Podsongs
174 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratingsMusicians interview inspirational people as inspiration for a new song.
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Joyce Pring - No.1 podcaster in the Philippines - on how to survive Zoom-living
January 04, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBOn-air as a radio jock for 4 years, Joyce now hosts the leading podcast in the Philippines, Adulting with Joyce Pring, which garnered popularity since its launch in 2018 - garnering the number one spot on both Spotify and iTunes, with more than 250 thousand listeners globally and 2 million streams across all platforms. She has been a child sponsor for 9 years, and 3 years ago, she became a World Vision Ambassador - championing for the protection, and education of children. Recently, Joyce wa...
Tom Schwab - podcast expert - on the secrets to a great podcast
January 02, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 121 MBTom Schwab knows how to build an online business. He’s done it successfully several times, and now helps others find online success with podcast interview marketing. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps thought leaders (coaches, authors, speakers, consultants, emerging brands) get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to. The Interview Valet system then helps them to turn listeners into cus...
Tom Schwab on what makes a good podcast
January 02, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 121 MBTom Schwab knows how to build an online business. He’s done it successfully several times, and now helps others find online success with podcast interview marketing. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps thought leaders (coaches, authors, speakers, consultants, emerging brands) get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to. The Interview Valet system then helps them to turn listeners into cus...
Todd McCarty on the modern music business
December 30, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 204 MBTodd McCarty is currently living in Japan after leaving his record label job to build a consultant business and educate a large audience of musicians via his new platform Band Builder Academy. He's served musicians and fans his entire career. He also consults record labels and independent musicians getting placement for music on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon. Previously he was Sony Music USA as Senior Vice President of Sales. Previously he was General Manager for Fearless Records where he work...
Dr Neal Barnard on veganism and animal rights
December 28, 2020 02:00 - 47 minutes - 108 MBNeal D. Barnard is an American author, clinical researcher, and founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Barnard founded Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in 1985 because he "wanted to promote preventive medicine." By 2016, the Washington D.C.-based PCRM had 150,000 members, including 12,000 physicians and reported revenues of more than $20 million. He appeared in the 2011 documentary feature film Forks Over Knives. Barnard serves as...
Alan Dershowitz on defending the undefendable
December 27, 2020 03:00 - 46 minutes - 106 MBAlan Dershowitz is an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his scholarship of U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law, and a noted advocate of civil liberties. He taught at Harvard Law School from 1964 through 2013, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst. He is also a prominent voice on the Arab–Israeli conflict and has written several books on the subject....
Stanley Chi on life in the Philippines
December 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBStanley Chi is a Chinese Filipino observational comedian, cartoonist, TV host, columnist and book author. Chi has gained an underground cult following because of his unique comedic chops. He is the columnist for FHM Philippines' website, One Night Stan and a video blogger for Spot.ph's Suplado in the City. He also hosts The Underpaid Podcast, a podcast that talks about work-related topics, anything and everything about the office such as how to deal with your horrible boss, office mates, off...
Chrissie Blaze on Earth: Astrology's missing planet
December 21, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 196 MBChrissie Blaze is the author of 12 books, a metaphysician and astrologer. She has been a student/practitioner of the psychic and spiritual sciences from a young age. She is a regular media guest and conducts lectures and classes in the U.S.A. and U.K. Blaze is a professional astrologer who qualified at the Faculty of Astrological Studies, London in the early 1980s. She qualified as a lecturer with credentials from the University of London, England. She was a longtime close student of renowne...
Esther and Laura on how they started a mobile library for refugees in Greece
December 18, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 181 MBECHO is a mobile library helping refugees in Greece. Around 80,000 displaced people in Greece are currently stuck in isolated camps that lack basic facilities, let alone a library. ECHO is a grassroots project organised through a community network between Athens and eleven camps and community centres in mainland Greece. I speak to Laura Naude and Esther ten Zijthoff, two of the founders. Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Esther and Laura called, unsurpr...
Neil Dykes about volunteering to help refugees in Greece
December 16, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 167 MBShocked by the news reports of the conditions in Greece, UK couple Neil and Caroline Dykes went to Thessaloniki to see what they could do to help. They were met by dreadful scenes of overcrowded, rundown buildings with no heat or running water and no prospect of onward movement for the people. These poor families had had their houses bombed out from underneath them, had suffered terrible horrors and their plight was desperate. The large NGOs were sitting on their hands and were more interest...
Track-by-Track Commentary on Podsongs Volume 1
December 15, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutes - 91.5 MBA commentary on the last 12 songs created for the Podsongs project, with musicians Jack Stafford, Maurizio Sarnicola, Massimino Voza and Luigi Falcione. Go behind the scenes with the band to hear how they made the songs inspired by podcast interviews.
