Art project Open Heart is an ambitious public art installation intended to explore the connection between the physical and emotional heart. A mixed media experience aimed at encouraging the question: “Are you listening to your heart?”

(for full show notes on Apple Podcasts go to https://languageofcreativity.podbean.com/e/openheart)

Linda Riber is a Danish artist, originally from Greenland. A painter and photographer who has been an exhibited artist around the world for over 20 years and has published an art book about Greenland. Her project consists of 6 large pillars, which stimulate both the body, the senses, and the intellect using art portraits and statements from participants of different ages, children’s drawings of “This is what my Heart looks like” combined with children’s interpretations of well-known proverbs, fact boxes exploring science and theories about what the heart is capable of besides it’s physical role and the changing sounds of a calm heartbeat, the composition “Human Divine” by musician and sound healer Davor Božič, and poems read by the artist.

In this episode Steve and Linda relate about a mutual inspiration, The Heart Math Institute, which conducts peer-reviewed research in psychophysiology about interaction between heart and brain. In addition to research, they have developed technologies that promote optimal health in the balance between heart, brain, body, thoughts and emotions. Linda shares about the work in her Atelier, her love of Greenland and it’s native people. And did you know that heart transplant patients can report experiencing new feelings, inclinations and cravings after their transplants? Linda and Steve talk about intuition and how they met in an unusually  heart-centered business class called Own Your Value, hosted by Lee Harris. 

This episode highlights the desperate need for humanity to reconnect with our hearts, at this time… not just for better lives but for a better world.

Featured Art:

https://linda-riber.dk/en/projekt/open-heart/

Music scored by Steven Leavitt

Hosted by Steven Leavitt

Guest: Linda Riber

Website: www.linda-riber.dk

Purchase Linda’s Book:

https://linda-riber.dk/en/contact/

Episode References:

Heart Math Institute

Mentioned:

Tags:

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Fast and Furious action unit director Spiro Razatos shares rags to riches story and how seeing the movie Shaft at age 11 inspired him on his path to becoming a Hollywood Stuntman.

Apple Podcasts users full show notes here: https://languageofcreativity.podbean.com/e/spiro-razatos-friendslikefamily-fastandfurious-action

Spiro Razatos began his career as a stunt man and quickly worked his way into the Directors Guild of America just by asking. Somehow, on the spot producers gave him his very first sequence directing a car chase! Since then Razatos has 2nd Unit Directed major films such as Venom, Bad Boys II and Bad Boys For Life, films in The Fast and The Furious franchise (Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, Fate of the Furious, F9), and Captain America Winter Soldier, to name a few. From Denver, Colorado and the son of Greek immigrants, young Spiro began training himself to be a stuntman after a fateful day when his dad took him on a Greyhound to visit the zoo. His father, who was also blind had saved for six months for the trip, but they never made it to the zoo. Eleven year old Razatos saw the marquee for the movie Shaq and begged his father to take him to see it… that day. “I started crying and said I don't know, I just need to see it now.” He practiced jumping off of roofs (don’t try this at home) and crashing his own bicycles until he was finally able to get a Super Eight movie camera. He’d managed to get his home-made stunt reel onto the set of Heart to Heart, when legendary stunt coordinators Mike Vendrell and Greg Barnett finally called him and told him they would help him come to Hollywood.

In this episode we talk about the magic of visual storytelling, the importance of shooting practical stunts and how CG (computer generated elements) can totally ruin the believability of a sequence, why Spiro always hires his own editor (the one he’s had his whole career) spending hours at the end of every shooting day to present the sequence to the studio. We talk about his work/life balance and yearly trips to the “ashram” to detox. But most importantly Spiro highlights the importance of having a team of people you know and trust with your life. His stunt team, Team Malaka has been with him for over 30 years, oh yeah, and of course we talk about his favorite “team building activity” playing Call of Duty 2.

