Are you looking for an inspiring and uplifting chat about the power of music? Look no further as I welcome Billy Cole to the podcast. Billy’s life is all about music, passion and giving back.

Over the course of nearly 50 years in the music business, his love of music and music instruments (specifically woodwind and brass instruments) has allowed him to create experiences and memories he now shares in his new book ‘With the Band, Memoirs of a Music Shop Owner’.

It truly is a chat not to be missed and provides many, many goosebump moments as well as how music can translate into giving back and connecting with a wider community.

During our chat we touched on:

· How his music instrument journey started

· What his book ‘The Book: With The Band, Memoirs of a Music Shop Owner’ is about

· What ‘Horns for Haiti’ is all about and how it came to life

· The power of music and the amazing things that can happen if we trust in it

· The first artist he met and fixed the instrument for

· More stories of looking after and fixing wind instruments for many more musicians, including Jethro Tull, Hall & Oats, Chicago, etc.

· How many amazing humans he met along the way, away from musicians

· When he pivoted from a big business with employees to ‘back to basics’ with a smaller shop in Saratoga Springs

· What does and doesn’t happen backstage of a concert

· Who he describes as his ‘Angels’ and why he sees them as that

· Advice for those who think of learning an instrument

· The amazing benefits of playing an instrument with others and for others (and fixing instruments, too!)

· His take on the power of music

· If he has a favourite band, and if so, who it is

· Current band and or song he listens to

· His take on the current music scene and bands

Billy Cole’s Biography:

At the age of 17 I went to The University of New York at Morrisville where I studied musical Instrument repair. With diploma in hand, I applied for work but found that no music store wanted to hire me. So, I opened my own shop "Cole's Woodwind and Brass" Soon after I married my high school sweetheart Mary Alice. through many serendipitous twists and turns, we raised our family with our little music shop. Today, after 45 years of working on horns, I reflect back with great appreciation for a life that has given so much. In an effort to give back I travelled to the impoverished nation of Haiti in 2016 to teach instrument repair. After returning several times, I founded Horns for Haiti Inc. in 2020, an organization that teaches band instrument repair and how to start your own music business. To date, we've trained dozens of musicians and music teachers how to repair and started two businesses. Billy Shop D'Haiti, Musical Instrument Repair and the Haitian Music Supply Company.

Connect with Billy:

www.coleswoodwind.com

https://www.facebook.com/coleswoodwind

https://www.instagram.com/coleswoodwind/

Find out more details about his book and/or grab a copy click on this link: With The Band, Memoirs of a Music Shop Owner

In this first episode of 2023 I share with you why I chose to set intentions rather than ‘New Years Resolutions’ or big goals.

I also decided to have monthly theme songs and share how these are connected to my intentions, plus I share some ideas how you can use intentions for yourself. I give you an example of my January theme song, which I hope explains what I try to achieve through this process a little more.

Plus, why I did not do a ‘2022 in review’ episode and why that was a blessing in disguise as it allowed me to realise a few things that I needed to move forward.

During this episode I chat about:

· How my December 2022 did not turn out as I planned

· Why this was a blessing in disguise

· Quick 2022 review for my podcast

· Why I am setting intentions instead of goals

· My theme song for January 2022

· Ideas how you can use intentions (more)

Connect with me:

Website: www.livingonthebside.com

https://linktr.ee/livingonthebside

Free eBook ‘35 Songs Showcasing the power of music’ 

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Living on the B Side Podcast – Music. People. Stories.

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Do want to speak up more and express yourself, but haven’t found your voice (yet)? Or you lack the self-confidence to fully step into your own voice and self-expression?!

If you answered yes, then come join Elisa and me for this episode where we share, explore and discuss all around learning to free your voice and the benefits this will have for you and your life.

Elisa’s calm and caring nature makes for a wonderfully insightful episode, with many musical nuggets you don’t want to miss.

Today, write your permission slip to let your voice be heard and tune in find out how you can do that.

