The Music Business Connection is the fastest growing program about the music business. As a Podcast recently featured in the "New And Noteworthy" section of iTunes, this is especially created for musicians and other people who work and play in the music industry. We focus on providing exciting content about people in the music business, in a laid back format.

Recent guests have included:

- Bobby Kimball (Original Lead Singer for the band Toto with hits like "Hold The Line", "Rosanna", and "Africa")
- Mark Piro (Razor & Tie Entertainment, and Audio Spark)
- Steven Scharf (Carlin America, and Steven Scharf Entertainment)
- Desi Serna (Professional Guitarist, Author of "Guitar Theory For Dummies")
- Steve Stewart (Former Manager of the Stone Temple Pilots)
- Ezina LeBlanc (Recording Artist, Soap Opera Actress, Former Miss Black USA)
- Scott Kahn (CEO at MusicPlayers.com, Musician and founding member of "Days Before Tomorrow")
- JildyT (Recording Artist, New Single "Love, Love, Love" features Snoop Dogg)

As a guest on your show, I would like to talk about the music business, new technology related to music, and other music business topics...

In the Spring of 1996 Terrance D. Schemansky started a record company called 3000 Records. The label started out mostly as a concept (a name) used for the organization of a local compilation album in Kalamazoo, Michigan! After that first local project, another album was organized nationally. By the year 2000, through the use of the internet, the company started to slowly grow worldwide. Since then a variety of promotional services have been created, and the label is used for helping musicians and other record labels with their promotional needs. Let’s face it, everyone knows the music business is “tough”. However, the approach taken by 3000 Records has been to build relationships one person at a time. Whether it’s conneting with people in the music industry (Ex: radio DJs, A&R, producers, etc.) OR connecting with other musicians, we realize the importance of networking. With each connection, we have been able to continue to grow while helping musicians reach the ears of the music industry and music fans. In an industry where there is a ton of noise and static, we cut through and reach people one on one.

Hello,

We just launched the only world wide music chart for independent musicians and would love to come on and talk about it. We're a force of change in the music industry and are looking to provide a voice for indie artists through a data powered music chart built with the ability to handle the breadth of data required for the independent music industry.

Cheers,

Kevin

Greetings!

My name is Stuart Fensterheim, LCSW and I am the host and producer of The Couples Expert Podcast.I have reviewed your show archives and I believe that I would be a great guest for your audience.

Proposed Topic: Your Relationship is The Key To Your Business Success

Many have stated that having a relationship can have a detrimental effect on your career success, however with the right partner, this can change everything. When your relationship is secure and your partner loves you, they can become a very good assistant to your achieving your goals and dreams.

As a guest on your show, I would propose discussing the following key points:

I have almost 20,000 downloads of my podcast show and I can assure you that our time together will be well-spent and focused on delivering value to your audience. I would also be happy to provide you with sample interview questions at your request.

Thank you very much for your consideration. I look forward to hearing back from you.

Warm regards,                                   

Stuart Fensterheim, LCSW

Stuart Fensterheim, LCSW has been a couples counselor for over 30 years. He graduated with a Master of Social Work in 1985 from the University of Maryland and specializes with couples using EFT. He believes that with a power of love and relationships as the basis of all of our happiness, and without a connected relationship, people suffer in their lives. Stuart’s focus is on changing the world one relationship at a time.

Stuart is also the host of The Couples Expert Podcast.

There is truly only 1 thing that exists...Love. There is only Love and absence of Love. For the purposes of this conversation, we'll call absence of love – fear, this is how it's commonly known. We must make life decisions from Love not fear.

Glenn Ambrose is the owner of Life Enhancement Services, a holistic company based on the belief that happiness & fulfillment are there for you to have and is attainable by anyone.  He is a Spiritual Teacher, Life Coach, Host of the Podcast: "Life, Lessons, & Laughter with Glenn Ambrose", Inspirational Speaker, Reiki Practitioner and Personal Trainer.  Combining his coaching skills with his finely tuned style of getting to the heart of the matter, he inspires the change that is necessary for truly successful living.

For most Americans clutter is something we battle every single day. It is a part of our culture and we are told that the person with the, “most things wins,” but to what advantage? How are we actually winning by accumulating so much stuff? Too many belongings, activities, responsibilities, paperwork... the list goes on and feels never ending. Worst of all it's exhausting, overwhelming and creating an environment where our productivity, health and happiness have all suffered as a result, but when you're exhausted and overwhelmed where do you start? How do you begin when you feel as though your emotions have been shut down and you're struggling to even remember what being content feels like, much less joy?

