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In The Media

Are you Ready??? Well you may want to get that cuppa and settle in for this emotionally charged, yet inspiring discussion that I had with the host of the Overcoming Adversity podcast, Michael Allison.  Michael met with me almost a year ago to discuss one of the first books we wrote, Towards Understanding, and overcoming a variety of challenges including my own inner judge and critic,  entrepreneurial burnout, anxiety disorders, and multiple personal losses. YouTube:  https://youtu.be/ OndBaZkkLM0 Spotify:   https://open.spotify. com/episode/ 2qsv0csU8T50KDEgi6pXwr Apple:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-82-overcoming-self-sabotage-to-actionable-transformation/id1680104061?i=1000660548286   ~~~     Follow & Find Books:   on Amazon Visit:   Drum It With Brummet Blog Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

Our poetic journey

I've often been asked by the media to describe our poetic journey and how Dave and I differ as poets.  https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0845RLK1X A professional drummer/percussionist and educator, Dave has collaborated on many songs that later led to him writing lyrics of his own. Most of his poems in this book were in fact initially written as song lyrics, thus the presence of repeating choruses though out. Actually it was Dave who first sparked the idea for us to walk this path we tread today – he decided to take a writer’s course to learn what he might be able to do with his short stories that he has compiled over the years. Most of those stories have remained unpublished to this day due to other projects taking precedence, but Dave plans to release some in the near future. His poem “UFO Dream” is the theme of one of his soon-to-be novels that he has been working on. I began writing poetry as a teenager, which allowed me to express the issues and emotions from a broken home...