EPISODE #5
Conversation with Jim Cooney
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
intention, people, artists, abundance, amplified, world, pandemic, goal, life, theater, create, community, artistry, jim, instagram, love, part, mission, feel, questions
SPEAKERS
Melissa Bingham, Jim Cooney
Melissa Bingham 00:06
Welcome to “Today I Choose.” I’m your host Melissa Bingham. In today’s episode, I’m talking with my friend Jim Cooney. He’s an award-winning director and choreographer who lives in New York City. His body of work encompasses stage screen concerts and events. He’s the founder of Amplified Artist, a membership community that helps theatre professionals build bountiful careers and lives. Jim is on the faculty board at the Broadway Dance Center and is the faculty advisor of their full-time education program. As an educator, he’s been praised by the New York Times for training performers with audition must haves: character. motivation, and endurance. Whether Jim’s working with an artist in a show or in a studio, his mission is to help them reach their highest potential. In today’s conversation, we talk theater, artists, and intention. Enjoy.
Jim, I am so happy that you are here with me today to talk intention and artistry and just all kinds of magical, wonderful things that you’re up to. And so welcome.
Jim Cooney 01:13
Thanks. I’m excited to be here.
Melissa Bingham 01:15
There’s so many places I want to go with our conversation, but I was reading over your website and the thing that jumped out at me on your website, and just what I know about you, in general, is your artistic mission just makes my heart sing. And I’m going to tell everybody what your artistic mission says. It says, “My artistic mission is to inspire conversation, affect change, and bring communities together.” And I have had the privilege of witnessing the artistic work that you do in the world, and all of the other things that you’ve been doing, and I just that mission to me speaks so much of the intentionality of your life. And so, I had I just I want to start there with how did how did this all start for you? Where did Where did this mission come from this this idea of conversation and change and community? Where did all this begin?
Jim Cooney 02:16
Well, I’m glad First of all, to know that you think it’s accurate. Sometimes you, you think things of yourself, you’re like, is this really what everyone else thinks about me? Or is this just like, way off the mark here. So that’s, that’s good to know that it’s in alignment with what you think I think. When I first started doing this, I didn’t have a mission. When you were a little kid, you just like love singing, dancing. And I remember we were always doing like little plays at our church were little kids. And then when my parents would drop us off at daycare, they had, , little performances they would do and then I remember going to Disney World and seeing the performers there and wanting to like jump into like acting and singing and dancing when I got back home from vacation. And so, you don’t you don’t think of it in those terms. But I’ll fast forward to being an adult. And I was just noticing the things that I would like to be drawn to, and especially when I was given a platform to create whatever I wanted. So, if someone had commissioned me for work with the university, or if I was part of a choreography showcase, or anything like that, where you’re just given the space, and you get to create anything, I noticed a pattern that all of my work was dealing with social change, or looking at the world from a different lens, or conversations I thought we had to do, we had to have in the we had to bring to light. And so just in my own work of in my own life of well, what’s the intention of my career? And what’s my intention as an artist, I thought, well, if this is what I’m drawn to, then this is where I should maybe actively focus instead of just letting it happen haphazardly, to actually put my stake in the ground and say this is what I want to focus on and not to jump ahead, because I’m sure we’ll get into all this. But it’s funny that once I did that, it’s kind of like the world has opened up. And I felt like once I actually said, “This is what I want to do,” and I got clear on that. And I feel like it made everyone around me clear on who I was and how to hire me or how to work with me. And so, then the jobs all started to happen. And specifically, all the kinds of jobs I wanted to be doing, which is rare. So, for me, it’s like that, that was kind of like the awakening of “okay, this is there’s something to this that there’s magic” and that by saying that I’m having this intention, and actually, I think it helps everyone else just as much as it helps you. And so when people are thinking of you for certain projects, I think you become top of mind for certain things because they’re clear on who you are and how you would fit into that. Whereas before, I feel like I just like doing everything so it was just like I just did everything and so then I don’t think people really knew exactly where to place me.
Melissa Bingham 04:51
Yeah, that piece of clarity. I love what you said about getting clear and that being the magic in it is absolutely yeah, I’m right there with you. So, what does intentional living into you?
Jim Cooney 05:03
This is something that I think is really cool because I know for you, and you have your daily intention and your book and I love that idea and I think for me, I use intention in a different way. And I think that’s good for anyone listening to know is that it can mean so many different things and is really for you discover what it what it is for you. And I think for me, it’s actually did a Instagram Live about this today just totally random. It wasn’t even on my mind that you and I were also talking about intention today. But I had talked about it in my email list this past week, and I got so many text messages and people replying to it and saying how much it resonated with them and how like they needed to hear something like this, so I thought, well, I’m going to just share it with everyone on social media too because if it if it’s helpful, then I want more people to hear it. And I think for me, it’s like, it’s like goals, but without all the pressure of a goal. So with a goal, you have to check the mark. To complete it, you have to say yes, I’ve checked the box, I should say where “Yes, I achieved this.” Well, that’s great if you can control the whole universe, but you only get to control what you do in the universe, you don’t get you control half of your reality, the universe, or God or wherever you choose to look at it controls the other half. So, I’m using 2020 as an example. If you set a career goal for 2020 and then we have a pandemic that shuts down your industry from March onward, it’s literally impossible for you to achieve your goal. So, you spend the whole year “well, I didn’t achieve my goal for the year. Okay, now I have to wait till September of 2021 before theater opens up before I can pursue my goal again.” So, you’re like derailed and kind of landlocked because you have this goal that there’s nothing you can do about it. Or if you get injured, or if the show you’re trying to get into closes or any of these number of things, you are stuck. And I think also with and I said this this morning, when I did the Instagram Live, that as a child, sometimes we come up with goals or even like five years ago, we come up with goals, but we get new information all the time. And so something we think we wanted is not what we necessarily want anymore but because you set that as a goal, you feel guilt letting it go like, “Well, I didn’t reach my goal. I didn’t achieve my goal. I’m a failure at that. I’ll go to my grave never knowing if I could have done that.” Like all these things start to play on you and this guilt and the shame and anxiety and then you start pursuing it just because you promised it to yourself. And you’re like, but do I even want this anymore, but I’m spending hours trying to do this. To me, it’s like intentions solve all of that because you’re just intending to do it. And the quality comes from the actions that you take along the intention versus what the outcome is, instead of focusing on Am I achieving this? Can I check that box? It’s like, did I intend to do it? Did my action support that intention? Yes. Okay, great. Well, now I have different information. So, I’m going to alter my intention to be this. And then there’s no there’s no repercussion. Like there’s nothing left on check on, or I’m done. There’s nothing to feel guilty or shame about. So for me intentional living is I use it as like, most people would use goals, but it allows me to stay more nimble, and to not have any sort of residual angst or guilt or shame. Like I was saying before, because there’s no box for me to check. But it’s the same direction that a goal has.
Melissa Bingham 08:05
Yeah, we’ve talked and I’ve taught that that to me, intentions are like that. It is what I call it the calling card to the divine right. It’s your piece of co-creation. I’ve been listening to some Mike Dooley work and who has the “Notes from the Universe’ and different things. He doesn’t call it intention, but in well I guess he does, but it’s like you kind of see where the end destination is but the details and how to get there is up for co-creation, right? And so I intention, having intentions in living from that place. Intention enables you to do that. You mentioned theaters have been shut down in 2020 and it’s looking like in 2021 we’re gonna be still waiting. You’re missing theater. I’m missing theater, everybody’s missing. Everybody my circles are missing theater. Right? Yeah. But what I know about you and what I want to dive into next is this… You have been so intentional with your work in 2020 and you didn’t let the pandemic just stop you in your tracks. You have worked on an amazing PSA, New York Tough, and then I want you to talk about what you’ve created with this new platform called Amplified Artists. So how did New York Tough start?
Jim Cooney 09:27
Well, like everyone else, I was watching Cuomo and his PowerPoints every day. And he said, “Well, my daughter has this idea that she wants to do this contest for a PSA” and like I just heard it and it kind of washed over me and didn’t really think too much about it. But then later that day, I was just like, oh, what would I do if I even did something like that? And I just got this idea of like, well, it could be the world’s first socially distance flashmob because you have to remember back then, we didn’t know if you got it through touching through being five feet, 10 feet. How far did you have to be from someone? How many minutes could you be in someone’s presence before it was dangerous. We didn’t really know anything back then so no one was doing any kind of performing. And so I thought, well, how would this work? We’d have to be at least six feet apart. And a commercial is only 30 seconds anyway so we could just do a take. And I wanted to do it as a single take so that we could just do 30 seconds and all kind of disperse and then come back. And we have to do it again, do another 30 second take, but in most, we’d only have to be together for 30 seconds at a time so it should be safe, according to what the guidelines were at that time. And so then I was just like one foot in front of the other. And I just thought, well, I need to find someone who could film this so I called Marjorie Lewitt. And just said can help? Are you even interested in this idea? And she came on board. So then it was like, well, we need help with like, the music. We need help with this. We need help with that. So we just started like, put pieces together and within like 24 hours, I’m like, well, I guess I’m doing this now. because all these things have happened so I’ve got to bring this out. And I’ve committed and I said yes, I gave my word to these peoples. Now they’re on board, so I have to do it. And it just happened. That’s the magic. And that’s that serendipity and all those pieces and parts coming together. We never thought we would get picked. but then we got honorable mention. And then his office called us and like wanted everyone’s contact info because he wanted to send us a certificate that he signed for us. I mean he put it on his during his PowerPoints one day and he played it. We didn’t expect to get that much traction. And it was just serendipitous, I guess, how it all worked out. It did teach me though, that anything is possible because we had to figure out so many different things. Like we can’t put microphones on people because we can’t touch people so how are we going to record sound so we had them do it on their iPhone, and then send us the WAV file, and then Marjory edited it all together. And so, it sounded like we were all singing at the same time. And people recorded their lines. And luckily you had to have a mask on, so no one could see if you’re talking anyway. So, people recorded their lines into their iPhone. It’s just like problem solving. I’m like if we can do this during a pandemic then I don’t care what producer asked me to do, I can figure it out and make it happen.
Melissa Bingham 12:00
Exactly. Yeah, that’s one of the great things about I think the whole pandemic we’ve been in is just the level of creativity that we’ve all been able to reach and the new things that we’ve been able to do. And I , I can’t wait, like two or three years from now I just I know, there’s gonna be so many just amazing things that have come out of this, and just that we’re doing things in a new way. And just the opportunities just opening up for people. Talk to me about you launched Amplified Artist, which is one of your new projects. Tell me about Amplified Artists.
Jim Cooney 12:33
So I mean, again, like just taking advantage of this time, it’s something I always wanted to do. I’m very fortunate that I get to play all over the world and teach artists and they don’t take that for granted, I really appreciated with that part of my life. And as I would go to each location, I realized I was teaching the same things over and over and over again and it’s fantastic that these students have the resources to bring me over or their teachers have the resources to bring me over but there’s so many artists all over the world that don’t have those resources, but they have an internet connection. And so I really should be putting these together as online courses, and delivering that to the world, I guess. And so that in my head was like, well, when I have free time, which haha, whoever has free time, but when I have free time, I’ll put these together. And so as I was kind of like looking into how that would work, I came across people talking about doing membership sites. And I first was like, Oh, I don’t want to do that, because that’s going to be too much work. I’d rather just record the course and be done with it. The more I learned about membership sites, and I learned about myself as a teacher, it’s like, I don’t want to just like give someone a course and then walk away. Like they’re going to have questions after just like I have questions after I learned something. And just like students in mine, come back two years, three years, five years down the line and say, “Hey, can we go for coffee? I’m having some questions.” And I love doing that so I’m like, well, why wouldn’t I want to provide that for everyone. so it just seemed like a membership site was the better way to go. But then again, it’s like, well, need even more time to set this up. That’s not going to happen. So it was just always on the back burner. Enter the pandemic, and I’m sitting at home with nothing to do. So I’m like, well, this is the time to do it. So I kind of like I said, with the New York Tough, just put one foot in front of the other. And that felt like it was more like one step forward, five steps back for a while. It just felt like it was a roadblock after roadblock. And I’m like, I should just give up like, this is just too much. I’m not going to figure this out. Or it’s not working out the way I wanted to work out or there’s not an existing platform so I’d have to create it all from scratch, though I want it to be and I just had the gift of time because jobs weren’t coming back. So I’m like, well, I could sit by the pool all day or I could figure this out and make more use of my time, so I did both. I took my computer to the pool.
Melissa Bingham 14:44
I love it. So if an artist is listening and what would they gain or what are they going to learn by becoming a part of Amplified Artists?
