Keep it Wausome!

Rie Tanaka is a nationally touring concert pianist, a music teacher and a 200-YTT trained yoga teacher! Outside of teaching and performing, she runs a Facebook page called Wellness for Musicians in which she teaches musicians how to take care of their bodies, something she struggled with herself while practicing for hours a day.

We talk about music and how to think about practicing, our mutual love of yoga and what it has done for us and our shared experience at UWSP, where Rie came to from Japan.

Bob Allen, founder of The Allen Brothers Band, and my old bandmate and friend, joins the Keep it Wausome podcast. We talk about songwriting, how he learned to play music without being able to read music and and becoming comfortable with one's singing voice. You won't want to miss this one!

Holly Ann Reif is a music teacher, musician with the band Soul Fource, and one hell of a singer. We sit down and talk about music during the pandemic, getting up the nerve to go on stage, our shared introvert status and how to navigate that as a musician, and Holly even gives me a mini vocal lesson!

Joe Ellis is the founder of JEM Productions, which produces live events and retooled in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, putting together livestream concerts with area musicians with full lights, stage and sound production. We also talk about his musical career as Joe.E, and his sometimes terrifying previous career as an airline pilot!

All podcasts going forward are part of our social distancing series, in which we interview our guests over the phone. To maintain high video and audio quality standards, we're having our guests speak to us through headphones and record audio and video on their end and send it to us.

Filmmaker Jarrod Crooks joins me for this first special social distancing episode of the Keep it Wausome! podcast! All interviews for the social distancing series will be conducted remotely.

Crooks is an independent filmmaker and we talk about making a short film about the Coronavirus, keeping ourselves creatively occupied and getting CoronaJacked!

In this week's episode of Keep it Wausome, I sit down with Nick O'Brien. Nick was a powerhouse in Wausau, sparking a number of events and interesting things going on, including the Wausau SOUP event, which was one of the most unique events to grace our city.

Note: This was recorded before the Coronavirus pandemic took off - the last in person podcast we could do. But we have a new Corona-friendly podcast in the works!

In this week's episode of Keep it Wausome, I sit down with Michelle Goetsch, founder of the ERbin recycling app that let's you scan or search a product and figure out whether it's recyclable or not. Geotsch and I talk worklife balance, the challenge of founding a startup in Central Wisconsin and a little about our old days on the sports desk together. You won't want to miss it!

In this special edition of Keep it Wausome, I sit down with Judy Burrows, the Public Information Officer dedicated to the Coronavirus in Marathon County. Judy explains what the coronavirus is, how we can protect ourselves, what we can do while we're at home, and more.

In this special episode, I sit down with mayoral candidate Katie Rosenberg. This is part B of our series on the mayoral candidates - the point of these was to get to know each candidate as people, and we avoided talking policy as much as possible. Check out Mayor Robert Mielke's in part A as well!

in this special podcast set of episodes, I sit down with Mayor Robert Mielke ahead of the mayor's race. In part B, I sit down with challenger Katie Rosenberg. The idea is to get to know each of the candidates as people, and we avoid talking about politics as much as possible.