An Everyday Rebel takes risks, lives in their power, and embraces the process of transformation, however big and small. Through solo episodes and guest interviews, you'll feel inspired to develop a deeper relationship with your spiritual self. Hosted by Laura Kidd, a spiritual coach and social media business owner, this podcast is the perfect blend of spirituality and business, with a dash of self-care tools. For guest interviews and feedback, please email us at everydayrebelspod@gmail.com F ...
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Deep conversations with musicians and other artists, hosted by me, Laura Kidd. I'm a music producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist releasing music as Penfriend, on a mission to encourage self-expression in every listener. Come backstage with me to learn from some of the best - you don't have to make something of your own after listening...but you can if you like! . In a noisy online world, our attention is priceless - so my show aims to treat you like the VIP you are for tuning in. Th ...
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Actress Cristina Catalina joins us to discuss her latest film I’m Not In Love Written & Directed by Col Spector coming to VOD formats on January 25th. Great film in the vein of Nick Hornsby on love, relationships & the human experience.By TrickyKid Media
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2021 In Review: Looking ahead to 2022
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2021 was yet another challenging year but for us personally & professionally still a productive one. We have grown so much in these past 12 months and reached so many long elusive goals and even surpassed many. Today we take a look back on the crazy year that was 2021 while looking ahead with great […]…
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Ep50: Matthew Caws (Nada Surf) on giving yourself permission to be creative
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Visit the deluxe show notes page for this episode at http://penfriend.rocks/matthew Thanks for listening! Attention Engineer is a show where I seek to make the best use of my own valuable time and attention by having deep conversations with fellow artists about creativity, grit and determination. My aim is to consistently remind you - and remind my…
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Starcrawler’s Arrow De Wilde & Henri Cash
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Recorded a day after Arrow De Wild & her band Starcrawler thrashed Dallas venue Sundown at Granada to the ground on their way to do the same at Levitation Festival in Austin. We catch up with they’ve been up to the past 2 years, what’s ahead, play some new music & tell a few good […]By TrickyKid Media
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Ep49: Grace Petrie on connection and communion
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Visit the deluxe show notes page for this episode at http://penfriend.rocks/grace Thanks for listening! Attention Engineer is a show where I seek to make the best use of my own valuable time and attention by having deep conversations with fellow artists about creativity, grit and determination. My aim is to consistently remind you - and remind myse…
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Ep48: Rou Reynolds (Enter Shikari) on wielding music as a tool of unity
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Visit the deluxe show notes page for this episode: http://penfriend.rocks/rou Read the text version: http://penfriend.rocks/rou-ts . Thanks for listening! Attention Engineer is a show where I share deep conversations with fellow artists about creativity, grit and determination. My aim is to consistently remind you - and remind myself - that creativ…
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Ep. 12 Pt. 2 The New Way of Doing Business with Jessica Keats
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Hey Rebels! Whether you're a business owner or not, this episode will inspire you to learn more about how your intuition can guide you at work, with your family, and in your alone time. Whether you have a question on your mind or are not sure of your next steps, this episode will inspire you to be guided by your soul: how to let go of ways of worki…
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Ep47: Miki Berenyi (Piroshka / Lush) on celebrating a breadth of voices in music
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Visit the deluxe show notes page for this episode: http://penfriend.rocks/miki Read the text version: http://penfriend.rocks/miki-ts . Content warning: this is a very joyfully sweary episode so probably not best listened to in the presence of kids. . Thanks for listening! Attention Engineer is a show where I share deep conversations with fellow art…
Happy Memorial Day! Joining us on this bank holiday is Musician/Artist & Independence Personified Laura Kidd. She’s just released her latest music project as Penfriend who’s debut album Exotic Monsters is racing to the top of the charts in the UK. Just the best chat with one of the most impressive, good willed and talented […]…
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Ep46: Ginger Wildheart on creating a you-sized shape in the world of music
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Visit the deluxe show notes page: http://penfriend.rocks/ginger Read the text version: http://penfriend.rocks/ginger-ts . Thanks for listening! Attention Engineer is a show where I share deep conversations with fellow artists about creativity, grit and determination. My aim is to consistently remind you - and remind myself - that creativity really …
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Ep. 12 Pt. 1 Listening to your Inner Expert with Jessica Keats
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Hey Rebels! Have you ever heard your intuition speak to you but you're not sure if it can be trusted? This episode will renew your trust in yourself and empower you to access your inner expert. Whether you have a question on your mind or are not sure of your next steps, this episode will inspire you to be guided by your soul: trust you have everyth…
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Ep45: Mary Spender on finding a smarter route to a full-time music career and building a huge fanbase on YouTube
