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Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
“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!
Could Future-Steve have somehow been sending messages back in time to himself?
** if show-notes cut off click here
Guest: Steven Leavitt
Producer Website: stevenleavitt.com
Artist Coaching: icreatesound.com
Podcast: thelanguageofcreativity.com (please subscribe and review!)
Steven Leavitt (filmography: IMDB)
Guest-Host: Adam Sears
adamsears.com
Lobate Scarp: website | BandCamp
@lobatescarp Twitter | Instagram
@adamsears32 Twitter | Instagram
Adam Sears on Ep.1 of The Language of Creativity Podcast “Naming The Podcast”
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)
Nat Magnuson (episode 4 and 5)
The Artist’s Way by Juilia Cameron (theartistswaybook.com)
Serendipity & Synchronicity (Dr. Carder Stout for Goop)
Synchronicity by The Police (Wikipedia)
“Prog” = Progressive Rock (music genre: Wikipedia)
Time and Space by Lobate Scarp
Interstellar (movie: Rotten Tomatoes)
Rich Mouser (discogs.com)
Spock's Beard V (Album: Wikipedia)
The Mouse House Studio
The Highly Sensitive Person (hsperson.com)
Debbie Evans (Steve’s mom, professional stuntwoman)
Precision Driving
The Truman Show (Rotten Tomatoes)
Bruce Almighty (IMDB)
Toni Koch on The Language of Creativity Ep. 11 “The Times They Are a Changin
Matthew 5:15 (BibleGateway.com)
Episode 26 with Physical Therapist Elizabeth Makous
Amy Grant album Lead Me On (title track: YouTube | Wikipedia)
KIIS FM, Los Angeles (Wikipedia)
Pentecostalism (BBC Religions)
Church scene from The Blues Brothers (feat. James Brown! YouTube)
35 Best 90s Christian Alternative Rock Bands (Ranker.com)
Poor Old Lu (BandCamp)
Skillet (rateyourmusic.com)
Jonie Blinman (Apple Music)
Radiohead: Kid A (besteveralbums.com)
World Music in Newhall (Yelp.com)
Yes! (official website)
Roger Waters - Amused to Death (Wikipedia | Last 3 tracks: YouTube)
KLOS Jim Ladd (LAist.com)
Hammond B3 (Wikipedia)
Agnosticism (Wikipedia)
Weird Al work ethic in the studio (Behind the Scenes on the making of Strait Outta Lynwood)
(Weird Al and Steve share a birthday!)
The Sign (song: Wikipedia) – Ace of Base (Music Video: YouTube)
Cakewalk for DOS (WinWorld), SMPTE (Old School Tape Sync, How Did It Work? YouTube)
Amish Paradise by “Weird” Al Yankovic (Video: YouTube)
Episode 165 - Top Ten “Weird” Al Songs w/ Steven Leavitt on All Time Top Ten with Ben Eisen
Parody vs. Pastiche (Masterclass)
Christianne Kinney (Entertainment Attorney) The Language of Creativity Ep. 14
Callin’ in Sick by “Weird” Al Yankovic (YouTube)
Beautiful Light by Lobate Scarp (Lyric Video: YouTube)
Lobate Scarp Choir Session (Making-of: YouTube)
Malcolm Gladwell’s “Connectors”: People Who Spread Ideas (ShortForm.com)
Adrienne Woods (official website)
Friendster (Article: Vice)
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (GoodReads)
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (Wikipedia)
Sony Pictures Harrison MPC4-D mixing console
The Musician’s Institute mi.edu
Victor Wooten (official website)
Vital Techtones (Henderson, Smith, Wooten) VTT2 album info: guitar9.com
The (2000) Dot-com Collapse (internationalbanker.com)
How NAPSTER crashed the music industry (The Guardian | BBC)
YouTube launched in 2005 (Business Insider)
Geoff Downes (Wikipedia)
The Macaroni Grill (Blog: Thrillist)
PYT (Pretty Young Thing) - Michael Jackson (YouTube)
Drake Bell (IMDB)
The Amanda Show (IMDB)
Talyn Edelson on Language of Creativity Ep. 25 “Someone Else’s Dream”
Please review this podcast on Google Play, iTunes, Amazon and Stitcher and help other creatives find their tribe!
