Embrace Your BLISS with Joanna Tress

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Hello, it's Howard Brown Welcome to the Shining

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Brightly Show. I am thrilled oh we are in force of

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entertainment. We are going to embrace our bliss with Joanna

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Tress today how are you?

Joanna Tress: 00:00:16

Hello Hello Howard I'm doing so well and so excited

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to be here with you today this shine brightly with you.

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We are going to shine together. You're looking

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glamorous. Let me tell let me tell my audience about you

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because I have to tell you, I am so captivated by you because you

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are so talented. You do it all you do it all. So let me tell

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you, Joanna Tress, you are a singer, songwriter, actress,

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musician, you're based in Orlando, home of Mickey and

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Minnie and you liberate the Creative and Performing Arts

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inside each one of us so that we can enjoy more fun, who doesn't

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want more fun, right? I want more fun, right? And freedom and

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satisfaction in life, to be our authentic selves. Why that's

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important. Your company marciana.org It hosts the five

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dimensional experiences to help men and women of all backgrounds

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tap into their positive creative energy express themselves in

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whatever artistic way they desire. Oh my goodness, that is

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powerful. So what I want you to do is to add on, tell me

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something more and also share something that we may not know

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about you something that is a little bit of a secret that we

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got to let the world know about you.

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One of my favourite movies is Coal Miner's

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Daughter. The story of up starts with an L. O country music

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superstar. It was amazing. She got married when she was 13.

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Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn, the legend got married at 13 started

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having babies. Her husband she called them due. He really

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believed in her and helped set her up for success. But my

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favourite scene is when she's on the porch with her guitar next

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to a washing machine old fashioned style. And she's

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plucking out tunes and sings with like three or four babies

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crawling all over her. It but she's making songs and the

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washer sort of stops she's got to kick it to keep it sucking

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away I love that are singing while she's planting that movies

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so so much about me it reflects me in my life. You know being a

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mom. But being created in no circumstance can stop you from

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being who you truly were born to be. And she's a singer and

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songwriter from the from the get go, regardless of her background

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as Coal Miner's Daughter. So that's something maybe people

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don't know. Coal Miner's Daughter, whoa, wow, I

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have to go rewatch it because I haven't seen it for

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so many years. But wow, I didn't see that comment. So that's

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exciting. Oh, God, but you saw her talent and it spoke to you.

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And you emulated that and embraced it. So I actually

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really love that. So I have to tell you that in getting to know

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you, you try to help people make their dreams come true. Tell me

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a little bit about the background. How does that work?

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Alright, so that is because many times you'll

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we're young, we have so many ideas, you know, what do you

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want to be when you grow up? A ballerina an astronaut, a

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fireman or scientist, right? So young people are encouraged to

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just say, hey, we can do what ever we set our minds to do. And

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the your creativity is nurtured in so many ways. Just the public

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school system alone gives you an opportunity to find out what you

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truly love and what you're good at and experiment and then go

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showcase it, we applaud them. But what happens when we get a

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little older, we get into our career we get into our

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relationships with nificant others kids come along

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responsibilities of adulting those bills the rent the

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mortgage, okay, wait a minute now? Are we still nurturing

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creativity, or always still nurturing or this artistic

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expression? For the most part? No. And we all know that most

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people have a story where they excelled and showed interest in

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something or passion and something earlier on in their

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life and go forth and fast forward 123 decades. Where is

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that? Where is that dream? Pillow hopes, dreams and

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aspirations. They are on a shelf somewhere gathering dust or in a

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box somewhere but you down the basement or just on the back

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burner of a broken stove of dreams. You know. So that's the

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reality for so many people they find themselves stuck and their

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reality. It's not the authentic reality. They're not being the

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person that they are really naturally He supposed to be that

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native creative, like a child with that curiosity and playful

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spirit, wanting to explore and just, you know, put a two year

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old play some music around a two year old, they're gonna dance,

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you know, it's a natural thing so that adulting

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responsibilities in our modern world often chokes that and

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suppresses it. And then you wonder why is there so much

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depression? Why are people so unsatisfied? Why are they? Why

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do they binge watching and binge listen and just consuming,

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consuming consume other people's creativity, instead of just

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naturally maybe producing their own, that is a problem in

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society that I would like to solve in my own small way.