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Visit the deluxe show notes page: http://penfriend.rocks/mary Read the text version: http://penfriend.rocks/mary-ts . Thanks for listening! . About my guest: combining her sultry voice and electric guitar to create rock songs infused with blues and soul, Mary Spender’s songwriting showcases her virtuosic style of guitar playing as well as her wide …
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Ep43: Lou Barlow (Sebadoh / Dinosaur Jr / The Folk Implosion) on building a body of work...however the f*** he wants to
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Visit the deluxe show notes page: http://penfriend.rocks/lou Read the text version: http://penfriend.rocks/lou-ts . Thanks for listening! Attention Engineer is a show where I seek to make the best use of my own valuable time and attention by having deep conversations with fellow artists about creativity, grit and determination. My aim is to consist…
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Ep42: Shingai (Noisettes) on finding creative freedom through generosity
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Content warning: two brief mentions of suicide, in the context of having lost friends. . Visit the deluxe show notes page: http://penfriend.rocks/shingai Read the text version: http://penfriend.rocks/shingai-ts . Thanks for listening! Attention Engineer is a show where I seek to make the best use of my own valuable time and attention by having deep…
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Ep41: Juliana Hatfield on drawing without looking
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Thanks for listening! Attention Engineer is a show where I seek to make the best use of my own valuable time and attention by having deep conversations with fellow artists about creativity, grit and determination. . About your host: I'm Laura Kidd, a music producer and solo artist releasing music as Penfriend. Come and grab two free songs plus lett…
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Bonus Musical Mini Episode - I'll Start A Fire
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Step backstage and hear more about the making of my new single "I'll Start A Fire". . My new album "Exotic Monsters" is out nowwwwww! http://penfriend.rocks/exoticmonsters . Thank you for listening! xo See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Ep40: Laura Kidd (Penfriend) quizzed by Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff) on "Exotic Monsters" and always going deeper...
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Welcome to a very special episode of the podcast, where my friend Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff turns the tables on me and steals the host microphone to quiz me on my new album "Exotic Monsters"! . In this conversation, we discuss being a doing person - how completing little projects gives me energy, the role of letter writing in my life from chil…
Step backstage and hear more about the making of my recent single "Seventeen". . Get three songs immediately when you order my new album at http://penfriend.rocks/newalbum . Get "Seventeen" pay what you want/can here. . Thank you for listening! xo See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.…
Step backstage and hear more about the making of my recent single "Black Car". . Get three songs immediately when you order my new album at http://penfriend.rocks/newalbum . Watch the video at http://penfriend.rocks/blackcar . Thank you for listening! xo See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.…
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Ep. 11 - Entrepreneurship & Fashion with Rebecca Rowe
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Hey Rebels, In this episode we talk to Rebecca Rowe of @Capsule_Creator. Rebecca Rowe is a fashion designer and educator who helps women build their own unique capsule wardrobes based on designs that have been developed for their personalities, over their body shape. In this episode we talk about the importance of mindset in business and how to nav…
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Ep39: Stephen Jones (Babybird) on surviving chart success and finding true connection with music fans
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Thanks for listening! Visit penfriend.rocks/stephen for the deluxe show notes for this episode, and head to Bandcamp to dive into Stephen's incredible back catalogue. . In this conversation, we discuss the importance of making music that’s for you first, the strange and inappropriate uses of “You’re Gorgeous” in pop culture, from Prince William to …
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Ep38: David Brewis (Field Music) on leaning into the editing process - inspiration is overrated
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/davidb for the deluxe show notes for this episode, and head to http://field-music.co.uk to pick up the new album “Flat “White Moon. . In this conversation, we discuss how inspiration is overrated, and having to work on your idea doesn’t make you a worse artist (plus it’s fun!), the importance of sh…
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Ep. 10 - Making Money Moves with Ellyce Fulmore
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Welcome back to the Everyday Rebels Podcast! Today we are talking about MONEY with a very special guest. Ellyce Fulmore is a Money Coach who helps Millenial entrepreneurs rewrite their money story and build wealth. She does this through her one on one coaching, her Ballin on a Budget Course, and shares her message to over 310,000 tiktok followers! …
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Ep37: Ryan Miller (Guster) on constantly throwing seeds…even if a lot of them will never sprout
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Thanks for listening! Visit penfriend.rocks/ryan for the deluxe show notes for this episode. . Ryan Miller is the lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band Guster. Formed in 1991, Guster have released eight studio albums, performed with symphony orchestras and played a LOT of gigs. Since co-writing and scoring the film “Nobody” with Rob Pe…
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Ep36: Sananda Maitreya on making a masterpiece of your life