Guest: Spiro Razatos 

IMDB

On My Radar - Spiro Razatos

Host: Steven Leavitt

Site: https://www.icreatesound.com/

Featured Music

“Haunting Me” by Testing Tomorrow

Episode References

Fast 5 Vault Sequence (YouTube)

'Star Wars: Episode VII' Producer Talks Story, Characters, and Practical Effects vs. CGI (Interview: ScreenRant) correction: I said Deborah Winger it was actually Kathleen Kennedy

Shaft (IMDB)

Paul Walker death (The Guardian)

Ashram (Wikipedia)

Captain America Winter Soldier (IMDB)

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“Creativity is a base element of the human soul.” So says Steven Leavitt, the host of the Language of Creativity podcast. In this very special episode, Steve’s very first guest on the podcast flips the tables in this tell-all reverse interview guest-hosted by his long-time collaborator Adam Sears!

As a music producer, Steve has helped Sears craft his last 3 projects with Progressive Rock band Lobate Scarp. Their 2016 recording of Beautiful Light has won awards and recognition as “a masterpiece” and in 2022 Steve Co-Executive Produced Lobate Scarp’s latest album You Have It All. The ambitious full-length album has received high praise from reviewers and fans alike. 

But it wasn’t always easy… Steven was born into a family of motion-picture stunt performers but always felt way more at home in front of a microphone, piano or a mixing console. Steve began learning the piano at 8 years old “to express what I was feeling when I couldn’t express it in words.” Lyrically blocked, bullied as a kid and extremely sensitive as a boy he was certainly an odd fit in a family that worked in such a rough and tumble industry. But he stuck with it, choosing to pursue audio engineering in college at Musician’s Institute in Hollywood after realizing that there was an ideal career path for using his skills and talents: music producer. Steve graduated in 2000, unfortunately right as Napster was crashing the music industry. The dot-com bust made it hard to enter the job market (thanks Enron) so he began to freelance making websites, editing video demo-reels for stunt-people, and started working on films as a background precision driver. He recorded for independent musicians to build experience, joined a band, and edited videos for his dad’s stunt-company producing “featurettes” with celebrity talent and assisted with MTV shoots. Steve kept a “web journal” before blogging got big and considered himself a multimedia artist a whole five years before the advent of YouTube. When he started Don’t Call Us Tori in 2004, a music showcase he co-founded with with singer-songwriter Shannon Hurley, in Hollywood, Steve’s music network really began to grow leading to a fateful introduction to Adam who approached Steve to produce his band’s debut album Time and Space in 2008. The album’s production coincided with what Steve describes as “an unexpected spiritual awakening” during the lead up to the album’s 2012 release “that felt like I was coming home to myself.” 

Adam talks with Steve about their very fruitful creative partnership and Steve’s relentlessly perfectionistic work ethic in the studio. They discuss starting this podcast and how it has been a major creative outlet for Steve (he probably could have pursued a career in Radio). They talk about what it was like growing up attending “backflips down the aisles churches” and discovering hit singles on KIIS FM while coming of age thinking it’s only okay to listen to Christian music but finding Christian grunge, loving Weird Al… about dropping out, burnout, ptsd, and… Just why the heck did Steve choose not to go into the stunt business? Steve shares  about learning the importance of infusing joy into your work, finding your inner creative spark, and how sometimes we can be doing the right thing while going about it the wrong way!

** if show-notes cut off click here

Guest: Steven Leavitt

Producer Website: stevenleavitt.com

Featured Music

The Mirror by Lobate Scarp

Safe With You by Skillet

The Dime by performed (and re-recorded) by Steven Leavitt, lyrics by Steven Leavitt and Tony Khan a parody of Sign (originally performed by Ace of Base) written by Jenny Cecilia Berggren (STIM), Jonas Petter Berggren (STIM), Malin Sofia Katarina Berggren (STIM), and Ulf Gunnar Ekberg (STIM) published by Megasong Publishing (KODA) and Warner-Tamarlane Publishing Group (BMI) Copyright 1992.

