Bronkar Lee, driving force and instrumental human, shares his insights and outlook on living a "fabtastic" life. www.instrumentalhumans.com
I'm putting this puppy out
Intro Voice:Welcome to a place where we're thinking together and thinking deeper about who we are. In this world, welcome to the Billosophy podcast. Hello, and welcome to Billosophy 101. I am William Forchion. And today, my guest is
Bronkar Lee:I am Bronkar Lee, I am a instrumental humans coach and a keynote speaker and a music producer.
William Forchion:Okay, I'm just gonna say Bronkar and I go back a little bit. And I will say that Bronkar... That list could keep on going for the whole 20, 30 minutes that we have. Because Bronkar Just seems to do it all. He was dropped on this planet with skills. And then he took those skills and turned them into mastery. So, Bronkar, tell me a little bit about what you're doing right now.
Unknown:Oh, man. Well, right now I'm talking to my man, Billosophy. So right now I'm really focused on. So I'm the president and founder of instrumental humans, and instrumental humans is a program we, well, consist of multiple programs, we do a lot of coaching, we do one to one stuff, we do group coaching, we do corporate trainings, all types of things. And really, our mission is to amplify your health, joy and power, so that you can put a vibrant, energetic signature on life. And the way we do that is we really focus on the most valuable resource that we all have, which is our energy, and how do we manage our energetic bandwidth, and extend it into the things that really matter to us. And there's three main pillars to our program, which is learning develop, then it's apply and integrate, and then sustain and maintain. And so under all three of those pillars, we choose how much of our energetic bandwidth we extend into each of those, and they all work in a symbiotic way to ultimately make us instrumental humans and instruments of influence in the world.
William Forchion:He and for the, the podcast audience here, you're not seeing the image that's, that's before me, I get Bronkar right here in the middle. And there's a couple of guitars, there's condos, there's saxophones, there's a mixer over there, there's, I mean, you've got a lot of instruments laid out behind you before me. In instrumental humans, how much of that is about the instruments?
Bronkar Lee:Well, we use, I use music as a metaphor for the coaching. So basically, my relationship to music as that music as a tool, and I use that tool to enhance the quality of an experience that we're creating with our, you know, participants, attendees, and everything I use on the music side has a very specific purpose. It's all consciously engineered to open a new doorway of possibilities inside of the thinking of a participant, it's used to, to tell a story or to compliment, it's all used specifically. So I might use, you know, hand pans and native flutes and some soothing sound sounds like that to set the tone for a visualization or a meditation session that we do. Or I might use, you know, some saxophone and drums to like rev up the energy and get us energized, and especially in the virtual medium that many people are using these days. It's it's really, I think people are figuring out and learning how to sleep with their eyes open while staring at the screen. So so so it's good to use some of these tools to shake up the energy and get us in that. That mindset of excitement of growth and receptivity,
William Forchion:Your career... How did you get from where you were to where you are? I know of your career you had you had gone to the clown Conservatory in San Francisco. I know you went off to Switzerland, and you come from a drumming background. How do you get from that you were drumming in bands or street drumming? You were doing all kinds of stuff. How do you get from there to where you are?
Bronkar Lee:Well, the first thing is there's not a direct path. And my philosophy is that life happens in the detours. And so it's a series of detours that have led me to this moment right here. It is a plethora of incredible mentors like yourself, who inspired me to get into the circus arts and and explore the possibilities of theater and character work and all of that realm, which, you know, led me down a one specific detour that, you know, helped me to cultivate my awareness of, you know how to be with an audience how to create an emotional connection, when it's one person on stage and 1000 people in the audience. And so, you know, that detour was was one profound experience that I had. And then I pulled those skills that I learned and acquired on that path into my tool belt into my backpack when I'm on my hero's journey, as everybody's on their own unique hero's journey in their lives. And then, you know, I'm over here doing doing music and touring with bands and learning all of these skills over here, how to how to collaborate with other people how to perform with other people, and then I'm pulling that in my backpack, and then there's the, you know, the coaching, and the keynote speaking, and all of those skills just come in. And so it all kind of now is synthesized together to create the current version of me.
