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Who Carries It Forward? | Legacy — The 10th Silent War | Rick DellaRatta · Your Thoughts Your Reality

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: What happens when you build something meaningful, but eventually realize you can't be the only person carrying it?
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_01: For a lot of us, legacy sounds like what we leave behind.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: But maybe real legacy is what other people can pick up and carry forward: a cause, a value, a skill, a way of serving.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: For veterans and others, leaving a defining role, that becomes a very important question.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: How do I take what I know, what I care about, and what I've lived through and turn it into something that still serves beyond me?
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: Today's conversation is about legacy, the 10th Silent War, and what it takes to turn talent, purpose, and service into something other people can participate and carry forward.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Your Thoughts, Your Reality with Michael Cole, the podcast that shines a compassionate light on the journey of veterans battling through life's challenges.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Michael is a dual elite certified neuroencoding specialist in coaching and keynote training presentations, dedicated to guiding military veterans as they navigate the intricate pathways of post-deployment life.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Join him as we delve into the profound realm of neuroencoding science, empowering these brave individuals to conquer universal battles, procrastination, self-doubt, fear, and more.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Together, let's uncover the strength within you to re-engage with families and society, forging a new path forward.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Rick Delorada is an internationally recognized jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and founder of Jazz for Peace.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: Jazz for Peace grew from one artist response to 9-11 into a global platform using music to support peace, education, and grassroots causes.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: The initiative has now hosted more than 850 benefit concerts and supported organizations around the world.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: Rick has expanded the mission through music education, instrument donations, fundraising resources, the Jazz for Peace podcast, and a legacy series focused on voices and ideas worth preserving.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: His work challenges people to stop seeing purpose as something they admire from a distance and starts asking how can they participate?
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: Rick, welcome to your thoughts to reality, my friend.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Mike.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_03: It was a great introduction.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate it.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: So please, you know, tell us a little more about yourself.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I've started basically, I was a musician leading up to 9-11.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_03: And as I told you off camera, on 9-11, I kind of became a poet because I didn't have a piano while I was watching the events of 9-11.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: I was watching from a rooftop less than a quarter of a mile away, having been tipped off by a photographer down on Wall Street, that something crazy was going on at the World Trade Center.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_03: And I said, Well, let me just go up and on my roof, you know, I probably someone flew a kite into there or some stupid thing through a rock.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_03: And uh next thing I know is kind of walking into really a scene of a movie.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_03: And so watching that, you know, words swirled around inside my head, and I would jot them down here and there, little sentences, so that free up my mind to think other things, except instead of the words you know running around.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_03: I ended up with a poem called Jazz for Peace.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_03: And as I told you offline, I tried to live up to the poem for a few days thinking that, well, how many, you know, how many of us talk the talk and then don't walk the walk?
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_03: And here on this page was the walk, you know, Jazz for Peace.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_03: So I decided to follow the words of a poem, and here we are today.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, fantastic.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: And everybody stick around, you know, on the live, obviously, you know, for for the people listening later on the podcast forums.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: Rick is gonna give us a very special treat and he's gonna play something for us as well as do the poem at the same time.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I I have not heard the poem, so I'm very excited for that.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: Very, very cool.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so Rick, where did Jasper Peace come from?
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: I I understand, you know, from 9-11 and so on, but how, you know, after 25 years of carrying this mission, how has your definition of legacy changed from what you thought it was going to be when you started?
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you know, the the legacy series basically when I started with Jaz Your Peace, I started to realize that I had learned something that not everybody might be privy to, and that is that music is a powerful medium for positivity, for peace, for communication.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_03: And it breaks through every kind of barrier.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't matter if it's a language barrier, religious barrier, a cultural barrier, race, creed, I mean, you name it, music would break through it.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_03: And so I realize that, well, maybe we're not giving the arts and culture its full potential out there.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_03: You know, some people think, well, it's only, you know, come on here, kid, play some songs, and hopefully we'll sell a lot of drinks.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's not just, you know, put some music behind our scene, the scene in the movie.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, we got some products we got to sell.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_03: You know, let's put, let's record something to sell that.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_03: So there are different, you know, ways to do it that way.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_03: But what about throughout history?
