June 23, 2022 • 18 mins
My guest this week is Skip Marley, singer-songwriter and part of the legendary reggae family that includes his mother Cedella, his Uncle Ziggy, and his grandfather, Bob Marley. He released his first single when he was just 19 years old, and he’s been sharing his soul-nurturing music with the world ever since. He performed at the Grammys with Katy Perry, singing a song they co-wrote, and his recent release, 2020's Higher Place, features Rick Ross and H.E.R.
In this episode, I ask Skip what it was like growing up Bob Marley’s grandson and when his own music career began. We talked about the early days, touring with his famous mom and uncle, what music means to him, and so much more. Of course, I talked about his dreadlocks!
I’m also joined by Kathryn Leary, founder of One Firelight, to talk about their music and mindfulness collaboration. One Firelight is a wellness platform that offers a wide variety of restorative classes, including yoga, meditation, strength training, and more, all featuring the energizing, nurturing, and healing power of the music of Skip and Bob Marley, and other conscious artists.
In this episode, I ask Skip what it was like growing up Bob Marley’s grandson and when his own music career began. We talked about the early days, touring with his famous mom and uncle, what music means to him, and so much more. Of course, I talked about his dreadlocks!
I’m also joined by Kathryn Leary, founder of One Firelight, to talk about their music and mindfulness collaboration. One Firelight is a wellness platform that offers a wide variety of restorative classes, including yoga, meditation, strength training, and more, all featuring the energizing, nurturing, and healing power of the music of Skip and Bob Marley, and other conscious artists.
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Hi, I'm Wendy Lois Sloane,and this is What's Up with Wendy's Podcast.
I just wanted to tell you alittle bit about myself. I began
my career in New York City asa television producer for talk show legends Phil
Donahue and Heraldo Rivera, and forthe last decade, I've used these experiences
to create my unique style in interviewinghundreds of a list celebrities, newsmakers,
(00:22):
comedians, musicians, reality stars,fitness and nutrition experts, best selling authors,
and so much more. So.I hope you enjoy this wide variety
on my podcast. I hope you'llshare and subscribe, and again, thanks
for tuning in. Welcome to thisspecial edition of What's Up with Wendy's Podcast.
What a privilege it is to havethis interview today. Beyond his lengthy
(00:45):
dreadlocks and his resemblance to his grandfatherand musical icon Bob Marley, he has
cultivated a sound that speaks to Jamaicanheritage. He grew up engulfed in the
music industry, and we are goingto talk about that and how music heals
and so much more with Bob Marley'sgrandson, Skip Marley. He's joining me
along with Katherine Leary. She's theco founder of One Firelight, and we're
(01:07):
going to talk about what that means. We're also going to be talking about
how music heals, music, movementand wellness. That's the topic today.
You won't want to miss this interview. I promise that. Welcome to this
episode of What's Up with Wendy's podcast. I'm so excited for this interview.
As a young college student in Jamaicamany years ago, music music and songwriter
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Bob Marley's motivational music had a profoundimpact on Katherine Leary. Nurturing and healing
power of Marley's words and music continuesthrough the wellness program One Firelight. Join
yesterday are Bob Marley's grandson, SkipMarley and One Firelight founder Katherine Leary.
I am so excited to welcome bothof you. It is a joy to
be here with you, Wendy.Thank you for having us. Yes,
(01:53):
Wendy, What's up with Wendy?So it's a joy just to look at
your beautiful, bright, happy faces. Is I have to say that as
well? Thank thank you, thankyou for that. So let's let's start
with Skip for a minute. Youryour grandfather's music had a profound healing effect
on the world and was a symbolof peace, love and unity. I
don't think there's anything more powerful thanthose words. Um. Do you do
(02:15):
you feel it continue that you continuethat legacy with your music? Yeah?
