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How America the Dream Came to Be (Part 1)

–With Award-Winning Recording Artist and Composer Steve Schuch

Episode Summary

Join us for a most wonderful story about how musing on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream!” speech and America the Beautiful traveled a musical way to becoming a new America the Dream.

Episode Notes

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk. I’m your host, Diane Wyzga.

Today we have a special bonus episode because the boys are back in town. My guest is Steve Schuch joining us from Hancock, New Hampshire. Steve is a former Peace Corps volunteer, Audubon naturalist, award-winning recording artist and author, composer, musician, and recipient of the Parent’s Choice Gold Award for his CD Trees of Life. You’ve heard his music on NPR and PBS. But mostly I’ve known Steve as my brother-in-law. I’ve invited him here to share with us a most wonderful story about how musing on Martin Luther King, Jr. and America the Beautiful traveled all its musical way to becoming a new America the Dream.

What makes this such a neat story? Let’s hear how all this came to be. Welcome to the podcast, Steve!

Diane F. Wyzga
Diane F. Wyzgahttps://www.quartermoonstoryarts.net/
"DIANE IS A KEEN STORYTELLING PROBLEM SOLVER BECAUSE SHE LISTENS DEEPLY, QUESTIONS WITH EMPATHY, AND BELIEVES THAT THE CLIENT HAS THE ANSWERS TO THEIR COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES. TRUST DIANE TO FIND THE STORY, LISTEN IT OUT OF YOU, AND GUIDE YOU TO A BETTER STORY." ... MANY OF US tell our stories from the perspective of what we do, the tasks we complete, and the great things we deliver. However, we forget that we are human beings with stories to tell to connect with other human beings and their stories. Our stories and the power of our human voice attract us to each other and attract our clients and audiences. FOR 30 YEARS I’ve helped professionals take their story from a message only they could hear to the publishing world, the courtroom, hospitals, board meetings, the airwaves, and more. Stories that swayed juries. Built markets. Spread ideas. Changed things. TODAY I HELP others become successful story influencers. It’s a niche the world needs: helping socially conscious professionals and organizations succeed by discovering and delivering their authentic story messages to connect with, engage, and influence their audience. HOW DID I EARN THE RIGHT TO CARRY THE STORY MEDICINE? I know struggles. I offer solutions. Over the years as an incest survivor, a professional woman in male-dominated professions, growing up with generational myths about the role of women, I lost my voice, had it taken from me, felt it compressed and constrained. I silenced myself only to learn that language is power when it is brought to light and life. When we discover our one true authentic voice, we shape our personal or professional story, mission, or vision so we are seen, heard, understood, and listened to. When we tell our story to advance our business, create clarity in life choices, give life to our ideas, we connect, engage, and influence our audience with our courage, confidence, conviction, and creativity. WHETHER YOU ARE READY to work with me as your trusted story guide or getting ready to be ready, I am ready to support you at Quarter Moon Story Arts. MEANWHILE, FEEL WELCOME feel welcome to subscribe to my monthly Engaged Storyism© Network NewsAudioLetter and listen to my global podcast episodes on Stories From Women Who Walk.

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2 CONVERSATIONS

  1. Hello, Jeff ~
    How kind of you to take the time to listen. That *is* where the unfulfilled promise of America will continue to gain traction. To the ideas, what ifs, optimism, collaboration, creativity and so forth as you mentioned on Linked In.
    I’ve known Steve as my sister’s main squeeze and then husband for decades. I’ve followed his work, collected his music, helped him out on word choices for songs he was composing, sweated it out as cognitive functions were dulled by Lyme’s Disease, prevailed up on him to lend two pieces to score my podcasts, and yet this was the first time we’ve taken this kind of opportunity to sit and chat and laugh and learn and share – and then (!) get to bring all of it to the world.
    You are welcome – and thank you for journeying along with us ~ Diane

  2. Diane —
    I just spent the most enjoyable two hours, first listening to your brother-in-law explain how he came up with the concept for America the Dream, then listening / watching the arrangements for III and IV, and finally watching Shelbie Rassler’s “What the World Needs Now.”

    My eyes still moist from it all, I turned to the New York Times only to read that the Voting Rights Bill in front of the Senate is likely to fail. Only in America. America really is an unfulfilled promise. We are still in the works.

    Thanks for a wonderful journey, Diane.

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