The Sound of Gold with guest Robin Lance of The Blunatics

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0:51 Hi, and welcome to the Sound of Gold. If you've been here before, you know. If you're new, welcome and welcome back if you have been here too. And what I meant by you know is this radio station is based on music, musicians, music venues, music teachers, and music schools. We're wanting to keep the originality of music alive, and so it's my pleasure to always get to interview different guests that are in the music industry, and most of I would have to say ninety well maybe ninety percent of music kind of like a part time gig more than it is a full time gig, although I think we did have Sally on last week and she did say it's kind of a full time deal or deal, but whatever works for our musicians.

1:44 They do a great job at it. And today I have a very special guest on I have Robin Lance. And Robin is so talented and so diverse. I'm so excited to have her on the show. She is the lead singer of Lunatics and she also is a co founder of Selfveggio, which deals with energy and sound and healing. So we're going to dive into getting to know Robin a little bit better and seeing what makes her tick and what keeps her. Going when it comes to playing and as well as self Veggio and how she gives back to the community through the energy of our heart.

2:28 So welcome Robin. Hey, thank you, Lisa. I appreciate you inviting me. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, I'm so glad that you're here. And I have to say, you don't know, and I've known you for years, but like you are. I've never told you. You are one of my favorite people. I look up to you. You sing and you have so much when you sing and perform, you have so much confidence. I don't know if you feel that, or if you if anyone's ever told you that, And not just because we're on air. I get to kind of just like spill and just like like, I absolutely I love you. You're just like this. I'm antic person, and it's in your music, it's in your energy, it's just you. You're amazing.

3:09 Thank you so much, You're so sweet. I appreciate your vote of confidence in my confidence. But truth be told, I mean very very blessed. I've been fable to play with a lot of different bands and musicians in South Florida here, but when I have to play by myself, it is a little it's a challenge for me, and it's something that I wake up every day when I do play some music just to start either i'm playing it or I'm playing it out loud, and realize how blessed I am to be in this arena, whether I have nerves or not. I'm never nervous when I'm on. Stage with other people, but by myself is a little bit of a challenge I have to admit.

3:51 So thank you for. Seeing that you do great. I would never know so to tell us, tell me, tell the audience because we have musician listeners that we had listeners that might not know the music business as well as we do, or you do, and like what brought you to where you are now? I guess the better question is where did you begin when it became when it came around music time, like what inspired you? Well, apparently, when I was young, my parents took me somewhere and I hammered out Happy Birthday to you on the piano, and they thought I was a prodigal genius or something, and they bought a junker piano, and then they wound up buying a baby grand And I took six years of lessons, and I faked my way through all the theory.

4:44 In fact, actually I. Went through three different teachers because when it got down to okay, let's get the theory going, I quit. I played by year, and I've always been able to play by year. And when I was twelve years old, I took up guitar. Actually take back fourth grade. I started playing flute, and I did that up until I realized that when I was in band, the boys were in study hall. So I quit the band. And then and then I started playing guitar when I was twelve, and I started with an electric guitar. I wanted to be a rocker, and my father didn't understand it. He thought, I you know, he bought me a class little guitar, and I was like no, no, no, no, no, no, not this at all. So that was my early days.

5:31 Look at your kiddy, hi, and I My brother was a drummer, and we had like a little basement band in high school and you know, I just did it for fun throughout my life. When my kids were younger, I got involved in a project where I started a coffeehouse for teenager musicians, so they had a help lay out and ran that for about six years with a group of volunteers who were also musicians who also formed a band, so we had the adult the adult coffeehouse. Once a month as well, and that just brought so much joy. But it really was important for me to continue to provide opportunities for younger people, especially those who were not in jazz band or or chorus or or the pep band or whatever. That they were basement bands and they had nowhere to play because they were too young to play in bars and there really weren't a lot of venues where I grew up. So moving down here to South Florida about eleven years ago with my ex husband, well we weren't we were married then, we didn't have any friends. All of our hobbies were either winter sports or or groups that we had been part of for a long time. So we really didn't know how to get integrated into the community. And started going to open mic nights and where we met mister Gary Frost, well, mister Gary Frost.