I feel so. I feel I'mdoing my part. You know, I'm
taking the message up new avenues,on new streets, you know, in
this time, you know what Imean, and gathering my influences, you
know, from all over and youknow, just adding towards you know,
(02:37):
the message, and you know,bringing everything to get up. And music
is so healing. I'm so powerfulif you if you really listen to people's
words, Um it can it canreally heal. I've I've felt that in
my own life. Um. Whatdo you think your music brings to one
firelight and wellness platform and fitness space? Can you? And you can you
(02:58):
also tell us about it? Thatone firelight? Well, it's all about
my body, soul and spirits,you know, my music and one firelight
we aligned is like the star isaligned. That's what I mean. Yeah,
And you know I was unadd toyou know, be a part and
you know, und when I heardthat my son, Faith will be ussed,
you know, to be a benefit. Such a benefit you know,
(03:20):
where it can spread well is toyou know, the world, you know
what I mean, because this onefirelight thing is not for the fiftiest person
or and it's for all kinds ofpeople. It's not you know, bigger
smile, you know what I mean. So just just being able to be
a part of something that will havesuch a reach, you know what I
mean of positivity and of light andyou know wellness, you know that is
(03:42):
just great for me, you know. And your song Faith, it does
that. It resonates so many ofyour songs do too. I have to
say, um, Catherine, howwould you describe one Firelight? It's an
inspirational wellness platform, right, Soone Firelight brings you into a community a
world that's filled with nature. Whenyou go to our website, you'll see
(04:04):
beautiful images of lush greenery and that'sjust in the design of the website itself.
And when you go to our classes, you'll see that we shoot in
natural settings. There's natural light that'scoming in. There's the music that is
just so soul nurturing, that liftsyou. And it's one of our instructors
that were sharing in our lifestyle segment. Right, you can see videos of
(04:29):
our instructors talking about the things thatthey do to lift them. One of
our yoga instructors said that she usesthe song Faith whenever she feels down or
oppressed or challenged by something. She'lljust move away from whatever that situation is,
put on Faith and just dance aroundthe room. And by the time
you finish the movement, right,the movement circulates for blood changes her brain
(04:50):
waves. She's listening to that musicthat's talking about lifting yourself up. Sometimes
life will beat you when you're down, but you've got to have faith and
it just keeps you going. Peopleare inspired, soul nurturing, that's that,
just you talking about that. Iwant to I want to crank up
the music right now. And it'strue. And if people could just like
(05:10):
listen and let their bodies just feelit and you just it's a whole new
feeling. Just like slow down andreally listen to the music, listen to
the words right right sets, Yes, Look, we all need to slow
down. I think COVID did thatto us as well. Um one sets
one firelight apart from the other.Fitness platforms on the market right now.
(05:31):
Why is it different. Yeah,yeah, it's several things. One is
the infusion of music. I meanthis unique soul nurturing music and you're not
going to find that in other platforms. The way in which we incorporated the
other, as I mentioned, wasthe incorporation of nature, you know,
bringing in the energy of the earth, the feeling that comes from from nature.
(05:53):
And I mean nature is God,you know, it's God himself.
And and then there's also the ideathat you can create your own workout.
We have something called Mosaics where youcan decide how you want to create a
workout. You can take ten minutesof your favorite yoga teacher for a warm
up. You can take a twentyminute boxing class with your favorite boxer on
our app. We have three boxersright now that are on the app.
(06:16):
And we can take a five minutesoul nurturing meditation with Crystal energy right or
a sound healing with Tibetan singing bowls. And you build that workout yourself,
name it, you save it onthe app, and you could save a
thousand workouts if you wanted to.So you have a Monday workout, a
(06:36):
Tuesday workout, a SKIP workout.You know you can do all the Skip
songs that we have on the appAnyway experience. You're all in. Yeah,
good one Firelight dot com. Comeon, we're waiting for you.
Oh my gosh. We're talking musicmovement while in as healing. Yeah,
how music heals so much. We'retalking with Katherine Leary and Skip Marley.
(06:57):
You guys, you've just inspired meso much in just a few minut It's
that we haven't even got going yet. UM to talk about more. That's
your right. Music really does heal, and I think people need to hear
that more often than not. Um, Skip, I want to talk about
talk with you for a few minutes. What was it like your early life?
