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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Thank you for listening to the picture of the radiant.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Rat.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You readything to me? Oh well, well say, oh well,
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not a bad stop, I just say.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
She call Maashion So music days.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay, welcome back everybody, and let's introduce our next guest.
She is a musical alchemist and a gifted, soulful, intuitive guitarist.
Ernest stephen Day and her guitar have been together for
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over twenty seven years and they have shared life's joys, sorrows,
and everything in between. They have created a symbiotic relationship
between them and most of this almost soul made relationship.
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When Ernestine plays, her energy merges and something powerful and
new happens and beautiful emergence with her music. Ernestine's ability
to synchronize to the flow of energy from her soul
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and her heart and engage fully with the universal flow
of energy around her and then translates and it comes
out into her music. Now if you're listening to her
right now, slightly in the background. And I just thought
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it was a good way to introduce her and her
music to our next episode. So why don't we bring
Ernsteine and her guitar onto the show now?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We can.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So Ernestine, Welcome to the show. Of course, we've played
in the background of your intro, we've played a little
bit of your what was that called hanglan uh the instrumental.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Silence, instrumental silence.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, we've played a little snippet of that would
say beautiful, very beautiful and moving. So how the heck
did you get started playing guitar? To we get with?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Oh, well, I'm I'm born and raised on a small
island called Prince Edward Island, Pei, and my my dad
and mom both were musicians, but more so my dad,
and so genetically I inherited the genes the DNA for
music through him, which he inherited from his mother, then
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his mother inherited from her father. Like it's like, it's
really cool, and guitar has always been a part of
my life. But where it really stepped in and both
was together is in nineteen ninety six, I used to
say I lost myself. I was losing myself. I was
waking up to myself. But I did not understand that
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at that time. And so as I reached out for counseling,
and I had the most amazing counselor, and as I
opened up to my own thoughts, my own feelings, and
my own emotions. I would channel that energy through my guitar,
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and of course there's no words, and that's how my
music started. And then in two thousand and one, I
knew my music was special, not because of me, but
because of where it came from within me, and I
wanted to secure it. And the only way I knew
at that time how to secure it was go into
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a recording studio and just record my music, which I did,
and then after about six eight months doing this that
I was running out of money, so I was going
to stop recording, and then my mom, who died twelve
years prior to that or ten years prior to that,
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something with that, I got a three thousand dollars check
from her estate and that's how my first album came about.
So thanks to my mom, that's how she funded my
first album, Me, Myself and I and then a psychologist
heard my music and through that was a message to
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me that you need to take one of the songs
that are on me, myself and I and make it
an album by itself, which was instrumental Silence, and that
song was channeled because when I was done with counseling.
There was still one part of me who was missing.
I didn't understand it at that time, but I assume
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found out why because it was my spirituality. And brought
me this amazing lady, Reverend Cantania Kyler, and she said, well,
you know, I'm a minister, blah blah blah. I said, look,
I'm gonna be honest with you. I have an issue
with organized religion. And she goes me too. I said what.
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And we had the most beautiful conversation for like three
or four hours whatever it was. So I decided to
go check out her center. And what happened was during
she was doing a guided meditation and to feel that
energy and witnessing it and all of that. I took
that feeling and I went home and I channeled instrumental silence,
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which you heard, and that's how that song came about.
And so yeah, and then I put my music away
for about thirteen years after that and started to pick
it up again twenty fifteen and just slowly getting back
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into it. But where I am now is beyond my
wildest dreams.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
It's it's me learning and understanding or innerstanding who I
really am, not what I think I am, but who
I really am from within? And with that journey has
been it's the word is priceless. It's magical. And then
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but I then three three and a half years ago,
so we twenty one, Yeah, twenty one. I bought a investor.
I bought I invested in a looper and this incredible
tool opened me up to a part of me I
did not know what was inside of me. And it's
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been an amazing journey for the last three and a
bit years of learning and growing and expanding.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
It's just.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, and it's like what I what I'm now doing,
which I thought, And that's why it's funny how you
sit there and you think that that because the way
you channeled a song, you can want to call it composed.
That's fine, compose a song that has to be that
way all the time. No, it doesn't. And and my
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music teaches me all the time. And one of the
things is this, it's like, as much as an energy
has been channeled already, but what I find, first of all,
feelings and emotions are constantly shifting every single moment of
our lives. And it's like my music, like sometimes a
song wants to be played this way, and now the
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time we want to be played that way or be
expressed that way, it shifts and I just love that
and I go for this magical right it carries me.
