June 15, 2026 • 19 mins
Music turns into a time machine when I start curating 80s playlists and realize they’re pulling up memories I didn’t expect. I talk through how I handle the emotional whiplash, why re-listening as an adult changes everything, and how art can lock in the feelings we never forget.
• curating playlists and noticing surprise emotions
• using 80s R&B, funk, and classic pop to reconnect with old seasons of life
• remembering what MTV’s video rotation felt like and how it shaped discovery
• hearing new layers in familiar songs with adult ears and better headphones
• realizing how often kids absorb adult themes through lyrics without context
• sharing a kindergarten dance story and the women performers who inspired me
• revisiting a middle school heartbreak tied to a Skid Row song and naming the pain
• reflecting on the power of art to preserve feelings and build self-awareness
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SPEAKER_00 (00:07):
Welcome to the Unbreakable Mind and Body
Podcast.
I am your host, Tiana Gonzalez,a multi-passionate creative,
storyteller, and entrepreneurwith a fierce love for movement.
This is our space for powerfulstories and actionable
strategies to help you buildmental resilience and elevate
(00:28):
your self-care practice.
Together, we will unlock thetools that you need to create an
unbreakable mind and body.
Welcome to the show.
I am your host, Tiana.
On this episode, I'm going totake you on a little trip down
memory lane.
For a few weeks now, I have beencurating playlists on Spotify
(00:53):
and Apple Music.
I actually use both apps.
And I have been loving thecreative process of coming up
with a playlist idea, the vibeI'm going for, the time period
that I'm going for, and thenpulling together all of these
songs to curate a listeningexperience that is unique.
(01:16):
And this has brought to thesurface a lot of mixed emotions
and maybe even some unresolvedfeelings that I've been carrying
around.
So, what we're going to do inthis episode is just talk about
how do we navigate when thingssurprise us, when we're out in
(01:36):
public and you hear a song comeon at the grocery store and
you're struck with an emotion,or if you're at the mall with
your kids, or you're at anamusement park, or you are
somewhere and you hear a songplay, and it literally pulls you
back like a time machine to aspecific moment, to a memory, to
(01:59):
a person, to a place, to asmell, to a feeling, and what to
do with it.
So for the last few weeks, as Isaid, I've been coming up with
these ideas to make someplaylists.
And the first playlist that Imade, I'm so proud of it.
It's about four hours long, andit's generally music from the
(02:19):
80s.
It's primarily RB.
Uh, it has a little bit of jazzand like funk music, things such
as Earth, Wind and Fire, StevieWonder, Phil Collins, Holland
Oates.
There's several amazing groupson this playlist.
(02:41):
And this particular playlist, Iput together because I have
found myself listening to thesame music over and over and
over again.
And I gotta tell you, there isnothing like a good classic.
And so, in the interest ofreminding myself of amazing
(03:02):
songs and music from mychildhood, from my teenage
years, high school years, and soon and so forth, I started doing
this.
Now, I also created anotherplaylist that is reminiscent of
what it was like to watch MTV inthe 80s.
Now, if you don't know what MTVwas like back in the day, it
(03:26):
first started streaming orshowing music videos.
I believe it was in 1981.
I was already alive, but I wasvery little.
But I do know that the veryfirst music video that ever
aired on that station, and itwas on cable television, was a
(03:47):
song called Video Killed theRadio Star.
I don't remember the name of theband, but that was the name of
the song.
And for the first several yearsof this network showing music,
they had a specific format thatthey had to follow.
So this made the viewingexperience really interesting
because they had a very specificformat.
(04:10):
And if you liked rock music, orif you liked dance music, or if
you liked a certain artist, thelikelihood of you catching a
video of what you wereinterested in was perhaps maybe
once an hour.
So they had this very strictformat.
And even if, let's say, youliked rap music or you liked
(04:31):
dance music, you were gonna haveto wait and watch all of these
other music videos play before avideo that interests you would
come on TV.
So, what did this do exactly?
This exposed people to musicthat they probably didn't really
listen to on the radio orprobably weren't very interested
in.
(04:52):
And it forced you to get to knowdifferent artists, different
kinds of music.
I mean, they would kill thesevideos.
They would play them over andover and over again.
