“Runaway” Lyrics by Christopher Marciano Touches Hearts Worldwide

Rhythm and blues pop singer and songwriter Christopher Marciano inspires the world to reach out to others and be the reason. “Runaway” written and sung by Marciano is proving to make universal life changes. Through his emotional lyrics he brings topics to the forefront that need to be discussed. Writing songs and poetry helps Christopher heal and recover from stressful situations and his hope is that his songs will bring healing and recovery because if he can do it so can you! As an educator he uses songwriting to teach the students about the world and to build self-confidence. Christopher Marciano creates positive change through lyrics and music.

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I hope through this, we could reach more people

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and encourage them to do the same because we need authentic positivity

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out there in the world to make positive imprints, everywhere.

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Listeners, don't forget to enter the live show contest.

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You could win one of two hoodies or you could win both.

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All you have to do is listen to the live episode that was just released

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called ""healing and recovery, using lyrics" with R and B artist, rowdy,

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James and R and B pop artists.

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Christopher Marsianno.

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All you have to do is answer one of two questions for one chance to win

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one of the hoodies, or answer both questions for two chances to win.

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The questions are easy.

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All you have to do again is listen to the live show.

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First question, what song does Rawiri James consider his theme song?

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And the second question, what is Christopher Marciano's tagline for

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his mental health awareness movement?

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You can learn more information from my homepage on my website,

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YourPositiveImprint.com there's an easy form for you to just fill out the answers.

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Or you can email them if you're already emailing me or using Facebook

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or Instagram, use that platform.

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I'm happy to receive your answers.

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The deadline is June 2nd and the two winners will be announced during

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the episode on June 7th, the first person to be drawn will receive

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the unlock, your potential hoodie.

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And the second name drawn will receive the I sing, my pain.

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I sing my happiness hoodie.

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Enter, you could win two fabulous hoodies.

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Again, the deadline June 2nd, your positive imprint.

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What's your P.I.?.

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Positive stories are everywhere, people and their positive

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actions inspire positive achievements.

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Your PI could mean the world to you.

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Get ready for your positive

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imprint.

Catherine:

This is Catherine with Your Positive Imprint the variety show podcast,

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featuring people from all over the world whose positive, inspiring

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imprints are inspiring the world.

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These exceptional people are rising to the challenge.

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And today I have one of those exceptional people here on the show.

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Christopher Marciano.

Catherine:

Hello, Christopher.

Christopher Marciano:

Thank you.

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I'm so excited to be here.

Catherine:

So thrilled to have you here.

Catherine:

And you are one of the youngest assistant principals over in Florida.

Catherine:

You could, you were born in and I'm just going to give a quick introduction

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here and we can talk about you.

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So you were born in west Africa and you moved over to the states, which

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we will learn more about and your English as a second language struggles.

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And you compose your own songs, your lyrics.

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And so you have genre that you dive into that you share with your students as an

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outlet to help them understand the world around them, which I think is so awesome.

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I can't wait to hear about that and to hear about some, some of the

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music that you have out now and yeah.

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You have brought in that music, not only as a person, not only as a

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teacher, but as assistant principal.

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And now you're sharing your music with the entire world and you're a reading coach.

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Which is literacy for those listeners who don't know what a reading coach is.

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We're just going to hear so much more about you.

Catherine:

So thank you so much for being here, here on the

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show.

Christopher Marciano:

Oh, it is my pleasure.

Catherine:

Yeah.

Catherine:

So let's start out first with west Africa, you were born out in west Africa.

Catherine:

What part

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so I wasn't born in west Africa.

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I was actually born in Rhode Island which is up north.

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It's a very, very small place.

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I was born Pawtucket.

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My family's from west Africa.

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I had the opportunity of traveling there and they're from Cape Verde islands.

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Not many people know what cape Verde islands consists of but it's

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actually little bits of islands off of the west African coast

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and it's absolutely beautiful.

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It's very rural.

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I wouldn't go there too often because of just how rural it is,

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but it's, it's a beautiful place and they have phenomenal waters.

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So my family, a little by little migrated from there, uh, in order to just find a

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better place to raise their children and find a better place to live their lives.

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My mother is actually from Ivory Coast, Africa, and, uh, her

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family migrated over as well.

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So as I was just surrounded by so many different cultures in Africa.

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And I acquired different languages, such as Cape Verdean,

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which is my first language.

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My mom spoke.

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I know my mom spoke fluent French.

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My mom speaks by the way, just, just to add that little tidbit, my mom

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speaks five different languages.

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Good for her.

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Good for her bad for me, because I grew up like a little confused.

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And when she was upset, she knew how to say it in five different languages.

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So that that just caused a struggle for me going to school because

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of just natural language barrier.

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Tell me about

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that language.

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Like, can you, do you still speak it?

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Oh, yes.

Catherine:

Oh, well, say your positive imprint.

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Well, (Cape Verdean language.) . So I said, I

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just very happy to be here and I want to say, thank you for having me.

