Episode 93 covers Heinrich Heine's text "Du bist wie eine Blume", which has been set over 380 times! Mirko Roschkowski leads us through it, focusing on the vowels [ə] and [ɐ], the difference between [ʃ] and [ç], and some phrases where back-to-back [t] and [d] need to be clearly articulated.

For more Video Tutorials, Text Readings, and PDFs with phonetic transcriptions as well as translations into several languages, please visit us at www.dictionpolice.com . You can also follow The Diction Police on Facebook and Twitter.

Episode 93 covers Heinrich Heine's text "Du bist wie eine Blume", which has been set over 380 times! Mirko Roschkowski leads us through it, focusing on the vowels [ə] and [ɐ], the difference between [ʃ] and [ç], and some phrases where back-to-back [t] and [d] need to be clearly articulated.

For more Video Tutorials, Text Readings, and PDFs with phonetic transcriptions as well as translations into several languages, please visit us at www.dictionpolice.com . You can also follow The Diction Police on Facebook and Twitter.

This week, François Germain reads the text to "Après un rêve", and we talk about what happens to nasal vowels in liaison, the difference between [ɑ̃] and [õ], and open and closed vowels in French.

For more Video Tutorials and Text Readings, as well as our Facebook Diction Lessons and Tongue Twisters for Singers series, or for the accompanying PDF for this Tutorial, please visit us at www.dictionpolice.com . You can also follow The Diction Police on Facebook and Twitter.

This week, François Germain reads the text to "Après un rêve", and we talk about what happens to nasal vowels in liaison, the difference between [ɑ̃] and [õ], and open and closed vowels in French.

For more Video Tutorials and Text Readings, as well as our Facebook Diction Lessons and Tongue Twisters for Singers series, or for the accompanying PDF for this Tutorial, please visit us at www.dictionpolice.com . You can also follow The Diction Police on Facebook and Twitter.

Layla Saad went from high achiever as a child to Law School as a young adult to wild mystic woman entrepreneur. She shares her journey and tools for personal growth and owning your worth and feminine mystique.

Summary:

In this episode, Giovanna Capozza interviews Layla Saad, a life coach, a spiritual and business mentor, a certified health coach, a speaker and the woman behind the Wild Mystic Woman. Layla’s mom once told her that things will be more difficult for her because of her race, religion and gender. Listen as Giovanna and Layla talk about the journey to sovereignty, how archetypes can help us become a better person, and the spiritual awakening Layla has gone through that led her to the Wild Mystic Woman.

 

Show Notes:

Introduction to the podcast

Introducing Layla to the show

Layla and Giovanna connected on Instagram and Giovanna instantly knew that Layla was her soul sister

Sovereignty is a meaningful word to Layla because of the things that she had been through

Layla shares the journey that led her on the path to sovereignty:

Layla lives in Qatar, but she grew up in UK

Layla is the oldest daughter and is a high achiever

Layla’s mom had always told her that things would be more difficult for her because she’s black, a Muslim and a woman

“My sense of worthiness came from my sense of achievement”

Layla studied law in University, but she realized early on that it wasn’t for her

Layla was trying to define who she was

“I don’t have any idea of what I wanted to be”

Layla had depression, anxiety and panic attacks

As Giovanna would put it, Layla was discombobulated

Layla’s darkest period lasted for 3 years

Layla’s best friend introduced her to the world of self-development which got Layla out of that period

Tony Robbin’s CDs opened up Layla’s eyes

Layla decided not to pursue law after finishing her degree

Layla believed that she would use her experience during her lowest point to help people

Layla ended up in the field of corporate tax

Layla went back to Qatar after finishing her degree, when she was 21

The entire time Layla was in corporate tax, she knew it wasn’t her path

Layla decided she wanted to go back the UK when she met her husband

Layla found out about life coaching

Layla studied life coaching after getting married

Layla quit the corporate world when she had her first child and started life coaching

As passionate as Layla was, she didn’t know how to run a business

Layla lost her confidence and gave up just when she was starting out

Layla had a cycle of going back to coaching, giving up coaching, working as a part-timer, and going back to coaching again

Just before Layla’s 30th, she was miserable and it was killing her to work with other people

Layla went to her office early, sat at her desk and suddenly, her soul was afloat and was looking down at her, laughing

Her laugh told her that what she was doing there wasn’t her life, her path and job