And the funniest example I couldthink of is Phil Collins because
Phil Collins, back in the daywhen he was in his music videos
and when he would perform inconcert, this was after he left
(05:14):
the band Genesis, by the way, hewas the drummer in the band
Genesis.
He would perform with like acollared shirt or a golf, you
know, like a polo, short sleevepolo, and dress pants, and you
know, like loafers.
So the guy looked sometimes likehe was going on a job interview.
Meanwhile, he was playing reallystellar music and music that
(05:38):
would sometimes make you danceand make you want to get out of
your seat, and music that wasvery moving.
And even if you didn't like it,like I said, you had no way of
controlling the flow of thevideos, so you sat and watched
it.
Another example I could think ofis my brother, who is a little
(05:58):
less than two years younger thanme, singing a song by the
Eurythmics.
And I will tell you that he usedto call Annie Lennox Carrot Head
because she had a very shortpixie cut and it was a bright
orange color.
And that was just the name hegave her, and I will never
forget it.
(06:18):
It was so funny to think ofthat.
But he would mimic like one ofthe songs that she was singing,
and and I I asked him, like, howdo you know that song?
He's like, They play the videoall the time, and I was like,
Oh, that's true.
So I'm going on a tangent here,and maybe some of these artists
you're not familiar with, but Ihighly encourage you to go and
explore because this kind ofmusic, even some of the music
(06:42):
that was a little more on thecheesy side, like some of the
hair bands of the 80s, it'sstill solid music.
It was still something thatwould make you get up out of
your seat.
And a lot of it was veryoriginal, which is very
different from what we're usedto now, where a lot of the
popular songs are just recycledand not even first or second
(07:06):
iterations.
We're talking like fourth,fifth, sixth iterations of the
same beat, of the same sample,of the same clip of an original
work from many, many moons ago.
And I'm not knocking it becausecreativity, you know, it comes
in all forms.
And if you can hear somethingand then distort it or change it
in some sort of way and makesomething new, that's cool.
(07:27):
So long as you give the originalartist credit.
But now, this playlist that Imade, what's interesting about
it to me is that it's notnecessarily my favorite
listening experience, but it isvery true to what it felt like
to be a kid, you know, home fromschool, maybe on the weekends or
(07:51):
in the summertime, and we wouldhave MTV playing because we were
just hoping to hear like somegood music, or hoping they would
drop some new music, and it wasthe same songs over and over and
over and over again.
So this playlist is calledRaised in the 80s, and it has
music on it from Bon Jovi, TinaMarie, Bruce Springsteen,
(08:15):
Skidrow, Stevie Nick, DonHenley, Pat Benatar, Prince, Mr.
Mr.
Roxett, Ozzie Osborne, BananaRama, Duran Duran, The Bangles,
Wham, Rolling Stones, Flock ofSeagulls, Lionel Ritchie,
Michael Jackson, and the listgoes on.
(08:37):
By the way, you know that I amgoing to share these playlists
with you, uh, because itwouldn't be kind of me to be
talking about them at such greatlength and not be willing to
share these playlists with you.
So of course I'm going to sharethem.
But the most recent playlist hasreally thrown me for a loop.
And this one I call GroovyMoves.
(08:59):
And this one I just madeyesterday.
Well, by the time you hear it,it's going to be about two weeks
old because I'm recording inadvance.
But beginning of June, I madethis playlist, and this playlist
is a little more funky.
It's more of a dancy kind ofplaylist, and it's really
interesting to me because almostall of the songs are from the
(09:23):
early 80s.
There are a few songs on thisplaylist that are from 1979, but
I tried to keep it really tightwith the 80s theme.
And this particular playlist hada few surprises.
Now, of course, I knew everysong on it because I created
this playlist.
However, to listen to some ofthese songs now, as an adult,
(09:48):
through a different lens withreally good headphones, I'm
blown away by some of thismusic.
And one of the songs inparticular is a song by Rick
James.
It's called Give It to Me.
And of course, I knew this songwhen I was a little kid and
growing up and dancing around mycouch my my couch, dancing
(10:09):
around my kitchen, dancingaround my house to it.
But to listen to the way thissong was structured and to hear
all the complex layers, I amkind of obsessed all over again.
