September 8, 2025 • 23 mins
Bubba Startz introduces Jennifer Harper, delving into her early music career and the creation of her new album, "Soul Alive." They discuss the creative risks involved in the album's development and the impact of AI on music, including the rise of AI-created pop stars. Jennifer shares insights into her favorite track on "Soul Alive" and explores the intriguing concepts of human design and gene keys in her music. The conversation touches on Jennifer's remote services and how podcasting can serve as a healing tool. The episode concludes with details about the album release and additional resources, offering a comprehensive look at Jennifer's innovative approach to music and personal growth.
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Well, welcome in to another exciting episode ofthe Scene.
I'm your host, Bubba Staartz, and with me todayis singer, songwriter, and sound alchemist,
Jennifer Harper.
Jennifer, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for having me.
This is fun.
Yeah.
Well, we've already had a lot of fun off cameratalking about technology and how we probably
(00:22):
weren't made for TV, and it's a good thingwe're both musicians.
But, for all of our listeners who have probablynever heard of you before, why don't you go
ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself,and we'll pick it up and talk about the new
album you got coming out.
Sure.
I am based in Stamford, Connecticut, thoughoriginally from Washington DC.
(00:43):
Lot of years in between there, but I I plantedroots in Stamford, Connecticut about twenty
five years ago, raised three kids here, andreally started my music career later in life
while I was raising my kids.
I had been very involved in music my wholelife.
I started playing the piano when I was four,and I always loved music and did all kinds of
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things along the way.
But it wasn't until I had my children that Ireally started writing.
And well, I wouldn't say I really startedwriting, but I start started the act of putting
together an album.
So I'm now about to release my third album, andit's called Soul Alive, and it's coming out
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Friday, September 5.
Not sure when this is gonna air, but it'llprobably be live already.
And I've been working on it for all through thepandemic is really when I did the writing of
most of the material.
And I was super proud of this because feel allalong the journey.
(01:53):
It's taken me a lot I think the story of thethe story of my backstory is really the journey
to find my own voice and express my own voice.
That was something I had just a lot of troubledoing, finding confidence in that.
And with this album, I feel like I've reallyfound what I wanted to say and how I wanted to
(02:18):
say it, and and and it feels just like a reallybeautiful and true artistic expression.
So excited.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
A five year, you know, road to get this thingto completion, and now here you are just a few
days from it getting out there into the worldand and birthing itself.
Right?
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Amazing.
Have, been working on a project myself, notquite five years, but some of the songs are
ten, you know, fifteen years old.
Right?
And I get it.
I've carrying them with me, and they've justbeen bottled up.
And over the course of the last year or so, Ifinally got them out and a chance to play with
some really talented folks that I've beenfriends with for a long time.
(03:01):
And, I don't have necessarily a band.
Right?
So to, like, get these big ideas out, I'mhaving to work with other individuals.
And so I know the feeling.
I know that excitement.
We're kind of in the mixing process right now.
So to see it kinda go from that raw you know,just the song and just the feeling.
Right?
It starts as a feeling.
I think most songs do.
And then to have it expressed and then finallyready to share with the world is so exciting.
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So I'm thrilled for you, Jennifer.
That's Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
This in particular too, I took a lot ofcreative risks in terms of not doing what I
felt was the safe choice or the typical choicein a lot of the ways that I structured the
(03:48):
songs and the lyric choices and therepetitiveness.
There's a lot of repetitiveness, almost mantralike quality in some of the songs, and that was
intentional and felt felt really just good toexpress myself that way and and not worry so
much how I mean, I I was crafted with intentionwith healing intentions.
(04:12):
In other words, I I work with the music.
They're almost like healing mantras for myself.
I work with them and then I shape them more sothat I I feel that they will land for other
people.
But at the same time, so it's that balance ofwanting them to land for other people, but
really not compromising artistically how I feltthat would best take place, if that makes
(04:38):
sense.
You touched on touched on something there thatthat I really I kind of I don't think there's
room in this world for safe music anymore.
Right?
Like, we are here we are here to take chances.
We are here to express ourselves.
I have never been one to kinda mold what I doaround a commercial aspect to it anyway.
(04:59):
That's not why I do music.
That's not what moves me to write songs.
Raw emotion moves me to write songs.
With you, it seems like there's anintentionality behind it of healing, so that's
why you're writing songs.
So why try to put that into a box that's readyfor commercial for an industry that doesn't
want that anyway, for the
most So
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it's really about creating something that'strue to yourself and is a true expression of
your human genes.
