August 21, 2025 • 47 mins
What if one whimsical story could truly change your life? For April Lynn James, the “PhDiva,” it was Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland that sparked her creative and spiritual rebirth after years of struggle. A Harvard-trained soprano and bestselling author of The Tenth Muse: How Maria Antonia Advanced the Pastoral Opera, April now inspires others through engaging playshops blending performing arts and wellness, proving imagination is a powerful tool for healing, joy, and transformation.
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have April James, a Warld winning soprano with a pH
d in music. She is offecially known as a p
H diva and a best selling author of a number
one best selling book which is called The Tenth Muse
How You Can Usupply Back Up, How Maria Antonio advanced
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the pastoral opera and I actually made number one in
both categories of biographies of classical composer and historical biographies
in Germany as what and in the month of August
September of twenty twenty three. Is also the winner of
the Gulf Coast Writers Association for Nonfiction Award and twenty
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twenty four. You can purchase her book at Amazon now.
Following a decade of family drama post PhD, April crediteds
credits for on pund viewing of Tim Burton's Alice of
Wonderland was sparking creativity and spiritual awakening. This then, she
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has son and recorded as a courster and soloist in
Europe and the United States. She is a native New
Yorker who's now living in Flora Myers, Florida. Her favorite
songs are Christmas carols and she has a play shop,
Jackling Stress for juggling, Stress for relief and which connects
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performing arts with wellness. Today it will be discussing creativity
and wellness. Let's welcome April Blend James. We're running soprano
with a PhD in music known as the PhD Diva
and a best selling author. April, welcome to my show.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Well, thank you Debbie for having me on your show,
and greetings to everyone out there watching.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh I'm really happy you can make it so thank
you for being my guests. Let's start off with have
you always wanted to be a professional singer?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
You know, I've sung. I like to tell people that
I've been singing for as long as I've been on
the planet, because I can't remember a time when I
wasn't singing, you know, and I used to. I used to.
I remember my parents had a swing said they built
for me in our backyard, and I would sit and
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sing and swing at the same time. You know, whatever
song caught had caught my ear from from popular songs
like the Carpenter's song, the song that is made popular
by the Carpenters sing. That's like, what the earliest song
that I recall singing to, you know, anything that i'd
heard in church because I was allowed to be in
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the church choir. And but I didn't really know that
music could be a career i'd ever, It's not like
I thought when I was five or seven, I was
something like, oh, yeah, I want to be a professional singer.
It was more like this gradually dawning awareness over the
course of my life that music is what I care
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most about, and I sing, so I'd better do that
somehow professionally.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's really cool. You know, music is just you know,
like they say, is a sabbage beast. It's just it's
a great way to be seeing you're putting out joy
out there. You're bringing up your vibrational levels. And music
has a lot of different vibrations in it. And I
have a son that plays the clarinet, so it's so
beautifully and it really calms the down, makes them feel
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better so you can do other things. Because he's also
studying aerospace engineering, so this doual type of guy. But
the whole point is is that, you know, music really
brings in a lot of frequencies. It can you can
lower if you're in a bad mood, Listen said to
something really uplifting and it'll make you feel so much better.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Yes, yeah, it's it's so important, you know, to tune
into the joy that is really natural in our being,
but our society doesn't really acknowledge it. And and music,
you know, good music, music that comes us and connect
it connects us to the divine, which is the source
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of all joy, the source of all good and we
need to we really need to make it a part
of our lives daily, if not hourly. You know, that's
it's really that important.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, yeah, And I make it daily because I use it.
I help I use certain audios to help me fall asleep.
I use certain audios to just get me going in
the morning because I run. So I used to actually
enjoy it. And that's part of wellness.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And creativity is part of wellness as well. Exactly when
when you are inspired to do something, you are also
upliftinger vibration too by creating things. That's right and speaking
about creating, you are a published author, but number one
best selling book. How did you choose that subject of
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your bessel?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Well, I chose Maria Antonio, or rather, you know, maybe
she chose me. But when I was going into my
doctoral program, I went in with the desire to research
music by women, and specifically vocal music, because okay, I'm
a singer, So I wanted to research something I could
later perform. And it was my dissertation advisor who it
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was a class before he was my dissertation advisor, Crystal Wolff,
a well known box scholar. I took a class with
him and he had pulled out from a library shelves
a bunch of different scores for the different students in
the class, and we were to choose one. Each of
us were to choose one to work on that semester.
And I was at the point of looking for a
dissertation topic, and so my eyes honed in on It
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turned out to be two acts from a three act opera,
the title of which was Iltri de la Flta The
Triumph of Fidelity, and the name on the spine was Maria.
And I was like, oh, there's a woman. Oh look,
it's an opera, And so I asked him, is anyone
researching her? He said no, I said, I am. Now
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that's how I came to her. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, you know what, sometimes when you put a card
out on the deck, that's what happens. And that's what
you did with you know, with that, you know, getting
that score, yeah, and choosing what you needed to do.
And I'm Kenny found out she was female. So what
exactly did you find out about her? I'm kind of curious.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well, I just I found out that Maria Antonia so
Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony. She was born princess in
Bavaria and then married into the Saxon royal family. And
I discovered that she was a powerhouse in the middle
eighteenth century, really well known and well respected as a composer.
So she wrote music as a poet, so she wrote
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her own poetry. As a singer, she sang in her
own operas and other operas that you were performing in court.
And as a patron of the arts, she wanted to
turn Saxony into the fine arts capital of Europe in
the mid eighteenth century. And she made sure that her
creativity could serve as a form of patronage, a form
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of a way of honoring others, So honoring her her
parents in law, right, the King and the queen, the
King and Queen of Saxon. Well, well it gets complicated politically.
