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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
Oh yeah. Broadcasting live from the Josey Network Studios in
downtown Madonna, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
It's that time of week again.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's time for the Josie Shoe, bringing you the most
exciting music, moves and guests from around the world right
here on the Jersey Show. Please make walking beautiful. It's Hannity, Hello,
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d America's else business. Josie assid hein oslere.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hey everyone, and welcome back to the Josie Show.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I have two incredible, incredible guests joining me, Steph Cars
and Joel Weldon, both authors, both artists. We are so
looking forward to talking to both of these incredible talents
here today. So let's start off with Steph Cars.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Here we go. I guess Steph Cars, Hi, how are you.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Are you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm doing well. Thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Well, thanks for having me. I appreciate it to be there.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
All the pleasures all mine. I've been looking forward to this.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I mean, first off, congratulations are in order for the
incredible momentum you've had this year honestly, you know, with
the mass singer win Sean tr Mosque, am.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I saying that right you are, thank you?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I try, I try, And then of course the new
album and then why are Children's Book? I mean, when
you look at this moment in your life, how does
it feel? I mean, have you had time to kind
of sit in it and kind of come.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
To the realization of what's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, you know, my career has been kind of a
roller coaster. You go, you get a lot of ups
and and then then then you go into a deep valley.
And so so you know, as I keep sharing this,
you know, I think you get surprised, but as you
get a little older, you you certainly learn to appreciate
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every every good moment like that. Yes, so because you know,
sometimes you really don't expect this, And it was a
it was a very very surprised, a big surprise, and
the album all at the same time it was like whoa, you.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Know, a lot a lot going on.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
And I love how open you are, especially with the
autobiography The Impossible Dream. I love how open you are
and how vulnerable you are and talk about you know,
some of the you know of course, your your chart
timing success bels the hardships, even at one point live
in your car in Nashville. You're very open about all
of this, you know, and I wanted to ask you,
you know, what was the most difficult part of revisiting
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those chapters in your life? Was it difficult or was
it therapeutic in a way?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You know, I always labeled myself as a slow learner,
so so sometimes you go through things that I had
to go through. It's interesting because I grew up in
the church, right so, but for me, my relationship with
the Lord that was outside the church. I found that
living in my car, you know, ask asking yourself the
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right question. But I think I needed to go through
through a lot of these things. I'm not looking at
it as an excuse. I wish that it was not
as long or as painful. But I feel like one
of the one of the Jews that have walked is
forty years around the same mountain right right.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Absolutely, And I'm sure there's many other people out there
that can relate. So I love how open you were
and generous with you know, showing kind of this side
of your life. And I'm sure a lot of readers
are going to be able to take away a lot
from your story of perseverance, you know, and reinvention. And
then of course I love how you talk about your
faith as well. It's just a beautiful thing, it really is.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Well, thank you, thank you for taking the time to
read the book.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I appreciate that absolutely, absolutely, And I hope everyone checks
it out. It is available on all the places that
you that you could find book of course, of course
Amazon that's where I got it. So I hope everyone
goes and checks that out.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So pleasing. The title is so is so fitting for me.
It's called The Impossible Dream.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I love the title.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
And then the funny thing is I did a movie
with my wife, a Christmas Movies, also on Amazon Prime,
and I did I do sing the song Impossible Dream
in the movie, so I so I guess that was
pre shadowing what was coming.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That is amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
That's what I find so funny is sometimes we do
things with not even realizing. And you know, the holiday movie,
of course, people are going to want to know. It's
the holiday movie musical The True Miracle of Christmas, which
is now streaming on Amazon Prime. So for those who
have not seen it yet, can you tell us a
little bit about this movie musical and the role that
you play.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So it's such a funny thing. It was actually a
film between projects and because I was working on a
different film, and you know, one night I was just
singing at the piano and I heard this beautiful harmony
and my wife was singing. And she's not a singer
per se. I mean she sang, you know, in the
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choir when she was a young kid, but she's in
a different worlds. She's a financial advisor, so she's a
complete it's like creativity, mean meat spreadsheet right, so very
very different. But her voice was so beautiful. I said, honey,
would you would you mind singing a song with me?
And the first one we did was Blue Christmas Remega
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Ellis Resleyan and she was so natural and and so
I basically talked her into I would love to do
just a little Christmas memory the two of us and
you know, and make it a family thing and you
and I can sing, and so I started very gently
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to approach it to her, and then finally she said,
she said, well, if you're directing it, I'll do it.
And then so she and she was she's not playing.
You know, she's not acting, she's she's just being herself.
And so we filmed it in between, uh, you know,
during my break and I remember that that year we
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put up the Christmas tree three times the years because
we had some more reshoot to do and we had
so many amazing adventure happening there. If you get to
see the video, you know, her and I have been
praying to have a child and we got pregnant last year,
but we lost the baby. Out of an act of faith,
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we decided she played a pregnant woman there, right. We
bought this fake belly and so so it's it's, it's,
it's it was a great experience with us, for both
of us. And there's a scene that's so funny. It
happened in the Nativity scene. We had a live Nativity scene,
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so we had a bunch of animals and one of
the little calf ran away, and so you had the
whole crew running for this. Yeah yeah, so oh yeah,
a lot of great things happen there. But you know,
it's this accumulation of wonderful Christmas songs that I think
people will you know, Christmas favorites.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I would say, yeah, so many Christmas favorites, and then
of course the story behind it. And I love that
you do it with you know, your wife. I mean,
it just makes it so much more homey and a way,
you know. I mean it's a real family, you know.
So I think that's I think that's what makes it's
so special. And I hope everyone checks it out Amazon Prime.
It's available now, so please make sure you do that.
But you know, like I mentioned prior, you are you
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have so many projects out. I could probably talk to
you forever. But there is, of course the new studio
album Praise and Worship, and it's described as deeply spiritual
and soul stirring. What inspired you to create a full
praise and worship project at this time?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It's interesting, you know, I grew up in the church.
Like I said, I never liked church music when I
was a kid, so I was more in the pop category.
I started music doing country music, and then I went
to pop opera, and so I went to a different genre.
But as I you know, I got more acquainted in
my relationship with Christ grew deeper as a you know,
(08:44):
as I got older. In twenty thirteen, I think it's
when it started. I actually lost my voice while I
was performing in Vegas, and so I had one of
those intimate prayer you know that, you know, go to
Jesus moment, right, So and I said, well, if you
store my voice, I will as if you can't, as
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if you can really make that kind of deal with God.
But but you know, yeah, you know, yes, I say, yeah, right,
So I said, I will be bold and recorder a
and an album and a TV special that will glorify
the Lord Jesus Christ, My Lord Jesus Christ. And so
within the matter of months, my voice was restored, and
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not only restored, but I gain an extra octave, which
I which is unheard of at my age. So and
now I have five octaves. So I knew right there
and then that it was an act of God. So
I wanted to fulfill my promise. And then all of
a sudden, we filmed a TV special for pure Flix
called My Shining Hour Story and it took me. I
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thought it was going to take me about three to
six months to produce, but it took me about three
and a half years because during the process there's a
lot of cleansing that I had to do in my
personal life, a lot of yeah, a lot of relationship
that I had to, you know, to walk away from.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And so.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And you know, God is so gracious and you just
see means us where we are, and but you know,
there's a lot of cleansing. And then finally when it happened.
It's interesting because when I completed the TV special, no
one wanted to buy it, no one, no network wanted
to have it. And I said, oh my goodness, well
at least I fulfilled my promise. And then and then
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then I you know, go and read that famous line
in the scripture, be still and know that I am God.
And so what happened is the day Star showed interest
and they started playing it in Canada and they had
big success and get it. So they now aired it
in the United States and worldwide in two point two
billion homes. And so that was my first Emmy actually
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through this. So I think God has been I've been
so gracious to me and my family and it's been amazing.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Oh yes, God is good, he really is. I just
I love that and I love that testimony. First off,
and you know, this is such a great album. I
really do recommend it. I mean, there's three brand new
unreleased tracks on the album that people can really dip into.
And you know what is one of the big things
that you want, you know, the listener to take from
this album because I'm sure that they could put it
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in their own personal lives as well and see themselves
within it as well. So, you know what would be
something that you hope people get out of it.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's to glorify the Lord for everything that we have.
You know what we've learned over the years, especially since
covid is control is an illusion. We never have control.
It's a pure illusion, and we've all experienced that. And
so it's just the grace of God that is being
poured upon us. And I just hope that people understand
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that Christ did not come to give us a religion,
but rather a relationship, and it's an intimate relationship. So
He meets us where we are and He has a
special plan for each of us. And so for me,
I wanted to name it Paris in Worship because I've
sang a lot of worship song but I never really
understood the difference between singing and being in truth in spirit.
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When you say worship in truth in spirit means like
you forget everything around you and you just sing as
if you're only doing for the Lord. And so that came,
you know, like, it's interesting how the journey for me
that led me to that. And understand, we did a
a remake of Amazing Grace with this singer She's she's
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the Canadian c c Wyman. I mean, she's so phenomenal.
