Join us as we welcome Katie Jones a Berklee College of Music graduate who spent 5 years in LA before Katie took a leap of determination for her own artistry and hunger to move to New York, where she now resides in Brooklyn living amongst female musicians in the 135 magic house. 

Following her passion was the foundaiton of her Katie's move. Since moving to Brooklyn, Katie has solidified a role in the creative community as a full time producer, programmer and artist liaison for National Sawdust, a 1 year old non-profit performing arts center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Katie curates and produces a monthly music series at the venue called The Revolution.

Join us as Katie shares how The Revolution is a series that showcases emerging artists and musicians in the New York area. In addition Katie continues to perform alongside the 135 crew as well as reaching out to local creatives in support of the movement through the arts.

In times of great personal & worldwide stress accessing our super powers can be an almost impossible task. Today worldwide many have been expressing challenges dealing with environmental stresses with regard to racism, gun violence, terrorists, war, politics and the list can appear to be endless.

Join us today as we tap into our personal "Bag of Tricks" sharing some of our most valuable tools that can keep Super Powers alive in time of hardship. We would also love to hear some of your favorites during our live Q&A.

Having access to the authentic you can transform any situation into one that supports your inner Super Power. Today we discuss how biohacking tools can make all the difference in tapping the Super Power in you.

Up Your Volume

Coming off a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign Zach & Zebby have raised over $150K for The Woman Card (s) from over 3900+ backers! This deck of hand illustrated cards inspired by the currently policital bantor between Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton have taken the world by storm with the original fund raising goal of $5k exceeded in the blink of an eye.

The Woman Card[s are a deck of playing cards celebrating American women at a time when we are only going to hear the phrase "The Woman Card" used by Donald Trump more and more often. The deck features 15 original, hand-drawn portraits of American women to honor the incredible achievements the women of this country have made. 13 women appear in all four suits, with Betty White and Ellen DeGeneres as the Jokers. This is a full 54-card deck. (52 cards + 2 Jokers)

Zach & Zebby Wahls are no strangers in raising consciousness:

Zach known all over the world as a leading LGBTQ rights advocate, a Democratic activist, and a pledged delegate for Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Zebby graduating from the University of Iowa with her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Painting with an emphasis on illustration has seen her work many times on the pages of The Daily Iowan. Zebby is a proud feminist and caucused for Hillary Clinton in 2016. You can view more of her work here.

We are excited to talk about the crowdfunding experience from idea to action, challenges and rewards of starting a business when your crowd funding is hugely successful, working with family & what unexpected outcomes have happened as a result of this campaign.

Elora is a sexy, vibrant, fashionable, travelista whose day to day life she has been sharing with the world via social media, blogging & her 10-week challenge!

Once addicted to American fast food & facing early death by the age of 20, Elora now healthy, happy & continuing to work hard shares her journey toward wellness with a raw inside look into what it takes to be successful day to day.

Today Elora has an amazing 120+ pounds weight loss and the driving force known as The Shrinking Violet.  In additon Elora is the co-founder of 10 Week Challenge with the next one starting July 4th. Listen in to find out more!

Join us to learn about how community played a role in her succes, what motivates Elora's current path in wellness, self-love, travel and blogging & her thoughts on singing and performing now that she is blogging full time. This is going to be full of inspiration to up your volume no doubt!

LIVE from New Zealand on Wedneday, June 22 at 8:30am PST! #upYOURvolume

If there is one thing we can all agree to accept is that movements beyond required are essential to living a longer & healthy life.

My friend, award winning author & pioneer, Darryl Edwards a leader in the primal play movement & lifestyle consciousness will be joining Nicki & V for this weeks Up Your Volume LIVE Morning Show!

Darryl Edwards is an international speaker, certified personal trainer, nutritional therapist, & award-winning author. His works have been published in Men's Fitness, Women's Health, Elle, Daily Express, Top Sante, as well as being featured on the BBC and ABC in Australia. Darryl also is a frequent quest speaker at Harvard.