So anyway, her parents, the King and Queen, and her
spouse Prince Friedrich Christian. And she also made sure that
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her poetry, her her creativity could serve as a form
of patronage. For for example, the publishing company Music Publishers
in Leipzig, bright Kop. This company still exists, it's called
bright Coop and Hettel now, but back then it was
bright Kop and her opera there was the first opera
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published by Bradkoff in the first work actually published by
Bradekoff in a new type that they developed that was
specifically for printing music. So think yeah, and so you know,
she basically bankrolled the development of that new printing technology here,
she helped out with that. And so I just discovered
that this was there was this really incredibly creative woman. Uh,
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you know, a powerhouse politically, you know, behind the scenes often,
but no one knew about her in the twentieth or
twenty first century. So you know, it became my part
of my job to get her into the twenty first
centuries so people know more about her and are interested
in her music.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, that's really you know, she really was a leader,
you know. I know she probably married into this family,
but she's a leader because she she you know, was
a princess and she was a leader. But she you know,
the technologies she brought into her society and people around
her as well as that she was spiritually lifting people
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with music and sound. Yes, that's all very inspiring.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
God, Oh, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Now. How do you do you know anything about Alison
runder Land? I know I have. Before he saw Tim
Burton's film.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I had no clue really about Alice in Wonderland. Before
I saw that film. The only work of Lewis Carroll's
that I knew before seeing that film had been the
poem Jabberwaukee because as an undergraduate at Queen's College in
New York City, that had been my favorite poem in
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my Victorian literature class. Like I took a Victorian literature
class and had to pick something, and Jabberwaukee. I loved
it because I love that kind of word play. I've
always loved languages and you know, the wordplay, the kind
of humor that was in in that poem. But yeah,
prior to twenty ten, I really knew nothing else about
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Louis Carroll or the Alice books. Wow yeah, and that
film than Alice.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, yeah, you know, and you know some of the stuff,
you know, does continue to gulogy, so you know, he
is quite an author. Some of the stuff could be
complicated to read too. Some people are going to really
pay attention to what they're reading. So but I really
enjoyed Louis Carroll and others and poetry as well. But
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it's interesting that, you know, you didn't have that background
Alice in Wonderland. You know, when it happens.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
You do now, I do know that film woke me up.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But Tim Burton is an interesting, you know filmmaker to
tell you that much is kind of on the raw
side sometimes and different. So what did you get have
a film?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Well, what I got out of the film, in part
is that I I discovered through Alice, and seeing that
film showed me a role model that I'd been looking
for my entire life in the Alice that was portrayed
in that film, Alice Kingsley. Because I had grown up,
you know, going gosh, you know, I like I like,
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I loved Errol Flynn and the Avengers of robin Hood.
I was into Joan of Arc and I was going, well,
where where is you know, Where's a girl who can
don armor, wheel the sword, you know, and rescue the people?
And I never saw that growing up. Took until twenty
ten and I'm like, wait, there she is. That's yeah,
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wonder you know, That's what I've been looking for. And
so it was bad. But I also, because of that
film met, well, met my guardian angel, or had my
guardian angel really come much more fully into my life
than I had experienced before. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, so but you've you've you know, me at least
the next question, have you always been aware of angels
in your life? I mean, you became more aware after
that film, because it kind of uplooked your soul, kind
of reopened your soul. Made it was a remaking of
your life, because I know, family drama is pretty much
(16:34):
a head You use this term Debbie Downer, but my
whole point is it does kind of put a lot
of weight on you and weighs down your soul. Yes,
so obviously this film kind of just broke you free.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, yes, because see, at the time it came along,
I was going through what I what I've called come
to call the decade of awfulness. Yeah. After Harvard, I
went back to New York City, moved back in with
my mother. Wanted to forge this operatic career.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I had a whole bunch of music composed by women,
operas composed by women. Turned it into an opera company.
But then I was shepherding my mother through crisis after
crisis over the years, and not having quite the career
success I wanted was weighing me down. By twenty ten,
but I had started to call on Well, I'd always
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spoken to God, I've always spoken to God throughout my life.
But I learned in that decade also about how one
could contact one's guardian angel. And you know, so I
had done that in two thousand and nine. I had
asked for a sign and the sign I'd asked for
was a snowflake. And then, you know, because it was
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summer of two thousand and nine, so I asked for
a snowflake. And then what happened is a few weeks later,
I got the fall catalog for Land's End and I
turned it over and there on the cover was a
red sweater with a white snowflake on it, and that
immediately lifted my mood. And that kind of thing continued
to happen. If something bad happened, a snowflake would come
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along and I would cheer up. Well, then I'm in
this film in twenty ten, and what happened during the film,
I won't get into it because it's a nice story
that we don't really have time for. But my guardian
angel piped up inside my head in this British accented voice,
and I was like, what's going on? You know, I,
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you know, I just the voice said that's me, and
I was like what, But I didn't get a real reply,
but a year after that, I was looking for stills
from that film Alse in Wonderland to download and use
this wallpaper on my Mac, that voice piped up in
my head again. Short story version is that it dictated
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a sonnet to me, and the name Madison Hatas on
a tier came out of my pen right after the sonnet,
and I realized, oh my goodness, that that's, you know,
the guardian angel of my sense of humor. You know,
it's just like it just because it made me laugh,
and it's continued to make me laugh. I mean, Madison
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and I have well over two hundred sonnets that mixed
biography for my biography with wonderlandish imagery, whimsical wordplay, and
they just make me laugh. And they were making me
laugh about some really trying situations in my life.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Made your guardian angel.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yes, yeah, we all have multiple angels who are helping us.
And I consider Madison the guardian angel of my sense
of humor.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's cool, that's really cool, you know. You know, I'm
really intrigued when people could connect to their guardian angels,
and and and years. It actually has a name. A
lot of people, you know, they talk about you know,
Mother Mary, they talk about you know Mary Magdalene or
you know arch arch Angle. Michael like that. Madison's intriguing.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, it's quite intriguing. It's really funny. Why I told
one person about it as early on and the person said,
they asked me, is that name a pun? And I'm like, well,
you know, it might be mad as in Hatta. Okay,
you know, could be. This is the it's it's.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Just well, I can also break it up this way,
mad and son. You know, it could be could it
be a guy for all you know?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well, it's but you know, when I first saw the
name Madison hat To, I thought, well, Madison as in
James Madison, James Madison or Madison Avenue. Right, But and
then Hatta is right from the Alice books, right, it's
from the second book.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's from I didn't mean to anything negative. I won't
let you know that, but you know, it's it's kind
of like I have a son, you know, that has
the name the son and it so that's my whole.
But you know, it's it's interesting, that wild story. But
that's okay. You know, I really love it. So do
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you have any other angels or justice.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
That's the only one that I know of specifically that
introduced and help them by name.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Okay, okay, well you know what, I'm sure you have
other people that have you know, other angels and I
mean people.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yes, well I'm sure, I'm sure because I mean Archangel Michael,
Archangel Gabriel. Yes, you know, I'm aware of their activity,
their activity in my life as well. Gabriel is especially
around creatives, you know, people who are engaged in writing
or music or are you know. And yeah, I mean
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I grew up in the church. I was baptized and
it was saying Gabriels, So I know Gabriel's around me.