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  SPEAKER_03: And throughout history, music has been a he has had healing qualities.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's you know, it's an amazing concept, and it has been known in children to stimulate their intellect.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_03: So it has educational purposes.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_03: And then I later found out through a famous quote that I is attributed to me that it can raise human consciousness.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_03: And that's when I was Mike on a basically, I had the poem.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't know what to do with it.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_03: The whole country was closed down, as you remember.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_03: And then two weeks later, they open the country, and I get this call from Savannah, Georgia, and they say, Rick, uh, what are you up to?
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_03: I said, I don't know, the country's been closed now.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_03: They said, Well, it's open.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_03: And I said, Well, I thought our thing was canceled.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, it's not canceled, it's on.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_03: Get your band, get down to Savannah, Georgia.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: Go to literally go to the airport.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_03: You got to get on the plane now, get down to Savannah, Georgia.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_03: I said, Well, how many people are gonna be there?
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_03: 8,500 people there, and they're all gonna hear you because you're the headliner.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_03: So nobody knew that I had a poem.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_03: I just put it in my pocket, you know, the piece of paper, and I took it out of my pocket during the show and I read it to 8,500 people and it reverberated north the Civil War, Civil War people.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_03: I said it went north faster than Sherman went south in the Civil War.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_03: Remember that story?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_03: If you remember the Sherman's March.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_03: This thing on the northern direction because I had another concert in the, you know, back up in upstate New York after that, and they had heard about that poem.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_03: So the point is the guy is um he's interviewing me for that concert, and he's writing he, I think he was recording and he asked me to recite the poem which I recited, and then he was just asking me, what do you think of this terrorism in the world?
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_03: And I just said, Listen, if we just fill, it's just real simple.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_03: If we just all of us fill our souls up with, and I said a bunch of things, I said, humanity, intelligence, creativity, artistry.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_03: And I just rattled off a bunch of things, not realizing at the time that those emotions are at a very high level of human consciousness on a human consciousness scale.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_03: I was just saying, well, of our great, if we just embrace our greatest qualities, fill our souls up with our greatest cause, we will have a better chance to avoid the behavior that leads to destruction.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_03: So kind of common sense.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_03: Let's get to give ourselves the best chance, all of us on this planet, and we'll, you know, bet at least have the best chance of avoiding it.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_03: Well, that got picked up by famous quotes websites.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: I didn't even know famous quotes websites existed.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_03: I've never even been to a famous quotes website, but they're all over the world, and all of them have that quote from the article.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: So my point is, you know, music as a way to raise human consciousness and our species in a position now where we don't know what to do with all this technology and the robots and all that.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_03: Well, why don't we use them to uh uh help us raise human consciousness, you know?
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: They can they can flip the burger while we you know uh embrace, you know what I mean, philosophy and all kinds of things in your book, some of the things you were talking about.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's funny because you do go back, and I was thinking about this before you came on.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: There is one thing that is, like you said, across the world that has been there since the big the beginning of humans banging on sticks or drums or whatever the case may be, but music has always been there for a reason.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: And and really, when you listen to that right song, and I'm not gonna go into the the brain science of this, but it it does release those amazing hormones, whether it's to pump you up, to relax you, just to feel more connected with a loved one, any of those things, music's always there.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm a musician as well, and I it there's nothing better than that connection, right?
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so so when when people get together and 8,500 people or 10,000 or three, it doesn't really matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: It it affects people and it's a beautiful thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I I love that story.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for sharing it.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_03: What instrument do you play, just out of curiosity?
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I started with mandolin when I was about 12.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: I was first chair clarinet in junior high school.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: I started guitar at 15 because it was cooler.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: I started playing a little bit of bass, a little bit of piano, and at 50 years old, decided, well, well, why not?
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: Let's start playing drums.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_03: That's a lot, a wide palette of stuff.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so glad I asked you that question.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, just to give you, just you know, when you're rattling those instruments off, I actually played in the band of one of the most famous clarinetists in history of music.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_03: If you look him up on, or you might even know who he is, but if you look him up, his name was Artie Shaw.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, absolutely.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_03: And he's one of the all-time great clarinetists, you know, of that instrument.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_03: That was his thing.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I played and I toured all over the all over the country, all over North America, actually, in the Artie Shaw Orchestra in a bus.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_03: And I was on a podcast a few days ago from Toronto, and I said, I've been to your your city only one time, and I played in this incredible place, Roy Thompson.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, Roy Thompson all's a great.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_03: And it was with that, it was with that uh group.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we could talk about that's a whole nother podcast.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: A whole nother one.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Literally, we could talk for days.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's that's awesome that you played with him.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so let me get refocused here.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: You use and it's part of the participation part that we were just kind of talking about.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: You said the answer begins with participation, and this is on a global scale, right?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: What's the difference between caring about a cause, supporting a cause, and actually deciding I'm going to become part of the solution?
