13th Annual Posi Awards Wrap, FL Dates & Next Big Glow Retreat
John Stringer, Life Teacher, Healer, Singer, Author
What a trip!!! Kathy, our son, John, and I just wrapped up a wonderful experience in Tampa, FL at the 13th Annual Posi Music Awards where we got to cheer on and support all of the wonderful Posi Award nominees… and I can only say it was truly a blessed experience!
It’s challenging to descibe how rewarding seeing so many like-hearted/minded folk in music is, all in one-place to celebrate love – so I’ve included images and videos to help! Add that many of our dear friends walked away with awards, and you can imagine why this event was such a truly #epic experience for us!
If you haven’t been to the Posi Awards yet and you love positive/conscious music, then I highly recommend you check it out here. What Richard Mekdeci, Sue Riley and Russ Hammock have created with this event is simply amazing and has blessed so many in so many ways!!!!! Thank you!!!!
As this year’s Personal Transformation category award winner, Bob Sima, mentions in the video below, he and his partner, Shannon, were among the first to tell us we needed to check out the Posis a few years ago… and I’m so glad he did! Especially, since I was able to present his award to him this year:
Personal Transformation Award – Bob Sima
Video by Kathy Stringer
Since Kathy and I are also building a new butique management agency for positive speakers/musicians/authors, which includes our friend/client and amazing speaker/musician/songwriter, Jill Colucci, we were delighted that she also took home the Posi Award for the healing category!!!!!!!
Congratulations to Bob, Jill, Patricia Bahia and all of our wonderful friends who won this year… as well as all those who were nominated! No matter what, WE ARE ALL WINNERS… and it was an honor to celebrate our many talents!!!
Other Personal Posi Music Awards Highlights
Here are a few more of the fun moments we enjoyed during the 13th Aunnual Posi Music Awards!
Unity Music Ministry Ensemble Honoring Civil Rights Music
I was also honored to host workshop; share a songwriting circle; receive great advice from the always insightful, Jana Stanfield; and meet some amazing new artists this year, including Posi Award winners Austin Willacy & Ariel Thiermann.. check out their emPower Positive radio interview:
Finally, another great treat during the Posi Music Fest was joining Jennifer Ferren & Diane Durrette to share music at the Suncoast Center for Spiritual Living on Sunday, 2/25/18… that’s three guest Posi artists during the same Sunday morning service! What a blessing!
HUGE thanks to Jennifer and Rev. Laine Morgan for making this happen!!!! I look forward to returning to this wonderful Tampa, FL community later this year!
Three Upcoming Florida Dates To Join
As I make my way back to Atlanta, GA, I’d love to see you at one or more of the 3 Florida events along the way! If you are nearby any of these, join us:
Wed, 2/28/18
Alignment Tour Concert of Music & Insights
Unity on the Space Coast Titusville, FL
Sat, 3/3/18
“Moment to Moment” CD Release Concert
Unity Church of Jacksonville
Sun, 3/4/18
“Leaning into Surrender” –Music & Message
Unity for Creative Living
followed by a “Channeling Your Genius” Workshop in the afternoon!
See full details for these and other events on the Tour page.
Next Big Glow Retreat In Asheville, NC
If you haven’t already registered for our next Big Glow Retreat: The Four Levels of Love, I highly advise doing so before we sell out!!! To learn more and get registered, go here (or on Facebook here)!
Check out some of the georgeous images of the Mountain Retreat space we’ll share together below:
Here’s a quick video of some of the fun we had at our last Big Glow retreat of New Year’s Eve to get your ready for this next one:
Filmed/eddited by Annie Marie
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Insanity is anything that tells you all is not well: the voices in your head, conditioned thinking, skewed perspectives that tell you something is wrong.
Giving them belief gives them power over you and your experience – your creation of the illusion. Yes. This is why thinking is so important to turn over (surrender) and allow the thoughts of God to be reflected through God’s spirit in your mind.
Let go of your understanding and take on the thoughts of the Holy Spirit that are brought to your consciousness through your choosing. Yes. By listening and focusing your awareness on the voice of God within you, you can hear and be set free from the belief in illusion. You can finally see the perfection that is already here. It is not found in the belief in separation. No. That is imperfection.