Um, you were born in Jamaica, and guess what, I was
(07:18):
raised in Miami as well born andraised in Miami. Nice. My early
life, milded life was just tour. Milded life was being in our own
music minded life was just watching mymother's and my owncles and my grandmothers do
what we do. You know whatI mean, And just all those things
(07:38):
subliminally instilled into me as you know, to where I am now. You
know, I mean, just youknow continuing that same teaching. It's pretty
amazing. So you grew up inthe music industry and toured with your mom
and your uncles. What was thatlike at such an early age and that
was even before you started your owncreative journey. Yeah, like we said,
(07:59):
that was as a kid. Sothat was all knew. It was
music. I don't know, itwas you know, music and Grandpa and
grandma and you know, that's allI knew was that child growing up,
you know what I mean. Soit was just a part of us.
Music in the house, music andthe most music in the playing. That's
why you're such a happy person,I think too. Just it's just you
(08:22):
know us, it's instant in us, you know, yes, really and
truly. And so you didn't startyour your ear your creative journey until your
early teens. I think that mightsurprise some people. Yeah, I mean
it was really after my uncle Steveand he brought me on stage one of
the times I was on tour withhim and I sang one Love for the
first time in front of you knowpeople. And after that it was when
(08:45):
the music, the music bug insideat me awoke and it chose me.
It spoke to me, and Ijust pursued it since then, you know,
just pursued it and you know,just follow the music, follow the
floor. You know what was itlike for you growing up Bob Marley's grandson,
(09:05):
Well, I mean it was stilla focused school and all these things
regularly, you know, supports playedbody and what you know, there's always
that time in school people said,my mind's your grandfather. Back oh skip
mind. He said, my mind'syour grandfather, and I'd say, yeah,
I'm like wow. You know soI always knew, you know what
I want to say, I alwaysdo. But there was always that reach
(09:28):
and the impact that my grandfather have, And as I grew, I came
to understand you know, his purposeand the message and you know what we
really do, you know, spreadliberty and love and the consciousness and you
know, never never the spirit ofnever giving up the fight. You know.
YEA feel like that that's really transcendedwithin't mean you know what I mean
within my own personal life. Didyou just fall in love with music all
(09:54):
along? Was it? Was italways there for you? Yeah? Well
tell you to what? Tell youthe truth? No? Um, I
started playing piano from when I wassix years old, but that was never
really vocal about music. I wasmore like and I playing music but school
school, you know. But it'sreally when my uncle gave me that opportunities.
(10:15):
When the music chose me, Ifeel like it spoke to me.
And you're not telling me to comesomeone just you know your voices. Your
voice is just so beautiful even whenyou speak. Your voice is so calming,
isn't it, Catherine? It's soI could talk to you guys all
day long because this is such ahappy interview. You have a skipt you
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have a favorite Bob Marley song,and Catherine, you too, it be
faith first, it gets to beyour favorite song. My favorite, boy,
all of them is my favorite.I learned something from everyone and the
songs. Every time I play somethingor something different, that's it, you
know, what's it? Yeah,that's a very important idea, you know,
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because people have said, well,will you get tired of hearing the
same music? No, because everytime you hear it. If you might
hear one Love in a boxing class, but you might hear one Love in
a yoga class, and it's goingto affect you in a different kind of
way. It's a really beautiful,layered kind of concept that's unique and exciting
and fun, and that's what fitnessshould be. Is fun for so many
people as a chore. Oh,I've got to get up and do this.
(11:22):
Oh, make it fun joyful.You want to look at those videos.
You want to look at Jamaica whereyou're doing a workout. You want
to hear Skip's voice. You wantto be inspired by the messages in the
music. Oh, I want tohear Skip's voice every single day. Now
that's the end of it, andI'm done. My favorite song, my
favorite Skip song is Faith? Yourfavorite? I thought so? I thought
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so, Yeah, yes, yes, I thought so. What's the I
like Faith too? I like slowDown as well, your breakthrough single,
slow Down. I listened to thatseveral times yesterday when I was preparing for
this. Um, what's the mostpowerful story you heard about your grandfather's Skip?