If you get to see the music video of Amazing Grace,
we did this beautiful arrangement and a duet of this
song and in a way that no one has ever
heard it that way. Actually the album, yeah, it's doing
number two in Canada right now, so I'm just excited
about that. But also there are songs like Neil h
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In the song I wrote while I was driving my
wife and we witnessed a beautiful sunset like I've never
seen one like that before, and it was so beautiful
that you realize that God just gives us that for
our own enjoyment and we get to see. So I
started writing the song Neil because it was bringing me
to a reverential fear to to you know, just to
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the creator who created all things, and he gives us
so many things freely, and so that's that's really the
theme and what drove the album and what I wanted
to people to retain.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
From it, absolutely and they do.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
You you really did put that across through the album,
throughout the whole album, and I hope everyone does check
that out.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It is available now, so please make sure you do.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
But that was a beautiful, beautiful duet with of course
the iconic Canadian vocalist, and I'm also a mass singer judge,
I have to say, just for those who may not know,
but yes, it's just so incredible and I hope everyone
does check out that music video for Amazing Grace. It
is so wonderful. But speaking of you're returning to the
Masked Singer Canada Christmas Special.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I see it on TVA Plus this December.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Tell us about that, Well, what was interesting is that
when I won, she was one of the judges, and
I knew who she was vocally, what she could do vocally,
and I said, why don't you come out of your
pedestal and come down here and sing Amazing Grades with me?
And she came down the stage and we sang just
a little verse of the song and that's how it
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came about. And then finally she flew back to my
home here in Florida, and then we recorded about three
weeks ago, so it's just recent, but we decided to
also do it and include it on the Christmas Show.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah, I love that. That's so wonderful, and I just
love everything that you do. I mean, you know, to
also touch on you know, your children's book I'm awesomely made.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It grew out of your anti bullying anthem.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
What compelled you to turn that message into a book
for kids, because I think this is something that is
so needed nowadays with bullying and public schools and then
also not knowing maybe where you fit in in the world.
I love that you put this forth, you know. Can
you tell us a little bit about this message.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Yes, So it's something I started in twenty fifteen after
receiving by email a letter from a young somebody who
sent me a letter from a young boy that committed
suicide due to bullying at fourteen. So I was bullied
as a kid, so I could relate, but I could
never relate to the fact that they would take away
their life. And so now it's the leading cause of
suicide among young children, and so so I've wanted to
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do something about that and realizing this and first of all,
to understand why it would lead them to that, you know,
to suicide. Sure, And so the difference is that when
I was bullied as a kid, you know, you get
two or three kids that go wait for you after
school and all that, but then you go home and
it's still a safe place. Today they're being bullied online.
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It's not about two or three kids. The entire school
knows about it because it's been all the entire way,
you know, and then they're coming back with that information
on their device, and so home is no longer a
safer place. So you know, what I realized is that
the frontal part of a child, the part that's able
to reason, is not formed until the age of twenty
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two twenty three. So every decision they make is really
fueled by emotions. And so you know, when you go
to your trial and say what were you thinking, Well,
he wasn't thinking. He was just a feeling. And so
they're not able to see that it's just a temporary thing.
So our organization, we're not going to stop bullying. There's
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been bullying since beginning of time. If we can help
them build self worth and self esteem and so that's
why it's called I Am awesomely made, you know, and
we wanted to focus on what's going on inside of
the outside of you. Is what resides inside of you,
you know, it's what we tell the kids. Let me
share with you, and then we go in a scientific
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matterer and explain, you know that all the amazingness and
awesomeness that resides in each of us, and that it's
only influenced once you welcome a thought in your mind.
So you know, we all know that we become often
what we believe. But what's interesting is that we end
up believing what we are told repeatedly and accept us truth.
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And so if we're able to put a stop to
that and understand who we are, what we are, and
what is our worth and so you know, I'm trying
to do it in less in a more secular approach,
so I could get to the secutory school. But the
fact is it's still in the scripture. It says very
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clearly in Someone thirty nine fourteen, I am awesomely and
wonderful be made. And this I know well. And so
it's based on that principle. And so we go through
the book and explain what the brain does. You know
that the eyes are able to record a million bits
of information per second, selling it at three hundred miles
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per hour to your brain, So it gives you an
instant focus. There are no cameras in the world that
can have an instant focus like your eyes. And so
you know, like your heart pushes blood through sixty thousand
miles of blood vessels every day, sixty thousand miles of
blood vessels, like going around the Earth two and a
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half times every daye right, So if they could stop
and think what's going on? And so that's the premise
of the Why I Count. And I called a dear
friend of mine him and his wife help writing the
story and the illustration. Cyrus and Natasha their dear friends
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of mine, and they contributed in creating the illustration in
the story based on our program. So it was really exciting.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
That's so exciting, and I hope it opens up more conversations,
you know, with parents and teachers to really kind of
start where it all stems from. And that's you know,
self worth, you know what I mean, and believing in
yourself and knowing that you know, hurt people sometimes hurt
other people, you know, what I mean, and there's no
reflection on yourself is a reflection on them, you know.
So I love that you're opening up that conversation. I
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think it's much needed.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Really, yeah, because you said it hurt people, hurt people.
And so this program by focusing not on the anti
bullying program, but if we can build self worth and
make the person understand the kid that is bullying others,
because chances are that he's being bullied at home too.
So if we can make it understand that, you are
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becoming the fruit of your word. Right, So what you
say has a rippled effect, not just in the lives
of others, but in your own life. And so that
way it helps them as well. You know, if we
can make them conscientious of that's it's a victory, see it.
I see it when we're in Gymnazemen present, we have
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a video call Awesome, and we have a scene with
a school bus and I you know, something evil is
expected that they all think that this kid is getting
into school and school bus and will be bullied, and
and it's a little surprise he's not being bullied, is
actually being empowered by words by other students. So but
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what I'm saying is I'm seeing the reaction of the
kids when they're they're all sitting on an amazing floor,
you know floor and watching the video and they're all
crisp and they're expecting something that may not be something
they relate to. Let's just put it this way. And
then when they discover that it's more of an empowering scene,
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then you could see their body language is like there
were leasing everything. So because it doesn't lie, you know,
so it does affect us when we see the reaction
live with the kids. How words can.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Affect them, right, all that's so wonderful.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I love the work that you do with all of
your all of your ventures really and we're big fans,
and so I wanted to touch on, you know, a
little bit of everything.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Like I said, you have so much that.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
We could talk about, but I don't want to take
up too.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Much of your time.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
But thank you so so much for joining me, and
we'll definitely be promoting everywhere along with this interview and
also social networking everything that you that you have going on,
because I think it needs to be heard and I
really appreciate your time, Josie.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I do a lot of interviews, but you are so
well learned, so you have done your homework. So rarely
we see that, so thank you for taking the time
to get informed on what we do and.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Appreciate of course, of course, many blessings to you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Thank you so much for everything.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
That you do, and I hope to have you back
on Okay, anytime, come on.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Back sounds great.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Blessed day, have a blessed day. Bute bye.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Please welcome to the Josie Show. My guest Joel Weldon.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Hi, Hi Josie. What an honor.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Oh, the honor is all mine. I've been looking forward
to talking to you.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Oh likewise you knows as with a background in indie
music from way back. I'm like, you're serving an audience,
you know, and beyond that is just so critical and
I'm like, I'm really really happy that I get to
be on your show. It's really cool.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Oh, I appreciate that you are too kind. I've been
looking forward to this because I learned quite a bit
with your new book, and you know, being a platform
where a lot of music artists are listening into the platform,
listening into the show, I thought that this was a
perfect opportunity because you can learn quite a bit from
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this book, and it's of course you are the message,
revolutionary speaking tools for a better life, deeper loved and
irresistible leadership. And you learn all sorts of things in
this better communication, body language, emotions, forging real communication, navigating
speaking engagements. I mean so much in here. Writers, you
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touched on all of it. Yeah, you really did. So
can you tell us a little bit about this book,
because this is a book that is very neat in
a time that could be very digital dominated with AI
and such. So how important was it for you to
get something like this out there to the world now.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Oh, Josie. So, my co writer Bob Phillips and I
we've been friends for years, and so what happened is,
you know, my journey was going from an indie musician
traveling for gosh, almost twenty years putting out albums as
an indie and you know in mainly in the Christian
music realm, and I just, oh, man, I was blessed
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to be able to do that something I loved for
so long. Well, then I went through some challenges for
a couple of years and that it was a weird thing,
but it pushed me into the production world where I'm
actually now working on commercials et cetera, as an audio engineer,
eventually becoming a producer, going oh, this is cool. I
can make a living doing this. It's a it's audio,
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you know. And I'm watching these artists on a microphone
speaking and I'm thinking I can do that. And so
one one Toyota dealer up in the Northwest, where I
was living at the time, hired me to do a
couple of spots and that was the beginning of a gosh,
it's been a twenty year journey in the voice acting
realm doing all kinds of things. Well, then, so as
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a voice actor COVID hits, I'm teaching in La Hollywood.