And and I know that you have a, an affinityfor, you know, some of, some much deeper
topics.
Right?
And I hope we have a chance to dig into alittle bit.
But it's there's just not a space for safemusic, at least in my world.
(05:40):
I I it's not what I want to do.
I and I and I'm thrilled to hear someone elsekind of express that as well.
And I think it gives like, each one of us thatdo that for ourselves, we give another artist
permission to do that for themselves as well,and then it keeps going.
And I think that's why you had, you know, theexplosion of rock and roll and all of this
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beautiful music from the sixties.
And maybe some of this was drug induced toowith a lot of it.
You know?
But they they weren't writing be to get big onthe radio.
You know?
They they they were writing to expressthemselves, and then that went out there and
rung true with other people.
And that was what the cultural movement, Ithink, of the the sixties was really all about,
(06:22):
was everyone was just out there creating andexpressing themselves.
And I I feel like music is coming back to that.
The pendulum swung so far to the,commercialized side, especially now with
Spotify and all these record companies justdominating our our world in that way that I
think artists just wanna create now.
(06:43):
And a lot of people around me are pulling theirstuff down off of Spotify if Spotify hadn't
done it already and really just putting it outwhether it's on Vinyl or it's on a a you know,
an app like Bandcamp or something like that.
But making it more available to, like, just thepeople that actually care to listen to it, not
necessarily putting it out there for all of themasses to consume.
(07:05):
So I commend you for that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Interesting, actually.
I mean, there's a whole other can of worms, andI don't know that I definitely wanna open that,
but I just wanna say that, excuse me, with theadvancement of AI, there's Spotify is kinda
like old news.
AI coming in is is the new iteration of what'sgonna be happening with music.
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Unfortunately, I just saw some really crazystuff I was watching.
I've been blown away, Jennifer, by what I hearfrom it.
And I kind of because I'm not making any moneyoff of music and I really have no intention of
of of making money off of music, at least inthat, like, the the commercialized way, I don't
mind it.
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I don't mind that other people are able to usethis technology and to express themselves
because maybe they didn't have the time as achild or a parent that was going to be able to
afford to put them into piano lessons.
More interesting.
Given these advantages to do it.
Well and I've seen it from a few of my friendsbecause I kinda was like you where I was like,
oh, you know, it's out there.
But if nobody's making any money anyway, thenthey're not taking anything away from me.
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Right?
That they're not competing with me.
I appreciate your point of view.
But what actually what I was happened to bewatching was, I guess it was a producer who had
a you know, knew how to work with thetechnology and basically created a character
character and gave her, you know, a name,created the idea for the song, and everything
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was done in, like, two and a half minutes.
The image, the the thing so it's just it's noteven using AI to make your to make music or,
like, you never played an instrument or you cansing or whatever.
This is literally, like, creating characters,creating AI artists and their catalog.
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And it is to be able to for public consumption,and it is to be able to make money.
And it is you know?
So it's like, that's that's a whole otherthing.
And I said, I I have so many other things thatI'd rather talk about, but I just didn't have
to mention it because I just I saw it lastnight, and I was just like, woah.
This is And really
I think that I think humans are gonna be ableto suss that out.
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Because while you can create a pop star fromthat, you cannot artificially create human
connection.
And that's at it root Well,
Well, that's
what music truly is.
So it will never be able to replicate what youcan do with just you and a piano.
And I guess that's why I kind of feel safe inmy space.
I play guitar, and I write my own songs.
And I'm like, without power, you can't do anyof that.
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Can go sit around a campfire with with myguitar and entertain my friends Yeah.
Yeah.
Without any electricity whatsoever.
So Oh, sure.
I Yeah.
Obviously, with just where it's going, I havethese conversations almost daily now on the
podcast.
And Yeah.
Some people that are really into it and somepeople that feel very much like you do.
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And I don't I don't necessarily know where Istand because I kind of have a foot in both.
Right?
I appreciate, you know, people having a chanceto express themselves, but also understand that
there are going to be now companies that arebuilt on manufacturing pop stars from
absolutely nothing.
And Yeah.
Yeah.
There's something icky about it, but I think,also, human beings are gonna suss that out as
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well.
So Yeah.
We'll see.
It's gonna be an interesting five, ten years inthe music business.
Sure is.
So you got the album coming out soon.
I'm just thrilled for that.
Can you tell us, you know, what's kind of yourwhat's the one track on there that you're just,
the most thrilled to get out there?
