Herizon Music: The Podcast features interviews with trailblazers and rising stars in the music industry. Whether on stage, behind the scenes, or on air, Herizon Music introduces you to the women who are defining the music industry and the issues that affect them. Each episode is entertaining, inspiring, and relatable. Join our band of dreamers, rule breakers, and rock stars today! Hosted by Thea Wood. Subscribe to our newsletter at HerizonMusic.com. www.herizonmusic.com
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Satori Shakoor: Detroit's Funkadelic Midwife of Stories
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Satori Shakoor: Detroit's Funkadelic Midwife of Stories Born Jeanette McGruder in 1954, Detroit native Satori Shakoor knew she wanted to be a star from a young age. Her wish was granted with an audition for George Clinton’s group, The Brides of Funkenstein, and later becoming backing singer for Parliament Funkadelic. Stardom takes on many forms, an…
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Carla Patullo: From Scoring A Film to Scoring A GRAMMY Nomination
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Summary If you’re a movie buff, you’re going to love today’s guest. She’s a composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music has appeared in over 30 motion pictures and soundtracks like Porno, This Is Jessica, and Lotte That Silhouette Girl. Not to mention over 100 song placements in Emmy and BAFTA award-winning shows like Ellen DeGeneres, The Young …
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GoGo Germaine: A Riot Grrrl’s Fury Painted Black
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Author and music journalist Erin Barnes, a.k.a. GoGo Germaine, shares the highs and lows of her girl gang days as a teen rebel. Her book Glory Guitars: Memoir of a ‘90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl chronicles Gogo’s questionable firsts at varying degrees of sobriety. There’s more than meets the eye to a woman who discovered she can see the true colors a…
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Lurleen Ladd: Pursuing Music As A Second Act
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Todays’s guest is a singer-songwriter with an evolutionary heart. Her story shines light on the meandering path that many of us often travel before finally committing to pursuing our deepest passions. An accountant and social worker by training, she founded nonprofits and other businesses with her husband, Dan. While she couldn’t muster the courage…
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Michele Darling: Women, Technology & Music's Future
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It’s my first podcast episode to launch on Substack! Scroll to the bottom to hear more episodes— all are available for free. Herizon Music is funded by subscribers like yourself. If you like what you hear and see, pls upgrade to a paid subscription. Thank you for joining our band of dreamers, rule breakers, and rockstars! — Thea 🎶 Upgrade now! Toda…
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Vanessa Lively: Home Street’s Gypsy Godmother
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Vanessa Lively walks the talk of a free-spirited soul who channels the healing power of music into uplifting the chronically unhoused in Austin, TX. Her story as a creative and advocate is powerful and thought provoking. In this episode: Vanessa’s gypsy-esque musical roots and lifestyle that took her from Texas to Ecuador to Bolivia and Peru. The s…
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Dr. Jennifer Whitehead: Vocal Health Matters!
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Dr. Jennifer Whitehead is an associate professor of music at Ohio Wesleyan University. With a Doctorate of Musical Arts in voice and singing health, she's teaching the next generation the skills necessary to heighten and extend their singing careers. Anyone who speaks for a living can benefit from her wisdom. She frequently appears in both staged a…
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Janis Wallin: The Mistress of Groove
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Bassist Janis Wallin is the “Mistress of Groove” of the jam band scene. With decades of experience, she’s the bass teaching, vegetarian-eating, Bootsy-loving trail blazer with an alter ego. In This Episode - Why it took nine years for her band band Family Groove Company to finish their newest album titled “Through With Tomorrow” - The story behind …
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Cheryl B. Engelhardt: New Age Artist's Journey To Healing & The GRAMMYs
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Cheryl B. Engelhardt received her first New Age Ambient or Chant Album GRAMMY Award nomination this year for her latest album “The Passenger.” Thea Wood spoke to her about the therapeutic story behind the album, which was written and recorded on a cross-country train trip and produced and mastered by an all-female team. In this episode, Cheryl cove…
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BlueSkye is the teen sensation from Michigan who is taking her unique brand of songwriting to the top! As Herizon Music’s Tate-Makeba Rising Star award winner in 2022, she made the most of her year. In this chat, meet the teen who is taking the Midwest by storm— blue skies and all! In this episode, BlueSkye covers: — The origin of her unique name. …
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Katie Daryl: AXS TV's Music Host Revealed
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This podcast is a production of Herizon Music Foundation, a nonprofit uplifting women in music through education, experience, and role-coding programs. It’s made possible thanks to fans like yourself. Please donate today! In this episode, Katie covers: — What does the TV show producer do behind the scenes? — The most memorable thing a celebrity sho…
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Donna Jean Godchaux MacKay: Part 2
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This is Part II of Thea Wood’s chat with Donna Jean Godchaux McKay. In this episode, the Alabama native leaves a promising musical career in Muscle Shoals for uncharted waters in California. She got more than she bargained for! This podcast is a production of Herizon Music Foundation, a nonprofit uplifting women in music through education, experien…
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Donna Jean Godchaux MacKay: Part 1