Layla remembered when she was in her 20s, listening to Tony Robbins

Layla wasn’t happy and if she continued with her miserable life, that would be her life forever

Layla decided that she would continue coaching, throw herself into the business world, and NOT give up

Layla started her business doing soulful, business coaching

Last year, Layla had an incredible spiritual awakening that birthed The Wild Mystic Woman

Layla shares what The Wild Mystic Woman is

“It’s so different from the rest of my life”

Layla has always been guided by her intuition

2 things happened regarding Layla’s spiritual awakening

First, in April of 2016, Layla wrote a blog post that went viral which was unexpected

Layla’s blog post was Why those ‘6 figure’ business coaches are failing you

The post was shared a thousand times in just one week

Strangers have been adding and getting in contact with Layla

While Layla’s business was prepared for it, she wasn’t emotionally prepared

Layla was uncomfortable and being in the spotlight—it brought her fear

The second event was when Layla was on a business retreat

Durin

Audrey Hazecamp co-author of Shake it UP and co-faciliator with the renowned Kathlyn Hendricks, PhD. speaks to us about the wonder as a tool for self-discovery and transformation

Summary:

In this episode, Giovanna interviews Audrey Hazekamp. Audrey opens up a new world of possibilities using curiosity and wonder. What kind of questions do you ask yourself? What opens up for us and the world when we give ourselves the permission to wonder? Tune in to find out how she considers both her body and emotions as her allies to living a life of purpose.

 

Show Notes:

Introducing Audrey Hazekamp on the show

Audrey has always been curious

Her level of curiosity became an inconvenience to the adults around her

For the longest time, she took her curiosity underground by covering it with facts and science

Genuine wonder is a superpower

Genuine wonder is a place for Audrey’s intellect to create new possibilities

Wonder Builder and Wonder Builder Cards

Audrey has a Wondercraft Course

Giovanna is a chronic asker of “Why?”

What Audrey loves now is using science as a way of supporting her philosophy of wonder

“Science is beginning to show up with hard evidence of why wonder and curiosity are evolutionary tools”

Audrey encourages you to try and see what happens to your body when you criticize yourself

Audrey’s body becomes narrow and she pulls in to create a shield around herself

She’s a big fan of letting herself notice the experience

Audrey doesn’t ignore self-blame and criticism, but is applying wonder

Your body is your ally

Transition can be more awkward than elegant when creating your own reality

Hold something with an open palm

The semantic work

The thought follows the experience

Physiology is what generates the thought

Physiology informs the mind to create critical thoughts

The “fear melters” process explained

Wonder is a big part of opening space

The power of wonder opens up so much

The sound of wonder is a really pleasant, vibratory sound

Using the sound of wonder and the phrase, “I wonder,” already makes a bridge from fear

Your ego will always try to contradict wondering

Part of the issue of wonder is that it’s simple

Audrey’s favorite question is, “I wonder what is genuinely mine to do?”

Audrey was a professional hero for most of her life

Her senses opens its doors to invite the resolution

The current political situation led Audrey to the thought of her living in an unfriendly universe

She wonders how she can be a source of a friendly universe

Be courageous enough to ask questions without any direct answer

Ask wonder questions with a “How” or “What” because “Why” is tricky

“Why is probably the most dangerous question you could ask your brain”

Criticizing vs applying wonder and curiosity

Audrey loves words that give her a quality, “tuning fork” moment

Audrey’s Book, Shake It Up: Refresh and Rediscover Yourself through Wonder and Body-Mind Adventures

Audrey thanks Oxana Holtmann, her co-author

All the pages of the book are invitations to express appreciation—from blame to wonder

The book is participatory

Part of Audrey’s resourcefulness is knowing who to ask

Learning through wisdom or someone else’s mastery helps you learn without having to create the experience

Audrey talks about verbing

Verbing is an invitation to try on different action verbs

Audrey shares her client as an example

Audrey is a fan of the word “engage”

“I am my best client” – Am I the living example of what it is I’m talking about?