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I know it's like picking your favorite kid orsomething, but, I I wanna know the one track
that people really need to go in here when itcomes out, actually this Friday.
So
Oh gosh.
You know, that's too hard.
That is like fucking one kid.
I can't do that.
I will whole say thing like an old album.
Right?
Lay it on.
Listen
I to the will say that there's one song on thealbum that's an extended version of a song that
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I released as a single.
And I was a little more hesitant to release itas a single.
And for the album, I decided that I reallywanted the extended version.
It's called Floating, and it's a song thatreally resonates with the stage of life that
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I'm in now.
I just got my youngest off to college, so I'mnow officially an empty nester and moving into
menopause.
And all of that that has come with that overthe last, you know, decade, really, all the
changes as a woman and moving into this stagewhere my kids are you know, needed me less and
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less and started moving out on their own anddoing their own things.
And it's making peace with who I am, makingpeace with the stage of life I'm at, making
peace with my body, making peace with and morethan making feet at peace with it, like, really
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surrendering into the beauty of this stage oflife.
So that song means a lot to me personally forthat reason.
So
I I think that's awesome because it's somethingthat and talking about pop and commercial
music, no commercial music is going to touchthat subject.
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Right?
It it would be frowned upon.
Who wants to talk about those things?
But it's something that every woman, you know,hopefully, if they live that long, is going to
go through, especially if they have childrenand all of these things.
So I think it's great that you really tackle,you know, really hard topics head on and using
your lived experience to kinda tell the storythat maybe isn't as unique as, it may seem.
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So it's just thrilling.
I cannot wait to listen to this album.
I'm getting really excited to check it out herein just a couple of days.
In your
Well, it's interest sorry.
Go ahead.
No.
I said it's just interesting to me because Ialways sometimes I wondered, does my music
resonate with men?
But I have had a lot of men.
I mean, clearly, it's written much more it'sit's much more about the women's perspective
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and women's healing and women's issues and andand and really about empowerment for women is
like something that I talk about a lot inconnection with nature as well.
But I have had men reach out to me and tell mehow much they enjoy my music, not only because
it touches them, but because it helps themunderstand that female perspective as well.
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So
Thank you.
Thank you.
Exactly.
Because we're freaking clueless, Jennifer.
You know.
We're absolutely clueless, and some of ourwives are are not as good at expressing these
things.
Mhmm.
You know, my wife and I deal with a lot ofcommunicate I'm a talker, if you couldn't tell.
My wife is the polar opposite of that,especially when it gets to highly charged,
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emotionally charged conversations and andreally deep things like that.
And some of that is probably because I have atendency to talk over her.
Right?
Because I am that talker.
So having, you know, a song that expresses whoyou are, like, that's what music and being an
artist is all about.
And kinda tracing back to the AI, I thinkthat's something that AI will never be able to
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recreate and to bring it doesn't have a humanexperience to fall back on.
You know?
It doesn't have that true human nature to it.
So, love it.
I I'm just thrilled that you're putting thisout there into the world, and you're not scared
to to go ahead and and let it let it hang outthere and to see what it does for the world and
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how it changes it.
You know?
It's it's a beautiful thing, and I reallycommend you for for taking some risks.
And and I think humanity will thank you in theend too.
If you help one man understand his wife alittle better, you might have saved a marriage.
Yeah.
Funny.
So in your bio, it says after discovering humandesign and gene keys, you spent two years
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intensively studying these practices.
What can you tell us about how that relates toyour music career?
Well, you know, understanding the self it's asystem for understanding the self.
And particularly in Gene Keys works infrequencies, so shadow frequency, GIF
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frequency, and then the highest expression ofyour GIFs, which is called siddhi, s I d d h I.
I think it's how it's spelled.
And understanding the these frequencies andmyself and exploring them gave me so much
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material, really, for of things that I wantedto you know, it's sort of a puzzle to work out
a little bit.
Sometimes songwriting, like, I'm workingthrough something and trying to understand it
and transmute it, transform it, come to somekind of embodiment of it.
Right?
So while studying the human design and the genekeys, my chart, I was also studying other
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people's charts, particularly in my family.
And I just went deep into certain things abouthuman nature that we all share and also
particularly, you know, in my own chart.
So the writing the the material, it it justgave me a lot to write about, think about.
And so that's part of it, how how it's in themusic.
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And then, in addition, I started working withclients one on one and helping other people
with their charts and understanding theircharts.