I'm driving up there one night a week, and I'm teaching,
you know, voice acting classes in major studios in Burbank
and Hollywood and et cetera. Well, COVID hits, it all
grinds to a halt. You know, we call it the
black hole for all of us, COVID you think of
(24:51):
all these things, Oh my gosh, it was a very interesting,
weird time. That is like a marker in our lives.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So for me, I'm taking all my classes online. So
everybody's doing zoom. Well, yeah, you're not going to college classes,
you're not going to work. Why don't you join me
for a voice acting class just for kicks. So people
are coming on and I'm doing this week after week,
month after month. My friend Bob calls and he goes,
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I have a couple of people in my family took
your class. And Bob is a writer, he's a New
York Times bestselling author, and he said, he goes, you know,
I think we should write a book about whatever you're
doing because it's changing people's lives. And I'm going, well,
that's interesting to hear, and he goes, it's true. Whatever
you're doing in the voice acting craft is expanding people's
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ability to communicate, to just be more more of a
vibrant human. You know, you're able to have a conversation
and make it interesting and care about people in a
way that you don't feel concerned about yourself. It's really
interesting how it worked out. So that was the beginning
of the book. I'll help you write the book, and
I said, let's go. And so here we are three
(26:05):
and a half four years later, and it hit Amazon
in September, and I'm just thrilled. It's been a really
exciting journey.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Oh it has. I mean it's already made the Amazon's
number one hot new release in public speaking, So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I could see why because you could you learned quite
a bit love it.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You know. It was interesting because Bob Bob in his
career has traveled the world in very high pressure situations.
He has taught, spoken instructed, and from my perspective, I've
been on you know, a thousand plus stages, performances, you know, hosting,
doing concerts, et cetera. So the combination of both of
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those brought together a wealth of information and for us
it was like, Wow, anybody who could take this book.
If you're an indie musician, especially because you're on a
stage all the time and you're you know, you're trying
to communicate not just with your music but yourself. People
want to know you. They want to know where that
song came from. You know what I'm talking about, Jersey.
(27:08):
It's like, you think about all these artists and they're like, man,
I just love being able to share around music, but
really you need to be able to share yourself and
a lot of that involves how you perform, how you speak,
how you transition between songs, how you tell a story,
you know, without boring everybody, Right, there's so much.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
That goes into it, and you know, it's a big
it's very vulnerable being up there in front of eyes
and audience watching it is, you know, and it's great
to learn how you can do it and speak eloquently,
you know.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you want an example, I'll give
you an example of a very simple tool. Okay, So
if you're an indie musician and you're performing and these
are original songs, let's just say they're original songs, most
of those songs have a story behind them. Right. So
in the book you'll see a little section called the
Moment Maker, all right, and it's very simple. It just
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involves three things. All right. So you're going to take
a subject. Maybe it's a subject of a broken heart. Okay,
so you have a broken heart, you wrote a song
about it. Well, now you're going to tell a little
bit about your story. There was a moment in my
life where I experienced I was devastated, and you don't
have to go into detail, but say what you felt, right,
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this is my story. Now, this is my story. What
about Now, let's go to the next section, your story,
what about you? And you have to use the word you.
I use that in the commercial voice acting world, in advertising,
you have to use the word you. People don't think
about it, but they feel included, like you're speaking to them.
So you say, what about you? Have you ever felt
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that way? I bet you have. Maybe you had this,
maybe you had this happen to you. Give a couple examples.
Suddenly what you're doing is you're developing empathy with your audience.
Then suddenly go, wow, he or she is a real person.
I can I can't wait to tear the rest of
the song now, right, And so maybe you do it
in the middle of the song. You take the band,
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have them just kind of playing a little underscore while
you're telling this story. Now you go to number three
and this is what happened to me that took me
beyond the heartbreak. Right, So you give them my story,
your story, what about you? And then here's the answer.
So you can do that in ninety seconds, right, And
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if it's in the middle of a song, and now
you do the chorus at the end of the song,
after your little story, after your moment, Oh, my gosh,
the whole room just comes alive and they're with you
and they can't wait to see you again. That's how
it works.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
That's how it works. I love that. And I feel
like we're really missing out on a lot of human
connection with you know, your phones out there. And I
think it's just so important that you show you share
something with the audience, you know, whether it be emotion,
you know, and you talk a lot about this in
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your book, and I just think it's just so wonderful
what you do because it really is helping and changing
the world. I mean, you and Bob Phillips really are
dream teams material. When he teamed up together, it was
probably the best decision I could think of.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I am so honored, Josie. I mean, seriously, I'm humbled,
and I'm seriously I'm just honored by the fact that
you appreciate it. I were getting so much good feedback
and people are going, where has this been my whole life?
Once one reader was saying, I'm sharing this with my
teenager because this stuff is the stuff he doesn't know
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how to do, and I'm like, that's perfect. You know,
you think about this, this is a fact really interesting facts.
I know you had doctor Greg Casana on a while back.
I listened to that interview. Very interesting, fascinating guy, and
you know, he's a clinical psychologist guy, but he's a counselor.
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When you look at all the things with tech going
on right now, it's consuming our culture to the point
where we're having excuses not to have a conversation. We're
sitting around on our phones. You see it all the
time at coffee shops. Go to any coffee shop, go
to a Starbucks, and you see people just scrolling on
their phones drinking their coffee, you know, and you're like, Wow,
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that's life to them. Instead of having a conversation like
you and I are having right now. We're being fully
human and we're talking about ideas and that's where the
life is. And people they go into depression. Even he
mentioned that in your interview with him. It was like,
people are going into these holes of depression and isolation
and it's not good. There's an interesting fact that I read.
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A study came out renewed this year and it was
in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Three thousand
less words a day are being used by the younger
generation up to age thirty three thousand less words than
we used twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Now that is like astounding to me. And I'm going, okay,
so what are we replacing it with the scroll? You're
replacing it with a little text message with a primitive
little emoji, Like that's going to explain everything, right? Yeah?
Yeah for me? Oh man, the people that learn to
communicate are those that are going to fully live their lives.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Oh yeah, I absolutely agree. You see it all the time.
You know, when you're when people are out, you know,
on maybe a date or you are just out with
some friends. You know, you're on you're on your phone,
you're on social media, you're not really engaging with the
person that's right in front of you. You see it
all of the time, all the time. Yes, and it's
it's really unfortunate. I mean, and and you know text
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could be great at some point, but you know, there's
nothing nothing better than you know, maybe picking up the
phone talking to someone.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
And and that's what I love that you really dive
into in this book. And another really great, another really
great thing on to that is with text messages, you're like,
you know, instead of maybe the hard eye emoji, see
I love you.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
You know, like you know, yeah, exactly speak it.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
You know what I mean, and you know, really forge
the real communication out there and use your voice, which
I think is wonderful. And I wanted to ask you,
you know, with with AI rapidly transforming communication, how can
we preserve the authenticity of human connection in an increasingly
digital world? What can we do to really kind of
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shore best selves and be authentic during this kind of
world that we're living in.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Really? Yeah, yeah, that is a great question, I mean, Josie,
that's that's a lot of our challenge right now, especially
you know, those of us that are parents and you're
watching your kids grow up in this new culture. What
can you do to combat that type of consumption or
it's almost like your addiction. It's an addiction for people,
and it's it's really really hurting them. So this is
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what I say to people, and I use are some
practical things you can find more in the book too.
But when you have to actually pick up your phone
first thing when you wake up, you have an issue, Okay,
just count you have an issue if that's going to
be your go to right when you wake up, and
most of us do, right, especially with jobs, you go, Okay,
somebody's reached out to me, I'd better see what my
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email says or who's texting me. But then even if
you do that, okay, you need to have a time
in the morning, especially, or you set it aside and
you leave it at home. Right, If you go to
a coffee shop, leave I know it's weird because how
can I do that? Well, at least leave it in
your car when you go inside, leave it away and
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then go into a place where people are at And
I challenge people, I say this, learn how to have
one conversation with someone you don't know every day. If
you can do that, and it just takes basically one
attitude change, right, I don't care as much about what
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people think of me as I do about caring about them.
In other words, if they sense that I care about them,
and I truly do with my face, my countenance, and
I care, it's an interesting person. I want to get
to know you. Right, you can break into a conversation,
ask a couple questions, and you'd be surprised how many
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people love the fact that you're reaching out to them.
At first, they're going it's a little odd. Maybe you
know for them. But then they're going, oh my gosh,
this person really cares about me. Now you have a
little conversation. It might be five minutes, might be three minutes.
But you know what, it's a way that you became
fully human on that day. You connected with others and
you become you become accustomed to that. It becomes a
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habit in your life. And to me, that's what we're
were created for. We're given life so that we can
be human with each other. We need each other and
to isolate. Oh man, you're going to be You're going
to be handcuffed your whole life.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Absolutely, absolutely, And you know a lot of times when
you're hiding behind you know, a computer and screen, you
start getting comfortable that way, and you have to, you know,
be more comfortable sometimes being uncomfortable in situations, you know,
for the better, you know, kind of put yourself out there,
you know, and see what happened.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
You know, there was our son, Our son is he's
our youngest. Nathany's graduating from college this year in southern California. Here.
Oh he's gone four years and he did this with
his friends. I thought this was a really interesting idea.