I believe that teaching self love based decision making using the art of organization as our primary tool, great changes can be made to create better lives for ourselves. My method starts with tangible items, the items we have brought into our home that we probably haven't even looked at in ages or fail to even notice anymore. By starting with our home belongings and taking responsibility for them, we can learn to rediscover our likes and dislikes and learn how to make small decisions that help create a happier, healthier, more productive home life. Starting small by making one decision at a time like holding a shirt in your hands to see if you like the color, the fit, the texture and to see if there are holes, stains or pilling and by choosing to keep only what we like, need and use in our lives, we can create a life we enjoy seeing and living one item at a time. We start with the easy decisions and then work our way up to the harder ones because by that time, we will start to know and understand the difference between what we really like and what we've been holding onto because of guilt, shame, or just plain lack of decision making. Making decisions based on what's best for us becomes easier and fun and we can use those decision making skills to determine what activities we want to keep doing, what friends and associates we wish to keep in our lives, what we keep in our homes and how we spend our time. We become responsible and in charge of our own lives, our decisions become based on what we like, need and use and we can then start to allow ourselves to lovingly let go of life's clutter. We learn that saying “no” to what we no longer like, use and need is a powerful word used as an expression of self love just as much as saying “yes” to what we do want is equally as powerful when made based on our best and highest good.

I want to reach out to your audience to share with them some really simple organizing tools and skills they can easily incorporate into their lives to make life easier, healthier, more productive and happier; like keeping similar items together so you can easily find them, designating a spot for keys and wallets so they're never lost or keeping electronic out of the bedroom for better sleep. Small choices and small steps in organizing lead up to opening up a space in your home and your life.

Alison Kero grew up with 2 different organizational styles being modeled to her. One parent was precision neat while the other was a pack rat. Through her teenage and college years Alison lived more like her pack rat parent but when she became an adult and started living on her own, she searched for ways to easily get and stay organized.

When Alison became an organizer in 2004, she constantly searched for ways to make her clients lives and her own, easier through organization. However, minor amounts of clutter always tended to creep up for Alison, which she found frustrating and kind of exhausting. Finally Alison had a major "ah-ha Oprah moment" after reading a book about tidying up. She realized that joy should be used as the energy to create your best possible living space. It was the only way to ensure the outcome would be transformational. By using joy in her organizing process, Alison was able to finally conquer her minor clutter issue for good. She found her decision making skills had improved, her ability to focus and therefore her productivity levels increased and she also saw herself cleaning more often because the lack of clutter made it easier for her to do so. The energy of joy felt so amazing she knew she had to share this information with everyone who wanted to learn to empower themselves, free themselves of clutter and live joyful lives. 

Throughout her career she has been fortunate enough to be invited to appear on the Dr. Oz Show, the CBS Morning Show and the Mike Huckabee Show as well as several YouTube channel shows. Since embarking upon her adventure as an entrepreneur, Alison has been sought after as an organization and productivity blogger for Manilla.com and has also been interviewed by the NY Times, CNN.com, Brightnest.com and many other online publications for her expert opinions. She also wrote her first book, "How to Fail at Business" which shares lessons she learned owning her first business in 2011 and is toying with writing a new book.

Alison combines organization, interior design and feng shui to help her clients create a space that truly defines who they are while creating a workable system to help them continue to achieve their goals. Alison recognizes there are myriad solutions when it comes to creating an organized life so by listening to her clients she can help them identify what's holding them back and keepining them stuck while developing a organizational system solution that's tailor made for them.

Teachings from God: Greeting Your Soul and Revealing the Divine Within By Courtney Amundson

She May Only be a Teenager, but the Wisdom She is Bringing Forth is for the Ages

Where most teenagers are worrying about wearing the right lip color, or following the right YouTube star, Courtney Amundson is only worried about whether the messages she is astonishingly being delivered from the Divine are reaching enough people. Because Courtney was a mere 16 when she began following in the footsteps of Esther Hicks, Jane Roberts, Edgar Cayce and JZ Knight as an extraordinary powerful channeller. 

Now, a ripened 19 and wise beyond her years, she is introducing to the world Teachings from God, Greeting Your Soul and Revealing the Divine Within, a book of loving channeled wisdom brought forth to light mankind’s path in challenging times. 

Courtney’s spiritual life began to awaken at the age of 12! Beginning to practice the ancient art of Qigong, she became aware that something was happening. She says "I started to experience more of myself. The meditations were so beautiful I found that’s all I wanted to do. I learned to move my own energy so that the channels in my body could remain open and flowing in a healthy way. I experienced my third eye opening.”  