William Forchion:Okay. And the current version of you, I mean, I, every time I hear more about you, I get my mind blows, because like, this guy does everything. And, and I don't mean that in a demeaning way. I mean, this guy does everything at an amazing level. And you do you your mastery of things. How is it that you pass? I mean, you have? How can you possibly get to where you are? Because you have mastered so many things, when I hear you play the sax, or I see you juggle, or I hear you play the hand pans, your beatboxing everything is stellar. And I know from my from where I come from, that takes practice. How do you get there?
Bronkar Lee:Yeah, does well, there's so there's a couple of a couple of things I want to share on that. There's, there's one thing that is more of a philosophical answer, which is that everything in life is music. And everything is is is rhythm. Everything in life has a tempo, and a cadence. And And now every person and people listening to this podcast or consuming this content, may not consider themselves to be a musician, which is true. Not all of us are trained musicians. But every single person, every human on the planet, is undeniably hard wired. For rhythm and music. We are all musical beings. In other words, our heartbeat and rhythm we breathe in rhythm, we converse in rhythm, we drive a car in rhythm, text, email, we do business in rhythm, we keep time in rhythm, everything in our lives has a rhythm to it. It's just cultivating an awareness of that, and how timing plays a huge role and has a huge influence on us. And how we show up, when do we show up is everything right at what we do matters for sure how we do it matters. And also when we do it matters. And so the tempo of life that having a an awareness of just the fact that life is a symphony, and life is music, that's a huge philosophy that I that I unpack personally, in my coaching style, instrumental humans, but also just for me, with all the mentors, I've had an amazing influences I've had on me. Now the other element is inside of kind of the the more nuts and bolts less, you know, less abstract and woowoo as the as the musical terms go, but more concrete, which is the skill acquisition side of things that how we actually learn and how can we accelerate our learning tempos, and acquire skills at a rapid pace. And ultimately, my belief is that the more skills we have, the more tools we have at our disposal, the greater our impact is amplified in the world. When we have the tools to build a house, we can build a house, you're right and the knowledge to use them obviously, when we can play, you know, instruments we can we can Serenade, right? When we have communication tools, we can build rapport, we can be instruments of influence in the world. And so my belief is that the more and the more skills that we acquire, the greater our impact can be on on the world. And so I actually wrote my first book, it's called Bold achievement method. And that book really unpacks a learning methodology that that I created with my amazing wife and sanity goddess Cindy. We wrote together with the support of plethora of amazing humans, including yourself, you are on that on that bogie train. And yeah, this was several, almost five years ago now. But but so that really unpacks a methodology that gives us kind of this magical algorithm to accelerate our learning tempos and life. And so that's a that's a big part of the nuts and bolts side of learning and developing ourselves.
William Forchion:You mentioned there are learning tempos and life. And there's a thing that popped up a little while ago. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, that popped up and went, absolutely. smashed. It was a viral video that happened. Tell me a little bit about that. Because there's some learning happening right there.
Bronkar Lee:Yeah. Well, yeah. Thanks, brother. Well, that video, obviously, that was me and my son, Elijah, when he was 19 months old. That was an accidental viral video. And it was, you know, it just kind of really took off it actually still going viral. Now. It's got, I don't know, 250 million views or something. It's crazy, right? It keeps getting uploaded. We're like, what the heck, man? You know, and it's funny because we didn't try to make a video a viral video, we've, you know, poured our heart and souls into so many other videos that, you know, got a couple 100 views. And then all of a sudden this thing just went went Ultra viral. And we're like, what the heck? What have we been doing wrong? Oh, yeah. It's, it's the kid we got. You know, that's, that's us just connecting and I think that's the the pureness of music have rhythm, and intentionality underneath it to simply have a connection moment with another being. And that is, that was obviously before Elijah could speak, you know, English, which is our native language. Before he could speak English, he could speak rhythm, music, and if you listen to babies talking, they babble they hum, humming is so powerful, before they can really start to connect and, and formulate words by by putting consonants and vowels together, they are humming and they are singing and beatboxing and babbling. And so to me music and be boxing specifically, but singing and using our voices as instruments is some of the most, you know, primitive communication available to us. And quite frankly, all humans are entitled to tap into that you don't have to get a degree in music, you don't have to have some fancy academic tell you that you are good enough that you are validated to be a quote unquote musician, you are, you are entitled No person is not entitled to tapping into to the rhythm.