As the founder of the PRIMAL PLAY methodology, Darryl makes activity fun, effective and engaging while getting individuals healthier, fitter and stronger in the process. No play like primal play with Darryl is a common theme in the conscious living movment. Fans all over the world line up for his primal play sessions coming back for more & more fun year after year.

LIVE Q&A with Darryl makes this podcast a dream come true for the "primal player" in all of us. Mark your calender now & we will catch you Wednesday at 8:30am PST!

Read more about The Fitness Explorer: http://www.thefitnessexplorer.com

Great way to UP YOUR VOLUME this summer with some Primal Play!

Join Nicki Bove as she shares how 2016 was the year she decided to dedicate herself exclusively to music. For many artist this can be a daunting task often feeling within arms reach.

For Nicki the leap was huge until she made it official & became the CEO of Nicki Bove.

Hear how juggling real life & a full time career path in the arts happens in a world where a 9 to 5 corporate job for many is the status quo.

Nicki will share her passions & experiences that have unfolded during this transition such as teaching at the Academy of Music for the Blind, her latest choral work & more.

Join us for our LIVE MORNING SHOW Podcast where we up the volume on the arts and living every Wednesday at 8:30am PST on Blog Talk Radio.

http://www.nicki-bove.com/

Join PaleoBOSS and Nicki this week as they share the latest in the arts and conscious living with a focus on PaleoFX 2016. V just returned from over 4 full days in Austin learning from the leaders in the Paleo & conscious living movement.  Hear what is new, controversial & exciting in the movement.

Join us for this exciting podcast where we will be joined by Tramatic Brain Injury survivor, Cavin Balaster.  Cavin is a severe traumatic brain injury survivor, speaker, and educatorwith a mission is to help families, practitioners, and survivors of all kinds, by sharing the important information I learned throughout and after my recovery from TBI. 

In 2011, Cavin survived a two-story fall, was comatose for twelve days, diagnosed with a diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and was given less than a 10% chance of recovery. Once awake, he suffered from severe brain fog, memory loss, breathing problems, double-vision, serious infections, and was ultimately unable to eat, walk, or talk for several months.

Cavin will share his insights into important factors that aided his recovery & how it feels 5 years later after suffering his injury.  We are also excited to talk about a special project soon to be book that Cavin and others are working on regarding nutrition for those unable to eat.  Join us for what is poised to be a LIVE podcast filled with information to up your volume.

Grammy-nominated oboist Blair Tindall penned Mozart in the Jungle, now an Amazon Studios comedy series of the same name winning two 2016 Golden Globe Awards. She enjoys a musical career ranging from the classical stage of Carnegie Hall to the late-night ambiance of New York's famed Blue Note Jazz Club. She presented a critically acclaimed Weill Recital Hall debut and captured a top prize in the Lucarelli International Competition for Solo Oboists. A busy classical artist, Blair has played principal oboe with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York City Ballet and Opera Orchestras and the Pittsburgh Symphony. She was solo oboist on Broadway with Les Miserables, Aspects of Love, Man of La Mancha and Miss Saigon and graduated from Manhattan School of Music, Columbia and Stanford Universities, and has taught music & journalism at UC-Berkeley, Stanford, and Mills College.

Main website for the book, Mozart in the Jungle, is blairtindall.comThe show is available at mozartinthejungle.comBlair's speaking website is flairforgenius.com=

Join us this week as we welcome Neil Blomquist to our show! Neil will be sharing what the Palm Done Right movement is all about & what that means to each of us.

We are honored to have Neil on our show. Neil has over 40 years of hands-on success building brands and companies in the natural products industry. Neil who "V" refers to as "The Godfather of the Organic Movement" has hands on experience in retailing, distribution, brand marketing, product sourcing, product development and organizational management making him an all around expert on all things within the natural products movement. In addition Neil is one of the nicest human beings you will ever meet. 

Be sure to catch our hosts talking art & real life mixed with this weeks feature "Wake the F up People!" & Nicki's Weekly Play List!

Here is a great video talking about Palm Done Right to help up your volume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgrviUHLbhE