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Someone Gets Me speaks to the gifted visionary who lies inside of you. Hosted by Dianne A. Allen, this podcast was created for those gifted and talented people who lie awake feeling alone inside. You are no longer alone. I created this podcast because we’ve all been there – feeling not understood, feeling not seen, feeling like people don’t care. You will hear from gifted people who have gotten over the chasm and have taken the leap to really create something special.
Episodes
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
This has been a stressful period for all of us. Whether you're gifted, intensely sensitive or not, problems feel magnified that arise from health to economic, social, political and environmental things. It's just everywhere. In this episode, I share five great little tranquilizers that I use to remind myself that it's going to be OK, that I don't have to get caught up in the whirlwind of craziness with COVID, with the political climate, or with what's going on in the climate itself.
Key points covered in this episode:
1 - There's always something more. Breathe and remember that we all have the potential for greatness. When we turn that focus from looking outside of us for somebody else to save us or give us the answer, and we go within, we realize that we're fully equipped to be who we're meant to be at the perfect time.
2 - Take care of the physical and the spiritual part of you; there is no exclusion of the other. When you prioritize the wholeness of who you are, only can you better give and extend love to others.
3 - Know and understand the truth in your innermost being. Do you realize the vast knowledge you have inside you? Not just cognitive ability, but the wisdom of your heart, the intelligence in your gut, and the knowing of your soul.
4 - Abundance is everywhere. In times of great trials, fears, tribulation or pain -- remind yourself that God as the source of all will provide in perfect ways.
5 - Evolving in phases and stages. We expect ourselves to go from zero to 100 in no time when it comes to our personal development. There are stages and steps, and sometimes we're on them longer than others. Life is like a big Montessori school where you might learn one thing faster than me, and I might learn faster than you, and in the end, we both get all the lessons.
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
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Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
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Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Victoria-Rose Supper wears many hats as a social media strategist, publicist and musician and fully enjoys taking on more interests when she decides to accept her quirkiness as her strength.
Join me in this episode of Someone Gets Me — What Happens When You Accept Being A Gifted Adult ▶️
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ Music is the easiest and the most honest way to connect with the world. Victoria shares her journey to knowing herself and how songs and melody became an outlet of her genius and a gift of healing.
✔️ When you try and put yourself into a box -- that is such a lonely experience. When we try to fit ourselves into something that we are not, we have to deny a part of us to do that, which is trying to cut off an arm and pretend we still have two. We're trained in society to follow and always ensure to be "coloring inside the lines". We see later in life that we don't need it.
✔️ If you don't take a break, your body will take a break for you.
Give yourself time, flexibility, grow and love yourself through the process.
✔️ What part of you do you continue to deny? Teach yourself to honor your body, mind and heart. Start living the life you are meant to live by embracing yourself fully.
About Victoria-Rose
Building people up has been a life-long passion of Victoria-Rose’s, whether it’s through music, in the classroom, or telling their stories on the internet.
She’s been lucky enough to get to work with brands and public figures like Dianne A. Allen, With Understanding Comes Calm, the Dali Museum, Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater, and Clearwater Marine Aquarium as a social media strategist and publicist - but her biggest passion lies in music.
Having begged her parents to let her take piano at the age of five, Victoria-Rose decided from a very young age that music would always be a major part of her life. Although she predominantly performs as an atmospheric pianist, you can also find her playing in the orchestra pit and singing onstage in various theatres across the Tampa Bay Area.
While not managing social media accounts or making music, Victoria-Rose can be found learning coding for kicks, browsing local bookstores, planning theatre experiences, sampling local tea rooms, and wandering the streets of Downtown St. Pete.
Connect with Victoria-Rose:
Instagram: @atravelingpianist or @soundandstorysmm
Email: soundandstorysmm@gmail.com
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
Follow Dianne's Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen
Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
Dianne's Mentoring Services: msdianneallen.com
Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
When we're gripped with fear, it's impossible to be true to ourselves and live our authentic best life. In this episode, allow me to give you the five essential ways to help you see what's going on and empower yourself to be true to YOU. Because if you're not true to yourself, it's impossible to be fully present for life and anyone else.
