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Now, on to today's episode.

Hey, I've got a question for you. What's your relationship

with music like? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it perhaps a little bit of both? Well, on today's

episode, I'm going to get a little bit vulnerable with you. Share a little bit of my personal life experience with music, my journey with music, and how oftentimes in this

journey of playing music and exploring it and getting better, it was quite an abusive and

unhealthy relationship.

And this past of mine with a bad relationship with music has greatly informed how I

approach teaching jazz and the way I help my inner circle members and beyond so that

they don't have the same relationship with music for themselves.

All right?

So this is going to be an important one.

So definitely tune on in.

And let's jump right into it.

Okay. All right, everybody, what's up? Brent here.

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