The most powerful story I heard aboutmy grandfather, I probably have to
(12:05):
say the Zimbabwe story. There's many, but when when they went to Zimbabwe
during the you know revolution, thenwhen zi Zimbabwe again the independence, I
know my grandfather there were tear gassin the stadium while my grandfather and their
mind stage, they weren't letting peopleinto the venue. See, so my
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grandfather, the band and everybody butmy grandfather stay up on the stage.
Wow. And it said, nowwe'll see who the real revolutionaries are.
Yeah. One that that you know, the faith? You know, Yeah,
what does it feel like when you'reon stage? Feel the spirit?
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It's a ji, you know,it's a jib. But we'll feel the
spirit, you know, we'll feelyou know, the higher place we feel,
you know, or benefiting a higherconsciousness, you know, more than
just ourselves. Feel like I'm beingbenefit to people, you know what I
mean. I feel like I'm youknow, a vehicle that is, you
know, spreading positivity and in alight and love and you know, justice
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and you know all these things.Always should preach, you know, I
mean all of us, you know, all of us, We really should.
Life's too short not to preach that. How do you prepare before going
on a show? Well, usuallyprayer and the power of just runs us.
The light of God protects us.What, um, what do I
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look at warm up? I lookat warm up I learned from my anti
better right wrestlers. So do Ialways do my same warm up that I
learned from Ran? You know?Just calm myself and tap into the spirit,
and you know they're ready for themission. You know. H your
dreadlocks, by the way, Ilove them, Thank you up. I
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love them. They're so beautiful.This is a question for both of you
because we're talking about how music heals. How do you want music to make
people feel? Both of you Catherinemm. We want to make people feel
inspired. Yeah, to be inspiredand encouraged to go forward, encouraged to
achieve whatever their goal is. Itcould be something as simple as can I
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get my kids to school on timetoday? Or yeah, it could be
something as big as I've got thishealth challenge and I've got to get through
it. We want people to feelinspired and and embrace the possibilities. Exactly
how I feel powerful, feel littlelike they belong, you know what I
mean? Like, yeah, you'revery easy, you know so? Yeah
(14:41):
exactly. Yeah. So your musicbrings to wild firelight wellness platform and space.
The music brings to this It's it'sjust special. It's unique. It's
there to make you feel different everyday every time you listen to a different
song. That's what I take awayfrom this as to inspire, it's to
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move us. It's to heal us. Absolutely, it's to calm the brain
waves. It's to give you asense of peace while you're working out a
sense of possibility and hope. Wesay that we are working to bring you
the strength to embrace the world.We live in a challenging time and we
need every tool that we can thatwe can have available to us to allow
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us to move smoothly through these challengingtimes. That's so beautifully, said Catherine
during COVID. Music must have beena big part for both of you as
well. Yeah, well tell youthe truth, you know, I was,
you know, these these this technologywe have no like zoom and whatnot.
You know, I was able tostill reach out to the message and
(15:48):
still play more music and still touchpeople. You know, even if those
us through our screen, you know, it's still sort of a benefit,
still have purpose to people. SoI saw that first. I understand,
you know. I can feel thatthrough you guys. I can feel through
your words and how powerful this isand we really need to bring it to
lights. So I'm so happy thatwe're talking about this so people can learn
about one Firelight and they can goto one firelight dot com for more information.
(16:11):
Absolutely, and they can sign upfor the app right there on the
website as well. Is there anythingelse you want to leave us with?
Besides, everyone should go listen totheir music, and we should all know
that music does heal us and movesus and it's so joyful. Yeah,
what would us? One said,don't give up the fight? Yeah you
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got that, We got the faith, We have the willingness to try it.
You know, even one one don'tget back. That's right, Thank
you, Skip Catherine. Any lastminute words? Oh, I would say
we should make faith the anthem forour time. Everyone when they have a
challenge should put down that challenge andturn on that music. Listen to Faith,
(16:56):
dance around the room, feel good, get your blood movie. Literally
in through and a half minutes,you can danel whole day. That's how
to start my day every day now. Thanks to you guys, Skip Marley,
Catherine Leary, Oh my gosh,come back again. I hope this.
