Creative

Takara Shelor - About Stuart Wilde—Warriors in the mist, Taos New Mexico, Life Changing

In this episode Takara will be talking about the transformational effect of Stuart’s work had on her life, especially attending the ‘Warriors in the Mist’ in New Mexico.

For almost three decades, Takara Shelor has helped thousands of people from over 100 countries discover their unique gifts, talents, passion, and purpose.

She's the 4-time bestselling author of Peering Through the Veil: The Step by Step Guide to Meditation and Inner Peace; co-author of Unleash Your Future  (endorsed by Jack Canfield and awarded the Must Read Seal of Approval from Law of Attraction Magazine); creator, manager, and co-author of Dolphins and Whales Forever; and contributing author of Extraordinary Teams. 

https://www.MagnificentU.com Takara's Author & Publishing Website: https://www.DeepDivePublishers.com Her Books (below are universal links that take you to the Amazon website where you live): Peering Through the Veil: The Step by Step Guide to Meditation and Inner Peace: mybook.to/PeeringThroughTheVeil Unleash Your Future: The Powerful 5 Step Formula to Transform Your Dreams into Reality Through the Law of Attraction: getbook.at/UnleashYourFuture Dolphins & Whales Forever: getbook.at/DolphinsWhalesForever

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Developing opportunities- NLP techniques, timelines, modelling

This episode comes out of an NLP trick bag session that I forgot to record, and as it was entitled Developing Opportunities, I thought I would do just that I cover techniques for spotting and creating opportunity using modelling and timelines.

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Rob Townley

Great chat today which leads to us listening to the song of various trees, yes played by trees! Awesome stuff.

Rob Townley is a music producer, session guitarist and soundscape artist. As well as producing music for commercial artists, he spends time researching, experimenting and pioneering new sounds and frequencies, resulting in some unique signature soundscapes. His latest work involves recording the melodies of plants and trees, and creating organic textures from the environment.

For more information visit www.robtguitar.com

https://www.facebook.com/rob.townley

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

I am excited to be speaking to Paul Kingsnorth in this episode. Paul and I talk about the challenges that society faces and how we got here this journey encompasses education, capitalism and we discuss how the old stories warn us of such times. Paul is deeply insightful as always and it is good to speak to someone who wears his heart on his sleeve.

https://www.paulkingsnorth.net

Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.

Kingsnorth's nonfiction writing tends to address macro themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. His fiction tends to be mythological and multi-layered.

After travelling through Mexico, West Papua, Genoa in Italy, and Brazil, Kingsnorth wrote his first book in 2003, One No, Many Yeses. The book explored how globalisation played a role in destroying historic cultures around the world

Kingsnorth's second book, Real England, was published by Portobello Books in 2008. In this book, he reflected on how those same forces of globalisation affected England, his own country, in the homogenization of culture. This was Kingsnorth's first successful book, resulting in reviews by all major newspapers and citation in speeches by both David Cameron and the archbishop of Canterbury.

He has contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, London Review of Books, Granta, The Ecologist, New Internationalist, The Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Four, ITV, and Resonance FM.

His first novel, The Wake was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, and won the Gordon Burn Prize.Film rights to the novel were sold to a consortium led by the actor Mark Rylance and the former president of HBO Films Colin Callender.

Kingsnorth's second novel, Beast, was published in 2016 by Faber and Faber and was shortlisted for the Encore Award for the Best Second Novel in 2017. His third novel, completing a loose thematic trilogy beginning with The Wake, will also be published by Faber. Announcing the deal, Faber's editorial director, Lee Brackstone, said: "We are welcoming to Faber a writer who belongs in the tradition of past greats like William Golding, Robert Graves, David Peace and Ted Hughes. His sensibility sits comfortably with theirs and his literary achievement could well go on to be their equal. He is that good".

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Shane Hampsheir

This was a fun chat with a great talent. Have a listen as Shane talks about his musical journey

Shane has performed a number of highly acclaimed one-man shows in jazz clubs and theatres in the UK and Europe and is widely regarded as one of the country’s top swing singers and is in constant demand with many big bands and orchestras including the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra.

