TBJ135: Jeff Nelsen
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TBJ135: Jeff Nelsen on Fearless Performance, habit formation and how Canadian Brass is responding to the international quarantine. Horn performer, teacher, and magician Jeff Nelsen joins The Brass Junkies for the second time to catch us up on his efforts to make art and help others.
From his bio:
Having grown up on a Canadian pig-farm, Jeff Nelsen's multiple non-porcine professions show him to be living proof that if you want it enough, you can have any dream. Jeff is living his dreams out loud and fearlessly! Jeff's approach to life and life coaching is the same. When he teaches, he mentors. Every choice we make helps create what we ultimately share when we approach a job interview, audition, exam, product launch, or social gathering. It doesn't matter whether those choices are made while building or sharing our performance, choices matter...and we only ever choose fear or love. This website helps Jeff publish and provide his creative replacements to fear-based choices for you.
In this fun and lively discussion, we discuss:
Back wax
Jeff Conner is Andrew's Dad old
New Patreon effort, "Brass Junkies Sundays"
James Markey's Mom's comment
Andrew's wife's listening habits
Will we let Jeff talk?
Mood lighting
Jeff's student can fly
Jeff at American Band College with Lance last summer
Magic
Playing in lessons
Building a vegetable garden
Writing curriculum with a grad student
Training in Thirds
Building in Thirds
Briefing in Thirds
Shopping at Lowes
1st third Build
2nd third Share
3rd third Be
Bringing the ding
Connection-full
Magic line performances
Shrinking the quality gap
Collecting opinions
Playing for Chalie Deval
The Illusion of Maturity
The "Enough or Not Enough" line
Non-emotional critique
Frustration and should
Mental scale structures
Mini golf
Protactor humor
The importance of sequence
The importance of habit/routine/ritual
Time takes time
James Clear
Push your butt up
Nacho Libre
Pass the Beer Nuts
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