And then what I discovered was, as I was doingthis, that people were very profoundly affected
by my voice.
They would constantly say, it's not just whatyou're saying.
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It's it's how you're saying it.
Like, your voice is transmitting something tome that's really helping me shift this.
So I started understanding and and, of course,people were giving that kind of feedback too
about my songs that these aren't just songs.
These are activations.
These are transmissions.
You know?
The the the sound and the messages were wereaffecting people on a much deeper level.
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So I started well, it's sort of a longer story,but to make a longer story short of how it
evolved in me, this process, I began combiningintuitive sound, like, using my voice as a
sound healing instrument while I was doing myreadings for people.
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So I would read their charts.
I would sort of channel for them about theirlives.
And then also, basically, I don't know on abetter word than channel because that's how it
feels.
It's just, like, opening myself to receive themessages, and then they come through me and my
voice and and singing and helping them move theenergy.
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So it's like an energy healing, and it's like aan energetic transmission and a voice healing
to do with their their birth charts, if thatexplains it.
I don't know.
Very hard to explain, but, very powerful toexperience.
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Awesome.
So those these are your soul blueprintactivations and sacred frequency
recalibrations.
Correct.
Yeah.
That sounds so incredible.
I am I am just I'm so intrigued.
I I bet you could go on for hours about thistopic.
So I don't wanna have you go too far into it.
It's intriguing enough.
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I hope people get a chance to come and checkthat out.
Is this a service that you offer as welllocally?
It is.
An an in person service?
Well, I've done a lot on Zoom.
Okay.
Awesome.
Fantastic.
It's easy.
Through my website, website, you can findJennifer.
Why don't yeah.
Go ahead and share that, Jennifer.
Sorry to cut you off.
No.
It's okay.
It's jenniferharpermusic.com.
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And I believe there's a tab that says somethinglike work with me or what I can do for you or
something like that.
And if you're interested at all in thesessions, you know, you can reach out through
my website.
You can say you found me here, and I can dosome kind of a special for your audience.
I'm happy to do that.
Oh, that would be thrilling.
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Yeah.
It's a it's a very, very powerful and beautifulway of understanding the self.
And I have, through my own process, released alot of blocks, and it has allowed me to come to
the place I am now where where I'm not onlybringing forth an album that feels like the
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truest expression of my artistry, but I'm alsonow offering these sessions to other people.
So it has just opened up so much for me in mylife that I never expected just through
understanding my own soul blue blueprint.
So I'm so thrilled when I can do that for otherpeople and the shifts that I've witnessed in
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people from changing direction in their careerto, you know, some people have experienced a
physical healing of something that's beenbothering them to, you know, settling into a
certain direction in their life that they weregoing, but they were hesitant or whether it's
not understanding how to work with your energy.
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Certainly for artists, it could be really,really helpful in understanding your voice and
your message and your purpose and all of thesethings.
Fantastic.
Yeah.
I love it.
Yeah.
And, well and it gives credence to what I say.
I I say it almost every episode now because Ifind it to be completely true, but I believe
that podcasting and these conversations thatwe're having, this is how God is healing the
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world.
Right?
Like, having this is so powerful.
But because of deeper than just the content ofthe conversation, it's the voices that we're
having on our programs and all of thesedifferent podcasts.
And I think a lot of what you just taught hereto us who have never heard of these things
before and what you're doing in your sessionsare an embodiment of that even further.
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So absolutely thrilling, Jennifer.
Thank you so much for coming on the show todayand sharing a little bit about you and your
things.
We have some longer form programs that are alsoinside of the network.
I would love to have you come back, and maybewe could do a session for me live on the air.
That would be really
fun.
Really fun.
Yeah.
Interesting.
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Before I let you go, I'll give you a chance toplug everything one more time and make sure to
mention the name of the album and, where theycan find it.
Oh, thank you.
Sure.
It's called soul alive, like your soul alive,and it's coming out on September 5 on all
streaming platforms wherever you listen tomusic.
And my website is jenniferharpermusic.com.
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And you can connect to me on socials through mywebsite.
It's probably the easiest rather than ramblingoff even more links that are hard to remember.
But I think the best way is always throughemail because that's how you find out about
different exclusives and you hear things first.
And I also have you know, when you sign up forthe mailing list, I have a free song, a very
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healing song.
So, yeah, jenniferharpermusic.com.
Fantastic.
Well, Jennifer, thank you so much for giving mesome of your time today, and thank you for
being part of the scene.