They eyes of the body betray what is real because what you witness is a skewed interpretation of what is – what the divine is. You see separation but it is the illusion. The truth is that which is beyond it. The truth is the light that dances within and around, all throughout existence. The truth is that you are this light and that what you are is perfection. The shadows, the illusions of form, are not the truth. They are simply creations, songs, and inventions that either align with the thoughts of the divine or resist it. Yes.
“So, alignment is listening to the divine thoughts, aligning with those thoughts and being perfection. It is letting go of the illusion and attachments that keep you stuck in the beliefs that form is real.”
JOHN STRINGER
Life Teacher, Healer, Singer, Lover.
So, alignment is listening to the divine thoughts, aligning with those thoughts and being perfection. It is letting go of the illusion and attachments that keep you stuck in the beliefs that form is real.
You are spirit and the experience of humanity is simply the grand illusion, grand invention and belief and attachment to it as REAL is the misperception of what is. Do not for one moment give belief to imperfection for it is the lie that will deceive you and create the false belief of separation, judgment, attack and fear. This is not what you are here for. You are here to reclaim your sanity. Yes. This is why you are here.
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you are finding plenty of things to be grateful for and spending quality time with those you love!
I also hope you are learning to love yourself more! I’ve been learning how to do this in new and deeper ways and I share a little bit of it in my latest video update:
The lyrics to the chorus of “Accept It All” (the second track on my debut solo album, “Limitless Love & Light”) echo some of the sentiment I’m speaking of in the video regarding judgement. You can listen to it (and the rest of the songs on the album) here.
Thanks again for everyone’s support and Happy Holidays!
Thank you all once again for the overwhelming support and love you’ve shown my family and I on our Limitless Love & Light tour. As I explained in the Part 1 blog post, we had an amazing first leg of the tour and we just kept being blessed from there.
This is part 2 of the tour post, but let me cover a couple of things I left out about our time in St. Augustine, FL:
First, during our outing to see Disney’s/Pixar movie Inside Out, Johnny schooled us on what it was all about on the way there… he even made up a song about it and Kathy joined in… lol:
Second, we hung out with our friend, Lynn Pouliot, on our last night in St. Augustine and she showed us around Old Town (sharing some history of the sites we visited). We stopped in for some great deserts along the tour and really enjoyed our time with her.
The next day, we left our friends Derrick & Stephanie’s home to head to Crystal Rivers, FL near Ocala. We shot a thank you message to all our friends in St. Augustine on the way:
We arrived safely in Crystal Rivers at our friends, Rob & Amanda Mathews‘ home where we set up for another donation based house concert that same evening.
Jolie was a bit under the weather due to an ear infection, so while she rested up that night with Johnny, we had a fun and “revealing” set where I shared a lot of my personal journey and songs to a wonderfully receptive crowd.
The evening turned out be the most financially abundant night of the entire tour, so big thanks to Rob, Amanda, Mike, Chelsea and all their friends for the amazing generosity!
During my set, I quoted Maya Angelou’s famous quote – “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – and someone put a card with that exact quote in the donations. Whoever put the gave us the card didn’t identify who they were, so I’ll just say thank you to them here. It was a cool surprise!
We had a great talk with several of the guests after the show about life, sharing stories and insights on the lessons we learned, and I played one more song before we all called it a night.
The next morning, Johnny, Kathy, Rob, Amanda, Michael, Chelsea Rioux and I all went out on the lake in their two boats. Unfortunately, Jolie still wasn’t feeling that well, so she couldn’t join us.
This was Johnny’s first time out on a boat and we all had such a great time.
At one point, we headed to the natural springs where the water was much colder.
Johnny eventually convinced me to dive in, which is a big deal b/c I’m NOT a big fan of cold water… lol.
He dove in after me and we explored the springs further before heading back to warmer waters.
We all packed lunches and stayed out for as long as we could and then came back to the house to pack and head out for the next location.