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I think that's important for on on not just for what you're doing, it obviously applies to also what I'm doing, but just anything important in the world.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's one word, and that is the will.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I mean, listen, you hear this like it's a fractal and you hear it all the way across life, right?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_03: He's not gonna worry, we can give him all the help he wants with his alcohol problem or the drug problem.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_03: That's 10, 15 rehabs.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: The person needs the will ultimately to do it, to do anything.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_03: And so, what does Jaster Peace do?
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we realize that, listen, you have to have the will.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, it doesn't matter what kind of option we offer, we give you if you don't have that will.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_03: But if you have the will, let's not make the person climb up Mount Everest now in order to, you know, get to the other side.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_03: Let's try to provide the way in a way in which they can just so our challenge is to make sure that we have provided a way for you to participate if you have the will.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_03: And so Jazz for Peace, and we we send you this because we even want podcasters like you to participate.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_03: Because if the podcaster participates and I tell the audience, hey, all of you need to participate.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes I get a podcaster who says, I went to your easy thing, and I chose this one, I chose that one.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_03: And it's just better for our audience to know that, hey, we're not excluding anyone.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_03: We're not gonna ask you to do something that we wouldn't do, that our podcaster would, that anybody wouldn't do.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_03: No one's excluded.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_03: And here's why no one's excluded, Mike, because we have six options.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_03: Five of them are free.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_03: Now you might ask, how the hell am I gonna spend no money at all and get world peace funded at 1%?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we're world peace, and no one argues with me, it's funded at zero.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_03: That's kind of absurd.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I would call that Mike an oxymoron, but without any oxy.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_03: So how can we be so stupid as a species to fund?
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, if I was a Martian and I came here, I'd be looking at these people, are they crazy?
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_03: They fund peace at zero, they fund war at 100, and then they expect this all to work out.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you're gonna you're asking for trouble.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_03: Why don't you fund peace if you're equally as war at least, right?
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_03: How about equal?
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_03: Listen, we're at zero.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just trying to get us to 1%.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_03: And you can say, and I and I'm I'm here to ask me, how are you gonna do it if I find if I don't for free?
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_03: Well, here, check this out.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_03: One of the options is we have a little template link that invites an outstanding cause to participate, to accept funding from Jazz for Peace.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_03: So the Jasper Peace does a benefit concert series, it raises funds, it raises publicity and awareness, it gets helps them get sponsors, it helps them get new and prestigious supporters.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_03: It's called an empowerment tree.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_03: It does all these things.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_03: And why does it work?
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_03: Because the people we did it for say it worked, and they wrote us 850 letters, and we have a we have a, you know, when you go to that template letter, you can click and read all their letters and see that it worked for them.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's why we're offering it to you because it was worked 850 times.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's a high percentage play for an outstanding cause.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_03: You give that, I forgot to, what city are you in, Mike?
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm actually in a little town called Cool.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, wow, it's beautiful out there.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_03: I've actually skied in Lake Tahoe, but I haven't played in Lake Tahoe.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_03: I've played all over California.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_03: Let's say you take that link, you know, easy.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_03: It's actually jazz for peace.org forward slash easy template.pdf.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_03: And I think it's easy template, but it's easy template.pdf.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_03: You give that link.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: We have other links with the same thing.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, on the easy ways link, you also have it's one of the six options.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_03: So that's what I'm telling you.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_03: JasperPeace.org forward slash, and then to get to the page easy ways, because they're easy ways to peace.pdf.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_03: Six easy ways.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: If you choose that one, you take that link and you give it to a bunch of outstanding causes in your town, and we help one of them.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you didn't spend anything, you did it for free for free.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_03: You have made a huge debt in funding for world peace because we helped that organization, and maybe they now can tell another organization, you know, or maybe you give it to a few people.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_03: We helped two or three, we've helped 850, and lots of them have been in California.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_03: So that's why I'm telling people it is free if you want to choose a free option.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_03: Five of the six are free, but they do make a huge difference in helping us get from zero where we are now to one by the end of our year-long 25th anniversary celebration.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_03: And uh what I want the world to do if we get to one, and I want us to get to one, listen, with participation, we will get to one.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_03: There's 8.6 billion people.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: If even us, if even one percent of those of the people participated, we'd be way over one percent world peace.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_03: But I'd like to get to one percent, and then I'd like to say to the world, hey, what do you guys think of our world at 1% as opposed to zero?
