Lonze Reynolds is our Music Teacher for Piano. We Found him through Takelessons.com. When I wanted to continue our children’s piano lessons, but couldn’t drive, I needed to find a different solution. Our former piano teachers were amazing, but didn’t have availability for us anymore and a studio wouldn’t work with my not driving. So, I hunted for a new solution! And, voila, I found Lonze!

Lonze Reynolds also is part of a band, Kenny Thames and the Messengers

They can be found at many different locations around the valley and for private events as well.

Lonze plays and teachers Piano, Guitar and Saxophone

602-599-1205 (Lonze Reynolds) [email protected]

Kenny Thames 602-515–8787

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Speaker 0 00:03 Welcome to the Southwest life podcast with your host, me, Vicki de Luzio, where we will talk about things to boost your health, improve your relationships, find new things to do with your family, and talk with business owners in the area. And more. Thanks for being here and enjoy the show. Speaker 1 00:27 Hi guys. Today I’m here with our music teacher, Lonze Reynolds. And , not only is he our music teacher, but he also does more than that. So with that, I want to have him introduce himself. Speaker 2 00:41 Hello everybody. I’m a longe Reynolds. Um, and I’m like, she said, I’m their music teacher. I teach them piano. each kid had a half an hour, once a week. So that’s hour and a half. I get to hang out with the family here. So it’s, they have a great family. I really enjoy, you know, giving them lessons, you know, it’s, you know, my passion. So it’s never stressful when I do what I do. So I love it. Speaker 1 01:08 Yeah. And I found a launch through take lessons because I was looking for someone to come to our house. Many people know that I suffered from epilepsy and so I couldn’t drive for a while, so I needed a different solution than just going to,a music store. And sometimes when you go to a music store, you have to fit within their criteria and that really wouldn’t work for us. And then having three kids, three lessons all in a row, I was seeing that kind of go really wrong. And here at my house, the kids can be doing their homework or playing or doing their laundry, which is not their favorite thing to do. And lawns knows that Murray while grumbling. Yeah. So, um, so once, can you tell me a little bit about your background? Speaker 2 01:55 Okay. I’m, um, I’m from Detroit, Michigan originally. I have a twin sister and an older sister and of course a mom and dad. And that was, we had a, you know, kind of a smaller, well, I wouldn’t say a small family, but you know, it was just me and my twin and my older sister. And, I’m the middle child. I’m five minutes older than my twins.

Speaker 1 02:21 And you let her know that was in charge.

Speaker 2 02:25 And then \I went off to, go to high school at Cass tech. It’s a very renowned high school in Detroit. You know, it’s, it has a great music program. They have a good consistent, sports program. Also play football. I was there also and that’s where I developed my passion and love for music through one of my fellow students. w we, we kind of took me on the mind, his wing. They introduced me to jazz and I really got into it and you know, created a passion for me because I, in third grade I played the saxophone and the clarinet and you know how it is when you’re young, you know, really, he’s squeaking you squash, you squeaking, you squash, you just do it because you kind of made, you know, you’re forced. So, you know, through those years I just played and didn’t practice a whole lot. Speaker 2 03:16 I practiced some, you know, and I was decent. I wasn’t the worst kid in the

Kalin Harding, NP, talks about her business (Surprise Care PLLC) as a medical provider in a different concept than you may be used to. If you are not insured or perhaps uninsured or have a high deductible, Surprise Care might be the best way for you to see a physician. Kalin also talks about the struggles and wins she has had as a business owner, and how moving from Indiana to Arizona has made a wonderful new way of life for her family.

