MONEY SMARTS: Three Keys to Financial Health for Musicians and Music Makers
Join us for the first of a three part financial wellness series. Topics include goal setting and three keys that artists need for successful financial health. Q/A to follow.
Please join MusiCares and inspirational photographer and author of the acclaimed Through A Sober Lens: A Photographer’s Journey, Michael Blanchard for a discussion on Post Traumatic Growth - a positive change experienced as a result of the struggle with a major life crisis or a traumatic event. The discussion will focus on stories that exemplify how human beings can be changed by their encounters with life challenges, sometimes in radically positive ways. Michael also talks of his personal journey shaped by saying “Yes” to synchronicity rather than “No” and how it influenced such an improbable outcome. He will discuss how photography and the arts serve as a means of spiritual connection and bringing individuals out of isolation in helping overcome the disease of addiction.
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Michael Blanchard’s unexpected journey occurred after 4 DUI’s, a suicide attempt and over 3 months in both a psychiatric hospital and rehab facility. He transformed himself into an acclaimed photographer, writer, and philanthropist from his previous life as the COO of a large company. His book “Through A Sober Lens” won the Ben Franklin Award as most inscriptional story, and he has been called “The Ansel Adams of the Recovery World” by Recovery Today Magazine. He has is MA in Psychology with a focus on substance use disorder and has pioneered the use imagery and the arts in healing.
Please join MusiCares, Emmy Award winning producer, Richard "Wolfie" Wolf and guest panelist, GRAMMY-nominated, Justin Boreta of Glitch Mob, for the first in our series of workshops on Meditation and Mindfulness. We will discuss the benefits of mindfulness and explore various practices of meditation that can enhance the wellbeing of the music community. Each webinar will conclude with a 10-minute guided meditation.
Meet Our Panelists:
RICHARD "WOLFIE" WOLF
Emmy Award-winning composer, multi-Platinum-selling music producer and author Richard “Wolfie” Wolf has worked on projects with Prince, Bell Biv DeVoe, Freddie Mercury, MC Lyte, and Coolio, as well as hundreds of TV and film soundtracks including NCIS, Bojack Horseman, Oprah and the NFL. Wolf started practicing Zen meditation as a teen and his class at USC on the harmonies between Music & Mindfulness is the first on a university level to demonstrate how the different practices can interact and strengthen each other. His book “In Tune: Music As The Bridge To Mindfulness” was written up in The New Yorker -which called it “a manual for achieving calm in a tumultuous world ” - Parade, Mindful Magazine, Spirituality & Health and others, and is the basis for the podcast “Wolf In Tune”.
JUSTIN BORETA
Many music fans know Justin Boreta as a member of The Glitch Mob, a beat-driven electronic group that has been touring around the world for more than a decade, playing at festivals including: Coachella, Burning Man, Lollapolooza, Reading & Leeds and Bonnaroo. The Glitch Mob have released three albums and three EP's together as well as official remixes for Daft Punk, The Prodigy, Odesza, Metallica, and TV on the Radio and more. Boreta has collaborated with the spiritual teacher Ram Dass and Alan Watts on guided meditations. His ambient project Superposition (alongside Matthew Davis) was recently nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Best New Age Album.
Join us to learn important information about visas and immigration support during COVID-19. Experts will address policy and renewal changes with Q/A to follow. Panelists include Justin M. Jacobson, Esq., Pablo G. Velez, Esq., Jeffrey E. Jacobson, Esq. (Moderator)
MusiCares, in partnership with Dr. Kathleen Brasfield and Look East, will be offering a complimentary vision exam and a pair of glasses (if needed from their selection*). This service is available for eligible music industry professionals who have not attended a MusiCares Vision Clinic in the past.
Appointments are limited and scheduled on a first-come-first-served basis.
*limitations apply
