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#YOUNGER Radio Add List #2

View the previous radio adds for #YOUNGER here.

*Mix 106- San Jose, CA. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.  

*Mix 96.5- Houston, TX. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* Star 101.3- San Francisco, CA. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* Mix 100.5- Palm Springs, CA. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*100.7 STAR- Pittsburgh, PA. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* Mix 94.1- Canton, OH. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* Q92.9- Pittsburgh, PA. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* 104.7 The Mix- Naples, FL. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* my 99.9- Colorado Springs, CO. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* YOUR 106.3- Lexington, KY. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* Mix 106.3- Saginaw, MI. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* Mix 95.7FM- Grand Rapids, MI. Twitter. Request hotline:  [phone]. Mediabase. 

* Star 102.5- Buffalo, NY. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* Mix 106.5FM- Baltimore, Maryland. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* MY 92.9- Tucson, AZ. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* Hot 97.5/103.9- Phoenix, AZ. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* MIX 96.9- Phoenix, AZ. Twitter. Mediabase.

* STAR 101.5- Seattle, WA. Twitter.  Request hotline: 206.421.101 5888.821.1015 (there’s two numbers listed). Mediabase. 

* Q104- Cleveland, OH. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* ALICE 105.9- Denver, CO. Twitter.  Request hotline: 303-22-ALICE (303-222-5423). Mediabase.

* 101.5 KGFM- Bakersfield, CA. Request hotline: 661-842-KGFM (5436). Mediabase.  

* My 99.5- Salt Lake City, UT.  Twitter.  Request hotline: 1-866-MY995FM. Mediabase.

* Mix 94.1- Las Vegas, NV. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Text a request- 21732. Mediabase.  

* 107.9 The Link- Charlotte, NC. Twitter.  Mediabase.

* FM 100 Memphis- Memphis, TN. Twitter.  Request hotline:  [phone]. Mediabase.

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#YOUNGER Radio Add List

It’s that time again! A Great Big World is back which means it’s time to request the newest single. Request using the methods below (twitter, calling, mediabase).

*The Beach 96.5 FM- Corpus Christi, TX. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*Star 102.5- Des Moines, Iowa. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*Cities 97- Minneapolis, MN. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* 99.7 The Point- Kansas City, Missouri. Twitter. Request hotline: (913 or 816) 576.7997. Mediabase. 

*Star 92.9- Burlington, Vermont. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*Star 99.9- Connecticut. Twitter.  Mediabase. 

* MIX 93-1- Springfield, MA. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

*94.7 Fresh FM- Washington D.C. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* 97.9 WRMF- Palm Beach, FL. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

*SoJO 104.9- South Jersey. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* 93.7 WSTW- Wilmington, DE. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*WVHT-FM: HOT 100- Norfolk, VA. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*95.5 PLJ- New York. Twitter. Request hotline: 800-321-WPLJ (9755). Mediabase.

*Alice 97.3- San Francisco, CA. Twitter. Mediabase. 

* Y101 FM- Fresno, CA. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* 98-9 KISS FM- Oklahoma City. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*96.3 WDVD-FM- Detroit, MI. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* Coast 93.1- Portland, OR. Twitter.  Request hotline: (207)-79-COAST (792-6278). Mediabase.

* STAR98- Green Bay, WI. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*MIX 107.3- Washington DC. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* Star 102.3- Eugene, Oregon. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

*HOT 103.9- San Bernardino, CA. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* 100.3 The Peak- Albuquerque, NM. Twitter. Request hotline: (505) 299-PEAK (7325). Mediabase. 

* MY 102.7FM- Treasure Valley, OH. Twitter. Mediabase. 

* 94.3 The Point- Asbury Park, NJ. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase. 

* 97.3 WMEE- Fort Wayne, IN. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

*94.9 The Point- Virginia Beach. Twitter. Mediabase.

*  99.5 The Point- Albany, NY. Twitter. Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

* 104.5 FM WXLO- Worcester, MA. Twitter.  Request hotline: [phone]. Mediabase.

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‘All I Want is Love’ fan video revisited

Rockstars,

Two years ago when “All I Want is Love” first came out I was going to put together a fan video but I didn’t have enough interest. I was hoping to revisit the idea especially with everything terrible going on in the world right now. This time it’s going to be more political driven, same idea sort of (if you remember the original plan). Please read below for more information.