I don't I don't have any control. Yeah, I do,
Like I surrender. I step into this part that I
am and just trust whatever's coming in the way it
wants to be expressed. And ninety nine percent of the time,
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like I never planned what I'm going to play. I
might have an inkling, but I don't hold on to
the inklings. This has to be that way. No, it
doesn't have to be that. I just allow whatever to
come in and through to to to be expressed in
that moment the way it wants to be expressed. I
just the human side of me gets the hell out
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of my way.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Right, Yeah, you just found a really wonderful way to
explain musical alchemists in what is it? Soulful? Soulful Guitars?
Was it? Yeah, it's your soul. Pardon it's your soul.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
It is so it's and that's like in late twenty seventeen,
Spirit gave me my name Soulful Guitars, and it just
felt right because it is me it's every time I
pick up the guitar, it's it's a soul expression. It's
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it's you know, the relationship between me and my guitar
like it's magical, it's and I have so much gratitude
for her. She's always there. And what I've been discovering
for myself is I remember about four years ago, three
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or four years ago, I was having a rough time
and emotionally, and I picked up the guitar and I
started playing, and it took that emotions and just calmed
me down and I got back in touch with myself.
And that's what my music does for me. And to
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hear from others how it impacts them and their lives
and how they feel about themselves. And you know, it's
I've said this to a few people, you know, it's
how do you do with my music? Is I consider it?
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I consider it worldly because emotions and feelings aren't in
a box.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
And I don't want to get pension hold as a
meditation person or this or that many many things when
it comes to music. You know, a year and a
half ago, you know, I invested in sound bowls and
crystal you know, Crystal bowl and and and I'm stepping
into another part of me where I'm now doing sound
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baths right, which is sixty to ninety minutes of incredible energy.
And you know it's it's we are all truly magical.
We all have gifts and abilities. And I know for me,
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like I never saw myself even as a decent guitar player.
I played guitar, yeah, but decent right, But it was
a year ago. It was a year ago. I was
for some reason, I was really listening back and just
enjoying myself. Could you could say, and I went, I'm
not too shabby at what I do right, And it
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just made my heart sing because you know, like most musicians,
a lot of us don't listen to what we do.
We do our work and that's it. We move on,
and it doesn't mean we don't play our work. But
what I'm trying to say is this is do we listen?
But you know, like when you're in the recording studio, Yeah,
you're listening back, you're editing, you're doing all this stuff
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that is different to me. But if you're just listening
just to hear, and I just win. Wow, Like I said,
I'm not too shabby and now my confidence level in
what I do now has just risen immensely in the
last year year and a half. And I'm owning this.
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I'm stepping into because there's no separation from me and
the soulful guitarist. I am the soulful guitarist. And I
channeled this amazing energy from source through my guitar without
using words.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And it's safe to say that your spirit is in
the driver's seat of or you know, at the controls
of the soulful guitars.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And it's like we have free will.
We have free choice, all of us. Do you know.
I can honor this that is there or I can
just let it go, like we have free will, all
of us do. And I choose to step into this
that I am more and more and not be afraid
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of it. And not only that is we have to
be very careful because like I'm very sensitive about my
music just because where it comes from. And and people
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I really admire writers, like people here, people who write
poetry right to you know, like I'm in awe of
these people that do that. I don't do that, you know,
and I me, me is my music, and it's how
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about I if I share for yours one song right now?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
To give him an idea what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Let's go for it.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Okay, I want to get you just to mute yourself
just because what's going to happen here?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
To get back there?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah? Wow, Yeah, it's it's to feel.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
For me, is you have something really beautiful?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
And yeah, because you know, it's to trust myself, like
you know, it's because I feel deeply. I've always felt deeply.
And to have such a beautiful tool, which is my guitar,
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to be able to express from that place and not
have to think about words because all I have to
do is just be with myself and my guitar. And
and it's and it because my guitar is my voice.
I had a friend of mine, I did her podcast
and she said, Ernie, your first language is is the guitar? Well, yeah,
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you're right, and that because I I I you know,
I have a difficult time sometimes communicating with people because
you know, I'm such a deep feeler. I'm a deep
thinker like you know, and to try to be you know,
surface stuff, you know, generally speaking, hi, how you doing?
