In this deeply personal episode of the Thrive x Strive Musician Podcast, our host, Amy, shares her recent journey through the complexities of the healthcare system. After undergoing surgery for a tethered spinal cord and facing numerous challenges, Amy opens up about her struggles with self-doubt, the relief of validation, and the ongoing journey toward understanding and managing their health condition. And how musicians can also benefit from those lessons.
Key Highlights:
Personal Life Update: Amy reflects on the emotional and physical challenges faced before and after the March surgery, revealing insights into dealing with a rare condition and its impact on daily life and professional pursuits.
Navigating Healthcare: [Your Name] discusses strategies for tackling self-doubt when facing complex medical issues and the importance of self-advocacy in seeking accurate diagnoses and effective treatment.
The Power of Self-Validation: A deep dive into the significance of trusting one's own experiences and feelings in the context of healthcare and how this self-validation can be a key factor in navigating the healthcare system.
A Call to Action: Listeners are encouraged to follow [Your Name]'s journey on Instagram for more personal updates and to support the podcast by rating and reviewing on their preferred platform.
Full show notes will be on www.amywangviolin.com/podcast/
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So, if you are a disabled musician and love to talk about your story and experiences, you can reach out to thrivexstrive@gmail.com; or fill out the contact form on my website amywangviolin.com.
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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.
Please leave valuable reviews on the forum you are listening on and share your takeaway from today’s episode. More details will be in the show notes on my website, amywangviolin.com/podcast.
Read moreToday’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.
Please leave valuable reviews on the forum you are listening on and share your takeaway from today’s episode. More details will be in the show notes on my website, amywangviolin.com/podcast.
Read moreIn this episode, I shared my medical story, part 2, about how I experienced traumatic experiences with progressive paralysis while staying in the moment and continuing my performance career.
I want to share my stories now, right before my surgery next week, on the podcast to raise awareness of the rare disease and let everyone know that it’s okay not to know the answer or find your diagnosis yet but still be validated for your symptoms.
Living in the present is the ONE thing that helps me through each traumatic experience with paralysis, still enjoy each of my performances, and cherish each performance opportunity.
As a musician podcast, I want to encourage disabled musicians to come out and talk about their experiences with accessibility at work, inclusivity in different work settings - orchestras, chamber music, composition, conducting - of course, not limited to these.; and what do you think are the obstacles for the disabled musicians to shine… list literally can go on. So, if you are a disabled musician and love to talk about your story and experiences, you can reach out to thrivexstrive@gmail.com; or fill out the contact form on my website amywangviolin.com.
Read moreFor this episode, I share my medical journey for the last two and half years being absent on my podcast, how I got my diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and other comorbidities, and what it is like to be a full-time patient advocate for myself.
I hope this will lead us in a new direction as I will bring more guests who are musicians with disabilities. I want to bring awareness to the music community to see this minority group of equally talented people, what issues we have encountered in terms of accessibilities, inclusivity, and how we manage our disability as each individuals to accommodate our music career.
Read moreHello, 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.
Read moreIn today's episode, we are diving into the topic of gratitude. They can not only help you to maintain a healthy and happy mind, but it would also improve your music performance. we will discuss why gratitude improves our brain function, how to cultivate this attitude of gratitude, and how to having a grateful heart to all things in life.
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I appreciate every one of you! Talk to you all next Friday!
Read moreToday, 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
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Essentialism by Greg McKeown
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Website :https://marenmontalbano.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/supermaren/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maren.montalbano
Read moreAre you frequently feeling exhausted and overbooked? are you afraid of letting people down? having a hard time to say no? or you just believe that all the obligations that you said yes to are all your personal responsibility?
Today I am honoring my own struggle with setting healthy boundaries and being honest about what I learned with my own journey. We will further discuss how we can set healthy boundaries to respect our own energy and what you can learn from my mistakes.
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I appreciate every one of you! Talk to you all next Friday!
Read moreToday, we have solo violinist also known as mind over finger podcast host Renée-Paule Gauthier coming to the show discuss how mindful practice benefits our daily life, the importance of gratitude, a deeper dive of self-compassion, using questions to empower student's problem solving ability, and tips on performance anxiety.