Thanks to Rob, Amanda and Mike for sharing about the overall experience:
Next, we headed to Orlando, FL on the 4th of July to stay with our dear friend, Joy Steelman. On the way, we encountered something pretty awesome – a rare and magical double rainbow:
Once we arrived at Joy’s in Orlando, we ate some great deserts that Joy’s mother made and I played a few songs for Joy’s mother and her friends while Kathy took Jolie to the hospital… her ear infection had become too painful.
Fortunately, the hospital gave Jolie some medicine that seemed to help and we took her to an ENT the next weekday to help get rid of the rest of the problem.
That Sunday, I played at Christ Church Unity in Orlando and it was a great service.
The message was so in line with everything I’d been realizing during the tour and the church band did a great job playing to my songs!
We were also well received and supported, so our sincere thanks to the Christ Church Unity Orlando community for so much love!
That’s it for now. I’ll post another update – part 3 – soon to wrap up the first leg of our tour. If you haven’t signed up for the online community yet, make sure to sign up here and I’ll keep you posted on the next blog, shows, speaking events and updates on the next album and book.
We’re now 3 shows in on the part one of my first solo tour -the Limitless Love & Light tour – and it’s been a tremendous blessing!
Our first (a lot of firsts… lol) donation based house concert was co-hosted by Michelle Richards and Kate Lyman in Ball Ground GA, and we had a great time hanging with dear friends, meeting some new friends, and making smores around a fire after the concert:
Then, we hit the road for a three week stretch with the first stop in St. Augustine, FL where we played our first outdoor donation based house concert at Tom & Roxanne Gibes‘ home and made many more new friends!
One of the great things we’re finding is when we stay with people like Tom & Roxanne on the tour, it really feels like you’re staying with family. The kids enjoyed their time just as much as we did there and as you can see, below, Johnny made great use of the hot tub:
The next day, we enjoyed a great Sunday service at the Center for Spiritual Living at St. Augustine where I played a few songs during the service and had a great concert after the service! We also got to celebrate our dear friend, Lynne Pouliot’s birthday with her! Thanks to all who came out to these events and connected with us.
The CSL at St Augustine is a wonderful, loving community and we’re very grateful to Tom, Roxanne, Rev. Ken, Judie and everyone else for having us there and making feel so welcomed!
Next, we joined our St. Augustine friends, Derrick & Stephanie, to stay at their beautiful home for a few days of down time.
They have a 6 year old son (little Derrick) that our 6 year old son (Johnny) gets along with famously, so they are running up and down the stairs playing “ninja” and hide and seek as I type this.
We’ve had so many great experiences already that it’s hard to believe we’re barely a week into the tour. Here’s are some other cool highlights we’re thankful for:
Enjoyed some healthy, delicious food at Manatee Cafe w/ Tom & Roxanne
Watched Inside Out at Epic Movie Theater with several members of CSL St Augustine (good movie, btw)
Enjoyed time on the beach w/ Stephanie and little Derrick
Sold a ton of books and copies of the new live EP (CD)
Received so much love and support from so many wonderful people
Enjoyed many great conversations with our hosts and new friends
It’s also been nice to be able to get work done during some down time on what truly feels like a tour / working vacation. I’m so grateful for how this has all gone thus far.
I’m also tremendously grateful for my amazing wife / co-manger / super woman, Kathy, who’s helped book, coordinate and plan the whole tour!
As I’ve shared with many of you before, I dreamed of having a wife who I could work with in the music industry, so it’s been awesome to get to work together on this. I’ve also dreamed of having my family with me on tour for quite some time, so to finally be here and enjoying this all now is such a blessing. I thank God / Source / The Divine for allowing us to experience this together, connecting with and sharing our lives with so many beautiful souls!
We’re planning to do donation based house concerts throughout the East coast starting in August and running through the fall and then hit the West coast thereafter. If you are interested in hosting one, all you need is a love of live music, a space to fit 20+ seated people (e.g. living room, back yard, community center, etc.) and some friends to invite to a donation based concert. You can even co-host with a friend like Michelle and Kate did. Just email us at hcbooking@johnstringerinc.com and we’ll fill you in on the details.
Next up: Ocala, Orlando, Largo, Tallahassee and then, we’ll make our way back home with a stop in Byron, GA! Hope to see you at one of our stops along the way.