1. . Lip-syncing the lyrics. You can pick any lyric of the song and lip-synch it. Please let me know what part so I don’t get doubles of any of the verses/lyrics. I will provide the lyrics below. Try to be creative with this- go outside to film, do it with friends- have fun with it! 

2. Holding a piece of paper with any positive message you could think of! Make sure it’s legible and able to be seen!

3. I would love to get the LGBTQ community involved! Single, in a relationship, whatever! I want this video to be bold and full of love and acceptance. That’s the whole point of this song! You can send pictures with your significant other, dancing with them, just having a good time! Be creative! If you have any LGBTQ friends (AGBW fan or not) please let them know about this project! 

4. I plan on having towards the end of the video where “all I want is love” is repeated, a couple people holding a paper with those song lyrics on it. I need four volunteers for this one. 

5. Any other creative ideas you can think of that fits into this theme! 

I want this video project to be HUGE and make a statement. It’s important that this message is spread. The deadline is AUGUST 30TH, 2017 AT 12AM MIDNIGHT EST. I will try to get it up as soon as I can afterwards. 

As always everything will be sent to [email protected]. I know there have been issues in the past for video files being too big so if you can’t send it actually through the email, post it on YouTube and send me the link to the video and I’ll grab it from there. 

If you have any questions don’t be afraid to send me an email to the address listed above or tweet me @AGBWonTour Remember have tons of fun with this! I’m really excited to put it together. This is a really special song.

Much love,

–Danielle

Song lyrics to “All I Want Is Love”

[Verse 1] Fear You’re just a name that I have learned Another way for me to turn And you brought me here And it took years for me to find That you were only in my mind

[Chorus] I’ve been looking in the wrong place Couldn’t see what I’ve always known I was facing the wrong way I missed it all, I missed it all I don’t care what they all say Let me find my own way home I don’t care if my heart breaks All I want is love

[Verse 2] Hope You’re just a name that I hold close There when I needed you the most And you brought me here Where I can learn to love myself Without the love of someone else

[Chorus] I’ve been looking in the wrong place Couldn’t see what I’ve always known I was facing the wrong way I missed it all, I missed it all I don’t care what they all say Let me find my own way home I don’t care if my heart breaks All I want is love All I want is love All I want is love

[Bridge] I don’t care what they all say I don’t care if my heart breaks I don’t care what they all say (all I want is love) I don’t care if my heart breaks I don’t care if my heart breaks

[Chorus] I’ve been looking in the wrong place Couldn’t see what I’ve always known I was facing the wrong way I missed it all, I missed it all I don’t care what they all say Let me find my own way home I don’t care if my heart breaks All I want is love I don’t care what they all say (all I want is love) I don’t care if my heart breaks (all I want is love) I don’t care what they all say (all I want is love) I don’t care if my heart breaks All I want is love

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List of contests going on to win tickets to A Great Big World’s: An Evening with Ian Chad Tour

This list will be updated regularly if any other contests are added.

1. Boston area: Mix1041 is giving away tickets to see A Great Big World at Brighton Music Hall on March 21. The contest ends on March 19 at 11:59 PM EST time. Enter here.

2. Michigan: AmericaJR is giving away tickets to see A Great Big World at The Ark on March 26. Enter here. 

3. New York: 95.5 PLJ is giving away VIP tickets at 7:05PM all this week (March 13-19) to see A Great Big World at Le Poisson Rouge on March 23. It’s a caller contest so be sure to listen to the station. INFO

4. Toronto: Win tickets to see A Great Big World at the Mod Club on March 25! Contest ends on March 20. Enter here.

Be sure to purchase your tickets for the tour at agreatbigworld.com! 

To see show updates every night be sure to follow me on Twitter: @AGBWonTour. 

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Supplements: Vitamin D

I take a good amount of supplements on a daily basis. I’ll start to roll out and describe each one on this blog. Let’s start with Vitamin D.

I’ve been taking a Vitamin D supplement for years. It’s the one supplement I won’t go a day without because of how much science there is that links MS and low vitamin D levels. About 90% of all MS patients are deficient in Vitamin D.