Oh, this platform is just sobeautiful. Thank you for sharing with
us this today. I really appreciateit. And when your music, Skip
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really is just beautiful. Thank you. And what you guys are doing is
beautiful too, Thank you. It'sa blessing. It's a blessing and a
blessing we seek to share with theworld. It really is, really is.
Thank you both so much for beinghere. Thank you, Wendy,
Thank you so much. Wendy,thank you, thank you, thanks so
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Hi, I'm Wendy Lois Sloane,and this is What's Up with Wendy's Podcast.
I just wanted to tell you alittle bit about myself. I began
my career in New York City asa television producer for talk show legends Phil
Donahue and Heraldo Rivera, and forthe last decade, I've used these experiences
to create my unique style in interviewinghundreds of a list celebrities, newsmakers,
(00:22):
comedians, musicians, reality stars,fitness and nutrition experts, best selling authors,
and so much more. So.I hope you enjoy this wide variety
on my podcast. I hope you'llshare and subscribe, and again, thanks
for tuning in. Welcome to thisspecial edition of What's Up with Wendy's Podcast.
What a privilege it is to havethis interview today. Beyond his lengthy
(00:45):
dreadlocks and his resemblance to his grandfatherand musical icon Bob Marley, he has
cultivated a sound that speaks to Jamaicanheritage. He grew up engulfed in the
music industry, and we are goingto talk about that and how music heals
and so much more with Bob Marley'sgrandson, Skip Marley. He's joining me
along with Katherine Leary. She's theco founder of One Firelight, and we're
(01:07):
going to talk about what that means. We're also going to be talking about
how music heals, music, movementand wellness. That's the topic today.
You won't want to miss this interview. I promise that. Welcome to this
episode of What's Up with Wendy's podcast. I'm so excited for this interview.
As a young college student in Jamaicamany years ago, music music and songwriter
(01:29):
Bob Marley's motivational music had a profoundimpact on Katherine Leary. Nurturing and healing
power of Marley's words and music continuesthrough the wellness program One Firelight. Join
yesterday are Bob Marley's grandson, SkipMarley and One Firelight founder Katherine Leary.
I am so excited to welcome bothof you. It is a joy to
be here with you, Wendy.Thank you for having us. Yes,
(01:53):
Wendy, What's up with Wendy?So it's a joy just to look at
your beautiful, bright, happy faces. Is I have to say that as
well? Thank thank you, thankyou for that. So let's let's start
with Skip for a minute. Youryour grandfather's music had a profound healing effect
on the world and was a symbolof peace, love and unity. I
don't think there's anything more powerful thanthose words. Um. Do you do
(02:15):
you feel it continue that you continuethat legacy with your music? Yeah?
I feel so. I feel I'mdoing my part. You know, I'm
taking the message up new avenues,on new streets, you know, in
this time, you know what Imean, and gathering my influences, you
know, from all over and youknow, just adding towards you know,
(02:37):
the message, and you know,bringing everything to get up. And music
is so healing. I'm so powerfulif you if you really listen to people's
words, Um it can it canreally heal. I've I've felt that in
my own life. Um. Whatdo you think your music brings to one
firelight and wellness platform and fitness space? Can you? And you can you
(02:58):
also tell us about it? Thatone firelight? Well, it's all about
my body, soul and spirits,you know, my music and one firelight
we aligned is like the star isaligned. That's what I mean. Yeah,
And you know I was unadd toyou know, be a part and
you know, und when I heardthat my son, Faith will be ussed,
you know, to be a benefit. Such a benefit you know,
(03:20):
where it can spread well is toyou know, the world, you know
what I mean, because this onefirelight thing is not for the fiftiest person
or and it's for all kinds ofpeople. It's not you know, bigger
smile, you know what I mean. So just just being able to be
a part of something that will havesuch a reach, you know what I
mean of positivity and of light andyou know wellness, you know that is
(03:42):
just great for me, you know. And your song Faith, it does
that. It resonates so many ofyour songs do too. I have to
say, um, Catherine, howwould you describe one Firelight? It's an
inspirational wellness platform, right, Soone Firelight brings you into a community a
world that's filled with nature. Whenyou go to our website, you'll see
(04:04):
beautiful images of lush greenery and that'sjust in the design of the website itself.
