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Everything in life is better understood if you can learn to see the strings attached. Jamie Gale is a thought leader who rose to prominence in the guitar industry by simplifying complex concepts. In this podcast, he engages in cross-disciplinary discussions to reveal how everything from guitar design to architecture, philosophy, physics and more can be better understood if you learn to see the universal truths that underpin our world.
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Sex, lies, control, secrets: The inside story of a husband’s plot to murder his wife by sabotaging her parachute - as told by the team of detectives who refused to give up on the case. itv.com/nostringsattached
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She's the ex wife. She's the girlfriend. They should hate each other. They definitely shouldn’t want to start a podcast together. But sometimes life works in mysterious and magical ways. These are the musings, reflections and occasional accidental insights of two women who have become great friends against the odds. How are they able to put aside their egos and overcome conventional hang ups about each other? How do they inspire each other to be better mothers, friends and partners? How can ...
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This week, I'm joined by Finnish master guitar maker Juha Ruokangas to talk about the future of guitars, music and his own business. With over three decades of experience in the game, building some of the finest quality instruments available on Earth, Juha certainly has an interesting perspective on the changing world of the guitar. It was fascinat…
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Unsurprisingly, when you talk to someone who’s a designer, professor, writer, musician and multimedia artist, your conversation covers quite a lot of ground. Ed Keller’s career and projects span an incredible breadth of work across many fields. Often with an interdisciplinary approach, he’s taught and run centers at prestigious institutions around …
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Having served for more than a decade in the Army, received an MBA and worked as an executive in a Fortune 500 company, Jason Kostal was already highly accomplished when he came to guitar building – and it’s now yet another area in his life where he’s achieved excellence. Bringing such a varied experience into his work gives Jason a uniquely informe…
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Guitar builder Randy Parsons joins me to share some incredible stories on this week’s episode, including working with Jack White, using a cattle skull for the bracing of a guitar he made for Jimmy Page, how he came up with the 50,000-piece Red Queen in a single moment of spontaneity, how he moved his workshop from a former Hell Angels hideout to a …
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I’m pleased to announce that my guest this week on Life With Strings Attached is guitar maker Michael Greenfield. Michael is passionate about tone. Great tone. FAT tone. Squeezing every last molecule of tone out of his instruments. Prior to making the commitment to build full-time, he spent 20 years repairing and restoring vintage instruments. He h…
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This week on Life With Strings Attached, we’re exploring the intersection of neuroscience, music and advanced AI. Our guide through these topics is Dr. Gabriel Axel Montes, a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, author, musician, and researcher and practitioner of consciousness development. With a focus on AI, Gabriel works both hands-on and at the though…
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I’m very pleased to have Legendary instrument designer Ned Steinberger as our special guest on this week’s episode of Life With Strings Attached. With a remarkable 40-year legacy, Ned Steinberger has been at the forefront of innovation, with instruments that have revolutionized the industry and set new standards for performance and ergonomic comfor…
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I’m pleased to have Murray Kuun as our special guest on this week’s episode of Life With Strings Attached. Murray says that a transformative trip to Italy in the 1990s, punctuated by a visit to Michelangelo’s David and a serendipitous encounter with a Luthier, ignited his desire to craft musical instruments. With only a poorly written book as guida…
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We talk a lot about tone – but what's the science behind the sound of our stringed instruments? To tackle this topic, I can think of few better people to talk with than Tom Nania. As well as his work as an acoustics engineer with D'Addario, Tom is a member of the Violin Society of America’s Oberlin Acoustics Workshop. Prior to joining D’Addario, he…
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Robin Stummvoll of Verso Instruments was recently explaining to me how big an influence Ulrich Teuffel was for his guitar designs. And when it became clear that the two had never met – despite coming from the same region in Germany – I felt I had to change that. Luckily, they agreed, and I had the pleasure of bringing the two guitar innovators toge…
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I'm very pleased to have Omer Deutsch of OD Guitars on this week's episode of Life With Strings Attached. Originally trained as an industrial designer, Omer worked in product design for seven years before starting his guitar making business in 2016. Since then, he’s made guitars for many artists, mostly in the world of metal, including players such…
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This week's episode of Life With Strings Attached was recorded on location in Northern Ontario, Canada – actually, in my backyard, by special request of today's guest, Mike Sankey. Mike has been creating one-of-a-kind guitars for over 25 years in his workshop in Ottawa, Canada. While better known for organic yet futuristic electric instruments, his…
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This week's episode of Life With Strings Attached was filmed on location in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with marine biologist Richard Sears. Sears is a Franco-American who founded the Mingan Island Cetacean Study in 1979 to study marine mammals in the Saint Lawrence, with an emphasis on baleen whales. He worked with the pioneers of whale research, fr…
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We know it’s been a minute (or about 1 million minutes) since we last did an episode but we’re back and have a lot to say. We cover what’s been happening in our lives over the better part of a year - big moves personally and professionally, a trip that was life-changing for profound, existential reasons. Another trip that was momentous, but for ver…
