The Brassy Broadcast with Jen Edds

Jen chats with Share Ross, bass player from Vixen, knitting book author, and rocknroll life coach about her journey.

When you think of a rockstar from the decadent and wildly amoral 80's the last thing you'd expect is an outrageously positive personality. Share Ross loves to give you the unexpected. As The Rock N Roll Life Coach, she inspires her clients to take quantum leaps in their lives and businesses while still playing gigs to thousands of rock fans. 

Best known as the bassist in platinum-selling all-female 80's rock band Vixen she plays dates all over the globe with Ozzy Osbourne, KISS, Bon Jovi, Deep Purple, The Scorpions and more. Share also plays bass for Joe Elliott's (singer for Def Leppard) side project, The Down n Outz. 

She surprised rock fans when she took up knitting and 2 years later published a knitting book, Punk Knits with a major publisher.

Share believes in creating your own luck. She never let 2 bankruptcies, divorce or a myriad of unsuccessful business ideas stop her. She's a walking testament that you gotta live in the now and let your inner rockstar guide you towards your true path.

Adventure and creativity are her life force and guiding light.

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Julie is a fellow Hoosier that is now mixing sound on Broadway. We chat about her experience as a woman working in live sound production, how your attutude is not only key to getting you through the day, but also additional work, and how she stays present while mixing a show.

Julie has been the production engineer for Jersey Boys Broadway since it's inception in 2004. As production engineer under Sound Designer Steve Canyon Kennedy, she helped open Jersey Boys productions in Chicago, Las Vegas, and London, as well as well as two national tours. She served as mixer opening the Broadway revivals of Guys & Dolls in 2008, and Jesus Christ Superstar in 2011. 

She toured over five years with various music theater productions including the first national tours of Hairspray and Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida. She is a member of IATSE and has an AS in Audio Technology from Indiana University's School of Music.

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Tara Low, Found of Guitar It Up for Girls, talks about finding her niche in the online guitar marketplace, starting Guitar Girl Magazine, and creating a successful business.

Links & Resources

Guitaritupforgirls.com

Guitar Girl Magazine

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Social entrepreneur and cultural strategist, Erin Potts, from Revolutions Per Minute, talks about organizing the Tibetan Freedom Concerts with the Beastie Boys, why music and activism go together, and challenges artists face when supporting a cause.

• A chance meeting with a Beastie Boy in Nepal
• Inspiration from Bono and the Amnesty International concerts
• Learning about fan engagement and concert production from her Lollapalooza experience
• The science behind why music and activism go together
• RPM - Creating an artist resource for activism
• Partnering with artists to provide strategic guidance
• Message concerts v. benefit concerts
• Raising money & awareness outside of concerts
• Do artists give up their right to speak out when they pick up an instrument?
• Overcoming the challenges of creating fan engagement & awareness prior to social media
• Building "Mom Cred" with a teenager

Links & Resources

Revolutions Per Minute

Revolutions Per Minute Recent Protest Songs

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Tish Ciravolo, Founder and President of Daisy Rock Girl Guitars, talks about her entrepreneurial journey, and leveling the playing field for female musicians.

The Dish:

• How 70s television stars Suzi Quatro and The Hardy Boys influenced Tish to pick up a bass
• Playing in an all girl band on the Sunset Strip during the 80s
• Career advice from Brian Setzer
• The inspiration and adversity that pushed Tish to start a company that made guitars for girls
• What happened when hotel security guards stole a couple of the first Daisy Rock prototypes
• Changing the mindset of guitar retailers
• What is a “girl guitar 
• The importance of funding for a new business
• Watching Wanda Jackson play her Daisy Rock guitar during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Giving a Ted talk 
• Plans to grow the business and change the world

Links & Resources:

Daisyrock.com

Daisy Rock on twitter

Daisy Rock on instagram

Daisy Rock on facebook

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Jazz trumpeter Ellen Seeling talks about her career as a musician, challenges women face in the jazz world, starting a jazz camp for girls, and her crusade to get the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to change their hiring practices.

The Dish: 

• Montclair Women’s Big Band new record
• Recording with Leslie Ann Jones at Skywalker Sound
• Why aren’t there any permanent women members in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra?
• The impact of blind auditions in American orchestras
• Why Ellen founded Jazz Women & Girls Advocates
• Studying jazz at Indiana University
• Working with Laura Nyro
• Challenges women face getting gigs in the jazz world
• Starting a successful summer jazz camp for girls
• Appearing on Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
• Resources for the history of women in jazz

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Here are the links to resources, tools, books, and music discussed on the show. Some of these are affiliate links and will take you straight to Amazon if you want to pick them up for yourself. 

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Swing Shift by Sherri Tucker

The Girls in the Band documentary

Ellen Seeling on Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland

Montclair Women’s Big Band website

Jazz Women & Girls Advocates website

Jazz Women & Girls Advocates on Facebook

Montclair Women’s Big Band on Facebook

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A high energy conversation with Patrice Cokley, founder of The Bassline Group, on starting her company, shifting gears, and working with creatives.

The Dish:

• Starting her own branding and marketing company
• Basing your brand on who you are authentically
• Networking to grow the business
• Using Twitter to get a new client
• Turning down business that isn’t a good fit
• Creating long term client relationships
• Losing her sister and learning “Life is too short to settle.”
• Discovering mentorship in books
• Tuning out the “play it safe” voices to seize opportunity    

Links & Resources:

Instinct by T.D. Jakes

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

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www.thebasslinegroup.com

www.facebook.com/thebasslinegrp

www.twitter.com/thebasslinegrp

www.instagram.com/thebrasslinegrp

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Life long musician Gere Fennelly talks about managing multiple irons in musical fires while currently working as a composer of film/tv music, piano teacher, studio musician, and accompanist. She also shares stories from her touring days with Redd Kross, and living in Japan as a teenage member of an all girl band.

The Dish:

• How the Liberace-obssessed flamboyant girl survived Catholic school 
• When she knew she would be a rockstar
• How she’s managed to always support herself playing music
• Why she left Redd Kross
• How she fell into teaching piano
• How she composes for commercial music libraries
• How she defines success these days
• Why you can’t define better or worse with different
• The secrets to her success

Jenny Oppenheimer, former publicist, manager, product manager, web producer (Mercury Records, Bill Graham Management, Artist Direct, Nettwerk Records, Sony Pictures Digital), and current National Director, Marketing and Promotions for House of Blues Entertainment shares stories, experiences, and advice gained from a career spent in the trenches of the music industry.

The Dish:

• How Jenny got her start in the music business
• What she’s learned from age and experience
• Why “No” is not something to be afraid of hearing 
• Why she loves Dave Grohl
• Who has impacted & influenced her career
• What independent artists need to be doing to market themselves
• Why you need to make friends where you tour
• Jenny’s surprisingly simple #1 piece of advice for life and career success

Bands can sometimes be dysfunctional little families and work places. Often, we head to rehearsal or a gig after already putting in a full day at our “day job.” DISC Specialist and Communication Strategist Amy Woodall shares some strategies for tactfully handling a variety of personalities and situations.

The Dish:

• Why your expectations are causing problems
• What causes most of our communication problems
• How to manage “The Diva”
• How to handle the “One Upper”
• Why you must address problems BEFORE they happen
• How to develop trust
• What she learned about parenting from her mentor
• Why you have to be intentional in your actions 

Links & Resources: 

Connect with Amy on Twitter

Connect with Amy on LinkedIn

Amy’s Sparks Talk on The Challenges of Being a Woman

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

The Birth Order Book

The Trusted Advisor

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