And when you go to our classes, you'll see that we shoot in
natural settings. There's natural light that'scoming in. There's the music that is
just so soul nurturing, that liftsyou. And it's one of our instructors
that were sharing in our lifestyle segment. Right, you can see videos of
(04:29):
our instructors talking about the things thatthey do to lift them. One of
our yoga instructors said that she usesthe song Faith whenever she feels down or
oppressed or challenged by something. She'lljust move away from whatever that situation is,
put on Faith and just dance aroundthe room. And by the time
you finish the movement, right,the movement circulates for blood changes her brain
(04:50):
waves. She's listening to that musicthat's talking about lifting yourself up. Sometimes
life will beat you when you're down, but you've got to have faith and
it just keeps you going. Peopleare inspired, soul nurturing, that's that,
just you talking about that. Iwant to I want to crank up
the music right now. And it'strue. And if people could just like
(05:10):
listen and let their bodies just feelit and you just it's a whole new
feeling. Just like slow down andreally listen to the music, listen to
the words right right sets, Yes, Look, we all need to slow
down. I think COVID did thatto us as well. Um one sets
one firelight apart from the other.Fitness platforms on the market right now.
(05:31):
Why is it different. Yeah,yeah, it's several things. One is
the infusion of music. I meanthis unique soul nurturing music and you're not
going to find that in other platforms. The way in which we incorporated the
other, as I mentioned, wasthe incorporation of nature, you know,
bringing in the energy of the earth, the feeling that comes from from nature.
(05:53):
And I mean nature is God,you know, it's God himself.
And and then there's also the ideathat you can create your own workout.
We have something called Mosaics where youcan decide how you want to create a
workout. You can take ten minutesof your favorite yoga teacher for a warm
up. You can take a twentyminute boxing class with your favorite boxer on
our app. We have three boxersright now that are on the app.
(06:16):
And we can take a five minutesoul nurturing meditation with Crystal energy right or
a sound healing with Tibetan singing bowls. And you build that workout yourself,
name it, you save it onthe app, and you could save a
thousand workouts if you wanted to.So you have a Monday workout, a
(06:36):
Tuesday workout, a SKIP workout.You know you can do all the Skip
songs that we have on the appAnyway experience. You're all in. Yeah,
good one Firelight dot com. Comeon, we're waiting for you.
Oh my gosh. We're talking musicmovement while in as healing. Yeah,
how music heals so much. We'retalking with Katherine Leary and Skip Marley.
(06:57):
You guys, you've just inspired meso much in just a few minut It's
that we haven't even got going yet. UM to talk about more. That's
your right. Music really does heal, and I think people need to hear
that more often than not. Um, Skip, I want to talk about
talk with you for a few minutes. What was it like your early life?
Um, you were born in Jamaica, and guess what, I was
(07:18):
raised in Miami as well born andraised in Miami. Nice. My early
life, milded life was just tour. Milded life was being in our own
music minded life was just watching mymother's and my owncles and my grandmothers do
what we do. You know whatI mean, And just all those things
(07:38):
subliminally instilled into me as you know, to where I am now. You
know, I mean, just youknow continuing that same teaching. It's pretty
amazing. So you grew up inthe music industry and toured with your mom
and your uncles. What was thatlike at such an early age and that
was even before you started your owncreative journey. Yeah, like we said,
(07:59):
that was as a kid. Sothat was all knew. It was
music. I don't know, itwas you know, music and Grandpa and
grandma and you know, that's allI knew was that child growing up,
you know what I mean. Soit was just a part of us.
