Tech Is The Answer NOT
What If? There is a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the notion that there are things you desperately want that you cannot give yourself. Let’s disrupt that. You see, there’s no reason you cannot heal yourself, improve your financial situation yourself, create peace within your family and friendship circles yourself, even begin to change the world…all […]
How To Prepare Musically For Memory Care
Imagine This Scenario You can’t speak intelligently, you have no memory of what happened in most of your life so far, you no longer recognize people around you, and yet your relationships are healthy and fulfilling, you are healthy and emotionally satisfied, physically fit, and living fully in the moment. Possible? For many people […]
The Chevy Commercial – Using AI May Be Risky For Creatives
Using AI to Mimic what Sells is Risky for Creatives If you create or lead a team of creators, your work is far more than artificial. Shouldn’t the creative act be extraordinary, too? When everyone uses AI to make content, will your work still sing? Will its energy be alive…or artificial? I contend that using […]
Music and Relationships
Moments Remember those great feelings you had at the live concert by that band you love? People dancing, singing along. Some of you got to see Taylor Swift, or Paul McCartney. Whoever it was, it felt amazing, those music and relationships moments. Then, it was over. Things went back to whatever normal is now. Would […]
This Changes Everything for Good
▶️ Listen to this article now (12 minutes) ▶️ What if… What if there was a way to improve every aspect of what you’re already doing without having to un-do any of it? What if you could support every best practice you already use in a way that would deepen those practices without competing within […]
Mind Blown: Why Creativity Matters
Just finished Rich Kirkpatrick’s “Mindblown: Creative Insights from Science and Magic.” It’s a quick compendium of the scientific basis for creativity and the sociological reasons why being creative matters. And creativity does matter: to both our success and our sanity. Have you ever wondered why there are so many more “negative” emotions than “positive” ones? […]
Four Important Ways Music Works In Groups: Wellness, Psychological Safety, Bonding, and Creativity
Whether you lead an enterprise, an agency, a recovery center, or a family, you’re probably already aware of the powerfully transformative technology that we call music. The trouble is, most of us have forgotten how to use music purposefully and at scale. Before we get to that, let’s review four important ways that music works […]