Ian MacKaye is a widely known musician, whose music (specifically his song, Straight Edge), played a highly influential role in the early 1980’s Punk Rock and Hardcore scene.

He is known for the band's Minor Threat, The Teen Idles, and later down the road a band more in the alternative mainstream, Fugazi. He is also Co-Founder of Dischord Records located in Washington DC.

Nora and Ian, (Minor Threat is one of Nora’s fav bands growing up) sit down for an entertaining phone discussion on:

• Nora intro: How Punk Rock as a philosophy influenced her character development
• Ian being himself and just wanting to create music
• Growing up and not following what others were doing
• How he feels Straight Edge was not a movement he was trying to create, he was just being himself
• His belief in peace, love, and unity
• His belief public venues should be open for teens to enjoy as well 
• “Punk to me means the free space.”
• “When we’re born, that’s pure.”

“In Jimi Hendrix’s song, If 6 was 9 he said:

I’ve got my own life to live, 

I’m the one that’s going to die, 

When it’s time for me to die, 

So let me live my life the way I want to.”

Contact:

Ian MacKaye

www.dischord.com

Nora contact: 
www.rockyourlifewithnorafinch.com (Mental Readiness Coaching and shows) ask for a consult! [email protected]

Focus:

• The philosophy of punk rock: thinking for oneself, and how to apply this mindset in daily living.
• Becoming excellent at being oneself

Henry Rollins- Extraordinaire, Highly- Recognized Speaker, Activist, Poet and Author, Actor, former frontman vocalist of Black Flag, (punk rock band of early ’80s from Southern California) and the Rollins Band (of the ’90s) and I discuss:

• What the music meant to him
• His best friend’s Ian MacKaye’s influence on helping him learn how to think for himself.
• How thinking for himself was hard and alien to him:
• “I was trying to escape a beating.  I faced a lot of humiliation.”
• How the punk rock mindset is just one of the many mindsets to empower oneself
• Punk rock music viewed from different perspectives

Henry and Nora’s shared view on:

Organized religion 

Working in the corporate world and the western idea of work:

• The slave of/to the cubicle
• Retirement and pension

Brief:

Living as a celebrity since 18 years old, now 58

Henry can be found all over the internet. Check out his opinion on everything on YouTube.

Nora contact:
www.rockyourlifewithnorafinch.com (Mental Readiness Coach and shows) ask for a consult! [email protected]

Focus: This show is for the first responders new to the field, those interested in performing at their highest potential, those interested in reclaiming their love of serving.

Captain Dan Willis, 30 year Police Officer, Homicide Detective, SWAT Commander, Wellness Advocate, International Academy of Public Safety Instructor, Author of Bulletproof Spirit

Capt Dan’s Award-winning emotional survival manual; a manual how it helps nurture, sustain and shield the first responder spirit.

The book gives self-awareness Q&A’s.

Living a Life of service, compassion, you can love what you do, amidst all the negativity.

Holistic therapies, EMDR, meditation, Dan’s book, and the 40 different recommendations.

PTSD can happen to you

You can be happy in this career

Nora on:

“Let’s create a new perspective, instead of: “How many bad things are gonna happen today?”

How bout: “How many good things are gonna happen today?”

Bulletproof Spirit by Capt. Dan Willis
www.firstresponderwellness.com

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(Mental Readiness Coaching and shows) ask for a consult! [email protected]

Nora Finch, 20+ year practicing Wellness Educator and Holistic Esthetician, and Host of Rock your Life, continues with Pt 2.Refer to Pt 1 for her full bio.

Focus: Applying assertiveness skills in the First Responder Industry

The need to learn verbal and self-defense skills bonuses, how to deal with things the public says and do

Customized daily rituals; during the call, the 2 min between calls, end of the day.

She discusses: How learning boundary setting, verbal assertiveness, as well as Krav Maga taught her what it means to be assertive

Two scenarios for the industry with suggested phrases/statements

1) Diabetic tying up the line, being compassionately assertive
2) Personal space and boundary setting.

The importance of learning self-defense
Leaving old ways behind 
Trying o stay compassionate considering. 

