TBJ135: Jeff Nelsen on Fearless Performance, habit formation and how Canadian Brass is responding to the international quarantine

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

Links:

• Jeff's site
• Jeff's IU page
• Canadian Brass page
• Jeff's first appearance on The Brass Junkies
• Jeff's George Mason masterclass

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Expertly produced by Will Houchin with love, care, and enthusiasm.