions often loop into the realm of parenting.

In this episode, Jack talks to Osa about redefining fatherhood, challenging faith norms, and why DMX is the most spiritual MC.

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Learn more:

https://www.osathehealer.com/

Songs:

Osa the Healer "Soul Fly"

The Sanctuaries "Love Reaches Out"

DMX "Ready to Meet Him"

Osa the Healer "Lost"

Osa the Healer "Reaching Father"

Feel Kuti "Water No Get Enemy"

Reflection Eternal "Expansion Outro"

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Because there are too many good stories and music to share in our main episode, let's take it to the next level with this podcast extra!

Jocelyn shares why she connects with Frank Sinatra's romantic "How Deep is the Ocean".

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Songs:

Frank Sinatra "How Deep is the Ocean"

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Jocelyn Mackenzie doubles as a musician who tours with the likes of Ani DiFranco, and a professional psychic medium. For Jocelyn, neither of these aspects of her life are disparate; one informs the other. Take the prescient lyric “listen up, the whole world is in flux of a fever,” delivered to Jocelyn from above, six years before the pandemic.

In this episode, Jack talks to Jocelyn about this kind of “clairaudience” (psychic hearing), how broken ukulele strings led her to her husband, and why we all just need to be more playful.

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Learn more:

http://www.jocelynmackenzie.com/

Songs:

Jocelyn Mackenzie "Beam of Light"

They Might Be Giants "Birdhouse in Your Soul"

Jocelyn Mackenzie "Better"

Kate Bush "Cloudbusting"

Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"

Jocelyn Mackenzie "Little Islands"

Pumpkin Mouth "Funeral Drinking"

Jocelyn Mackenzie "Brave Ones"

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Because there are too many good stories and music to share in our main episode, let's take it to the next level with this podcast extra!

Ayanna shares the story of how she went from meeting Stevie Wonder as a child (and trying to get one over on him) to having him as a musical mentor and collaborator.

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https://ayannagregory.com/

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Once during a performance, Ayanna Gregory forgot the words to her music. The singer faltered — but not for long. In the midst of her error, the grace of the audience and the stillness of the moment awakened her to the meditative power of music.

In this episode, Ayanna talks to Jack about moments like this one, when music is a spirit that guides, grounds, and gathers.

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Songs:

Ayanna Gregory "Far Away"

Stevie Wonder "As"

Ayanna Gregory "Life is Calling You"

Stevie Wonder "The Secret Life of Plants"

India.Arie "I Am Light"

Rachelle Ferrell "I Forgive You"

Ayanna Gregory "Now"

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Because there are too many good stories and music to share in our main episode, let's take it to the next level with this podcast extra!

Gabriel shares about the devastating fire that cost him his home and his beloved record collection, how he started to rebuild, and why Gil Scott Heron has been one of his top artists to listen to during the pandemic.

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https://www.gabrielteodros.com/

Songs:

Gil Scott Heron "I Think I'll Call It Morning"

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For Seattle rapper and DJ, Gabriel Teodros, a morning ritual is sacred. Waking up, getting ready, and getting out the house to commune with others is that stuff that keeps him alive. Music is a way to contain the spirituality of everyday connection. ““At my best, I’m just listening,” Teodros says, “I feel like that’s all artists’ jobs basically, to look at a moment and try to find the poetry in it.”

In this inaugural episode of our Soul Ladder Music series, Jack and Gabriel explore, among other things, the poetry of the every day, the radical world-building of community organizing, and the wisdom within diverse spaces.

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Learn more:

https://www.gabrielteodros.com/

Songs:

Gabriel Teodros “Service”

Common “G.O.D.”

CopperWire “Be with Me in the Darkness”

Gabriel Teodros “Colored People’s Time Machine”

Gabriel Teodros “Thankful You’re Still here”

Curtis Mayfield “The Makings of You”

Gabriel Teodros “First Cut”

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