William Forchion:So the the music and the rhythm thing, there's another thing you do you do a lot of, you're now doing meditations. And you sent me one a few weeks ago, that was just really just apropos for the time that we that I needed it. I asked me for a little something and you gave it to me. The other thing you have the hand pans? Tell me a little bit about the hand pan.
Bronkar Lee:Well, first of all, just to address. So yeah, it was it was a very, very natural instrument for me to pick up. The reason is because again, and this is back to the learning and development that I'm not, you know, special in this realm. It just happens that I've cultivated a previous skill set that is transferable into this instrument. And this applies to all people, all people anybody listening to this. One way that we can accelerate our learning tempo is to find the transferability and skills that we've previously acquired, and how can we take the knowledge the wisdom that we've already cultivated and then put it into This next iteration of ourselves and morph into that next iteration, leverage what we've already got. And so for me, the handpan was that it was basically, you know, handpan is literally like made of, of stainless steel. And so and you play it kind of like a drum. So it's to me, it's like a home or a Jim Bay, a piece of hand percussion, combined with a saxophone. And they come together to synthesize and make this instrument. So for me, I've training in both instruments. And so it was like, all of a sudden, it was the marriage of those two things coming together. So I was able to transfer all of my knowledge of beats and the mastery of the mechanical body with moving my hands and fingers in a way to drum. And then also my sense of phrasing and melody, from saxophone. And so all of that just went straight into the handpan. And so that's why it was such an effortless transition for me was I'm bringing all of this, all of these skills with me, and then allowing myself to then lean in and create a relationship with this new apparatus.
William Forchion:But then you take it to the next level, when you start looping it and you start throwing in other instruments, and you start to do some multiplayer tracks and things like that. That's not I mean, to me, I like I get it. But it's not intuitive to me. And so just did that just come to you. Did you feel that right off the bat? Or where does that come from?
Bronkar Lee:Yeah, again, it's a synthesis of multiple skills. So I've been, you know, I've been looping for years, you know, close to 20 years at this point. So doing live looping with, you know, guitar, beatboxing different instruments. And so moving into pulling the hand pan, and there was was a natural progression. Again, I call this recombinant innovation. And the recombinant innovation is where we're combining multiple things, skills or tools that we've acquired, and putting them together synthesizing them together to create a super skill. And we all do that on different levels, consciously or unconsciously. But there's a lot of examples I could give right now, just for the sake of the interview, I'll just stick with with this one, where I'm taking, you know, handpan, I'm taking beatboxing I'm taking various percussion, instruments, bass, whatever there is that I've got. And then I'm blending it all together to create that, that real time band or symphony, that's basically putting those different skills together by partnering with technology, which is a big thing for people now, especially, you know, how are we embracing? What is modern technology? Because at one point, the the African Jim Bay drum was modern technology, right? Currently, it's not modern technology. But what is modern technology, okay? virtual platforms and, and microphones and cameras, and being able to capture this interview our energy and our connection, and then be able to, you know, share it with, with with people in the world. And so the same thing with the with the live looping, it's like, okay, I'm taking a primitive instrument, or primitive from our perspective now, like a Jim Bay, or the human voice, and I'm blending those things together with this cool technology that allows me to record in real time, and then put it all together for this, this multi dimensional real life experience. I call it the Fantasia effect. Because as you know, I worked for Disney for a long time as well on their cruise ships. And, and so it's all about blending the visual with the audio, and then you get that that Fantasia effect where you can see it, and you can feel it and hear it.
William Forchion:Right, right. Wow. Wow. So also as a as a creative, most creatives are innovators. Where do you? Where are you going next?