During out time together we chatted about:

· How she started of shy and introverted and went onto become a retreated facilitator amounts other things

· Why she loves prescribing meditation instead of medication

· What she sees ‘songs as medication’

· Why music is a primary source of joy for her

· How the right people at the right time helped her on her journey

· Her advice for those who feel ‘stuck in a road bump’

· The amazing things that can happen when someone discovers their voice

· Why singing is an incredible way of self-expression

· Her favourite music & song that describes her life and or business right now

More about Elisa:

Elisa S. Keeler, M.A Transpersonal Psychology, is a songleader, retreat facilitator, composer and singer. Since 2011 she has been a co-teacher of the Hidden Treasure Program, a 3-year course in personal and spiritual growth, at Light on the Hill Retreat Center in Van Etten, New York. Elisa is also the founder of Freeing Your Voice, a series devoted to singing in groups, and has been facilitating voice workshops for nearly twenty years. She also officiates sacred ceremonies including weddings and blessingways. In all of her work, Elisa emphasizes the importance of connecting with inner guidance, purpose, passion, creativity, joy, spirituality, and community.

As a performing neo-soul singer, songwriter and recording artist, Elisa has released three albums: Red Sky, Soul of the Earth and Songs for the Circle, which are available on all streaming platforms. The teachings of the Hidden Treasure Program have been a strong influence on the lyrics that she writes. Currently Elisa continues to compose new music for her workshops and is the lead singer and songwriter for the band Elisa & The YesMen. For more information, please visit www.elisaskeeler.com.

Connect with Elisa:

www.elisamusic.com

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/freeingyourvoice

http://www.facebook.com/elisaandtheyesmen

Instagram:

http://www.instagram.com/freeing.your.voice/

http://www.instagram.com/elisaandtheyesmen/

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Solsticeithaca

Check these freebies out:

A Free Song Download when you sign up for my mailing list: https://www.elisamusic.com

Album & Single Downloads available on Bandcamp: https://elisamusic.bandcamp.com

Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Living on the B Side Podcast – Music. People. Stories.

If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your preferred Podcast platform and leave me a review. The show can be found anywhere else you may wish to get your podcasts too!

Be sure to www.livingonthebside.com and connect with me on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube and if you know someone who you think would enjoy this episode, please share it with them on social media.

Have you ever heard of a Voice Confidence Coach?!

No?! Well, you are about to find out all about it as I have invited Rachel Goth to the microphone, where she explains what this is all about. And as you can guess, it has to do with finding confidence in using your own voice.

It’s a fun and educational episode, where we at times dig deeper into the underlying limiting beliefs we carry with us when it comes to our voice and how we can start to overcome this and fall in love with our own, unique voice.

We also have some fun chatting about Rachel’s favourite period of music, reminisce a little and exchange stories related to that time when we grew up.

It’s a light-hearted chat sprinkled with great tips on how to become more confident in your own voice! Press play and enjoy!

During this episode we chat about

· How Rachel has become a Voice Confident Coach

· Why she does what she does and a little bit of background why people might not like their voice

· What does a voice coach have to do with music?!

· Story about the Shakespeare's sisters song and her nan’s passing

· How the timing of songs matches to certain moments is amazing

· Examples on how music played a part in her life

· Why music is community and relationship building

· How she uses music in her business to support her clients

· Tips on how to start using your voice ‘before you use your voice’

· Song that describes her life and or business

More about Rachel – Voice Confidence Coach:

Rachel is a trained master coach and hypnotherapist who specialises in helping coaches, therapists and teachers learn to love their voice, so they can share their message without having to change the way they speak.

She knows first-hand what it's like learning to use your voice for your business, show up as yourself on social media and create recordings for your clients. She now helps her clients to do the same by helping them move from disliking their voice to becoming confident in the way they sound.

Through a combination of 1:1 coaching, and practical exercises Rachel helps her clients establish a new positive belief in their voice so they feel confident being themselves and sharing their message. Within a couple of weeks her clients are confidently recording their own meditations, creating courses, and ad libbing their social media videos with ease.

Claim your FREE session:

Join me for a FREE session where we’ll make sense of what’s been holding you back when it comes to your voice, so you can discover the solution which will work for you.

https://rachelgoth.com/#freesession

Connect with Rachel Goth:

https://www.rachelgoth.com/

facebook.com/rachel.goth

https://www.tiktok.com/@rachgoth

Has a song every had such a profound impact on your life that it made you change your name?

This is a first for me to hear about such a deep and life changing moment induced by a song, which Avery shares so beautifully during our chat. It actually left me a little speechless!

You definitely want to hear her story which is closely interwoven with music, from the moment she knew it was time to change her name and all that followed – including how she uses music with her clients today!