And but arc Angel Michael has made his presence felt
as well over the course of my life. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Happy for you. Okay, so that's cool. Now, are your
play shops meant for adults participating in that?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yes, the play shops. So you're talking about how creativity
is important for wellness, you know, And that's a firm
belief of mine because while I was at Harvard doing
my doctorate, I developed three stress related conditions. Three stress
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related conditions because I was because of this of just
like working all the time sitting in front of the
computer typing all the time. I developed tendon itis in
my right arm. I was gaining weight because I was
sitting in front of the computer all time, not exercising,
and I was starting to get depressed. And so this
is the end of my first year. I knew I
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had to change something, had to do something different. So
I started. I went down the street. There's a conservatory
called the Laundry School of Music down the street from
Harvard Yard. I went there and I signed up for
Baroque dance classes. Because I'm studying eighteenth century music, why
not learn the dances that go along with the music.
So I did that. I found a mime teacher at
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that time. There was a Bulgarian woman who taught mime
in you know, or in Cambridge. So I took classes
with her. And I got back into juggling because I
had taught myself to juggle years previous, and now I
got back into doing it and doing that regularly. So
those three things, along with yes yoga and other modalities
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like Alexander Technique and felt in Christ really got me
back into my body, out of my head, into my body,
and by my second year up there, at the end
of my second year, the excess weight had gone away,
the depression was gone, and the tendonitis was gone. So
I like to teach people juggling. I call it juggling
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for stress relief because I know that it helps. It
helped me, especially with your hands when you're typing all
the time. Juggling is a different movement, is a contrary movement.
You could say, you know, we hold our hands like
this when we type. Oh, you're holding them like this
when you're juggling and you're doing something that we don't
ordinarily do, throwing a ball or other object to yourself,
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and you're going to drop. The process of learning is
that you're going to fail along the way. So juggling
is a way for people to safely fail, to get
comfortable with the fact that, yes, failure happens, but you
recover from it and eventually you learn to juggling and
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by the end of an hour, it's really an hour
long play shop. I like to call it. Most people, no,
I'll say everyone gets the basics of being able to
juggle juggle three objects, and some people, you know, get
get more than the basics out of it. That's amazing.
You know, and the joy in the room that comes
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from a bunch of adults or or or teens. I've
had some you know teens in the class too, and
the level of joy and just like the permission to play. Yeah,
it's amazing how the energy is just so uplifting in
that room. And so I love doing these play shops.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, we need to touch your inner child a lot more.
But I will let you know that when you juggle,
you know, like if you throw something back and forth
between your hands, that, yeah, what you're doing is you're
crossing your brain access and you need to release any
ideas that you may be concentrating on. And that's like
a relief. It's uplifting, is kind of like, you know,
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a vibrational thing in a way, but you know, because
it's it's releasing that that the problems that you have,
So it's bringing up byation of joy and it's making
you a happier person. And you start singing when you're
juggling back and forth, that can be even more cheerful.
And as you know, as I just light up like
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yes exactly. But that's something I learned from one of
my guests. Of all things, that not hypnotist, and but
I just she has a wonderful book. But my whole
point is it's like when I run and I need
to break through something because something's happening in my life,
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I kind of juggle my water bottle and yeah, you
know my water bottle. You know I may drop it,
so what. But you know, all of a sudden, a
creative flow comes in running, walking, whatever you do outside,
whatever you do moving your body, whatever you do will
help your metabolis and will help you circulate. Lamp will
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help it make you more creative and inspiring. Yes, And
so I love running because I've never if you've heard
it from my beginning, I never ran and talk, Yeah
that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
And now you've done these half marathons amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah. Well it's kind of like someone told me I
can never run. A doctor told me you're never going
to be able to run, and so I accepted it,
and like you, I gained way over time. I got
depressed over time because you know, life had to do
that with heavy, heavy burdens going on in your life.
And and ye know I it was during a time
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while I was taking care of my mom. Let you know,
So my whole point was, I wasn't paying attention to ourselves.
We need to pay attention to ourselves. And I'm so
happy you did. I'm so happy that Burton movie kind
of awakened you to be more creative, more inspiring, and
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other things came into your life that made things a
lot more fun.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
That's right, And.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's pretty much what happened to me. The running and
changing my lifestyle, you know, has made me. People look
at me and they go, your early is barring, Oh
thank you, yeah, and they say, you know, I glow
at times. So my whole point is is like everyone
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can glow the matter of joy in your life, enjoying
your life.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
That's exactly right. Yeah. Because see when I was a kid,
when I was in college at Queen's College in the
first time, so my first BA, I had asked my
mother in what it came time to choose majors, what
should I do? And I knew I was good at music.
I knew I excelled at music and languages, and she
told me, well, music is hobby, a hobby, not a career,
(28:58):
and that's installed me from pursuing music. I went and
got a communications BA for my first BA. But after
working unhappily and that and TV and then publishing for
a couple of years, I said forget it. I got
laid off of my last TV job. I said, that's it.
And going back to school study music. And that's what
got me into Harvard, you know, is because I got
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straight a's for the first time in my life. When
I went back and focused on what I loved doing,
those straight a's led to scholarships and fellowships got me
into Harvard and then, you know, my life though, I
feel like my life has been a constant I need
to check in all the time. Am I doing what
I love? If I'm not, I got to get back
on track. Got to get back on track and keep
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going in the direction of the joy. And yeah, at
that point when the Tim Burton film came into my life,
I had definitely gotten off the path of joy and
I needed to get a quick you know, really it
was like a quick jump start. You know, in the
space of two hours, I I was reawakened. Stuff has
started happening, you know, happening in my life again. I
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started creating again, I started believing in dreams again, and
that energy eventually got me out of that horrible situation.
I moved out of New York Philadelphia for nine years,
and now that I moved to Fort Myers. I moved
to Fort Myers in twenty twenty two. It's even more
like now that I've yes, I am focusing on the
(30:27):
music and on the creativity, because that's what God put
me here to do, to help inspire people the way
Maria Antonio inspired me, right the way researching this inspiring
woman and other inspiring women composers the way they inspired me.
They believe in themselves, and I can believe in myself
the way Alice Kingsley in that film. You know she
(30:49):
could do it. Okay, she could do the impossible. I
can do the impossible.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Yeah, well that's funny. My father said the fact, same thing,
Arsenal are never going to get you anywhere. I was
very good at creative arts and graphics and things like that,
and then I taught myself computers. I got very good
at computer graphics, and I really wanted to be a
film director. I came during a time where it was
really hard for Penny Marshall and other people become directors,
(31:17):
so I, you know, I ended up doing you know,
working for Disney and other companies and things like that.
But I didn't like what I was doing. I was
an administrative support and I didn't like that. So I
just left started my own video company, and I worked
and testing equipment. I worked at NAB showing people on
(31:39):
graphic systems and video equipment and video editing. And I
got tired of traveling. That's when I had my son.