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And I

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heard the obrigada.

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Portuguese for.

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Thank you.

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You are amazing.

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You are awesome.

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So, Cape Verde, I'm just getting into like a whole history lesson.

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Cape Verde was actually colonized by the Portuguese.

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Yes.

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So my language is composed of Portuguese and African dialect, so

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I could understand Portuguese, but when I speak it, it's a hot mess.

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Oh, interesting.

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Can you read Portuguese?

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I can, I can read Spanish pretty well.

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I'm not quite sure how that happened and I could speak Spanish pretty well.

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Not sure how that happened either.

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But Portuguese it's, it's very similar to my language so I could read it, uh,

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grammatically, they, they moved their words differently than, the accent is a

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little bit more predominant pronounced.

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So, uh, but I could, I could understand that pretty.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So

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now you were living in Rhode Island, which is where you schooled.

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Yeah.

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So I went to over 12 different schools.

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I know I moved around quite quite so many times and when I was in

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school or naturally, because I wasn't consistently in school, they put me in

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a speech class because I was just very

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quiet younger child.

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And they thought they were helping me by doing that.

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But I actually felt a little disconnected from my classmates

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because they were pulling me out of class to work with me on my language

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and then putting me back into class.

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And when I came back, I just didn't have the opportunity to develop

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relationships within the classroom.

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So that caused me to shut down a little bit more.

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And that's when I turned into writing, instead of expressing my emotions

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through my words, I wrote it down just so that I could get that outlet.

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And that's where my writing began.

Catherine:

I really appreciate that you talked about how you felt in school

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there's some cases where students will have to,

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you know, receive services, whether it's an exceptional education.

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However, I feel like the relationship between the teacher who is pulling out the

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student and the actual classroom teacher needs to be very tight because together,

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you established that comfortable feeling where when the student comes back, we're

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able to communicate and welcome that student into their classroom family

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where they, they don't feel left out.

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Because when I went to a stranger, I was never introduced to them.

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Didn't know their names.

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I'm working with this person who is pulling me from

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class and I don't know them.

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Whereas with me, when I was a teacher, I introduced those people

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to my students and made sure that they knew, Hey, we're working

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together to give you what you need.

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I'm so excited to have you back in 30 minutes, we're

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going to be here ready for you.

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So that just made them feel comfortable.

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And I felt like that's what, that's what was missing when I was younger.

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Oh, that's

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great now.

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I mean, not great that that was missing, but that's, that's so

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great that you recognized it.

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You were able to implement that.

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So how did, when you were reading coach, how did that fall into place?

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Did the teachers accept your openness.

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Oh, of course not all the time.

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I mean, I I'm very personable, so I have great relationships with

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my teachers, but of course you have certain situations where some

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students are the ones I call them

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the ones that need the most love they could trust some limits, but we just

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have to find creative ways to like music creative ways to really reach them.

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So when I was a reading coach, I absolutely love it because I was

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able to go into the classroom and model how we could do that and with

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my background as being the Dean and behavior and academics go side by side.

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So I was able to come in regularly and with a student and show them,

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Hey, If you try these strategies, the student may be able to be a little more

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comfortable and understand the concept that you're trying to deliver to them.

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So it's all about thinking outside the box.

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And really getting to know the student and reaching them and their

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interest level in a inappropriate way.

Catherine:

Yes, definitely the interest level.

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And so you mentioned you were Dean also, what grade level were

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you working with with regard?

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Was it still element

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the whole school.

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It was pre-K to fifth grade was the toughest year of my life.

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Pre-K to fifth grade.

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And I had we had a unit, several units at my school.

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So several exceptional needs students.

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I learned the most, it was my first year out of the classroom.

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I lasted the entire year and I developed an amazing amount of relationships with

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these kids and the teachers and parents.

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I was very close with my parents because you need to have parents by your side.

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And that just really molded me.

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into the leader that I am now so it's something I keep thinking of.

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It's very rewarding.

Catherine:

Awesome.

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When you decided to go into teaching, how old or did you always know

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you wanted to go into teaching?

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No, you're shaking your head.

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Every my family, my mom still is just like, I can't believe

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you went this route because here I am a Cape Verdean boy, who has grown up going

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to so many different schools struggling in school and I become a teacher.

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I always loved school.

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Don't get me wrong.

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I loved going to school.

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However, I went to school for biology.

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I was going to be a doctor.

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I always knew I was going to be pediatrician.

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I've always loved kids.

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So there was that connection.

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I took my prerequisites for med school.

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I got all of that done and I was ready to go and be a doctor.

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And unfortunately I had a tough situation where and I don't talk so much about

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this, but you are just a positive person, so I can definitely share it.

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But I worked at a resort where I did activities with the kids . , a little one

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who was swimming in the pool with her mom and dad, and went under the water and.

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Didn't drown, but was unconscious.

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So I pulled her out of the water and tilted her to the side and the water

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came out of her mouth, but I was apprehensive about giving her CPR.

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So a guest in the water gave her CPR.