Episode References

Ender’s Game (IMDB)

Serendipity & Synchronicity (Dr. Carder Stout for Goop)

Rich Mouser (discogs.com)

The Highly Sensitive Person (hsperson.com)

Debbie Evans (Steve’s mom, professional stuntwoman)

Precision Driving

Toni Koch on The Language of Creativity Ep. 11 “The Times They Are a Changin

Amy Grant album Lead Me On (title track: YouTube | Wikipedia)

35 Best 90s Christian Alternative Rock Bands (Ranker.com)

Jonie Blinman (Apple Music)

Roger Waters - Amused to Death (Wikipedia | Last 3 tracks: YouTube)

Weird Al work ethic in the studio (Behind the Scenes on the making of Strait Outta Lynwood)

Beautiful Light by Lobate Scarp (Lyric Video: YouTube)

Malcolm Gladwell’s “Connectors”: People Who Spread Ideas (ShortForm.com)

Sony Pictures Harrison MPC4-D mixing console

The (2000) Dot-com Collapse (internationalbanker.com)

Geoff Downes (​​Wikipedia)

PYT (Pretty Young Thing) - Michael Jackson (YouTube)

Drake Bell (IMDB)

Talyn Edelson on Language of Creativity Ep. 25 “Someone Else’s Dream”

Website: https://thelanguageofcreativity.com/

Facebook Group: The Language of Creativity Discussion Group - Facebook

Tags

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OwnTrail is a social platform that helps people visualize and achieve their next milestone in life and work through offering tools and community that fuel a more authentic definition of success.

Kt McBratney is co-founder and chief community officer of OwnTrail, founded in 2020 (just three weeks before the pandemic hit). After meeting her co-founder Rebekah Bastian in Seattle she moved across the country to a new home, sight-unseen, and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Before that she’s been a chief marketing officer, a brand marketer, production director, worked at a zoo, and in higher education (all while secretly wearing a superhero t-shirt under her business suit). Kt seeks to “disrupt the status-bro” by helping people reclaim their stories and loves building strong, inclusive communities. “The status-bro tricks us into focusing on a mythical one ‘right’ path through life, instead of focusing on OUR path. It makes us feel like we're only as good as our resumes and social media.”

In this episode we explore being authentic to yourself and why LinkedIn is great for job-hunting but not really great at helping you figure out what you really want to do. We talk about the rising feminine, burnout, frogs, pagers (143 anyone?), and the power of help-beacons; how OwnTrail is designed to be a totally different kind of social platform. Kt explains finding themselves fascinated by people who do many things… people she calls “ANDs.” We also talk about the crucial importance of play (Spoiler alert: the job is never done!) and why Steve is a Mokey sun with a Janice moon and a Scooter rising.

There was one social media quote that I couldn’t find for the episode that I think sums everything up perfectly: “Be a Kermit the Frog. Have a creative vision and no ego. Recognize the unique talents of those around you. Attract weirdos. Manage chaos. Show kindness. Be sincere.” – Richard R. Penner (@timescanner)

Guest: Kt McBratney

OwnTrail

Kt’s Trail

Twitter: @k_to_the_t

References

Jennifer Fischer (Language of Creativity Ep. 2 | Medium | Twitter | Think Ten Media)

Proposals for a Feminine Economy – Jennifer Armbrust (sister.is | book | short video)

Ecosystem Restoration Camps

Kiss The Ground (documentary)

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music – Victor L. Wootin (GoodReads)

The “Bad Vegan” Scandal (TastingTable)

AuthenTech: (from Rebekah Bastian’s Trail) “Once OwnTrail has a liquidity event, I plan to take that money and re-invest it into the startup ecosystem, focusing on under-estimated founders that are building AuthenTech companies. In the meantime, I'm starting to dabble in some small investments, as an angel and LP, so I can build up my experience and portfolio.”

Short Circuit (IMDB)

Steven’s Trail

Host: Steven Leavitt

Steven’s Trail

Featured Music

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“You have pain where?!” People have often asked why a healthy person like me would need physical therapy. They are quite surprised to learn about pelvic-floor therapy… and it’s not long before I hear “I have pain there too.”

What was once a specialty that not even many obstetricians or urologists knew about, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy is now a rapidly growing field with an outsized demand for new therapists. Treating conditions like urinary and fecal urgency, incontinence, prolapse, nerve entrapment, surgical scarring, pre and postpartum issues, visceral restrictions and sexual dysfunction, it’s not hard to see why.