Bronkar Lee:Yeah, man, I'm on a detour right now. Honestly, you know, my main focus right now is coaching. You know, we're really, you know, been beefing up our coaching programs that, you know, instrumental humans. And so we've got some leadership programs that we do instruments of influence. We've got individual coaching that we do, and then group coaching that we do with, you know, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs creatives, I've been working with, you know, been facilitating things like this for, you know, 15 plus years. But now it's become the focal point of our of our business. And so and so now, it really is, how can I take everything that I've learned, and then put it together to create really valuable curriculum that's going to enhance the quality of other people's lives? I look at it as I'm giving a gift to each listener or each audience member. And at the end of the experience, I think about what's going to be inside of that gift when they open it up. And for years as a performer and not to say that all performers are like this, but for me as a performer A lot of my career was based on I want to be, I want to be good enough, talented enough, amazing enough to get the validation from the audience. Right, right. And one day I something flipped, and I was just I changed. And I was like, Oh, I'm not really here for that I'm really here to help to heal, to inspire to empower. And once that became my beacon, my North Star that changed everything, suddenly, I wasn't paralyzed by perfection by needing to be absolutely perfect. And to deliver an outstanding show of world class performance. Suddenly, it was like, Hey, I'm here to inspire people. And I started looking at that gift. And when people open that gift up what's inside, and I didn't want there to be a picture of me in there. I didn't want people leaving, saying, Wow, that guy was so talented. Wow, he was so amazing. I didn't want that I wanted them to open it up and say, Oh, here's a tool, there's a little tool that I can use for myself. That's right, I remember he said that thing, and it inspired me. And now I'm going to go build this cool thing, where I can, you know, connect more deeply with my family, or I can serve my clients in a greater way. Or I can, you know, be an instrumental, you know, influence in the world and amplify my impact. And suddenly, they have a tool in there something in there for them. And then they have that gift. And so when that changed for me, that was everything. And so now every opportunity I had to present or to speak, or to perform, it is always about giving that gift. And I found that through the coaching programs and that work, we could do deeper dive and create real transformation and people and support them to put a more vibrant energetic signature on their lives.
William Forchion:Know what you just laid out there. What you just said in that moment, you had just there was I was like, Okay, well jump on that note that that you had you just dropped out way too much information for me to be able to rebut or respond in any way that is humanly possible. Because there's so much there and in what gifts do you have? What gifts do you bring to this as opposed to what can I take away? And that's because as a performer having performed for so long? That's was that can be crippling? What What am I? How am I gonna? What am I gonna take? What are they gonna give me? As opposed to what do I have to give them and then you'll hear from me a lot about just showing up being there. Sometimes the gift is you showed up when they needed you. That's really great that you're this is what you're doing now. Because I know that really resonates with me. That just seems to me. And and I was I was going to ask you a question about how you're navigating through the pandemic with a lot of with not a lot of performance opportunities. But what I want to share right now is something I was inspired by you many years ago and wanted to do something. Coffee, coffee, coffee, and early in the morning, it fills me and gets me go crazy know that. For those of you who are listening, a few years back, Brian Carr and his lovely, brave partner wife, Cindy lived in Oakland, California, and I just wanted to do something with them. They are such gems and such beautiful people with such wonderful talents and gifts. And so I was working to produce a television show with them. And this was for the pilot teaser that we shot for that. And every step of the way. Braun Carr and Cindy just created magic, and also the fact that they trusted me and my vision to work on this project. Yeah, which as the way things go in the world of art, sometimes you create things and they don't do what you expect them to do. But they open doors to other things. And you're talking about detours. I used to always say my life was made up of a bunch of mistakes. And I like detours better because by saying it was a mistake is saying that that the all the work that I did up into that that shift happened was for not that turn that I made that right turn that I made all the steps getting to that right turn. We're empowering To get to the right turn, just led me on a path that I didn't see at the time. So can you speak to that?
