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Eric Hirshberg is what you might call a renaissance man – an accomplished creative executive, he has worked in brand building, video game creation, design, marketing, storytelling, drawing, and music. He has earned awards for innovations in advertising during his years as leader of world-renowned ad agency Deutsch LA, and in his work overseeing development and marketing at video game giant Activision (the maker of Call of Duty and Guitar Hero). 



These days, he is currently exploring his lifelong passion for music as a singer/songwriter/muti-instrumentalist — with live performances and two recorded albums of his work, 2021’s Spare Room and Second Hand Smoke, which is coming out in May.

Meet today’s guest, Mr. Wayne Magri Xuereb of Gozo, Malta. For those of you not in the know, Malta is an archipelago in the central Mediterranean between Sicily and the North African coast. It’s got a total population of just over half a million people. It’s also got Your Kombucha, Wayne’s brewery. We love anyone who brews kombucha here at How to Tickle Yourself. But Wayne doesn’t just make kombucha. Better yet, he’s also a kombucha educator, and through his SCOBY School, gives workshops and classes, teaching people how to brew themselves, all the while showing how Kombucha can be a gateway to our true selves. In other words, he is most certainly our kind of guy.



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Today is a first for this show. While we do have a guest – the great Betty McKeon, astrologer, mother, and mother-in-law par excellence, we are not here to “interview” Betty in the typical manner. Instead, we have invited her on the show to talk about one of our favorite things, The Bhagavad Gita, and what it means to all of us. We talk to Betty about the Gita all the time. We figured it was time we shared some of those conversations with you.

We’ve got another first for you this week. It’s not Taylor Swift, but he’s going to be able to tell us about Taylor Swift. Specifically, tickets to Taylor Swift. Josh Baron is not a Taylor Swift expert, but he is a ticketing industry expert, and maybe he can tell us what the hell just happened during Taylor mania this past year.



Josh is currently VP of business development for Project Admission, where he works with content owners to facilitate a more connected and integrated ticketing experience for fans and rights holders working across professional sports and live entertainment. Previously, he helped lead business development at Songkick, working closely with artists and management teams on direct-to-fan ticketing. He is also the co-author of Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped, widely regarded as the definitive source on the history of the live entertainment business in North America. For more than a decade, Baron served as editor of Relix Magazine, the jam band journalistic bible.

The founder of Shakti Yoga in Woodstock, Linda Winnick has been teaching yoga for more than 30 years. Equally important, she is a student and teacher of ayurvedic medicine as well. We decided last time she was on that we would have her on every quarter to talk to us about how the seasonal changes affect all of us, and what we can do about it – how to stay in balance when the balance is shifting. We were late then, but we are right on time now. Scratch that, the self is always on time.

Emma Levant is a professional ballet dancer and singer from Orange County, CA. She trained at the Long Beach Ballet Academy from the age of 6 until she graduated into the corps de ballet of California Ballet in San Diego at the age of 20. She’s had soloist and principal roles in various full-length ballet productions, including DewDrop and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Kitri in Don Quixote, Cygnets in Swan Lake. and the Autumn Fairy in Cinderella.But that’s not enough for Emma. She’s also been drawn towards the world of musical expression. She learned to sing by copying her favorite artists on the radio and participating in school choirs. She has delved into songwriting, and has begun creating original music. She has released one EP, a single, and multiple collaborations, and is currently working on her next EP slated for release in next year. Check her out on Spotify. She’s got a couple of gems on there, including one song called Gems. She’s also a big fan of the book TICKLED, which makes us a big fan of hers. What goes around comes around. All kidding aside, we love this woman for her refusal to let life tell her how it’s going to go. She’s doing it on her terms. Listen up, as she’s an inspiration.https://www.instagram.com/emmaxlevant/