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_outlineToday, 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 sleep a night. But I think the key is that I'm getting up consistently at 4 AM to do my morning routine and my body and mind is locking into a solid routine.
In this 2 week period I have lost 3 pounds. Losing weight has not been the goal but it's just a side of effect of cutting out the meat and diary out of my diet. Don't get me wrong it's nice to drop a few pounds but I am not starving myself or limiting the amount of food I'm eating. As long as it's vegan I'm eating as much and whenever I want.
Here is what my diet is looking like right now:
- Banana with almond butter in the morning.
- Oatmeal with flaxseeds, chia seeds and blueberries.
- Raw vegetables: carrots, bell peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, with hummus.
- Black bean burger (without a bun)
- Organic home popped pop corn.
- Fruits: apples, pears
- For dinner: sweet potatoes, quinoa, peas or corn
For date night my wife and I have found several really great vegan restaurants here in the San Diego area. We have also found a vegan bakery that makes the most amazing cookies and desserts, and we even found a vegan double chocolate gelato that is to die for.
Going vegan is a great choice but can be difficult to explain to your family and friends.
My advice is that you have to be strong in your convictions of why your choosing a vegan diet. But I recommend that you talk to them and answer their questions and inform them the best that you can.
Remember that this is a 30 day vegan challenge for me. It's no different than when I did the 30 day sugar detox a few months ago.
It's give it a shot for 30 days and then see how you feel. You don't have to be locked down to something for the rest of your life. Maybe you want this to become a permanent part of your life but take it one day at a time.
For example I do eat sugar now, but it's in very limited quantities and I'm more aware of sugar and how much of it I consume.
You have to be able to make it at least 30 days of stopping something. If you can't stop drinking, smoking, eating sugar or eating meat, then you have to examine your discipline.
If you struggle with discipline and courage there are many great resources out there, especially here on YouTube that can help you.
I recently finished the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. An amazing book on courage, resilience, toughness, and determination.
The story is about the worse tragedy in US Navy SEAL history. After all 3 of his SEAL team is killed he fights and crawls for his survival.
He talks about after being down and deflated he decides that he is going to grab a rock, stretch it out in front of him, draw a line in the dirt, and crawl to the line. Once he reaches the line he drew another line and crawled to it. He did this for over 7 miles to escape the enemy who were looking for him to kill him.
Here is a short video by Marcus Luttrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Pi42Hv858
Remember to stay in the present moment, don't look to the future. Take it one day at a time even one meal at a time to help create that discipline.
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