As a whole, our bodies don’t get enough Vitamin D from exposure to the sun or from our food, and supplementing becomes important. Low vitamin D levels can even increase your risk of many other diseases including type 1 diabetes, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune diseases. 

I’d highly recommend getting your Vitamin D level checked. If you aren’t battling a health condition or disease, 50-70 ng/mL is optimal. My doctor recommends I keep my blood level to a range of 80-90 ng/mL since I have MS. Right now I take 10,000 IUs everyday. Yay! 

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My story via Human Health Report

I recently shared my story with the fine folks at Human Health Report and I wanted to repost the interview here. xoxo 

“Senior year of college, I was diagnosed with MS. That was in 2007. My legs started buckling underneath me. I had vertigo when I was sitting stationary. My legs and arms started tingling. I had optic neuritis, where my vision would go blurry at random points throughout the day. I went to 3 different neurologists because I didn’t believe I had MS. I didn’t understand why it would be affecting me. I was way too young. All 3 said I had MS, and the 3rd one said you have to get on this medication otherwise you’re looking at paralysis in 5-10 years. So I started the medication because I didn’t want to be paralyzed. The medication actually started making me worse. I started getting seizure-like symptoms, and déjà vu like 50 times a day, where I would feel like I had been here before. I could tell it was messing with my body and chemistry. So about 6 months into it, I said I can’t commit to a lifetime of this. There was no end date to the medication, and it only had a 40% success rate of slowing down the progression of it. That rate didn’t sit well with me. I found a chiropractor in NYC that tweaked my diet. He got me off a ton of the crap I was eating. He got me eating a ton of good fats. My symptoms started subsiding. Right around that same time, I found a woman named Doctor Terry Wahls, who was diagnosed with MS, paralyzed, and within a few months started walking again because she changed her diet to a paleo diet. I ended up changing my diet to a paleo diet, and all of my symptoms subsided. I’ve been doing that ever since. It’s been 6 years now, and I feel so good. Symptoms pop up when I don’t take care of my body and it’s just a sign that I know I’m not getting enough sleep, too stressed, or I’m eating the wrong foods. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m totally managing these symptoms and I feel great. I feel human again. I feel whole. I feel like I wasn’t truly living until now. I paid zero attention to my environment inside and outside of my body until this happened. Hippocrates said, "let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” And it’s so true because nutrition is the cornerstone of why I’m feeling the best I’ve ever felt.“

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Our #wontstoprunning shirt was created in collaboration with Billy the Artist, and features part of the mural he painted for the “Won’t Stop Running” music video. A portion of the proceeds from this shirt will go to Billy’s charity of choice, the Fine Arts Association, which focuses on arts education, performances, and arts advocacy. Grab a shirt at our webstore! https://agreatbigworld.squarespace.com/

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A Great Big World Interview/show review from Matt Nathanson/Phillip Phillips in Atlanta on July 30, 2016

Hey loves,

In July, I had the exciting opportunity to interview @agreatbigworld for my college newspaper at their Atlanta tour stop on July 30. I mean they say if your favorite band doesn’t come to your state, you travel for them right? The interview and show review was finally published and I’m SUPER EXCITED to share it with you guys! I’ve already gotten outpouring love about it on Twitter. Hope you love it and be sure to check out the FULL INTERVIEW video below. It had to be cut in the article due to word count and space restrictions. THANK YOU all for the continued support. It truly means the world.

All the love,

~ Danielle

FULL INTERVIEW with A Great Big World: (Excuse my awkwardness!! I was a bit nervous. It was my first time interviewing a big name musician. There’s a first for everything!)

Be sure to follow me on twitter: @team_agbw for the most current AGBW updates! Talk soon!

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My Basic Diet

On this post I’ll go into what I do eat and what I don’t eat. I’ll go into a lot more detail in later posts as to why these specific foods, but I’m essentially on a Paleo diet - lots of veggies, some meat, low carb, high fat.