They're all on Instagram. Right, it's a big deal. They're
all on Instagram. They're all on Instagram. But they realized that
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it was it was becoming a problem for them. This
this friend group and there's about a dozen i'd say
a dozen guys and they're in this group, and they
decided that they were going to put the parental controls
on their Instagram account and they were going to have
a friend in the group. So you'd be assigned to
a partner. That partner would create the password and hold
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the password. So that they only had ninety minutes or
sixty minutes a day on Instagram. They had to, you know,
watch their time because you only have sixty minutes a
day and then it locks out. Now, if it's an emergency,
then you hit up your partner and say can you
open up my phone whatever, and then somebody else gets
the number from them. You don't reveal the code, but
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that way they secure, they're all kind of accountable to
each other. I thought, what a great idea. And they
said they've done it for the last two years and
they're still doing it, And I'm like, hats off to
you guys. What a cool thing.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Yeah, that's really interesting. I love it.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, I thought, what a cool idea. You know, it's
like nobody thinks about these things, and they go, well,
how am I going to, you know, create a solution
from my problem? I know I have a problem. And obviously,
you know the things we talk about in the book
are if you have if you have a boring voice,
ways that you can enhance your voice. Yeah, okay, So
so Josie, listen, your voice is so fun. Your voice
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is like animated and full of energy. I do this
all the time. So for me, I'm going I love
her voice. And then when you laugh, it is just
so infectious. It is so cool. It makes everybody want
to laugh. I just absolutely love it. So you're doing great.
You don't need my book at all, get out of
every day.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I appreciate that, But I did. I learned so many
really really neat things. And you do talk about using
your voice, you know, how your tone and your pitch,
how you can convey just using your voice, and as
a voice actor, you know, that's an expertise where you
really were able to, you know, use tools that you
know and to help others, which I think was a
real gift and I'm just really really happy with everything
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you learn in there. And what's really cool is, you know,
going back to music artists who tune into the Josie Show.
Also in this book, you are talking about doing interviews.
You know sometimes, you know, interviews can get a little
you know, uncomfortable with questions. Journalists sometimes try to dig
and you know, do things that you may be uncomfortable with.
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But you really teach people music artists what to do
to really kind of combat that, you know, in an
appropriate way, which I really appreciated.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, thanks jose Yeah, for me, that was important because
you know, obviously those are the things I faced over time.
Here's another you want another story, here's my first interview. Yeah,
as an indie. Okay, So I had just released a
song to country and Christian radio around the country. This
is back when forty fives were a thing.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, Okay, So I released my first song. It was
a song about graduation. I released it and sent it
out by hand to every station with a note and
a bit about me, how to reach me, et cetera.
I hand addressed everything, sent them out to these stations
on my own. As an indie. So many people are
playing it because it's a song about graduation. This is
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in March and April. So they start playing the song
and within maybe about two three weeks, I get a call, Hey,
this is George. I am Pat Boone's personal assistant, and
I'm on the phone in Washington where I'm living. I'm going, nah,
who is this? Really? It was, but they flew me
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down to Burbank and I was at in his home,
at Pat Boone's home, and he interviewed me about my song,
the graduation day song. I was like, I was terrified.
I felt like I didn't know. I didn't have the
tools to really even be prepared. I hadn't really done
any studying on Pat Boone and here's Pat Boone, for
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goodness sake, and I'm like, right, So I felt like
I really was unprepared and I wish I would have
some more tools at that time. But that really launched
my indie career. From that point on. It was like
it just kind of took off. But I wish I
had had this book back then.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
That's what I was thinking. I really think that this
is a great book for any artist to really learn
how they can navigate, you know, an interview because you
can get really nervous. Even to this day, I've done
maybe over thirty five hundred plus interviews to this date
with artists and authors and musicians stuff, and it's you
still get really, really nervous sometimes because you don't want
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to stay the wrong thing, or you're afraid of messing up.
You're afraid of looking stupid, which is like another thing
that's in the book. You're just afraid of failing, you
know exactly. And it's it's wonderful these tools that you
are getting to people because we all need it. We
all are guilty of doing these things.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
You know, yeah, we are. It's and it's such a
we have to be. You have to be very deliberate
about moving forward in your life. You know, you never
want to stop learning.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
If anything, I'd want to tell an indie artist, always
lean into your giftedness. Right, You're going to lean into
your gift. Man, if you know you've got a talent,
maybe you're even starting out and you're going, gosh, I
really love this, but how do I get going lean
into it? Okay, this is something you love, It's something
that you would love to do the rest of your life, right,
create to sing and then so lean into it. But
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the other thing is, don't stop honing your craft ever.
You're never going to stop learning. I don't care who
you talk to. There's always something more to learn, something
more to grow in and go, gosh, I wish I'd
done that, or I could do this, Then go for it.
Don't be afraid, go for it. You know. For me,
I wish I would have had some of this stuff
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back then. But now I'm like, I love what I do.
I feel like, you know, I feel like I've been
created to do stuff like this. God's given me an
ability and a gosh a life where I go. I
get to share this now with others, and it excites me,
it really does, you know it is.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
It's so exciting way and you can give back you
know a lot of things that you've learned yourself, and
you really do with this book. And for those who
now have heard you know what we're talking about and
are so interested, and I'm sure you all are. Where
are the best places that we can get this book
right now in our hands?
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Okay, so the book obviously the best place is Amazon.
You go to Amazon, it's in stock, it's shipped really quick.
If you're into audiobooks. I have an audible version, and
of course I had AI do the narration. Not okay, seriously,
it's like, of course I did it myself. I narrated
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my own book, right. So what was really fun was
being able to actually articulate with my voice the things
that we write about in the book, and some of
it I get to use a sound example and the
way I read it. So that was really fun. So
some people are buying the book and they're actually getting
the audible version as well and doing it side by side.
(43:47):
So that's by far the best way to get it.
There's any book there as well, on Apple Books and
et cetera. I've got there's a little free gift if
people want it, and I think some of your listeners
would probably dig it. If you want Yeah, if you
go to gift dot empower your platform dot com, gift
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dot empower your platform dot com and basically you're just
gonna in trade for your email, which is always helpful,
you're going to get this. It's a starter for how
to make your voice begin to be irresistible. To me,
that's a really important thing and people need to know
the underlying factors that make your voice. You're either irrelevant
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or irresistible. There's a big difference. So it's going to
give you a couple of tools. It's going to ask
you about your own voice, you get a little self evaluation.
Then it's going to give you a couple links to
videos where I step you through a couple drills that
you can start with that immediately are going to go, oh,
I get it, I hear it now. And then once
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you understand it, that knowledge begins to be a launching
pad for irresistible communication for the rest of your life.
And I just love it.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
I love that. That's a great gift everyone. Please make
sure you go on that now check it out. Please do.
I think that's so so wonderful. And I also I'm
just I'm just so thrilled for you and for this book.
And I wanted to also ask you if you are
still doing the zoom calls kind of learning, you know,
because I'm just curious, you know, if it's an artist
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out there or someone wanted to talk to you in person,
maybe zoom you know, or in person, what was the
best way to do that so they can learn from
you straight face to face.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Oh, absolutely, you know, your best thing is to if
you're on Instagram or on Facebook, you can look me
up there and you can you know, direct message me
there and I'll send you the info. But I do
it all the time. You know, a lot of times
there are people doing interviews on camera that are very
high profile. So I do a lot of you know,
non disclosure agreements with people and coach them on how
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to do your interviews. That kind of thing is really valuable.
But I love talking to artists as well because there
are certain things that I know you could learn from
and go, oh, man, if I put this into practice
for the next show, I would love to see my
reaction from my audience and you're gonna go, wow, it
is really cool. So you can reach me there. You
can reach me at go to empower your platform dot com.
(46:17):
The other one is you just follow me on Instagram
Joel Weldon Official. The other one we do is is
you power YOUPWR dot com. And there's a lot of things.
I have my hands with so many things, and I
love it.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
I really really.
Speaker 5 (46:31):
That's the best thing. I think that's wonderful and I
hope everyone does check out the book. You are the
message Revolutionary speaking tools for a better life, deeper loved
and irresistible leadership by the wonderful Joel Weldon and Bob Phillips.
Like I said, dream Team to the Extreme says that
rhyme and you are just so wonderful and we just
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absolutely love you to das and I want to thank
you so so much for joining me. It really was
a pleasure chatting with you.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Oh, Josie, thank you so much. Thank you so much
for having me. I got my hand in my heart
right now. I'm really grateful for you. I really know
you're really fun.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
Well, thank you. I really appreciate it, and I hope it.
It's the chance to meet you in person too. Come
on out with We have the Josie Music Awards every
every year. We'd love to have you come out.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
I know what they are. I would love to be
a part of that. How fun that would be such
didn't it just happen right November? Is it yees October
or something like that?
Speaker 5 (47:27):
Yes, yes, And we're already planning the next year. So
if you're available to tund funny, come on out.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
We are going to write it down. I would love it.
That'd be really fun.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
What is so wonderful that we will stay in touch. Then.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah, Josie, God bless you. I love your your whole story,
how you started as a young person, and just what
a fun fun thing. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
God bless you have a great one. Okay, talk to
you too, all right, Bye bye bye bye.
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Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hey everyone, and welcome back to the Josie Show.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I have two incredible, incredible guests joining me, Steph Cars
and Joel Weldon, both authors, both artists. We are so
looking forward to talking to both of these incredible talents
here today. So let's start off with Steph Cars.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Here we go. I guess Steph Cars, Hi, how are you.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Are you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm doing well. Thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Well, thanks for having me. I appreciate it to be there.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
All the pleasures all mine. I've been looking forward to this.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I mean, first off, congratulations are in order for the
incredible momentum you've had this year honestly, you know, with
the mass singer win Sean tr Mosque, am.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I saying that right you are, thank you?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I try, I try, And then of course the new
album and then why are Children's Book? I mean, when
you look at this moment in your life, how does
it feel? I mean, have you had time to kind
of sit in it and kind of come.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
To the realization of what's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, you know, my career has been kind of a
roller coaster. You go, you get a lot of ups
and and then then then you go into a deep valley.