When Elizabeth Makous became a physical therapist over 30 years ago there were only a couple of classes teaching pelvic floor therapy. When seeing a patient complaining of vaginal pain “deep inside” she donned a pair of gloves and began treating patients internally.  Elizabeth has continued to innovate new treatments in the field applying her unique kind of creativity to the world of medicine. After the home birth of her son she figured out a way to treat her own bathroom issues without surgery. She’s developed protocols for successfully treating issues previously thought untreatable (even with surgery). She even approached a company called TheraWand to ask if she could make improvements to an existing vaginal wand product to more efficiently treat the pelvic floor rectally. After spending a year with a heat lamp sculpting plastic into the curves she felt would be more safe and effective… she'd created a brand new trigger wand that can be used to treat both men and women.

Maybe it was the way she was raised… spending time in the clinic with her father, a doctor, and her mother, a nurse. Her grandfather was also a doctor in this small-town community who treated blacks for free during the segregation era in the South. Their passion spilled over in such a way that when meeting a patient with a need, Elizabeth says “there is a gift inside me that just looks for a way to treat it.”

In this episode we talk about the importance of being your own medical advocate, how sitting for a living can be an occupational hazard, treating patients with lymphedema, pain management (without opioids), and how Covid restrictions didn’t stop humans from needing touch. We also speak about being a highly-sensitive (HSP), the need for major reform in the emergency mental healthcare system, and how Elizabeth leans on her Catholic Chrisitan faith (for example: she took two medical mission-trips to Kenya in 2019 and 2021 helping to empower African men and women to alleviate pelvic pain and to treat female victims of female genital mutilation). Finally, chronic pain if left untreated can leave people feeling very desperate… and it doesn’t have to be that way!

Guest: Elizabeth Mackous, MSPT, CLT, PRPC, CES “The Pelvic Whisperer”

Website: https://www.pelvicwhisperer.com/

Instagram: @pelvicwhisperer

The Makous Protocol practitioner and patient classes  (Teachable)

Information for cancer patients and to find a therapist

Episode References:

Henry Mayo Hospital Outpatient Therapy Center Valencia, California

Debbie Evans (Steve’s mom)

Dr. David Wise (pelvicpainhelp.com)

A Headache in the Pelvis (GoodReads)

“Pelvic floor massage for Prostatitis and CPPS with a TheraWand” (The Pelvic Pain Clinic) 

Currently available TheraWand products (some products have become unavailable)

My Pelvic Floor Muscle | Elizabeth’s class on “An Innovative Way To Use Electrical Stimulation For Severe Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

U.S. Olympic Team Sexual Abuse lawsuit (The Denver Post)

Neptune Beach, Florida (Wikipedia)

Elaine Aron: The Highly Sensitive Person

Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Center (Dr. Wu)

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (GoodReads)

Matthew Sanford interview “The Body’s Grace”: On Being

Dr. Andrew Goldstein: Sexual Medicine Courses for Pelvic Health Practitioners

Additional Resources:

Fascia & The Mystery of Chronic Pain | Dana Sterling | LIFE TALK (YouTube)

Language of Creativity’s host Steven Leavitt enjoys discussing the ins and outs of all aspects of creating, creativity, and life with his fellow creators, artists, inventors, designers, and producers. Along the way, he gains perspective and multiplies his understanding of our universal potential for creating, living, and learning,

Host: Steven Leavitt

Site: https://www.icreatesound.com/

Portfolio: http://stevenleavitt.com/

Intro Music: CHEF (music.joshgeenen.com)

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“A creator is inherently born to change the status-quo.” 

In this bonus episode, Stephen Bau tackles “Imposter Syndrome” with Ensoulment coach Veronica Anderson during a candid private coaching session.

Stephen Bau is an artist, designer and social architect who was also my guest on Epsiodes 17 and 18.

Stephen and Veronica talk about overcoming the “dragon” of the status-quo and Veronica points out “There will always be a status-quo... and you will always be creating the things that change it.” 

Thank you to Stephen and Veronica for allowing me to share this session with you.

