Category: artist

  • Creating Connections with Glorious Hugs with Mary MacCarthy

    Creating Connections with Glorious Hugs with Mary MacCarthy

    Today’s interview is with Mary MacCarthy of Glorious Hugs. Mary is the CEO, founder, and hug liaison at Glorious Hugs, a company that creates beautiful and joyful caring packages for older persons. I was immediately touched and inspired by Mary’s mission with her company, which was named after her grandmother,…

  • Royalty-free Music for Podcasts and YouTube with Logan Nickleson of Music for Makers

    Royalty-free Music for Podcasts and YouTube with Logan Nickleson of Music for Makers

    This week, I’m interviewing Logan Nickleson about how he creates royalty free music for podcast YouTube creators at Music for Makers. Logan is a content marketer and strategist at an ad agency during the day, and he started Music for Makers about six months ago. Noting that there were very…

  • Trex Tuesdays on Having Fun and Making People Laugh

    Trex Tuesdays on Having Fun and Making People Laugh

    skating video (which you can see here). A dinosaur on ice skates! And s/he was REALLY good! It turns out that the TRexes live in Minnesota, and they really love to spread joy and cheer to people. With over 400,000 Facebook fans, they are making quite a splash! Honestly, what…

  • An Interview with Danny Wood of NKOTB

    An Interview with Danny Wood of NKOTB

    Danny Wood of New Kids on the Block (NKOTB) has joined me this week on Jump Start Your Joy to talk about his solo career and album, Look at Me. Danny founded “Remember Betty” to support patients and survivors of breast cancer, in honor of his mother, Betty, who passed…

  • Sneak Peek: How Does Danny Wood Inspire You?

    Sneak Peek: How Does Danny Wood Inspire You?

    Please upgrade your browser I’m so excited to share with you that Danny Wood will be on the next episode of Jump Start Your Joy! So excited, in fact, that I’ve pulled together a tiny sneak peek episode for you, where he talks about how his brand new album, Look at…

  • Hope, Love, and Serious Creatures with Amber and Brady Black

    Hope, Love, and Serious Creatures with Amber and Brady Black

    Amber and Brady Black are a married couple currently living in Beirut, Lebanon, and they are a true inspiration. Having grown up and met in the United States, they decided to move to the Middle East to teach. The first five years abroad were not easy, and Amber found herself…

  • Matthew Wood (the voice of General Grievous in Star Wars) on Crafting Joy in the Crossfade

    Matthew Wood (the voice of General Grievous in Star Wars) on Crafting Joy in the Crossfade

    I’m super excited to share this interview with Matthew Wood, who is the voice of General Grievous in the Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars. When he’s not doing voice work, he is also a supervising sound editor at Skywalker Sound, a job he’s had for 25 years.…