Bronkar Lee:Yeah, well, first of all, I, you know, I think, you know, when we frame it as something like, you know, it's a series of mistakes, you know, that's, that's a certain type of language. And that to me is just life, you know, the, the mistakes or the mistakes. And then ultimately, I believe the what really matters is how we choose to react to those, how we choose to learn from those, what we choose to do with those opportunities of the mistakes. And it comes into really having an awareness that life is full of moments. And, you know, one of my one of my mentors, Brian Hoyer always said, high involvement, low attachment. And so it's all about being engaged in the process, but not, you know, attached to that outcome. And so I find the creative process is very similar to that. And, you know, for, for me, actually, and, you know, we were just today having a reflection moment, on a project that we had done, or over the last maybe two and a half, three years, and it just didn't pan out, like we thought it was going to. And so what we, what we did was we analyzed it, from not being emotionally attached to it, but kind of looking out, or up and down on it or out from it, you know, and saying, alright, what, what, what, what worked about that, and then how can we improve? And so by asking these questions, you know, in life, we're going to get the answers to the questions we ask. So the key and my coaching style is, how do I, how do I influence or guide or steer participants, attendees to ask better questions, to ask the questions they're really seeking the answers for. And so that's really unlocking it from within. And so when we can share that perspective, then they can start to look at it from inside of themselves, you know, in a different way. And I'll make this parallel two really quick, is that this comes back to even technical instruments, like aside from these massive creative endeavors of producing shows, or, you know, movies, or whatever it is, it's like, just learning to play the saxophone, which is, which is a technical skill. It's just me and the apparatus. There's nobody watching, there's nothing else. Ultimately, what happens when you play a saxophone is every single person, the first thing you do is you create this horrible, honking squeaking sound on the horn, that sounds like there's a goose dying outside, you know, and it's just a horrible sound. And so what you do is you get over that fear, because it scares you, and you're like, Oh, my God, I'm not scared that this hog is gonna hurt me, I'm scared that somebody is gonna hear me squeaking, and they're gonna judge me on this. So what you do is you got to get out of your own way, right, you got to rewrite the narrative of the internal dialogue, you got to get out of your own way. And you got to give yourself permission to fail forward, or to lean into that and to embrace that squeak zone, right, and then ultimately, the sound of a saxophone for anybody. Whenever the next time you listen to smooth jazz, or you're on hold on that call or your department store, and you hear that smooth jazz, just say to yourself, I know that that smooth saxophone ain't nothing but a refined squeak. Thing is the process of refining the squeak. It's harnessing it, embracing it and then channeled into something beautiful, and that's everything in life.
William Forchion:I'm going to take a moment right now and do a little bit of a plug honeybadger I'm using their protein drink in my my smoothies in the morning. I'm using their vegan one because I've actually went vegan last year and was looking for ways to enhance my diet because the best way to do anything innovative is to take care of yourself. So my nutrition is a really big thing. Also, in the mornings on my toast, I really like side Hill Farms, Maple Apple drizzle. And if you're purchasing from these folks drinkhoneybadger.com or sidehillfarmsjam.com Just let them know that you heard about them on Billosophy. Alrighty, this is not... believe it or not, they're not sponsors. I like their product. And I think that people should know about it. That's why I'm putting them up here. They have not paid me to put anything here. I just want folks to know that there's some really great stuff out there and there's some really great people that are making it. Just like all the guests that I have on my show. Like today I have Bronkar. I want folks... the reason why I do this is because I believe in these products and I believe in these folks, and I'm going to keep talking with Bronkar who is just an amazing human being who is creating just a healing vibration in the universe. And, and I, I can't shout out his name enough, I met this gentleman... oh my goodness years ago probably 2003 Maybe. And I was like this guy is something he just had a an energy about him and I just wanted to be around him just wanted to hang with them and he took a class from me a movement class and then called me up and said, Hey, how can I do this for a living? And I'm so happy to introduce him some folks and give him references and the rest he did on his own because he is a magnificent person. And and so I'm so excited to be reconnecting with him yet again, here on philosophy 101. And before we move further Bronkar how can people find your stuff? Your your music, your meditations, you had a meditation app out a bit a while back, I saw it I'm downloaded. How can people get get ahold of your healing vibrations? Your energetic vibrations, your inspirational vibrations are your coaching and your your teaching?
Unknown:Yeah, yeah. Thanks for Thanks for asking, buddy. So instrumentalhumans.com is the website that's instrumentalhumans.com And that has information on, you know, keynoting, coaching, mindset, music, all of the all of the above. So yeah, there's a lot of a lot of ways we are really into building community and creating space where people can, you know, have legitimate transformations. And so that's, that's, that's really the big mission. And I just, you know, I'm so lucky and fortunate to have amazing people around me that are just so talented and awesome. And, you know, building other building in other ways that I'm not, you know, skilled at and, you know, so yeah.
