65: It Ticks Every Box. So Why Does It Feel Wrong?

And it really got me thinking that actually, Some of the key collaborations that I have professionally, if not all of my collaborations that I am proud of and I'm looking to sustain, I'm looking to grow and expand and maintain, are very, very much about how they enable people me to bring the best out of myself and create more with my gifts and my talents than I could possibly have conjured on my own, left to my own devices solo.

And it's that beautiful cocktail that when you've got the right partnership, the magic that can come out of that, the creative energy that sparks and the fireworks that are then born off that creative energy and that collaboration.

And I started to realize also that there's this thread between these companies and the professional relationships that I choose to collaborate with.

And there was two other companies that really came to the forefront of my mind that I work with.

And this is not an exhaustive list.

So if I've forgotten anybody and you're listening in and we've worked together in the past or work together at the moment.

Please don't be offended.

This is not an exhaustive list.

And I apologize.

But the two of the companies that came to mind was...

OmanBase, and OmanBase, again, for those of you who are unfamiliar, they are a UK-based charity.

I believe one of the UK's, if not the first UK festival that features began to fuse together festivals music and wellness and I work with them I work at their festivals I tour with them across the UK sometimes internationally as well and And we because it's a charity, all of the workshop facilitators and speakers, teachers, whatever it is, we do our gift and our talent.

We donate our time and all of the profits from that company, that organization go to support charity.

stopping sex trafficking for women and children in India.

Now, that's where it began.

It does also support some other charities as well, but it is very, very much female-focused and female-led.

And so it's no surprise for you to hear that the founder of Amen Beis is, in fact, a beautiful woman, a strong

woman.

Strong doesn't even encapsulate what she is.

She's a real powerhouse, a force of nature and a real inspiration.

And she leads this.

She founded and organized and created Almond Bay's.

And so much or so many, even though it's a mixed festival, so many of the key figures, team leaders, organizers, event space holders, all of those things, facilitators are women, right? There's such a strong presence of women in that organization, as you would expect.

given that it's a woman that's founded this.

But at the heart of what she's created was that we can bring together a space where wellness and the fun of music, and that, as the name suggests, so you've got OM, which is the peace, the shanti side of things, the spiritual side of it, and the bass, which is quite literally some real hard-hitting drum and bass beats, reggae, like all of your beats that people love to get down and dirty to.