And so so you know, as I keep sharing this,
you know, I think you get surprised, but as you
get a little older, you you certainly learn to appreciate
(02:30):
every every good moment like that. Yes, so because you know,
sometimes you really don't expect this, And it was a
it was a very very surprised, a big surprise, and
the album all at the same time it was like whoa, you.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Know, a lot a lot going on.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
And I love how open you are, especially with the
autobiography The Impossible Dream. I love how open you are
and how vulnerable you are and talk about you know,
some of the you know of course, your your chart
timing success bels the hardships, even at one point live
in your car in Nashville. You're very open about all
of this, you know, and I wanted to ask you,
you know, what was the most difficult part of revisiting
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those chapters in your life? Was it difficult or was
it therapeutic in a way?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You know, I always labeled myself as a slow learner,
so so sometimes you go through things that I had
to go through. It's interesting because I grew up in
the church, right so, but for me, my relationship with
the Lord that was outside the church. I found that
living in my car, you know, ask asking yourself the
(03:35):
right question. But I think I needed to go through
through a lot of these things. I'm not looking at
it as an excuse. I wish that it was not
as long or as painful. But I feel like one
of the one of the Jews that have walked is
forty years around the same mountain right right.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Absolutely, And I'm sure there's many other people out there
that can relate. So I love how open you were
and generous with you know, showing kind of this side
of your life. And I'm sure a lot of readers
are going to be able to take away a lot
from your story of perseverance, you know, and reinvention. And
then of course I love how you talk about your
faith as well. It's just a beautiful thing, it really is.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Well, thank you, thank you for taking the time to
read the book.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I appreciate that absolutely, absolutely, And I hope everyone checks
it out. It is available on all the places that
you that you could find book of course, of course
Amazon that's where I got it. So I hope everyone
goes and checks that out.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So pleasing. The title is so is so fitting for me.
It's called The Impossible Dream.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I love the title.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
And then the funny thing is I did a movie
with my wife, a Christmas Movies, also on Amazon Prime,
and I did I do sing the song Impossible Dream
in the movie, so I so I guess that was
pre shadowing what was coming.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
That is amazing.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
That's what I find so funny is sometimes we do
things with not even realizing. And you know, the holiday movie,
of course, people are going to want to know. It's
the holiday movie musical The True Miracle of Christmas, which
is now streaming on Amazon Prime. So for those who
have not seen it yet, can you tell us a
little bit about this movie musical and the role that
you play.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So it's such a funny thing. It was actually a
film between projects and because I was working on a
different film, and you know, one night I was just
singing at the piano and I heard this beautiful harmony
and my wife was singing. And she's not a singer
per se. I mean she sang, you know, in the
(05:36):
choir when she was a young kid, but she's in
a different worlds. She's a financial advisor, so she's a
complete it's like creativity, mean meat spreadsheet right, so very
very different. But her voice was so beautiful. I said, honey,
would you would you mind singing a song with me?
And the first one we did was Blue Christmas Remega
(05:57):
Ellis Resleyan and she was so natural and and so
I basically talked her into I would love to do
just a little Christmas memory the two of us and
you know, and make it a family thing and you
and I can sing, and so I started very gently
(06:19):
to approach it to her, and then finally she said,
she said, well, if you're directing it, I'll do it.
And then so she and she was she's not playing.
You know, she's not acting, she's she's just being herself.
And so we filmed it in between, uh, you know,
during my break and I remember that that year we
(06:41):
put up the Christmas tree three times the years because
we had some more reshoot to do and we had
so many amazing adventure happening there. If you get to
see the video, you know, her and I have been
praying to have a child and we got pregnant last year,
but we lost the baby. Out of an act of faith,
(07:03):
we decided she played a pregnant woman there, right. We
bought this fake belly and so so it's it's, it's,
it's it was a great experience with us, for both
of us. And there's a scene that's so funny. It
happened in the Nativity scene. We had a live Nativity scene,
(07:24):
so we had a bunch of animals and one of
the little calf ran away, and so you had the
whole crew running for this. Yeah yeah, so oh yeah,
a lot of great things happen there. But you know,
it's this accumulation of wonderful Christmas songs that I think
people will you know, Christmas favorites.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I would say, yeah, so many Christmas favorites, and then
of course the story behind it. And I love that
you do it with you know, your wife. I mean,
it just makes it so much more homey and a way,
you know. I mean it's a real family, you know.
So I think that's I think that's what makes it's
so special. And I hope everyone checks it out Amazon Prime.
It's available now, so please make sure you do that.
But you know, like I mentioned prior, you are you
(08:07):
have so many projects out. I could probably talk to
you forever. But there is, of course the new studio
album Praise and Worship, and it's described as deeply spiritual
and soul stirring. What inspired you to create a full
praise and worship project at this time?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It's interesting, you know, I grew up in the church.
Like I said, I never liked church music when I
was a kid, so I was more in the pop category.
I started music doing country music, and then I went
to pop opera, and so I went to a different genre.
But as I you know, I got more acquainted in
my relationship with Christ grew deeper as a you know,
(08:44):
as I got older. In twenty thirteen, I think it's
when it started. I actually lost my voice while I
was performing in Vegas, and so I had one of
those intimate prayer you know that, you know, go to
Jesus moment, right, So and I said, well, if you
store my voice, I will as if you can't, as
(09:05):
if you can really make that kind of deal with God.
But but you know, yeah, you know, yes, I say, yeah, right,
So I said, I will be bold and recorder a
and an album and a TV special that will glorify
the Lord Jesus Christ, My Lord Jesus Christ. And so
within the matter of months, my voice was restored, and
(09:25):
not only restored, but I gain an extra octave, which
I which is unheard of at my age. So and
now I have five octaves. So I knew right there
and then that it was an act of God. So
I wanted to fulfill my promise. And then all of
a sudden, we filmed a TV special for pure Flix
called My Shining Hour Story and it took me. I
(09:49):
thought it was going to take me about three to
six months to produce, but it took me about three
and a half years because during the process there's a
lot of cleansing that I had to do in my
personal life, a lot of yeah, a lot of relationship
that I had to, you know, to walk away from.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And so.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And you know, God is so gracious and you just
see means us where we are, and but you know,
there's a lot of cleansing. And then finally when it happened.
It's interesting because when I completed the TV special, no
one wanted to buy it, no one, no network wanted
to have it. And I said, oh my goodness, well
at least I fulfilled my promise. And then and then
(10:29):
then I you know, go and read that famous line
in the scripture, be still and know that I am God.
And so what happened is the day Star showed interest
and they started playing it in Canada and they had
big success and get it. So they now aired it
in the United States and worldwide in two point two
billion homes. And so that was my first Emmy actually
(10:53):
through this. So I think God has been I've been
so gracious to me and my family and it's been amazing.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Oh yes, God is good, he really is. I just
I love that and I love that testimony. First off,
and you know, this is such a great album. I
really do recommend it. I mean, there's three brand new
unreleased tracks on the album that people can really dip into.
And you know what is one of the big things
that you want, you know, the listener to take from
this album because I'm sure that they could put it
(11:22):
in their own personal lives as well and see themselves
within it as well. So, you know what would be
something that you hope people get out of it.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's to glorify the Lord for everything that we have.
You know what we've learned over the years, especially since
covid is control is an illusion. We never have control.
It's a pure illusion, and we've all experienced that. And
so it's just the grace of God that is being
poured upon us. And I just hope that people understand
(11:50):
that Christ did not come to give us a religion,
but rather a relationship, and it's an intimate relationship. So
He meets us where we are and He has a
special plan for each of us. And so for me,
I wanted to name it Paris in Worship because I've
sang a lot of worship song but I never really
understood the difference between singing and being in truth in spirit.
(12:16):
When you say worship in truth in spirit means like
you forget everything around you and you just sing as
if you're only doing for the Lord. And so that came,
you know, like, it's interesting how the journey for me
that led me to that. And understand, we did a
a remake of Amazing Grace with this singer She's she's
(12:38):
the Canadian c c Wyman. I mean, she's so phenomenal.
If you get to see the music video of Amazing Grace,
we did this beautiful arrangement and a duet of this
song and in a way that no one has ever
heard it that way. Actually the album, yeah, it's doing
number two in Canada right now, so I'm just excited
about that. But also there are songs like Neil h
(13:03):
In the song I wrote while I was driving my
wife and we witnessed a beautiful sunset like I've never
seen one like that before, and it was so beautiful
that you realize that God just gives us that for
our own enjoyment and we get to see. So I
started writing the song Neil because it was bringing me
to a reverential fear to to you know, just to
(13:29):
the creator who created all things, and he gives us
so many things freely, and so that's that's really the
theme and what drove the album and what I wanted
to people to retain.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
From it, absolutely and they do.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
You you really did put that across through the album,
throughout the whole album, and I hope everyone does check
that out.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
It is available now, so please make sure you do.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
But that was a beautiful, beautiful duet with of course
the iconic Canadian vocalist, and I'm also a mass singer judge,
I have to say, just for those who may not know,
but yes, it's just so incredible and I hope everyone
does check out that music video for Amazing Grace. It
is so wonderful. But speaking of you're returning to the
Masked Singer Canada Christmas Special.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I see it on TVA Plus this December.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Tell us about that, Well, what was interesting is that
when I won, she was one of the judges, and
I knew who she was vocally, what she could do vocally,
and I said, why don't you come out of your
pedestal and come down here and sing Amazing Grades with me?