But my whole point was you got to do what
you like. And while I had my son and I
was it was the same time was taking care of
my mom. So that was kind of santish generation aspect
of my life. I kept creative if I made I
(32:00):
made photo story books for people and love the whole.
I became a certified holistic health coach, and I'm like, oh, reels,
all this is and that I can do that and
I create my own reels and I really enjoy it,
and I just, you know, enjoy all that, you know,
creativity of that aspect of my business. And it's a
(32:25):
way of you know, passing a little message of you know,
good advice and things like that for people. I also
value having an engineer for my show too, because I've
been there. I've been in the TV station. I've seen people,
you know, crashing on air so to speak. I've seen
people lose you know, lose money because a commercial didn't
go up, things like that. So but I also was
(32:48):
there going I want someone like also melt down. I'm like,
I would direct them do this, do this, do this this,
and I saved the day. So my whole point because
I was training, they were training, and they had to
do things by sometimes. So that's my whole point is
that you know, life can take many turns and turns,
and you'll find and find something you really really love.
(33:10):
And you know, with life comes wisdom. And that's all
I'm doing now is sharing my wisdom. And that's why
I'm doing my podcast. As a person that was behind
the scenes, I didn't like being a friend of the
camera and it took me a while to get comfortable
the camera. But I am getting a lot better and
I started with this podcast. Podcast. It's really helped me
all lot.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yes, it will teaches everything you need to know about
being comfortable on camera doing this.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, when little things happen, I kind of laugh it off.
And you know what, when you laugh it off, that
just brings up your mood.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I mean, that's exactly it.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
With wisdom, little things don't matter. I mean, you know,
I'm not losing a broadcaster, you know, a commercial or whatever.
I'm not losing any of that stuff. I've been there,
done that. I don't need to do it. So, but
I really enjoyed doing corporate video and all that in
my life. It just it wasn't It just became hard
(34:10):
when I had my child so and taking care of
my mom, so it was way too much as being
stretched then, which I'm sure you felt that way too, right,
understand that. Yeah. So, and we need to pay attention
to ourselves as women. We tend to be people pleasers
and we lose ourselves that we lose ourselves, absolutely true. Yeah,
(34:34):
So that's why you need to really find what you
want and find out what you're good at, or you know,
you need to hire someone to help you, coach you
to find out what you may be good at, you know,
do a personnel profile and things like that. You're so
blessed I have an angel come into your life. Reguarding
an angel that really gave you an eye open experience
(35:00):
with that download of that you have.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, I feel blessed. Yeah, I feel blessed. But you know,
this is something that everyone can do, is to ask
the guardian angels to sort of give them a sign.
They just have to ask for a specific sign and
then sort of pay attention when it happens.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yes, yes, you know it's interesting. Animals come to me
automatically when I run. You want to with me a
talk or something like that. Or a cat will come
up and say hi, and I say hi. And I've
been noticing butterflies are flying around me a lot, and
I'm like, you know, people just need to notice things
(35:41):
are happening. I've had paracane falcons appear three times in
a run and so sometimes you know it could be
a spiritual animal. Yeah, and just look it up and
see what they're all about exactly. And as far you to, hey,
I'm on the right track back for you know, being
(36:02):
a leader. I'm on the right track of you know, flying,
you know, creating things that are that are going to
help people and things like that, or you know, I
help people to transformations. Maybe that's why I have butterflies
going around me. Yeah, But that's my whole point is
that you're needed to pay attention to requirement, pay attention
(36:24):
to the vividness. Yes, and enjoy it. And even though
you may have an overcast guy going up around you,
you realize how vivid the colors are when it's overcast.
There's always possibilities, right, right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yes, Well, we have.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
A few more minutes that we can talk, or at
least one moment that we can talk. Is anything else
you want to say before I ask you for your offer?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Well? Anything else I want to say?
Speaker 3 (36:57):
How when we talk about your offer and you can
have more time for your offer?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Okay? Well, okay, so I have I have a free
PDF that people can download. It's, as you see, there's
your guide to the Alice Way, and the Alice Way
is my five step Wonderland inspired approach to total well being.
And so this PDF just gives you a little bit
(37:20):
of a rundown on each of the letters A, L, I, C,
and E that make up the Alice Way. And you
can also while you're you know, when you go there,
you can also go to my website if you're interested
in being part of my play shops, if you're interested
in having me present you know, I have a concert
(37:41):
called the Power of Pure Imagination, a concert for the
child in all of us. And it's a story of resilience,
my story of resilience told through song and spoken word.
And so you can feel free to get in touch
with me through my website April Lynnjames dot com. For
you to go to the events page at Aprilnjames dot
(38:03):
com slash events and see where I'm going to be
appearing next. But I'm I'm happy to hear from anyone
who'd be interested in yeah, in playing, coming together and
playing with me?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Okay, Now are your workshops on the event too, or
can people like ask you to do a workshop for
a community.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
People can ask me to Yes, I am happy to
do a workshop for a community wherever you might live.
I travel, these play shops travel. It's a concert, you know.
These are absolutely portable events that can happen near wherever
someone is.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
That's cool. Now, your pdf is available at www. Do
aliceway dot com. Correct and your website April Lynn with
not the E L S L Y N James dot com. Again,
I'm sure there might be a calendar length that they
can set up time with you to ask you things
(39:03):
as well, or.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Not, they can simply email me and ask because I
don't do a calendar calendaring system emil me. They can.
So there's a contact form on my site. There's a
contact page on my site, and you can email me
through that and I will get the form and I
respond to everyone.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Okay, okay, cool, cool, Well you can have wonderful guests.
Would you like to be a guest again?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Absolutely? This was fun.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
It was fun.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I really enjoyed it, and we make some more creative podcast.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
I look forward to that, Debbie.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Okay, please stick around for closing remarks. Now, remember I
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Speaker 4 (46:02):
Ges So yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Closing remark, Oh.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
Closing remark, Well, I hope everyone enjoyed everything that I
was talking about today, everything we talked about. And I
want people to remember that, you know, just because people
say something's impossible doesn't mean that it is. We can
make possible the impossible when we believe in our dreams
(46:28):
hold on to them.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
I certainly agree with that too, because look at me
and with my transformation, I didn't know what's going to happen,
and you got back into music, which is where you
meant to be. Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Anything is possible, and
we can help you with that.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
Anything is possible, you just teep taking those steps towards it,
towards your dreams.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Yeah, it's a friend of mine. So he says, thank you.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
Oh you're welcome.
