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On Butterflies of Wisdom today (Tuesday, November 7, 2017), Best-Selling Author, Win C welcomes Kory Livingstone. Kory’s hometown is Toronto, Canada. He’s an author, and a keynote artist. Keynote artist? That’s a speaker who accents his talks with a live music performance. This makes perfect sense for Kory seeing that he has a lifelong calling, centred around music in many different capacities, ranging from that of composer, pianist, singer, teacher and entrepreneur. Keynote speaking has been revolutionized with the inclusion of live musical performances. Music is emotion. Kory puts the emotional impact of his talks into overdrive, by accentuating them with personalized music, that he’s written specifically for each speaking topic. People remember genuine emotion years after they’ve forgotten the facts, numbers, and stats of any presentation. Kory continues to write music & songs for artists, tv, radio and has recently added the service of creating custom-made songs for corporations,individuals and other keynote speakers. To date he’s released 5 CD’s of original music, and shows no signs of stopping. Kory has succeeded where others thought he would fail. In his youth, he was enrolled in a bachelor of music programme at Wilfred Laurier University. He didn’t graduate because it was deemed he didn’t meet all the requirements as set out by the music faculty. A classmate of Kory’s, Daniel, suffered the same fate. Oddly enough, Kory and Daniel took other routes and became the only students in their class, to make their living as full-time, professional musicians. Statistics show that very few music students, anywhere in the world, manage to make their living as a professional musicians. As an business entrepreneur, one of Kory’s early successes was being the founder and director of the Toronto High School of the Performing parts. A private non-sectarian school where students combined their academic studies with that of the music,dance,drama, and art. Alumnae included Keanu Reeves,and Cree Summer Franks, Cree Summer was Freddy, in Bill Cosby’s “Different Strokes” series. It was the only school of its kind in all if Canada. Many other school boards have since followed suit. “The fondest memory of my time as director of this school happened on a warm spring evening when the students had just come back to the student residence,after our annual spring prom. They were gathered on the front lawn, saying their goodbyes for the summer. There were tears, there were smiles, there was hugging & kissing. There was love. I watched and drank it all in. I realized that I was responsible for this. I bought so many different people together. I gave these young people new life experiences. New friends. I helped them grow. This moment above all, was my reward. Money cannot buy this. I realized that I, little ole me, had made a difference in so many lives. How many people can say, ‘I made a difference’? It doesn’t get any better than this.” With a lifetime of exp