And this is literally why I'mmaking this episode, because it
pays to go back and pull stufffrom your, you know, mental
(10:34):
archives to pull stuff out fromyour past and give it another
listen.
Because you're gonna find newlittle treats, delights, and
surprises in this listeningexperience because you're
different now.
And so I have come like fullcircle with some of these songs.
Another one is uh by Tina Marieand it's called Lover Girl.
(10:56):
Similar time period.
And if you know anything aboutMotown and Rick James and Tina
Marie, they actually were adynamic duo, and then they kind
of split apart, and Tina Mariehad to go through a lawsuit with
Motown to leave them becausethey had her on contract, but
they were severely underpayingher.
Um, and the Supreme Court ruledin her favor because they wanted
(11:17):
to keep her on a contract, butthey were only going to give her
about$6,000 a year, and even in1985, that's not a livable wage.
But I digress.
And listening to this songcalled Lover Girl by Tina Marie,
also another one called SquareBiz, they're just so funky and
(11:37):
they're full of you know realinstrumentation and the way
these pieces are orchestrated.
And as you can tell, maybe thisis a surprise to you because I
always talk about fitness andmental health, but music is
really my number one passion.
I'm listening to these songs,I'm hearing all of this complex
work that went into theproduction, and also listening
(12:01):
to the lyrics and realizing thatgoodness me or my, I was
definitely robbed of someinnocence as a kid.
And I don't think it was done,you know, with malicious intent,
but I was certainly exposed toadult topics, adult themes, and
(12:22):
things that in today's day andage would be deemed
inappropriate for a child to be,you know, listening to, dancing
to, singing to, and fun, funlittle story.
When I was in kindergarten, Iremember we were gonna do some
sort of recital or performance,and I asked my teacher if I
could do a dance performance tomy favorite song, and it brought
(12:43):
in a tape, and I had her play iton the boombox.
And when she pressed play on thecassette, she started to chuckle
and laugh.
And I remember I'm dancing infront of her and I'm trying to
be like this little badass andshow her my really good dance
moves.
Again, I'm five years old,right?
I'm in kindergarten.
And it was either kindergartenor first grade.
(13:03):
Maybe it was first grade, but Ijust remember the teacher
chuckling, being like, This isyour favorite song.
And I was like, Yeah.
The song is Object of My Desireby a group called Star Point.
Hold on, let me check and makesure that I am saying the right
name.
But yes, the name of the song,Object of My Desire.
The group name is Star Point.
(13:25):
And if I remember correctly, thelead singer is a beautiful Asian
woman.
And I just remember watching heron Soul Train, and she was like
dancing around on the stage, andI thought she was just so
insanely badass, and I wanted tobe like that.
The same thing with Tina Marie,with also uh Sheila E.
(13:46):
Tina Marie played the guitar anddanced while she was singing and
performing live.
And Sheila E is an incredibledrum uh percussionist.
She plays the teamballes.
Uh, some of you may or may notremember her being one of
Prince's proteges.
And so just seeing these womentake the stage, take the lead,
(14:08):
be in control, be the frontwoman for these bands, just like
Stevie Nicks, just like Hart.
I soaked it up like a sponge.
Can't forget also Madonna andCindy Lopper, although I didn't
really love Cindy Lopper's musicas much, but I had so many
examples of these powerful womenwho were pioneers ahead of their
(14:32):
time, creators, putting theirheart and soul into everything
they do and putting it out forthe world to see and you know be
vulnerable to.
And I respect that.
I respect it a lot.
So, as you can tell, I am onthis little sort of wave of
(14:53):
making playlists.
I'm enjoying it, it's a lot offun, it's bringing back a ton of
memories and flooding my heartwith emotions.
I actually went through a littleexperience the other day where I
was getting ready for work andputting on my makeup, and a song
by a band called Skidrow cameon, which was very popular when
(15:14):
I was in the sixth and seventhgrade.
For reference, I graduated fromsixth grade and then went to
middle school, and that was in1990.
So I was in the sixth grade in1990.
Yeah.
And this song comes on, and Iremember I was dating a boy, and
(15:37):
and this was the following yearin seventh grade, and I've
remember dating a boy, and wereally liked each other.