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have April James, a Warld winning soprano with a pH
d in music. She is offecially known as a p
H diva and a best selling author of a number
one best selling book which is called The Tenth Muse
How You Can Usupply Back Up, How Maria Antonio advanced
(03:57):
the pastoral opera and I actually made number one in
both categories of biographies of classical composer and historical biographies
in Germany as what and in the month of August
September of twenty twenty three. Is also the winner of
the Gulf Coast Writers Association for Nonfiction Award and twenty
(04:21):
twenty four. You can purchase her book at Amazon now.
Following a decade of family drama post PhD, April crediteds
credits for on pund viewing of Tim Burton's Alice of
Wonderland was sparking creativity and spiritual awakening. This then, she
(04:44):
has son and recorded as a courster and soloist in
Europe and the United States. She is a native New
Yorker who's now living in Flora Myers, Florida. Her favorite
songs are Christmas carols and she has a play shop,
Jackling Stress for juggling, Stress for relief and which connects
(05:06):
performing arts with wellness. Today it will be discussing creativity
and wellness. Let's welcome April Blend James. We're running soprano
with a PhD in music known as the PhD Diva
and a best selling author. April, welcome to my show.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Well, thank you Debbie for having me on your show,
and greetings to everyone out there watching.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Oh I'm really happy you can make it so thank
you for being my guests. Let's start off with have
you always wanted to be a professional singer?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
You know, I've sung. I like to tell people that
I've been singing for as long as I've been on
the planet, because I can't remember a time when I
wasn't singing, you know, and I used to. I used to.
I remember my parents had a swing said they built
for me in our backyard, and I would sit and
(06:03):
sing and swing at the same time. You know, whatever
song caught had caught my ear from from popular songs
like the Carpenter's song, the song that is made popular
by the Carpenters sing. That's like, what the earliest song
that I recall singing to, you know, anything that i'd
heard in church because I was allowed to be in
(06:25):
the church choir. And but I didn't really know that
music could be a career i'd ever, It's not like
I thought when I was five or seven, I was
something like, oh, yeah, I want to be a professional singer.
It was more like this gradually dawning awareness over the
course of my life that music is what I care
(06:47):
most about, and I sing, so I'd better do that
somehow professionally.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's really cool. You know, music is just you know,
like they say, is a sabbage beast. It's just it's
a great way to be seeing you're putting out joy
out there. You're bringing up your vibrational levels. And music
has a lot of different vibrations in it. And I
have a son that plays the clarinet, so it's so
beautifully and it really calms the down, makes them feel
(07:21):
better so you can do other things. Because he's also
studying aerospace engineering, so this doual type of guy. But
the whole point is is that, you know, music really
brings in a lot of frequencies. It can you can
lower if you're in a bad mood, Listen said to
something really uplifting and it'll make you feel so much better.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Yes, yeah, it's it's so important, you know, to tune
into the joy that is really natural in our being,
but our society doesn't really acknowledge it. And and music,
you know, good music, music that comes us and connect
it connects us to the divine, which is the source
(08:06):
of all joy, the source of all good and we
need to we really need to make it a part
of our lives daily, if not hourly. You know, that's
it's really that important.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, yeah, And I make it daily because I use it.
I help I use certain audios to help me fall asleep.
I use certain audios to just get me going in
the morning because I run. So I used to actually
enjoy it. And that's part of wellness.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And creativity is part of wellness as well. Exactly when
when you are inspired to do something, you are also
upliftinger vibration too by creating things. That's right and speaking
about creating, you are a published author, but number one
best selling book. How did you choose that subject of
(08:59):
your bessel?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Well, I chose Maria Antonio, or rather, you know, maybe
she chose me. But when I was going into my
doctoral program, I went in with the desire to research
music by women, and specifically vocal music, because okay, I'm
a singer, So I wanted to research something I could
later perform. And it was my dissertation advisor who it
(09:25):
was a class before he was my dissertation advisor, Crystal Wolff,
a well known box scholar. I took a class with
him and he had pulled out from a library shelves
a bunch of different scores for the different students in
the class, and we were to choose one. Each of
us were to choose one to work on that semester.
And I was at the point of looking for a
dissertation topic, and so my eyes honed in on It
(09:49):
turned out to be two acts from a three act opera,
the title of which was Iltri de la Flta The
Triumph of Fidelity, and the name on the spine was Maria.
And I was like, oh, there's a woman. Oh look,
it's an opera, And so I asked him, is anyone
researching her? He said no, I said, I am. Now
(10:11):
that's how I came to her. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, you know what, sometimes when you put a card
out on the deck, that's what happens. And that's what
you did with you know, with that, you know, getting
that score, yeah, and choosing what you needed to do.
And I'm Kenny found out she was female. So what
exactly did you find out about her? I'm kind of curious.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Well, I just I found out that Maria Antonia so
Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony. She was born princess in
Bavaria and then married into the Saxon royal family. And
I discovered that she was a powerhouse in the middle
eighteenth century, really well known and well respected as a composer.
So she wrote music as a poet, so she wrote
(10:55):
her own poetry. As a singer, she sang in her
own operas and other operas that you were performing in court.
And as a patron of the arts, she wanted to
turn Saxony into the fine arts capital of Europe in
the mid eighteenth century. And she made sure that her
creativity could serve as a form of patronage, a form
(11:17):
of a way of honoring others, So honoring her her
parents in law, right, the King and the queen, the
King and Queen of Saxon. Well, well it gets complicated politically.
