The Shifting Perceptions Podcast by Jay Alders - Inspiration For Creative Lifestyles

Leave Us A Review This week we spoke with our dear friend Maria Brophy.  Maria is a powerhouse in the business side of the art world. She helps artists that are lost in the business side of things and gets their careers on the right path. After speaking to her husband, surfer and artist Drew Brophy a couple months ago, we wanted to hear about the other side of this family-owned art empire. Maria h...

Leave Us A Review Ben Lee is an Australian born Singer/Songwriter who gained notoriety as a musician with his first band " Noise Addict" . Ben later went on to achieve huge global success as a solo act and has released over 20 albums. If you don't know Ben Lee from his playful pop/folk hit songs like " Catch My Disease " or " Gamble Everything For Love " from his album, "Awake is the New Sleep", y...

Leave us a Review How does a " straight " father of two who's also a school principal in Texas with a 401K and life all set, end up moving to California, come out as a gay man, find the love of his life in a coming out support group, do a Ted Talk with over a million views, become a world-renowned Author, public speaker, Podcaster and Book Coach?   Shifts…major freaking shifts!   Azul Terronez is...

Leave us a Review   Autumn Berrang is a seasoned entrepreneur, ad agency co-founder, branding and marketing expert as well as a client services VP for Rauxa, the largest women-owned ad agency in the country. Though she now calls Manhattan home, her award-winning ad agency, Adjective & Co. which is based in Jacksonville, Florida has a strong case for being known as one of the best boutique branding...

Leave us a Review   This weeks episode is with Dan Lebowitz, better known in the music industry as "Lebo". Known for his musicality, versatility, and heartfelt delivery, Lebo is inherently committed to an improvisational approach. The vehicle for his fluid, buttery sound is a flat top acoustic guitar that he has personally customized and converted to electric with a vintage style Humbucker pickup....

This week we spoke with performance coach, motivational speaker, and author Jairek Robbins. Jairek shared with us the principles that he has based his career on. He has an energetic and motivating personality that really can convince you that you are capable of anything in this world if you just own it! We cover his daily rituals and we talked about balancing how we give ourselves to others while...

Please Leave Us a Rating & Review This interview is with professional artist and big wave surfer Drew Brophy. Some magical things happened when we combined two surf artists to chat about surf, art, science, chakras, universal laws, intentional creativity and the energy in the universe...Jay and Drew got super nerdy and super gnarly in every direction. We learned about Drew's focus towards science-...

Leave us a Review   This weeks episode is with Rob Nagel,  the founder, and owner of the New Jersey and Florida based restaurant chain Surf Taco. Rob's story is that of an accidental entrepreneur. He went from not knowing what he wanted to do to owning 14 restaurants on the east coast. This is a wild and relatable ride that includes 7 colleges, camping out in the Florida Keys, writing screenplays,...

Leave us a Review Meet Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author Steve Scott who not only has created a phenomenal business model based on Kindle E-books but Business Insider listed his book Habit Stacking as the #2 best business book of 2016….just behind Elon Musk's most recent book.   His shift from being accidentally enlisted in the Air Force to writing over 70 books to making 100K a month as a b...

Leave us a Review This week we talk with Big Wave Surfer, Stand Up Paddler, Father, Grandfather, Husband, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt and Founder and Owner of Brazil's Alma Surf Magazine...Romeu Andreatta. Jay's story started with Romeu in Brazil in 2007 when he took a chance on Jay and invited him down for the Alma Surf Magazine's Surf Festival.   Considering the Alma Surf Festival was in some...

Leave us a Review This weeks episode is with the one and only Garrett Dutton, otherwise known as G Love.   Garrett shares his story from sitting on the curbs of Philly and playing an acoustic guitar to selling out massive shows and playing with everyone from Jack Johnson to Ben Harper.   This interview covers everything from Picasso and street art to Nas and TLC.   Garretts shares his methods on s...

This week's episode is with Dan Blank, owner of WeGrowMedia and author, coach, and motivator for aspiring authors and creatives. Are you stuck or looking for what's next in your creative endeavors? With a bit of planning, what can your daily schedule look like?   Dan shares his daily routines, processes, and experience to give you the structure and first steps needed to accomplish your goals. This...

Leave us a Review   This weeks episode is with our good friend and fellow artist Alex Lanau. We first met Alex because of his amazing art work covering the walls of local New Jersey hot spot, Surf Taco.   Alex's art career has deep roots in the Surf and Music world, spanning from his early days working alongside legendary bands like Sublime and Weezer.   Alex calls Pavones, Costa Rica home and if...

Leave us a Review   This week's episode is with the owner of Denver's David B. Smith Art Gallery, David B. Smith.  We start our chat with David discussing how he shifted his path in life by using a MySpace Forum to create the reputation he needed to develop the reputable and dynamic art gallery he owns today.    So, how do we define art?  Since that's a question that we seem to debate together bas...

Leave us a Rating & Review   This weeks interview is with local New Jersey Native Quincy Mumford.  We have known Quincy since he was a 16 year old kid playing in taco joints. So this months release of his oh so soulful single "Thank You" off his forthcoming EP Titled "Every Wednesday"  ( which  has reached almost 400K streams in four weeks we might add ) has completely blown our minds.   Not only...

Leave us a Review This week on Shifting Perceptions we sat down and chatted with Will Conner. Will owns and runs a large hat brand called Conner Hats out of St. Augustine, Florida and performs his music alongside legends like Singer/Songwriter Jack Johnson and Pro-Surfer Dave Rastovich as his side gig. Will is an incredible singer/songwriter, a successful entrepreneur, a surfer, an environmental a...

Leave us a Review Understanding Back Pain and Why the Foundation Training Method worked for Dr. Eric Goodman and how it is helping thousands of others. Dr. Eric Goodman - On how his major failure's lead to the development of and hyper-focus on what eventually became Foundation Training. Learning about the Posterior chain and how keeping these muscles strong can be a total game changer for our alig...

Leave us a Review Bob Mignogna served as Publisher to Surfing Magazine for 25 years and is a legend in the Surfing Industry. His legacy includes helping to bring Surfing to the 2020 Olympics and influencing the entire Action Sports Community. We discuss all his leaps, family and a lifetime of big leaps forward. But Also: Hawaii in the 70's Woodstock, Gerry Lopez Michael Peterson Mark Foo Surfing i...

Leave us a Review After a year or so of talking about it and months of planning, we decided to start a Podcast. But also: • State of flow • Artistic inspiration • Parenting Three Children • Re-invention as a Birth Doula • Living with Purpose • Entrepreneur Life • Taking Connect with The Shifting Perceptions Podcast: Shifting Perceptions Website Facebook Instagram Twitter Connect with Jay Alders Ja...