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Today's episode of Life with Strings Attached was filmed on location in southern Germany, in the workshop of Ulrich Teuffel. Since 1988, Ulrich (Uli to his friends) has been crafting electric guitars unlike any other luthier. In bringing together a unique blend of his training as an automotive mechanic and his studies in industrial design from the …
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Aerospace engineer Giulio Di Donato met with me just outside of Bologna for this week's episode, where we explore the fundamentals of aerospace engineering and aerodynamics, and see what learnings we can take to other topics and disciplines. Giulio works in research and development for a prestigious super sports car company, taking responsibility f…
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I visited Giulio Negrini of GNG in his workshop in Switzerland to talk about his guitars, and inevitably we ended up talking about far more: the role of fantasy in our culture, the allure of thematically dark or morbid art, and the magical elements that go into instrument making. An Italian master luthier, trained in the Cremonese style of Stradiva…
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I've known Nik Huber for many years – since almost the very beginning of my work in the guitar industry. While we were catching up in a restaurant during the Montreux International Guitar Show, I wanted to dive back into some of the stories that have defined his hugely successful career as a guitar maker. So, a bit less of a podcast, this episode i…
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For this week’s episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sheldon Dingwall outside of the ancient Osaka Castle in Japan. Sheldon is the founder and CEO of Dingwall Guitars. The modern champion of the multiscale bass, Dingwall boasts an artist roster including Lee Sklar, Adam “Nolly” Getgood of Periphery, Jacob Umanksy of Intervals, Jean-Mich…
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Zackery Belanger is an expert in the form and material of acoustic architecture. For most of his career, he has questioned the dominant approaches in acoustics, convinced that intuitive, creative approaches are possible. He is the author of the essay Acoustic Ornament, which argues for consideration of non-acoustic surfaces and objects. In 2017 he …
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For this week's episode of Life With Strings Attached, I joined Michael Spalt at his home and workshop in Portugal, where he recently relocated from Vienna. For decades, Michael's work has developed at the intersection of art, design and instrument making, pushing boundaries and experimenting with surprising materials. Whether in series like his To…
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For this week's episode of Life With Strings Attached, I had the pleasure of joining my good friend Bruno Bacci in Tuscany, where he has forged an enviable career as a guitar maker. With a background in design, Bruno talks about how his whole life has actually led him to guitar making, how he's managed to establish a successful guitar business, and…
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For this week's episode, I sat down with Adriano Sérgio of Ergon Guitars in Portugal. It's always fascinating to speak with skilled craftspeople about their work, but it would be remiss to only talk about guitar making in an episode with Adriano. Fleeing his homeland as a child; serving as the equivalent of a Navy SEAL in Portugal; gaining a degree…
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From producing Fight Club and screenwriting for the BBC to partnering with UNICEF and creating films about some of the world's most important environmental projects, Ross's work has many threads. But they're all connected by a single mission. As a writer, producer and director, Ross has harnessed the power of storytelling to make an impact, and as …
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Bryan Galloup's impact on the guitar industry has been enormous and multi-faceted. For over four decades, he's been dedicated to the preservation of vintage and contemporary musical instruments; he's the President and CEO of Galloup Guitars; and through the Galloup School of Guitar Building and Repair, he and his team have trained more than 2500 lu…
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Julio Martins and João Petiz are the founders of Everythink, a design company based in Portugal with an incredibly diverse portfolio of projects. From airplanes and medical equipment to guitars and robots, they design products, services and experiences that impact people's lives in a positive, easy and happy way. I sat down with them on location in…
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Daniel Rowland is a music producer, engineer, tech executive and educator. He's worked with artists from Nine Inch Nails and Philip Glass to Gucci Mane and Jason Derulo. In the world of film, his credits include movies from Pixar as well as the Star Wars, Marvel and Fast and Furious franchises. As Head of Strategy and Partnerships at AI music produ…
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In this wide-ranging conversation between myself and renowned Canadian luthier William "Grit" Laskin, we discuss the role of the artisan in the digital age, what the physics and physiology of sound perception teach us about instrument making, and why the mysteries of the guitar may remain mysteries for centuries to come.…
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Yeah, Liletta and Mirena took their hot girl summer off to live life and start new jobs and travel and do all the things. But they’re back and diving into how pop culture portrays divorce, and how it can be a powerful springboard to help them dive into their own very personal experiences. From current and classic TV shows to, of course, music (the …
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It was 13 years in the making and turned out to be the greatest weekend in Liletta and Mirena history! Listen along as Holly and Mandy recap Stella’s bat mitzvah. Was it amazing?? Yes. Did Stella shine?? Also, yes. Were there lots of wardrobes changes? Hell to the yes. Were margaritas served?? OMG YES. Were live chickens involved? Umm, yes, actuall…
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Mandy and Holly sneak in this check-in episode right before some major life events are coming up on the horizon. In typical fashion, they talk about everything that has been on their hearts and minds including some major one year commemorations, a beautiful gift with which Mandy surprises Holly, why Holly’s mom is afraid Holly might get arrested, a…
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They say it’s healthier to eat small amounts throughout the day instead of eating big meals. Who cares! Just eat what you want, don’t go overboard and throw in some green stuff. Also, try some joy snacking! Stop looking to the future for that magical thing that’s going to make you happy one day. Look around and just maybe there are things - big and…