Audrey considers herself a self-appreciation adventurer

Audrey had medical issues that caused a lot of trauma in her life

She built the “American Dream” everybody wanted to have – she had a great career, home, and living

Deep down, Audrey had a sense of dissatisfaction

She started asking existential questions

“I need to be willing to risk”

Part of the Audrey’s essential qualities is to be of service

She left her home in Michigan and moved to Santa Barbara

Audrey doesn’t recommend her way to everyone

“It’s awkward before it’s elegant”

All of

Founder of the S.W.A.T Institute and author of The Emotional Edge talks about all things self love and acceptance

 

Summary:

In this episode, Giovanna Capozza interviews Crystal Andrus Morissette, a communication expert, women’s advocate and the author of four best-selling books including her latest release, The Emotional Edge. Listen as Giovanna and Crystal talk about self-love and appreciation, how to play with your archetype, and why you have to heal your broken pieces and not just bury them in your subconscious.

 

Show Notes:

Introducing Crystal to the show

Giovanna interviewed Crystal before in another radio show

Crystal shares about her latest book The Emotional Edge

Crystal never thought a project could bring her to her edge

“I was pushed beyond my mental capacity”

Crystal needed to unplug from the world and went offline for 6 weeks

Crystal never knew she was carrying a tremendous amount of guilt and shame

Crystal realized that she needed to write a book about everything she was going through and it gave her access to her archetypes

Crystal shares how she plays with her archetypes and the idea of a mother and a woman

It is amazing when you think that you’re the original inventor of an idea

The idea of yang just came to Crystal

Yang’s 3 aspects to one’s personality – the ego, the shadow, and the collective unconscious

Freud’s Id, ego and superego

Id is the most childish and selfish part of you

The superego is constantly trying to make you feel better; like a mother archetype within us

Ego balances the id and superego

Crystal had spent years to see these three elements of the psyche working

“We each have a child within us”

The woman energy discussed

When you come into your human energy, you can come to the greatest expression of who you are

Giovanna is constantly repeating to her clients that our most important job is to learn to be parents ourselves

There are pieces of ourselves that we judge

We break that piece off of ourselves and bury it in our subconscious

When you became an adult, you heal the ones you bury, but we usually just forget them

By the time that we are old, we can’t recognize ourselves anymore because we buried so many pieces

Healing or repairing ourselves is the gentle process of regaining the broken pieces to become whole again

Healing is fun

We choose our dominant persona to show up and take control of us

The reason that we created the dominant persona

Our submissive takes so much energy to keep buried

Your dominant persona becomes exhausted

Crystal shares how she felt when she was 40

Crystal didn’t realize that she didn’t want people to know about her past

Crystal needed to let out the shame and sorrow and tell her story

“I have forgotten to heal me”

“I didn’t realize how I mattered”

It was Crystal’s big, mystic moment

Crystal feels the need to constantly check herself

Crystal tends to get caught up on things

“You can’t give what you don’t have”

Giovanna admires how Crystal is a great communicator

We work to give ourselves a better life

The ultimate outcome of your work

When you communicate better with yourself, it opens you up to become communicative, vulnerable, honest and transparent with everybody

Be more compassionate with your relationships

It is easier when you become your best self

Don’t seek only for the physical things to make you happy

People go after something they think can do good to them

Crystal was Miss Galaxy when she decided she wanted to have babies

Crystal had all the things she wanted, but still ended up feeling empty inside

We’ve all had the same experience as Crystal

Crystal watched pregnant Beyonce at the Grammys and she adored Beyonce

Beyonce was THE mother, daughter, woman at the Grammys

Watching Beyonce made Crystal feel like a queen

Beyonce is an archetype

“When I share what I share, I hope I touch women in a way that can make them cry”

We are teaching women how to rise into their greatness and stand into their power

“I’m all things”

We can’t keep on pointing fingers

Cryst

Prison Break author Jason Goldberg shares practical tips and advice on how to optimize your mindset and break free from old patterns.

 

Summary:

In this episode, Giovanna Capozza interviews Jason Goldberg, an award-winning entrepreneur, TEDx Speaker, educator, and author of the bestselling book, Prison Break: Vanquish the Victim, Own Your Obstacles, and Lead Your Life. Listen as Giovanna and Jason talk about the true meaning of getting out of your own prison and becoming a self leader, why self-leadership is radical responsibility, and why vulnerability should be authentic.