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But since that moment, I kind of, you know, was hard on myself

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because I said, if I couldn't

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give her CPR in that moment, how can I be a doctor?

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And even though they built me up so much, because they said, if you didn't

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tilt her to the side and the water didn't come out of her mouth, you did

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what you were supposed to do, but I still felt like I should have done more.

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And she's alive.

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She's well, like, you know, thanks to God.

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But in that moment I was like, oh, I can't be a doctor.

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So I went home.

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And I opened the college catalog and I was like, what else can I do in this world?

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And just fell on the elementary education.

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I was like, why I like kids.

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I could be a teacher.

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And I literally that following day I went to my university and changed my major.

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Elementary education.

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Wow.

Catherine:

What a story?

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Oh my goodness.

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And yet don't be hard on yourself our minds do different things in our actions.

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We do different things at different

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moments.

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Yeah, exactly.

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I mean, if we, if we could all go back in time, there'll be one thing

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by, we just take what happened and then learn from them and grow.

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Absolutely.

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That was kind of a long time

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ago.

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Yes, I was.

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How old was I?

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Probably around 16, 17.

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Nope.

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So that's what I was some time ago.

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So you were, you were just a teenager

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But that day haunts me so much because you know, you always

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have those thoughts and, and I'm not too hard on myself now,but it took quite some

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time for me to find a positive positivity somewhere else to assure myself, okay,

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you did and what you could in that moment.

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So you

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did.

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Christopher,.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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And I know that that was hard for you, so that brings you to elementary ed.

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I was given so much responsibility my

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first year and aren't we all?

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Oh my gosh.

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I mean, all teachers, I listen, I commend them.

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I love my teachers.

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And my first year of teaching was such a great one.

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It was not the horror stories that everybody would.

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My first few years of teaching were pretty great.

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So yes, I.

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Was always that teacher that thought outside of the box, you would come

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into my, and I was probably standing on my desk doing crazy accents, for my

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students, my students were probably on the floor rolling, laughing, but we had,

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you know, our time where we had fun.

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And we had our times that we worked, we worked, we worked,

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we worked, my class was top 10%.

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They had top 10% in Florida, also the top 10% teacher in Florida for

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reading and math two years in a row.

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And.

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I wish I could tell you I did everything that they told me to

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do, but I literally had to think outside of the box and learn my kids.

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I took so much time to really learning each and every single

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one of my students to reach them.

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And in ways that I wish I was reached when I was younger, and

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that was crucial and important.

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and I've seen students who were so low and who have flourished to

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who they are today, and it excites me because I know kids can do it.

Catherine:

Oh, my gosh.

Catherine:

Absolutely.

Catherine:

We just need to set that bar up above their head and not....

Catherine:

Yes.

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The lower the bar is set, then they that's all they'll do.

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And that's the same with us, you know, as adults.

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You know, so we need something to strive for.

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We don't want to just strive for

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mediocrity.

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Exactly.

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And we won't push ourselves unless they, someone has set that bar for us.

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You

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remind me so much of when I was a teacher and I.

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I loved teaching those students.

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And I, I keep in touch with so many of them today.

Catherine:

You know, when they're getting married, they're having kids,

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they're starting careers.

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Oh, I don't know how you feel about

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it, but I, I cry a little bit.

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Oh, I

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get, I get tearful.

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I get, yeah.

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I spend to keep in touch with them and see what they're doing.

Catherine:

But one of the things that you do is music.

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Yeah.

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Some, I'm an artist.

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I've been a songwriter.

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Actually I started as a songwriter for several years and I just wrote for

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other people, everything I write is about an experience that I went through.

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So I wasn't comfortable being, you know, at the forefront.

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I just wanted everybody else to sing my song.

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So I was like, okay, here, here's a song.

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You sing using my pain, using my happiness, as long as I'm

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getting it out there to everyone.

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It was my therapy.

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Like I, if I had.

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An argument with a friend.

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I went straight to my notebook and started writing and felt a lot better afterwards.

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So I was a songwriter for quite some time.

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And then as a songwriter, and I know many songwriters out there fall in the same

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path where they feel like they're helping artists a lot more than just writing.

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And I love doing that.

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I would give suggestions as far as, oh, you should really go with this song

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and that song, or you should really try having a music video for this song.

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So one of my artists one day, Said, well, how do you know you've

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never been an artist before?

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And I said, you are absolutely right.

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So I came on this whole journey.

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I told myself, okay, become an artist, record a whole album, learn everything

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you need to know about being an artist and then go back to songwriting so that

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you could be the best song writer ever.

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Just like what you said earlier about someone setting that bar for you.

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I felt like I needed to reach that bar..

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So it's perfect that you said that it's like a perfect segue.

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So I became a song writer, uh, as an artist, a little over two years ago.

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And I recorded my first song and someone asked me to perform at their show.

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And I will tell you, as soon as I got on that stage, I was addicted.

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No, I was like, oh, I love that.

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I'm not coming off of this stage.

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Like, I'm here.