Her desire to know more welled within her and she committed to exploring this new path. In early 2012, she was guided to sit and meditate, and she immediately felt a natural and beautiful feeling “as if an angel was in my body, just pure golden light—and a voice began to speak to me.” That’s when she began typing the words, as she described them “messages filled with a love bigger than anything I had ever experienced, a reverence for all of humanity and a wisdom that continues to expand me.”    And now those messages are compiled in Teachings from God. In reading the words, the reader experiences an immersion in love, compassion and encouragement. It’s as if you have your own heavenly cheerleading squad, heartening you, gentling nudging you in the direction of life-affirming choices. Through Courtney, the guides offer a perspective of one’s place in the cosmic landscape and how we can make the most of our time here on Earth while enhancing our eternal energetic footprint.     

The book postulates a path to greater happiness, self-acceptance, understanding of ourselves and how we can make a difference by "sharing the truth, holding the love and sharing our magic.” The guides point the way toward getting into the natural flow and rhythm of life so that life becomes easier, more satisfying and more divinely guided. The book makes the reader remember our Oneness with all and encourages us to step fully into the awareness of living live as part of the greater whole.  The essence of Teachings from God is to uncover our true nature, the divine within, that once discovered will launch every person on a path of empowerment.  The teachings help seekers to find, discover, remember the limitless aspects of human capacity so that we can attain more freedom in our daily living.  Free from limiting beliefs that hold us back from our potential. Free to create outcomes that we dared not imagine previously. Free to live unencumbered, for those who dare to lift the veil. 

Courtney Amundson is a young woman on a mission that is far more ambitious and well beyond the goals and objectives of most of her peers. She is standing on the shoulders of legendary channellers bringing forth lifechanging and planet-changing information in Teachings from God.  Every page in her book is filled with the love and wisdom that is meant for us to transform, grow, and heal ourselves and the world in which we live.

Courtney Amundson began her path as a seeker at a young age, progressing to the point that these teachings began to flow through her, effortlessly and with complete love and joy, starting at age 16. In the beginning, the wisdom was received for her own evolution and understanding, but after a short time she was guided to share it with as many people as possible through Teachings from God. Since then, she has worked single-mindedly on getting these teachings out to the public, not only through the work of the book, but expanding into sharing her insights through publishing articles and speaking. 

In addition to her dedication to the advancement of the teachings, Courtney is actively progressing toward qigong healing certification, as well as craniosacral therapy certification. And as a classically trained violinist, she is engaging her passion for music in new, more free expression. 

Teachings from God has given Courtney the inspiration and tools to create the life that excites her, and more than anything she wants to inspire you to do the same!

I am a Social Activist and Publisher. Our company specializes in raising the consciousness globally with our efforts to connect writers around the world. I / we, Janet P. Caldwell and myself have traveled somewhat extensively communing with writers and poets from all walks of life. We also publish a monthly magazine: Inner Child the Magazine.

Bill is an avid Writer / Poet who has been committed to this path since 1966. He currently has to his credit over 70 Published Books as well as a myriad of Newspaper and Magazine Articles. Bill supports the venue of Creative Expression regardless of form. He also is an activist for the progression and evolution of Humanity and its Love of each other.

Recently (September 2015) Bill was honored to be named the Poet Laureate at the Kosovo International Poetry Festival where his book The Vine Keeper was showcased. He was also awarded The Golden Grape Award.

Bill currently serves as the CEO of Inner Child Enterprises, ltd., Managing Director of Inner Child Press, Executive Producer of Inner Child Radio and Executive Editor of Inner Child Magazine. His life partner Janet P. Caldwell stands by his side in support of the Inner Child vision

For more of Bill, visit his personal web Site at :

www.iamjustbill.com

There are many fundamentalist Buddhist/ Taoist monks... but I'm not one of them. Over the years I've replaced my superstition, fundamentalism, and tradition with rationality, liberalism and pragmatism. I've studied, and practiced every school of Buddhism, and many schools of Taoism, Hinduism, Christianity and Judaism. If you're looking for an insightful, playful, and funny guest who can field questions on: Buddhism, Taoism, Meditation, Metaphysics, Healing, Nutrition, Environmental Sustainability, Animal Abolution, Veganism and Progressive Politics... then we should talk.

As a young Jew, Lama was so impressed with George Lucas' depiction of "Holy Man as hero" in "Star Wars" that he spent years becoming a Buddhist/ Taoiost: Monk, Yogi, Healer and Teacher... yet he could relate so closely to Kirk's libido in "Star Trek," that he chose lineages that explore Sexual Tantra.

