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Here is Peter & Renee Liciaga’s Rising Stars: Living the Dream podcast. If you have a dream and a desire to pursue a career as a performing artist, whether you’re a dancer, singer, actor or model, this show is for you.

Peter and co-host, Renee Chambers-Liciaga (Choreographer / Stage Director / Performing Arts Educator), will share their lives and experience as performing artist, creating a forum to discuss life’s ups and downs for the performing artist. Peter and Renee will answer the many questions that they are asked and offer some suggestions for anyone interested in becoming a professional performing artist.

They will also have special guest from the industry that will share some of their journey in this business of show business. From theater, tv and movies to the internet and everything in between. From Summer Stock to Broadway; on stage and off stage; behind the scene and in the scene. Actors, dancers, models, directors, musicians, casting directors, choreographers, agents, stage managers, you name it! If they are in the industry they will either talk to them or talk about them!

Of course if you have any questions or feedback, or you would like to be a guest on one of their shows, you can call their hotline at 856-359-4210.

And yes, “shameless plugs” are allowed! So, if you are doing a project that you are passionate about and would like to plug it here for free! Renee and I would love to chat with you. So please call them at 856-359-4210.

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Why I Love to Teach Martial Arts, Today. (Martial Arts Business)

Let me tell you what’s fun about my work (as a martial arts teacher).

It’s really fine to coach young men and women to become exemplary athletes; athletes with focus, determination, self-discipline, courage, a great attitude, and the will to succeed. I’ve taught some fantastic athletes too, black belts who could wheel-kick you’re head off, from any position, any time of the day or night. Fighters who could punch so hard and so fast that duking it out with them was nothing but an exercise in frustration and pain.

I’ve coached some world class athletes too, like BJ Penn and his brother Reagan, who take the concept of sports performance to another dimension.

But that’s not what my work is about, not anymore; not at age 51 and with 40 years of experience studying and practicing the martial arts. No, today what I most enjoy about my work is taking martial arts athlete/teachers and nurturing in them a completely different kind of excellence-in-performance.

One of my star students (and at the level of expertise the examples I’m about to give you are operating at, I can’t really call them “students” anymore, as they’re as much my teachers as my pupils, friends, and peers) is Brian Williams, who is, I believe, in Kenya at the moment on a humanitarian mission. Brian’s world class martial arts performance and project is www.ThinkKindness.org. What BJ Penn is to BJJ and MMA, Brian is to kindness, acts of compassion, and taking his martial arts training out of the dojo and into the world. Another star performer is martial arts teacher Gary Engels. Gary’s “master project,” is based on the teaching methods he’s been practicing in his martial arts school called The Leadership Academy. Gary lives in a town of less than 3000 people, yet his students have planned, executed, and documented more community projects than any other school in America --and maybe in the world.

Gary’s project-in-the-works is www.Projabi.com. This young man is on his way to making Project-Based Leadership Training (PBLT) a standard part of all martial arts schools (especially those that teach young people), everywhere. I’m helping black belt and nutritionist Mike Tubbs of Canada craft a master’s level project called The Dietary Self-Defense Program. I don’t see how in today’s world we, the martial arts “industry,” can claim to teach self-defense if we don’t address what we eat, how it’s grown and produced, where it comes from, and the cost of its production. Mike is hard at work on what could become one of the most important --and long overdue --programs in the international martial arts community. Visit www.DietarySelfDefense.com. Joe Van Deuren in Maryland and Peter Liciaga in New Jersey are two black belt teachers who know how to get things done. Joe’s Where Does the Rain Go? Project, his School Teacher Grant Program, Teen Suicide Prevention work, and art programs for young people are, I believe, setting the bar for the kind of martial arts that could be taught in the future, if teachers only had someone to show them what’s possible. Joe’s doing that. Peter’s work in designing bullying education materials and teaching kids how to teach other kids, well, it’s a thing of beauty. See Joe’s work at http://balancedlifeskills.com, see Peter’s at http://flavors.me/pliciaga. Danny Sikkens and Jeremy Smith are two of my black belts that run a non-profit martial arts school outside of Portland, Oregon. They currently teach more than 400 students at Aim High Martial Arts and specialize in teaching leadership and community service. See Aim High at www.AimHighMA.com. My organization, The 100 (www.The100.us) has more than 100 black belt school owners and teachers in it --and each one of them is working on defining one or more projects that reflect their ability to take what they have learned through their training --and apply it, spectacularly, in the world. Being a part of this work, being a catalyst for this kind of martial arts practice, THIS is, today, what’s most fun, most exhilarating, and most rewarding about my work as a teacher of the martial arts.