Website: https://thelanguageofcreativity.com/
Facebook Group: The Language of Creativity Discussion Group - Facebook
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Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
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
Kt’s Trail
Twitter: @k_to_the_t
References
Jennifer Fischer (Language of Creativity Ep. 2 | Medium | Twitter | Think Ten Media)
Seed&Spark
Proposals for a Feminine Economy – Jennifer Armbrust (sister.is | book | short video)
Kiss The Ground (documentary)
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music – Victor L. Wootin (GoodReads)
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future – Daniel Pink (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)
Weird Al Yankovic (Washington Post | New York Times)
Weird Al work ethic in the studio (Behind the Scenes on the making of Strait Outta Lynwood)
(Weird Al and Steve share a birthday!)
Scorpio/Libra cusp astrology
Mokey Fraggle
Steven’s Trail
Host: Steven Leavitt
Steven’s Trail
Site: https://www.icreatesound.com/
Portfolio: http://stevenleavitt.com/
Featured Music
“Boom Cat” by Raul Hernandez
“Nothing Wrong” by Lobate Scarp
Please review this podcast on Google Play, iTunes, Amazon and Stitcher and help other creatives find their tribe!
Website: https://thelanguageofcreativity.com/
Facebook Group: The Language of Creativity Discussion Group - Facebook
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Founders, startups, saas, online community, values, woman-owned, LinkedIN, CMO, marketing, board-room, careers, zoo, higher education, employment, indie film, motherhood, book hoarder, moving across-country, Atlanta, home buying, Seattle, pandemic, dad jokes, Jennifer Fischer, health insurance coverage, social media, algorithms, gamified, #winning, safety, milestones, marriage, getting a job, miscarriage, burnout, community, help-beacon, tools, pagers, payphones, fax-machines, starting a podcast, TED talks, life path, questions, artists, square peg in a round hole, creatives, creative careers, environment, sharing stories, non-binary, feminine spaces, abundance, representation, race, disconnection, loneliness, compartmentalization, Los Angeles, individualism, collectivism, John D. Liu, Kiss The Ground, Ecosystem Restoration Camps, mycelium networks, cross-polination, nature, ecology, support, pivot, authenticity, inclusion, curiosity, Muppet astrology
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
“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/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PelvicWhisperer
Instagram: @pelvicwhisperer
The Makous Protocol practitioner and patient classes (Teachable)
Information for cancer patients and to find a therapist
Academy of Oncologic Physical Therapy
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
Steven Bau: BLDRS Collective
Mycelial Networks: The National Forest Foundation
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Center (Dr. Wu)
750 N Hill St J, Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 680-8782
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (GoodReads)
Somatic Experiencing International (traumahealing.org / IG: @somaticexperiencingint)
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)
Midroll piano score: Steven Leavitt
Outro music: “Nothing Wrong” by Lobate Scarp
Please review this podcast on Google Play, iTunes, and Stitcher and help other creatives find their tribe!
Website: https://thelanguageofcreativity.com/
Facebook Group: The Language of Creativity Discussion Group - Facebook
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Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
“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
Luna Solterra Coda Document
World Builders (referred to as World Weavers Group in the recording)
Veronica Anderson, Life Coach
www.veronica.earth (blog)
HomeDash – (geo-design project)
Episode References
Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush (NPR)
Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit (goodreads)
Rachel Naomi Remen on On Being (with Krista Tippett)
Tony Patrick - World Builders
Asterix (wikipedia)
Mark Wagnon (Awareness Farms Facebook | Conscious Cafe Facebook | LinkedIN)
Alphonse Mucha
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.
lease review this podcast on Google Play, iTunes and Stitcher and help other creatives find their tribe!
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
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:
The Language of Creativity Episode 1
Squib hit (wikipedia)
Apple box (wikipedia)
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
Monday May 30, 2022
Monday May 30, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
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
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
Guitar Coaching Sessions
https://marlene-s-guitar-academy.teachable.com/p/coaching-with-marlene
Episode References:
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
SCORE find a business coach
Steve's audio coaching business: I Create Sound
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 by Darmok (Magnuson, Anton, Leavitt)
End Music: "Drone Into Tomorrow" by Raul Hernandez
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Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Steve hates banter! So here's a full episode of it.