Obviously, you're in middleschool, it's not like your
boyfriend and girlfriend, it'sreally hot and heavy and
serious, but we liked eachother.
And I've remember one day hetold me that he couldn't see me
anymore or be friends with meanymore, or like take me out to
lunch anymore, talk to me on thephone, or write me letters,
(16:01):
because that's what we used todo.
Total fun.
We would like write each otherthese long handwritten letters
and then fold them up and handthem to each other in the
hallway.
Anyway, he told me he couldn'tdo any of that with me any
longer because his mom wouldn'tlet him be friends with me
because of her reading about myfather in the newspaper.
(16:23):
My father got arrested when Iwas in sixth grade, and then he
went away to prison when I wasin the seventh grade.
And so that was such a painfulexperience for me because I was
only about 12 years old, and Ireally liked this boy.
It was my first person that Iever kissed, and I remember and
(16:45):
I felt that pain all over againjust the other day.
It was like, oh my god, thathurts so much, and my eyes
teared up.
I was probably hormonal, uh, butmy eyes teared up, I got super
emotional.
I was listening to the song, andI'm just like, you know what?
This is fucking amazing becausethat is what the power of art
(17:07):
is.
A piece of art, a music piece, avisual piece, a film, an
experience.
It brings you back to a momentin your life, a moment in time,
a snapshot that you will neverever forget.
And I will tell you right now,you might forget what people
(17:28):
say, what people do, how theyact, but you're never gonna
forget the way people make youfeel.
You know that that's true.
And it's the same thing withmusic, and it's the same thing
with art.
So I'm thinking about startinganother Instagram account where
I share music, maybe that thenewer generations are not as
(17:52):
familiar with, but talking alittle bit about, you know, some
of the fun facts behind themusic, and then sharing my
personal experiences with it.
And I think I think I'm ontosomething here because clearly,
if I can ramble about a coupleof playlists for over 20
minutes, then I'm verypassionate about music and it's
something I probably want to getinto.
(18:13):
So if you are interested indownloading any of these
playlists for yourself for yourown listening enjoyment, please
check the show notes and I'llshare a link in the notes with
you so that you can do that.
And if you want to stay in touchwith me, we can connect on
social media.
You can subscribe to my emailnewsletter, which is really more
(18:35):
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But I encourage anyone who'sinterested in learning about
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If you would like to get moreinformation about that, then
stick around and stay in myworld because that is my mission
on this beautiful planet that welive on.
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(18:58):
Thank you so much for beinghere.
I appreciate your time andattention as always, and I will
catch you on the next one.
Welcome to the Unbreakable Mind and Body
Podcast.
I am your host, Tiana Gonzalez,a multi-passionate creative,
storyteller, and entrepreneurwith a fierce love for movement.
This is our space for powerfulstories and actionable
strategies to help you buildmental resilience and elevate
(00:28):
your self-care practice.
Together, we will unlock thetools that you need to create an
unbreakable mind and body.
Welcome to the show.
I am your host, Tiana.
On this episode, I'm going totake you on a little trip down
memory lane.
For a few weeks now, I have beencurating playlists on Spotify
(00:53):
and Apple Music.
I actually use both apps.
And I have been loving thecreative process of coming up
with a playlist idea, the vibeI'm going for, the time period
that I'm going for, and thenpulling together all of these
songs to curate a listeningexperience that is unique.
(01:16):
And this has brought to thesurface a lot of mixed emotions
and maybe even some unresolvedfeelings that I've been carrying
around.
So, what we're going to do inthis episode is just talk about
how do we navigate when thingssurprise us, when we're out in
(01:36):
public and you hear a song comeon at the grocery store and
you're struck with an emotion,or if you're at the mall with
your kids, or you're at anamusement park, or you are
somewhere and you hear a songplay, and it literally pulls you
back like a time machine to aspecific moment, to a memory, to
(01:59):
a person, to a place, to asmell, to a feeling, and what to
do with it.
So for the last few weeks, as Isaid, I've been coming up with
these ideas to make someplaylists.
And the first playlist that Imade, I'm so proud of it.
It's about four hours long, andit's generally music from the
(02:19):
80s.
It's primarily RB.
