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Interview with Morry Zelcovitch – Part 1

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Morry Zelcovitch has had a lot of challenges in his life including depression and addiction. In his search for something to help him with his difficulties, he came across something called “binauaral beats” and that led him into the brainwave entrainment field (a term he coined himself).  Essentially, he’s programming his brain to operate in a healthier way, through the use of sound. Exploring this continues to be his life’s work. But like any self-improvement option, it works (or doesn’t work) for each person differently.  We talk a lot about this in our interview.

I found it truly fascinating to discuss how sound – or vibration interpreted by our eardrums – may be able to heal us from the inside out.

In this first part of our interview, we discussed:

  • His background in “brainwave entrainment” (how he trained himself)
  • His search to find a way to live
  • How he started researching the science of brain chemistry
  • He came across something that might work for him – something that would modify his neural chemistry
  • How music can heal through its “steady pulse” and pattern
  • Using a stimulus – sound and light – to influence his brainwaves so that he could feel better without drugs
  • Unfortunately, binauaral beats didn’t work for him
  • How he needed to create his own methodology
  • His opinion about some flawed science – the reason he wasn’t really helped by binauaral beats
  • How binauaral beats are supposed to work
  • The differences (and names) of various brainwave states
  • How our brains are designed to work
  • Why brainwave entrainment is so important

You can find out more about Morry’s approach to “brainwave entrainment” at www.themorrymethod.com .

His more professionally oriented website is at www.activemindsglobal.com .

And his newest product is at www.quantummindmethod.com .

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/).

Interview With Josuel Rogers – Part 2

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This is the second part of my discussion with Josuël Rogers, a coach who uses music – specifically Hip Hop – to help his students and clients develop self-awareness and confidence.  We talked about how music influences our moods (making a playlist for yourself can really help!), how personal sound can be and the power of words (among other things). You can find him at Hip Hop Culture Coaching (https://www.hiphopculturecoaching.com), if you’d like to learn more about the services he offers and the information he has to share.

In the second part of our conversation, we talked about:

  • Foley in film and the making of weather sounds
  • How your mind associates a type of sound with the weather
  • How the “filter” of a microphone changes sound
  • Hearing your own voice from a third-person’s perspective
  • Randomness and how that influences what we hear
  • How the same song can represent different moods for different people
  • How personal sound is
  • How we fixate on sounds we’re more familiar with (a drummer focuses on the drums in music, for instance)
  • The best kept secret about making playlists to help us experience the world in the way we want to
  • Repetition is key – words matter (“impossible” puts a block on things immediately, etc.)
  • Everything around you is a word
  • How a hockey coach learned to better coach his team through Neuro Linguistic Programming
  • Your brain not registering negatives
  • What he’s working on right now – coaching
  • More information about his podcast
  • Where his podcast can be found: podcast.hiphopculturecoaching.com – and on Apple, Spotify, etc.

You can find more information on Josuël by locating him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/josuelrogers/, on Instagram and Facebook as JosuelRogers & HipHopCultureCoaching, and you can find out about his own podcast by looking up The HipHop Minded Professional on any podcasting app you have available.

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/).

Interview With Josuel Rogers – Part 1

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This is the first part of my discussion with Josuël Rogers, a coach who uses music – specifically Hip Hop – to help his students and clients develop self-awareness and confidence. We talked about how music influences our moods and what got him into the Hip Hop culture in the first place (among other things). You can find him at Hip Hop Culture Coaching (https://www.hiphopculturecoaching.com), if you’d like to learn more about the services he offers and the information he has to share.

In this first part of our conversation, we talked about:

  • His introduction to Hip Hop music and its culture and why it drew him in as a teen (hint: think rebellion! 🙂 )
  • How he uses the philosophy, the mindset and the sounds behind it to influence moods.
  • How building a playlist of music like a DJ can make your day better
  • An article he wrote about music influencing how people see the emotions on other people’s faces. (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-motivation-mood-headphones-josu%C3%ABl-rogers-/)
  • How a smile is contagious – and audible in your voice
  • Neuro Linguistic Programming – how the words you use influence yourself and the person you’re speaking to
  • How he applies it in his own coaching
  • How he builds his workshops for students
  • The tone of your voice and connecting with others in both voice over and music
  • The tempo of music and whether or not faster means “happier” or something else
  • How music can change the “feel” of a scene in a film (I also spoke about this extensively with John McClain in our interview, if that subject interests you – https://voiceoversandvocals.com/blog/casinos/interview-with-john-mcclain-part-1/ )

You can find more information on Josuël by locating him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/josuelrogers/, on Instagram and Facebook as JosuelRogers & HipHopCultureCoaching, and you can find out about his own podcast by looking up The HipHop Minded Professional  on any podcasting app you have available.

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/).