William Forchion:And, and you also have a YouTube channel that people can get to check out some of your videos and hear some of your stuff.
Bronkar Lee:And I do I do have some video content there. The best way for people is instrumental humans calm instrumental humans, okay. Yeah, cuz that's kind of our central, our central hub. And so we actually have some other platforms that we're hosting videos on primarily hosting our videos on. So we have, you know, some different membership sites, we have some different, you know, all kinds of different things that we're doing with the current videos, you know, for that, so that's the best the best place to,
William Forchion:okay, if you could go back to yourself, your younger self, and give them some advice about the life that you have lived. Now, if you can go back to your younger self, what would you say, to your younger self,
Bronkar Lee:I would say do exactly what you're doing. Do exactly what you're doing. It's it's a process. So you know, whether there's things that I'm proud of, or not proud of. There's thing you know, preferred choices, less preferred choices, all of those have said led me to the moment I am, you know, when one example is, you know, my, and I work really hard, you know, many of us have deeply encoded patterns, and some conscious, some unconscious, II. And for me, I didn't know my biological father, until I met him when I was 28 years old. And so for 28 years, I had a void in me that I was missing something that I was that I was empty somehow that I and I had a victim mentality, why did this happen to me? Why isn't this person here, and I and I had this, this frustration, this anger, this aggression, this, this emptiness, and, and then when I finally met him, and I've cultivated a relationship with him since then, and now I'm in my 40s. And, you know, we are in touch and stuff like that. But now, the way that I show up and parent for my two boys, is I am so engaged. And I believe that a large reason that I'm so engaged with them, is because I didn't have that in my life. And so my mission is now to really show up and be a rockstar daddy. And so, if I hadn't gone through that, that, you know, that particular you know, issue pattern, whatever you want to call it struggles, strife, adversity, whatever it is, then it wouldn't have it wouldn't have instilled things in me that now I'm extremely passionate about. And so I think that maybe these you know, there are less preferred experiences in life. There are there are mistakes and mistakes, and they're also just epic failures. And I've had some massive failures. But those failures have almost every time been the greatest learning lessons of my life. And if anybody listening right now can reflect on some of your failures. like those are probably those failures have probably become fuel for your fire. Right? And and whether you could have avoided those or not whether you had advice or support or whatever, it's like, you know that that moment or those moments where that was that was learning that was real life learning. And that has made you who you are today,
William Forchion:right? Well, I say, you know, some of the Billosophy that I used to lay down a lot and still do lay down is that there is no failure. If you can learn from it, it's not a failure. So if you live past that moment, you haven't failed, because you've learned from it, whether you learned not to do it again, or to do it differently, or to do it, something you if you gain something from it, then it's not a failure, the failure, if you pass on, and you cannot add any more information to it, then maybe it's considered a failure. But you won't consider that because you're not here to do that. So there isn't any failure. And I really liked that. The other thing you mentioned about is some of the the trauma of not having that, that dad until you're 28, knowing that data to your 28. And there's many of us who are walking around with traumas, and they're not the big, you know, it's not like the big car accident or the building explosion, there are micro traumas that we carry in our lives. And the others, that you mentioned about what your the way your parents and your children, traumas that are passed down by our ancestors, with our parents had situations in their lives, and raised us in a way that they wanted, which was a result of that trauma. And their parents did that with them. And that gets passed on. And there's a systemic or a familial way of passing it down. And one of the things I'm working on now, and this is something that's come to me in the past few months, is how to release those traumas, identify and release some of those traumas, then it may be not even releasing, but identifying if you could identify, man, I really missed that father figure in my life, and start to process that and go beyond that, oh, my feelings are hurt to other things, we can get to some really great growth as humans in that process. And I don't mean just growing upwards and outwards, I mean, just filling ourselves. If there's a pocket a void in us, then we're not filling that void. And if we can remove some of those voids and fill our fill ourselves, what can we, you know, imagine who we are, who we become, not just what we can do, but who we can become? So that was I know that that a question. That's just just hearing you say that just really inspired me to speak to on that.