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You have to take the microphone away from me.

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I am.

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staying here.

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It started off as just like a, basically a big research project.

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And now I'm loving it.

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I've performed over 18 shows.

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I've opened for some amazing artists.

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I've performed in New York.

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I've performed in Maryland.

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And, and to say that I've only been an artist for a little while, over two

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years, and I've performed that much and have worked with amazing people.

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It's just so humbling.

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And I feel so blessed to be in this opportunity.

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And that's.

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When I began sharing that with my kids as well.

Catherine:

I like this.

Catherine:

So you had this positive imprint in your life that set that bar and from

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the one comment, and instead of getting upset, it was criticism that you needed

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to hear so that you could go and yeah.

Catherine:

Wow.

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Absolutely.

Catherine:

Cool.

Catherine:

So what do you have your students do?

Catherine:

I've seen some of it on online.

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Fabulous.

Catherine:

I love it.

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So , I've always, you know, I've always created

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craziest songs when my kids were trying to, you know, do, do their work.

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I would come up with random songs just because just to

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get them happy and laughing.

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But my principal came to me and she came up with this amazing idea

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of having electives at our school.

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And elementary schools don't really have electives.

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So we have our art, we have music, we have PE, but we don't really have electives..

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So she's like, no.

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She is amazing, by the way, she said it's every Wednesday, I want

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kids to do something that they love.

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I want it to be electives where they choose, where, what they'll do.

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And I want yoga classes.

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I want acting classes.

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I want a music class.

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There's she looked, everyone was looking at me at that moment.

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Okay.

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Tell me where, where this going?

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She's like, oh, I figured you can help kids write music and you

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know, it could be really cool.

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And I said, Okay.

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I'm fine with that.

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So I opened up the Tigers Studios, what I call that at my school.

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And I started writing songs with them.

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It started out with me writing a lot of their songs, and then two

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of my kids came one day and I was about to teach them their part.

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And one of them said we kind of wrote something, is it

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okay if we share it with you?

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And I was a little taken aback, I was like, you wrote something and

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she's like, yeah, I just wanted to see what you thought of it.

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But we wrote a little something.

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I was like, okay, okay.

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Let's share it.

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I was expected to, you know, cringe and be a little nervous about it, but

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they blew me away the words rhymed.

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Oh my gosh.

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Yeah.

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Positive imprint.

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Completely.

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They rhymed..

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They were melodically perfect.

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They were on the beat and I was like, oh, we're using this on a song.

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So needless to say, I started stepping back and gave them control, which they

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loved because you know, I could be a little I'm a Virgo . I'm a perfectionist.

Christopher Marciano:

So they started writing the song and then we were done with

Christopher Marciano:

the song within a few weeks.

Christopher Marciano:

So we had all this time on our hands and I was like, what do I do now?

Christopher Marciano:

We're we're completely done?

Christopher Marciano:

What do we do?

Christopher Marciano:

And I said, all right, guys, they're all just staring at me, sitting down,

Christopher Marciano:

like, all right, we recorded the song.

Christopher Marciano:

What?

Christopher Marciano:

Now?

Christopher Marciano:

I was like, let's make a music video.

Christopher Marciano:

And they're like what?

Christopher Marciano:

I was like, let's do a music video.

Christopher Marciano:

Why not?

Christopher Marciano:

Let's do it.

Christopher Marciano:

I have no knowledge of making music videos.

Christopher Marciano:

I have none of that, but I made one of my students a videographer.

Christopher Marciano:

I made one of them director..

Christopher Marciano:

I made the.

Christopher Marciano:

Actors like we just set roles and created this music video.

Christopher Marciano:

We ended up on the news for it in Orlando's the kids were just blown away.

Christopher Marciano:

So I started doing that as a tradition.

Christopher Marciano:

We did it a few times.

Christopher Marciano:

We had a NBA player on one of our music videos.

Christopher Marciano:

The kids were blown away and he agreed to come to the school, talk to them.

Christopher Marciano:

Be in the video, play basketball with them.

Christopher Marciano:

It was amazing.

Christopher Marciano:

And I just know that this moment that we shared doing that experience,

Christopher Marciano:

they will never forget about it.

Christopher Marciano:

Ever.

Christopher Marciano:

So I will never forget about it.

Christopher Marciano:

So it was pretty amazing.

Christopher Marciano:

That

Catherine:

is that's awesome.

Catherine:

Those kids ran with it.

Catherine:

You gave it to them and all you did was guide them and they ran with it.

Christopher Marciano:

Yeah, not at first, but they

Christopher Marciano:

they definitely proved me wrong and showed me that, you know, Kids are far

Christopher Marciano:

more capable than what we even think.

Christopher Marciano:

And I set high expectations for my kiddos, but for them to come and surpass that just

Christopher Marciano:

shows me, wow, look at what they can do.

Christopher Marciano:

It's still going on.

Christopher Marciano:

Unfortunately, , once I got promoted, they moved me to a different school.