Thom Walters on cultivating a meditation practice
December 14, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 199 MBAs a meditation teacher and host of the global ZEN commuter Meditation Podcast Thom has taught meditation to thousands of people wanting to live a calmer, fuller life. He began a meditation practice back in 1980, when he was eighteen years old, and considers it to be the most impactful skill learned in his life. "Through the years, and up to now, I have kept my meditation practice alive, practicing over 5,000 hours. In between those times I have interviewed noted meditation thought leaders o...
Karen Salmansohn on happiness
December 11, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 144 MBKaren Salmansohn is a best selling self-help book author and award-winning designer with about 2 million books sold nationally and internationally. She is the founder of notsalmon.com, a popular personal development site, which offers books and video courses on topics including anxiety, toxic people, emotional eating, relationships, meditation, and happiness. Her website also includes many of her viral quote posters that she writes and designs. Salmansohn was formerly a senior VP ad creative...
Dawson Church on the mechanics behind mediation
December 09, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBDawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. The Genie in Your Genes (YourGeniusGene.com) was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression. Mind to Matter, (MindToMatter.com) showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as “objective reality.” Bliss Brain (BlissBrain.com) demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. He has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded th...
Richard Lawrence on UFOs and yoga
December 07, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 218 MBRichard Lawrence is the Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and Africa, which is the oldest UFO contacts organizations in Britain, and possibly the world. He is also a Bishop in The Aetherius Churches. Richard has devoted his life to the work of his late master and personal friend, Dr George King (1919-1997) - founder of the Society - with whom he co-authored Contacts with the Gods from Space. Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Richar...
Brian D Smith on growing from grief
December 04, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 182 MBBrian D Smith is a life coach and grief counsellor, and the host of Grief 2 Growth Podcast. "After 57 years of experience and almost that much time helping and leading people informally, I decided to make it official, obtain my life coaching certification, and seek to help people more formally. I’ve had a career as an engineer, in corporate tech sales, and as a small business owner of a business I built from the ground up. I’ve raised two children. I’ve experienced the death of a child. I’v...
Bernardo Kastrup discusses materialism and consciousness
December 02, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 225 MBBernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). For...
Scott Carney on the search for truth
November 28, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 189 MBInvestigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney has worked in some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world. His work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. What Doesn’t Kill Us was a New York Times bestseller; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mountain. Carney was a contributing editor at Wired for five years and his writing also appears in Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, Playboy, Foreign Policy, Discover, Outside and Fast Company. His wo...
Lynn Russell on Near Death Experiences
November 27, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBTriggered by her own spiritual experiences, Lynn Russell went on a journey to study Near Death Experiences - 2,500 of them! Today, Lynn is a recognized NDE expert, and has collated her research into her new book: The Wonder of You: What the Near-Death Experience Tells You about Yourself. Her research has uncovered messages about our lives, reality, and why we exist. This episode is a very insightful discussion with a truly beautiful person. I learned so much, and am sure you are going to...
Dr Michael Lennox on dreams and astrology
November 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBDr. Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School and his Doctoral Dissertation, Astrology and Personality, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Lennox is also the author of two books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream and Llewellyn’s Complete Dream Dictionary. Dr. Lennox leads workshops and retreats all over the United States and conducts a worldwide private practice based in Southern California. Highly soug...
Dr Bernie Siegel on healing yourself
November 24, 2020 09:14 - 1 hour - 229 MBDr. Siegel, who prefers to be called Bernie, not Dr. Siegel, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of gen...
Steven C Hayes on controlling your thoughts
November 23, 2020 17:19 - 1 hour - 157 MBSteven C. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. He is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance...
Carlos Tanner on healing trauma with Ayahuasca
November 23, 2020 15:16 - 1 hour - 168 MBCarlos Tanner is the founder of The Ayahuasca Foundation in Peru. After living and studying with a curandero for over four years, Carlos worked to provide a safe and effective way for people to not only receive treatment in the healing tradition of the Amazon but also to study the tradition, the way he had with his maestro. The idea for the Ayahuasca Foundation was born from a desire to spread the science of plant medicine back into the world. The Foundation supports the preservation of indi...
Podsongs Trailer
November 21, 2020 18:00 - 7 minutes - 14.6 MBJack Stafford has always been a documentary songwriter—a modern-day troubadour—writing non-fiction songs always with a goal to either instruct, educate or maintain a historical record. Now with Podsongs—his new podcast project—he is taking this a step further. Twice a week he interviews inspirational people and creates a song based on their story and their work.