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You know, type of thing that's fine, But like we
are of substance, we are of value. And I've had
to work at myself to understand who I am to
to to to realize that the programming that I was
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programmed to act, saying do behave a certain way and
that I'd be loved, that is so warped. It is
so freakom warped. And for me to to you know,
my younger brother accused me years ago of running away
from my problems. No, I was running to a safe
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space and place where I could start doing my inner work.
And where I spent eight and a half years on
five acres just outside of None. I'mo in Cassidy and
it was and that's where I get. I did my
counseling in there, I did my recording from there, Like
you know, it was such a beautiful home space and
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we were like three miles back in off the highway
and it was just so tranquil. And my roommate was amazing.
He was the first. I didn't understand it then, but
a man, do I ever understand it now? Is like
I knew he was special and just his essence of
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who he is and he listens, he hears what you're saying,
not what people. Most people don't listen to hear what
somebody's actually saying. They're filtering it through their mechanism to
give a response, right right, So you're not listening. And
this guy he listened and then he sat there and
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then if something came to him, he would say it.
You know, he pointed so many things out to me.
It's like, you know, just so many things, and it's
just I'm so grateful for him. Unfortunately he's no longer
on this planet. But I'll tell you this. While he
was on this planet, he was doing a lot of
planting seeds to help people to see who they really
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are and to honor their own thoughts, their own feelings,
and their own emotions. And he introduced me right now.
I don't know why. I can't think his name. I
can see his face clear as a bell, but he
and he introduced me to like David Arkinstone, which is
an incredible musician like his is all guided right, and
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other you know artists.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I went wow, because I start.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Listening on a different level that I never knew. It's
like Susan Blue Card go, I don't know, this is
kind of back into my field. Here is is. I
remember one time listening to her and I ran down.
There's Barry. That's his name, Barry, And I said, hey, Barry,
you know and he goes yeah. But what I realized
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is because I was programmed to think, not to feel,
so that interfered with my perception and my view of
so much stuff. And so it's breaking down those walls,
those barriers within myself to feel, because that's where I
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operate best at. I don't operate at thinking I should
do this, I should do that. And I don't like
the word it should, because like I have to, I
don't have to do fuck all. Sorry everybody, but I
don't have to do anything right. If I don't want
to do it, I'm not gonna do it. I don't
owe anybody anything, but I do owe me. I owe
myself to respect myself, to put myself in places and
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situations where I can grow and expand I don't need
a lot of people in and around me. I got me,
that's what really matters, and my own thoughts, feelings, emotions
and and and it's just like when you reached out
to me there a few weeks ago, and because I
put a lot of memes out in a day. And
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it's these memes speak to me. I may not be
able to create that meme, but I know when it,
when I read it, it speaks volumes to me. So
I take that meme, I share it out in hopes
that it will help somebody else. And because we get
so caught up in the brain, you know that programming,
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and it's like, yeah, there's certain things, Yeah, we have
to do, right, we all have to work, we all
have to you know, provide ourselves with incomes. We put
food on the table, roof over our head. Absolutely, those
are a must. But at the same time, not to
the point that you compromise your values or your morals.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Right, I mean, I mean in the world today, world
I think we're doing, we're just coming for that is
like to like the golden Golden Kids.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, well it's it's looking at things from a different perspective,
is what I'm getting right now. And that because it's
I know myself that that I'll go hmm, I never
thought of it that way. So I sit with that
within myself and doesn't resonate. Yeah, if it doesn't resonate, nope.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Right.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
And the and the one thing that I really like
This is a reflection back and being where I am
today is that spirit has always guided me. Spirit has
always protected me, My guides, my angels, They've always been there.
I just was not made aware of them until much later.
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And then as I get to grow and expand them.
Oh that's what this was. And it's like I had
an incident when I lived at the ranch there for
you and a half years. We had a major snowstorm
and we were penned in for five days and finally
had to plow out. And so I was going to
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work and I got stuck in the snow and no, no,
because I worked at a with mentally challenged adults with
severe behavior problems. And my colleagues we worked four days on,
four days off, and my colleagues, I'm going no because
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I'm like my back of my cars. I didn't, and
like literally it was.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Like I'm just praying. I said, no, I got to
get to work, all right.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It's that it's just the more conscious we are of
who we are, not what we think you are. This
is what's coming to me right now, is I remember
I was reading a book called There to Be Yourself
by Alan Cohen, and I was taken. I was doing
one on one counseling. I was also doing group counseling.