And she came down the stage and we sang just
a little verse of the song and that's how it
(14:36):
came about. And then finally she flew back to my
home here in Florida, and then we recorded about three
weeks ago, so it's just recent, but we decided to
also do it and include it on the Christmas Show.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah, I love that. That's so wonderful, and I just
love everything that you do. I mean, you know, to
also touch on you know, your children's book I'm awesomely made.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It grew out of your anti bullying anthem.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
What compelled you to turn that message into a book
for kids, because I think this is something that is
so needed nowadays with bullying and public schools and then
also not knowing maybe where you fit in in the world.
I love that you put this forth, you know. Can
you tell us a little bit about this message.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Yes, So it's something I started in twenty fifteen after
receiving by email a letter from a young somebody who
sent me a letter from a young boy that committed
suicide due to bullying at fourteen. So I was bullied
as a kid, so I could relate, but I could
never relate to the fact that they would take away
their life. And so now it's the leading cause of
suicide among young children, and so so I've wanted to
(15:42):
do something about that and realizing this and first of all,
to understand why it would lead them to that, you know,
to suicide. Sure, And so the difference is that when
I was bullied as a kid, you know, you get
two or three kids that go wait for you after
school and all that, but then you go home and
it's still a safe place. Today they're being bullied online.
(16:03):
It's not about two or three kids. The entire school
knows about it because it's been all the entire way,
you know, and then they're coming back with that information
on their device, and so home is no longer a
safer place. So you know, what I realized is that
the frontal part of a child, the part that's able
to reason, is not formed until the age of twenty
(16:26):
two twenty three. So every decision they make is really
fueled by emotions. And so you know, when you go
to your trial and say what were you thinking, Well,
he wasn't thinking. He was just a feeling. And so
they're not able to see that it's just a temporary thing.
So our organization, we're not going to stop bullying. There's
(16:47):
been bullying since beginning of time. If we can help
them build self worth and self esteem and so that's
why it's called I Am awesomely made, you know, and
we wanted to focus on what's going on inside of
the outside of you. Is what resides inside of you,
you know, it's what we tell the kids. Let me
share with you, and then we go in a scientific
(17:09):
matterer and explain, you know that all the amazingness and
awesomeness that resides in each of us, and that it's
only influenced once you welcome a thought in your mind.
So you know, we all know that we become often
what we believe. But what's interesting is that we end
up believing what we are told repeatedly and accept us truth.
(17:32):
And so if we're able to put a stop to
that and understand who we are, what we are, and
what is our worth and so you know, I'm trying
to do it in less in a more secular approach,
so I could get to the secutory school. But the
fact is it's still in the scripture. It says very
(17:55):
clearly in Someone thirty nine fourteen, I am awesomely and
wonderful be made. And this I know well. And so
it's based on that principle. And so we go through
the book and explain what the brain does. You know
that the eyes are able to record a million bits
of information per second, selling it at three hundred miles
(18:16):
per hour to your brain, So it gives you an
instant focus. There are no cameras in the world that
can have an instant focus like your eyes. And so
you know, like your heart pushes blood through sixty thousand
miles of blood vessels every day, sixty thousand miles of
blood vessels, like going around the Earth two and a
(18:36):
half times every daye right, So if they could stop
and think what's going on? And so that's the premise
of the Why I Count. And I called a dear
friend of mine him and his wife help writing the
story and the illustration. Cyrus and Natasha their dear friends
(18:59):
of mine, and they contributed in creating the illustration in
the story based on our program. So it was really exciting.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
That's so exciting, and I hope it opens up more conversations,
you know, with parents and teachers to really kind of
start where it all stems from. And that's you know,
self worth, you know what I mean, and believing in
yourself and knowing that you know, hurt people sometimes hurt
other people, you know, what I mean, and there's no
reflection on yourself is a reflection on them, you know.
So I love that you're opening up that conversation. I
(19:30):
think it's much needed.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Really, yeah, because you said it hurt people, hurt people.
And so this program by focusing not on the anti
bullying program, but if we can build self worth and
make the person understand the kid that is bullying others,
because chances are that he's being bullied at home too.
So if we can make it understand that, you are
(19:53):
becoming the fruit of your word. Right, So what you
say has a rippled effect, not just in the lives
of others, but in your own life. And so that
way it helps them as well. You know, if we
can make them conscientious of that's it's a victory, see it.
I see it when we're in Gymnazemen present, we have
(20:14):
a video call Awesome, and we have a scene with
a school bus and I you know, something evil is
expected that they all think that this kid is getting
into school and school bus and will be bullied, and
and it's a little surprise he's not being bullied, is
actually being empowered by words by other students. So but
(20:35):
what I'm saying is I'm seeing the reaction of the
kids when they're they're all sitting on an amazing floor,
you know floor and watching the video and they're all
crisp and they're expecting something that may not be something
they relate to. Let's just put it this way. And
then when they discover that it's more of an empowering scene,
(20:57):
then you could see their body language is like there
were leasing everything. So because it doesn't lie, you know,
so it does affect us when we see the reaction
live with the kids. How words can.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Affect them, right, all that's so wonderful.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I love the work that you do with all of
your all of your ventures really and we're big fans,
and so I wanted to touch on, you know, a
little bit of everything.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Like I said, you have so much that.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
We could talk about, but I don't want to take
up too.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Much of your time.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
But thank you so so much for joining me, and
we'll definitely be promoting everywhere along with this interview and
also social networking everything that you that you have going on,
because I think it needs to be heard and I
really appreciate your time, Josie.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
I do a lot of interviews, but you are so
well learned, so you have done your homework. So rarely
we see that, so thank you for taking the time
to get informed on what we do and.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Appreciate of course, of course, many blessings to you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Thank you so much for everything.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
That you do, and I hope to have you back
on Okay, anytime, come on.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Back sounds great.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Blessed day, have a blessed day. Bute bye.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Please welcome to the Josie Show. My guest Joel Weldon.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Hi, Hi Josie. What an honor.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Oh, the honor is all mine. I've been looking forward
to talking to you.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Oh likewise you knows as with a background in indie
music from way back. I'm like, you're serving an audience,
you know, and beyond that is just so critical and
I'm like, I'm really really happy that I get to
be on your show. It's really cool.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Oh, I appreciate that you are too kind. I've been
looking forward to this because I learned quite a bit
with your new book, and you know, being a platform
where a lot of music artists are listening into the platform,
listening into the show, I thought that this was a
perfect opportunity because you can learn quite a bit from
(22:47):
this book, and it's of course you are the message,
revolutionary speaking tools for a better life, deeper loved and
irresistible leadership. And you learn all sorts of things in
this better communication, body language, emotions, forging real communication, navigating
speaking engagements. I mean so much in here. Writers, you
(23:08):
touched on all of it. Yeah, you really did. So
can you tell us a little bit about this book,
because this is a book that is very neat in
a time that could be very digital dominated with AI
and such. So how important was it for you to
get something like this out there to the world now.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Oh, Josie. So, my co writer Bob Phillips and I
we've been friends for years, and so what happened is,
you know, my journey was going from an indie musician
traveling for gosh, almost twenty years putting out albums as
an indie and you know in mainly in the Christian
music realm, and I just, oh, man, I was blessed
(23:47):
to be able to do that something I loved for
so long. Well, then I went through some challenges for
a couple of years and that it was a weird thing,
but it pushed me into the production world where I'm
actually now working on commercials et cetera, as an audio engineer,
eventually becoming a producer, going oh, this is cool. I
can make a living doing this. It's a it's audio,
(24:08):
you know. And I'm watching these artists on a microphone
speaking and I'm thinking I can do that. And so
one one Toyota dealer up in the Northwest, where I
was living at the time, hired me to do a
couple of spots and that was the beginning of a gosh,
it's been a twenty year journey in the voice acting
realm doing all kinds of things. Well, then, so as
(24:31):
a voice actor COVID hits, I'm teaching in La Hollywood.
I'm driving up there one night a week, and I'm teaching,
you know, voice acting classes in major studios in Burbank
and Hollywood and et cetera. Well, COVID hits, it all
grinds to a halt. You know, we call it the
black hole for all of us, COVID you think of
(24:51):
all these things, Oh my gosh, it was a very interesting,
weird time. That is like a marker in our lives.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So for me, I'm taking all my classes online. So
everybody's doing zoom. Well, yeah, you're not going to college classes,
you're not going to work. Why don't you join me
for a voice acting class just for kicks. So people
are coming on and I'm doing this week after week,
month after month. My friend Bob calls and he goes,
(25:21):
I have a couple of people in my family took
your class. And Bob is a writer, he's a New
York Times bestselling author, and he said, he goes, you know,
I think we should write a book about whatever you're
doing because it's changing people's lives. And I'm going, well,
that's interesting to hear, and he goes, it's true. Whatever
you're doing in the voice acting craft is expanding people's
(25:44):
ability to communicate, to just be more more of a
vibrant human. You know, you're able to have a conversation
and make it interesting and care about people in a
way that you don't feel concerned about yourself. It's really
interesting how it worked out. So that was the beginning
of the book. I'll help you write the book, and
I said, let's go. And so here we are three
(26:05):
and a half four years later, and it hit Amazon
in September, and I'm just thrilled. It's been a really
exciting journey.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Oh it has. I mean it's already made the Amazon's
number one hot new release in public speaking, So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I could see why because you could you learned quite
a bit love it.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You know. It was interesting because Bob Bob in his
career has traveled the world in very high pressure situations.