Key points covered in this episode:
1: Be good to yourself and others. Being good is setting healthy boundaries, speaking with kindness and having compassion or doing something for someone who needs your help right now. What I mean by this is not the superficial kind. Are you willing to go within and be of service and be good now? The rule is you have to be good to yourself before you're good to anybody else.
2: Enjoy the reciprocity of life, the give and take. It's important to remember you might need help from your friends and they'll help you, and then there'll be other times that they'll need you and you'll help them. That's the flow. It's never meant to be one-sided.
3: Prepare for pressure. Prepare for the fact that we will have things to deal with, like safety concerns, storms, weird traffic or illness. There will be things that apply pressure to our system, and we want to be prepared for it, and we start by looking within. We want to learn how to say yes and no in healthy ways.
4: Know what to say. Unless you're telling some funny story or you're teaching a lecture, but if you can't deliver your message in 25 words, you're talking too much. Sometimes, there's a lot of superfluous information and tangents and over-explaining that make you lose your listener.
5: Find and use support. I see people struggling through things, and everybody around is like: "If only we knew we would be there for you." But the real reason is they just don't want to take help. It's not healthy, and it doesn't work. So to be true to yourself, you want to practice giving and receiving support now.
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
Follow Dianne's Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen
Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
Dianne's Mentoring Services: msdianneallen.com
Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
This episode hits close to home as I have been experiencing intense, significant discomfort recently. I see pain everywhere with what's going on with COVID— of being disconnected from our source and joy. Battling and managing my own pain made me realize lessons learned from pain and the opportunity it brings afterwards.
Join me in this episode of Someone Gets Me —Mastering the Art of Discomfort ▶️
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ In a place of discomfort, we must permit ourselves to experience it.
We must not try to hide it or minimize it. It doesn't mean we walk around whining and complaining either; it means that we're honest with ourselves. So when you're going through a hard time, understand that it's helping you see your strength; it's helping you know who you are. It's helping you grow beyond what you realize you can do.
✔️ When you have a difficult time, you can still love yourself in the middle of it. Just because it's hard doesn't mean there's something wrong with you or that you're bad or did anything wrong. It means that it's a tricky time. To learn more different ways to do self-love to go through this season.
✔️ Being alive and being able to experience pain is a gift. Sounds goofy and maybe a little paradoxical, but wouldn't you instead be experiencing challenges than experience nothing if numbed with drugs, alcohol, or dead?
✔️ Whatever the discomfort is, we will be able to use those lessons to serve other people. Whether it's a better understanding of what you go through, a heart with more compassion and acquiring knowledge based on your experience will help others who will go the same way as you.
✔️ Any pain or separation is an invitation to go deeper into our soul and our purpose. There is a greater mission and lesson in everything. Honoring ourselves, our journey and being open-minded pays off for the greater good.
✔️ Remember, there can't be a Phoenix without a fire. So what if your discomfort is that fire that you're going to rise out of? What if it's your opportunity coming through having to burn off the stuff that's not needed? So that's something more amazing can show up. That's the sense I have about what I'm going through, and it's not easy, but you will surpass it.
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
Follow Dianne's Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen
Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
Dianne's Mentoring Services: msdianneallen.com
Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Tuesday Oct 26, 2021
Gifted adults who possess greater sensitivity, awareness and potential are predisposed to dealing with an emotional crisis. When they go through trauma or disruption in their lives — they tend to shut down. How do they manage and facilitate the healing they seek?
In this powerful episode, Eric Windhorst, a counselor and coach specializing in Ecopsychology, Ecotherapy, and Therapeutic Landscapes, shares what it takes to find cues and clues from nature and achieve the happiness they deserve.
Join me in this episode of Someone Gets Me —Connecting with Your Authentic Nature with Eric Windhorst. ▶️
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ All of us are vital pieces of the greater whole. Eric shares drastic consequences for the rest of the world when even one person is disconnected from their natural sense.
✔️ Honor the seasons of your life. There are times we can be dormant and internal. And there are times to be more active and expressive. Even if we're intense and accomplish a lot, there's a need to breathe, think and surrender that there's a natural rhythm to the entire system.
