Everything Ukulele | Custom Tyde Ukuleles with Tyler Joersz
Terry Carter
Let's talk about Custom Ukuleles and the incredible and creative instruments of TYDE MUSIC CUSTOM UKULELES.
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Everything Ukulele | Jazz Ukulele with the incredible Christopher Davis-Shannon
Terry Carter
Christopher Davis-Shannon one of the best Jazz Ukulele players in the world will be joined us to talk about how can you play jazz with your ukulele!
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Everything Ukulele | Ukulele Woods with Paul Okami
Terry Carter
Paul Okami from one of the best Hawaiian Ukulele Brands, KoAloha, joined us to talk about ukulele woods!
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Everything Ukulele | Hawaiian Koa Wood with Joe Souza & Kahiau Souza
Terry Carter
Learn from one of the BEST HAWAIIAN Ukulele Companies all about Ukulele woods!! The founder of Kanile'a Ukuleles directly from Hawaii, Joe Souza, and his son Kahiau will be joining us!!
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Final Results - 30 Day Vegan Challenge
Terry Carter
This episode I breakdown the results of my 4 week vegan challenge. Although I was only planning on doing it for a month, I have decided to continue on with my plant based life. My end weight after the 4 week challenge was 177.6 pounds and I started out at 181.4 pounds. I essentially lost 5 pounds by not changing a thing, I still worked out, meditated, and surfed, but only cut out meat and dairy from my diet. I’m feeling and looking better than ever. What has really helped me is having the support of my wife, who also did this challenge with me. She has been doing a lot of cooking which has...
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30 Day Vegan Challenge (End of Week 2)
Terry Carter
Today, I'm going to talk about how I'm feeling after finishing my 2nd week of my 30 Day Plant Based Vegan Diet. Just to be clear vegan is cutting out all meat and diary out of your diet. I was out surfing this morning and got motivated to rush home and record this. Even though the kids are stirring and the dog is out and about I wanted to share with you exactly how I'm feeling both mentally and physically. I'm feeling outstanding, my energy in incredible and I'm loving of my body is responding to this plant based diet. Although I don't sleep much anyway but I have been averaging 3-4 hours of...
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30 Day Vegan Challenge
Terry Carter
Today I'm going to talk about my 30 Day Plant Based Diet that I'm trying. As a successful musician you can't perform at a high level if you don't feel good. Many of you know that I'm big on exercise, eating well, meditating, positive thinking, and reading a lot. Although lately I haven't been feeling 100%. I wouldn't say that I have felt bad, but I feel like there was some room for improvement. In attempts to better health I decided to do a 30 day all plant based diet. This is something that I'm a little scared of. I have eaten meat and dairy my entire life so giving it up, even for 30 days is...
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How To Deal With Failure When You Suck
Terry Carter
In this 4K motivational video I'll discuss how I dealt with a performance where I sucked and learned to be better. Part of any kind of success is also going through some low points or failures. Today instead of telling you something I did well at or excelled at, I’m going to discuss something that I failed at. This is a story that is hard to discuss because we want to believe that we always perform at high levels and that we are essentially “perfect.” I got a call from a good buddy and wanted to know if I wanted to teach a summer guitar class and perform for the faculty concert at what...
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Track Your Goals | Lose Weight | Sugar Detox
Terry Carter
In this 4K motivational video I'll discuss how to Track Your Goals and achieve the success in life that you are looking for. You have your dreams and you set your goals but now you have to track your progress along the way. I'm going to use my weight as an example to demonstrate how you can use tracking to reach your goals. I set a goal to get to 180 pounds. Since I was at 191 pounds that meant that I had to lose 11 pounds. My first step was to start a sugar and carb detox. For 3 weeks we completely cut out sugars, yes even fruit, and all carbs (breads, grains, etc.). I still did my daily...
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Hearing My Music On MTV
Terry Carter
In this podcast I'll discuss how and when I got my first composition on MTV. Around the time I was graduating from the University of Southern California with my Master of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar, I was working around Los Angeles as a professional musician. One of the things I wanted to get into more than anything was studio recording work. At the time I was mainly playing guitar but I was also working up my skills as a lap steel, dobro, banjo, and mandolin player. I was also studying country guitar with the great Steve Trovato and loving anything that had twang, like Johnny Cash, Jerry...
info_outlineIn this episode we will discuss 2 topics, reaching back to help others out and jealousy. We will look at Tim McGraw for some examples and inspiration. http://www.thesuccessfulmusician.com
Tim McGraw is one of the greatest singers and performers of country music. He is also a dedicated husband and father. After dropping out of college he moved to Nashville with dreams of becoming a huge country star. During his time as a struggling musician, playing clubs and writing songs he meets a young Jo Dee Messina.
Tim eventually gets a record deal with Curb Records and releases his first few albums. His first album failed to reach the success he was hoping but both his second and his third album went platinum.
Now that Tim has some power and money due to the success of his albums he decided to reach back and help his friend, Jo Dee Messina. He tells her that he is willing fund and co-produce her first album. Here is an artist that has sold over 40 million records has the empathy to reach back and pulling his friends up.
This concept of reaching back and pulling someone else out, is describe well in this Denzel Washington commencement speech, https://youtu.be/BxY_eJLBflk
We all can do this right now. Reach back and help someone else out that doesn’t have as much money, food, or talent as you. Maybe you can help someone out with lessons or just simply donating your time.
Jo Dee Messina credits Tim McGraw for her success and claims that she wouldn’t have a career if it wasn’t for Tim.
The second topic I want to discuss is jealously. This is something we all struggle with especially as artists.
For example, maybe a friend of yours gets a record deal or places a song on a TV or their band goes on tour. Because this may be something that we want for ourselves we get jealous over their success.
What if we flipped our thinking? What if we are genuinely happy and excited for their accomplishments? We should encourage our friends success because in order for us to be successful we have to hang around successful people. If your friend becomes successful, you have now gained another successfully person in your life to help you along your journey.
We are a collection of the 5 people that we hang out with the most. So if you hang out with losers, chances are you will be a loser also. But if you hang around successfully people then there is more likely hood that you will be successful.
Plus, this friend of yours that is now on tour they may ask you to come play on stage with them, write a song with them, or refer your name to someone else.
Although fighting jealousy can be something that is a struggle for us to overcome, it can be done by simply flipping the way we think of it. Always remembers that the success of your friends or people around you will only help you in the long run.
To recap, always reach back and help someone else out and stop being jealous of others.
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