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You know, it's such a valuable point that you

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make that we get into routine. And then you just can't get out

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of that routine, right? You go to work, you're taking the kids

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to soccer practice, you get home, they do their homework,

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you don't have any time for you and your significant other, and

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then the next day begins. And same thing. And, you know, we

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live for those two weeks vacation a year, I have to tell

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you, that's why a lot of people did the great resignation,

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they're working from home COVID had us restricted and people are

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now bouncing out trying to actually get out into nature

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again, and vie with people again, and but they probably

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have forgotten their little kid inside of them, that wants to be

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the astronaut that wanted to be the artists that wanted to be

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you know, a professional athlete, and those dreams are

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good dreams, those are things to strive for. And, and we look to

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not everyone likes to be a role model, but we look to others

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that are excelling and role model. So that is really cool,

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creative work to bring that outside of people that have

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maybe lost it or forgotten about that. And there's some

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similarities I'll draw because in my book, I call that

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darkness. And in that darkness, that is the forgotten you, that

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is the actual place of potentially anxiety and malaise

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and depression and the stuckness. And I like you want

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to bring people and bring their light forward, okay to be able

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to share themselves. And so when you and I are, we are

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synchronised, yeah. semis to motivate, educate and inspire.

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So I that's, that's why I really loved it. So who needs this? I'm

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gonna say everybody needs this. But tell me who to who needs,

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who needs to actually bring that forth. Now,

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the people who know that something's missing.

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They have this nagging sense that there's something missing

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that they're supposed to do, that they want to do, and they

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actually want help. You know how Henry David Thoreau said in

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Walden Pond that most people live in a state of quiet

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desperation? Yes. You know, so that's what people are, they're

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quiet, they're desperate, but they're not really saying it,

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they're not calling out for help. They're not necessarily

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looking for solutions, or they've given up too soon. These

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are people where the, you know, the annual church pageant or, or

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karaoke or community theatre is just not quite doing it for

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them. Or they go to a little writing workshop at the library,

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but they don't have anyone to help them to stay accountable to

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their goals and dreams. So you look around what are the

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resources that are going to help me to actually live what's in my

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heart, to embrace that bliss, that I want to truly be happy.

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And when you notice there are a lot available. That's where we

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come in? Well, we have this five dimensional experience in

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creativity, just a couple of hours, two hours out of your

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life, you have a crazy, hectic, busy schedule, we're going to

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take two hours of time, to allow you to be in that sacred space

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of creativity. It's fun, it's relaxed, it's open, it's fluid,

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it's about getting energy. It's about building up the energy

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that it takes that inspires to creativity lets you know what's

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possible. We're going to meet you where you are right now. And

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help you to see what you can do. And you'd be surprised at how a

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childhood dream can actually come true when you're innovative

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and creative about the way that you bring it out. So you don't

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have to take lessons and to learn this and that. Let's see

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what we can do with what we have. And by creating a

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community of like minded and like hearted people. We're gonna

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help one another lift each other up and share to help make it

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happen for yourself. So who needs it? It is anyone who who

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knows that they need it. They recognise, you know, instead of

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being asleep, you know, they're actually awake. And they're

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looking, okay, I need some help. And then I want to, I want to be

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an answer to somebody's prayers.

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Well, for I love that now say amen. But I want to

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pull out one thing that you said, that's the heart of this,

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you create a sacred space of creativity. And that's the

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power. It's really powerful. And do you do this? I'm pretty sure

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you do this for men and women. Also couples?

Joanna Tress: 00:10:31

Yes, absolutely. In fact, I've had several, I've

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had several couples have participated. They said, this is

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a great date night, they thought it was a fun date night, they

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got to know each other. Because when you're participating, this

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you're learning about each other, you might share something

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that your mate didn't even know was in your heart, it was an

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idea that you had. So it is Yep, it's for men, women, couples,

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whatever your background is, these principles can help

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everyone in whatever situation they are to get to the next

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level and see, well, what's next for me about truly embracing the

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happiness through creativity that I seek.

Howard Brown: 00:11:13

Right, so So let's dive into it. So the five, you

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know, dimensions, okay, and I want you to take me through this

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five step method and just choose it, you know, to tell me through

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and tell the audience there have kind of what they would kind of,

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you know, expect when they come join you and join this

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community.

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Very good, very good. And so we use the

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principle of five in a number of different ways. First of all

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five dimensional, it means it's going to touch on all of our

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five basic physical senses. So of sight, touch, taste, smell,

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and sound, because that's a full body experience. So that's one

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way that we touch on, you know, five dimensionals. And, of

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course, is beyond the three dimensionals. You know, it's

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another way it has that bet, power that energy behind it.