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And so this one evening, I was reading this book
and many other things and then I'll go to bed
and I had this dream and I woke up in
the morning. It was so vivid and I never had
that before that I can read call, and so I
went downstairs to share it with Barry and the Sun,
and I was guided to, you know, go journal it.
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So I went upstairs and I start draining it. So
I was reliving it, and I was back in that spot.
And now I'm awake and I'm traveling the exact thing
where because I know this place very well. And then
all of a sudden, I went traveling down this valley
where mountains on both sides of me, and I'm traveling fast,
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like really fast, and I get I see this lighthouse
because I'm coming to water. I see this lighthouse that's flashing,
and I'm thinking to myself, wow, that that lighthouse is
saving people from crashing, like the boats from crashing on
the land. And as I got closer, like all of
a sudden, I you know, it was like big, you know,
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like what the Pyramids made of like the big boulders, right,
that kind of boulders, and and this lighthouse is on
top of that. But as I got there, and it
was like the sun was shining, but I couldn't see
the sun. The wind was blowing, but I could not
feel the wind. People were actually there, they were talking,
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but I could not hear them talking. And it was
in that moment it was like this incredible recognition within
myself that oh, my God, that's who I am. And
when I came on to this earth, which we all
are of this, I came on to this plant, this
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earth as pure joy, pure love, pure everything right, and
this energy was shooting through me and it was like
a holy small So of course the first thing I
do is go to my guitar, and this song which
is called pure Joy, pure Love, pure everything, was channeled
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in that moment of that experience. And what I do
know with what I just said, when we come into
this world. But the sad part is for me and
my story, is that the adults that were in and
around me were very dysfunctional, and so they projected their
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stuff onto us. We all all understand that, and an
intellectual level doesn't make it right. But that's what happens.
And so I started building walls and barriers to protect
the call of my being. And so, you know, as
we get on with our lives, here is for us
to break down those walls, those barriers that's separating us
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from who we really are. And the one place that
I know where I get to be truly who I
am is through my music, right and it's it's you know,
I feel very blessed. I feel very fortunate. I feel
so blessed by spirit and trusting me with this, you know,
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because it's it's a it's a gift. It's the ability.
It's not mine to hold on to. And that's why
I do so many lives, right. I do a couple
of lives a week right now, some day to do
more in other days, I know, you know, it just
depends how I'm feeling. Is it's it's like it's my lifeline.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
It's my life life line.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Period.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah. Now you do the lives on YouTube of course.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Right, yeah, I do it right now. It's YouTube and Facebook.
I'm going to work on Instagram. Everything to find me
is very easy because it's soulful guitarist. My website, by
the way, is Soulful Guitars dot com. And you know,
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my YouTube channels soulful Guitarist Ernestine.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Instagram is the same Soulful Guitarist Ernestine. My Facebook is
Ernestine Day. I do have the other page, business page,
which I've never used, right, you know, it's just yeah,
it's I'm here to assist and help people to to
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to get in touch with themselves. Something that's that that
I really started to understand is that I tap into
people's energies and it was never a conscious thing. It
just happens, right, and I would channel their song and
those those are called soul signature sessions where I do
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want alarm with people, where we get an hour or
however long it needs to be, and I just start
channel whatever energy and and and once I tap into
that person, then I channeled their at their essence and
then they have that. Yes, yeah, it's pretty fun. It
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is fun. I'm going to share a friend of mine.
A year ago, I was in Houston and for Sologifest
and I stayed at a friend's house in Houston. Kate
Lumley is her name. And the first day I was
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actually there, everybody else was out doing their thing, and
I was in the house by myself, and so I
started playing and because like sometimes I don't recognize what
I'm doing, I just do it anyway, right, because I
don't want to think about it. I'm just being in
the moment. And so I channeled her song and it's
and it's called delightful because that's who Kate is. And
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and sometimes spirit has me playing her song very soft
and gentle, the times it's more upbeat. It just depends.
And right now we're to find out how it wants
to be expressed.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
But yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
W wait a no back.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
Sweepsta Okay, you sure he has some fun doing that?
