Thrive x Strive Musician Podcast
This is a podcast that dives deep into musicians' inner worlds. We explore everything around personal development to create a healthy lifestyle and boost our focus on practice and performance. I invite experts and successful musicians to talk about their experiences in the music industry and how to maintain a positive and productive mindset. They will provide practical tools and resources to implement personally and professionally. Your host Amy Wang-Hiller is a DFW-based violinist and educator who is a certified NLP practitioner. In short solo episodes, Amy shares her stories and the perspectives she has gained through her journey with disability. This podcast aims to help musicians achieve a healthy and balanced mental space for a long-lasting career.
Episodes
In this deeply personal episode of the Thrive x Strive Musician Podcast, our host, Amy, shares her recent journey through the complexities of the healthcare system. After undergoing surgery for a tethered spinal cord and facing numerous challenges, Amy opens up about her struggles with self-doubt, the relief of validation, and the ongoing journey toward understanding and managing their health condition. And how musici...
Today’s guest Adrian Anantawan is a Canadian violinist who holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also the founder of the Music Inclusion Program, which aims to help children with disabilities learn instrumental music with other typical peers.
In this episode, We discuss the diversity needs in the current classical world, technical a...
In this episode, I shared my medical story, part 2, about how I experienced traumatic experiences with progressive paralysis while staying in the moment and continuing my performance career.
I want to share my stories now, right before my surgery next week, on the podcast to raise awareness of the rare disease and let everyone know that it’s okay not to know the answer or find your diagnosis yet but still be vali...
For this episode, I share my medical journey for the last two and half years being absent on my podcast, how I got my diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and other comorbidities, and what it is like to be a full-time patient advocate for myself.
I hope this will lead us in a new direction as I will bring more guests who are musicians with disabilities. I want to bring awareness to the music community to see this minor...
Today, we have two of the event coordinators Dr. Garrett Hope and Dr. Heidi Kay Begay coming to the show to introduce you to their Ultimate Musician Business Summit, which will be taking place on January 5-7, 2023.
Books Mentioned: Seth Gordin - The dip
Quotes:
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing– that's why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar
In today's episode, we are diving into the topic of gratitude. They can not only help you to maintain a healthy and happy mind, but it would also improve your music performance. we will discuss why gratitude improves our brain function, how to cultivate this attitude of gratitude, and how to having a grateful heart to all things in life.
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Today, we have mazzo-soprano and creative coach Maren Montalbano coming to the show to discuss topics on the importance of slowing down and living in the now, how to be resilient during this pandemic as a musician and creative person. How to overcome our perfectionism tendencies, and a lot more.
“Life is too important to take it too seriously.”
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW:
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking ...
Are you frequently feeling exhausted and overbooked? are you afraid of letting people down? having a hard time to say no? or you just believe that all the obligations that you said yes to are all your personal responsibility?
Today I am honoring my own struggle with setting healthy boundaries and being honest about what I learned with my own journey. We will further discuss how we can set healthy boundaries to re...
Today, we have solo violinist also known as mind over finger podcast host Renée-Paule Gauthier coming to the show discuss how mindful practice benefits our daily life, the importance of gratitude, a deeper dive of self-compassion, using questions to empower student's problem solving ability, and tips on performance anxiety.
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE INTERVIEW:
Man's Search for Meaning
By Viktor E Frankl
You will hear some snippet of highlights in this short episode for our next week Interview with Dr. Renée-Paule Gauthier.
As we were speaking about mental health, recovery from burnout, and self-compassion related topics in the last couple episodes, I decided to take this extra week of Friday in July to give all of us an opportunity to catch up. If you haven't listen to some of the interviews I had with th...
have you feel stressed, nervous, but don't really know why? Do you feel hard to build deep meaningful relationship or feeling isolated and lonely?
In this episode, we will discuss how repressed emotions are formed, and bring you some practical tools to safely recognize and release those negative emotions. we will practice a short body scan meditation with some calming ambience to reconnect with your emotions...
In this episode, we have Dr. Arna Alayne Morton, PHD in violin performance, share her experience with burnout in her doctoral studies. Not only was she completed her PHD, she was maintaining a YouTube channel with over 90K subscribers. The multi facet income stream brought her more stress than she can managed. for the past two years, she has been gradually recovered from her burnout.
Today, she is on the show sh...
let's think about some of our beliefs and values, are they all really coming from you?
Today we will talk about how to find yourself in this information-saturated world and how to stay centered with knowing who you really are. If you have already listened to our last episode, me and my friend Luke Ellard have briefly touched upon the idea of "being authentic and find things makes you happy". We will...
In this episode, we have clarinetist Luke Ellard, who just recently released his new single “met you" and "emigrate” for his bass clarinet and electronics band, L.E, to share his music and his insights on being authentic in music making and stories about his new album. We discuss all struggles we face as musicians during this unprecedented time and how we bring new music to our students to improve their lea...
Have you ever talk to yourself negatively or thinking others are possibly judging the way you talk and behave?
I believe showing our vulnerability is a form of strengths instead of weaknesses. In this episode, I will bring you into my past insecure self, and share 3 practical ways I found to be helpful to step away from that self-judgment.
Be sure to check out the blog post for this episode at amywangviolin.com/po...
In this episode, Sarah will tell you her success story on how she turns her creative passion into an actual business. As she says "The creative person can not always be satisfied by a creative career". We discuss how a creative outlet elsewhere is actually making us a better musician, helping critical thinking in practice room, and building a healthier body and mind.
she helps us to understand the most import...
Have you ever say to yourself "I'm not good enough"? In today's show, I will tell you my story behind this unhelpful self-talk and how I changed this unhealthy mindset. If you read the book "mindset" by Carol Dweck. it is the concept of a growth mindset.
A great quote by Eleanor Roosevelt for you to take away in this episode:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consen...
Introducing the Thrive x Strive Musician podcast!
In this pilot episode, you will hear me sharing my personal story and what led me to launch this brand new podcast.
Why everyone is "perfectly imperfect", and that includes especially musician. You get to know the science behind why musicians are vulnerable to negative emotions and mental healthy issue.
My mission is to invite friends and ...
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