Links
Undercover Rubicon (Spotify)
Hers (Spotify)
Class Of 1999 (IMDB)
tags: banter episode, Selena, Danny Elfman, Netflix, Hers, LTO tape, demos, Cubase, Dongles, Win 98, pawn shop regret, synths, Paula Abdul, Corona, quarantine, podcasting, studio attire, ENFP, Tommy Bahama, school conformity, high school, control constructs, GED's, independent study, recurring nightmares, auditing classes, masterclass, St. Vincent, Alicia Keys, Timbaland, Tom Morello, Dave Grohl, Chris Hadfield, Brad Pitt, Bradgelina, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, interviewing, Pierce Brosnan, movie skills, Universal Studios Tour, Jannet Jackson, fish bowl, Universal backlot, stunt doubles, music videos, social distancing, personal space, LA traffic, gas station bathrooms, peeing in public, muckbang, cat-pee smell, The Record Plant, indoor smoking, Vegas, The Sahara Casino, north The Strip, the Killers, Vegas locals, Waze, big city, small world, Thomas Guides, beepers, payphones, quarters, parking meters, parking meter apps, Pasadena, tow yard, social media, Facebook, Myspace, small town, AIM, Private school versus public school, Class Of 1999, Jacuzzi podcast, being a dad, the book was better, Lonely Girl 15, Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, pierogi, Denny’s, Coco’s, IHOP, vaping, True Crime, Forensic Files, X-Files, Coast to Coast AM, Art Bell, George Noori, Twilight Zone, Hillary Duff, Cher, AutoTune, T-Pain, Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
What do you do when you’re locked in your house for 6 months? Record an EP of course!
Inspired by the sound of 80s Post-Punk and Darkwave, this musical duo loves to take a look back at the past “to see how genres intertwine.”
This episode was recorded in late 2020: we were looking back on quarantine and how it allowed more time to make music. Before that, the duo says “the only time we had to make music was on vacation.” We talk about the evolution of a song in the writing process, the recording process, having opposite schedules, Depeche Mode, celebrity overdoses and the demands of celebrity… maybe why the Rubicon would like to be undercover in the first place. We also hear about Steve’s original band and their child-prodigy nine year-old drummer and get a glimpse into the evolution of a song.
Rebec… I mean Rubicon shares her perspective about why the pandemic was good (in some ways) and how she was hesitant to release a song that could be considered political. “I’m not built to live through a Revolution” she says quoting the meme.
Guest: Undercover Rubicon (Rebecca Leavitt / Raul Hernandez)
Apple Music
Instagram - @undercoverrubicon
Facebook
Featured Music:
Living A Lie by Undercover Rubicon
Time by Undercover Rubicon
“I Don’t Know How To Write” (In Too Deep sketch) written by Rebecca Leavitt and Steven Leavitt
In Too Deep by Undercover Rubicon
The 12th Hour by Transfiguration
Forever Somewhere by Eric Kennedy, Jo Blinman and Steven Leavitt
“Smooth Beat V2” by Undercover Rubicon
Mentioned in the episode:
Oliver Tree
Oliver Tree - I’m Gone (music video)
The Oceanographers "After Quarantine" - Spotify
Depeche Mode - Wikipedia
Tom Petty - Wikipedia
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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.
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Portfolio: http://stevenleavitt.com/
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Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
What happens when you start to question the moral foundation you grew up on? In this episode, Steve and Leo sit down to have another conversation about programming but begin to notice similar principles behind law, society, its mores, and even religion.
Leo grew up a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a Protestant-Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of the Sabbath (on Saturday) as a sanctified day of rest. While studying the Bible, he started noticing circular logic and other problematic reasoning which led him to question assumptions from his upbringing and begin to let go of his faith. As an INTP, reworking his beliefs wasn’t personally as challenging as the fear of disappointing his family because leaving the faith could be interpreted as jeopardizing his soul and a cause for separation from the ones he loves.
What’s clear is that both Steve and Leo have had to do a lot of thinking surrounding issues of faith and community. Steve and Leo also talk about free-will, cults, workaholism, burnout and depression.
Guest: Leo Lutz
Deytah - Creative Digital Consultancy
Instagram: @only1skeemer
Episode References:
Seventh-day Adventist Church - Wikipedia
Business Wars: Cereal Wars - Apple Podcasts
Ninety-five Theses - Wikipedia
The Great Disappointment - Wikipedia
The History of the Millerites – ThoughtCo
Science Mike - The Cozy Robots Show (formerly Ask Science Mike)
The Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen (Buzzfeed essay)
* If you’re looking for information on deconstruction, many listeners may find listening to these podcasts from Season 1 more helpful than the more recent episodes.
Self-Helpless Podcast – “Burnout” (episode) July 12, 2019
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation (Article, Buzzfeed)
Connections (TV Mini Series, 1978)
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/
Episode Music composed by Steven Leavitt
Editorial and production support by Josh Geenen
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