Christopher Marciano:

Because my school had an assistant principal, so that

Christopher Marciano:

school is still doing it.

Christopher Marciano:

They'll do a music classes, which is great.

Christopher Marciano:

So I'm hoping that will carry on, even though I'm not there.

Christopher Marciano:

I'm still so well connected with them because they are my core.

Christopher Marciano:

But now that I'm at my school now as assistant principal, I'm hoping

Christopher Marciano:

once all this clears up, I could implement that within my new school.

Christopher Marciano:

Yeah.

Christopher Marciano:

Do you

Catherine:

miss teaching?

Catherine:

Oh, do you like doing the assistant principalship?

Christopher Marciano:

I will tell you, I love being an assistant

Christopher Marciano:

principal because I'm able to reach more able to reach more kids.

Christopher Marciano:

I'm able to reach teachers and parents.

Christopher Marciano:

So I have the whole school.

Christopher Marciano:

I loved being a teacher.

Christopher Marciano:

I do from time to time think of.

Christopher Marciano:

Well, I love having those really close relationships with my kiddos and watching

Christopher Marciano:

them grow, but it just challenges me now to just be in the classroom more often

Christopher Marciano:

and share my thoughts with the kids and hear them and be with them just to watch

Christopher Marciano:

them grow and establish that relationship.

Christopher Marciano:

But I love being assistant principal..

Christopher Marciano:

Sure.

Christopher Marciano:

That's awesome.

Catherine:

That's so great.

Catherine:

I love that you are loving it.

Catherine:

That's fabulous.

Catherine:

And you are.

Catherine:

Yeah.

Catherine:

And that you're doing so much to bring those kids into a

Christopher Marciano:

new world,

Catherine:

their world.

Catherine:

Yeah.

Catherine:

Their world.

Catherine:

And with their own experiences.

Catherine:

So it's not your experiences, it's their experiences.

Catherine:

And that I think is yeah.

Catherine:

Really important.

Catherine:

And so what are your next steps with music as far as your own.

Christopher Marciano:

Artistry.

Catherine:

So I've been

Christopher Marciano:

working on my album and everyone's going to like,

Christopher Marciano:

hurt me for this because they're like, we just need the album.

Christopher Marciano:

We need the album, we need the album, but it takes so much work.

Christopher Marciano:

And I'm such a Virgo.

Christopher Marciano:

I'm such a perfectionist that I need it to be perfect.

Christopher Marciano:

This is my first album.

Christopher Marciano:

And I want my first album to showcase all the different sides of me.

Christopher Marciano:

Everything that I've gone through so that I no longer have to explain myself.

Christopher Marciano:

I no longer have to elaborate on situations.

Christopher Marciano:

I can just put my album out there, listen to my album.

Christopher Marciano:

This is exactly who Christopher Marciano is.

Christopher Marciano:

And then we can move on to the next one.

Christopher Marciano:

So I want to be sure, like I said, I'm very transparent

Christopher Marciano:

and I write what I go through.

Christopher Marciano:

So I want to make sure that what I'm writing about.

Christopher Marciano:

It's okay.

Christopher Marciano:

Of course with my family, because I think it's important that I think of

Christopher Marciano:

them during this time, but I definitely want to share what I've gone through

Christopher Marciano:

because I feel like other people can listen to my words and see the outcome.

Christopher Marciano:

And I think I've done pretty well for myself.

Christopher Marciano:

And I'm so humbled by that.

Christopher Marciano:

So blessed and I want others to see that and improve their mental health

Christopher Marciano:

and take the steps in becoming a better version of themselves that they

Christopher Marciano:

never knew that they were capable of doing, because my childhood was very,

Christopher Marciano:

very rough and I would never fathom that I would be where I am today.

Christopher Marciano:

And I know just by being a teacher there, several kids out there that

Christopher Marciano:

are going through the same thing.

Christopher Marciano:

So I want this album to be perfect for them more than for me, but.

Christopher Marciano:

Perfect for them and that to serve as an outlet.

Christopher Marciano:

So right now I am two songs away from being done.

Christopher Marciano:

So I'm going to release a few more songs

Christopher Marciano:

and recording music videos, but the album will be out this year.

Christopher Marciano:

So who

Catherine:

are some of the folks that are helping you out with the production?

Catherine:

Because you said you, you don't produce your own.

Catherine:

You write your own lyrics and someone else does the music.

Christopher Marciano:

Right.

Christopher Marciano:

So I wrote every single song on this first album, I wrote.

Christopher Marciano:

Production wise.

Christopher Marciano:

I have an amazing producer named Layird music just in case you're

Christopher Marciano:

looking for music out there.

Christopher Marciano:

If you go to L a Y I R D music.com, he is absolutely phenomenal.

Christopher Marciano:

He is also based in Florida and he does my pop happy with

Christopher Marciano:

a little eerie notes on there.

Christopher Marciano:

He is my go-to person.

Christopher Marciano:

And then aside from that, I have a producer named

Christopher Marciano:

Shariv who is based in Italy.

