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Within The Musician
by Monica Williams
Welcome! This podcast is a place of discovery for all students, performers, educators and future educator. Join me and my guest each week as we explore why music matters. We will talk about the struggles and the triumphs, But above all we draw inspiration from one another as we explore ways to make ourselves happier and healthier human beings. Music is not just about the study of tone, technique, rhythm or theory. We will explore topics like stress management, perfectionism, communication, connection and above all self care and compassion.
Episodes
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Teaching with Grace: When Practice Doesn't Happen
📝 Episode Summary: In this solo episode, Monica reflects on how 25 years of teaching music has reshaped her philosophy—especially when it comes to students who don’t practice between lessons. Instead of shaming or scolding, she shares how she’s created an environment that inspires growth, even...
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Creating Value in Private Music Lessons
🎙 Episode 1 – Creating Value in Private Lessons Welcome to Season 2 of Within the Musician! After a long pause since Season 1 (which launched during the pandemic), I’m excited to return with a fresh perspective—and a mix of solo episodes and interviews exploring what it really means to live and...
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The brain and music, with Stephan Betz, PHD
Importance of music for young and old minds! Today Stephan Betz and I are going to talk about the intricacy of the brain, and how music can affect the development. How music can actually help students experiencing challenges in academics. We’ll talk about why it might be easier to start as an...
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Benefits of playing improvised music
On tooday I am going to talk about My personal journey of improvisation What improvisation really is anyway. Why I like introducing it into my teaching Why and how I think it is beneficial to classical musicians And we will go over some excersise to get started as a musician or ways to start it…
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Music Minus Pain with Lea Pearson
On today's episode I am talking with Lea Pearson is the author of Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body and numerous articles in professional magazines. Those publications and her years of successful pain-relief outcomes with musicians have gained her...
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Planning and Goal Setting for Artist with Suz aka the Rockstar Advocate!
On this episode Suz Pulinski and I talk about the mindset needed to move forward in 2021. Suz is they creator of the Rockstar planner book, She is an expert in her field - bringing home the importance of planning and strategizing in a really effective way. On today’s show we will talk about how…
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Directing Bands- an Interview with Josh Boyd- part 1
In this episode Josh Boyd gives great insight into what it is like being a band director during covid. He talks about virutal and inperson learning, and how to navigate between the two. I loved his insight into building community within your band programs! Definetly check out his podcast…
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Private music teachers chat, Helping students through troubled times.
On this episode I have two private instructors: Stephen Evans and Irina Fatykhova. Private music instructors have a very unique position. Our instruction is completely individualized. As creative instructors we teach the whole musician. Often our job is to find out how a students week went, what...
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Mindful Music, interview with Sherry Finzer
Guest Sherry Finzer gives us lots of insight about New Age music and the power it has to heal. And right now more than ever- I think we all can use a little healing. On this episode we are going to talk about what New Age Music is.... How it can help us heal... What mindfulness is.. And how music...
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Artist of Abundance, discovering financial freedom with Nicole Hand
In this episode Nicole Hand talks about empowering artists to have financial freedom. She believes Artists do not need to choose between a creative career and financial stability. She is going to share her journey, and give us some ideas on how to get started building our wealth. Follow Nicole on...
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New Year Reflections
This 2020 was challenging, but there were so many lessons learned. In this episdoe I talk about what I am grateful for. I have found a life purpose in teaching, and sharing music and for 2021 I am surrendering. There is uncertanty, and I need to have flexiblity in that. I also talk about the move...
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Staying healthy for the New Year, interview with nutritionist Stacy Kennedy
Staying healthy for the New Year On today’s episode we explore the most common New Years resolution: Health, weight loss, and wellness. So today I am bring an expert dietician on our show to discuss how we as musicians can be healthier and have longer and more successful careers. We will also…
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The Show Must Go On- Interview With Teresa Payne
On today’s episode we talk with Tereasa Payne, a multi instrumentalist regularly performing on Broadway in New York. Today we talk about Tereasa about why music is essential, and how she is making the show go on. Virtually Tereasa performs to seniors and homebound individuals, breaking the...
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Mental Wellness for Musicians, an interview with Toni Aswegan
On today’s show we hit topics close to the heart for our music community. Our guest is Toni Aswegan, a mental health professional, who has her own podcast called Toni Talks Therapy. We talk about depression, sadness and anxiety that is hitting this holiday season. The challenges musicians and...
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Benefits of teaching and playing Christmas music
In this spontaneous episode, I talk about my experience teaching Christmas music to students of all levels. My realization that singing lyrics provided a powerful understanding of phrasing, style, interpretation, vibrato usage, and much more. I talk about how connecting to Christmas music can...
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The Portfolio Musician, and interview with Katherine Emeneth
The Portfolio Musician This episode is jam packed with wisdom from Katherine Emeneth. This episode is especially helpful for private teachers that want to work on ideas for retention of students, growing growing the numbers of students. We talk about what a portfolio musician is- in short an…
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A Story of Resilience, interview with Aaron Goldman
In this episode we talk with principal flutists of NSO, Aaron Goldman. Aaron shares his path to success, which was not always an ascending straight line. He talks about the importance of mindset and resilience in the performing and auditioning process. He shares tips and techniques he uses to…
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Importance of Vulnerability as a musician, interview with John Herrera
In this episode I talk with John Herrera from Clamsville Studios. John is a grammy nominated music producer, recording engineer, composer and plays many instruments. Today we talk about what this profession looks like 8 months into Covid. He highlights some upcoming brilliant work from artists…
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Students Tell all, Virtual Learning Experience
Virtual learning was not the first choice of students or teachers, but by entering into this new territory we have all been challenged. I will talk about what I have learned from teaching virtually, and my appreciation for this challenge. Later in the segment my 8 students will share what virtual...
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Trailer- The Whole Musician
This podcast is a place of discovery for all students, performers, educators and future educator. Join me and my guest each week as we explore why music matters. We will talk about the struggles and the triumphs, But above all we draw inspiration from one another as we explore ways to make...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome! This podcast is a place of discovery for all students, performers, educators and future educator. Join me and my guest each week as we explore why music matters. We will talk about the struggles and the triumphs, But above all we draw inspiration from one another as we explore ways to make ourselves happier and healthier human beings. Music is not just about the study of tone, technique, rhythm or theory. We will explore topics like stress management, perfectionism, communication, connection and above all self care and compassion.
HOSTED BY
Monica Williams
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Welcome! This podcast is a place of discovery for all students, performers, educators and future educator. Join me and my guest each week as we explore why music matters. We will talk about the struggles and the triumphs, But above all we draw inspiration from one another as we explore ways to make...
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Within The Musician is created and hosted by Monica Williams.
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