Look Ma No Hands is a unique Panel & Workshop to Provide Expert Guidance Riding The Ups & Downs of the Music Industry. Space is limited. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
PANEL & WORKSHOP: A one-of-a-kind event providing Tools and Techniques to decrease the unique stresses of Music Business today so you can refocus, live well and continue to make the great music of tomorrow. All attendees will be provided with one free counseling session with a licensed professional counselor upon request.
Panelists:
- Vanessa Londino, Cast Iron Counseling
- Lanny West, Wellness Coach & Nutritionist
- Daphne Willis, Artist & Mental Health Advocate
- Dr Yasmine Van Wilt , Artist & Mental Health Advocate
- Moderated by Tina Parol, Disney Songwriter, Recording Artist
BIOS:
VANESSA LONDINO, Cast Iron Counseling
Vanessa has a B.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and a M.A. in Counseling from Trevecca Nazarene University. She is a licensed professional counselor and a certified personal trainer. Her focus is on holistic integration. This means treating the whole person: mind, heart, spirit, and body. Her specializations include trauma and the effects of abuse, addicted and narcissistic family systems, women’s identity issues, spiritual trauma/abuse, couples, and adolescents. Her own healing journey led her to psychotherapy in her early adult years. She is a therapist who’s also been a client. When Vanessa is not counseling, she is speaking, teaching, and writing. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, cooking, and trail running. She also loves used book stores and road trips.
LANNY WEST, Tipping Point Artist Wellness
Lanny West has worked in music and entertainment for over 30 years. Over that time, he gained more and more interest in nutrition and holistic health matters, putting it into practice in his own life. It didn’t take long to realize what a challenge it is to get healthy and stay healthy in the music world whether you’re on the road, in the studio or just hanging out with musicians. It was that insight that inspired Tipping Point Artist Wellness. It’s a unique solution to a unique problem: staying healthy and balanced in a business that lends itself to midnight drive-through meals, open bar tabs and sleeping at 70 mph. And that’s where Lanny’s singular background comes into play. By combining his training as an Integrative Wellnees Coach from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) with his experience in the music industry, he not only knows what you should be doing, but can help you navigate the realities of putting that plan into practice under less-than-ideal circumstances. And that experience helps him do the part that he likes best: helping you get healthy so you can focus your time and energy on being creative and productive with your art.
DAPHNE WILLIS, Recording Artist & Mental Health Advocate
Collaborating across multiple genres ranging from Roots-Rock and Pop to Hip Hop and Electronic Dance Music, classifying Daphne Willis in musical terms is no easy task. With infectious melodies delivered with lyrical precision and honesty, the songs and performances of Daphne Willis are sincere, compelling and relevant. Raised in Chicago, Daphne now calls Nashville, TN home and cites influences as varied as Elvis Costello and Michael Jackson, but her musical output cleverly incorporates such inspirations into a style that is refreshing and contemporary in a way that suits her songs best. With over 1,000 shows under her belt over the past several years, Daphne has been spreading her music to passionate fans across the United States. Her infectious personality combined with her incredible talent caught the eyes and ears of Sony/ATV Music Publishing in early 2016 who quickly signed Daphne to a worldwide publishing agreement. This partnership has resulted in several of her songs being recorded by other artists and used in Commercial, Film and TV productions such as One Tree Hill, Empire and a Microsoft Ad Campaign.
- YASMINE VAN WILT,Recording Artist and Mental Health Advocate
Yasmine constructs creative and critical works that explore gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, the environmental humanities, and the medical humanities from an eco-feminist, postcolonial lens. She earned her doctorate in Creative Writing and Postcolonial Studies from the University of London in 2016, and is a Mellon Fellow, an artist-in-residence at Columbia University, and the CEO of Van Wilt Records.She is currently Executive Producing and Impact Producing the feature film Into the Light, directed by eight-time Emmy-winner Charles Stuart, for PBS premiere in May, 2018; the film has screened at the National Geographic headquarters and has been screened at many colleges, including at Columbia University, UCLA, Dartmouth, and is supported by the Campaign to Change Direction.She has also joined the PBS televisions show Health Minds as an Executive Producing, Creative Producer, Impact Producer, and Composer for PBS. She is also releasing a number of musical works via Kobalt Records/Big Machine Record Label, etc this spring and autumn and is the Executive Producer, Creative Producer, Script Developer, and Composer, and Principal Investigator for a project with Everfi, Columbia University, Cornell University, and The WHO.Her musical works have reached Top 40 charts in the UK and US, and she has reached Gold-certified status with a number of compositions. Her work has been co-produced by the BBC, national theatres, West End venues, and major receiving and touring theatres and venues. She has managed several multi-national projects with budgets in excess of $10M USD. The fruits of this labor have been shown at the United Nations, national theaters, on PBS, major international radio, and beyond.
TINA PAROL, Songwriter, Recording Artist and Music Health Alliance Board Member
Tina is a first-generation American born to Polish immigrants in Somerville, NJ. She is fluent in Polish and did not speak English until Kindergarten. At the age of 14, Tina had already developed musical and business instincts beyond her years. Pretending to be her mother, she would cold-call entertainment lawyers in NYC with the intent to land a publishing deal. Tina attended the prestigious New York University, enrolling in both the Clive Davis Department at Tisch School of the Arts, and Liberal Arts School programs. While at school, those same instincts and ambitions helped her to build valuable relationships in the music industry, leading to both a record deal with Universal Motown, and successful pop single “Who’s Got Your Money?”. The single, co-written and co-produced by Parol, charted to #34 on the Pop Airplay charts and allowed Tina the opportunity to tour around the country opening for acts like Flo Rida and Boys Like Girls. Tina’s unrelenting passion for songwriting ultimately lead her to Nashville, TN, where she is a thriving member of the songwriting community, writing with the industry’s best and brightest. Her experiences as a recording artist have shaped her into a very versatile writer with multi-genre sensibilities. Her songs have been recorded by Britney Spears, Sabrina Carpenter, Jamie Lynn Spears, Krewella, Jerrod Niemann, Dallas Smith, Kevin Rudolf, Haley Georgia, Jessie James Decker, and many others. Her songs have also appeared on shows for Fox, Lifetime, MTV, NBC