6:50 In the in the neighborhood. It just one thing led to another. Just going to open mic nights, we were approached by Vince Flora down at Double Roads and say, hey, I've been watching you guys, and I think you're okay, and I'll give you a shot. And so I really started it and it's been it's been an incredible journey, very very interesting. One learned a lot about the sell floor, the music scene, mostly my trial and error. Hey, you know, we are looking agents and and and marketing, and it is it's a full time job and uh but it is. It's kind of an addiction too.

7:31 It's really really my entire music my entire friend network came out of the music community, and we are like a family. I think down here we. Really are very sive, Unlike a lot of my friends who live in other states where the competition is so fierce, I find like down here, there's so many people that want to help each other, lift each other up, connect each other with gigs, and like, oh, if I can't do a gig, then I'm gonna I definitely want to call somebody up. All the people that I know that are fitting the genre of music that somebody's looking for, I want to be able to help them out. And it's just been, it's been just a really great journey. So I don't I keep looking for the opportunities or I keep I keep making myself available for different opportunities to try and say yes as often as I can.

8:18 Now, if someone out there that's listening wants to contact you to get you to sing at their venue, what's a great way to contact you? Probably the best way is to text me. I'm not a big email person and I'm not a big tech person, So if they want to give me a contact, give me a shout, they can call me. I'll give you my phone number six oh nine four one zero four five zero nine, And yes I am a Jersey girl with that area code. So that's awesome. So what about some of your music? The band that you have now Lunatics can make can listeners go to YouTube and find some of your shows?

8:59 Already posted on there. The Blunatics. We've got a pretty active Facebook page. Instagram maybe not so much. I kind of retired myself from doing a lot of the technical stuff. We have a couple of videos on YouTube as well. The Lunatics dot com. It's B l U N A T I c S dot com. There's no E in the blue. A lot of people call it the Blue Nattics, but that's okay too. Yeah, we have a website, we have the Facebook, and I guess we'll work on getting Instagram. We probably should get hip with that. I was one of those people. Seem correct, you know, it's Lunatics with the B in front of it.

9:43 Yeah. We've got a lot of energy on stage and we like to we like to do weird things. I like to throw out little prizes and things to the audiences to keep them on their toes. So the lunacy of the energy that we try and bring to the stage is where that really comes from. And what your genre of music? Do? You have different genres depending on where you go, or you kind of just stick to the same set list. With the Blue and Atics, we are a blues band with a little touch of We call it crazy, cool funk and blues. Okay, So what we like to do is we'll take a lot of cover songs that aren't maybe not traditionally blues style, and we we'd redo the arrangement so it works into the genre. But we do a little funk every once in a while too to get people up dancing. You know. The it's it's a little bit of swing, it's a little bit of classic blues, it's a little bit of.

10:35 Maybe jazzy blues. We just it's all over the place. But we do bring a little bit of funk in there and some of our arrangements and people will have no idea, they're like, oh my gosh, you're doing a Lanis Mori set with a cool, like heard rocking bluesy rift to it, and it's fun. It's it's because people stick around. We'll play I saw I saw her standing there by the Beatles, but we put it to a box the Nova tempo, and we added a little bit of James Bond guitar licks in there, so it's it's it's unpredictable. So that's part of the energy that we bring on to the stage. That's awesome. And yeah, I mean as a performer, you have different audiences, so I understand like bringing something different to the stage all the time just because you pick up on their energy.

11:23 Oh so, I totally. I mean, we're for the most part, the music that we are playing really appeals to an older crowd. But I'm always surprised when we have like twenty thirty year olds that get up on the dance floor and show up and they're like, you guys are great, and I'm like, you're my kids each or younger. But we we joke about that. Most of our audience likes to be in bed by nine, so we do try and play earlier, earlier gigs. It's, you know, to accommodate our our our audience. So it's great energy. Where where and when are you playing next? We're playing next at Double Roads Tavern in Jupiter on this Thursday from five to seven thirty, talking about that early early happy hour set, and then we're going to be.