Music in the house, music andthe most music in the playing. That's
why you're such a happy person,I think too. Just it's just you
(08:22):
know us, it's instant in us, you know, yes, really and
truly. And so you didn't startyour your ear your creative journey until your
early teens. I think that mightsurprise some people. Yeah, I mean
it was really after my uncle Steveand he brought me on stage one of
the times I was on tour withhim and I sang one Love for the
first time in front of you knowpeople. And after that it was when
(08:45):
the music, the music bug insideat me awoke and it chose me.
It spoke to me, and Ijust pursued it since then, you know,
just pursued it and you know,just follow the music, follow the
floor. You know what was itlike for you growing up Bob Marley's grandson,
(09:05):
Well, I mean it was stilla focused school and all these things
regularly, you know, supports playedbody and what you know, there's always
that time in school people said,my mind's your grandfather. Back oh skip
mind. He said, my mind'syour grandfather, and I'd say, yeah,
I'm like wow. You know soI always knew, you know what
I want to say, I alwaysdo. But there was always that reach
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and the impact that my grandfather have, And as I grew, I came
to understand you know, his purposeand the message and you know what we
really do, you know, spreadliberty and love and the consciousness and you
know, never never the spirit ofnever giving up the fight. You know.
YEA feel like that that's really transcendedwithin't mean you know what I mean
within my own personal life. Didyou just fall in love with music all
(09:54):
along? Was it? Was italways there for you? Yeah? Well
tell you to what? Tell youthe truth? No? Um, I
started playing piano from when I wassix years old, but that was never
really vocal about music. I wasmore like and I playing music but school
school, you know. But it'sreally when my uncle gave me that opportunities.
(10:15):
When the music chose me, Ifeel like it spoke to me.
And you're not telling me to comesomeone just you know your voices. Your
voice is just so beautiful even whenyou speak. Your voice is so calming,
isn't it, Catherine? It's soI could talk to you guys all
day long because this is such ahappy interview. You have a skipt you
(10:37):
have a favorite Bob Marley song,and Catherine, you too, it be
faith first, it gets to beyour favorite song. My favorite, boy,
all of them is my favorite.I learned something from everyone and the
songs. Every time I play somethingor something different, that's it, you
know, what's it? Yeah,that's a very important idea, you know,
(11:00):
because people have said, well,will you get tired of hearing the
same music? No, because everytime you hear it. If you might
hear one Love in a boxing class, but you might hear one Love in
a yoga class, and it's goingto affect you in a different kind of
way. It's a really beautiful,layered kind of concept that's unique and exciting
and fun, and that's what fitnessshould be. Is fun for so many
people as a chore. Oh,I've got to get up and do this.
(11:22):
Oh, make it fun joyful.You want to look at those videos.
You want to look at Jamaica whereyou're doing a workout. You want
to hear Skip's voice. You wantto be inspired by the messages in the
music. Oh, I want tohear Skip's voice every single day. Now
that's the end of it, andI'm done. My favorite song, my
favorite Skip song is Faith? Yourfavorite? I thought so? I thought
(11:43):
so, Yeah, yes, yes, I thought so. What's the I
like Faith too? I like slowDown as well, your breakthrough single,
slow Down. I listened to thatseveral times yesterday when I was preparing for
this. Um, what's the mostpowerful story you heard about your grandfather's Skip?
The most powerful story I heard aboutmy grandfather, I probably have to
(12:05):
say the Zimbabwe story. There's many, but when when they went to Zimbabwe
during the you know revolution, thenwhen zi Zimbabwe again the independence, I
know my grandfather there were tear gassin the stadium while my grandfather and their
mind stage, they weren't letting peopleinto the venue. See, so my
(12:26):
grandfather, the band and everybody butmy grandfather stay up on the stage.
Wow. And it said, nowwe'll see who the real revolutionaries are.
Yeah. One that that you know, the faith? You know, Yeah,
what does it feel like when you'reon stage? Feel the spirit?
