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#25: From Evidence to Action: A Dialogue with Health Coach Sean McDevitt

Live Long and Well with Dr. Bobby

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Reflections on Health Coaching and Community Engagement

This chapter wraps up the episode with reflections on key insights about health coaching and motivating healthier lifestyles. The speaker encourages audience engagement on social media and invites feedback on the interview style, fostering a community around personal health journeys.

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This music.
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It's deep. It's dark.
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It has all the notes from sorrow to melancholy to ecstasy. It's me. The murmur of the crowd dies down as I cross the stage at Union Chapel in London. It's a spectacularly beautiful 19th century church that's been turned into a concert space. It's a little melted on the inside, so the stained glass, the wood, everything is old enough now that it feels a little rock and roll. It's musty. It's damp. But at the same time, it shimmers with a light of hundreds of flickering candles. I've been a professional composer and conductor for 25 years. The choir standing before me tonight is about to sing Water Night. The piece I wrote is a thank you. The piece that sums me up the most. As a conductor, I perform with my back to the audience. I don't worry about presenting myself a certain way or living up to an expectation. I focus all my attention on the musicians, on the work we will do together to bring this music to life. I take a breath. The singer's mirror me. She breathed not just at the same speed and volume, but with the same emotional intention. It's extraordinary. There's a magical quality to it. As a group, we are instantly unified. Terabytes of emotional information pass back and forth between us. The choir begins to sing, and I hear the notes I wrote so hastily in my manuscript decades before. I've heard them hundreds of times, but each time I learn something new. This is the power of having found the space where I can fully be who I am. Creating music is a genuine communal experience. Between me and the choir, the choir and the audience, the audience and me. We're all taking the same journey from one side of the river to the other. And for those connections in life means keeping your heart open to experiences of awe and not being afraid to follow where they lead. I make eye contact with the singers. It's a profoundly intimate moment. While singing, people are as vulnerable and open as they can possibly be. And in that state, I look into each of their eyes. I allow them to look into mine. I feel as if I'm looking into the thousands of stars in the night sky. I never feel more like myself than when in a room with other musicians making music. That is who I am. Finding these experiences of connection and self-acceptance can be hard. But if we allow ourselves to be open and vulnerable to the things that make us feel the most ourselves, the things that light us up and speak to every part of who we are, we can grow into exactly. Who we are
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meant
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to be. It's not just sitting down and writing a piece of music. It's not even necessarily doing something creative. It's whatever it is that lights you up. That makes you feel like your true self. Find that one thing. And dive deep. And that way, we can become part of something bigger. Just one part of a larger harmony.

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