12:12 At next month. We're going to be at the Pearl, which is up in Stewart, and we're also going to be at Wolfe's which is the old Double Roads right in Jupiter as well. So we we we've had a a lot of. Things going on within the band, so we have been selective as to how many gigs we're going to be doing a month, just so we can attend to our pal things. And last year we had an opportunity to be a part of the Blues International Blues Competition through the Treasure Coast Blues Society, which we wonderful. We came in second by one point. Jake Walden Band, but my god, Jake Walden Ban it was awkward to come in the second place with them, so and the position decided not to enter because we had some other things going on.

13:00 Okay, well, coming in second is huge, getting up on stage entering a competition was huge. So just getting through that was was fabulous And there was such incredible performers that that night. It was just an honor to be around all of them, and everybody just was so loving and supportive. That's what I just love about the South Florida community, and there's there's just so much love involved in the soul process, and I think that that's really what music is about, connecting, connecting through music through the love of music. Absolutely, I know a bunch. Of questions and I'm going to shift the conversation after this one last question, that last question. But you have such a powerful voice and you like when you sing.

13:43 I can feel your voice, and that to me is a professional singer. I mean, I don't know if that's the right way to say it, but I remember something because we're friends. You had texted me something or texted it was a group taxing. You mentioned something about kind of following your passion no matter what somebody else tells you. So I guess what I'm getting at to ask you is, uh, do you take singing lessons? Do you have a singing coach? Do you did you deal with were you unsure about stepping into the singing? Was it something that just kind of happened. So I'm asking you like ten questions.

14:23 Oh that's a that's an easy one for me to answer. Actually, when I was younger, because I was still passionate about music, I kind of was. I was encouraged through the lessons, but when it came down to going to college and picking a major, and I didn't really understand what that all meant. My parents were like, well, you picked something that you love and you learn more about it. And I said, okay, art music, that's what I'm going to do and that my dad put a big gobash on that, and basically, over the course of the years they were like, you're okay, but you're nothing special. And I allowed that to derail me. But I still would do these secret projects, but I just wouldn't tell my family that I was, you know, in a band with two small I hit two young kids, because I just knew that it just wasn't They just weren't in alignment with that. And it wasn't until I got down here and I started performing and started people would make comments to me. And I had no formal training vocally whatsoever. I have a really sharp ear, and I did eventually start taking lessons because I wanted to.

15:31 I wanted to grow. I wanted like, I. Want that vibrato, I want that strength I want So I started taking lessons with Craig Wick, who is an amazing, amazing vocal coach and my sound Bowl partner, Debbie Desne is the one who introduced me to him, and it made a big difference. Unfortunately, I had to put it on the back burner for a while. So many things, so many other things were going on. It was hard to schedule and keep up with the scheduling. So but he is, he was amazing, And yeah, it's it's it's every days. Work, you know. It's it's like going to the gym. You have to put the effort and time into it and you get what you get.

16:13 What you give. Yes, yes, but it's I don't know if you saw the show last week or listened or I had Sally on the show and we talked about how it's a passion. I mean, it's not. It's not work like oh, you know, I got to go clean the cat. No, yeah, it's it's complete like it's it's almost like a work you want to do because you know you're going to see results and you know you're going to hear results. And just like me as a piano player, like I still take lessons, and it's because I want to be I want to be a better musician. I want to learn something different. And like you said, we have this music family amongst us, and we absolutely learn from each other. Even open mics. I mean, everybody's so supportive, and you know I might hear something and be like, oh, that's a great like rip or that's like a great little like something that I got to add to like what I got going on.

17:06 So it's just it's so great to be a part of this family that we have here in Florida. I agree, and I still take guitar lessons with Gary Frost because my duo with that man and Robin that I played with seven years with my ex husband, that ended last year and you know, kind of floating in space a little bit. Not really, I really didn't want to get back into doing as we were performing somewhere between eleven and fifteen times a month and it was great. But it is it's a lot of work. And doing it by myself. I mean, at least when you have a partner or a band behind you on stage, is something goes wrong, you've got other people to lean on or to laugh about it with.