✔️ Everything happens precisely when it's meant to happen. With nature, Everything is on time. We have to learn to be patient with processes and ourselves; when gifted people understand this concept, it can be powerful and freeing.
✔️ To heal the planet & to heal ourselves; we need a different level of awareness. "We can do that by just tuning into fundamental consciousness, tuning into what's present around us, which is nature. It's all around us. Our inner nature and outer nature they're not really separate but one."
✔️ Your own personal work is part of collective healing. Eric emphasizes the integration of inner nature and outer nature and that a person who gets to experience that connection is shifting the entire thing already. "My firm belief is when you get plugged in when you plug into your inner self, and you plug into the wider kind of system, you're literally allowing more energy to flow for everybody else."
Eric Windhorst, PhD, RP, is a counselor/coach/psychotherapist, educator, writer, and (re)searcher passionate about connecting people with nature—both inner nature (their true, authentic self) and outer nature (the wider natural world)—to facilitate healing and growth. Eric approaches his work holistically, informed by ecopsychological, family systems, humanistic, Jungian, and transpersonal ideas. He specializes in serving individuals who identify as creative, gifted, and highly sensitive. You can learn more about Eric and his work @ ericwindhorst.ca.
You can follow him on Facebook at Eric Windhorst Counsellor: https://www.facebook.com/counsellor.coach.
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
Follow Dianne's Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen
Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
Dianne's Mentoring Services: msdianneallen.com
Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
This episode is very near and dear to my heart. In the past 40 years, I have been working with people who have dealt with serious addictions of all kinds. Even I struggled with some of my addictive kinds of things, too. I watched people suffer in misery, and gifted people go through silent pain and die of this disease. I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly in how our legal and medical systems handle these cases.
The crucial fact that I learned is that your recovery can be your superpower. Whether you are battling with trauma, anxiety, depression, or substances, know that there is hope for you and the opportunity to change the narrative of your life. Yes, there's a solution, and you will feel better.
Join me in this episode of Someone Gets Me —How to Turn Your Recovery Into Your Superpower. ▶️
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ Recovery means "to feel better." When somebody comes into my world, and they're asking for my assistance in whatever capacity, I know that what they're trying to say is "I feel miserable," "I don't know what to do," or "help me feel better." The first step is to assure that person that, yes, it's never too late to heal, get better and get you where you want to go.
✔️ Be willing to do something different. The solutions to our situations vary for each of us, but the process is the same. Most people want to feel better, yet they don't want to do much work about it. They don't want to feel uncomfortable or go through the hard parts. You can WANT to change, but you must be WILLING to do things differently.
✔️ You can't save your face and your butt at the same time. It is a necessity to link ourselves and others. In this journey towards seeking healing, we cannot do things alone. Being vulnerable, authentic, telling the truth, having inner integrity, and trusting someone to walk the road with us is the key to relieving and releasing the inner pain and suffering and getting back ourselves to heal fully.
✔️ Happiness activates the right karma. Understand that what you put out goes back in your life. When you think negative or judgmental thoughts, you may get it back in your life tenfold. Start getting aware and choose to be happy because, after all, it is a choice. Use your brain's reticular activating system to rewire yourself – bringing more joy back into your world, which activates your capacity to listen more, care for others, being more generous and compassionate.
✔️ Talk, act and speak with kindness. Sometimes the kindest thing we can do for another person is to call out the deception. You don't have to be mean or call them names, but tell the truth. That's hard to do when you know you care about somebody, but believe me, bringing something to their attention that will bring them good is the best thing you can do.
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
Follow Dianne's Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen
Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
Dianne's Mentoring Services: msdianneallen.com
Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Rhiannon Rodriguez-Betts is one of the most talented lighting directors that there is around. As a multi-specialist, Rhiannon is equally comfortable building a stage, setting up equipment, sending out rigging points or setting up artist hospitality. A multipotentialite and a creative genius, she sheds some light on the vital mindset of following your passions and sustaining joy and energy in a demanding industry.