So anyway, her parents, the King and Queen, and her
spouse Prince Friedrich Christian. And she also made sure that
(11:40):
her poetry, her her creativity could serve as a form
of patronage. For for example, the publishing company Music Publishers
in Leipzig, bright Kop. This company still exists, it's called
bright Coop and Hettel now, but back then it was
bright Kop and her opera there was the first opera
(12:03):
published by Bradkoff in the first work actually published by
Bradekoff in a new type that they developed that was
specifically for printing music. So think yeah, and so you know,
she basically bankrolled the development of that new printing technology here,
she helped out with that. And so I just discovered
that this was there was this really incredibly creative woman. Uh,
(12:25):
you know, a powerhouse politically, you know, behind the scenes often,
but no one knew about her in the twentieth or
twenty first century. So you know, it became my part
of my job to get her into the twenty first
centuries so people know more about her and are interested
in her music.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, that's really you know, she really was a leader,
you know. I know she probably married into this family,
but she's a leader because she she you know, was
a princess and she was a leader. But she you know,
the technologies she brought into her society and people around
her as well as that she was spiritually lifting people
(13:05):
with music and sound. Yes, that's all very inspiring.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
God, Oh, thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Now. How do you do you know anything about Alison
runder Land? I know I have. Before he saw Tim
Burton's film.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I had no clue really about Alice in Wonderland. Before
I saw that film. The only work of Lewis Carroll's
that I knew before seeing that film had been the
poem Jabberwaukee because as an undergraduate at Queen's College in
New York City, that had been my favorite poem in
(13:45):
my Victorian literature class. Like I took a Victorian literature
class and had to pick something, and Jabberwaukee. I loved
it because I love that kind of word play. I've
always loved languages and you know, the wordplay, the kind
of humor that was in in that poem. But yeah,
prior to twenty ten, I really knew nothing else about
(14:06):
Louis Carroll or the Alice books. Wow yeah, and that
film than Alice.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, yeah, you know, and you know some of the stuff,
you know, does continue to gulogy, so you know, he
is quite an author. Some of the stuff could be
complicated to read too. Some people are going to really
pay attention to what they're reading. So but I really
enjoyed Louis Carroll and others and poetry as well. But
(14:39):
it's interesting that, you know, you didn't have that background
Alice in Wonderland. You know, when it happens.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
You do now, I do know that film woke me up.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But Tim Burton is an interesting, you know filmmaker to
tell you that much is kind of on the raw
side sometimes and different. So what did you get have
a film?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Well, what I got out of the film, in part
is that I I discovered through Alice, and seeing that
film showed me a role model that I'd been looking
for my entire life in the Alice that was portrayed
in that film, Alice Kingsley. Because I had grown up,
you know, going gosh, you know, I like I like,
(15:29):
I loved Errol Flynn and the Avengers of robin Hood.
I was into Joan of Arc and I was going, well,
where where is you know, Where's a girl who can
don armor, wheel the sword, you know, and rescue the people?
And I never saw that growing up. Took until twenty
ten and I'm like, wait, there she is. That's yeah,
(15:50):
wonder you know, That's what I've been looking for. And
so it was bad. But I also, because of that
film met, well, met my guardian angel, or had my
guardian angel really come much more fully into my life
than I had experienced before. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, so but you've you've you know, me at least
the next question, have you always been aware of angels
in your life? I mean, you became more aware after
that film, because it kind of uplooked your soul, kind
of reopened your soul. Made it was a remaking of
your life, because I know, family drama is pretty much
(16:34):
a head You use this term Debbie Downer, but my
whole point is it does kind of put a lot
of weight on you and weighs down your soul. Yes,
so obviously this film kind of just broke you free.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, yes, because see, at the time it came along,
I was going through what I what I've called come
to call the decade of awfulness. Yeah. After Harvard, I
went back to New York City, moved back in with
my mother. Wanted to forge this operatic career.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I had a whole bunch of music composed by women,
operas composed by women. Turned it into an opera company.
But then I was shepherding my mother through crisis after
crisis over the years, and not having quite the career
success I wanted was weighing me down. By twenty ten,
but I had started to call on Well, I'd always
(17:31):
spoken to God, I've always spoken to God throughout my life.
But I learned in that decade also about how one
could contact one's guardian angel. And you know, so I
had done that in two thousand and nine. I had
asked for a sign and the sign I'd asked for
was a snowflake. And then, you know, because it was
(17:53):
summer of two thousand and nine, so I asked for
a snowflake. And then what happened is a few weeks later,
I got the fall catalog for Land's End and I
turned it over and there on the cover was a
red sweater with a white snowflake on it, and that
immediately lifted my mood. And that kind of thing continued
to happen. If something bad happened, a snowflake would come
(18:14):
along and I would cheer up. Well, then I'm in
this film in twenty ten, and what happened during the film,
I won't get into it because it's a nice story
that we don't really have time for. But my guardian
angel piped up inside my head in this British accented voice,
and I was like, what's going on? You know, I,
(18:35):
you know, I just the voice said that's me, and
I was like what, But I didn't get a real reply,
but a year after that, I was looking for stills
from that film Alse in Wonderland to download and use
this wallpaper on my Mac, that voice piped up in
my head again. Short story version is that it dictated
(18:56):
a sonnet to me, and the name Madison Hatas on
a tier came out of my pen right after the sonnet,
and I realized, oh my goodness, that that's, you know,
the guardian angel of my sense of humor. You know,
it's just like it just because it made me laugh,
and it's continued to make me laugh. I mean, Madison
(19:16):
and I have well over two hundred sonnets that mixed
biography for my biography with wonderlandish imagery, whimsical wordplay, and
they just make me laugh. And they were making me
laugh about some really trying situations in my life.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Made your guardian angel.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yes, yeah, we all have multiple angels who are helping us.
And I consider Madison the guardian angel of my sense
of humor.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That's cool, that's really cool, you know. You know, I'm
really intrigued when people could connect to their guardian angels,
and and and years. It actually has a name. A
lot of people, you know, they talk about you know,
Mother Mary, they talk about you know Mary Magdalene or
you know arch arch Angle. Michael like that. Madison's intriguing.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah, it's quite intriguing. It's really funny. Why I told
one person about it as early on and the person said,
they asked me, is that name a pun? And I'm like, well,
you know, it might be mad as in Hatta. Okay,
you know, could be. This is the it's it's.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Just well, I can also break it up this way,
mad and son. You know, it could be could it
be a guy for all you know?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well, it's but you know, when I first saw the
name Madison hat To, I thought, well, Madison as in
James Madison, James Madison or Madison Avenue. Right, But and
then Hatta is right from the Alice books, right, it's
from the second book.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It's from I didn't mean to anything negative. I won't
let you know that, but you know, it's it's kind
of like I have a son, you know, that has
the name the son and it so that's my whole.
But you know, it's it's interesting, that wild story. But
that's okay. You know, I really love it. So do
(21:18):
you have any other angels or justice.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
That's the only one that I know of specifically that
introduced and help them by name.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Okay, okay, well you know what, I'm sure you have
other people that have you know, other angels and I
mean people.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yes, well I'm sure, I'm sure because I mean Archangel Michael,
Archangel Gabriel. Yes, you know, I'm aware of their activity,
their activity in my life as well. Gabriel is especially
around creatives, you know, people who are engaged in writing
or music or are you know. And yeah, I mean
(21:57):
I grew up in the church. I was baptized and
it was saying Gabriels, So I know Gabriel's around me.