17:48 By yourself is a little bit intimidating. I do love talking with the audience and that's one of the things I'm very comfortable with is laughing at all mistakes and making it a part of the performance. But yeah, taking lessons, I think is you know, you can't you constantly want to continue to grow and encouraging other people that you see that you have that they have that spark you can you can just tell that they're like, I really want to do this, but I'm not quite sure. And your husband, by the way, speaking about our musical community, I'm the one who told him he needed to come to open mic night to at Angelos and.

18:28 Had an amazing voice. You need to get with some musicians and get like live music behind you. You you are missing an opportunity hanging out just doing karaoke. And I don't mean that in any disrespect because I tried to do karaoke. Hardest thing ever to me. When I'm in control of the music and the way that it's going to go, I can, I can, I can add more of myself into it. But when you do karaoke, the song is what it is. There's no there's no there's no improvisation whatsoever. So it was it was really difficult to do. And when I brought encouraged him and a couple other people to come over, come over to the other side. And see what it was like. Now they've bought these careers in performing live music, and that just like that lights me up. I think that's that's got to be more than fifty percent of being a part of the music family is about.

19:16 It's just you know, raising each other up. Well, you definitely are a great inspiration. And karaoke is hard because it's like you sing according to the pace of the singer's right key and then like sometimes depending on the equipment, you can change the key. You can you know, go up to down to however it works, but it's yeah, you're you're kind of dancing on somebody else's frame. Right right. Yeah. I think I think the karaoke scene has some really incredible untapped talent that I think needs to be out live performing in front of other. People as well. So I still go to karaoke over a wolface on Tuesday nights every once in a while, just to push myself into that arena.

20:00 Yeah, we go up to Stewart, we host a karaoke up and Stewart and then we're always like we got to go to Wolf Wolfi's and then we're like, yeah, well it's too late now, let's just go home. I know. It's a Florida syndrome. I have to correct myself. Last week I had THEA on Fia and Tommy and Nick. Two weeks ago I had Sally and you said something about performing and setting up, you know, as musicians. We show up, we set up, we play, and we tear down. And that's just what we do. The person that does not play music but it comes to listen, I don't know if they realize, you know, the value we put into that. And it's not the work of it, but it's like we want to show up our best for you, right.

20:52 And Tommy mentioned something last week. He goes, when I was like something like ten years old and I was playing drugs, he goes, you know I would get to so I still get the same kind of tips and pay today. You cannot. You can't do it. I always tell people it doesn't pay the bills. So you got to love what you're doing. I mean, it helps put a dent into it. I'm not a full time musician like Samantha Russell and rob Areth and some really amazing people, and they've made a career, a successful career out of performing. And that is tenfold of what I've been experienced, even when we were playing, you know, eleven to fifteen times a month. The more you perform, yes, the better you get, but also the more things that can go wrong, you know, you increase your odds of like your car failing on the way to the gig or A one time I forgot my iPad and in a panic, I couldn't even I couldn't even think of three songs that we played out of the over almost hundred that we had on our set list, and I was just out of my mind, so like, there's so many things that can go wrong, but the things that can go right are so magical, and I've had so many.

22:09 I don't stop me if you need me to stop. But I had one really powerful experience when we were playing at Guana Banas. Tim and I were there playing at Guana Banas under that man and Robin, and there was one couple that have been there the entire time, from the setup to the very last, and about after our second break, I. Was like, these people are still here, They've eaten lunch. I've got to go talk to them, all right. And it turns out that that was the first day that they had left their house in almost three months after their daughter passed away. Oh God, in the car. They lived in Boca, and they said. Her husband said, we're getting in the car. We're not sitting at home anymore. We have to continue to live. That's what Laura would want us to do. And we came here. We've never been here before. We just let the car find where we were going to be. We just drove and then pulled in here and we loved the first song you played, and we kept listening and kept listening, and we finished lunch and we were like, we got to keep staying because we were finally experiencing joy again for the first time.