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/sananda for the deluxe show notes for this episode, and head to http://sanandamaitreya.com to pick up the new album "Pandora's PlayHouse". . Artist, composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur and Post Millennium Rocker Sananda Maitreya had his light switched on at the age of …
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Ep.9 - Confident & Killing It with Tiwalola Ogunlesi
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Hey Rebels, Welcome to another episode full of mic drops & truth bombs! Today we are joined by a very special guest: @Tiwalola Tiwalola Ogunlesi is a confidence coach, globally recognized speaker, and founder of the self-love revolution that is Confident and Killing It. This purpose driven organisation wakes women up to their worth so they can be c…
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Ep35: Danz CM on having fun and being weird
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Visit the deluxe show notes page: http://penfriend.rocks/danz Read the text version: http://penfriend.rocks/danz-ts . Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/danz for the deluxe show notes for this episode, and head to http://zdanz.com to explore her musical world. . In this conversation, we discuss digging deeper to make the most meanin…
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Ep34: Eliza Shaddad on picking the right size font
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/eliza for links to Eliza's work and collect two free Penfriend songs while you're there. . In this conversation, we discuss how the pandemic forced Eliza to deal with her true nature, planning the perfect productive day for maximum music making, health and emotional wellbeing, the self-imposed pres…
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Bonus Musical Mini Episode - Cancel Your Hopes
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The song that took 15 years to write...sort of. How Radiohead's minidiscs and Barbara Kingsolver galvanised an old song idea into what became the theme tune for this show! . Get this song plus two more immediately when you order my new album at http://penfriend.rocks/newalbum . Watch the video at http://penfriend.rocks/cyh . Thank you for listening…
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Bonus Musical Mini Episode - Exotic Monsters
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A peek behind the songwriting curtain at my synthy single "Exotic Monsters". . Get this song plus two more immediately when you pre-order my new album at http://penfriend.rocks/newalbum . Watch the video at http://penfriend.rocks/monsters . Thank you for listening! xo See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.…
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Ep. 8 - Practicing Mindfulness & Well-Being at Work with Nicholas Bremner
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Hey Rebels, This week, we're chatting with a light worker in the corporate world: Nicholas Bremner. We talk about how both art and science inform how we can change organizational cultures and how shifting to a people-first approach can increase employee well-being. We also go into how the pandemic has shone light on some of the cracks in company cu…
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Ep33: Liela Moss (The Duke Spirit) on artistic evolution – dropping the ego and practising for inner peace
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/liela for links to Liela's work and collect two free Penfriend songs while you're there. My album pre-order just launched too at http://penfriend.rocks/newalbum <3 . In this conversation, we discuss learning to give space to other aspects of life as a touring musician, evolving as an artist – letti…
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Ep32: Mike Batt on 50 years of writing songs, and the need for anti-gravitational brandy sauce
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/mike for links to Mike's work and collect two free Penfriend songs while you're there. . In this conversation, we discuss how a teenage Cat Stevens inspired a slightly younger teenage Mike Batt to write songs, blagging versus reaching - using projects to teach yourself how to do the thing you've be…
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Ep.7 - From Self-Sabotage To Self-Support With Ashley Beaudin
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Hey Rebels, We have a good one for you today! We are talking about something we all do: self-sabotage and how we can use this way of protecting ourselves to turn it into self-support. In this episode we talk to Ashley Beaudin, a trauma-informed coach and speaker who helps creatives shift from self-sabotage to self-support. She is passionate about c…
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Ep31: Liz Stokes (The Beths) on establishing creative rules for songwriting, and why she always takes a cricket bat on tour
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/liz for links to Liz's work with The Beths and collect two free Penfriend songs while you're there. . In this conversation, we discuss the value of establishing creative rules for songwriting and making videos, touring New Zealand during the pandemic, and Beths' bassist Ben's secret breakfast blog,…
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Ep30: Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem / Slow Club) on being an auteur, and how work's more fun than fun
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/rlt for links to Rebecca's work and collect two free Penfriend songs while you're there! . In this episode, we talked about how becoming a solo artist and making exactly the work she wanted drastically changed Rebecca's mental health, how dancing brought RLT back to her body, bridging the gap betwe…
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Ep. 6 - Exploring Alcohol-Free Living with Karolina Rzadkowolska
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Hi Rebels, Today is such a treat! We have the insightful light worker Karolina Rzadkowolska of @euphoric.af, as a guest on the podcast. She is a certified alcohol-free life transformation coach who has been featured in publications like The Huff Post, Thrive Global and Refinery 29 and is working on her own book! She focuses on helping healthy women…