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It's a ji, you know,it's a jib. But we'll feel the
spirit, you know, we'll feelyou know, the higher place we feel,
you know, or benefiting a higherconsciousness, you know, more than
just ourselves. Feel like I'm beingbenefit to people, you know what I
mean. I feel like I'm youknow, a vehicle that is, you
know, spreading positivity and in alight and love and you know, justice
(13:11):
and you know all these things.Always should preach, you know, I
mean all of us, you know, all of us, We really should.
Life's too short not to preach that. How do you prepare before going
on a show? Well, usuallyprayer and the power of just runs us.
The light of God protects us.What, um, what do I
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look at warm up? I lookat warm up I learned from my anti
better right wrestlers. So do Ialways do my same warm up that I
learned from Ran? You know?Just calm myself and tap into the spirit,
and you know they're ready for themission. You know. H your
dreadlocks, by the way, Ilove them, Thank you up. I
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love them. They're so beautiful.This is a question for both of you
because we're talking about how music heals. How do you want music to make
people feel? Both of you Catherinemm. We want to make people feel
inspired. Yeah, to be inspiredand encouraged to go forward, encouraged to
achieve whatever their goal is. Itcould be something as simple as can I
(14:18):
get my kids to school on timetoday? Or yeah, it could be
something as big as I've got thishealth challenge and I've got to get through
it. We want people to feelinspired and and embrace the possibilities. Exactly
how I feel powerful, feel littlelike they belong, you know what I
mean? Like, yeah, you'revery easy, you know so? Yeah
(14:41):
exactly. Yeah. So your musicbrings to wild firelight wellness platform and space.
The music brings to this It's it'sjust special. It's unique. It's
there to make you feel different everyday every time you listen to a different
song. That's what I take awayfrom this as to inspire, it's to
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move us. It's to heal us. Absolutely, it's to calm the brain
waves. It's to give you asense of peace while you're working out a
sense of possibility and hope. Wesay that we are working to bring you
the strength to embrace the world.We live in a challenging time and we
need every tool that we can thatwe can have available to us to allow
(15:24):
us to move smoothly through these challengingtimes. That's so beautifully, said Catherine
during COVID. Music must have beena big part for both of you as
well. Yeah, well tell youthe truth, you know, I was,
you know, these these this technologywe have no like zoom and whatnot.
You know, I was able tostill reach out to the message and
(15:48):
still play more music and still touchpeople. You know, even if those
us through our screen, you know, it's still sort of a benefit,
still have purpose to people. SoI saw that first. I understand,
you know. I can feel thatthrough you guys. I can feel through
your words and how powerful this isand we really need to bring it to
lights. So I'm so happy thatwe're talking about this so people can learn
about one Firelight and they can goto one firelight dot com for more information.
(16:11):
Absolutely, and they can sign upfor the app right there on the
website as well. Is there anythingelse you want to leave us with?
Besides, everyone should go listen totheir music, and we should all know
that music does heal us and movesus and it's so joyful. Yeah,
what would us? One said,don't give up the fight? Yeah you
(16:32):
got that, We got the faith, We have the willingness to try it.
You know, even one one don'tget back. That's right, Thank
you, Skip Catherine. Any lastminute words? Oh, I would say
we should make faith the anthem forour time. Everyone when they have a
challenge should put down that challenge andturn on that music. Listen to Faith,
(16:56):
dance around the room, feel good, get your blood movie. Literally
in through and a half minutes,you can danel whole day. That's how
to start my day every day now. Thanks to you guys, Skip Marley,
Catherine Leary, Oh my gosh,come back again. I hope this.
Oh, this platform is just sobeautiful. Thank you for sharing with
us this today. I really appreciateit. And when your music, Skip
(17:18):
really is just beautiful. Thank you. And what you guys are doing is
beautiful too, Thank you. It'sa blessing. It's a blessing and a
blessing we seek to share with theworld. It really is, really is.
Thank you both so much for beinghere. Thank you, Wendy,
Thank you so much. Wendy,thank you, thank you, thanks so
(17:41):
much for joining me on this episodeof What's Up with Wendy's podcast. If
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(18:03):
Sloane and I really hope you enjoyedmy podcast, and I hope you'll keep
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