23:11 And it was such a powerful exchange to have that. And I realized at that moment, it's not about the tips. It's not about the sweat running down the inside of my thighs, trying to look pretty and you know, trying to keep it all together. It's about connecting. And even for those people who are coming to listen, you never know what people are going through and how your frequency can uplift or shift their day. And so to always keep that in mind, I think is really important, and to not let those little, those little glitches. Really bring you down. Or you know, the days when we had like three dollars in a tip jar after playing three hours and driving an out each way, We're like, it's not our fault.

23:52 We were put in a dark room and it was a sunny day and everybody wanted to be outside. But you kind of sometimes you allow it to take your take it personally, and we have to remember that it was the bartender said she was it was her favorite day, you know, So you always you always have to look on a grander scale of so what we're doing. Absolutely, yeah, it's definitely not about the money. It's completely a passion. And it's it's not it doesn't pay the bills, but a buzz some qut shoes, Yeah. There you go, you have some cool shoes, by the way, I've seen some of your you know, it's just it's not a job, it's not work, it's a passion.

24:33 And really, I mean, I'm gonna shift the conversation a little bit because we're on the same wave length. You know where I'm going with this. Everything is energy and so especially as a musician, we're set at this, we're set at our own frequency where we get to give what we're what we're given and not worrying about the money, but showing up and knowing that other people are go and I have a good time on our expense of our time is worth so much more than any money could buy, right, I mean, money pays the bills, yeah, we all needed. But but the passion that goes into the music, the energy, the give back really is the audience's response and like the experiences like that, it's they're beautiful. With Effian said talking about energy, and we mentioned before last night was the new moon. Last night was the h the fall solstice and liquinox and.

25:34 The smaller eclipse. Yeah, and so with that, well, knowing that, but kind of detouring off into Solfveggio, you are a co founder of Solfveggio. What can you tell us about that? Well, Solfagio sound Bath is the sound bath experience that my my my partner in crime. I'll call it Debbie tis own. There was also another local music who plays with Gary Frost and I. When I first met Debbie, I thought, this is my sister from another mister, and we just had so much in common and we both felt comfortable confiding in each other, like, oh my god, this gig I hadn't you know, like the little ups and downs and trying to.

26:18 Keep each other like what is the purpose that we're doing this? And it is a lot, and it's wonderful. That there's so many musicians. But then the competition becomes a little bit more difficult and you start to question why am I doing this? Am I still having joy doing it? And I love the energy that the band, playing in the band brings, But we decided that we wanted to go in a different direction or add a different element to our own musical experience. And Debbie is an incredible vocalist and guitar player, and we have both gone to a retreat in Mexico, not together, separately and they had an amazing sound bath. The bowls were like gigantic and she said to me one day, what do you think about doing this together?

27:04 And I said, sign me up? So we did. We went and got certified. It was a wonderful experience, and then she we just tried to figure out how can we do this on a smaller scale and bring it to our friends first and see what happens. And then last year we had an opportunity to play to do this at the lighthouse once a month. We're going to be approaching them again of the Jupiter Lighthouse and under this huge, big bang in tree and so it's basically an intimate experience. We do it twice a month at my house right now we do it privately for a lot of the people that come here then want to bring their staff for a private sound bath because they find that it has such an amazing, uplifting experience.

27:52 We play all sorts of different instruments and it gives people who maybe have never meditated before, never really explored their spirituality, an opportunity to dive into that and see how it makes their body feel. You know, the energy that we carry isn't necessarily always conducive to our well being. You know, we carry a lot of trauma, physical and emotional trauma and our bodies, and there's a saying that the disease within our minds become the disease in the body. And the frequencies that are played throughout the sound bath are in alignment. With the aravatic chakra. So the energy centers within the body and through entrainment, if you have, if I were to sing a note and everybody in the room, eventually we'll be able to sing that note. Like, lower frequencies tend to match higher frequencies, and so what we're putting out there is the frequencies that get the body in alignment. And we don't say we heal We are not healers. We provide the frequencies for self healing and the receptivity of the participants in the sound own bath. Some of them have incredible out of body experiences. Some of them have lucid dreams at night.