My Interview With Clara Lehmann & Jonathan Lacocque of Coat Of Arms Post

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It was a true pleasure to talk with Clara and Jonathan about their creative process, how they work together as a creative couple and find time to figure out their work / life balance.

I’ve spoken about Lullaby Theories in a previous podcast but they’re also working on other projects such as Born In A Ballroom, titles for South by Southwest & videos for WebMD.  More information on what they’ve done in the past and what they’re currently working on can be found on their Coat Of Arms website.

I have no doubt they’ll continue to create stellar video work for both clients and themselves in the future.

I think you’ll find this conversation particularly inspiring if you’re a creative that’s pulled in a lot of different directions. Listening to how the two of them handle their busy lives and keep their critical inner voices from sabotaging them, was definitely helpful to hear.

Thanks for listening!

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco.

BIOS:

Clara Lehmann:
Clara wrote the award-winning documentary, A Perfect Soldier and co-directed and wrote the short-animated film, Death Loves Life. She’s directing & producing Lullaby Theories, an animated series that teaches kids about scientific theories and a feature length documentary called Born In A Ballroom. Clara works with clients like Google, Fox, Nickelodeon, The Onion and WebMD. She has three Excellence in Title Design nominations at South by Southwest, a gold and a silver Cannes Lion, and a Webby Nomination.

Jonathan Lacocque:
Jonathan has past experience at post studios, agencies, and broadcasting companies. His clients include PBS, Verizon, Jaguar Land Rover, Marriott, and Warner Brother Records. He produced & edited the award-winning film, A Perfect Soldier and continues to balance his commercial work with documentary and narrative filmmaking. He’s produced and edited multiple feature films and shorts / and continues to explore his passion for original stories with Coat of Arms’ Lullaby Theories series, and the documentary film, Born in a Ballroom. Past awards include an Emmy for editing, several Tellys, and multiple film festival awards.

Curiouser and Curiouser

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      Curioser and Curioser - Jodi Krangle - voiceoversandvocals.com

How do you experience the world?  Do you forget what it was like to experience new things?  To actually NOT know something?  To want to discover more about this thing you know nothing (or very little) about?

When I was a kid, the Internet didn’t exist.  At least, not the way it is now. I couldn’t just go online and look up stuff whenever I wanted to.  I had to go to the library and … you know … read a book.   I’m not looking down on the way things are done today. Quite the contrary.  Information is at our fingertips – whether it’s online or on our phones or tablets.  We just type a term into a search engine (who are we kidding.  Usually it’s Google), and away we go.  Information received!

But because information is so readily available, it’s really important now to check our sources.  To be aware of our own biases from the start so that we don’t just find information that feeds our own beliefs – we find information that’s TRUE. And that’s also where curiosity comes in again.

So how do you find (and CHECK) your information?  What sources do you use?  And how do you keep your curiosity about the world around you?  (I’d love to know your thoughts on this!  Feel free to email me or join me in my Facebook community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/jodisilverlinings/ to start a discussion.)

Along these sames lines, I think you all know by now, that I love what I do.  With voice overs, I’m able to help bring videos to life, audibly.  And a lot of the mastery and magic that goes into animating these videos, fascinates me.

A company I’ve worked with in the past that does wonderful work for their clients, also creates art on their own terms. And I’ve been so very impressed by what I’ve seen from them so far.  I’m talking about Coat Of Arms Post, run by husband and wife team, Jonathan Lacocque and Clara Lehmann.  They’ve started to put together wonderful, bite-sized animated videos explaining science, with commentary from their 4 year old twin daughters – and it’s adorable, funny and very informative, all at the same time.

If you have small children and you want to help satisfy their curiosity about the world around them, these are wonderful videos to show them.  If you don’t have small children, but you’re curious about the world yourself?  These videos are still a fun treat. I love not only how matter-of-fact they are (Clara does a fabulous job both writing the scripts and doing the voice overs and Jonathan’s unique style of animation underpins it all), but also how lovely it is to listen to the girls as they discover and enjoy what their mom is talking about.

Have you forgotten what it’s like to be curios about the world around you?  If you have, watching these videos might well cure you.  Enjoy! (The website for Lullaby Theories is here – so you can watch more of them if you’d like!)

My Interview with Artist & D&D Enthusiast, Joe Nittoly

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I had the pleasure of talking with my friend Joe Nittoly about his art, his enthusiasm for D&D (and how the two merge), along with how he overcomes those nasty critical inner voices many of us Creatives deal with. I think lots of people will relate to this very frank discussion.

If you’d like to learn more about Joe and his art (and how you can purchase some for your very own!), you can visit his main website at https://joe.nittoly.ca . But you can also find his Etsy store at https://gaminggeekshop.etsy.com and you can connect with him on Social Media via Twitter (https://twitter.com/pasiphilo) and Instagram (https://instagram.com/pasiphilo).

This episode was very skillfully made to sound beautiful by the talented Humberto Franco (http://www.humbertofranco.com/).