Surviving The Struggle

Listen to "Find Faith In The Struggle" on Spreaker. You can't deny that much of what we have in our everyday life has been handed to us. From great parents to bosses that play the favorites game. But what happens when that giving hand closes? Look around you. No moment passes that a friend or family member has been put on a new path of choices. Decision makers know how to feed the masses then cut them off. How do you learn to survive beyond the change. By accepting the presence of the struggle.

From Seed To Plenty

Listen to "From Seed To Plenty" on Spreaker. Being creative is a language that many outsiders can't relate with. And yet we were all born to create. The street that we speak isn't often what we're truly experiencing. Labels and names are chosen to help hide from the existence of what a creative person carries. If what the mind body and soul carries put colors on all things a creative mind grows you'd be amazed at how much the creative person drops onto the path. It carries too much doubt, shame and judgment from others. Inwardly the energy to use your imagination goes. Settling on the makings of other creative minds. You know writers, producers, musicians and other artists. All of who you are is still in you. Let it move through you. The greatest thing about being a creative mind is knowing the journey toward releasing what you see, feel and taste belongs in the world we live.

Gods Renewal

Listen to "Gods Renewal" on Spreaker. Being in the right place at the right time. How many times during a single lifetime are we gifted with the moment? July 21, 2009 I was in a doctors office having a heart attack. I was in the right place at the right time. But I don't believe such situations unfold only during times of trouble or victory. I am a note taker. Not just in church but in everyday life. When something arrives that can't be easily shaken. I jot down a note or two. Being in the right place at the right time is available to you every step you take. 99% of the time we ignore it because what is a payoff in 2017 that isn't making your bank account go up? But what if your new moment needs a process of right moments at the right time? We truly are map makers. But have you lost the way?

Frank Ocean

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Frank Ocean Creates Pictures" on Spreaker. Unmasking the picture. Frank Ocean isn't a lyric chaser. Each image presented within his beats is truly what he paints into place. One of my favorite lines? He says, "I create pictures you'll never see." The latest release from Frank on rBeatz Radio has him teamed up with Calvin Harris and Migos... Slide.

Brian Southall

Listen to "Brian Southall Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club" on Spreaker. Published on Thursday June 1st, the 50th Anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a new Beatles book written by Brian Southall, Former Director of Communications of EMI Records Worldwide. 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of what many think is the greatest Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!. Now, Brian Southall, author of 17 music books and former Director of Communications, EMI Records Worldwide (working intimately with the Beatles’ solo projects), puts his unique spin on the music and the era in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: The Album, The Beatles, and the World in 1967 (Imagine, an imprint of Charlesbridge Publishing, June 1, 2017; 978-1-62354-526-0; $30.00; Hardcover). The book celebrates a time when a pop album release was a hugely significant event in a year of global turmoil, and is published on the day the actual album was released 50 years ago. This book is separated into two parts: The first (“A” side) is all about the Beatles, and the second (“B” side) is all about 1967, the year the album was released. In an interview, Brian Southall can discuss: • The excitement and powerful impact that the release of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” had on the world during such a historically significant time • Never-before-seen interviews from other Beatles’ insiders featured in the book • What it was like working with artists such as Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Sex Pistols, Queen, and Pink Floyd • Brian’s lists of top 5s from 1967, including the Top Songs of 67, Top Ten Albums 67, Best Books of 1967, US 1967 No 1 Singles, and more! ABOUT BRIAN SOUTHALL Spanning a 30+ year career in the music business, Southall started out as reporter on the Essex Chronicle in the 1960s where he first began interviewing pop groups including the Rolling Stones & The Who. Southall went on to work as a journalist for Music Business Weekly, Melody Maker and Disc before joining A&M Records as a press officer in 1973. From there he moved to EMI Records where, during a fifteen-year career he served in press, promotion, marketing, and artist development, working with the likes of Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Queen, Cliff Richard, Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, Kate Bush, Nigel Kennedy & the Rolling Stones. When he left in 1989 he held the position of Director, Corporate Communications fort EMI Music Worldwide. Over the next 14 years he was a consultant to Warner Music International (Phil Collins, the Corrs, R.E.M., Madonna, Simply Red etc.), the international music retailers HMV and both the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) and IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) before ‘retiring’ to focus on writing.

Josh Wolf

Listen to "Josh Wolf Introduces The Prinze And Wolf Podcast" on Spreaker. Josh has always been that actor comedian that's always ready to talk about any subject. Knowing he's voicing and producing his own podcast programming I had to jump on his vision and mission. After all he's teamed up with Freddie Prinze Jr! Wait until you hear the style of shows we'd like to bring to life and why we should stay away from doing shows drunk. And why is it most states aren't legalizing pot? Josh has the inside.

Chasing The Beast Called Sleep

Listen to "Chasing The Beast Called Sleep" on Spreaker. I love standing in front of a group of people and asking "How many of you are sleepless at night because your creative mind has you working on projects that need to come to the surface?" One of the hardcore lessons about being an artist is the lack of paths and trails offered to help free the weight from the shoulders of other creative minds. A subject of having a sleepless night becomes that thing that's easily laughed off. And yet we know what it did to Michael Jackson. If you feed the creative beast at 3am it's going to want that middle of the night dinner every night. You can do everything within your power to shut down the creative energy but it's going to make it's way to the top at all costs. So how do you live with it without sounding like a broken record? Awareness is the first step. Activating newer discoveries comes in a close second. We're all creative hearts and doers. It's what we do in the silences that changes your life not in the display of victory.