Shane was asked by Universal Records to record Michael Bublé’s hit single ‘Home’ for the compilation album ‘You Raise Me Up – 2008’. In March 2009, the recording was re-released as the title track on a double CD featuring such artists as Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra, Russell Watson, Louis Armstrong, Boyzone, Lesley Garrett, Girls Aloud, Jamie Cullum and many more. Since then, Shane’s version of ‘Home’ has appeared on 6 top 10 albums World-wide, with more of the biggest stars in the music world.

​Shane has performed in London’s most prestigious jazz clubs such as Ronnie Scott's, Pizza Express and 606 Club, in his own right and with the Ronnie Scott’s Big Band, Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Peter Long Orchestra, Nick Ross Orchestra, The Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band, The Len Phillips Big Band and around the country with his own big band and swing band.

​In May 2016, Shane released his debut single, 'Brazil' - arranged by Evan Jolly - which reached number 1 in the iTunes Jazz Chart, above Frank Sinatra, Gregory Porter and Ella Fitzgerald. ​

In March 2017, Shane released his own debut big band album featuring the UK's top jazz musicians and showcasing arrangements by composer and master arranger, Evan Jolly. Shane recorded songs such as, 'I Put a Spell on You', 'Hallelujah, I Love Her So' and 'Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps' as well as original compositions, 'By Your Side', 'Take Your Chances', 'Cried Away', 'My Lover's Heart' and 'Save Yourself'.

​The Autumn of 2017 saw Shane embark on his next musical journey, performing his show for Celebrity Cruises, Princess Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). So far, Shane has performed on over 25 cruises travelling all over the world - from Italy to Greece, France to Morocco, New York to Copenhagen, Sri Lanka to Hong Kong, Florida to Lisbon, Taiwan to Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi to

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… Shane’s manipulation of the audience is certainly a sight to behold. Very few can create such an atmosphere of pure, unadulterated joy in the way that Shane can. “

To contact Shane visit

http://www.shanehampsheir.co.uk

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

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Geoff Everett

I this episode I will be talking to a well-known guitarist from my neck of the woods, we talk about Geoff’s collaborations with many great names from British music, Geoff also explains what impact the milkman from the Coop can have on your life.

In the early 1980s, more UK and Scandinavian tours followed and Everett was asked by Tony Ellis to join The Cafe Racers which included rhythm guitarist David Knopfler, following the departure of his brother Mark Knopfler.

At this time he joined Gerry McAvoy and Brendan O'Neil from the Rory Gallagher band in a three piece band called The Mosquitoes and played informal rhythm and blues gigs in pubs and clubs around London.

In the early 1990s, Everett formed a rock funk outfit called The Absolute who attracted a large following. During the late 1990s he toured with "A Band Named Sioux", The Cruising Mooses and The Rob King Band. The Mosquitoes also reformed as The Fabulous Mosquitoes. He also began to perform with his own Geoff Everett Band, which includes bassist Pete Shaw, also various drummers including Paul Robinson who has worked with Paul McCartney and Sam Kelly who played a short stint with Gary Moore.

During 2009 and 2010 the Geoff Everett Band performed in the UK, Greece, France and the Netherlands. During 2011 the band released the album Adult Show and kenttv.com broadcast an earlier concert recorded in Meteor, Greece.

In 2014 The Geoff Everett Band finished recording a studio album The Quick and The Dead which featured guitarist Albert Lee, drummer Brendan O'Neil and vocalist Mollie Marriott (daughter of Steve Marriott), fiddle player Dave Swarbrick, keyboardist Tim Hinkley, harmonica player Alan Glen and saxophonist Gary Barnacle. The album was mastered by Jon Astley and released in the same year.

2015 saw the release of Geoff Everett's studio CD album "Cut & Run".

Also in 2015 the song "Bad Bad Man" from the album "The Quick and The Dead" was included on the Sci-Fi Horror film Tremors 5: Bloodlines released by Universal Studios. The song is used as incidental music[1][2] as Burt Gummer is flying into the exotic location of South Africa to scenes of wild African animals to fight a new batch of Graboids.