29:07 Some people have emotional releases, unexpected emotional releases during it. So it's really it's an intimate experience. And it's been such an incredible journey for this past year and a half with Debbie. So yeah, we're very blessed. You both do such a fabulous job. And Steve and I came to one of your your sound bath. It was just and my husband said, he's like, I fluated. I'm like, that's awesome. That's that's kind of what we tell about. Yeah, and yeah, I. Mean it's just you mentioned disease and yeah, I mean that's I've learned this so many years ago, Like disease is dissease, and when we're able to get together in harmony and love and we kind of bring whatever stuff we're caring just to want to clear it out at an energetic level, when you have I don't even know how many people were there, but when you have like ten people in a room and you and Debbi are facilitating to.

30:07 Kind of bring up the vibration to break through some. Of that disease and that discomfort that whatever it is that that some of us have lingering. It's just such a beautiful way to give back to the community because I really believe like our lives are kind of are going in that direction any somehow. Yeah. We I'm telling you. We've been incredibly blessed because the people that we you know, we we made we made a set out to create this experience, and then probably six months into it, I said, Okay, now that we've got this ball rolling, and now that people are aware of what we're doing. Jebbie's a yoga instructor, so she we got our first initial grouping of people from that, and then the friends of friends started coming and and now like almost every time we have more than half of the twelve people that we bring on are new and so it's just such a really wonderful experience and a lot of people, especially the men, are so surprised by what happens to them in that experience because they're not.

31:13 Used to We're not used to slowing down. And the whole concept is that we're in fight or flight twenty four to seven. We wake up with, oh my god, I got a list of things to do. I got to go to bed with all the things I need to do tomorrow that I didn't get done today, And so we're really not having full, RESTful dayaway sleep. That is what is we need to have healing and when people choose to do things differently with the intention of healing themselves or improving their lives or taking a different direction, when you're with a group of people that are all trying to do the same thing, you're not feeling so alone. So on another level, the intimacy of a small gathering for a sound bath and a lot of people, I mean, it's kind of like I've never done one.

31:59 Before, Like I have no idea what's going to happen to me? Like, and when they realize how powerful it was for them, it might be the beginning of the rest of their life on a path of healing or self awareness that you know, I'm not going to take credit for for any of that. I just I just enjoy it so much. It really has been one of the most rewarding experiences so far in my musical journey. I love I still love playing with the Lunatics. I love pulling out my guitar and playing myself or my boyfriend or with other people. But really, the sound Bath experience has been such a personally satisfying and emotionally growing experience for myself as well. I mean, we learn every day when we interact with everybody.

32:43 So you've just favorite thing too. I'm sorry, DeBie said it's her favorite thing too. Oh. And then to be able to share that experience together, the two of us, and we've even experienced our own healing journeys through that because at first we were like, okay, we love each other so much, and then when you start doing a business with somebody else and you have to come over some bumps and everything, you it really it really made us grow together and individually. So it's it's been fabulous. That's awesome. Now, you guys have a retreat coming up in November? Is it actually she's on the retreat this week? She just left yesterday. I'm we're actually planning on doing a little mini New Year.

33:29 Reset retreat, like a like a half a day Saturday kind of or a Sunday kind of concept where because a lot of people have been asking for more, and so we're in the beginning stages of planning that it'll probably be the first week or show of January, once all the craziness of the holidays have passed, just as a new year reset and incorporating both the sound bath. We do a sound bath that incorporates the Crystal sound bowls and the Vedic the Himalayan the limit Himalayan sound bowls. But she went to Nepal in February and had the experience of learning how to use the full Moon sound bowl set that she purchased and brought back from the person who actually forged them. And it's more chanting, and it's more more moudras, which are hand hand movements that you do, and there's certain mantras that you chant and the effect that has on the body is very powerful.