Unknown:Well to parlay on that. That's it. That's it. That's a great, great point, rather, um, you know, we start to question the things. So we identify it first, as you mentioned, so we identify, we have that awareness. And then we start to question it, we start to say, well, what is this all about? Why is that thing there? What is it trying to say to me? And now how can I work with it? Right? How can I use that because possibly, that's a tool. Like in my case, you know, now I have the ability to connect with other people, I've had some of the most powerful conversations in my life, by sharing my story and my situation with other people. And suddenly they've opened up and we've done some real powerful work and releasing, you know, some of that pent up energy around those things. And it's, it's, it's then becomes a, a tool that we can use as a bridge of relatability with other people, and a teaching, a teaching tool for us to convey, you know, a concept or an idea to share that vulnerability that then builds trust builds rapport,
William Forchion:ie, okay, if you could just drop a wisdom bomb right here, bam, you have a moment to just lay it out. What would that wisdom bomb be for all the listeners out there that just, you know whether they can take with him for this moment, or for the day for the week for the month was for the rest of their lives? What was the bomb? Do you have for our velocity one on one listening audience,
Unknown:no pressure, no pressure, I would say one of the biggest philosophies that we teach instrumental humans is really looking at our, you know, our bodies, and our minds, as instruments. And when we can start to have an awareness that we are instruments ourselves, our mechanical body, our, our minds, our emotions, our energy. And we start to have an awareness that we have this internal Symphony here, and to look at ourselves as being the conductor of our symphony. And how are we choosing to keep our symphony in tune our internal symphony in tune? And as we can focus on the self, and self care, self preservation, maintaining all of our Symphony inside of us all our instruments, then we can show up and make beautiful music with the world. We can connect with the people we love. We can, you know, have our impact amplified in the world, we can lead in a greater way parents in a greater way, do business in a greater way, whatever that may look like. But it's starting with that with that self, and really looking inwardly, to recalibrating our internal instruments first. And the same thing happens just to deepen that metaphor, is if you think about if you've ever seen a symphony before, the first thing that happens is the, you know, there's a bass note played, and then the lead violinist comes out, generally, she or he plays a single note on the lead violin. And what they're doing is retuning their instrument. And then the people around she or he start to retune their instrument, but what they're doing is they're they're retuning their individual instruments first, before they come together to play. And they do this every single time they play. These are professionals that have been playing every day of their lives for the last 20 years. And they do this every single time they sit down to play. So the question for the listeners now is how often are you retuning your internal instruments? And are you in tune for peak performance? Are you running sharp, intense, overwhelmed and stressed? Are you running flat? decompressed uninspired low energy, we got to hit that sweet spot get that Goldilocks effect place that Goldilocks locatiom right there that to be right in tune so that we can broadcast that kind of energy and vibration to the world.
William Forchion:Man, there you go. Bam. Okay. Okay. Wow. That is wow. Simplifying it that way, is brilliant. And, and I imagine that folks who engage in Instrumental Instrumental humans get a lot more of that those wisdom bombs to work with. Or tools to work with?
Bronkar Lee:Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's always it's always happening.
William Forchion:Wow, I gotta gotta sign up.
Bronkar Lee:Come on over, man, you got to get up in here, bro.
William Forchion:Oh, I Do I Do yo Bronkar, it has been a pleasure to just sit with you. Again. It's just a pleasure to be in your presence. It's a pleasure to just to have your energy and engage in this this medium. And I'm so glad that you could be on the Billosophy101 podcast. And I hope that I hope we can talk again sometime in the near future.
Bronkar Lee:Yeah, brother, thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be here. And thank you for anybody that listened today. Thanks for showing up and giving your your energy and your time, which are your most valuable resources. So hopefully you got some value.
William Forchion:Definitely, I definitely do. And for my podcast listeners, as I end each and every episode, please move forward with passion and purpose. And remember, each morning and each night say to yourself look into the mirror and know I am enough. Let me try with me right now. I am you know, alrighty. Be well. Stay wonderful. Have a great day.
Intro Voice:Thank you for listening to the Billosophy podcast. Keep checking in as we will be regularly releasing new episodes.