I’ve spent close to the last 4 years working at an SEO / Digital Marketing agency and I loved the experience, the people, the clients and all the wonderful lessons I learned there. As I mention in the video above, I resigned on Friday, Jan 23, 2015 (last day Jan 30) because I was inspired / guided to pursue an expanded vision for my life… all with no immediate “guaranteed” income in sight and a family of four to support.
How did this happen?
It’s all (life) lead to this, but some recent events stick out. A few months ago, I sat down to re-evaluate the most important categories of my life and put them in priority order. As a result, my first priority category was Personal development (knowing and loving God/Source, Self, & others, etc.). The second, Family (immediate and beyond). Third was Music, followed by Marketing in fourth place and Business in fifth. I realized the only category I was giving priority to in the order I made was personal development. Business (e.g. making a living) seemed to eclipse everything else even though it was the last priority. In fact, I was spending 60+ hours per week working but was lucky to get 20 hours of quality family time each week.
On Jan 22, 2015, I asked my good friend, Ade, to hold a vision of me freeing my time. He encouraged me to re-phrase that as seeing myself Financially Free to use my time as I see fit, which I did. The very next day, I got to resign from my day job.
Although the day I resigned was a surprise to both my wife and I, we knew the day would one day come… just not so soon. See, we frequently use meditation and prayer to get guidance in our lives and we’d asked several times about my role at my job. We got that I would be there for a time to help “bridge the gap” and would eventually leave. We asked if we could have replacement funds for my salary in place (e.g. BEFORE leaving) and got “yes.” So, the day I called my wife to let her know I was getting to resign, she was understandably concerned b/c neither of us could see the replacement revenue. As she noted, this seemed like a change in plans. We’ve received guidance before that seemed to change later on (though not exactly like this situation), so I figured something happened to make it necessary for me to leave earlier. Of course, I kept checking to make sure this was “best” and I’d get the same answer to resign that day each time. So, my wife agreed to trust w/ me and I got off the phone and resigned.
What I was later reminded of is that what we see with our eyes isn’t always what’s actually happening in that moment. If life / Source / God (the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent) / spirit / LOVE gives us a clear message to go one way and tells us we will be blessed, we can trust that going that way will lead to our blessings whether we see how or not.
So, I took the leap and 6 days in, things are unfolding beautifully.
The agency gave me an extra week to be “available for questions” remotely and asked to be one of my first clients. We’ll continue to work together where the need arises while I pursue my priorities. I’m grateful for that.
What am I up to now?
As I mentioned, I’m continuing to invest in the four priority categories. For Family, I’ve been blessed to spend more quality time with my wife and children. My son, Johnny, and I launched a new Youtube series called Science Sundays. The first episode goes live Sunday, February 8th at 11:11 am.
Through meditation and whatever I find works, I’m aligning with source / God / spirit / love moment to moment, knowing that I can trust the very power that created and maintains the universe to lead me to what’s best. As a result, I received inspired action and follow through to support ventures that fit the categories, including:
Launching a boutique digital marketing consultancy. I’m already serving clients as a digital marketing architect who helps design plans around SEO & Inbound Marketing. I’m also grateful to have a new Marketing Evaluation specialist on the team, as well as amazing SEO resources, including the agency I worked for, EverSpark Interactive.
I’m working on my first solo album and will release it on a new record label platform that will be part of (in some way) the label I founded with State of Man, PolyPlat Records. I’ve dreamed of creating a label where both the fans and artists were the owners, so now’s its time to make it a reality.
A virtual community surrounding the forthcoming indiehitmaker.com platform and reporting apps. The focus of the platform will be providing A+ Revenue, Opportunities, Development, Education & Services (R.O.D.E.S.) to performing artists.
Developing sustainable luxury communities / “neighborhoods” with cottage industries (Music, Organic farming, etc.). I first got inspired to go this new direction 3 years ago but kept getting it wasn’t time to fully pursue just yet. Now, I’ll put my energies into this as guided!
I know my journey will continue to be financially abundant and fulfilling spiritually, mentally and physically b/c I’ve learned how to “seek the kingdom within” and continue expanding on that. The most important part of life is the internal. The external follows to match it. So, if I’m “in the flow,” creating internal abundance, the external follows!
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