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Jazz for Peace: Rick DellaRatta - Middle Age Mess, Episode 27
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Rick DellaRatta started in music when he was 5 years old, dancing in the living room with his grandma. He upped his piano game a little later when he was playing with Dizzy Gillespie and headlining jazz festivals in front of 9,000 people. Then, while watching 9/11 unfold less than a mile from his house, he started Jazz for Peace, an organization committed to using music to promote peace, love and understanding around the world. Hear Rick's story and some wildly improvisational jazz on the latest episode of Middle Age Mess.
Escaping Communism for Tacfit: Jana Barrett - Middle Age Mess, Episode 26
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Jana Barrett grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia, having no idea what the rest of the world held for her until Communism fell in 1989. After meeting her husband in London, she left for New Zealand where she became the first female Tacfit instructor in the country. She now trains middle age messes around the world using the ancient techniques employed in the Tacfit program while looking out over the harbor in spectacular Wellington, NZ.
A Divorce...Coach? Yes!: Nanette Murphy - Middle Age Mess, Episode 25
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Nanette Murphy didn't look at the demise of her 20-year marriage as an end, but, rather, as the beginning to an amazing new chapter in her life. She spent several years learning about the intricacies of the process and practically created a new profession - Divorce Coach! After educating herself, writing books and learning just about everything a non-lawyer could know, she decided to help thousands of people navigating one of the most painful journeys of their lives. Listen to one of the most useful guests ever to appear on Middle Age Mess as Nanette talks about her own fascinating experience discovering how her own trauma could serve as a springboard to helping other people get through theirs.