2018 has seen the release of Geoff Everett's Album "Night Patrol". The Album features harmonica player Alan Glen and saxophonist Gary Barnacle.

Everett appeared in the line up of Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages (after the departure of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page).[3] Other associations include Alan Lancaster, David Knopfler, Bob Henrit from The Kinks, Sam Kelly, Jim Russell, Carl Palmer, Gerry McAvoy and Brendan O'Neil from the Rory Gallagher Band, Jim Leverton, Kim Beacon from String Driven Thing, Ian Paice, Gordon Huntley and

Bobby Millar an early member of Supertramp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Everett

http://geoffeverett.co.uk/

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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

John Scaife

This episode discusses  ritual, what has happened the masculine in the West and it’s the implications for society, very engaging and very deep.

John Scaife MA Cantab has walked twin paths of business man and ceremonialist for over 30 years. His business suited life culminated in floating a company he co-founded on the stock market, after years as an entrepreneur and banker, during which time he was lucky enough to stumble upon the nascent mytho-poetic men’s movement, learning from Robert Bly, Michael Meade, Malidoma Some, Robert Moore, James Hillman and Martin Prechtel. He went on to study extensively with Pretchtel and Some, developing his own deep sense of ritual and the sacred, which he has sought to weave with traditions of these lands, tapping into his skills as storyteller, writer and life coach.

A sportsman and lover of the outdoors, as often as possible in his native Northumberland, he is also very aware, from his time in business, of the need to ground these learnings in the practicalities of the day to day world we live in. www.greenwavecoaching.com  https://www.facebook.com/Greenwave-Coaching-181000316110045

John also works with Annie Spencer check out

• http://www.hartwell.eu.com/riteofpassage.html

Also listen to Annie’s interview on the podcast 
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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Alistair Duncan

In this episode I am talking to Alistair Duncan who is a trainer, ecopsychologist, and coach facilitating meaningful experiences in the more-than-human world.

This is an incredible deep look at his influences of NLP and the natural world and how we create our internal representation; this is one of the best explorations into mind states and creativity that I have had on the podcast and this will change your view point. Lots here for those interested in the development of NLP as well.

Alistair is deeply curious about how we humans can “live life well”. He says that means to live with heart, presence and pleasure. Alistair believes we lack wisdom if we attempt to explore our human nature separate from a place of attunement with the more-than-human world. For the last 15 years, he has worked as a trainer, Eco psychologist and coach/therapist helping people explore ways of living their lives well with an evolving approach that he calls “a way of natural being”.

You can find out more about Alistair’s amazing work at

https://wayofnaturalbeing.co.uk/about

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Matthew Ogden - A Creator of Stuff and reader of the Hitchhikers Guide ...

This is great fun chat with the raconteur Mat Ogden, we talk creativity, jazz, reading books and why sometimes Lego is not fun.

Matthew Ogden - The Bearded Wit - is a professional broadcaster, presenter, voice-artist and humorist. His podcast work has reached an audience in the hundreds of thousands around the world and can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Stitcher, Deezer, well... basically anywhere you like to get your podcast fix... 

• The Bearded Wit Podcast- Audiobooks and readings.
• The Faxe Podcasts - three seasons of Viking short stories written and performed by The Bearded Wit. You can listen to all the seasons here on Patreon by becoming a patron from as little as $5 a month.
• The Rats In The Walls- A Ghost and Gothic Horror Story Podcast (a new show currently in production).
• The Gigglefix Podcast- highly irreverent and (very occasionally) informative humour and interviews with special guests, presented and hosted with his fellow Gigglefixer Chris Jolly

https://www.beardedwit.com

https://www.patreon.com/thebeardedwit

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For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Joe Sam

Great to be chatting to Joe Sam the bass wizard. Joe credits include Incognito, Sister Sledge Son of Sam and many others. Sam and I talk about his playing and get to some of the mystery of what makes a great artist. Great to be chatting with Mr Funky Bass.

You can reach Joe through my links but it is worth checking out his YouTube clips of his awesome playing by searching Joe Sam Bass

To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland

and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk

For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com

Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music