A little bit about Avery:

Avery Thatcher is the CEO and founder of the Inner Stillness Outer Chaos Podcast and the Flow State Membership. When she started her career as a Registered Nurse working in the ICU she noticed that the majority of the reasons people found themselves in the ICU were because of illnesses and diseases that could be linked to chronic stress. She decided to get out of the reactive side of medicine and now helps highly sensitive high achievers prevent burnout and reverse the negative health effects of stress.

During our chat we covered:

· Avery being a highly sensitive person & how music helped her growing up

· How music can catch you off-guard (with your emotions)

· Her backstory the lead up to the big life changing moment

· The process she went through AFTER hearing the life changing song

· Why she had to change her first name

· What stands out about this specific song, even today

· How she believes specific playlists help us move through emotional states

· Suggestions of songs that can help with that

· How she is using music in her business to support clients

· Why it’s important to move away from too much analytical thinking and into our emotions

· The song that describes her business and or life right now

Connect with Avery:

Website: https://becomingavery.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/becomingavery

Free quit to discover your self-sabotage style

https://becomingavery.com/self-sabotage-style-quiz/

Inner Dance is a really magical practice, which allows you to experience a beautiful expansion of yourself. But what is a this ‘inner dance’? How does this process work and why should we do it?

I have invited Andra to the microphone to share with us what it is and what we can get out of it as well as why everyone should go through this process once in their life.

Today’s chat is a gentle and calm yet very powerful and deep. I am excited for you to listen to it.

Who is Andra?

Andra Dediu supports individuals in integration work. Wondering what that means? Well, she supports people to integrate really far out experiences like spiritual awakenings, mystical experiences, and insights from altered states of consciousness …ALONGSIDE integrating the depths of the human experience like depression, ‘dark nights of the soul,’ shadow bits and cut-off aspects of self. Her work is experiential, process-based, embodied, systemic, transpersonal, somatic, and relational. She works online 1:1 on people, and holds online and in-person group journeys.

During our time together we cover:

· How she uses music for herself and her clients

· The magical experience of the ‘Inner dance’

· Why it is a vulnerable process

· Here first time going through this ‘Inner dance’ process

· Why it needs to be done in a group setting, and not alone

· How this practice has helped her live a more full and intentional life

· Why we more time to relearn to come together, connect and move forward together.

· The beauty of music and connection we can form with each other

Connect with Andra

Website: www.andradediu.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unitedtransformations/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/andradediucoaching/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andra-dediu-465293221/

Andra’s Offerings from the Heart

Women Wolves:

Deep conversations, ritual, stories, and experiences to recover instinct and embody aliveness, acceptance, & guidance

http://andradediu.com/women-wolves/

Integration Work:

Integration is the process by which synthesis takes place of our non-ordinary experiences as we move toward individuation, integrity, and authenticity.

http://andradediu.com/integration-work/

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If you are interested in hearing a story about turning a passion into a business, then this one is for you!

Ben’s story is one that starts off with what many of us experience when growing up – not exactly fitting in, finding his own community and then eventually entering the working world. However, his journey is one that provides encouragement and excitement as it showcases that we all can create a (working) life if we allow ourselves to follow our passion.

Ben starts off talking about his upbringing and then what lead him on a path of success that started with music and now he helps others to market their business. Isn’t this amazing! Tune in now to hear all about this and much, much more!

More about Ben:

Ben is the owner of Balbert Marketing LLC. He is also the curator of The “Real Business Connections Network,” where he hosts 5 podcasts, “Rochester Business Connections,” “Learn Speak Teach,” “Ben’s Bites,” “Five Minute Fridays,” and “Real Hits.”

Once an underdog, now a successful entrepreneur, Ben is passionate about helping other underdogs achieve their dreams.

During out time together, we covered:

· How his podcasts and business came about

· How following his heart lead him to amazing opportunities

· When he made the switch and connection from listening to music to contributing and pivoted his business

· How he started his first podcast and ended up as a booker and promoter for bands

· Why he isn’t an overnight success story

· How he went from 1 to 5 podcast

· How COVID changed his (working) life

· What music festival means a lot to him and why

· The one song that describes his business/life right now

Connect with Ben Albert:

About Ben + Press Appearances:

https://balbertmarketing.com/meetbalbert/

Balbert Marketing LLC: http://balbertmarketing.com/alllinks

Real Business Connections Podcast: https://realbusinessconnections.com/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/balbertmarketing

https://www.facebook.com/realbusinessconnections

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realbenalbert/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCatiqMEYvn1CO_isUcb6pAQ/videos

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Zia Hassan is a life coach who helps people in career transitions. He is also a musician who has been writing and recording his own music for the last 30 years. This in turn has helped him make sense of the world through the different genres and artists.