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_03: And they might agree to go to 2%.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: And here's the here's the thing, right?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's how you become part of the solution.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: So I I love that you said that.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I I wanna I wanna we we were almost halfway through the show already.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: So I wanna I want to get back to questions really quick.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: So, uh because you're gonna play that amazing piece in your poem as well, and we gotta have time for that.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: So Jazz for Peace has hosted more than 850 benefit concerts.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: You talk about being part of the solution, right?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: Across all of those causes.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: What have you learned about the difference between a moment that feels inspiring and an effort that creates lasting impact?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm asking this because I want veterans and top performers and people of the world, if you will, to really understand the difference between, oh, that's inspiring and it's gone, compared to an effort that creates lasting impact.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_03: Like well, I'll give you an example.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you mentioned that we have a podcast, we have this Lun Legacy series, but the spin-up, the the original one is called The Final Solution is Love, because we do believe love is the ultimately the answer.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_03: The Beatles were right.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_03: Love is the answer.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_03: We just have to do it the right way.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_03: But basically, a woman contacted me on that podcast.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, amazing people have contacted me to be on that show.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_03: And one woman was like, I said, What, you know, she said, I've I've researched all these podcasts, I found a yours, you're the one.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: I said, What are you gonna?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_03: She said she crossed over, she met God.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: I said, Okay, listen, come on and tell me about it.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_03: I said, What did God tell you?
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_03: He said, God's told me we're doing everything backwards.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: Now that resonated because I've always felt like we're doing things backwards.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_03: When I did Jasper Peace, I felt like it was forward on that day.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_03: I felt like we were going forward.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: I felt like, you know, we had reversed it and we're going forward.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_03: So that's what legacy is about.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_03: And I'll give you an example.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: In California, I was in LA once, and I played this uh event for this woman who wanted to address bullying in the schools because her son had been bullied, and there was nothing to there was nothing in their community that was addressing it.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_03: So she forms an organization to address bullying in schools, little tiny mom and pop organization, and I'm trying to help them with all those uh branches, and I'm trying to get the sponsors and get this and that.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: And I got all the way there.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_03: I brought an instrument, I donated it to the school, you know, and I got all the way back from there.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, gee, I sure hope I did enough for them, but I don't know if I did, and maybe blah, blah.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_03: And I wasn't sure if I did enough for them.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_03: A letter comes in, and I thought, this is the letter.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: Here it is.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_03: This letter comes in.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: And I thought, this woman is probably gonna say, thanks, nice try.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for giving your heart, thanks for giving your soul, you know.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_03: But not that it was enough, but thanks again.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_03: She the letter wasn't about the sponsors, the letter wasn't about the funds, the letter wasn't about new and prestigious supporters that we got for her.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: It wasn't about anything about the empowerment tree.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: You know what it was about?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_03: Her son that got bullied.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: And you know what she said?
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_03: Her son was transformed by the fact that a great, you know, a famous musician in her eyes from all the way in New York came all the way out to up to address him for him, because we cared about him.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_03: He's transformed.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm like, that's the great, you know, what could I have possibly?
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_03: So there you go.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_03: We changed this guy's life.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, that meant more to me than any of us.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_03: We grade a billion dollars.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_03: I'd rather help the kid, right?
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: Than just get the money and the kid is still broken.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_03: Do you see what I'm saying?
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_03: So that's why I'm saying that we have made a permanent change in this person's life and the music, the arts and culture and jazz specifically has a track record of having a profoundly positive impact on people.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_03: So that's why this event can be more meaningful than just a pin the tail on the donkey event, even if the even if you pin the tail on uh, you know, the lever that raised the lever in uh Las Vegas that hits the jackpot, it's still not gonna change a person's life.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: You see what I mean?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_03: And music will.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: I I love that, and I agree 100%, you know, it's the same reason I'm doing it.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: If I can help one person, I I I'm successful, right?