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ The importance of enjoying what you do. Rhiannon shares that the nature of her job can be highly stressful, but she lives by the idea of why work in the entertainment industry if you don't find it entertaining?
✔️ Find possibilities in the mundane of daily life. "We uncover something else to do with our time besides being upset and finding entertainment in whatever it is that we're doing."
✔️ To handle different and difficult personalities at work can be very challenging for Rhiannon over the years. Still, she considers opportunities to grow and figure out how to communicate with fellow people. It is essential to listen to what it is that they're saying and hopefully not react poorly.
✔️Why not get into this exciting profession? There is an international alliance of theatrical and stage employees all over the United States and Canada. You can connect with a local one nearby, see if they accept applications, and give them a shot. There are lots of opportunities all over the world as well to try.
✔️Show up in the world with your spiritual integrity, your authority, and quit playing small. Be a lighthouse and shine your light from the inside out.
Rhiannon Rodriguez-Betts is regarded as one of the most sought-after lighting directors and stage crew members in the city of Portland. She takes an artistic approach each time she designs a show with strong attention to the details laid out by each artist. Rhiannon's artistry can be seen at all of Portland's major concert facilities, including the Roseland Theater, Crystal Ballroom, and sporting events at the Moda Center. As a multi-specialist, Rhiannon is equally as comfortable building a stage, setting up equipment, sending out rigging points or setting up artist hospitality as a lighting director.
Rhiannon has a solid commitment to her community and often answers calls to activism. One such answer brought her to serve a term as President of her union International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 28; another saw her serving in the Oregon Employment Department Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Benefit Workgroup. She is dedicated to assisting others wherever she can.
Connect with Rhiannon
FB: https://www.facebook.com/goddessoflighting
IG: https://www.instagram.com/goddessoflighting/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rhiannonlight
Mentioned Resources:
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
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Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
Dianne's Mentoring Services: msdianneallen.com
Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Paul Lisnek recalls that one wise piece of advice from his guidance counselor during his sophomore year that steered him to become the nationally recognized television commentator, author, speaker, corporate trainer, trial consultant and lawyer that he is today.
Join us in an inspiring episode of Someone Gets Me as Paul shares how he's come full circle in his journey by following his passions, his mindset of always saying yes to his inner calling and maximizing time and resources to create a legacy.
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ If Paul didn't turn to the communications building that day in his sophomore years, he'd indeed become an accountant doing taxes. His advice for those who are in their 20s, pursue your passion because you only get one shot in this life. But for those who are in their 40s and 50s – stop looking back regretting it. It's never too late to do something else then and pursue your dream.
✔️ If you said "yes" to something and it didn't feel right, you could say "no, thank you" later. Paul proves that as we grow through life, saying YES is vital because you can always change your mind. But if you get used to turning down every new chance or opportunity, you will never know where it's going to take you.
✔️ A café named after Paul in his college at the University of Illinois serves as an inspiration and support for students who dream of blazing new paths like Paul.
✔️ Paul Lisnek has shown authenticity in his long career by melding his gifts and passions: politics and entertainment. Respected in both worlds, he ensures to give back with his wisdom, time and resources.
Paul Lisnek is the multi-Emmy, Telly, Cablefax and Communicator Award winning political analyst for WGN-TV and anchor of WGN-TV Political Report seen every Sunday morning. Paul also hosts the podcast for WGN Radio called "Paul Lisnek Behind the Curtain," which can be heard anywhere podcasts are offered. He hosts "Broadway In Chicago Backstage," featuring the casts and creative of all the major shows opening in Chicago including Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen and the Upcoming Pre-Broadway premiere of "Paradise Square." He anchors Newsmakers for the Comcast Network as well. Paul is the author of 14 books, including his latest mystery series titles: "Assume Guilt" and "Assume Treason," the 2021 Winner of the Indie Book Award for Finalist, Best Mystery.
The Museum of Broadcast Communication in Chicago is home to the Paul M Lisnek Gallery, a permanent exhibit honoring Paul's long career in TV and Radio and presents some of his extensive TV and film memorabilia collection.
