The Beautiful Now Project: Recent Episodes
Derrick Floyd
Welcome to the Beautiful Now Project. Our mission here is simple. To bring you digital content that Uplifts, Encourage, and Inspires the soul....From the week day Motivation Minute video series, to the Chasing the Impossible Segments, to uplifting music videos and everything in between. We want this to be a destination where you can always find something to bring a light to your world.
Who is the man in the mirror? Who are you when no one is looking? What words do your friends and peers use to say about you? All of these things can be used to make up one's Character. In today's culture where appearance is everything, make sure you have a solid Character on the inside. At the end of the day, that's what will matter...
Living your Best Life can sometimes seem to be an elusive dream. We all want to have a life that makes us feel happy, joyful and content. But is there another secret level to life that only the SUPER ACHIEVERS seem to reach? This podcast will give you 5 simple tools to help elevate your standard of living to your BEST possible. Enjoy and Share them with a friend!
We are running ourselves at a frantic pace. With 50 work weeks, our super speed internet, Microwave food, etc. We never Slow Down to take a breath. But this could be one of the very things that is causing us to live to stressed. This podcast introduces 5 practical steps that can help you to bring down the stress level in your life in many areas. And while there is no way to live absolutely stress free, these concepts will give you a few tools to help deconstruct the House Of Stress that we've built for ourselves.
Chasing The Impossible interviews Erik "Blu2th" Griggs, Hit Songwriter, Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist. Penning hits like the Jordan Sparks/Chris Brown smash, No Air, and working with Babyface, Aretha Franklin and Dr. Dre are just a few of the high points of a music career that has spanned years. Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, he moved to Los Angeles with nothing but his guitar on his back to reach his "Impossible" of being a songwriter/producer. It wasn't easy but he never gave up.
Grammy Nominated Producer, ILL Factor stops by Chasing the Impossible to share his incredible story of how he managed to take his passion of music and turn it into a career spanning over 17 years in the music industry.
Artist like Matis Yahu, Justin Timberlake, Skylar Grey, Ginuwine, Kelly Rowland, Kevin Rudolf, Cher, Cody Simpson, Cobra starship, Jared Evan, Jason Durelo, Jessie J, Natasha Bedinfield, Daniel Bedinfield, Groove Armada, Calvin Harris have all benefited from Ivan's production skills.
Experiencing many valuable lessons in music as a business, Ivan chose to advance by teaching others. By offering exclusive coaching and mentoring to artists, Djs, and Music Producers, Ivan’s goal is to help them embrace their creativity, understand important lessons in building their brand, and provide guidance through the challenges and rewards in todays Music Industry.
I bet we all know someone who will feel has a definite commitment problem, don't we? Someone that won't "put a ring on it" so to speak. But what if I told you that YOU might have a commitment problem that you don't even know about? Check out this Podcast to dig a little deeper....
How often do we get in the car and just drive without having a clear cut destination of where we are going? Moreover, how can we get to that destination if we don't a clear starting point? Well alot of us try and reach specific goals in our lives without accurately determining where we are on the map. Just like a GPS, you need to drop a pin, honestly, and determine how far away you are from that goal or you will keep driving in circles, eventually running out of gas.
Do you find yourself looking back so often that it's hard to see what's in front of you?
If we don't put down our cell phones and pay attention to the world around us we could miss out on some of life's most beautiful moments!
Using better math will help you make better decisions. Make sure both sides of the equation are equal before you make the decision.
Our society of debt has told that it's ok to pay later instead of paying now, but is that true? Does this mantra eventually catch up with you?
Maybe the reason you are running on empty is you keep pouring your gas into a tank with a hole in it?
Percy Bady stops by "Chasing the Impossible" to shares his stories of had to push past many "impossible obstacles" in so many aspects of his life and how they have brought him to the current success he has achieved today! While often regarded as one of the main figures in modern Gospel & R&B music, Bady has been involved in 26 platinum and gold records. As a singer, musician, producer, arranger and composer, he has worked with R. Kelly, Whitney Houston, Michelle Williams, Dionne Warwick, Yolanda Adams, Michael McDonald, Fred Hammond, Kirk Franklin as well as Marvin Sapp.
Percy Bady stops by "Chasing the Impossible" to shares his stories of had to push past many "impossible obstacles" in so many aspects of his life and how they have brought him to the current success he has achieved today! While often regarded as one of the main figures in modern Gospel & R&B music, Bady has been involved in 26 platinum and gold records. As a singer, musician, producer, arranger and composer, he has worked with R. Kelly, Whitney Houston, Michelle Williams, Dionne Warwick, Yolanda Adams, Michael McDonald, Fred Hammond, Kirk Franklin as well as Marvin Sapp.
Percy Bady stops by "Chasing the Impossible" to shares his stories of had to push past many "impossible obstacles" in so many aspects of his life and how they have brought him to the current success he has achieved today! While often regarded as one of the main figures in modern Gospel & R&B music, Bady has been involved in 26 platinum and gold records. As a singer, musician, producer, arranger and composer, he has worked with R. Kelly, Whitney Houston, Michelle Williams, Dionne Warwick, Yolanda Adams, Michael McDonald, Fred Hammond, Kirk Franklin as well as Marvin Sapp.
Percy Bady stops by "Chasing the Impossible" to shares his stories of had to push past many "impossible obstacles" in so many aspects of his life and how they have brought him to the current success he has achieved today! While often regarded as one of the main figures in modern Gospel & R&B music, Bady has been involved in 26 platinum and gold records. As a singer, musician, producer, arranger and composer, he has worked with R. Kelly, Whitney Houston, Michelle Williams, Dionne Warwick, Yolanda Adams, Michael McDonald, Fred Hammond, Kirk Franklin as well as Marvin Sapp.
Are you living with Ghosts? Each of us have ghosts that seem to haunt our lives at one time or another. The ghost of a bad relationship that haunts our current one. The ghost of a past mistake that keeps us from moving forward in our future. There are many different "ghosts" out there. Which one is haunting you?
Are You Authentic? With social networking taking over how we communicate to each other, the questions stands to reason. Are we being Authentic to our friends and family. Even more so, are we being our true selves in our professional lives as well?
Chasing The Impossible, Ep 2 interviews Erik Blu2th Griggs, Hit Songwriter, Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist. Penning hits like the Jordan Sparks/Chris Brown smash, No Air, and working with Babyface, Aretha Franklin and Dr. Dre are just a few of the high points of a music career that has spanned years. Learning from the "failures" in his life, Erik choose to see them as rest stops on the road to his success. He shares more this concept in this next segment.
Chasing The Impossible, Ep 1 interviews Erik "Blu2th" Griggs, Hit Songwriter, Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist. Penning hits like the Jordan Sparks/Chris Brown smash, No Air, and working with Babyface, Aretha Franklin and Dr. Dre are just a few of the high points of a music career that has spanned years. Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, he moved to Los Angeles with nothing but his guitar on his back to reach his "Impossible" of being a songwriter/producer. It wasn't easy but he never gave up
If you've been blessed enough to wake up today then you have another chance to change the direction of your life! Today has never happened before! Yesterday is gone! Go live your life like Today is a New Day