Speaker 3 (45:36):
And doing that?
Speaker 4 (45:37):
I do, I do? Do I know what I'm doing? No?
Do it?
Speaker 3 (45:42):
You know?
Speaker 6 (45:42):
I have no no idea.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
I just I trust everything that comes to me.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
And that's it's.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
To hear back the energies that come back. It's like, wow,
I'm in awe off myself, like I did.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Right, but it's not me YEA one last question last ques, Yes,
So what we make if we're making your world the
most beautiful.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Play my music to everybody, to the entire world. That's
my sole purpose actually for being here and having this
gift and ability is to to share this incredible energy
that is channeled through me and comes out through my guitar,
and it's it's to help people to assist for them
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to be with themselves. I had somebody who suffers from
fib my algia and she sent me a message last
week telling me that she found relief by listening to
my music from her fibromyalgia. And the one thing is
for those who are familiar with this word light language,
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that is what I do. Lat language is healing. And
also another thing which I would like to mention to everybody,
all my music is in four thirty two megahertz, which
is the heart frequency. And so yeah, so through my website,
there's three albums on my website on Amazon and Apple
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all those guys. Only two of my albums are out.
There's another one that needs to go up. Number four,
number five are have been recorded in two thousand and
twenty two. But I had to back away from that
part because mentally I couldn't handle it. And finally I
feel like I'm getting back into that driver's seat to
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go back and do that, finish off the album and
get it out, and you know, like most of you know,
I know you know this everything Like I'm an independent
recording artist. Nobody's ever supped me. And what I do,
I've done it all myself. Yes, part of it is
through my mom, you know, get my first album, but
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it's to me, it's not about making money. I just
want to help people.
Speaker 5 (48:14):
Yeah right, yeah, it's it's just.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
Yeah, I just want to help people and just share
my music. That's why I think. That's why I do
so many lives is it gives me great joy because
I'm getting nourished from it myself, but also those that
are able to attend to be there because I do
it spontaneously. My lives it's because I never know when
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I want to go live, if I'm going to actually
have an event where there's an actual day and time
like for example, my soundbas there is a there is
energy exchange like for that because I'm setting a day
in a time right, so hey, and it has a
sole purpose. It does. Everything I do is sole purpose. Well,
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what I'm saying is that you're getting, you know, from
my soundbouts sixty to ninety minutes of bliss right and
to be whatever you want it to be. And I'm
learning too from even other soundbouts people that I've connected
with over the years and just to this is what's
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coming to me. None of us can change the past.
None of us can, but we can take that experiences
to the present and create a new reality for the future,
the present and the future. And like I know that,
you know, people have told me they can. They the
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things they've seen where I'm going to go and I
know it. I could feel it. I don't talk about it,
but my music is it's amazing to be a game
going back. It's not me, You're an Esteine Day. It's
the spirit, my soul that's coming through. Yeah, I don't know, it's.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Experience. Experience is amazing and
it is an experience serience for or just not just
not just my ears, for my soul. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (50:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
And that's the thing like what I used, you know,
I say to some people not very often I say this,
but it's like if I went up to you and said, hi, Michael,
my name is Ernestine Day and I'm a soulful guitarist,
You're gonna go that's nice. But they're not being rude
because they haven't heard it, So how can you? And
that's where I want to give people the opportunity to
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come and experience what I do. And if you're able
to stay however I'm online, great, If you're not, that's
okay to commit for however long you need and go
whatever you need to do. I'm not offended by it.
Why would I. That's that's like setting myself up expecting everybody.
I expect everybody be there, you know, No, no, no,
(51:17):
all right, that's setting yourself up to get hurt. I'm
just goin and whoever's there is there, and who's not
they're not, but you know, it's just no expectation none.
Just go and have fun.
Speaker 7 (51:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
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today today, and thank you everybody. Make it simple forest
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listen to beautiful sounds and sounds, the view.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
Yeah, the vibrations absolutely, the frequencies, the vibration. Thank you, Michael,
Thank you everybody, and I hope you you'd like to
find me. Very easy to find, very easy. Soulful guitarist
Ernest Steam.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Awesome helps to.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
I don't know a y says.
Speaker 5 (53:03):
She saved me.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
Le Cho shows we can't tri serve way so She Got.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
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