Thank you so much.
Really appreciate it, and all the best to youand your mission here.
Well, welcome in to another exciting episode ofthe Scene.
I'm your host, Bubba Staartz, and with me todayis singer, songwriter, and sound alchemist,
Jennifer Harper.
Jennifer, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for having me.
This is fun.
Yeah.
Well, we've already had a lot of fun off cameratalking about technology and how we probably
(00:22):
weren't made for TV, and it's a good thingwe're both musicians.
But, for all of our listeners who have probablynever heard of you before, why don't you go
ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself,and we'll pick it up and talk about the new
album you got coming out.
Sure.
I am based in Stamford, Connecticut, thoughoriginally from Washington DC.
(00:43):
Lot of years in between there, but I I plantedroots in Stamford, Connecticut about twenty
five years ago, raised three kids here, andreally started my music career later in life
while I was raising my kids.
I had been very involved in music my wholelife.
I started playing the piano when I was four,and I always loved music and did all kinds of
(01:09):
things along the way.
But it wasn't until I had my children that Ireally started writing.
And well, I wouldn't say I really startedwriting, but I start started the act of putting
together an album.
So I'm now about to release my third album, andit's called Soul Alive, and it's coming out
(01:32):
Friday, September 5.
Not sure when this is gonna air, but it'llprobably be live already.
And I've been working on it for all through thepandemic is really when I did the writing of
most of the material.
And I was super proud of this because feel allalong the journey.
(01:53):
It's taken me a lot I think the story of thethe story of my backstory is really the journey
to find my own voice and express my own voice.
That was something I had just a lot of troubledoing, finding confidence in that.
And with this album, I feel like I've reallyfound what I wanted to say and how I wanted to
(02:18):
say it, and and and it feels just like a reallybeautiful and true artistic expression.
So excited.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
A five year, you know, road to get this thingto completion, and now here you are just a few
days from it getting out there into the worldand and birthing itself.
Right?
(02:38):
Amazing.
Have, been working on a project myself, notquite five years, but some of the songs are
ten, you know, fifteen years old.
Right?
And I get it.
I've carrying them with me, and they've justbeen bottled up.
And over the course of the last year or so, Ifinally got them out and a chance to play with
some really talented folks that I've beenfriends with for a long time.
(03:01):
And, I don't have necessarily a band.
Right?
So to, like, get these big ideas out, I'mhaving to work with other individuals.
And so I know the feeling.
I know that excitement.
We're kind of in the mixing process right now.
So to see it kinda go from that raw you know,just the song and just the feeling.
Right?
It starts as a feeling.
I think most songs do.
And then to have it expressed and then finallyready to share with the world is so exciting.
(03:25):
So I'm thrilled for you, Jennifer.
That's Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
This in particular too, I took a lot ofcreative risks in terms of not doing what I
felt was the safe choice or the typical choicein a lot of the ways that I structured the
(03:48):
songs and the lyric choices and therepetitiveness.
There's a lot of repetitiveness, almost mantralike quality in some of the songs, and that was
intentional and felt felt really just good toexpress myself that way and and not worry so
much how I mean, I I was crafted with intentionwith healing intentions.
(04:12):
In other words, I I work with the music.
They're almost like healing mantras for myself.
I work with them and then I shape them more sothat I I feel that they will land for other
people.
But at the same time, so it's that balance ofwanting them to land for other people, but
really not compromising artistically how I feltthat would best take place, if that makes
(04:38):
sense.
You touched on touched on something there thatthat I really I kind of I don't think there's
room in this world for safe music anymore.
Right?
Like, we are here we are here to take chances.
We are here to express ourselves.
I have never been one to kinda mold what I doaround a commercial aspect to it anyway.
(04:59):
That's not why I do music.
That's not what moves me to write songs.
Raw emotion moves me to write songs.
With you, it seems like there's anintentionality behind it of healing, so that's
why you're writing songs.
So why try to put that into a box that's readyfor commercial for an industry that doesn't
want that anyway, for the
most So
(05:19):
it's really about creating something that'strue to yourself and is a true expression of
your human genes.
And and I know that you have a, an affinityfor, you know, some of, some much deeper
topics.
Right?
And I hope we have a chance to dig into alittle bit.
But it's there's just not a space for safemusic, at least in my world.
(05:40):
I I it's not what I want to do.
I and I and I'm thrilled to hear someone elsekind of express that as well.