Christopher Marciano:

I hope I didn't mess that up.

Christopher Marciano:

Pretty sure it's Italy.

Christopher Marciano:

He's phenomenal.

Christopher Marciano:

Well, I connected with him through just social media and he had a

Christopher Marciano:

few love his piano instrumentals.

Christopher Marciano:

I'm such a piano person.

Christopher Marciano:

And then I have Mantra and.

Christopher Marciano:

Which is phenomenal.

Christopher Marciano:

He's done several songs of mine and last but not least Rebel Music.

Christopher Marciano:

He's absolutely incredible as well.

Christopher Marciano:

So several producers around the world that I've been so fortunate to connect

Christopher Marciano:

with and gain their trust with just allowing me to sing all over their

Christopher Marciano:

instrumentals and be, have it on my album.

Christopher Marciano:

So it's been quite a joy.

Christopher Marciano:

A lot of people say that I need to let more people in my circle when it comes

Christopher Marciano:

to writing, but I told them once I get to my second album, then I can explore that

Christopher Marciano:

world but this first album is so personal.

Christopher Marciano:

So I just wanted it to be all about my words and how I feel.

Christopher Marciano:

And then the second album will be completely collaborative

Christopher Marciano:

when it comes to writing.

Christopher Marciano:

Cause I'm, I've always been curious about that side.

Catherine:

Yeah.

Catherine:

Oh, well, I'm anxious.

Catherine:

There's, there's a fellow whom you would love listening to,

Catherine:

uh, on one of my, on my podcast.

Catherine:

Oh, his name is Rawiri James..

Catherine:

Yeah,

Christopher Marciano:

absolutely.

Christopher Marciano:

I love looking for new

Catherine:

people.

Catherine:

He's an R and B artist.

Catherine:

He's a Maori..

Catherine:

Yeah, so, and his struggles are different from yours, but he wrote from the heart.

Catherine:

Absolutely.

Catherine:

From the heart with his music..

Catherine:

And can you share some of those struggles or is that giving away

Catherine:

too much when the, for the album,

Christopher Marciano:

since you're so nice and positive, I guess I should.

Christopher Marciano:

There.

Christopher Marciano:

I'll talk about one of my songs..

Christopher Marciano:

I I'm just sharing so much with you.

Christopher Marciano:

This is, this is great.

Christopher Marciano:

Uh, I'm looking up at the wall because I literally have my track

Christopher Marciano:

listing on my wall of all my songs.

Christopher Marciano:

So if you see me looking up constantly, because I'm looking at all of my

Christopher Marciano:

songs., it's like a constant reminder.

Christopher Marciano:

Like you need to get this album done.

Christopher Marciano:

Marciano you need to get this album done..

Christopher Marciano:

So one of the songs I have is called "Reason" and it is about, completely

Christopher Marciano:

about mental health and something that I'm really pushing with my

Christopher Marciano:

album is definitely mental health.

Christopher Marciano:

It talks about me continuing to do music because other people have

Christopher Marciano:

really pushed me to continue to do it.

Christopher Marciano:

I got to a point in my life where I wasn't so sure on whether I should proceed

Christopher Marciano:

with music because as as an independent artist it is so natural to go out there

Christopher Marciano:

and compare you know, your amount of followers on Instagram to other people

Christopher Marciano:

and the amount of people who are liking your pictures and commenting on your

Christopher Marciano:

posts, or it's so natural for us as humans to go and compare ourselves to others.

Christopher Marciano:

And it hurts a little bit, because I was just looking at

Christopher Marciano:

how successful other people were.

Christopher Marciano:

And I felt like I could get there, but I was missing some things to get there.

Christopher Marciano:

And it took me a while to really sit back and realize Christopher, you've

Christopher Marciano:

done this for a little over two years.

Christopher Marciano:

That's all, some people have been doing this for their entire life and you have

Christopher Marciano:

received these amazing blessings with performing several different times.

Christopher Marciano:

So.

Christopher Marciano:

No, you have a great support system.

Christopher Marciano:

You have family members and friends who are really wanting

Christopher Marciano:

your music and know word for word.

Christopher Marciano:

When I had one of my shows, there were people singing word for word

Christopher Marciano:

to one of my songs"Runaway", and I remember I had to stop singing

Christopher Marciano:

because I got so emotional because everyone was singing louder than I was.

Christopher Marciano:

And I was just like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.

Christopher Marciano:

So in that moment I said, Okay, you guys are the reason why I continue to do this.

Christopher Marciano:

So I want this song to serve as a reason for everyone else to go

Christopher Marciano:

and push other people to do well and push other people to be..

Christopher Marciano:

I want other people to be someone else's reason aside from me.

Christopher Marciano:

So I'm okay now, but go out there and find someone who needs some help and

Christopher Marciano:

be their reason to to push through.

Christopher Marciano:

So the words in that song, it gets very detailed.