Listen to Paul Lisnek Behind The Curtain:
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/paul-lisnek-behind-the-curtain/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/PaulLisnek
IG: https://www.instagram.com/paul_lisnek/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-lisnek-3374015/
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
Follow Dianne's Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen
Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
Dianne's Mentoring Services: msdianneallen.com
Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Get ready to sit back and enjoy a fantastic conversation with a woman who's a gifted professor and poet. She is intelligent, creative, and creatively imaginative and runs a nonprofit organization to serve other people to overcome life's hardships with the beauty of words and literature.
Join me in another awe-inspiring Someone Gets Me podcast and discover how to consciously create the life of your dreams from this amazingly cool lady from Texas – Kristy Peloquin!
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ For Kristy, poetry is her knee-jerk reaction to the world. Listen to her story of how she found herself in pain growing up in a very repressive environment & having a breakdown in a job incongruent to what truly resonated in her soul. "I graduated with a degree in poetry directly into the Great Recession and could not find a job. Society was telling me a lot about how my degree was worthless."
✔️ You can blaze your unique creative career path. Understand that pieces of your past that may be incongruent to your true passions can bring value and connectedness into new positions you set your mind on. As a gifted person, take something that doesn't exist in the world, an abstract concept, or an idea, and make something new.
✔️ It takes conscious effort to listen to your intuition. Kristy shares why you should intentionally recognize and trust that thing you hear, that gut instinct. “It's like tuning into a radio station you haven't heard in a while, and it's so amazing when you do; you get lit up inside. But it's easy to hit the dial and go back into a different mode.”
✔️ The "G" word and you. If you're an adult and you were labeled as "gifted," and yet you're not calling yourself that anymore for whatever reason, Kristy shares that it's a great question to ask. "Connect with that definition of yourself, and inquire what would that mean for you? Look into that different part of yourself that needs to come into the light now."
✔️ We must honor all of our weirdness, curiosity, and the things that make us beautiful human beings. Having some room to be challenged, being your authentic self, or having some authenticity about who you are, including the weird parts, can be a great way to connect with the people in your life, even in your work sphere.
✔️ Keep exploring, finding those things, asking the questions, and trying to meet new people. Societal messaging surrounding being creative is pretty awful. Those in the creative community need to discover podcasts like this or resources and find your tribe of people because you need that support. We're up against old programming that doesn't value what we're about.
About Kristy Peloquin
Kristy is the founder of Class Libre, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanities education and experiential learning beyond the traditional classroom.
After earning her MFA in poetry and creative writing from Texas State University, she worked for the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission (THGC) as their first-ever staff member. She assisted commissioners in establishing April as Holocaust Awareness and Remembrance month in Texas and oversaw the creation and development of several key educational programs across the state.
Kristy served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of English with Austin Community College for over eight years, during which time she was nominated multiple times for awards in teaching, published several works, and even began a second master's degree in public administration. In addition, Kristy also created curriculum for and led therapeutic creative writing programs for a grief and loss counseling center. In 2019, Kristy joined Pop-Up Birthday, where she is currently the executive director.
Kristy writes poetry as a way of trying to suss out meaning from her life experiences and the experiences of others. Her work explores the line between real and unreal, moments when reality morphs into the surreal. Reoccurring themes in her work include spiritual confusion, trauma, memory, the physical body, and the natural world. Her work has been previously published in The Berkeley Poetry Review, Palimpsest: The Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, Sphere Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, and Midway Journal, among others. Her book "Adrift: A Collection of Poems" was published in 2018.
Connect with Kristy on their website: www.classlibre.org
FB Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/classlibre
FB Personal Page: https://www.facebook.com/kristy.peloquin1
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kristy-peloquin
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How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen
You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. You will grow, transform and connect. https://msdianneallen.com/
Join our Facebook Group Someone Gets Me
Follow Dianne's Facebook Page: Dianne A. Allen
Email contact: dianne@visionsapplied.com
Dianne's Mentoring Services: msdianneallen.com
Website: www.visionsapplied.com
Be sure to take a second and subscribe to the show and share it with anyone you think will benefit. Until next time, remember the world needs your special gift, so let your light shine!
