big quiet

The inaugural Wild Wild Chat is with the sorceress of sound herself, Jackie Cantwell. She sat down with Daisy across the ‘net and talked reorganizing your cells with sound, finding your voice, and calling your own BS on social media and beyond.

Jackie Cantwell is a musician & sound meditation leader who has played sound bowls & led breath-work for some of the largest meditations in the world. Jackie facilitates sound globally for mass meditations through The Big Quiet, is Director of Medi Club (#mediclub) and is Founder of Camp Remember--a kids summer camp that uses yoga, meditation, & the arts as tools for self discovery. Most recently, Jackie was on tour with @Oprah, playing sound bowls for mass meditations in sold out arenas across the US.

Learn more: www.jackiecantwell.com // Wild Wild Show Notes: Jackie Cantwell (@itsjackiecantwell), The Big Quiet (@thebigquiet), Camp Remember (@campremember), Crystal Tones Bowls (www.crystalsingingbowls.com), Paul Kuhn (@paulmkuhn)

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Jackie Cantwell, Director of "mediclub" and partner of "The Big Quiet" (founded by Jesse Israel), sits down to discuss her journey from Pratt Institute, running away and battling depression, excessive drinking and partying, being homeless (living out of a car/friends' couches), owning two art galleries, and becoming director of Mediclub. We discuss her tour with Jesse and Oprah, the science behind sound bowls, why Millennials struggle with acceptance, the impact of COVID19 on virtual community, how to get past "surface level" conversation, and marketing ("attracting" vs. "selling").

LEARN MORE ABOUT MEDICLUB: @mediclub
THE BIG QUIET: https://thebigquiet.com/
JACKIE CANTWELL: @itsjackiecantwell

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

• You went to Pratt institute to study art. You’ve been involved with, and founded, many different things, mostly related to the art world. SHIM, the Bishop, project remember, just add bacon, to name a few. What is the big picture goal for you? And why art?
• How do you go from art to meditation? Can you briefly share your story of how you originally discovered mediclub and how you eventually became the director?
• I’m curious, what was it like going from being in front of 200 people to 15,000 in packed stadiums? 
• how did you get into sound bowls? What are sound bowls?
• Topics
• Mental health and millennials. Why do millennials struggle so much with acceptance and belonging? Did previous older generations not have this issue? Or they just pretended not to and sucked it up?
• I have to ask you about community and covid19. So much of the spirit and soul of mediclub is about meeting people in person and having that intimate connection. Is it possible to have a real sense of community virtually? Are we just filling in time until things get back to normal, or is this a longer term societal shift that you think is going to stick around?
• Communication. Interestingly i hear a lot of my millennial peers struggle with making connection and making or keeping friends. People struggle with communication, and getting past surface level conversation. How have you personally broken through that? What advice can you share?
• Branding and messaging. Authenticity is a big component to mediclub and the big quiet. It seems to have a very cool vibe. You don’t pay for advertising. Its all word of mouth. You use a basic google forms doc to sign up. You don’t have a website. You don’t try to sell people on benefits. You’re very careful in the language you use, only really stating your purpose and why you gather. In a world where we’re constantly being sold things and everyone tries to create hype and exclusivity as marketing gimmicks, how do avoid that temptation? What strategy are you using when thinking about promotion?
• What personal struggles or fears have you had to overcome in your journey through mediclub and the big quiet?
• Other than oprah, What is your personal all Time favorite mediclub or big quiet moment?
• What is something you wish someone had told you 5 years ago, or you had told yourself, that you had to learn on your own? But would have made life so much easier had you known.
• How can people get involved and learn more about you?

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 Lauren Bille, Co-Founder of "allbodies", sits down to discuss her modern health education platform, the exploitation of power, the injustices that women (and men!) share, the importance of fighting assumptions, and explains what the heck a "doula" is (P.S. I was way off).
LEARN MORE ABOUT ALLBODIES: https://www.allbodies.com
INSTA: @allbodieshealth
Check out their new online classes! https://allbodies.com/digital-classes/

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

• Lauren I have so many questions for you but first just explain what allbodies is.
• Why is this important to you. Of all the things in the world, why are you doing this? And what is a Doula?
• Was it hard or easy to come to that realization and own your truth? How can others find their truth?
• TOPICS:
• Millennials. What are the unique cultural challenges that millennials face in terms of talking about, discussing and learning about the reproductive system? As opposed to older generations
• What are some stereotypes or misperceptions you get from people that you would like to open peoples minds about or offer an alternate viewpoint?
• What percentage of allbodies is politically focused vs educational?
• Policy change. Ideal policy change? What does that look like if you had a magic wand?
• Millennials sometimes feel i can’t make change. All these big lobbying groups. What role can they play?
• Men. Historical context midwives were not allowed to be educated. European doctors that organized, wrote the literature, made the rules. Hence a large part why we are where we are today. Even in today’s culture, male dominated society of raising capital, VCs, investment firms, scalability, roi, kpi, metrics to hit based on boundaries of narrow thinking.
• Question is want to be very careful in my language here: if men have been part of the problem historically. And deservedly so. I’m a man and i agree. How do we include them in the conversation moving forward? Without feeling ostracized and what role can they play?
• Challenges of not having a Business degree? Is it necessary to be taken seriously? Or just understand the lingo? Or both? Do you wish you had done something differently knowing what you know now to save you stress?
• Lack of resources. Money? People who are listening who want to build their own community? Advice you would give based on what your have learned.
• What’s been your own biggest personal struggle or fear that you’ve had to overcome in building out this community?
• What is something you wish someone had told you 5 years ago, or you had told yourself, that you had to learn on your own? But would have made life so much easier had you known.
• Who is the right person for this community and how can they get involved. Whats the range? From the least to most