Christopher Marciano:

It talks about potentially not wanting to be in this world anymore and how you could

Christopher Marciano:

overcome that because these are topics in the world that needs to be discussed

Christopher Marciano:

and that are happening every day.

Christopher Marciano:

So I'm hoping from this song, someone out there, even if it's just one heart,

Christopher Marciano:

I just want to touch that one heart and have them feel like I'm okay,

Christopher Marciano:

because this person made it through.

Christopher Marciano:

I can too.

Christopher Marciano:

And if you don't get that out of that, I want you to go out there and be someone

Christopher Marciano:

someone's reason to continue to be happy and improve their mental health.

Catherine:

Wow.

Catherine:

That is so inspiring.

Catherine:

Oh, that's that's really, oh, very much so.

Catherine:

Very, very much so.

Catherine:

And I'm impressed with how much you've really thought deeply about the words that

Catherine:

you're putting together for this album.

Catherine:

And I'm very anxious to hear the production of it.

Catherine:

Yeah.

Catherine:

The music behind it,

Christopher Marciano:

that song, it's pretty amazing.

Christopher Marciano:

I mean, I'm biased because I love all of my songs, but that one,

Christopher Marciano:

I think you'll really love it.

Christopher Marciano:

And I can't wait to share with you guys.

Catherine:

Yeah.

Catherine:

So when you were writing the songs and you're writing about such heartfelt

Catherine:

issues within yourself, or that have something that either you've experienced

Catherine:

or you've seen others experience, et cetera, so writing the songs, has

Catherine:

it changed you as a person in any

Christopher Marciano:

way?

Christopher Marciano:

Completely, uh, I will say during the writing process and when I'm in the studio

Christopher Marciano:

recording the song, it's it gets tough.

Christopher Marciano:

There's songs on my album, where I naturally cry.

Christopher Marciano:

And some of that, those emotions I've left the, in the songs

Christopher Marciano:

because they were authentic.

Christopher Marciano:

And I thought it was important for people to feel that.

Christopher Marciano:

Leading my song.

Christopher Marciano:

I'll explain how my therapy works.

Christopher Marciano:

My songs come from, like I said, an experience.

Christopher Marciano:

So in the beginning, I'm left uneasy about a situation I went through, whether it's

Christopher Marciano:

a happy moment and I just want to get it out there or whether it's a really tough

Christopher Marciano:

situation that I wasn't sure how to deal with it or how to vocalize my emotions.

Christopher Marciano:

I'll go and write it.

Christopher Marciano:

As soon as I finished writing it and I finished recording it

Christopher Marciano:

I'm okay from that situation.

Christopher Marciano:

So if I was very upset about a situation, once I record that, my, my thoughts and my

Christopher Marciano:

emotions with that, I'm completely fine.

Christopher Marciano:

I don't even have to revisit it anymore.

Christopher Marciano:

So it's literally therapy for me because people go into therapy and, and come

Christopher Marciano:

out feeling better about themselves.

Christopher Marciano:

I'd go into the studio and come out, feeling so much

Christopher Marciano:

better about that situation.

Christopher Marciano:

And I almost get clarity with every word that I'm writing I'm gaining

Christopher Marciano:

understanding of the situation.

Christopher Marciano:

I remember one of my songs that I wrote, can't tell you the name of

Christopher Marciano:

that one, but I absolutely love it.

Christopher Marciano:

You'll love it too., one of my, one of my songs, I wrote based on my ex's shoes,

Christopher Marciano:

because I wanted to understand why he did what he did and what he was feeling.

Christopher Marciano:

So I said, okay, I'm going to put myself in his perspective and write a

Christopher Marciano:

song based off of his, his perspective.

Christopher Marciano:

And I gained clarity after I finished writing that song.

Christopher Marciano:

And even though it was my situation that I went through and I'm still writing

Christopher Marciano:

about my experience, I wrote it through his mind to try to gain understanding.

Christopher Marciano:

And once I finished that song, I was completely fine.

Christopher Marciano:

I'm like, okay.

Christopher Marciano:

Perfect.

Christopher Marciano:

Oh,

Catherine:

that is really that's.

Catherine:

That therapy is awesome.

Catherine:

That's great.

Catherine:

I used, yeah, I'm so glad to hear that.

Catherine:

I used to write poetry.

Catherine:

My mother bought me a journal and came home and handed it

Catherine:

to me and I went right to it.

Catherine:

I have so many of them

Christopher Marciano:

though.

Christopher Marciano:

Oh my God.

Christopher Marciano:

You have to share.

Catherine:

Oh my gosh.

Christopher Marciano:

We have to literally just have a night.

Christopher Marciano:

And I'll go pull out one of my old elementary poetry and you pull

Christopher Marciano:

out yours and let us share it.

Christopher Marciano:

Like, that would be

Catherine:

amazing.

Catherine:

I'm all for it.

Catherine:

I have to do that.

Catherine:

I will do that.

Catherine:

Let's set

Christopher Marciano:

a date kind of in place.

Christopher Marciano:

You never know your poem could just reach someone or we could just laugh about it.