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Now, with the five step system, we it has an acronym of start S

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T A R T, because the result is after you go through the five

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steps, you are ready to get something started. And we're

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gonna help you with that. So the first letter S stands for story.

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What is the story that you would like to tell? It could be

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something that actually happened, it could be something

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you learned about externally that fascinates you that you'd

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like to delve in and share and develop. And it could be it

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could be fiction, whatever it is, that's it, every art form

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starts with a story, it tells a story, whether it's a painting,

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or a song, whatever it is, so figure out what story you'd like

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to share. Then the T is the tableau. Tableau in theatre is

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sort of when everyone is frozen in time for a moment, you know,

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like this. Yeah. And then the narrator, maybe tell some

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background around me that Tableau because a tableau, it

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shows you what something looks like. So when you create a

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tableau sort of vision board sort of touch into that, this is

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what it looks like, this is what it sounds like. This is the way

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that I'm going to tell the story. I'm going to tell the

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story through a book, I'm going to tell the story through a

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ballet, I'm going to tell the story through a musical theatre

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production, you see, so you're gonna choose how are you going

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to share this story? It could be a piece of fashion, it could be

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a quilt, you see. So when you say no, what is it? What is it

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going to look like? What elements are we going to

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include? So that people will be able to see this message that

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the story has, that's what the T the tableau is. The A is an

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assessment of what you have to bring to the table to offer.

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What do you already have? In your head, in your heart? In

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your hands? What do you have to in your own skill set and gifts

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to us to tell this story? In the way that you want to tell it? So

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that's the assessment. Some people say audition? No, no,

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it's it's an assessment focusing on what you have. Not what you

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don't have not what you want, or wish you had. No, let's see what

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is now. The after the assessment, that's what we get

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into resources. See, I like to use illustration, if somebody

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wanted to be you know, a rock star playing that lead to car

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just sure and in that guitar. Yay. Yeah. You know, okay. And

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guess what if they can't even play one chord on the guitar,

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okay. But the thing is with the Reese versus if you want to tell

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your song your you want to tell your story? Well, you'll find

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somebody else who strikes that guitar, they're going to stand

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in for you, you're going to pose with the guitar, while you have

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the music in the background and you're going to, you're going to

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mind you're going to act it out, see, there's there are different

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ways doing it. So see, when we look at resources, you see, what

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group what producer, what, editor, whatever it is, you see,

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it takes time to do research, just like you do research. I

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love Howard, how you research your guests, you want to get to

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know us and share us you want to help us to shine brightly, I

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just love all the information you shared with me. And I was so

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touched by how you thoroughly looked at my website, right. And

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that's the same thing, being resourceful. That's something I

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have a background with journalism and research, you

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know, a lot of us have touched into research skills, you know,

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I was a virtual assistant, I'm gonna help you dig up some

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resources, I'm gonna help you think of some ideas that

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brainstorming of how we're going to take this dream and make it a

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reality. And then the T. Sta, RT is for trial, we are going to

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have a way of sharing this idea with the world in some form or

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fashion. In my intensive programme with daily

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accountability, it's six weeks, I promise, we're going to have

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something out there to share within six weeks. So that's it

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and put it together. And it's stucked, five steps to make that

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dream come true to embracing your bliss.

Howard Brown: 00:16:47

This is a great acronym. Oh, wow. I don't want

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to give away the whole programme, they'll come seek you

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out after what we'll find out. But that's beautiful. Thank you

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for that. And taking us through start and to embrace the bliss.

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It's It's terrific. So I guess my natural question is the kind

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of What's your why you've chosen to do this now and to make

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people's dreams come true. Why? Why do you want to do this?