And but arc Angel Michael has made his presence felt
as well over the course of my life. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Happy for you. Okay, so that's cool. Now, are your
play shops meant for adults participating in that?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yes, the play shops. So you're talking about how creativity
is important for wellness, you know, And that's a firm
belief of mine because while I was at Harvard doing
my doctorate, I developed three stress related conditions. Three stress
(22:38):
related conditions because I was because of this of just
like working all the time sitting in front of the
computer typing all the time. I developed tendon itis in
my right arm. I was gaining weight because I was
sitting in front of the computer all time, not exercising,
and I was starting to get depressed. And so this
is the end of my first year. I knew I
(22:58):
had to change something, had to do something different. So
I started. I went down the street. There's a conservatory
called the Laundry School of Music down the street from
Harvard Yard. I went there and I signed up for
Baroque dance classes. Because I'm studying eighteenth century music, why
not learn the dances that go along with the music.
So I did that. I found a mime teacher at
(23:21):
that time. There was a Bulgarian woman who taught mime
in you know, or in Cambridge. So I took classes
with her. And I got back into juggling because I
had taught myself to juggle years previous, and now I
got back into doing it and doing that regularly. So
those three things, along with yes yoga and other modalities
(23:42):
like Alexander Technique and felt in Christ really got me
back into my body, out of my head, into my body,
and by my second year up there, at the end
of my second year, the excess weight had gone away,
the depression was gone, and the tendonitis was gone. So
I like to teach people juggling. I call it juggling
(24:03):
for stress relief because I know that it helps. It
helped me, especially with your hands when you're typing all
the time. Juggling is a different movement, is a contrary movement.
You could say, you know, we hold our hands like
this when we type. Oh, you're holding them like this
when you're juggling and you're doing something that we don't
ordinarily do, throwing a ball or other object to yourself,
(24:27):
and you're going to drop. The process of learning is
that you're going to fail along the way. So juggling
is a way for people to safely fail, to get
comfortable with the fact that, yes, failure happens, but you
recover from it and eventually you learn to juggling and
(24:48):
by the end of an hour, it's really an hour
long play shop. I like to call it. Most people, no,
I'll say everyone gets the basics of being able to
juggle juggle three objects, and some people, you know, get
get more than the basics out of it. That's amazing.
You know, and the joy in the room that comes
(25:10):
from a bunch of adults or or or teens. I've
had some you know teens in the class too, and
the level of joy and just like the permission to play. Yeah,
it's amazing how the energy is just so uplifting in
that room. And so I love doing these play shops.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, we need to touch your inner child a lot more.
But I will let you know that when you juggle,
you know, like if you throw something back and forth
between your hands, that, yeah, what you're doing is you're
crossing your brain access and you need to release any
ideas that you may be concentrating on. And that's like
a relief. It's uplifting, is kind of like, you know,
(25:53):
a vibrational thing in a way, but you know, because
it's it's releasing that that the problems that you have,
So it's bringing up byation of joy and it's making
you a happier person. And you start singing when you're
juggling back and forth, that can be even more cheerful.
And as you know, as I just light up like
(26:15):
yes exactly. But that's something I learned from one of
my guests. Of all things, that not hypnotist, and but
I just she has a wonderful book. But my whole
point is it's like when I run and I need
to break through something because something's happening in my life,
(26:36):
I kind of juggle my water bottle and yeah, you
know my water bottle. You know I may drop it,
so what. But you know, all of a sudden, a
creative flow comes in running, walking, whatever you do outside,
whatever you do moving your body, whatever you do will
help your metabolis and will help you circulate. Lamp will
(26:57):
help it make you more creative and inspiring. Yes, And
so I love running because I've never if you've heard
it from my beginning, I never ran and talk, Yeah
that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
And now you've done these half marathons amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah. Well it's kind of like someone told me I
can never run. A doctor told me you're never going
to be able to run, and so I accepted it,
and like you, I gained way over time. I got
depressed over time because you know, life had to do
that with heavy, heavy burdens going on in your life.
And and ye know I it was during a time
(27:39):
while I was taking care of my mom. Let you know,
So my whole point was, I wasn't paying attention to ourselves.
We need to pay attention to ourselves. And I'm so
happy you did. I'm so happy that Burton movie kind
of awakened you to be more creative, more inspiring, and
(28:00):
other things came into your life that made things a
lot more fun.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
That's right, And.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
That's pretty much what happened to me. The running and
changing my lifestyle, you know, has made me. People look
at me and they go, your early is barring, Oh
thank you, yeah, and they say, you know, I glow
at times. So my whole point is is like everyone
(28:30):
can glow the matter of joy in your life, enjoying
your life.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
That's exactly right. Yeah. Because see when I was a kid,
when I was in college at Queen's College in the
first time, so my first BA, I had asked my
mother in what it came time to choose majors, what
should I do? And I knew I was good at music.
I knew I excelled at music and languages, and she
told me, well, music is hobby, a hobby, not a career,
(28:58):
and that's installed me from pursuing music. I went and
got a communications BA for my first BA. But after
working unhappily and that and TV and then publishing for
a couple of years, I said forget it. I got
laid off of my last TV job. I said, that's it.
And going back to school study music. And that's what
got me into Harvard, you know, is because I got
(29:20):
straight a's for the first time in my life. When
I went back and focused on what I loved doing,
those straight a's led to scholarships and fellowships got me
into Harvard and then, you know, my life though, I
feel like my life has been a constant I need
to check in all the time. Am I doing what
I love? If I'm not, I got to get back
on track. Got to get back on track and keep
(29:42):
going in the direction of the joy. And yeah, at
that point when the Tim Burton film came into my life,
I had definitely gotten off the path of joy and
I needed to get a quick you know, really it
was like a quick jump start. You know, in the
space of two hours, I I was reawakened. Stuff has
started happening, you know, happening in my life again. I
(30:04):
started creating again, I started believing in dreams again, and
that energy eventually got me out of that horrible situation.
I moved out of New York Philadelphia for nine years,
and now that I moved to Fort Myers. I moved
to Fort Myers in twenty twenty two. It's even more
like now that I've yes, I am focusing on the
(30:27):
music and on the creativity, because that's what God put
me here to do, to help inspire people the way
Maria Antonio inspired me, right the way researching this inspiring
woman and other inspiring women composers the way they inspired me.
They believe in themselves, and I can believe in myself
the way Alice Kingsley in that film. You know she
(30:49):
could do it. Okay, she could do the impossible. I
can do the impossible.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Yeah, well that's funny. My father said the fact, same thing,
Arsenal are never going to get you anywhere. I was
very good at creative arts and graphics and things like that,
and then I taught myself computers. I got very good
at computer graphics, and I really wanted to be a
film director. I came during a time where it was
really hard for Penny Marshall and other people become directors,
(31:17):
so I, you know, I ended up doing you know,
working for Disney and other companies and things like that.