Uh, it has a little bit of jazzand like funk music, things such
as Earth, Wind and Fire, StevieWonder, Phil Collins, Holland
Oates.
There's several amazing groupson this playlist.
(02:41):
And this particular playlist, Iput together because I have
found myself listening to thesame music over and over and
over again.
And I gotta tell you, there isnothing like a good classic.
And so, in the interest ofreminding myself of amazing
(03:02):
songs and music from mychildhood, from my teenage
years, high school years, and soon and so forth, I started doing
this.
Now, I also created anotherplaylist that is reminiscent of
what it was like to watch MTV inthe 80s.
Now, if you don't know what MTVwas like back in the day, it
(03:26):
first started streaming orshowing music videos.
I believe it was in 1981.
I was already alive, but I wasvery little.
But I do know that the veryfirst music video that ever
aired on that station, and itwas on cable television, was a
(03:47):
song called Video Killed theRadio Star.
I don't remember the name of theband, but that was the name of
the song.
And for the first several yearsof this network showing music,
they had a specific format thatthey had to follow.
So this made the viewingexperience really interesting
because they had a very specificformat.
(04:10):
And if you liked rock music, orif you liked dance music, or if
you liked a certain artist, thelikelihood of you catching a
video of what you wereinterested in was perhaps maybe
once an hour.
So they had this very strictformat.
And even if, let's say, youliked rap music or you liked
(04:31):
dance music, you were gonna haveto wait and watch all of these
other music videos play before avideo that interests you would
come on TV.
So, what did this do exactly?
This exposed people to musicthat they probably didn't really
listen to on the radio orprobably weren't very interested
in.
(04:52):
And it forced you to get to knowdifferent artists, different
kinds of music.
I mean, they would kill thesevideos.
They would play them over andover and over again.
And the funniest example I couldthink of is Phil Collins because
Phil Collins, back in the daywhen he was in his music videos
and when he would perform inconcert, this was after he left
(05:14):
the band Genesis, by the way, hewas the drummer in the band
Genesis.
He would perform with like acollared shirt or a golf, you
know, like a polo, short sleevepolo, and dress pants, and you
know, like loafers.
So the guy looked sometimes likehe was going on a job interview.
Meanwhile, he was playing reallystellar music and music that
(05:38):
would sometimes make you danceand make you want to get out of
your seat, and music that wasvery moving.
And even if you didn't like it,like I said, you had no way of
controlling the flow of thevideos, so you sat and watched
it.
Another example I could think ofis my brother, who is a little
(05:58):
less than two years younger thanme, singing a song by the
Eurythmics.
And I will tell you that he usedto call Annie Lennox Carrot Head
because she had a very shortpixie cut and it was a bright
orange color.
And that was just the name hegave her, and I will never
forget it.
(06:18):
It was so funny to think ofthat.
But he would mimic like one ofthe songs that she was singing,
and and I I asked him, like, howdo you know that song?
He's like, They play the videoall the time, and I was like,
Oh, that's true.
So I'm going on a tangent here,and maybe some of these artists
you're not familiar with, but Ihighly encourage you to go and
explore because this kind ofmusic, even some of the music
(06:42):
that was a little more on thecheesy side, like some of the
hair bands of the 80s, it'sstill solid music.
It was still something thatwould make you get up out of
your seat.
And a lot of it was veryoriginal, which is very
different from what we're usedto now, where a lot of the
popular songs are just recycledand not even first or second
(07:06):
iterations.
We're talking like fourth,fifth, sixth iterations of the
same beat, of the same sample,of the same clip of an original
work from many, many moons ago.
And I'm not knocking it becausecreativity, you know, it comes
in all forms.
And if you can hear somethingand then distort it or change it
in some sort of way and makesomething new, that's cool.
(07:27):
So long as you give the originalartist credit.
But now, this playlist that Imade, what's interesting about
it to me is that it's notnecessarily my favorite
listening experience, but it isvery true to what it felt like
to be a kid, you know, home fromschool, maybe on the weekends or
(07:51):
in the summertime, and we wouldhave MTV playing because we were
just hoping to hear like somegood music, or hoping they would
drop some new music, and it wasthe same songs over and over and
over and over again.
