Francesca Sipma, Ben Clement, Erica May-Wood and Haley Preziosi

On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, Celebrity Interviewer and Bliss Coach Judy Librach is joined by Francesca Sipma. Francesca Sipma is the author of “Unblock Your Purpose: Breathwork, Intuition, and Flow State.” She is also the founder and CEO of Mastry, (Mastry is an app and one of the most optimal tools in personal development, to raise self-awareness and optimize human performance. Their unique method combines breathwork, hypnosis, and visualization to reduce anxiety, improve mental clarity, and help you enter a flow state.) As the creator of HypnoBreathwork®, and an international speaker who offers courses and training programs for C-suite executives, world-renowned producers, celebrities, artists, and athletes, Francesca has led sessions for Deloitte, Snap, Upwork, and Athletic Brewing, and her work has been featured by Bloomberg, Forbes, NBC, and ABC. She lives in San Diego. Visit her online at http://www.FrancescaSipma.com. Also on the program, we have talented actor and artist, Ben Clement and actor/director Erica May-Wood. Ben is a Toronto-born actor and artist educator who has been honoured to be part of a 10-month fellowship called Sprout Ideas Fellowship for young social innovators. Through the fellowship, Ben has been working on a project to create a play based on the themes from the collective book called “Everyday Stories” where the vision was to break down the stigma around disability. He has maintained that vision by taking the themes and concepts from that book off of the page and to the stage. Many of the artists from these projects originally took part in a social group Ben co-created 10 years ago called “Everyday Friends.” The vision of this social network was to fill a gap in the social lives of youth and young adults with disabilities. Ben received the Community Inclusion Award of Excellence from UJA Toronto in 2018. Ben has a passion for acting and musical theatre, as well as advocating for disability arts. He has performed in many musicals, plays and dance performances. Ben is always promoting disability awareness on social media and is always advocating for the disability community. What better way to advocate for a marginalized community than the power of stage and stories? He is a community-engaged artist who has worked with many diverse groups of people. Erica May-Wood is a professional actor, theatre maker and teaching artist. Her practice and passion of the last many years has focused on guiding collective creation work - with teens for the Hamilton Fringe Festival, with under-housed adults via a touring St. Michael’s Hospital STAR show, in a commission from Harbourfront Centre for a new play by kids/for kids, and in a global project, involving seven countries during the pandemic lockdowns. (conferenceofthebirds.net) She currently teaches for Autism Home Base, CNIB and Young Peoples Theatre (special projects) and creates immersive, site-specific work with her partner, Bruce Hunter, for RealSpace Theatre. Click on the link below to buy tickets to “Unique Stories” at the Tarragon Theatre, on December 18-20th 2024 https://tarragontheatre.com/plays/2024-2025/guest-presentations/unique-stories/ Also on the show is talented singer/songwriter Hayley Preziosi. Hayley is a singer, songwriter and vocal coach who has been active in the Toronto music scene for over fifteen years. She is a passionate contemporary pop singer/songwriter, who will be releasing new music in 2025! Hayley also tours and performs regularly with her vocal group Countermeasure A Cappella, whose recent albums have featured guest artists including renowned Toronto percussionist Larnell Lewis, and New Orleans jazz great Charlie Gabriel. She is currently on a Christmas tour with Elvis tribute artist Steve Michaels in venues across southern Ontario, where she can be heard performing this song! For more details and to keep up with Hayley, find her on Instagram @HayleyPreziosiMusic. To listen to her music, check out ...