Resources: Verbal Judo by George Thompson
Setting Limits with your Strong-Willed Kid by Robert MacKenzie.
Richard Grannon, UK based, former Self Defense Instructor/Doorman, Spartan Life CoachTutorials, www.streetfightsecrets.com

To learn more about The Rock Your Life Podcast visit www.RockYourLifeWithNoraFinch.com (Mental Readiness Coaching and shows) ask for a consult! [email protected]

Focus: What is boundary setting and how can it be applied in the First Responder Industry.

Feeling deserving of setting them. The advantage of learning verbal and physical.

Nora Finch, 20 + year Holistic Esthetician/Wellness Educator, specializing in Mental Readiness, has trained in the Israeli Military Self Defense system of Krav Maga for over 6 years. She has accreditation as a Basic Defensive Tactics Instructor for Women. She has assisted in several teen/women workshops throughout Sacramento.

She has also studied verbal assertiveness systems in not only self-defense, but the democratic disciplinary styles found in several parenting systems.

What is boundary setting?

Our Bill of Rights

Nora’s personal story/confrontation with her father in law and finding the fighting system of Krav Maga

Basic phrases, tools for the toolbox

“I need you to listen to me carefully right now.”

“I need you to take a walk.”

Resources:

Richard Grannon
The book, Verbal Judo by George Thompson and Jerry Jenkins
Jiu Jitsu and other systems

To learn more about The Rock Your Life Podcast visit www.RockYourLifeWithNoraFinch.com (Mental Readiness Coach and shows) ask for a consult! [email protected]

Mini episode with 20 plus year Paramedic Christopher South.

We discuss:

• What does the word stigma mean?
• What do we know about the suicide stigma?
• Chris not having support as a result of the stigma
• Solutions for change

Simple tips:

Being a friend, and leaving an open door policy

Chris, “Everyone talks about being a family, but I didn’t experience that feeling after what I went through.”

“You gotta live with you, and be happy with you.”

Nora, “Don’t fear the reaction. Be direct. Say, I need help.”

To learn more about The Rock Your Life Podcast visit www.RockYourLifeWithNoraFinch.com

Nora and Christopher South on: 

Punk rock mindset and how it has helped them in lifeBenefits of this mindset and how to apply this in life

Name dropping: Ramones, Black Flag, Operation Ivy, Minor Threat, Rancid, The Exploited

Nora, “It’s okay to be a black sheep.” and “It was my form of unconventional therapy.It gave me that sense of belonging and acceptance in the world.”

Chris, “The punk rock scene said it was okay to be who I was.” and “My presentations are known for being outside the box.”

Recommended Nora episodes with the Punk Rock Godfathers:
Living the Life you choose with Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat) Pt 1 & 2
Henry Rollins, Finding your Inner Authority(Author, Activist, front singer: Black Flag, Rollins Band)

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Christopher South, 20 + year Paramedic and EMS Educator from Birmingham, Alabama and I sit down to discuss:

• Miraculously surviving his suicide attempt (by way of 3000 units of insulin) 
• His experience through the mental health system 
• Experiencing 20 electroshock therapy treatments 
• Getting his license taken away 
• The surprising statistic of unreported suicides
• PTSD
• His advocacy for first responders and his multi-media Dead Inside presentation
• How the punk rock mindset, his spiritual faith, meditation, and a holistic wellness lifestyle helped him

To learn more about The Rock Your Life Podcast visit www.RockYourLifeWithNoraFinch.com

Nora’s reads emails from one of her guests from the East Coast describes his life as a first responder who:

• had his license taken away, and got it back
• received electroshock therapy
• was on over 13 medications at once
• And who now educates others on his story, PTSD, finding the path to wellness with yoga, meditation and eating well 

To learn more about The Rock Your Life Podcast visit www.RockYourLifeWithNoraFinch.com

An introduction to Nora Finch, as a Holistic Esthetician/Wellness Educator to the First Responder Community

Nora’s facials as a self-care option as a therapy, as well as her podcast show for holistic mind, body, spirit wellness 

Why she created this series for Paramedics, Emt’s, Firefighters, and those in Law Enforcement

How growing up and as an adult, her alternative therapies in music, writing, self-defense, and unconditional love have helped her survive and thrive in life

How self-worth plays a role in suicide prevention and mental health

Her upcoming series which includes guests that are Veterans in/from the First Responder industry as well as the Healing Industry.

To learn more visit www.RockYourLifeWithNoraFinch.com