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Read moreAugust Sneak Peek: Dr. Renée-Paule Gauthier from Mind Over Finger Podcast
Read morehave you feel stressed, nervous, but don't really know why? Do you feel hard to build deep meaningful relationship or feeling isolated and lonely?
In this episode, we will discuss how repressed emotions are formed, and bring you some practical tools to safely recognize and release those negative emotions. we will practice a short body scan meditation with some calming ambience to reconnect with your emotions and let go of them.
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sneak peak: Next week, we have Dr. Renee-Paule Gouthier, the creator of Mind over Finger podcast, on our show!
talk to you all next week!
Read moreIn this episode, we have Dr. Arna Alayne Morton, PHD in violin performance, share her experience with burnout in her doctoral studies. Not only was she completed her PHD, she was maintaining a YouTube channel with over 90K subscribers. The multi facet income stream brought her more stress than she can managed. for the past two years, she has been gradually recovered from her burnout.
Today, she is on the show sharing her story and valuable insights she learned from her own journey. We discuss tips on recovery and prevention, and how to maintain a balanced lifestyle.
She will also share her incredible newly launched music course - HIIP method. It is a proven to be efficient practice method that help you to achieve more and faster in your practice room.
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Read morelet's think about some of our beliefs and values, are they all really coming from you?
Today we will talk about how to find yourself in this information-saturated world and how to stay centered with knowing who you really are. If you have already listened to our last episode, me and my friend Luke Ellard have briefly touched upon the idea of "being authentic and find things makes you happy". We will dive a lot deeper in this episode with my personal story and my thoughts on this topic.
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Read morealways 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.
Read moreHave you ever talk to yourself negatively or thinking others are possibly judging the way you talk and behave? I believe showing our vulnerability is a form of strengths instead of weaknesses. In this episode, I will bring you into my past insecure self, and unravel ways to release the self-judgement from your mind.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreHave you ever say to yourself "I'm not good enough"? In today's show, I will tell you my story behind this unhelpful self-talk and how I changed this unhealthy mindset.
2017-2018 were the darkest years of my life, I buried my sanity under this heavily tormenting low self-esteem issues. Doesn't matter how much people around me give me compliments, I seem to only see the flaws of myself. In our professional field, some of us are scared at admitting that we are human and mistakes are inevitable in learning challenging music.
There is a famous saying by Tim Hiller, a former football quarterback, "Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle" I tend to forget the second half of the quote. that is "don't compare your middle to someone else's end." As high-achievers, we tend to compare. But comparison is a foolish attitude because we are all unique, and we all started the journey at different times of our life. The mistake I learned is that What we can do is simply looking at our present self and appreciate where we are now! To be able to focus on growth, we have to appreciate where we are now. If you read the book "mindset" by Carol Dweck. it is the concept of a growth mindset. It's easier to tune out the negative self talk when we are present with ourselves, so what we see is our reality and the goal we are heading towards. This is my core principle when I consume contents on my friend's newsfeed: Always feel happy for other's accomplishments, but don't attach your feelings of inadequacies to their success because it is their life, not yours.
A great quote by Eleanor Roosevelt for you to take away in this episode:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
A quick announcement in the beginning of the show explaining why we have changed the podcast name. There was a duplicated name on iTunes, and we decided the change is better early than later. So, if you just subscribe and join us, welcome to the Thrive x Strive family, where we learn and grow together!
Hope you enjoy the show! See you next week!
Read moreIntroducing the Thrive x Strive Musician podcast! - initially Perfectly Imperfect Musician Podcast.
In this pilot episode, you will hear me sharing my personal story and what led me to launch this brand new podcast and initially named it "perfectly imperfect". You also get to know the science behind why musicians are vulnerable to negative emotions and mental healthy issue.
My mission is to invite friends and successful musicians into the conversation musicians' mental and physical health. I hope this show will provide you practical tools and wisdoms to achieve a healthy and balanced mental space for a long-lasting career life.
For every episode, I will also share detailed show notes & resources mentioned in the episode:
http://amywangviolin.com/podcast
Resources:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323892
https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2020/04/5-mental-health-resources-for-musicians.html
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