Speaker 0 00:03 Welcome to the Southwest life podcast with your host, me, Vicki de Luzio, where we will talk about things to boost your health, improve your relationships, find new things to do with your family and talk with business owners in the area and more. Thanks for being here and enjoy the show. Speaker 1 00:27 Hi, we have Kalin today and she is going to talk about surprise care. Good morning. And what do you do? Can you tell me about your background? Speaker 2 00:38 Absolutely. So my name is Kalin Harding. I’m a family nurse practitioner and my background is in family practice. So I am certified in caring for the ages zero to a hundred and I am currently the CEO and sole provider for surprise care, which is a direct patient care medical clinic similar in a way to concierge medic medicine. Right. Um, it’s a medical model that is similar in the way of a gym membership for a low monthly fee, adults can pay 59 a month. Patients can receive clinic visits with no copays or deductibles and kids are just $10 a month with parent membership or $5 a month if you are military veteran first responder member, patients receive high quality health care services that are accessible and affordable with discounts on imaging, lab work and wholesale prices on medications with our onsite pharmacy. And so what is an NP? Speaker 2 01:53 Can you tell me what that is? So a nurse practitioner is a registered nurse that has a master’s or a doctorate in family practice. They have to complete a master’s degree or a doctorate in the field of nursing. Many of them have tens, tens of teens of, you know, many years of practice as registered nurses. And they choose to continue their education because they want to be able to have that autonomy with their patients and they can perform many of the same things that your primary care provider can. We prescribe medications, we refill medications, we can offer small procedures, women’s health, pap pelvics, they can order labs, imaging, like I said, prescriptions. And basically they augment the existing primary care clinics. Very often there are medical doctors that employers, family nurse practitioners in their practice to help support their patient load. Speaker 1 03:26 Yeah. So personally, um, my relationship with Kalin, I come in, um, to, uh, use Kaylin for our family. Uh, I was concerned that dimples, our youngest might’ve been diabetic. So, um, there’s just some signs that I saw. I did some research and I was concerned and I knew that if I went into our regular, uh, pediatrician’s office that we would have to take multiple stops, u go to the pediatrician, then go get a lab done. But bringing in dimples who was five at the time, Caitlyn was able to do all of the, uh, investigating here and she did the, the blood draw here instead of going to quest or another blood draw, she did it right here. So she had already like talked with dimples and formed a relationship, which was excellent because if you’ve ever had to do a blood draw on a little kid, um, that can be really traumatic. And so she was able to form that relationship with, you know, a 20 minute visit and he was fine with her. She, uh, she really had that bond because she has a younger child. Two boys. Yeah. So it was awesome because, and then she called me back with the results, not just, you know, uh, email that everything was fine. She called me back, told me everything was good and I was relieved with that news. So t

I speak with my husband, Scott DeLuzio, about how we both coexist working from home and schooling our children

Check out Art with Me AZ, the first Paint and Sip studio in the West Phoenix Valley.

Owner Jessica sits down with us and discusses her love of art, where she got her inspiration to open her studio and what she offers. Plus, she tells us what her struggles and victories have been as a small business owner.

You can find Art with Me AZ online here: https://www.artwithmeaz.com/

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artwithmeazpaintandsip/

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artwithmeaz/

13839 W Bell Rd Suite 105, Surprise, AZ 85374

Speaker 0 00:03 Welcome to the Southwest life podcast with your host, me, Vicki DeLuzio where we will talk about things to boost your health, improve your relationships, find new things to do with your family, and talk with business owners in the area. And more. Thanks for being here and enjoy the show.

Speaker 1 00:26 All right. We have Jessica with art with me, aZ today, and we’re going to just talk about her business and how she got started. So, Jessica, can you tell me a little bit about yourself?

Speaker 2 00:40 Yes. Hi guys. Thank you so much for having me, Vicki. I’m excited and I’m a little about me and my business. I would say I’m just a common normal girl that worked a normal life pretty much my entire adulthood. I haven’t been in the art industry. Um, I worked in corporate America, uh, and I just woke up one day and told my husband I’m gonna quit my job this year. Um, and follow my passion. And, uh, this is obviously my passion, art and color and creativity. And so, um, I did it and here, here we are. Um, so, um, were you always an RD per person? Were you always into art? What did you do with art? Yes, dating back to my childhood. I have like vivid memories. My dad sketched and had paintings, like paintings or not paintings, but sketches, um, that were like literally hanging in my grandparents’ home, like, and he was so talented.

Speaker 2 01:35 Um, so I tried to mirror that, I suppose horrible at sketching. Let me just throw that out there. I’m not a sketch artist. I don’t draw, it’s not my forte for lack of better words. But, um, my, my mom, she is an amazingly gifted, um, you know, artist herself in so many different ways. She sows like she could sell you anything just out of thin air. She could make it happen. Um, and so I, I was always surrounded by art my whole life and DYI projects and things like that. Uh, and so I just, I had a passion for it and, and started young. Um, and as I went into adulthood, started really, you know, painting and trying different mediums. When it comes to art, my whole family, uh, my grandmother is an artist. My aunt, she’s a beautiful photographer, uh, one that’s one minuscule piece of her, you know, craftiness.

Speaker 2 02:28 Um, and so I’ve just been surrounded by my whole life and I think that’s probably helped me and encouraged me. Um, but yeah, I’ve always been artsy. I’ve always been drawn to creativity, uh, and the crazy things that some, I am an abstract artist, so I prefer like the crazier side of artsy things. But yeah, I’ve always loved it. Um, and what is, so that is what drew you to art. So you were kind of always doing art on the side while you were doing corporate work too? Yes, always. And even, you know, we would have girls, girls nights, you know, whether my girlfriends came to my house or whether I was going to them. Um, I had some girlfriends not too, not too long ago. Um, we wanted to try to make, what are they dream catchers. And so even just trying things, like, they didn’t all turn out great.