He has taught, spoken instructed, and from my perspective, I've
been on you know, a thousand plus stages, performances, you know, hosting,
doing concerts, et cetera. So the combination of both of
(26:47):
those brought together a wealth of information and for us
it was like, Wow, anybody who could take this book.
If you're an indie musician, especially because you're on a
stage all the time and you're you know, you're trying
to communicate not just with your music but yourself. People
want to know you. They want to know where that
song came from. You know what I'm talking about, Jersey.
(27:08):
It's like, you think about all these artists and they're like, man,
I just love being able to share around music, but
really you need to be able to share yourself and
a lot of that involves how you perform, how you speak,
how you transition between songs, how you tell a story,
you know, without boring everybody, Right, there's so much.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
That goes into it, and you know, it's a big
it's very vulnerable being up there in front of eyes
and audience watching it is, you know, and it's great
to learn how you can do it and speak eloquently,
you know.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you want an example, I'll give
you an example of a very simple tool. Okay, So
if you're an indie musician and you're performing and these
are original songs, let's just say they're original songs, most
of those songs have a story behind them. Right. So
in the book you'll see a little section called the
Moment Maker, all right, and it's very simple. It just
(28:04):
involves three things. All right. So you're going to take
a subject. Maybe it's a subject of a broken heart. Okay,
so you have a broken heart, you wrote a song
about it. Well, now you're going to tell a little
bit about your story. There was a moment in my
life where I experienced I was devastated, and you don't
have to go into detail, but say what you felt, right,
(28:25):
this is my story. Now, this is my story. What
about Now, let's go to the next section, your story,
what about you? And you have to use the word you.
I use that in the commercial voice acting world, in advertising,
you have to use the word you. People don't think
about it, but they feel included, like you're speaking to them.
So you say, what about you? Have you ever felt
(28:46):
that way? I bet you have. Maybe you had this,
maybe you had this happen to you. Give a couple examples.
Suddenly what you're doing is you're developing empathy with your audience.
Then suddenly go, wow, he or she is a real person.
I can I can't wait to tear the rest of
the song now, right, And so maybe you do it
in the middle of the song. You take the band,
(29:06):
have them just kind of playing a little underscore while
you're telling this story. Now you go to number three
and this is what happened to me that took me
beyond the heartbreak. Right, So you give them my story,
your story, what about you? And then here's the answer.
So you can do that in ninety seconds, right, And
(29:26):
if it's in the middle of a song, and now
you do the chorus at the end of the song,
after your little story, after your moment, Oh, my gosh,
the whole room just comes alive and they're with you
and they can't wait to see you again. That's how
it works.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
That's how it works. I love that. And I feel
like we're really missing out on a lot of human
connection with you know, your phones out there. And I
think it's just so important that you show you share
something with the audience, you know, whether it be emotion,
you know, and you talk a lot about this in
(30:03):
your book, and I just think it's just so wonderful
what you do because it really is helping and changing
the world. I mean, you and Bob Phillips really are
dream teams material. When he teamed up together, it was
probably the best decision I could think of.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I am so honored, Josie. I mean, seriously, I'm humbled,
and I'm seriously I'm just honored by the fact that
you appreciate it. I were getting so much good feedback
and people are going, where has this been my whole life?
Once one reader was saying, I'm sharing this with my
teenager because this stuff is the stuff he doesn't know
(30:40):
how to do, and I'm like, that's perfect. You know,
you think about this, this is a fact really interesting facts.
I know you had doctor Greg Casana on a while back.
I listened to that interview. Very interesting, fascinating guy, and
you know, he's a clinical psychologist guy, but he's a counselor.
(31:00):
When you look at all the things with tech going
on right now, it's consuming our culture to the point
where we're having excuses not to have a conversation. We're
sitting around on our phones. You see it all the
time at coffee shops. Go to any coffee shop, go
to a Starbucks, and you see people just scrolling on
their phones drinking their coffee, you know, and you're like, Wow,
(31:21):
that's life to them. Instead of having a conversation like
you and I are having right now. We're being fully
human and we're talking about ideas and that's where the
life is. And people they go into depression. Even he
mentioned that in your interview with him. It was like,
people are going into these holes of depression and isolation
and it's not good. There's an interesting fact that I read.
(31:42):
A study came out renewed this year and it was
in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Three thousand
less words a day are being used by the younger
generation up to age thirty three thousand less words than
we used twenty years ago.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Now that is like astounding to me. And I'm going, okay,
so what are we replacing it with the scroll? You're
replacing it with a little text message with a primitive
little emoji, Like that's going to explain everything, right? Yeah?
Yeah for me? Oh man, the people that learn to
communicate are those that are going to fully live their lives.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Oh yeah, I absolutely agree. You see it all the time.
You know, when you're when people are out, you know,
on maybe a date or you are just out with
some friends. You know, you're on you're on your phone,
you're on social media, you're not really engaging with the
person that's right in front of you. You see it
all of the time, all the time. Yes, and it's
it's really unfortunate. I mean, and and you know text
(32:45):
could be great at some point, but you know, there's
nothing nothing better than you know, maybe picking up the
phone talking to someone.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
And and that's what I love that you really dive
into in this book. And another really great, another really
great thing on to that is with text messages, you're like,
you know, instead of maybe the hard eye emoji, see
I love you.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
You know, like you know, yeah, exactly speak it.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
You know what I mean, and you know, really forge
the real communication out there and use your voice, which
I think is wonderful. And I wanted to ask you,
you know, with with AI rapidly transforming communication, how can
we preserve the authenticity of human connection in an increasingly
digital world? What can we do to really kind of
(33:33):
shore best selves and be authentic during this kind of
world that we're living in.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Really? Yeah, yeah, that is a great question, I mean, Josie,
that's that's a lot of our challenge right now, especially
you know, those of us that are parents and you're
watching your kids grow up in this new culture. What
can you do to combat that type of consumption or
it's almost like your addiction. It's an addiction for people,
and it's it's really really hurting them. So this is
(34:00):
what I say to people, and I use are some
practical things you can find more in the book too.
But when you have to actually pick up your phone
first thing when you wake up, you have an issue, Okay,
just count you have an issue if that's going to
be your go to right when you wake up, and
most of us do, right, especially with jobs, you go, Okay,
somebody's reached out to me, I'd better see what my
(34:22):
email says or who's texting me. But then even if
you do that, okay, you need to have a time
in the morning, especially, or you set it aside and
you leave it at home. Right, If you go to
a coffee shop, leave I know it's weird because how
can I do that? Well, at least leave it in
your car when you go inside, leave it away and
(34:42):
then go into a place where people are at And
I challenge people, I say this, learn how to have
one conversation with someone you don't know every day. If
you can do that, and it just takes basically one
attitude change, right, I don't care as much about what
(35:04):
people think of me as I do about caring about them.
In other words, if they sense that I care about them,
and I truly do with my face, my countenance, and
I care, it's an interesting person. I want to get
to know you. Right, you can break into a conversation,
ask a couple questions, and you'd be surprised how many
(35:26):
people love the fact that you're reaching out to them.
At first, they're going it's a little odd. Maybe you
know for them. But then they're going, oh my gosh,
this person really cares about me. Now you have a
little conversation. It might be five minutes, might be three minutes.
But you know what, it's a way that you became
fully human on that day. You connected with others and
you become you become accustomed to that. It becomes a
(35:49):
habit in your life. And to me, that's what we're
were created for. We're given life so that we can
be human with each other. We need each other and
to isolate. Oh man, you're going to be You're going
to be handcuffed your whole life.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Absolutely, absolutely, And you know a lot of times when
you're hiding behind you know, a computer and screen, you
start getting comfortable that way, and you have to, you know,
be more comfortable sometimes being uncomfortable in situations, you know,
for the better, you know, kind of put yourself out there,
you know, and see what happened.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
You know, there was our son, Our son is he's
our youngest. Nathany's graduating from college this year in southern California. Here.
Oh he's gone four years and he did this with
his friends. I thought this was a really interesting idea.
They're all on Instagram. Right, it's a big deal. They're
all on Instagram. They're all on Instagram. But they realized that
(36:43):
it was it was becoming a problem for them. This
this friend group and there's about a dozen i'd say
a dozen guys and they're in this group, and they
decided that they were going to put the parental controls
on their Instagram account and they were going to have
a friend in the group. So you'd be assigned to
a partner. That partner would create the password and hold
(37:05):
the password. So that they only had ninety minutes or
sixty minutes a day on Instagram. They had to, you know,
watch their time because you only have sixty minutes a
day and then it locks out. Now, if it's an emergency,
then you hit up your partner and say can you
open up my phone whatever, and then somebody else gets
the number from them. You don't reveal the code, but
(37:27):
that way they secure, they're all kind of accountable to
each other. I thought, what a great idea. And they
said they've done it for the last two years and
they're still doing it, And I'm like, hats off to
you guys. What a cool thing.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Yeah, that's really interesting. I love it.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, I thought, what a cool idea. You know, it's
like nobody thinks about these things, and they go, well,
how am I going to, you know, create a solution
from my problem? I know I have a problem. And obviously,
you know the things we talk about in the book
are if you have if you have a boring voice,
ways that you can enhance your voice. Yeah, okay, So
so Josie, listen, your voice is so fun. Your voice
(38:07):
is like animated and full of energy. I do this
all the time. So for me, I'm going I love
her voice. And then when you laugh, it is just
so infectious. It is so cool. It makes everybody want
to laugh. I just absolutely love it. So you're doing great.