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Ep29: David Ford on his mission to be the best artist he can be
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/david for links to David's work and collect two free Penfriend songs while you're there! . In this episode, we talked about how David's brush with the music industry, how he survived a breakdown to create a thriving career as a lone wolf figure, why pumping content into the world isn't beneficial f…
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Ep28: Kat Robichaud on surviving The Voice USA to forge an independent music career
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Thanks for listening! Visit http://penfriend.rocks/kat for links to Kat's work and collect two free Penfriend songs while you're there! . In this episode, we talked about what it's like to do well on the biggest TV talent show going, and how Kat built an independent career afterwards, how failure and setbacks bring a whole new world of possibility,…
Hey Rebels! Happy 2021 - we are so excited to be back with a new episode...the first of the year! This week we talk business. We hear a lot about thriving business after they've gone through their initial hardships but we don't often hear about those beginning stages while IN the beginning stages. So, this week, Emilie, Jessica and Laura share thei…
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Ep. 4 - The Year of Polarity AKA "Unprecedented Times"
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Hey Rebels! It's the final episode of 2020 and we are reminiscing on this tumultuous year by answering some questions. We talk about how the theme of this year was POLARITY. The good, the great, the interesting, the FUN all come up in this episode. To wrap up the year, we answered some questions and it lead us to some great reflections. You might f…
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Ep27: Robin Ince on forging a career with "a dirty bomb of failed creativity"
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Visit penfriend.rocks/robin for links to Robin's work, and get two free Penfriend songs when you sign up to my mailing list. . All music in this series is by yours truly, and the song at the end of this episode is my collaboration with Rat from Ned's Atomic Dustbin. Get "Let It Snow" as a pay what you want/can download and pre-order the limited edi…
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Ep. 3 - Diving Into Human Design with Karine Smith
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Welcome Rebels! We are SO excited to share this episode with you because it is OUR FIRST EVER GUEST episode for the Everyday Rebels Podcast! It is extra special because our guest, Karine Smith is here to talk to us about Human Design, a system that maps out our unique aura and helps guide us to live in the manner that we were each uniquely made to …
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Ep26: Rat (Ned’s Atomic Dustbin) on how Miles Hunt and the YouTube sidebar led to a musical collaboration with…me!
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Visit penfriend.rocks/rat for links to get hold of our new song PLUS tickets for Ned's Atomic Dustbin live in London and Stourbridge in 2021, and get two free Penfriend songs when you sign up to my mailing list. . Ned’s Atomic Dustbin are an English rock band formed in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in November 1987. Formed at sixth-form college, the …
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Ep. 2 - Crafting Your Spiritual Toolbox
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Welcome Rebels! It’s the Everyday Rebels Podcast, where we talk spirituality, self-care tools, the entrepreneurship journey and we hang out - with you! Our goal is to inspire you to get over your bullshit and follow your dreams by being an everyday rebel. Taking risks and living the life we are designed to live isn’t easy so we want to learn with y…
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Ep25: Thea Gilmore on ignoring normal to build an 18 album career
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An artist of enduring international acclaim and a justly revered lyricist, Thea Gilmore’s musical settings have taken many ingenious detours in the 22 years since the release of her debut album, Burning Dorothy. Uncategorisable, whip smart and unafraid to speak her mind, her Twitter bio reads “Singer. Songwriter. Tall bird. Corruptor of words”. . V…
It’s a dream factory up in here! A few months ago we were three strangers starting businesses. Now, we are a team operating three businesses grounded in spirituality, community and friendship. Everyday we make that one small step to build stronger relationships, businesses and communities and you are invited to join the ride! We talk spirituality, …
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Ep24: Alicia Gaines (Ganser) on making music to entertain yourself
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Growth with no reward. Finding strength in your less desirable traits. Coming up with the perfect comeback hours later in bed, glaring at the ceiling. Asking yourself: am I improving, or am I just changing into something unrecognizable? Chicago quartet Ganser probe the futility of striving for self-growth during the chaos of our times for dark come…
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Ep23: Catherine Anne Davies (The Anchoress) on aiming for 40% happiness
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Propelled by the Manic Street Preachers’ lyric “libraries gave us power”, The Anchoress(aka Welsh producer and multi-instrumentalist, Catherine Anne Davies) is a voracious devourer of words and music. From her early roots as a classically-trained flautist, to her current obsession with vintage synthesizers, Davies has spent much of the last four ye…
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Ep22: Bernard Butler on sticking to his guns, staying creative and always moving forward
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Bernard Butler is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, noted as one of Britain’s most original and influential guitarists. Beginning his long and varied music career as a founding member of Suede, Butler is well known for wildly successful collaborations with David McAlmont, Duffy and supergroup The Tears (with former Suede bandmate…