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In this chat, Donna Jean Godchaux Mackay covers: Meeting and working with a young Cher in the studio The homemade “instrument" her mother came up with so she could make music as a child How Muscle Shoals became a safe haven for musicians amidst societal turmoil How Elvis treated her in the studio and his last words to her before his death What surp…
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Lisa Roth: The Fairy Godmother of Rockin' Lullabies
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When you hear our next guest’s last name, you most likely think of her larger-than-life big brother David Lee Roth — lead singer of Van Halen. But did you know that musical prowess ran in the family? Driven to turn her love of music into a gift that mothers and babies could enjoy together, Lisa Roth conceived an album series called Rockabye Baby, w…
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Terri Nunn: From Sex to Transcendence w/ Strings Attached Overview
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Terri Nunn is the lead singer of Berlin, which many remember from the height of MTV music video days as the sexy trio who brought us “The Metro,” “Sex,” and their runaway Top Gun soundtrack anthem “Take My Breath Away.” The track earned them an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. Here we are 40 years and 8 albums later, and the band introduced their …
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Kalie Shorr Pt 2 - Becoming Nashville's Straight-Shooting Feminist
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You may be asking: “What more does Kalie Shorr have to say?” As it turns out, a lot! If you missed the first episode titled "Kalie Shorr: How She Became An Open Book," listen here. In the conclusive deep dive chat with Kalie, she covers: — Discovering discrimination in the Nashville music scene — Using age as a power play — Putting sisters before m…
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How Kalie Shorr Became An Open Book Pt 1
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Recorded in February 2021 via Zoom, Country music sensation Kalie Shorr shares her journey to voicing taboo topics in the first of a two-part podcast series. Her debut album “Open Book” was listed at #7 on the New York Times Best Albums of 2019, named one of CMT’s Next Women of Country, The New Nashville by Teen Vogue, a Top 10 Country Artists to W…
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Violinist Blanca Gonzalez from Columbia to Carnegie Hall
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Ep 28: Blanca Cecilia Gonzalez is the epitome of realizing the American Dream. Her tale of immigrating from Columbia to the United States and rising to become the concert master multiple times at Carnegie Hall will warm your heart. Never miss an episode! Sign up for the Spotlight Newsletter. In this episode, Blanca covers: — What it was like adapti…
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Ethnomusicology, Whitewashing, & Appropriation of Black Music feat. Kelley Glover
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Kelley Glover is an ethnomusicologist, teacher, and entrepreneur who created, composed, and produced the music education game app and cartoon UBetterSing! One of her goals is to educate music lovers about systematic racism, colonization practices, and how they affect music academia. Kelley’s research and stories stem from her personal experiences a…
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Maggie Szabo: The Pride of New Pop Music Culture
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Maggie Szabo is a Canadian immigrant who's tackling feminine stereotypes, social injustice, and cellulite with lipstick in hand. Her pop music sensibilities poke fun at pop culture while redefining it for the next generation. We think she’s spot on… and 100% “worth the weight!” In this episode, Maggie Szabo covers: Making the music video “I Don’t N…
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Nashville’s Ava Paige: When Hope Comes In (#cancersucks)
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Ava Paige is country music’s 16-year-old rising star who is wise beyond her years. A cancer diagnosis opened her young eyes to hardship, the importance of family (including those you choose), and the power of hope. In this episode, Ava covers: — How her single “Hope Comes In” took on a surprise meaning — The influence cancer has had on her relation…
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Lauren LoGrasso: The Future, Fear, and The Age of Creativity
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Lauren LoGrasso is a self-proclaimed multi-passionate creative. Her two new songs “Road to Glory” and “RISE” are anthemic and optimistic at a time when society needs it most. Lauren is a musician, singer/songwriter, actor, podcast producer, and creativity coach who shares her views on creativity's role in overcoming fear, suffering, and the future …
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All Female Grateful Dead Tribute Band? It's About Time!
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Denise Parent is the drummer and vocalist for the first all-female Grateful Dead tribute band. And we say “It’s about time!” Thanks to an introduction through David Ganz of The Grateful Dead Hour, host Thea Wood caught up with Parent for this remote interview. Parent covers a lot of ground, so pop in your earbuds and let’s get started with The Shak…
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The Mrs. Drummer Andra Liemandt: A Mom On A Mission
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Today, we’re Zooming to you from Austin, Texas as we are all practicing a social distancing lifestyle during the coronavirus pandemic. If you're feeling the covid blues, this is your episode! Meet Andra Liemandt, the co-founder of The Mrs, a pop band formed by a group of moms who have been on a mission since 2013. That mission and a powerful music …
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Female Guitar Techs Who Don’t Fret The Small Stuff
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Today, we’re coming at you from Strait Music, Austin’s 3rd generation, family-owned music store that has won the Austin Music Awards Best Instrument Repair award for three out of the last four years. The secret sauce includes not one but *two* female guitar techs (and multi-instrumentalists) who work side by side, which is like finding a 5-leaf clo…
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