Joanna Tress: 00:17:12

Because I know that there are people who are

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like me, I was my ideal client. Back when I was in my mid 30s,

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early 30s. I had the biggest gig of my life in 2005 when I was

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part of the opening act for air supply or the 70 supergroup on

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their 30th anniversary tour here it is 2023 Do you know they're

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still touring? Oh my goodness. But and I remember just at that

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time in my life, I had three children. I was divorced. I was

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struggling financially and even with my mental health because I

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wasn't being what? I'm supposed to be on Broadway, okay. I'm

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supposed to be writing, singing and dancing and acting and

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playing my music, you know, some piano chords, say my flute I was

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not really doing that I would do a little something. Something,

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you know, I was working through a ham radio station promotions

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and community things have these gigs, Wedding Singer, community

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theatre, etc. But you know, not to the full extent that I wanted

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to, and I felt alone. Where are the fabulous people? Hey, we

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Hello, where are you? I didn't see a place for me. I was in a

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relatively small town in Alabama at the time. And okay, sure, we

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can teach the kids. So I did. I've dealt with I've dealt with

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children, I've put on shows with children. But that was not where

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my heart was. Because I wasn't ready to finish my stories

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performer, pour into the next generation without fulfilling my

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dream and doing all that I could with my desires as a performing

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artist. So I felt alone, I would have really benefited more from

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a sense of community, and to have some guidance from someone

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who who was able to overcome certain challenges. So I did the

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work, the inner work, I read the books, I did the workshops, I

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had the therapy and this and that. And I realised Yes, I'm

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going to be the friend, the mentor, the coach, the can do

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the motivator, the inspiration to help someone deal with their

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circumstances and showing them what is possible, because I

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needed it and I'm paying it forward. And I don't see anyone

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quite doing exactly what I'm doing today. So there's a void.

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There's a place there's something where I need to fulfil

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it. And my husband, Matt, Matthew, the mat in Montana,

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Matthew and Joanna is Montana. You know, he's an ideal, you

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know, ideal client, you know, working hard for his family and

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And, you know, paying that child support, quote, taking care of

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his children. And for his he was divorced. And he went through

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all that, and he didn't get a chance to have his little

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outlet. You know, oh, once in a while, you know, he, he

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surprised his daughter, you know, by sewing up at the club

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with her and he's dancing, he's got the mic. He's a backup

Joanna Tress: 00:20:21

dancer and backup singer for the people in the wild, you know, he

Joanna Tress: 00:20:24

didn't get a chance to go out and get out and get his groove

Joanna Tress: 00:20:28

on. So I know that there are a lot of people like that they are

Joanna Tress: 00:20:32

looking for a solution. And a way to just express himself say

Joanna Tress: 00:20:37

yes to what you want to express is one of our programmes. And

Joanna Tress: 00:20:42

that's when there's a need for it. And I'm ready to fill in on

Joanna Tress: 00:20:45

paying it forward. And being the friend I wish I had at the time

Joanna Tress: 00:20:48

in my life.

Howard Brown: 00:20:49

I love it because you are filling an unmet need.

Howard Brown: 00:20:52

And the number one symptom coming out of COVID, loneliness,

Howard Brown: 00:20:56

loneliness, loneliness. So you are alright, well, let's roll

Howard Brown: 00:21:00

this thing forward now. So what's your vision? What do you

Howard Brown: 00:21:04

see yourself? Five years from now? Where is Joanna Tress five years,

Joanna Tress: 00:21:09

I want to have embrace your bliss retreats,

Joanna Tress: 00:21:13

Mat, Tanna, five dimensional experiences, where you're going

Joanna Tress: 00:21:18

to use a week of your vacation, and be completely immersed in

Joanna Tress: 00:21:23

create the creativity. And before you leave at the end of

Joanna Tress: 00:21:27

that five or six days, your your would have done something that

Joanna Tress: 00:21:32

you only dreamed you could do. We are collaboratively building,

Joanna Tress: 00:21:37

nurturing and going to make that dream come true. I have a vision

Joanna Tress: 00:21:41

of like band camp for grownups. I've even written a story about

Joanna Tress: 00:21:47

that, you know, so you have like the college kids in the marching

Joanna Tress: 00:21:50

band doing their summer bank and getting their marching band

Joanna Tress: 00:21:52

routine for football season. And they think their parents are

Joanna Tress: 00:21:56

just at home going, No, we're missing them. You know, a little

Joanna Tress: 00:22:00

did they know their parents are at the hotel on the other side

Joanna Tress: 00:22:03

of town living acted like they're in college. But alcohol

Joanna Tress: 00:22:09

is legal. And having a good time. And the parents get

Joanna Tress: 00:22:13

together a marching band routine, and come from the other

Joanna Tress: 00:22:17

side of the football field just crash when their rehearsals and

Joanna Tress: 00:22:20

they hear that cadence is that our rival band did our rival

Joanna Tress: 00:22:24

band come here and try to steal our routine? No, it's the

Joanna Tress: 00:22:28

parents getting down to the Bubba with that drum line and

Joanna Tress: 00:22:34

just blowing them away, you're gonna have a showdown, you know,

Joanna Tress: 00:22:37

you got to have the old school versus the new school. That's

Joanna Tress: 00:22:40

the type of thing so the retreats where you can actually

Joanna Tress: 00:22:43

just take that vacation all over the world, exotic places to get

Joanna Tress: 00:22:48

away from the mundane escape from from that life and have a

Joanna Tress: 00:22:54

moment to embrace your bliss, and to live that creative dream.