Christopher Marciano:

It would be great.

Catherine:

Oh, we could do something live for the listeners . , oh,

Catherine:

that would be so much.

Catherine:

But

Christopher Marciano:

Christopher Marciano, I'm thrilled.Just make

Christopher Marciano:

me , your co-host that's all.

Christopher Marciano:

I love it.

Christopher Marciano:

I love it.

Catherine:

All right.

Catherine:

Well, we're, we're in, I'm in, I'm in I'll pull out all of those books.

Catherine:

This is a hoot.

Catherine:

I'm loving this.

Catherine:

So, all right.

Catherine:

Is there anything else you want to share or any, anything that I didn't

Catherine:

ask you that you're dying to share?

Christopher Marciano:

Actually, this has been such an amazing experience.

Christopher Marciano:

I love that you asked about my album.

Christopher Marciano:

And I've just been so lucky to connect with so many people, including you, right.

Christopher Marciano:

And just learn about what they're doing about their different, uh,

Christopher Marciano:

endeavors and their businesses.

Christopher Marciano:

It's just absolutely amazing.

Christopher Marciano:

So I did want to share that just to encourage other people out there to

Christopher Marciano:

reach out to strangers in a safe way of course, and just find out yeah

Christopher Marciano:

what you could do to help during this time, because this is a time

Christopher Marciano:

that we need to come together.

Christopher Marciano:

So yes.

Christopher Marciano:

Thank you for showcasing that and having me.

Christopher Marciano:

Oh,

Catherine:

absolutely.

Catherine:

Well, you are such a positive, positive imprint and inspiration, and my podcast

Catherine:

being exceptional people rising to the challenge, which you have been doing

Catherine:

that and, and the world appreciates you and we anxiously await your album.

Catherine:

So in closing, are there any, yeah, that the excitement is, is phenomenal.

Catherine:

So in closing, are there any final thoughts you want to share?

Christopher Marciano:

I again, just want to thank you for spreading positivity.

Christopher Marciano:

We need it, especially during this time.

Christopher Marciano:

I want to thank you for just having various different people.

Christopher Marciano:

I feel like it's so important to showcase diversity and showcase creativity.

Christopher Marciano:

And I just feel that authenticity from you.

Christopher Marciano:

And I appreciate that.

Christopher Marciano:

And I, I hope through this, we can reach more people and encourage

Christopher Marciano:

them to do the same because we need authentic positivity out there in the

Christopher Marciano:

world to make imprints everywhere.

Catherine:

Oh, Christopher Marciano.

Catherine:

Thank you so much for all of that.

Catherine:

Well, you, you are inspiring and I'm so glad that you are singing your

Catherine:

own pain and you are singing your own happiness and you are bringing it to

Catherine:

the world and your positive imprints following right there with you.

Catherine:

Thank

Christopher Marciano:

:

you so much, Catherine.

Christopher Marciano:

:

Oh, you are so welcome.

Christopher Marciano:

:

I will say I would love for you to create a positive imprint shirt because

Christopher Marciano:

:

I think that would be phenomenal.

Christopher Marciano:

:

I would love to wear that.

Christopher Marciano:

:

So as soon as you create it, let me know.

Christopher Marciano:

:

I will.

Christopher Marciano:

:

buy some..

Catherine:

Okay, well, listeners, then I think that that's you just set my bar?

Catherine:

Yes.

Catherine:

Okay.

Catherine:

Then you will be the first one to get

Christopher Marciano:

a shirt and I could post all about it.

Christopher Marciano:

Thank you so much,Catherine.

Christopher Marciano:

I sincerely appreciate it.

Catherine:

Oh, thank you.

Catherine:

And be well, be safe and safe travels.

Catherine:

Well, you are listening to your positive imprint, Christopher,

Catherine:

since you're still here, what's the best way people can find you.

Christopher Marciano:

You are perfect.

Christopher Marciano:

They can find me on Instagram.

Christopher Marciano:

Just follow me at Marciano, which is M as in Michael.

Christopher Marciano:

ARCIAN as in Nancy O music, or you could head over to my

Christopher Marciano:

website, Marcianomusic.com.

Christopher Marciano:

All of my music is available on all music platforms, such as Spotify,

Christopher Marciano:

iTunes, apple music, Amazon music, Deezer, anything you can think of

Christopher Marciano:

I'm probably on it.

Christopher Marciano:

Both Christopher Marciano.

Christopher Marciano:

My latest single is In Love With Your Lover..

Christopher Marciano:

Please stream it and let me know what you think about it.

Christopher Marciano:

And I'm so excited to connect and meet all of you positive imprints out there.

Catherine:

Thank you.

Catherine:

And thank you again.

Catherine:

This is Catherine with your positive imprint and you can follow

Catherine:

me on Instagram and Facebook.

Catherine:

Your Positive Imprint,Twitter.

Catherine:

What's your PI, my website.

Catherine:

YourPositiveImprint.com.

Catherine:

Your positive imprint.

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