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
It's another awe-inspiring episode from the Someone Gets Me podcast as I share the screen with China Forbes, the lead singer, and songwriter of the band Pink Martini. A gifted multi-potentialite, China's exceptional talents, coupled with her rich life experience, is truly a story worth telling (and made into a movie!)
Tune in as she shares her journey of what it's like pursuing many passions, enrolling at Harvard University, where she juggled visual arts, acting and singing, and even finishing as cum laude. China's life shows us how music is a source of hope, how it takes courage to focus on giving your gifts to the world, and the importance of accepting that the good and the bad things in life don't last forever.
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ A musical genius making beauty from sadness. China's unusual childhood, her mother and father, divorcing when she was five, and the many struggles after that are depicted in a movie her sister made called Infinitely Polar Bear, starring Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana. Such was the backdrop as China grew up and made it through with the help of art, music, and her eternal optimism for life.
✔️ She is releasing the song "Rise," which she wrote for her Pink Martini bandmate, Derek Rieth. "I just felt like my words did not succeed in helping him, but I felt that they could help someone else who was struggling with suicidal thoughts. I've been sitting on it for six years, but it's now coming out; I do believe that this song will help many people."
✔️ There is still more to be done by the singing sensation, and she has this to say to fellow creatives: "You need not care what anyone thinks. It would be best if you dedicated time every day to do your craft. Trust that no one else is you and don't compare yourself to others, and you need to get the focus off of yourself because self-consciousness is paralyzing. Ask yourself, how do I give my gifts to the world?"
✔️ China recently co-written Pink Martini's two latest hits, including "The Lemonade Song," approaching 2 million streams on Spotify alone. This soaring anthem of orchestral pop, written on either side of a breakup, celebrates the strength we all have to persevere and survive and learn to love our lives. It describes each individual's Full Circle: the power each of us has to steer our lives in the direction we want to go, a direction that will end up back where we started, but as a different person each time we come around.
China Forbes was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she graduated cum laude from Harvard and was awarded the Jonathan Levy Prize for acting. She appeared in New York regional theatre and Off-Broadway productions, earning her Equity card alongside future stars of stage and screen such as Norm Lewis, Peter Jacobson, and Rainn Wilson.
Soon after college China formed and sang with her first band. They regularly performed at NYC clubs CBGB's Gallery, Mercury Lounge, and Brownies. Her first solo album Love Handle was released in 1995, and she was chosen to sing "Ordinary Girl," the theme song to the TV show Clueless.
In 1995, she was plucked from New York City by Harvard classmate Thomas Lauderdale to sing with Pink Martini. She has written many of Pink Martini's most beloved songs with Lauderdale, including "Sympathique," "Lilly," "Clementine," "Let's Never Stop Falling in Love," "Over the Valley," and "A Snowglobe Christmas," which can be heard on Pink Martini's holiday album Joy to the World. Her original song "Hey Eugene" is the title track of Pink Martini's third album, and many of her songs can also be heard on television and in film. She sang "Qué Será Será" over the opening and closing credits of Jane Campion's film In the Cut. Her original song "The Northern Line" appears at the end of sister Maya Forbes' directorial debut Infinitely Polar Bear, released in 2015 by Sony Pictures Classics.
With Pink Martini, Forbes has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Later with Jools Holland. She has performed songs in over twenty languages. China has sung duets with Michael Feinstein, Jimmy Scott, Georges Moustaki, Henri Salvador, Saori Yuki, Faith Prince, Carol Channing, and Rufus Wainwright, among others. She has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall to Red Rocks, the Sydney Opera House to the Grand Rex in Paris. She released her second solo album '78 on Heinz Records in 2008, a collection of autobiographical folk-rock songs.
She has recently co-written Pink Martini's two latest hits, including "The Lemonade Song," approaching 2 million streams on Spotify.
Listen to China sing LIVE and visit http://pinkmartini.com/ for the concert, live stream, and tour updates.
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IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinaforbes/?hl=en
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Lemonade song: https://youtu.be/mJNMagxeTrU
Full Circle link: https://youtu.be/slI5oydKyoY
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