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"...You've just have 40 hours of studio time outside of the class instructor's time... umm and I didn't do it... and it came down to, like, the last two weeks of class and I was like, sh*t, I have to do 40 hours of studio time? ... I'm going to go and do it."

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S1E1 - Sara - Only 40 hrs

"Originally it was, honestly, it was like an extracurricular that you had to take in order to get your degree... it was like some form of Art... and I had other friends who had gotten into Pottery and they were like, "Join this class," ...and I was like, "OK.""

S1E1 - Sara - Join this Class

"My words of encouragement for how to do it cheaply is like: Check multiple places! At first, I didn't think I could afford to go to the classes because they were kind of expensive and I was like, "I don't know if this is just something that I want to do or if I'm going to like actually enjoy it?" -- And so definitely source around, um like a good Studio that kind of fits your Vibes, and then like, Encourage each other!"

S1E1 - Sara - Words of Encouragement in Ceramics

"If they ah, make pottery differently than you, then that's great. That's their style. Have your own style. Uhh, but yah, just encourage each other. Find your little tribe, find your little community and then really just do your thing.  "

S1E1 - Sara - Find Your Tribe

"I think he sent me like, 8 tracks, with all this music. And I, you know, and I like, start writing, I started writing lyrics, and you know, when I got thru the songs, He was like, "Hey man, we gonna scrap those songs!" -- He talks just like that 😂 "Hey man, we gonna scrap those songs! I got some new songs. You ready?" And I was like, "Okay!"  "

S1E2 - Khalil - We Gon Scrap Those Songs

"Ya know how in certain situations you be like, "Nooooo! 😭 I have these songs..." and daa-daa-daa. I'd been just always so gung-ho to be working with him. So I was like, okay, you know? ...And we literally recorded all that in like four hours? "

S1E2 - Khalil - Recorded In 4hrs

"So I feel this real urge to keep on my path and not allowing the outside forces to seep in, you know? ...So it's like an interesting like back and forth, or that Matrix like move like Keanu Reeves does, you kno like, "Whooa let me get out of here! You not abouta get me with dat!"  "

S1E2 - Khalil - Keep On My Path

S1E2 - Khalil - Who is Gonna Send Movies (Bijou Film Festival)

"People are really looking for answers, in regards to mindfulness, understanding themselves, and that purposefulness of finding happiness etc. And I think that's one of the reasons why hypnosis is becoming larger, because people are kind of saying, "Well, here's another avenue.”"

S1E3 - Jackie - Why Hypnosis

"It was a real concern for me because I thought, okay, like I know that there are thank yous that are going out etcetera,but then it was asking more asking more asking more.And what I wasn't hearing is that there was any takeaways like load,we're going to add this on, but don't worry, we're going to take this away."

S1E3 - Jackie - Overworked Teachers

"Because it is all about the learning. There's not one way to skin a cat. …and the more that you learn about different techniques and different theories, the better off you're going to be. Your whole repertoire of skill, becomes that much greater!"

S1E3 - jackie - Learning Techniques

"After my retirement from education, realizing that there's a skill set that educators have and we never think that we do; like as teachers or as vice principals, principals, whatever, we actually don't recognize how, um, saleable we are or how hireable we are."

S1E3 - Jackie - Educator Skills

"Everyone’s a singer.…you know why?It's because you're breathing!It’s simple! What makes sound is breath. You know? What makes sound is the ability to breathe!…and let it out"

S1E4 - Tossie - Everyones A Singer

"You don't know how what you're doing is landing.That's also a part of being in a part of the unknown.It's not always the cheers, right?It's not always like, “Whoooooo!” the claps,or whatever, the awards; because that's actually not my connection to people.It's not that. I mean, that's cute, but my connection is like,”…what, what's really going on in there?”You know, like I'm more curious about that, “The Intimacy”. The intimacy of being Human with each other."

S1E4 - Tossie - Human to Human Intimacy

"I have to find how to sonically be with ease…which is also a metaphor for life.…because anything that I do sonically with my art, is just a reflection of my living.It's not separate. It's a spiritual practice."

S1E4 - Tossie - Sonically Its A Spiritual Practice

fun story about 1st time audition anxiety.

S1E4 - Tossie - StoryTime 1st Audition

"I always tell people, if there's anything you want to do, you can probably do it with video games. I've had people be like, "...oh well I want to do makeup," -- It's like, "Well, you can definitely be hired to do makeup, and make references for artists to put in a game, and like be an expert!""

S1E5 - Jonathan - You Can Do Anything In Making Video Games

"I will say, every stage feels like the hardest stage *lol* — kind of like a video game!So like when she was born … I remember I was like, “Ahh man,…i gotta be changing her every…  every few hours 😅 this is like super tiring.”…and then yeah, and that became easy!…And then I was like, ”…okay cool, like I can change her now.”…and then she started like crawling and walking and I’m like, “Ahhhh!” —Like I remember thinking, “I can't wait till she can crawl and walk and stuff… She’ll start getting to do stuff.”…And she started doing stuff! …And she started like trying to eat stuff off the floor! And I was like, “Nooooo!” "

S1E5 - Jonathan - Fatherhood Is Like A Video Game

"Not only do you have to make a game that tackles difficult subjects, right?It has to be engaging and fun,or at the very least engaging to the person that is playing it……and then have a wide appeal on top of that.There's a lot of things to consider… and it's a really, really hard balance to manage."

S1E5 - Jonathan - Social Impact In Video Games

"It's not good. It all started when, last year university... there was a lot of stuff that I was learning, with like C#, like audio implementation, and some other art stuff, and I just had so many tabs... and I knew where everything was and I was like, "Yup!" Then ever since then, that's how I work. It's just like I have a bunch of these resources open...

I know where things are and... like I, I usually stop adding tabs and open a new window when I reach the tab limit , *LOL*, and then I'll open up a new window and be like, All right, I gotta start somewhere else."

S1E5 - Jonathan - Too Many Tabs

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