Speaker 2 03:17 Some of them did. But like Epic fails, I’m sure you’ve seen the show of like nailed it. We didn’t nail that one. And so yeah, I’ve literally always on on the side that’s been like my release. I would say my stress re

We speak With Rebecca Lucas about counseling, what types of counseling her group provides and what EMDR is, how to talk with someone if we feel they need counseling and how a person should approach counseling if they think they need it.

Link to Christian Counseling Services- https://christiancounselingservicesaz.com/

Things Rebecca Recommends in our talk:

-Dr. Kristin Neff-Compassion Researcher, Author and Teacher

Brenae Brown-The Power of Vulnerability

Speaker 0 00:03 Welcome to the Southwest life podcast with your host, me, Vicki DeLuzio, where we will talk about things to boost your health, improve your relationships, find new things to do with your family, and talk with business owners in the area. And more. Thanks for being here and enjoy the show. Speaker 1 00:27 Thank you, Rebecca, for joining us with Christian counseling services. Uh, today on our program we would like to just chat with you about, um, what you do with Christian counseling surfaces. Um, but can you first tell us a little bit about yourself and your family? Yeah, absolutely. Speaker 2 00:45 I am, I’m a mom of two girls. Uh, I live in surprise in the West Valley. Uh, we’ve lived here for about 10 years. Um, we have community connections. We’ve been to churches out here. We homeschooled out here for a lot of years. Um, I am, uh, you know, just really, really excited to, you know, for Christian counseling services to have opened an office here in surprise. Um, and I, I don’t know, I was just really passionate about it. And where did Christian counseling services start? So Christian counseling services was founded by Jenn Cecil. Uh, Jen is a counselor. She counseled out in the community for a lot of years. Uh, she’s got a lot of wisdom, a lot of experience, and she really, really, um, had a passion for, um, you know, counseling in the church. Uh, for a long, long time. There seems to have been a stigma about mental health services in the church. Speaker 2 01:51 Um, and so what she really, really wanted to do was she wanted to find a way to integrate that professional help with faith-based principles because, um, a lot of people in the community weren’t comfortable going to counselors that weren’t familiar with their belief system, uh, who might suggest things that they weren’t comfortable with or, uh, who were, uh, you know, a little too secular. And so she founded the company and I was just her for a long, long time. And then she decided to bring on more people because she ended up turning a lot of people away. She would get full and she just couldn’t take on more clients. And so she took on a first one person and then two people. And three people. And now we’ve grown. I mean I think I lose track cause we’re adding new people all the time and I think we’re over 20 now and she’s got offices all over the Valley. Speaker 2 02:34 Um, and so we just, I don’t know. Our niche, our specialty or focus is providing faith-based services, you know, the integrate with Christian beliefs. Well, um, from a roots focused trauma informed perspective and we’re all trained in EMDR, which is a really neat kind of treatment. Uh, that works really well for a lot of people. And that’s, you know, that’s just kind of what we do. Oh. So, um, why did you want to get into counseling? That’s a great question. I can’t remember ever wanting to do anything else from the time I was in middle school. Okay. I’m going to start it out. I was like, Oh, I want to be a marriage and family therapist. And then it was like, Oh, I want to be a counseling psychologist. And then finally, you know, I landed when it was time to make a career choice, I landed with the professional counselor, um, degree program. Speaker 2 03:26 Cause that seemed to have kind of the widest application in terms of working with general mental heal

Today we interview small business owner, Jamie Cartledge who owns two Aqua Tots swim schools in the Phoenix Area. Jamie has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to swim safety. Jamie was the first franchisee of Aqua-Tots. Now Aqua-Tots has over 100 locations across the country.

Jamie started out working for Coldstone Creamery doing marketing and did swim lessons on the side.

How to keep kids safe in the water

What other business Jamie Ran-and picking what is important

What Jamie would like to see from Surprise.

Thank you Jamie! Visit her two different swim schools-Aqua-Tots in Peoria and Surprise

Being busy seems to be a part of American Life. Are you busy to just be busy, or are you being productive?

Moving to an area? Not sure how to make or keep friends? Vicki DeLuzio gives you hints and tips to help you navigate the rough waters of adult friendships.

Have you ever thought of becoming a blogger? Wonder what it takes? Host Vicki DeLuzio talks about how she became a blogger and what she does to make it work.