Stephen Bau

Builder’s Collective (website)

lunasolterra.art

World Builders (referred to as World Weavers Group in the recording)

Veronica Anderson, Life Coach

www.veronicasanadora.com

www.veronica.earth (blog)

HomeDash – (geo-design project)

Episode References

Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit (goodreads)

The Tiger and The Strawberry

Rachel Naomi Remen on On Being (with Krista Tippett)

Tony Patrick - World Builders

Original music by Steven Leavitt

Tags: World-Weavers, Running Up That Hill, Don Golden, Rob Bell, new economy, light and shadow, toroidal field, relationships, childcare, dog care, self-care, co-regulate, partnership, life is messy, eating, transfers of energy and life, Zen, the medical establishment, healing, generous listening, cancer, “cure”, pathology, intervention, death, parts without the whole, whole human, scarcity around time, regenerative stories, play, drama, collective of creative people, film, tv mini-series, The Walking Dead, violence, scarce resources, growing regenerative society, comic books, band, guitarist, Comic Book Guy, anime, characters, revolutionary, covert social movements embedded in art, exploration, graphic novel, creative shortcuts, storytelling, consumable art, Tony Patrick, Asterix, obsession, imperial, empire, archetypes, creator, sage, visionary, dreamer, portal, earth, trans-dimensionality, interface, dashboard, floating-point, quantum computing, whole numbers, coordinates, A.I., Feldman, we are the interface, The Messengers, The Quanta, the physical reality is the message, worldbuilding, the desire to create things of enduring value, perfectionism, imagination, patterns, problem solving, fears, mediocrity, excellence, Chris Adams, The NewYorker, Charles Schultz, inferiority complex, college, skill, drawing, linear artwork, painting, subtleties, values, colors, paint by numbers, Alphonse Muscha, cartoonish, realism, complex simplicity, fear of settling, commit, make a choice, invest, sabotage, status quo, heartache, opposition, change, challenge, female, womb, male, birthing, life, imagination, metaphysics, physics, the trap of fear, strengths, weaknesses, soul, imposter syndrome

Language of Creativity’s host Steven Leavitt enjoys discussing the ins and outs of all aspects of creating, creativity, and life with his fellow creators, artists, inventors, designers, and producers. Along the way he gains perspective and multiplies his understanding of our universal potential for creating, living, and learning.

http://stevenleavitt.com/

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Before we sat down to do this interview with this commissioned artist she made a very bold statement: “I hate making art.” 

Talyn Edelson is a warrior through and through. Having conquered both intense physical and mental obstacles in her life, Talyn has trained to be lit on fire, perform with weapons, fall off buildings and be pulled back through walls or doorways by ratchets. Although she studied graphic design and motion graphics in college in Oklahoma she actually wanted to move to Los Angeles as quickly as possible to pursue a career in stunts and action acting.

Fresh off a breakup and still in quarantine (recorded in July 2020) Steve and Talyn Edelson discuss her lifelong passion for getting into the motion picture stunt industry and how she was forced to choose between losing support from her family or finishing university. Talyn says that she wouldn’t be happy doing anything other than performing, “It's so important to me that I would rather die homeless on the street here than give up and go home.”

Steve and Talyn know each other through Stunt Lab, a stunt training and experimental action techniques workshop hosted by Steve’s dad. When she’s not performing stunts or mastering her movement techniques, Talyn creates commissioned artworks for numerous clients as well as distinguished artistic prints. Even though she makes a living from drawing and digital design, she would much rather be channeling her creativity toward movement and performance.

We talk about Talyn’s perspective on creating from a place of pain and obligation rather than joy and desire, and “what happens when you excel at someone else’s dream?” We discuss the joy behind various forms of creativity and expression, the irony of caring too much, grappling with COVID-19 life, and establishing rewards and coping mechanisms as she lives and learns each day. 

Her latest project is her custom apparel business Villainy Street, LTD. Check out her killer Spotify curated playlist on her webpage.

Guest: Talyn Edelson

Villainy Street LTD “Good People Playing Bad”

Facebook: VillainyStreet

Instagram @VillainyStreet

Talyn’s art (Dribbble)

IG: @talyndesigns

Talyn’s social medias

Instagram: @talynedelson

Vimeo: Vimeo.com/Talyn

Episode References:

RVCA shirts

Reiki

Imposter Syndrome

SAG-AFTRA

Debbie Evans (website | imdb)

The Language of Creativity Episode 1

Sugar Glass

Squib hit (wikipedia)

Apple box (wikipedia)

Hero’s Journey

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Civilianaire Clothes

Episode Music: “Acid Loop Fever” (2002) Steven Leavitt

Language of Creativity’s host Steven Leavitt enjoys discussing the ins and outs of all aspects of creating, creativity, and life with his fellow creators: artists, inventors, designers, producers and more. Along the way he hopes to gain perspective and multiply our understanding of what we share in common while creating, living, and learning.