And I think it gives like, each one of us thatdo that for ourselves, we give another artist
permission to do that for themselves as well,and then it keeps going.
And I think that's why you had, you know, theexplosion of rock and roll and all of this
(06:01):
beautiful music from the sixties.
And maybe some of this was drug induced toowith a lot of it.
You know?
But they they weren't writing be to get big onthe radio.
You know?
They they they were writing to expressthemselves, and then that went out there and
rung true with other people.
And that was what the cultural movement, Ithink, of the the sixties was really all about,
(06:22):
was everyone was just out there creating andexpressing themselves.
And I I feel like music is coming back to that.
The pendulum swung so far to the,commercialized side, especially now with
Spotify and all these record companies justdominating our our world in that way that I
think artists just wanna create now.
(06:43):
And a lot of people around me are pulling theirstuff down off of Spotify if Spotify hadn't
done it already and really just putting it outwhether it's on Vinyl or it's on a a you know,
an app like Bandcamp or something like that.
But making it more available to, like, just thepeople that actually care to listen to it, not
necessarily putting it out there for all of themasses to consume.
(07:05):
So I commend you for that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Interesting, actually.
I mean, there's a whole other can of worms, andI don't know that I definitely wanna open that,
but I just wanna say that, excuse me, with theadvancement of AI, there's Spotify is kinda
like old news.
AI coming in is is the new iteration of what'sgonna be happening with music.
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Unfortunately, I just saw some really crazystuff I was watching.
I've been blown away, Jennifer, by what I hearfrom it.
And I kind of because I'm not making any moneyoff of music and I really have no intention of
of of making money off of music, at least inthat, like, the the commercialized way, I don't
mind it.
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I don't mind that other people are able to usethis technology and to express themselves
because maybe they didn't have the time as achild or a parent that was going to be able to
afford to put them into piano lessons.
More interesting.
Given these advantages to do it.
Well and I've seen it from a few of my friendsbecause I kinda was like you where I was like,
oh, you know, it's out there.
But if nobody's making any money anyway, thenthey're not taking anything away from me.
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Right?
That they're not competing with me.
I appreciate your point of view.
But what actually what I was happened to bewatching was, I guess it was a producer who had
a you know, knew how to work with thetechnology and basically created a character
character and gave her, you know, a name,created the idea for the song, and everything
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was done in, like, two and a half minutes.
The image, the the thing so it's just it's noteven using AI to make your to make music or,
like, you never played an instrument or you cansing or whatever.
This is literally, like, creating characters,creating AI artists and their catalog.
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And it is to be able to for public consumption,and it is to be able to make money.
And it is you know?
So it's like, that's that's a whole otherthing.
And I said, I I have so many other things thatI'd rather talk about, but I just didn't have
to mention it because I just I saw it lastnight, and I was just like, woah.
This is And really
I think that I think humans are gonna be ableto suss that out.
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Because while you can create a pop star fromthat, you cannot artificially create human
connection.
And that's at it root Well,
Well, that's
what music truly is.
So it will never be able to replicate what youcan do with just you and a piano.
And I guess that's why I kind of feel safe inmy space.
I play guitar, and I write my own songs.
And I'm like, without power, you can't do anyof that.
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Can go sit around a campfire with with myguitar and entertain my friends Yeah.
Yeah.
Without any electricity whatsoever.
So Oh, sure.
I Yeah.
Obviously, with just where it's going, I havethese conversations almost daily now on the
podcast.
And Yeah.
Some people that are really into it and somepeople that feel very much like you do.
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And I don't I don't necessarily know where Istand because I kind of have a foot in both.
Right?
I appreciate, you know, people having a chanceto express themselves, but also understand that
there are going to be now companies that arebuilt on manufacturing pop stars from
absolutely nothing.
And Yeah.
Yeah.
There's something icky about it, but I think,also, human beings are gonna suss that out as
(10:28):
well.
So Yeah.
We'll see.
It's gonna be an interesting five, ten years inthe music business.
Sure is.
So you got the album coming out soon.
I'm just thrilled for that.
Can you tell us, you know, what's kind of yourwhat's the one track on there that you're just,
the most thrilled to get out there?
(10:49):
I know it's like picking your favorite kid orsomething, but, I I wanna know the one track
that people really need to go in here when itcomes out, actually this Friday.
So
Oh gosh.
You know, that's too hard.
That is like fucking one kid.
I can't do that.
I will whole say thing like an old album.
Right?
Lay it on.