What I DON’T eat:

Gluten (breads, pastas, pastries, wheat products)

Dairy (animal milks, cheese, cream)

Refined sugars/artificial sweeteners (high fructose corn syrup, cane sugar, aspartame, splenda, brown rice syrup)

Processed vegetable oils (rapeseed, soybean, canola, sunflower, safflower oils)

What I DO eat:

Dark leafy greens (kale, spinach, collard greens)

Sulfur-rich veggies (cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage)

Meat/Fish (wild-caught fish, grass-fed meats)

Fruit (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, dates)

Probiotic-rich foods (sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, kimchi) 

Prebiotic-rich foods (garlic, onions, artichoke, jicama, dandelion greens)

High fat oils (coconut oil, flax seed oil, extra virgin olive oil, cod liver or krill oil)

High fat foods (avocados, nuts, olives, chia seeds)

What I eat IN MODERATION:

Starchy carbs (potatoes, squash, zucchini, quinoa, rice)

Legumes (white, black, pinto beans, lentils)

Nightshade veggies (eggplant, peppers, potatoes)

Bananas, Oranges

Some other dietary rules I live by:

Eat “organic” whenever possible. 

Never eat meat or fish if it isn’t sustainably farmed 

Cook whenever possible. It’s always better to know exactly what you’re fueling your body with.

This diet will most likely change the more I learn about food and nutrition and it’s effects on the human body, but for now this is making me feel great so I’m gonna stick with it.

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Hi

Hey there. I wanted to create a space where I can share with you all the ways I’m managing my MS without compromising the quality of my life. I do believe YOU are your best doctor. By closely exploring your own body and all it’s sensitivities, you can understand what makes you feel great and what makes you feel not-so great. We all have so much to learn. Excited to be on this journey with you. 

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“When I was like 5 or 6 my mom walked in, saw me peeing standing up, and she asked me what I was doing and I said, ‘You know, I’m a boy.’ And that was met with a lot of anger and violence, and that anger and violence continued throughout my childhood and really forced me to stay in the closet. It wasn’t until I was 22 or 23 years old that I finally came out as transgender.

I really made a conscious choice to be better to myself and to actually care about myself and make that choice to transition…and not care what other people thought of me because at the end of the day, I just have me. It’s an ongoing battle to love myself despite not being respected by society and by the world, and being told that I’m a second class citizen and that I don’t deserve these rights and protections that everybody has. No, I won’t stop running.” -Sawyer Devuyst

Hear more stories and share yours at http://www.wontstoprunning.com #wontstoprunning #transgender #equality #loveyourself

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Make sure to visit http://www.wontstoprunning.com to learn more about the amazing people in this video! #wontstoprunning

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So proud of our music video for “Won’t Stop Running.” Have you seen it yet?

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Watch A Great Big World's Empowering Music Video 'Won't Stop Running'

These thirteen survivors overcame extreme challenges

The “Won’t Stop Running” video is out now! Chad here. This song was written as a response to my doctor who diagnosed me with Multiple Sclerosis and said I’d be paralyzed within 7 years. That was 9 years ago, and I’m feeling as healthy as ever. For this video, Ian and I wanted to invite individuals who’ve had inspiring journeys and struggles of their own to sing this song with us. We are so humbled and proud to share these positive examples of human potential. They remind us that there is still a lot of light in this world. #wontstoprunning

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Guys. A Great Big World performed at my bio mom’s work today, and not only did they sign a VIP pass for me, but I did a cover of “Say Something” about two years ago and they watched it!! They said they were very happy I pursued my love of music, and when my bio-mom explained that I recently came out as trans/non-binary (I identified as female in the video) one teared up and said he was proud of me for being true to myself. I’m in heaven <3

[agbwontour]

This is the sweetest❤️Stay true to who you are.

[ginger-snap-talkin-nonsense]

It’s sad that Say Something had to be the one hit A Great a big World had. They had so many more upbeat songs that are so much fun. Like, Land of Opportunity or Everyone is Gay, but they’ll always be “the guys who wrote that kind of boring, sad song with a nice piano.” It sucks. They’ll actually really fun and nice to listen to.

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tour starts in 9 days, WHOA! to celebrate the whole gang (phillip phillips, a great big world, & eric hutchinson) and i will be doing a little pre-show google hangout TOMORROW to kick things off. we’re even getting our friend matt pinfield to moderate the chat.

the fun begins at 5pm ET, join us.