Site: https://www.icreatesound.com/

Portfolio: http://stevenleavitt.com/

Please review this podcast on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher and help other creatives find their tribe! The idea and concept of tribe has never been so inclusive as now in our interconnected reality. We’d love for you all to join us.

Tags: graphic design, stunts, Los Angeles, Stunt performer, pain, determination, martial arts, past lives, reincarnation, synchronicity, interpretive dance, Reiki, healing, consciousness, vibration, frequency, emotional connection of pain, mind body connection, traumatic brain injury motorcycles, physical movement, life lists, calf roping, COVID pods, traumatic brain injury, imposter syndrome, vices, coping mechanisms, SAG-AFTRA, heroes, spirituality, mermaids, Santa Barbara, synchronicity, authenticity, motion graphics, Cheesecake Factory, school, Art, failure, charcoal, graphite, Prismacolor, watercolor, joy, education, talent, caring, dating, confidence, trying too hard, dirt bike, manifestation, chasing your dreams, lasso, Jiu Jitsu, pressure points, chess, covid-19, loneliness, solitude, mental health, trauma, marijuana, alcohol, chocolate, coping, positive rewards, self-care, luxury, procrastination, diversion, diminishing returns, table read, demos, time to decompress, stress points, mentors, quarantine, development, acting, theater, Unions, acting, entertainment industry, Debbie Evans, Lane Leavitt, fun, motivation, emotional support, The Hero's Journey, adopted, Outliers, Bill Gates, programming, individuation, subconscious, unconscious, clothing company, Civilian Air, RVCA, denim, advertising, motivation, Subway sandwiches

In honor of Memorial Day

Honor and Glory, a poem by Jack T. Leyton.

www.jaxsongs.com

Spotify

Starting out can be hard. Steve was sitting at a podcasting panel when the lady sitting next to him looked over and asked “do you understand any of this?”

It turns out the lady sitting next to Steve has been on PBS and NPR with her course, Learn to Play Guitar in a Day! Marlene Hutchinson is a teacher at heart, and was at one time an elementary school teacher. She didn’t actually learn to play guitar until she was an adult. As a child she played piano and clarinet, but she says that when she found the guitar “it was like I found my cocoon, my home.”

In this episode Marlene and Steve talk about learning how to podcast, practicing (Marlene loved it, Steve hated it), “the beginner’s mind” and how picking up a new instrument gives you a whole new way to look at music. We also touch on what makes a good teacher, sound-healing, how music affects your brain, writing songs just for fun, children's music and explore the entrepreneurial journey that Marlene took to get her workshop on PBS.

Steve helped Marlene launch the Tips For Guitar Playing Success podcast, which now has over 35,000 downloads since its release on April 9, 2020.

Guest: Marlene Hutchinson

https://marlenesmusic.com/

Featured Music: “It’s Never Too Late” by Marlene Hutchinson

Tips for Guitar Playing Success podcast

https://tipsforguitarplayingsuccess.podbean.com/

Lesson of the Month Club

https://marlene-s-guitar-academy.teachable.com/p/lesson-of-the-month-club

Learn to Play Guitar in a Day

https://marlene-s-guitar-academy.teachable.com/p/learn-to-play-guitar-in-a-day

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NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants): https://www.namm.org/

Meinl Sonic Energy: https://meinlsonicenergy.com/

Music Instrument Museum: http://mim.org/

Tom Cicoria “A Bolt from the Blue” (New Yorker Magazine) 

Gabby Giffords “10 years later, Gabby Giffords finds her words and lives her life” (AZ Central)

Brian Eno "AMBIENT 1: MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS (REMASTERED 2004)"

Brian Eno’s ambient music for times of thinking and healing

Gerald White's Sight Singing and Vocal Masterclasses  Music1on1.com

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Steve's audio coaching business: I Create Sound 

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