Listen
I to the will say that there's one song on thealbum that's an extended version of a song that
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I released as a single.
And I was a little more hesitant to release itas a single.
And for the album, I decided that I reallywanted the extended version.
It's called Floating, and it's a song thatreally resonates with the stage of life that
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I'm in now.
I just got my youngest off to college, so I'mnow officially an empty nester and moving into
menopause.
And all of that that has come with that overthe last, you know, decade, really, all the
changes as a woman and moving into this stagewhere my kids are you know, needed me less and
(12:00):
less and started moving out on their own anddoing their own things.
And it's making peace with who I am, makingpeace with the stage of life I'm at, making
peace with my body, making peace with and morethan making feet at peace with it, like, really
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surrendering into the beauty of this stage oflife.
So that song means a lot to me personally forthat reason.
So
I I think that's awesome because it's somethingthat and talking about pop and commercial
music, no commercial music is going to touchthat subject.
(12:43):
Right?
It it would be frowned upon.
Who wants to talk about those things?
But it's something that every woman, you know,hopefully, if they live that long, is going to
go through, especially if they have childrenand all of these things.
So I think it's great that you really tackle,you know, really hard topics head on and using
your lived experience to kinda tell the storythat maybe isn't as unique as, it may seem.
(13:07):
So it's just thrilling.
I cannot wait to listen to this album.
I'm getting really excited to check it out herein just a couple of days.
In your
Well, it's interest sorry.
Go ahead.
No.
I said it's just interesting to me because Ialways sometimes I wondered, does my music
resonate with men?
But I have had a lot of men.
I mean, clearly, it's written much more it'sit's much more about the women's perspective
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and women's healing and women's issues and andand and really about empowerment for women is
like something that I talk about a lot inconnection with nature as well.
But I have had men reach out to me and tell mehow much they enjoy my music, not only because
it touches them, but because it helps themunderstand that female perspective as well.
(13:53):
So
Thank you.
Thank you.
Exactly.
Because we're freaking clueless, Jennifer.
You know.
We're absolutely clueless, and some of ourwives are are not as good at expressing these
things.
Mhmm.
You know, my wife and I deal with a lot ofcommunicate I'm a talker, if you couldn't tell.
My wife is the polar opposite of that,especially when it gets to highly charged,
(14:17):
emotionally charged conversations and andreally deep things like that.
And some of that is probably because I have atendency to talk over her.
Right?
Because I am that talker.
So having, you know, a song that expresses whoyou are, like, that's what music and being an
artist is all about.
And kinda tracing back to the AI, I thinkthat's something that AI will never be able to
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recreate and to bring it doesn't have a humanexperience to fall back on.
You know?
It doesn't have that true human nature to it.
So, love it.
I I'm just thrilled that you're putting thisout there into the world, and you're not scared
to to go ahead and and let it let it hang outthere and to see what it does for the world and
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how it changes it.
You know?
It's it's a beautiful thing, and I reallycommend you for for taking some risks.
And and I think humanity will thank you in theend too.
If you help one man understand his wife alittle better, you might have saved a marriage.
Yeah.
Funny.
So in your bio, it says after discovering humandesign and gene keys, you spent two years
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intensively studying these practices.
What can you tell us about how that relates toyour music career?
Well, you know, understanding the self it's asystem for understanding the self.
And particularly in Gene Keys works infrequencies, so shadow frequency, GIF
(15:44):
frequency, and then the highest expression ofyour GIFs, which is called siddhi, s I d d h I.
I think it's how it's spelled.
And understanding the these frequencies andmyself and exploring them gave me so much
(16:07):
material, really, for of things that I wantedto you know, it's sort of a puzzle to work out
a little bit.
Sometimes songwriting, like, I'm workingthrough something and trying to understand it
and transmute it, transform it, come to somekind of embodiment of it.
Right?
So while studying the human design and the genekeys, my chart, I was also studying other
(16:33):
people's charts, particularly in my family.
And I just went deep into certain things abouthuman nature that we all share and also
particularly, you know, in my own chart.
So the writing the the material, it it justgave me a lot to write about, think about.
And so that's part of it, how how it's in themusic.
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And then, in addition, I started working withclients one on one and helping other people
with their charts and understanding theircharts.
And then what I discovered was, as I was doingthis, that people were very profoundly affected
by my voice.
They would constantly say, it's not just whatyou're saying.
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It's it's how you're saying it.
Like, your voice is transmitting something tome that's really helping me shift this.