In this episode we dive deep into exploring new music and sound (especially ambient), how that has changed his perception of music and what we all can learn by tuning into music in a different way.

It’s an enlightening and powerful chat that provides so much food for thought and ideas for us all to be more open minded when it comes to music we haven’t (really) listened to before.

During our chat we touch on:

· Spotify playlists and how he uses them

· How he grew up around arts and music

· What genre of music is his favourite and why

· How Brian Eno inspired him to create his own sound/music

· Why Zia thinks letting our brain experience different sound is beneficial and needed

· His experience at a live concert by one of his favourite artists

· Tips around listening to music we have never heard before

· What his precepting of ambient music’s purpose is and beginner listening tips

Connect with Zia Hassan

Website: www.ziahassan.coach/

IG: http://instagram.com/ziahassan

Blog: ziahassan.blog

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Bonnie is a coach and force to be reckoned with. Her positive and uplifting attitude and mindset, her willingness to support others shines through every minute of our chat. So, you wouldn’t think or believe she is currently homeless, right?!

During our time together we only briefly touch on this part of her life, I highlight it because I feel she is a wonderful example of having a strong mindset combined with being vulnerable and not being defined by her circumstances. AND her song pick is supporting this as well. Which one that is, well, you must listen to our chat to find out! 😉

This is an episode that has hit home to me that we have so much to be grateful for and even under hard conditions we can be of service to others whilst working on our own life.

More about Bonnie:

Bonnie Hardie is a Mindset/Life/Gratitude Coach based in Central Florida.

She is the owner of Rock Solid Mindset/Life/Gratitude Coaching.

She also is a 5-time Amazon Best Selling Author, Frequent International Podcast Guest & Seminar/Workshop Leader.

Bonnie empowers midlife women to say "Bon Voyage' to the Shackles In Their Mind That Prevents Them From Living The Life of Their Dreams.

On today’s episode we chat about:

· Why age is ‘just a number’ and you are never too old to go after your dreams

· Her favourite genre of music

· Who she works the most with in her coaching business

· What phrase (song title) she uses to describe how she supports her clients

· Songs she listens to keep going

· Tips on how to use songs to pull yourself out of a funk or bad day

· Homelessness and why this isn't stopping her

Connect with Bonnie

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bonnieshardie

FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1625160844551888/

BuyMeaCoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bonniehardie

"Vision For Your Life Program": She combines a Vision Board and the Wheel of Life - colour coding the Wheel of Life.

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Do believe that one song can truly support you on your mental health journey? This episode will show you that it is possible and true.

I invited Joseph to share his story on today’s episode, which dives straight into his mental health journey. He talks about his personal experiences through which he put together his own toolkit and how music plays its part in all of it.

How one tragic moment sent him a clear message on what he needed to do next and how that in itself propelled him onto a journey of connecting and supporting others who struggle with their mental health.

And of course, I asked how music played a part on his own health journey, how he uses it and why, plus what band had a massive impact on him…and he might have thrown a little challenge in there for me!

Come and join us on this inspiring episode around mental health, music and some fun bits, too!

More about Joseph:

Joseph Reid has had a passion for loving and helping people from a very early age. He is the founder and Executive Director of Broken People, an international mental health peer support group. He is also very active as a peer support specialist and family advocate with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), the nation’s largest grass roots mental health non-profit organization. He is extremely passionate about following God’s direction, loving and serving his wife Melissa of 24 years, and trying to keep up with his four awesome grown kids. He is the author of Broken Like Me and oversees several other brilliant writers on his website’s blog that can be found at: www.broken-people.org

During this episode we chat about:

· His own mental health journey

· How his book came to life

· What music means to him and his mental health

· One song that describes his business and or life right now

· Fun challenge he issued to me

Connect with Joseph Reid

Website: www.broken-people.org

Online Support Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/287522532033608

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