 

Show Notes:

Introduction to the podcast

Introducing Jason to the show

The first time Giovanna talked to Jason, she told him, “Jason, I just got to tell you, I love you and you are basically me with a penis”

Jason’s book, Prison Break: Vanquish the Victim, Own Your Obstacles, and Lead Your Life, is probably the best title for personal development

Prison Break is all about Jason’s belief that in any given moment, we have the choice to approach any challenge as a prisoner of chance or as a self-leader

“Prison Break and the whole distinction between being a self-leader and a prisoner is in no way saying perform right or wrong”

If you’re in a system that’s not working, try self-leadership

There’s nothing permanent and pervasive in being a self-leader

The book is a literal toolbox of how to lead

Radical responsibility is what Giovanna calls self-leadership

Language is such a HUGE thing

The biggest difference for Jason is when he stopped using “mastery” as a noun, but as a verb, instead

Transformation is both instant and a lifelong process

One chapter that stands out for Jason, “Your Intuition is Drunk”

Jason has been jaded by intuition

He realized something was off when he left the corporate world

Jason was in his first startup when realized he was having issues with intuition

His wife noticed he was going through job ads

When Jason is at a low point, he tends to look for jobs

Your intuition is directly tied to your mind and quality of thinking

It takes time to sober up and it’s the same with intuition

We get down on ourselves, but we’re actually programmed in stressful circumstances to not have access to our intuition

An event that would normally be considered small can be debilitating

It takes 30 secs - 1 minute for Jason to do the “snow globe meditation”

Our feelings never get it wrong – they are a reflection of our mind

Notice what’s going on first

Any emotion that comes up as heavy is an indicator of something

The single most empowering thing for Giovanna is to highlight what the behavior is and start taking control of life

Chapter: Vanquish the Victim

“The victim is NOT the enemy – the victim is just less effective way to be”

Vanquish the victim is a state of mind

A prisoner lives with an “all or nothing” mentality

It’s moment to moment – an ongoing process

Stop thinking there’s a big break that’s going to happen

It’s one at a time – you don’t stockpile self-leadership

It’s much more about how you respond in the moment

Small mental wins are important to address

Jason on Wu Tang Clan

In 1999, Jason ended up with a group of people who wanted to create music

Jason was with them for 6 years

There was a level of presence, sincerity, and professionalism that separated them from other groups

Mastery as a verb vs mastery as a noun

Giovanna shares her story from being an assistant cruise director to becoming a coach

What helped Jason most was when he started to become more open

The weird things that happen in your life might actually be the things that connect you to others

Empathy is what Jason uses to serve others

“Your greatest struggle is your greatest gift”

Anything you’ve struggled with or developed as defense mechanism can be owned, leveraged, and used as a gift to serve the world

Being yourself is self-leadership

“The pieces of you that can be of service is the real, authentic you”

Jason mentions about his client who wanted to make meetings fun

Authentic vulnerability vs vulnerability vomit

Jason is a spiritual pragmatist

Don’t go up on the stage, “announcing” what you’ll do

Vulnerability for the sake of it, is annoying

There’s a lot to be said for sharing your challenges

Jason realized what was wrong—he was doing his “healing” in public and this made it difficult for him to share

Sharing for a reason that wasn’t pure is NOT being authentic

If you have something to share, share it without expecting to receive anything in return

It’s wonderful to find people with whom you could share

Jason shares about his private group’s shame circle

Giovanna talks about having a similar sharing experience

Get a copy of Jason’s Prison Break at www.thejasongoldberg.com/sherises

Giovanna closes the podcast

3 Key Points:

Mastery isn’t a place you get to, it’s an ongoing process.

Your greatest struggle is your greatest gift—your difficulties can lead to you discovering and developing your greatest strengths.

If you’re going to be vulnerable in public, share without expecting to receive anything in return.

Resources Mentioned:

  Prison Break: Vanquish the Victim, Own Your Obstacles, and Lead Your Life – Jason’s bestselling book

Since the podcast comes out every two weeks, on the off-weeks we post Diction Tips--very short tutorials focusing on a specific topic in Lyric Diction.

In this week's Diction Tip, Dr. François Germain looks at the plural articles "les", "des", "ces", etc., in French Lyric Diction.

For more Diction Tips visit the videos section of our Facebook page or you can find all of our Diction Lessons, Diction Tips and Tongue Twisters for Singers at www.dictionpolice.com!

In Episode 91, Simone di Felice and I work through the text to Alessandro Scarlatti's "Già il sole dal Gange", talking a lot about consonants! This is the audio version of the SDU Tutorial.

For more Video Tutorials and Text Readings, as well as our Facebook Diction Lessons and Tongue Twisters for Singers series, or for the accompanying PDF for this Tutorial, please visit us at www.dictionpolice.com . You can also follow The Diction Police on Facebook and Twitter.