So I started understanding and and, of course,people were giving that kind of feedback too
about my songs that these aren't just songs.
These are activations.
These are transmissions.
You know?
The the the sound and the messages were wereaffecting people on a much deeper level.
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So I started well, it's sort of a longer story,but to make a longer story short of how it
evolved in me, this process, I began combiningintuitive sound, like, using my voice as a
sound healing instrument while I was doing myreadings for people.
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So I would read their charts.
I would sort of channel for them about theirlives.
And then also, basically, I don't know on abetter word than channel because that's how it
feels.
It's just, like, opening myself to receive themessages, and then they come through me and my
voice and and singing and helping them move theenergy.
(18:30):
So it's like an energy healing, and it's like aan energetic transmission and a voice healing
to do with their their birth charts, if thatexplains it.
I don't know.
Very hard to explain, but, very powerful toexperience.
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Awesome.
So those these are your soul blueprintactivations and sacred frequency
recalibrations.
Correct.
Yeah.
That sounds so incredible.
I am I am just I'm so intrigued.
I I bet you could go on for hours about thistopic.
So I don't wanna have you go too far into it.
It's intriguing enough.
(19:16):
I hope people get a chance to come and checkthat out.
Is this a service that you offer as welllocally?
It is.
An an in person service?
Well, I've done a lot on Zoom.
Okay.
Awesome.
Fantastic.
It's easy.
Through my website, website, you can findJennifer.
Why don't yeah.
Go ahead and share that, Jennifer.
Sorry to cut you off.
No.
It's okay.
It's jenniferharpermusic.com.
(19:37):
And I believe there's a tab that says somethinglike work with me or what I can do for you or
something like that.
And if you're interested at all in thesessions, you know, you can reach out through
my website.
You can say you found me here, and I can dosome kind of a special for your audience.
I'm happy to do that.
Oh, that would be thrilling.
(19:58):
Yeah.
It's a it's a very, very powerful and beautifulway of understanding the self.
And I have, through my own process, released alot of blocks, and it has allowed me to come to
the place I am now where where I'm not onlybringing forth an album that feels like the
(20:20):
truest expression of my artistry, but I'm alsonow offering these sessions to other people.
So it has just opened up so much for me in mylife that I never expected just through
understanding my own soul blue blueprint.
So I'm so thrilled when I can do that for otherpeople and the shifts that I've witnessed in
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people from changing direction in their careerto, you know, some people have experienced a
physical healing of something that's beenbothering them to, you know, settling into a
certain direction in their life that they weregoing, but they were hesitant or whether it's
not understanding how to work with your energy.
(21:06):
Certainly for artists, it could be really,really helpful in understanding your voice and
your message and your purpose and all of thesethings.
Fantastic.
Yeah.
I love it.
Yeah.
And, well and it gives credence to what I say.
I I say it almost every episode now because Ifind it to be completely true, but I believe
that podcasting and these conversations thatwe're having, this is how God is healing the
(21:29):
world.
Right?
Like, having this is so powerful.
But because of deeper than just the content ofthe conversation, it's the voices that we're
having on our programs and all of thesedifferent podcasts.
And I think a lot of what you just taught hereto us who have never heard of these things
before and what you're doing in your sessionsare an embodiment of that even further.
(21:52):
So absolutely thrilling, Jennifer.
Thank you so much for coming on the show todayand sharing a little bit about you and your
things.
We have some longer form programs that are alsoinside of the network.
I would love to have you come back, and maybewe could do a session for me live on the air.
That would be really
fun.
Really fun.
Yeah.
Interesting.
(22:13):
Before I let you go, I'll give you a chance toplug everything one more time and make sure to
mention the name of the album and, where theycan find it.
Oh, thank you.
Sure.
It's called soul alive, like your soul alive,and it's coming out on September 5 on all
streaming platforms wherever you listen tomusic.
And my website is jenniferharpermusic.com.
(22:38):
And you can connect to me on socials through mywebsite.
It's probably the easiest rather than ramblingoff even more links that are hard to remember.
But I think the best way is always throughemail because that's how you find out about
different exclusives and you hear things first.
And I also have you know, when you sign up forthe mailing list, I have a free song, a very
(23:04):
healing song.
So, yeah, jenniferharpermusic.com.
Fantastic.
Well, Jennifer, thank you so much for giving mesome of your time today, and thank you for
being part of the scene.
Thank you so much.
Really appreciate it, and all the best to youand your mission here.
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