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: And so especially, you know, let's let's talk about for a second is you know, you helped that one that one kid, right?
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: So that changed his life, and that's gonna change, guess what, generationally, right?
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: Which is which is the goal, right?
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: I always say people say, Yeah, you're really creating a ripple effect.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no, it's I'm creating a tsunami in a good way, you know?
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'm you're doing the same damn thing.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's awesome, man.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: I I love what you're doing.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: So so peace can sound huge and abstract for people.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I mean, truly.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, most people are like peace, I don't even know what that means.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: So for someone listening who can't influence or or doesn't think, I should say, influence governments or world events, what does contributing to peace actually look like in a family setting, workplace, a veteran community, or or a neighborhood for that matter?
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_03: A perfect example again is helping outstanding causes because when you help an outstanding cause that you believe in, see, there's a million outstanding causes.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_03: Anybody can pose as one.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_03: And some of them are just some guy writing money off his taxes.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_03: So he's not, but you're in a community, you can really look into it.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: You can see, oh, you can, it might be someone you know.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I know this guy.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: He's genuine, he's sincere, he really wants to make it.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: This guy really wants to make that river clean.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever their goal is, whatever the mission is.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_03: So when you help them, everyone, everything that they're doing is on a projectory towards a more peaceful world.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_03: So that's these are the kinds of things I mean by peaceful, you know.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_03: But I mean, of course, there's a million of them.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you know, just doing something nice for somebody on the street.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: You know what it is?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_03: Anything that makes your soul wealthy, because we're all looking for wealth in a monetarity way.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: And you see these people that got all this money, they are bankrupt spiritually because they didn't bother to.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Get wealthy on the inside.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: So if you do something and you find out that you're getting wealthy on the inside, you're probably on the right track towards peace, towards a definition of peace.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I love that.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, a contribution is one of the six things that human beings need to feel like they're moving forward in life, you know?
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I I absolutely love that.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: And here's the thing, right?
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: When you when you're contributing in in a way, and that that has all kinds of avenues, right?
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: It it's let me let me go back one step.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: I want you to think that, not you necessarily, but our our audience to look back at when you did something good for somebody, when you contributed to something.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: How did that feel?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Because usually it's excitement and it's it brings you some energy.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: It really does.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: It feels good.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: And if we do that, the more gratefulness that we have for the opportunities to do it, it just builds that momentum.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: So so I I love that.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: Will you talk about that just a little bit more?
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, just moving forward and helping people and the gratefulness that I think I'm sure because I talked to you that you have for what happened with 9-11.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: It was a horrible thing, but the beautiful thing that came out of it.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_03: Well, a lot of things, you know, that they've said a lot of greatness comes out of adversity.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: So sometimes the biggest adversity, it's almost like, you know, if it something that goes down that far has the ability to go up this far, depending on your reaction to it.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_03: So I was prepared, they say luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_03: I was prepared to react in a very positive way because it had been held in, you know, a lot of subliminal messages were telling me that maybe what I was thinking in my soul wasn't correct, and maybe I should be thinking this and thinking that.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: And then when I saw that, I realized, no, actually, I've read all along.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: I think we better start doing what's in my heart, what's in my soul.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: I think I better start projecting that out and letting people know that, you know, you know, we need to, we need to get our, you know, this is a journey for us internally that's has the potential to affect people externally in in a positive way.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely love it, man.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: And and it it really is.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: I I want to real quick because I know we need to close this up, but yeah, I mean, when you think back on what happened, and then I I look back, you know, I I do 10-year increments generally.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, man, if that didn't happen, this wouldn't have happened, if that didn't happen, this wouldn't have happened, you know.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: So it's beautiful how it turned into a life journey for you, you know.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: I I I love it, man.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: I want to go through one more quick question and then we'll get to the to the to the peaceful, amazing thing you're about to do.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: So for the person listening who wants their life to stand for more, but doesn't need to start a global movement, you know, and sometimes you don't think you need to, but it actually turns into one, right?
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: What's one question they can ask themselves today to identify the skill or experience or the cause they can begin using in service of something bigger?