34:32 And so we are going to be doing that in November. I believe it's November seventh. Is our is our Vedic let me check here our Vedic sound bowl And so anybody who was interested in doing that to give us a said November ninth, which is a Sunday night, and it's very different experience from our regular sound bath. And then we're going to incorporate the chanting, the crystal sound bowls and some art in this little retreat that we're going to do. So yeah, it's been it's just been such a cool journey. So how does some of our listeners that haven't seen your advertisements for soul Veggio, how can they reach you? How can they sign. Up Soulfgio sound bath experiences on both Facebook and Instagram and again by phone number six oh nine four one zero four five zero nine, they can contact me. We usually we usually do it just via texting for sign ups directly. We don't have link or anything of that nature.

35:32 We're not we haven't gone nationwide yet yet, but yeah, we've had We've just had some really incredible experiences and opportunities. We're going to be. Donating a sound bath for up to ten people as a rapphle item for the Women Who Rock event that is organized by Samantha Russell. Yeah, and that's going to be on October October fourth, I believe. And. So if anybody is interested in getting in on that sound raffled, they definitely have to come out to TIK fifty two all day on Saturday that fourth of October and then they could throw one of their raffle tickets into the bowl to try and win a soul physio soundbath personal for their up to ten people of their own friends.

36:20 So very yeah. And you mentioned something earlier about like how we're always so busy, busy going and doing, and I had come up with this idea and I kind of live by it. You know, we grew up. I grew up with that saying like, oh, when you get older, you forget things, and I go, no, I. Don't agree with that. We get older, we take on more responsibility, so we're like trying to figure out how to juggle it all. It's not that we're forgetting stuff, it's just that we're juggling too much. I have a different look at it. I am more selective than what I choose to remember, and that lets me all. I like that. I like that.

37:00 If I higher purpose, I will remember. But you know, the way I look at I try and live as presently as possible, and whatever has happened in the past, they're all lessons. They're all lessons for our for our own growth. And rather than to look at anything from what you know to to not label anything negative, or positive. It's just they're just experiences and we all have different perspectives. And to respect the perspective of each individual without having any judgment is really what we're trying to teach people through this. Through sitting with oneself and listening. There's so much music, you think, in nature and all around us, and to be to be able to sit down and focus on it and taking it. We don't need to be musicians really to have that experience of the interactive world with music and surround us all the time.

37:52 It is the wind in the air that you know that everything treat the birds, everything is sound. If anybody has an opportunity to put a wind chime in their backyard right by the window when they go to sleep at night, oh my gosh, like that. To week up to that or go to sleep to that, that's powerful for me. And it is powerful and it's powerful. And when when I had gone to or attended your sound bath, I sat next to well, I sat next to my husband, but I sat next to Kathy also, and I think Kathy had done this before, and we were just chit chatting, and I go, I am so excited. To be doing this. I like so need this vacation and so like kind of what you said, like if you haven't done a sound bath before, but if you have, you'll understand what I mean when I say it's like a vacation because you really just stop completely stuff like you're not thinking about what's you know, what you're going to cook.

38:47 Tomorrow or you know, wait for somebody else or where. You have to be, and it's just you completely are surrounded by love just for you or just for me, and it's just so beautiful. Thank you for bringing that to our community. Absolutely. I mean there's a lot of sound bats out there, and we always encourage people to try as many different sound baths as they possibly can because everybody has different instruments, everybody has a different journey or purpose. I mean some sound baths with as I said, with chanting. There's some sound baths with singing. Debbie and I because we're both vocalists, we add singing into it, which is not typical.

39:28 And a lot of. Sound baths, but a lot of people have mentioned that they really really enjoyed and appreciated that element being added into the sound bath experience. Yeah, the way that the two of you harmonize, for me, it just took me on another level. Yeah, well, good vision accomplished. It's nice to know that we had that effect on you, so you. Yes, that's true. Also what you said, life is like the school of lessons. I think ultimately we're just here to just learn to love each other without judgment and to love. I think I've always remind my students, even though like I'm teaching them piano, I'm like, always be kind to yourself and always have patience with yourself, because.