So this playlist is calledRaised in the 80s, and it has
music on it from Bon Jovi, TinaMarie, Bruce Springsteen,
(08:15):
Skidrow, Stevie Nick, DonHenley, Pat Benatar, Prince, Mr.
Mr.
Roxett, Ozzie Osborne, BananaRama, Duran Duran, The Bangles,
Wham, Rolling Stones, Flock ofSeagulls, Lionel Ritchie,
Michael Jackson, and the listgoes on.
(08:37):
By the way, you know that I amgoing to share these playlists
with you, uh, because itwouldn't be kind of me to be
talking about them at such greatlength and not be willing to
share these playlists with you.
So of course I'm going to sharethem.
But the most recent playlist hasreally thrown me for a loop.
And this one I call GroovyMoves.
(08:59):
And this one I just madeyesterday.
Well, by the time you hear it,it's going to be about two weeks
old because I'm recording inadvance.
But beginning of June, I madethis playlist, and this playlist
is a little more funky.
It's more of a dancy kind ofplaylist, and it's really
interesting to me because almostall of the songs are from the
(09:23):
early 80s.
There are a few songs on thisplaylist that are from 1979, but
I tried to keep it really tightwith the 80s theme.
And this particular playlist hada few surprises.
Now, of course, I knew everysong on it because I created
this playlist.
However, to listen to some ofthese songs now, as an adult,
(09:48):
through a different lens withreally good headphones, I'm
blown away by some of thismusic.
And one of the songs inparticular is a song by Rick
James.
It's called Give It to Me.
And of course, I knew this songwhen I was a little kid and
growing up and dancing around mycouch my my couch, dancing
(10:09):
around my kitchen, dancingaround my house to it.
But to listen to the way thissong was structured and to hear
all the complex layers, I amkind of obsessed all over again.
And this is literally why I'mmaking this episode, because it
pays to go back and pull stufffrom your, you know, mental
(10:34):
archives to pull stuff out fromyour past and give it another
listen.
Because you're gonna find newlittle treats, delights, and
surprises in this listeningexperience because you're
different now.
And so I have come like fullcircle with some of these songs.
Another one is uh by Tina Marieand it's called Lover Girl.
(10:56):
Similar time period.
And if you know anything aboutMotown and Rick James and Tina
Marie, they actually were adynamic duo, and then they kind
of split apart, and Tina Mariehad to go through a lawsuit with
Motown to leave them becausethey had her on contract, but
they were severely underpayingher.
Um, and the Supreme Court ruledin her favor because they wanted
(11:17):
to keep her on a contract, butthey were only going to give her
about$6,000 a year, and even in1985, that's not a livable wage.
But I digress.
And listening to this songcalled Lover Girl by Tina Marie,
also another one called SquareBiz, they're just so funky and
(11:37):
they're full of you know realinstrumentation and the way
these pieces are orchestrated.
And as you can tell, maybe thisis a surprise to you because I
always talk about fitness andmental health, but music is
really my number one passion.
I'm listening to these songs,I'm hearing all of this complex
work that went into theproduction, and also listening
(12:01):
to the lyrics and realizing thatgoodness me or my, I was
definitely robbed of someinnocence as a kid.
And I don't think it was done,you know, with malicious intent,
but I was certainly exposed toadult topics, adult themes, and
(12:22):
things that in today's day andage would be deemed
inappropriate for a child to be,you know, listening to, dancing
to, singing to, and fun, funlittle story.
When I was in kindergarten, Iremember we were gonna do some
sort of recital or performance,and I asked my teacher if I
could do a dance performance tomy favorite song, and it brought
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in a tape, and I had her play iton the boombox.
And when she pressed play on thecassette, she started to chuckle
and laugh.
And I remember I'm dancing infront of her and I'm trying to
be like this little badass andshow her my really good dance
moves.
Again, I'm five years old,right?
I'm in kindergarten.
And it was either kindergartenor first grade.
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Maybe it was first grade, but Ijust remember the teacher
chuckling, being like, This isyour favorite song.
And I was like, Yeah.
The song is Object of My Desireby a group called Star Point.
Hold on, let me check and makesure that I am saying the right
name.
But yes, the name of the song,Object of My Desire.
The group name is Star Point.
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And if I remember correctly, thelead singer is a beautiful Asian
woman.