Howard Brown: 00:22:59

Alright, so I made up destination Hawaii, let's go

Howard Brown: 00:23:02

to Hawaii and we're gonna go maximise that creativity there.

Howard Brown: 00:23:08

Right. So this is the part of the show, actually, is the

Howard Brown: 00:23:11

shining bright, the spotlight where the spotlight is on you

Howard Brown: 00:23:14

and you've been on stage. So you know what this means. It's

Howard Brown: 00:23:17

almost time for a curtain call. I want you to tell people how

Howard Brown: 00:23:20

they can get in touch with you. And then I want you to actually

Howard Brown: 00:23:23

give me some final comments and, and then we're going to take the

Howard Brown: 00:23:26

show home.

Joanna Tress: 00:23:27

Yes, call me. Pick up your cell phone. Okay, you

Joanna Tress: 00:23:32

can call or simply text. If you text the word creative. To this

Joanna Tress: 00:23:39

number, I will get in touch with you. And the first thing I'll do

Joanna Tress: 00:23:45

is find the best way to send you a copy of the creatives creed.

Joanna Tress: 00:23:52

It is an affirmation that you can read to yourself to just

Joanna Tress: 00:23:57

embolden open up and inspire your creativity and your

Joanna Tress: 00:24:03

identity as a creative artist. So text the word creative

Joanna Tress: 00:24:08

24075775413 that's 4075775413. And I'm sure you'll see it with

Joanna Tress: 00:24:15

whatever links you share. And it's right, it's the banner of

Joanna Tress: 00:24:21

my websites. Mattanna.org Has my phone number 407-577-5413 I

Joanna Tress: 00:24:27

would love to have a quick conversation with you. And to

Joanna Tress: 00:24:32

give you this free start this creatives creed to get you

Joanna Tress: 00:24:38

started okay,

Howard Brown: 00:24:40

that's incredible that you give out your phone

Howard Brown: 00:24:42

number and you're speaking to them individually and then

Howard Brown: 00:24:44

you'll email them or or send them back this creative creed.

Howard Brown: 00:24:48

What a nice offer. That is great. Give me Give me a final

Howard Brown: 00:24:51

wrap and then I'm going to close the show.

Joanna Tress: 00:24:54

Yes, I just don't be afraid. Don't be afraid at

Joanna Tress: 00:24:57

this point in life to live that Dream, embrace your bliss. We

Joanna Tress: 00:25:03

have a community for you with resources and support. And I

Joanna Tress: 00:25:08

will do everything in my power to give you that personal

Joanna Tress: 00:25:10

attention to help these dreams come true. Let's have a

Joanna Tress: 00:25:15

conversation.

Howard Brown: 00:25:17

Oh my goodness. I always say find your happy place

Howard Brown: 00:25:20

find that stress zone you've created that place. So that's

Howard Brown: 00:25:24

why we're so synchronised. Wow, this has been a high energy.

Howard Brown: 00:25:28

Amazing, amazing show. So thank you for being here. So for me,

Howard Brown: 00:25:32

you can always get a hold of me at shining brightly.com. There's

Howard Brown: 00:25:36

booked me for speaking emceeing fundraiser, podcasts. The book

Howard Brown: 00:25:40

is there, it's doing great bestseller and in the podcast

Howard Brown: 00:25:43

can be seen there. Also you can see all my charity work and in

Howard Brown: 00:25:47

cancer, higher education and interfaith work. And there are

Howard Brown: 00:25:51

downloads there on survivorship, mentorship and interfaith stuff,

Howard Brown: 00:25:55

lots of resources. It's very interactive. And so I always

Howard Brown: 00:25:59

close each show by saying, if we shine brightly just a little bit

Howard Brown: 00:26:03

each day for ourselves, for others and our communities, the

Howard Brown: 00:26:07

world will be a better place to Joanna Tress. You are

Howard Brown: 00:26:10

magnificent. Take a curtain call Bow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank