We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jacques Lesure. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jacques below.
Jacques, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?
I am extremely happy. My life is a never ending journey of wonder, surprise and beauty all wrapped in love.
Jacques, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I am a jazz guitarist who has been playing for 50 years of my 60 years of age. I started playing in church and high school. Later I went to college and started playing professionally. I have taught in some capacity since I was 20. I love teaching and I’m currently the Jazz Guitar Professor in the Global Jazz Studies at UCLA. I am also a Certified Hypnotherapist and Spiritual Life Coach. All these modalities intersect and are vehicles that I believe are “healing forces”. As a musician, my main focus is to touch my audience at the “heart level”. The same applies to teaching. I am only a guide to help the student uncover their true potential. As a coach, I am here to assist in uncovering the truth of their lives so they can live in their highest good.
What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?
Society must develop individual curiosity for the arts. We must go out of our comfort zones and what is fed to us my mainstream media. There is music and art in everyone’s own backyard that equals or surpasses the quality of those who are “stars”. Find the local musicians, visuals artists, poets, dancers and actors that are in your own community and connect with and support them.
What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?
When someone tells me they heard one of my recordings on the radio or truly enjoyed a live performance, I feel like I am living in my divine purpose. The same goes for a student doing well or a coaching client having a breakthrough. The accolades are confirmation that my gifts are being used for something greater than my own validation or bank account growing. Those things are temporary. How someone felt in a moment where they felt love or healing is eternal.
Contact Info:
- Website: jacqueslesure.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/the_guitarlosopher?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jacques.lesure?mibextid=b06tZ0
- Twitter: @jacqueslesure
Image Credits
Madison Truscan Jacques Lesure