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Where the heck have Mandy and Holly been for the last four months?!?! Listen to their latest episode to find out about the levels of Covid hell they found themselves in, the highs and lows of the holiday season, an epic shopping trip that ended in milkshake disaster, how pepperjack cheese ruined the day, and what bright spots are ahead in 2023. Sta…
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It does seem like everyone is talking about wellness these days, so Liletta and Mirena are back to take a crack at it like only they can. They discuss a medical update (walking is HARD), crazy close encounters at the Stevie Nicks concert, the unexpected dimensions of grief, making plans to be more social AND alone, and why we should spend lots of m…
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Ugh. August. It’s over now but it was a doozy and Liletta and Mirena just had to deal with some stuff. But they’re back with an almost 3 hour episode, so break it up into chunks and listen at your leisure. Even though this past month kinda was the armpit of summer, they have so much to be grateful for and music is at the top of the list. Mandy and …
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Liletta and Mirena put their headphones back on after another long-ish absence away from recording. Eric re-joins them to wrap up his interview and unsuccessfully try to contribute his ideas for the podcast. But first, the three of them breakdown the long list of losses they’ve experienced YET AGAIN and discuss how their unusual Dynamic brought the…
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Holly and Mandy talk about the immeasurably devastating loss of Holly’s sister Heidi. Grief can develop in both surprising and predictable ways. It’s something that touches everybody at some point in their lives, so the more we talk about it, hopefully the more we can relate to one another. There is so much more that connects us than what divides u…
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It finally happened. We had a three way…..conversation on the podcast. Eric - the ex husband and current boyfriend - finally stops by for a lighthearted, loose and feel good catch up about sports, current events, pop culture, politics. JUST KIDDING. We didn’t talk about any of that stuff. We actually talk about all the hard and uncomfortable stuff,…
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Welp, we thought that 2022 was going to help us get over that “languishing” feeling we were experiencing. And, it did, sort of. But not in a good way. Besides discussing grief and divorce, we also address important questions like, why did Holly’s mom call Mandy? Which family members finally caught Covid? Who struggles walking up and down stairs? Wh…
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We made it through another year, everybody. Mandy and Holly - and the world - may be a little worse for wear but we’re still here to talk about it, and we’re truly grateful for that. So we’re sharing a few of our takeaways of the year that was in the hope that we can make 2022 maybe a touch less sucky. Appreciating the little things, being ok with …
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When the ladies said they like making lists, they weren’t joking. This episode mercifully wraps up this three-part exercise by covering the highs and lows of their divorce experiences. It’s not all fun and games, except for that time when Holly performed an elaborate magic trick and accidentally levitated her car, only to have “David Blaine” come t…
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Do you like to listen to grown ass women cry? Yes? Then this is the episode for you. In part 2 of 3 (yes, it’s a trilogy now, just like “The Godfather” and just as long) of their LISTS episode series, Mandy and Holly cover everything from their treasured possessions to their darkest moments, with a little help from people who inspire them the most.…
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Mandy and Holly love making lists. They help create order in a chaotic world, and don’t we all need some of that these days? And believe it or not, there are still things M+H don’t know about each other, even after one year of talking incessantly about themselves. So here’s a list of reasons why you should drop everything and listen: 1. They cover …
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What do you get when you mix Mandy with some good old-fashioned and all-consuming anxiety? Manxiedy. While it’s no laughing matter, she and Holly do their best to examine why it’s a particularly challenging time for Mandy, and for a lot of women right now. It’s all a juggling act and sometimes we drop the balls. The women share what’s been taking u…
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Here are the stages of divorce: the beginning, the middle, and the NEVER ENDING. Divorce doesn’t have a stopping point; there’s no divorce diploma certifying you are now qualified to “move on” with your life. In this episode we share our struggles of “transitioning” throughout life as divorced women. How do you re-adjust to the world opening back u…
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It’s been a minute since L & M - or anyone for that matter - were able to experience some of their favorite extracurricular activities. So as the world opens back up, it seems like a good time to slowly get back into the rhythm of “normal” life, whatever that means. Listen as they talk of their recent experiences indulging in some of their most bel…
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Podcast co-hosts, Liletta and Mirena, discuss the unexpected, the unexplained, the unusual topics no one else is talking about. When will we see Bill Gates on Bumble? Why are more women getting divorced in their 50’s? How dangerous is the “mother martyr” phenomenon? Is it even possible to be happily married AND live with the same person every singl…
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The tables have turned on Mirena! Now it's Holly's turn to ask Mandy any question she wants. Will they be uncomfortable? Will they be funny? Will they be thought-provoking? Will they be revealing? Yes, oh yes. They will most definitely be revealing, in every sense of the word. Teasers: Easter eggs (real ones - not Taylor Swifties), Viva Las Vegas, …
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As if sitting down with your ex-husband’s forever girlfriend every few weeks for a candid conversation wasn’t unconventional enough, in this episode Mandy gets to ask Holly any question she wants and Holly must answer. Anything is fair game - past relationships, childhood memories, deep self-reflection, and, of course, intimate details of her curre…
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