And I just remember watching heron Soul Train, and she was like
dancing around on the stage, andI thought she was just so
insanely badass, and I wanted tobe like that.
The same thing with Tina Marie,with also uh Sheila E.
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Tina Marie played the guitar anddanced while she was singing and
performing live.
And Sheila E is an incredibledrum uh percussionist.
She plays the teamballes.
Uh, some of you may or may notremember her being one of
Prince's proteges.
And so just seeing these womentake the stage, take the lead,
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be in control, be the frontwoman for these bands, just like
Stevie Nicks, just like Hart.
I soaked it up like a sponge.
Can't forget also Madonna andCindy Lopper, although I didn't
really love Cindy Lopper's musicas much, but I had so many
examples of these powerful womenwho were pioneers ahead of their
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time, creators, putting theirheart and soul into everything
they do and putting it out forthe world to see and you know be
vulnerable to.
And I respect that.
I respect it a lot.
So, as you can tell, I am onthis little sort of wave of
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making playlists.
I'm enjoying it, it's a lot offun, it's bringing back a ton of
memories and flooding my heartwith emotions.
I actually went through a littleexperience the other day where I
was getting ready for work andputting on my makeup, and a song
by a band called Skidrow cameon, which was very popular when
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I was in the sixth and seventhgrade.
For reference, I graduated fromsixth grade and then went to
middle school, and that was in1990.
So I was in the sixth grade in1990.
Yeah.
And this song comes on, and Iremember I was dating a boy, and
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and this was the following yearin seventh grade, and I've
remember dating a boy, and wereally liked each other.
Obviously, you're in middleschool, it's not like your
boyfriend and girlfriend, it'sreally hot and heavy and
serious, but we liked eachother.
And I've remember one day hetold me that he couldn't see me
anymore or be friends with meanymore, or like take me out to
lunch anymore, talk to me on thephone, or write me letters,
(16:01):
because that's what we used todo.
Total fun.
We would like write each otherthese long handwritten letters
and then fold them up and handthem to each other in the
hallway.
Anyway, he told me he couldn'tdo any of that with me any
longer because his mom wouldn'tlet him be friends with me
because of her reading about myfather in the newspaper.
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My father got arrested when Iwas in sixth grade, and then he
went away to prison when I wasin the seventh grade.
And so that was such a painfulexperience for me because I was
only about 12 years old, and Ireally liked this boy.
It was my first person that Iever kissed, and I remember and
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I felt that pain all over againjust the other day.
It was like, oh my god, thathurts so much, and my eyes
teared up.
I was probably hormonal, uh, butmy eyes teared up, I got super
emotional.
I was listening to the song, andI'm just like, you know what?
This is fucking amazing becausethat is what the power of art
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is.
A piece of art, a music piece, avisual piece, a film, an
experience.
It brings you back to a momentin your life, a moment in time,
a snapshot that you will neverever forget.
And I will tell you right now,you might forget what people
(17:28):
say, what people do, how theyact, but you're never gonna
forget the way people make youfeel.
You know that that's true.
And it's the same thing withmusic, and it's the same thing
with art.
So I'm thinking about startinganother Instagram account where
I share music, maybe that thenewer generations are not as
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familiar with, but talking alittle bit about, you know, some
of the fun facts behind themusic, and then sharing my
personal experiences with it.
And I think I think I'm ontosomething here because clearly,
if I can ramble about a coupleof playlists for over 20
minutes, then I'm verypassionate about music and it's
something I probably want to getinto.
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So if you are interested indownloading any of these
playlists for yourself for yourown listening enjoyment, please
check the show notes and I'llshare a link in the notes with
you so that you can do that.
And if you want to stay in touchwith me, we can connect on
social media.
You can subscribe to my emailnewsletter, which is really more
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focused on becoming anunbreakable woman.
But I encourage anyone who'sinterested in learning about
strength training and becomingthe most unbelievable badass
version of themselves.
If you would like to get moreinformation about that, then
stick around and stay in myworld because that is my mission
on this beautiful planet that welive on.
If you enjoyed this show, youcan give me a couple stars.
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Thank you so much for beinghere.
I appreciate your time andattention as always, and I will
catch you on the next one.
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