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I would again say our easy ways link, and it's just jazzurepeace.org forward slash easyways.pdf.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_03: We've got six of them to choose from.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, if you choose one of them, and like I said, they're easy.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_03: So you can do this and get it out of the way and get it behind you in a in a heartbeat.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_03: And then from there, guess what?
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_03: You're on the track.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_03: You're the train has left the station.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: You're on the journey, you're on the journey to the next one and the next one and the next one.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_03: And the great thing about Jasper Peace is that everyone that we've worked with has always stayed in touch with us.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_03: This, you know, there in other words, the door is always open.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_03: So you can always say, Hey, I worked with you on this or that, or I did this one easy thing.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, I I liked it.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_03: I had fun.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_03: Well, how can I go from here?
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_03: And we'll be happy to help you, you know, get to grow that, grow that inner wealth into a redwood tree.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely love it.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely love it.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, speaking of redwood trees in California.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I I know.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_03: You you got me thinking, you got me in the California dreaming, you know, California.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: I reckon, you ready to play and then do your poll?
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, absolutely.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go ahead and get that all set up whenever you're ready.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I hear jazz for peace coming through the trees, and in my heart, it fills me like a celebration.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_02: I see the light and I want to follow.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_04: Inspired by the past contributions of those that came before, laid the groundwork for us to build on in this universal language that is a gift for all mankind.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_04: When we speak it, people are enlightened by the creativity and artistry that stands for peace and loveity and intelligence that leads to reaching potential that we have in our souls so we can raise our total conscience.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_04: See the gift of giving our greatest privilege.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_04: Wondering if I will have you.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_04: You've affected my heart so deeply wishing for a silver landing.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_04: I can get you out of my mind.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_04: I can't wait forever.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_04: I know it's a roll of the deaths, fear of maybe never, but until the time that it comes, I can just keep on hoping living inside of each.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_04: But until the time that it comes, I can just keep on hoping living inside a day tree living inside a day tree, living inside a day tree living inside a true awesome, man.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: Woohoo! There's there's lots of people.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: Let's imagine lots of people doing that right now.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um fantastic.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for sharing that, man.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_01: We did lose, we did lose the other camera, but that's okay.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_01: We got some of it.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_01: So absolutely worth it, man.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for sharing that.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um Rick Go ahead, sorry.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_03: My pleasure, Mike.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, absolutely.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: So, uh Rick, for everyone listening, I know you you shared about Jasper Peace and you know how to support, but will you give us the the contact information, you know, one more time so people know how to get involved?
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_03: Well, a real easy way, and you'll never, you know, it's hard to forget this.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's hard, you know, something you could just remember in your mind.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_03: You can go on YouTube right now because of our 25th anniversary.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_03: And you just remember Jasper Peace, JFP.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_03: It's our 25th anniversary 25.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_03: So if you go to YouTube search and do JFP25, you will get everything you need, really, to find us.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_03: You know, the things about our our 25-year history, our music.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_03: You'll hear me playing all kinds of different songs and doing jazz versions of them.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_03: And hopefully, from there, the next time you see me, it'll be on person playing for a crowd, like like Mike says, of people that are helping an outstanding cause with my parents.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: Love it.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely love it.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get you up in Lake Tahoe, man.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's beautiful up there.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_03: It is.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_03: I've skied at Heavenly, so I know exactly how beautiful it is where you are.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, absolutely.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_01: So, as we know, time is the most precious resource we have as human beings, we don't get it back.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: Rick, thank you so much for spending this moment in time to help our mission really make a difference.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_03: My pleasure, Mike.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: If something in today's conversation resonated with you, don't just move on to the next thing.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_01: Sit with it for a minute.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: If you said, Oh, that's an idea, or you got goosebumps, or any of those things, there's a reason why, subconsciously or consciously consciously.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_01: So just sit with it a minute and then take an action to move forward.
• 35:28
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• 35:33
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• 35:41
  SPEAKER_01: And remember, your thoughts shape your reality.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: We're out of here.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining us on another insightful journey of Your Thoughts, Your Reality Podcast with your host, Michael Cole.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: We hope the conversation sparked some thoughts that resonate with you.
• 35:59
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• 36:06
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• 36:10
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• 36:15
  SPEAKER_00: Catch you on the next episode.