The Indigo Journals:

Spiritual Healing for Indigo Adults & Other Feminine Souls

By Yol Swan

Integrating Your Unique Gifts into a World That Has Always Seemed a Touch Alien & Harsh to You

How to Unlock Your Hidden Feminine Power to Bring Balance to an Overly Masculine World

Dear Jackie: 

You may well have heard of Indigo children-those with exceptional gifts and insight that don't really seem to fit or adapt to a linear world. But did you know there are Indigo Adults?  And you just may be one of them!

Yol Swan, the gifted author of The Indigo Journals: Spiritual Healing for Indigo Adults and Other Feminine Souls says that Indigo adults are feminine souls with certain masculine qualities. Their main traits are:

If you recognize these traits in yourself then you are among a wave of feminine souls who have often felt out of place or disconnected from the world around you. You just feel different! And often the end result is living with discomfort, anguish and suffering, or taking on the pain of the world around you. But there is a way to come into alignment with who you truly are and were always meant to be-and Yol Swan shows you the way! 

Her book The Indigo Journals is half fascinating memoir and half guidebook for wayward Indigo and feminine souls. You follow her life from childhood in Mexico where she perceived herself as the unloved Ugly Duckling, through her world travels, personal relationships, mystical experiences, encounters with enlightened teachers, marriage to a controlling husband, the self-awareness spawned by motherhood and finally, her emergence as the fully empowered and renowned spiritual healer she is today.

It was in discovering her own Indigo nature that Swan finally began to not only feel comfortable in her own skin, but to thrive and live her purpose of healing those like her.

When she finally understood that she was an Indigo adult giving individual expression to the wounded Feminine on the planet, she also recognized that some of her counseling clients were Indigo adults while most shared Indigo characteristics but lacked certain key features.

This led her to a deeper exploration of the soul and the discovery of a Feminine-Masculine Soul Spectrum that explains essential differences between the many soul types inhabiting the Earth. Rather than focusing on the color of the aura, which isn't fixed, she classifies Indigos as feminine souls with certain masculine traits who can be placed toward the middle of this Spectrum, representing the indomitable and creative impulse of the Divine Feminine.

Her book gives Indigos and feminine souls the tools to break free of co-dependency, release themselves from trauma today and the historic imprint of trauma in their DNA, and integrate all aspects of their soul to develop an empowered, 5th-dimensional perception of life. She teaches her readers to cherish their divine differences and harness their inner power. She helps people peel away the pain to find the radiance beneath.

What she ultimately offers Indigo adults and feminine souls is the means to contribute their unique gifts to balance overly masculine world and the path to fully embrace themselves and their place in the Universe.

Yol Swan is a spiritual counselor, mentor and coach with degrees in literature, music and homeopathy who has taken the understanding of the soul and the wounded Feminine to new cosmic depths. A modern seer who perceives life as energy, with more than 28 years exploring the mind, psychology, and spirituality, she lives in the mountains of North Carolina and helps people around the world create a joyful and abundant life in alignment with their soul.

To interview Yol Swan on the secrets to living a fulfilling life as an Indigo or feminine soul, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details.

Yol Swan is a spiritual counselor and coach with degrees in English literature, music and homeopathy who has taken the understanding of the soul and the wounded Feminine to new cosmic depths in her new book, The Indigo Journals: Spiritual Healing For Indigo Adults & Other Feminine Souls.

Born in Mexico to intellectual parents and surrounded by a blend of Shamanic cultures, she is a modern seer who perceives life as energy and is highly sensitive to other dimensions. She began channeling spiritual messages in her teens and later spent many years in psychoanalysis, which launched her into a deep exploration of Divine Consciousness during a 3-year retreat in almost complete isolation. First initiated as a Buddhist nun by a liberated master from Thailand and then into a path of meditation and mantra by enlightened Hindu teachers, her life is filled with mystical experiences, unusual encounters, and profound insights into the power and workings of the mind.

A painful divorce brought up memories of Atlantis and revelations of the distorted Feminine, as well as the recognition of being an Indigo adult. This led her to a deeper exploration of the soul and a soul typology based on the cosmic interplay of the Feminine and Masculine, raising a new paradigm to explain essential differences between humans and the polarized world resulting from them. With a practical system of spiritual healing and energy management developed over more than 30 years, she helps clients around the world to create an empowering life or business they love, in alignment with their soul. She currently lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina.