James’ Daily Emails

If you’ve followed my emails for awhile, you may recall me talking about naming my business Committed Media. It’s got a good back story. I was inspired to do it while at the Wyndham Garden Maximum Security Facility in Hanoi, Vietnam this past January. My wife Sana and I had just finished putting together the…

Recently a client and dear friend reached out and said her episode for her show would be a little bit late on the recording. No problem, I replied. It happens. And it’s better to be a day late than miss a week entirely. So she got it done and sent a message to let me…

My son Gabriel and I watched the most recent movie going by the title Journey to the Center of the Earth this past weekend. It was actually really entertaining. I’d never seen any movies based on the novel, nor have I read the novel, but it kind of made me want to do both. The…

My son Gabriel is a legit video game addict. Perhaps it’s an escape for him from the constant drama between his parents. Or maybe he just is prone to enjoy video games over other things kids like. Whatever the case may be, he’s always playing his Switch, or his iPad, but he loves nothing more…

I remember in my early days of being a podcaster, someone who’s opinion I highly value personally recommended to me that I listen to a particular individual who had achieved a certain level of success in his own right doing his own show, running his own business, etc. So I tuned in for a few…

January 2020 was when I popped the “proposal” to my wife Sana. You’ll note I didn’t say I “popped the question.” In my mind, it was a done deal, it was simply time to say, “Alright, let’s do this.” We were in our apartment in Vietnam, the moment was seemingly gifted to me from on…

In today’s of the Trumpet Dynamics podcast, hot off the press, player/teacher/author extraordinaire Chris Gekker talks about how the playing of jazz was at one time forbidden in the sacred halls of the Juilliard School. Chris is no spring chicken, we’re talking the 60’s here, and Juilliard has since rectified the issue. But believe it…

This past week Podcast Artistry™ client Ariane Sommer (host of the outstanding Superhumanize podcast which I highly recommend checking out) sent over some material to put into the podcast sausage factory we’ve honed and fine-tuned with a great deal of success and efficiency. Upon downloading the files, entering the interview into the template and giving…

Back when Sana and I met in March 2019, I knew within a very short time that getting her to be my wife was going to be my top priority in life. We had established using WhatsApp as our mode of communication of choice, and I would literally send messages every hour on the hour,…

I just watched a video of an individual playing an orchestral excerpt on the trumpet that every orchestral trumpet player knows and has played a thousand times. What gets me is how he played it with such passion, eyes closed for dramatic effect, as though this performance of it will be truly special. Meanwhile, the…