40:12 One hundred percent it goes back to like believing what other people say about you. That's what holds you back. I mean, I for a short period of time, once I started getting a lot of bookings and gigs, I started believing in. Myself, and I thought, what a shame. You know, here I am in my mid fifties and I'm finally doing something that I knew I wanted to do as a child, but I didn't have I didn't feel as encouraged or I didn't have the confidence to do it. But now, I mean, I think, man, I missed out on a lot of joy in my life. But I think timing everything happens for a reason. When it happens and I'm just blessed to know that I have this opportunity in this loving family and community to support, encourage and cheer me on.

40:56 Absolutely absolutely, and I think of that too. In fact, I was thinking into something along those lines this morning or last night, and I thought, it's taken me this long to get to like be involved in certain like groups or what have you or and I'm like, yeah, but I had to, Like we I don't know what people believe, so I'm just going to go off on what I believe. But like, we sign up for this lifetime and there are certain lessons we have to learn and we have to show up and we have to learn them or we're just going to. Keep relearning them. So it's almost like I think like the forties and fifties, and I mean, I'm just I'm not going to say I'm like, I'm in the mid fifties, early fifties. But hard to believe, just hard to believe.

41:37 Thank you. But it's just it's like like I'm like doing everything I possibly can do because I'm free of like all that stuff, but there's still stuff that comes up. We're human, but for. The most part, just being humbled and just walking on two feet, waking up in the morning and just being thankful and grateful for what we have and just you know, finding love in all that we do. And some days are harder than others. But yeah, ultimately those soul baths and the healing and music, it's all intertwined. But let's heal each other. Let's for sure unite music. I agree, I agree, I like.

42:18 I've been saying a lot lately what other people think of me as none of my business. And when we remember that how I feel about me is the only thing that really matters. And if I'm not feeling right about me, then that's my job to fix nobody else's. And so do things that bring you joy every single day. Do things that you're passionate about as often as possible. I know grandular lifestyles may not always be conducive, but I tell everybody who comes to the Sound Bath wake up an extra ten to fifteen minutes and dedicate that that small, little early morning window is your personal time before anybody else can come into your world and shake things up. Because when you give back to yourself the way you want to receive it, it changes it changes your outlook for the entire day, and it could shift your entire lifetime when you choose, when you choose to do things differently that things that bring you joy, to bring into things that you really love and feel passionate about.

43:19 Who cares what everybody else thinks about your choices. It's not their business, it's not yours about what they think about you. We're just about out of time. One quick mention, of course in miracles, I don't know if you've if you've ventured into course of miracles, but like at the very beginning of a course of miracles, they're like. I have have the but I haven't cracked it open yet. The beginning is like what is your truth? Like when we start like having that like chitter chatter in our head that like upsets us or puts us in a different space or place, is like is that really true? Like you said, like know you're truth, Like it doesn't matter what anybody said, all says right, just your truth. But on that note, we're running out of time.

44:03 Any last words that you'd like to share with the audience. Get out and support live music and let your world be changed. Absolutely. I think that's how it all comes down. The musicians and the artists of the world are the people that will be I think triumphant in the long run. So if you're not a musician or an artist, support the musicians and the artists and be connected. You've become a part of the family. We've got a lot of people out there that come and support and we consider them family as well. Yes, I'm joining our bandwagon. It's growing ever ever, so it's lovely, it is and is well. Robin. Thank you so much for being on the show today, for making the time.

44:43 Wonderful. I love you. And we'll talk soon. All right, excellent, Thank you have a wonderful leaving. Thank you, Thanks you too. Thank you so much for tuning in today, Robin Lance. And a lot of. What she put on the table was really let's work on healing through music and sounds. Let's support our musicians.

45:45 M tuend in next week to find out who our guests will be. And in the meantime, let's keep music alive by supporting local artists, keeping music alive in our children in the.

46:27 Schools, supporting our teachers that teach music and allow music to move you, allow music to heal you.