Conversation with Adrian Anantawan: Disability and Diversity in Classical World
Today’s guest Adrian Anantawan is a Canadian violinist who holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also the founder of the Music Inclusion Program, which aims to help children with disabilities learn instrumental music with other typical peers.
In this episode, We discuss the diversity needs in the current classical world, technical adaptation in music performance, and how to see strength through our disabilities.
This interview in video format is available on the Thrive x Strive YouTube Channel.
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Finding Your Blue Ocean - UMBS 2023
Hello, welcome back to thrive x strive musician podcast. It has been a long time since our last episode, I would love to talk about what actually happened but in a different episode. But first let's enjoy the conversation and some juicy topics around musician entrepreneurship. It is very exciting that today we brought two guests on the show and we are going to talk about the upcoming ultimate musician Business Summit. It is going to take place from January 5 to seventh 2023 They will have over 30 presenters giving their presentation help musicians to build their network and music strategies identify their limiting beliefs holding them back from achieving their potentials.
I think you really nailed it on the head that you have to believe and think that you are an entrepreneur. I wish that I had someone walked me through this when I was a student is it took years and years more than a decade since I finished my graduate schoolwork before I really figured it out. And in this is why Heidi and I are so passionate about it. We want to equip people and this summit for such like a low investment of your time and money can equip you with incredible amounts of information. And you asked how can people begin to think about packaging themselves? The first step Amy, I think is identifying your skill set and what makes you unique. And I like to call this the talent stack. So these are the things you know the things that you can do your experience.
And he thought he was going in this direction. And as he was in progress, because I think you have to be in progress. You have to be doing the work and inaction, nothing happens if you're not taking action. And as he was moving forward, some interesting opportunities came. And as he thought about it, and as we help them process, and he discovered that he's really super passionate about it, it fits right in the middle of that Venn diagram that Heidi described. And so this guy had this epiphany. He's like, Oh, maybe I shouldn't be doing this. I should focus my energies here. And he's at the beginning of building this business. It's a lot of work. But he's excited. And I think good things are gonna happen now is a major epiphany for this person. And he had to change his thinking all the stuff we've been talking about this whole conversation, it to be even be able to see it.
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Maren Montalbano: Slowing Down & Living in the Now -TSMP 11
Today, we have mazzo-soprano and creative coach Maren Montalbano coming to the show to discuss topics on the importance of slowing down and living in the now, how to be resilient during this pandemic as a musician and creative person. How to overcome our perfectionism tendencies, and a lot more.
“Life is too important to take it too seriously.”
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW:
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
https://amzn.to/2ELMkqg
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
https://amzn.to/31CT6b1
Connect with her:
Website :https://marenmontalbano.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supermaren/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maren.montalbano
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Luke Ellard - Be Authentic & Be True to Yourself - TSMP 05
always check in with yourself what makes you happy and fulfilled…embrace the fact that it might not aligned with what you think you should be doing. —Luke Ellard
Ever since he was a kid, he has been always interested in electronic music. But electronic music to him feels like never was allowed to do in the music school mindset. Each of the music in his album reflects the past 10 years of his life experience. As he tried to connect with others, it became stressors for him as some are not healthy relationships.
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Sarah Jane Kenner - Fuel Your Creativity with Passion beyond Music - TSMP 03
In this episode, Sarah will tell you her success story on how she turns her creative passion into an actual business. As she says
The creative person can not always be satisfied by a creative career. We need to be able to separate needing the creativity in the practice room and getting creativity elsewhere.
Getting creativity elsewhere is an important skill for us to learn. And the creative outlet elsewhere is actually making us a better musician, helping critical thinking in practice room, and building a healthier body and mind.
Her story is a lot like many college students as we have a busy schedule with studying and practicing. But after she makes the commitment for herself to start cooking, not only does she become healthier, she also found her creative outlet that she eventually turned it into a business.
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