You don't need my book at all, get out of
every day.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
I appreciate that, But I did. I learned so many
really really neat things. And you do talk about using
your voice, you know, how your tone and your pitch,
how you can convey just using your voice, and as
a voice actor, you know, that's an expertise where you
really were able to, you know, use tools that you
know and to help others, which I think was a
real gift and I'm just really really happy with everything
(38:46):
you learn in there. And what's really cool is, you know,
going back to music artists who tune into the Josie Show.
Also in this book, you are talking about doing interviews.
You know sometimes, you know, interviews can get a little
you know, uncomfortable with questions. Journalists sometimes try to dig
and you know, do things that you may be uncomfortable with.
(39:08):
But you really teach people music artists what to do
to really kind of combat that, you know, in an
appropriate way, which I really appreciated.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, thanks jose Yeah, for me, that was important because
you know, obviously those are the things I faced over time.
Here's another you want another story, here's my first interview. Yeah,
as an indie. Okay, So I had just released a
song to country and Christian radio around the country. This
is back when forty fives were a thing.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, Okay, So I released my first song. It was
a song about graduation. I released it and sent it
out by hand to every station with a note and
a bit about me, how to reach me, et cetera.
I hand addressed everything, sent them out to these stations
on my own. As an indie. So many people are
playing it because it's a song about graduation. This is
(39:59):
in March and April. So they start playing the song
and within maybe about two three weeks, I get a call, Hey,
this is George. I am Pat Boone's personal assistant, and
I'm on the phone in Washington where I'm living. I'm going, nah,
who is this? Really? It was, but they flew me
(40:21):
down to Burbank and I was at in his home,
at Pat Boone's home, and he interviewed me about my song,
the graduation day song. I was like, I was terrified.
I felt like I didn't know. I didn't have the
tools to really even be prepared. I hadn't really done
any studying on Pat Boone and here's Pat Boone, for
(40:44):
goodness sake, and I'm like, right, So I felt like
I really was unprepared and I wish I would have
some more tools at that time. But that really launched
my indie career. From that point on. It was like
it just kind of took off. But I wish I
had had this book back then.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
That's what I was thinking. I really think that this
is a great book for any artist to really learn
how they can navigate, you know, an interview because you
can get really nervous. Even to this day, I've done
maybe over thirty five hundred plus interviews to this date
with artists and authors and musicians stuff, and it's you
still get really, really nervous sometimes because you don't want
(41:22):
to stay the wrong thing, or you're afraid of messing up.
You're afraid of looking stupid, which is like another thing
that's in the book. You're just afraid of failing, you
know exactly. And it's it's wonderful these tools that you
are getting to people because we all need it. We
all are guilty of doing these things.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
You know, yeah, we are. It's and it's such a
we have to be. You have to be very deliberate
about moving forward in your life. You know, you never
want to stop learning.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
You know.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
If anything, I'd want to tell an indie artist, always
lean into your giftedness. Right, You're going to lean into
your gift. Man, if you know you've got a talent,
maybe you're even starting out and you're going, gosh, I
really love this, but how do I get going lean
into it? Okay, this is something you love, It's something
that you would love to do the rest of your life, right,
create to sing and then so lean into it. But
(42:10):
the other thing is, don't stop honing your craft ever.
You're never going to stop learning. I don't care who
you talk to. There's always something more to learn, something
more to grow in and go, gosh, I wish I'd
done that, or I could do this, Then go for it.
Don't be afraid, go for it. You know. For me,
I wish I would have had some of this stuff
(42:30):
back then. But now I'm like, I love what I do.
I feel like, you know, I feel like I've been
created to do stuff like this. God's given me an
ability and a gosh a life where I go. I
get to share this now with others, and it excites me,
it really does, you know it is.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
It's so exciting way and you can give back you
know a lot of things that you've learned yourself, and
you really do with this book. And for those who
now have heard you know what we're talking about and
are so interested, and I'm sure you all are. Where
are the best places that we can get this book
right now in our hands?
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Okay, so the book obviously the best place is Amazon.
You go to Amazon, it's in stock, it's shipped really quick.
If you're into audiobooks. I have an audible version, and
of course I had AI do the narration. Not okay, seriously,
it's like, of course I did it myself. I narrated
(43:25):
my own book, right. So what was really fun was
being able to actually articulate with my voice the things
that we write about in the book, and some of
it I get to use a sound example and the
way I read it. So that was really fun. So
some people are buying the book and they're actually getting
the audible version as well and doing it side by side.
(43:47):
So that's by far the best way to get it.
There's any book there as well, on Apple Books and
et cetera. I've got there's a little free gift if
people want it, and I think some of your listeners
would probably dig it. If you want Yeah, if you
go to gift dot empower your platform dot com, gift
(44:07):
dot empower your platform dot com and basically you're just
gonna in trade for your email, which is always helpful,
you're going to get this. It's a starter for how
to make your voice begin to be irresistible. To me,
that's a really important thing and people need to know
the underlying factors that make your voice. You're either irrelevant
(44:30):
or irresistible. There's a big difference. So it's going to
give you a couple of tools. It's going to ask
you about your own voice, you get a little self evaluation.
Then it's going to give you a couple links to
videos where I step you through a couple drills that
you can start with that immediately are going to go, oh,
I get it, I hear it now. And then once
(44:51):
you understand it, that knowledge begins to be a launching
pad for irresistible communication for the rest of your life.
And I just love it.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
I love that. That's a great gift everyone. Please make
sure you go on that now check it out. Please do.
I think that's so so wonderful. And I also I'm
just I'm just so thrilled for you and for this book.
And I wanted to also ask you if you are
still doing the zoom calls kind of learning, you know,
because I'm just curious, you know, if it's an artist
(45:21):
out there or someone wanted to talk to you in person,
maybe zoom you know, or in person, what was the
best way to do that so they can learn from
you straight face to face.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Oh, absolutely, you know, your best thing is to if
you're on Instagram or on Facebook, you can look me
up there and you can you know, direct message me
there and I'll send you the info. But I do
it all the time. You know, a lot of times
there are people doing interviews on camera that are very
high profile. So I do a lot of you know,
non disclosure agreements with people and coach them on how
(45:53):
to do your interviews. That kind of thing is really valuable.
But I love talking to artists as well because there
are certain things that I know you could learn from
and go, oh, man, if I put this into practice
for the next show, I would love to see my
reaction from my audience and you're gonna go, wow, it
is really cool. So you can reach me there. You
can reach me at go to empower your platform dot com.
(46:17):
The other one is you just follow me on Instagram
Joel Weldon Official. The other one we do is is
you power YOUPWR dot com. And there's a lot of things.
I have my hands with so many things, and I
love it.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
I really really.
Speaker 5 (46:31):
That's the best thing. I think that's wonderful and I
hope everyone does check out the book. You are the
message Revolutionary speaking tools for a better life, deeper loved
and irresistible leadership by the wonderful Joel Weldon and Bob Phillips.
Like I said, dream Team to the Extreme says that
rhyme and you are just so wonderful and we just
(46:52):
absolutely love you to das and I want to thank
you so so much for joining me. It really was
a pleasure chatting with you.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
Oh, Josie, thank you so much. Thank you so much
for having me. I got my hand in my heart
right now. I'm really grateful for you. I really know
you're really fun.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
Well, thank you. I really appreciate it, and I hope it.
It's the chance to meet you in person too. Come
on out with We have the Josie Music Awards every
every year. We'd love to have you come out.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
I know what they are. I would love to be
a part of that. How fun that would be such
didn't it just happen right November? Is it yees October
or something like that?
Speaker 5 (47:27):
Yes, yes, And we're already planning the next year. So
if you're available to tund funny, come on out.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
We are going to write it down. I would love it.
That'd be really fun.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
What is so wonderful that we will stay in touch. Then.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah, Josie, God bless you. I love your your whole story,
how you started as a young person, and just what
a fun fun thing. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
God bless you have a great one. Okay, talk to
you too, all right, Bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 6 (47:55):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
I'm Jo I'm Anjie and we are the Josie Music.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
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Speaker 6 (48:00):
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Speaker 4 (48:01):
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Speaker 2 (48:09):
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Speaker 5 (48:11):
Hey, did you know that our new album titled seven
will be out November seventh, and our current release, wake Up,
can be downloaded at.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
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Speaker 4 (48:21):
That's right, the Swanson's Music dot Com. Hi.
Speaker 6 (48:24):
I'm John Michael Ferrari, singer, songwriter and storyteller. Music has
always been my way of bringing people together, and I'm
truly honored to be a part of the Josie Music
Awards again this year. Thank you for including me on
this wonderful celebration of independent music. My latest single is
when Love Is Love. I'd love for you to listen,
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share it, and let the music speak to.
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