Jodi was on a Panel at The NAMM Show January 25, 2024

Healthy Touring – Maintaining a Healthy Headspace on the Road I participated on this valuable panel at NAMM Show Thursday, January 25, 2024. I proudly represented Music Industry Therapist Collective […]

Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual

EXCITING NEWS!! Released March 23, 2023 in the US and UK through Omnibus Press and supported by Live Nation! 80 interviews, 30 chapters totaling 620 pages Touring and Mental Health: […]

Jodi Participated at ILMC in London 2023

I thoroughly enjoyed participating at the International Live Music Conference  (ILMC 35) London February 27-March 3, 2023. I joined colleagues with The Music Industry Therapists Collective (MITC) and presented at […]

Helping the Music Industry Cope – Billboard Magazine Article

Billboard Magazine’s Hannah Karp interviewed me for a very cool music industry piece in the publication’s News section, “From The Desk Of”.  This article appeared on Billboard.com  and as a […]

Touring Is Hard and Band Therapists Are Here to Help – VICE Interview

I am proud of the work I do with artists, musicians and bands and how I’ve been able to blend my previous career as a music industry executive with my […]

MusiCares® Talks with Bob Forrest – Why Drug and Alcohol Addiction Intervention Fail

MusiCares® Talks with Bob Forrest – Why Drug and Alcohol Addiction Intervention Fail It’s very hard to get through to artists when they are engrossed in addiction.  Addictions Interventions don’t […]

MusiCaresFoundation® Talks to Slash about Addiction

MusiCaresFoundation® Talks to Slash about Addiction MusiCares® talks to Slash about coming to terms with his addiction to drugs and alcohol. Struggling with different types of addiction, Slash broke through […]

Band Dynamics – 14 Rules for Being a Good Bandmate

February 7, 2015 by  
Filed under Band Dynamics, Music, Musician, Singer

A band is simultaneously a friendship, a collaborative partnership and a business. Although it might be less personal and intimate than a romantic relationship, it is quite possibly more complicated. […]

Addiction Captures Amy Winehouse

Addiction captured another talented artist today, Amy Winehouse. The death of a young artist with so much potential for a bright future is heartbreaking. However, how do you help someone who […]

Band Dynamics with Wayne Kramer from the MC5

March 25, 2011 by  
Filed under Addiction, Band Dynamics, Music, Musician

Detroit native Wayne Kramer was a founding member and guitarist of the revolutionary band the MC5, which came from the same Detroit music scene that produced The Stooges, KISS, and […]