But I didn't like what I was doing. I was
an administrative support and I didn't like that. So I
just left started my own video company, and I worked
and testing equipment. I worked at NAB showing people on
(31:39):
graphic systems and video equipment and video editing. And I
got tired of traveling. That's when I had my son.
But my whole point was you got to do what
you like. And while I had my son and I
was it was the same time was taking care of
my mom. So that was kind of santish generation aspect
of my life. I kept creative if I made I
(32:00):
made photo story books for people and love the whole.
I became a certified holistic health coach, and I'm like, oh, reels,
all this is and that I can do that and
I create my own reels and I really enjoy it,
and I just, you know, enjoy all that, you know,
creativity of that aspect of my business. And it's a
(32:25):
way of you know, passing a little message of you know,
good advice and things like that for people. I also
value having an engineer for my show too, because I've
been there. I've been in the TV station. I've seen people,
you know, crashing on air so to speak. I've seen
people lose you know, lose money because a commercial didn't
go up, things like that. So but I also was
(32:48):
there going I want someone like also melt down. I'm like,
I would direct them do this, do this, do this this,
and I saved the day. So my whole point because
I was training, they were training, and they had to
do things by sometimes. So that's my whole point is
that you know, life can take many turns and turns,
and you'll find and find something you really really love.
(33:10):
And you know, with life comes wisdom. And that's all
I'm doing now is sharing my wisdom. And that's why
I'm doing my podcast. As a person that was behind
the scenes, I didn't like being a friend of the
camera and it took me a while to get comfortable
the camera. But I am getting a lot better and
I started with this podcast. Podcast. It's really helped me
all lot.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yes, it will teaches everything you need to know about
being comfortable on camera doing this.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, when little things happen, I kind of laugh it off.
And you know what, when you laugh it off, that
just brings up your mood.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
I mean, that's exactly it.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
With wisdom, little things don't matter. I mean, you know,
I'm not losing a broadcaster, you know, a commercial or whatever.
I'm not losing any of that stuff. I've been there,
done that. I don't need to do it. So, but
I really enjoyed doing corporate video and all that in
my life. It just it wasn't It just became hard
(34:10):
when I had my child so and taking care of
my mom, so it was way too much as being
stretched then, which I'm sure you felt that way too, right,
understand that. Yeah. So, and we need to pay attention
to ourselves as women. We tend to be people pleasers
and we lose ourselves that we lose ourselves, absolutely true. Yeah,
(34:34):
So that's why you need to really find what you
want and find out what you're good at, or you know,
you need to hire someone to help you, coach you
to find out what you may be good at, you know,
do a personnel profile and things like that. You're so
blessed I have an angel come into your life. Reguarding
an angel that really gave you an eye open experience
(35:00):
with that download of that you have.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, I feel blessed. Yeah, I feel blessed. But you know,
this is something that everyone can do, is to ask
the guardian angels to sort of give them a sign.
They just have to ask for a specific sign and
then sort of pay attention when it happens.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yes, yes, you know it's interesting. Animals come to me
automatically when I run. You want to with me a
talk or something like that. Or a cat will come
up and say hi, and I say hi. And I've
been noticing butterflies are flying around me a lot, and
I'm like, you know, people just need to notice things
(35:41):
are happening. I've had paracane falcons appear three times in
a run and so sometimes you know it could be
a spiritual animal. Yeah, and just look it up and
see what they're all about exactly. And as far you to, hey,
I'm on the right track back for you know, being
(36:02):
a leader. I'm on the right track of you know, flying,
you know, creating things that are that are going to
help people and things like that, or you know, I
help people to transformations. Maybe that's why I have butterflies
going around me. Yeah, But that's my whole point is
that you're needed to pay attention to requirement, pay attention
(36:24):
to the vividness. Yes, and enjoy it. And even though
you may have an overcast guy going up around you,
you realize how vivid the colors are when it's overcast.
There's always possibilities, right, right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yes, Well, we have.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
A few more minutes that we can talk, or at
least one moment that we can talk. Is anything else
you want to say before I ask you for your offer?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Well? Anything else I want to say?
Speaker 3 (36:57):
How when we talk about your offer and you can
have more time for your offer?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Okay? Well, okay, so I have I have a free
PDF that people can download. It's, as you see, there's
your guide to the Alice Way, and the Alice Way
is my five step Wonderland inspired approach to total well being.
And so this PDF just gives you a little bit
(37:20):
of a rundown on each of the letters A, L, I, C,
and E that make up the Alice Way. And you
can also while you're you know, when you go there,
you can also go to my website if you're interested
in being part of my play shops, if you're interested
in having me present you know, I have a concert
(37:41):
called the Power of Pure Imagination, a concert for the
child in all of us. And it's a story of resilience,
my story of resilience told through song and spoken word.
And so you can feel free to get in touch
with me through my website April Lynnjames dot com. For
you to go to the events page at Aprilnjames dot
(38:03):
com slash events and see where I'm going to be
appearing next. But I'm I'm happy to hear from anyone
who'd be interested in yeah, in playing, coming together and
playing with me?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Okay, Now are your workshops on the event too, or
can people like ask you to do a workshop for
a community.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
People can ask me to Yes, I am happy to
do a workshop for a community wherever you might live.
I travel, these play shops travel. It's a concert, you know.
These are absolutely portable events that can happen near wherever
someone is.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
That's cool. Now, your pdf is available at www. Do
aliceway dot com. Correct and your website April Lynn with
not the E L S L Y N James dot com. Again,
I'm sure there might be a calendar length that they
can set up time with you to ask you things
(39:03):
as well, or.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Not, they can simply email me and ask because I
don't do a calendar calendaring system emil me. They can.
So there's a contact form on my site. There's a
contact page on my site, and you can email me
through that and I will get the form and I
respond to everyone.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Okay, okay, cool, cool, Well you can have wonderful guests.
Would you like to be a guest again?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Absolutely? This was fun.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
It was fun.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
It was fun.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I really enjoyed it, and we make some more creative podcast.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
I look forward to that, Debbie.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
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Ges So yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Closing remark, Oh.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
Closing remark, Well, I hope everyone enjoyed everything that I
was talking about today, everything we talked about. And I
want people to remember that, you know, just because people
say something's impossible doesn't mean that it is. We can
make possible the impossible when we believe in our dreams
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hold on to them.
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I certainly agree with that too, because look at me
and with my transformation, I didn't know what's going to happen,
and you got back into music, which is where you
meant to be. Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Anything is possible, and
we can help you with that.
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Anything is possible, you just teep taking those steps towards it,
towards your dreams.
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Yeah, it's a friend of mine. So he says, thank you.
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