Jim Cooney 14:54
Well, first of all, it’s a community. So, this is my favorite part about it is that you’re an artist. You’re left in this, like you’re floating alone in the ocean, I feel like until you are in a show, and then you climb on the boat, and then you’re with this group of people and you have this beautiful experience, you all bond then the show ends, and then you’re back off floating by yourself until the next job comes along. Not only are you like constantly forming and breaking apart communities, but you don’t really have any long-standing community. So, I’m part of a couple things. One, obviously, you know, Transcendence Theatre Company, who, whether we’re working out there or not, we have this community. You may do one show season, you may do one show every other season or whatever, but we all stay connected. And there’s just a community, it feels like an actual company versus you’re just hired for a show. And I’ve worked with Broadway Bares. And there’s just other examples where people are a part of the community, whether you’re working on that season’s production or not, you’re just part of that community. So I wanted to have something like that for people that it doesn’t matter whether you’re working or not, you have a community that you can come to, and we have forums that are open 24/7/365, where people share resources, people ask questions, people team up and do projects together. There’s accountability forums, where we do monthly challenges, etc. so that’s like, the underlying part of it is this community. But in terms of what you learn, it’s really choose your own adventure, because there’s outcome oriented courses so if you like taking courses on working on your own, you can do that. We have live q&a calls every month so you can ask any of your questions to me or anyone else on the phone call so it’s kind of like you have your own personal coach. Or you can get individual feedback, which a lot of times when you take a seminar, you’re one of 30 people in the room, you don’t get to really ask your specific questions. And then we have downloadable resources, like checklists, cheat sheets, templates. The mission of it is to create abundance in your career in life. And so I think that’s what you ultimately gain is that you build out this robust career, but also a robust life, because to me, being an artist and being a human are one in the same. So your artistry affects your humanity, and humanity affects your artistry so it’s “how does your health, the way you run your business, your finances, and your artistry? How do all those things work together in one lane, so you’re not spinning so many plates and feeling so disjointed?” Everything’s with that in mind, like it’s bringing this integration together, so you can really amplify your career and your life,
Melissa Bingham 17:14
I love that. I’ve been on the site, and my daughter’s a member and I just love the intentionality of it. And I think one of the pieces, and I’ve heard you talk about it, is this idea about abundance and the intentionality of abundance as part of the artists path. I’ve seen the work that you’ve been able to do and to help people, it’s really amazing. And it’s where you’re having those inspiring conversations and you are effecting change, and you’ve brought this community together.
Jim Cooney 17:45
So I think there’s this misconception that, I don’t know if it’s from the book, The Secret that people think or from what someone put this into people’s mind that abundance just means I’m going to think abundantly and it’s just going to happen. And that can’t be further from the truth. Abundance starts with you. You have to be abundant for the Universe to have your abundance back. I just to break it down with a very simple example. It’s like, if you had a basket, and you only have one apple in the basket, all you can give to the world is that one apple. If you want to have abundance, you have to have a lot of apples in the basket for people to come buy a lot of apples from you and give you a lot of money. That’s like a very crude example of it, but you have to start that reaction, you have to trigger it. And so abundance for me is like what are you doing yourself to create abundance in your own life without the universe being involved? But how are you creating abundant money? How are you creating abundant health? How are you creating abundant artistry? Like, what are you doing in your own life to make those things happen? And getting rid of this idea of the starving artists and getting rid of this idea that it’s this highly competitive industry and all these things, because it’s true on one hand, but it’s also not true on the other hand, especially like the starving artists, that’s completely not true.
Melissa Bingham 18:55
Yeah. Yeah. And it’s a myth that our culture has bought into and I think and I know, in some theater companies, it’s preached, right? I love that you’re working to affect that change. And the idea of abundance is moving in the direction of your dreams. And it’s like, it’s kind of meeting the universe halfway, right? It’s you’re putting your intention out their and then you take one step. It doesn’t have to be the run, sprint to the finish. You put the GPS in your car where you’re going, but if you don’t put it in drive, you’re never going to get their so it’s taking that action of putting things in drive. I would say that the universe is always involved, and you have to physically take the action. So what’s your best advice for artists right now as we sit here at the precipice of 2021 and theaters is not happening and dance classes are happening over zoom all these different things. What’s the intention that you’re holding for your students that you’re sharing with your students?
Jim Cooney 20:04
I think you said it actually at the beginning of the call, which is like the pandemics not stopping you. I mean, I was actually just talking to a friend this morning about the same thing of like, the pandemic maybe has stopped the theater making with inside a theater in a proscenium theater audience. But there’s still art all over the place. I mean, your website is art, your dance real is art, or your singing real, whatever type of artists or your choreography or whatever you may do. Your social media, your conversations that you have, like this is you are an artist and a human. Like, it’s all part of the same thing. So maybe you’re not turning out dance videos on Instagram every day. Okay, that’s fine. But how are you still moving yourself as an artist forward? Is that consuming art that’s going to broaden your horizons? Or is it like learning about the history of certain things that will give you more knowledge for the future? Is it getting more clear on yourself of like, what kind of artists you are, what kind of art you want to make? Is it that you’re getting those tools in place like your headshots, and your resume and your website, and the social media and the reels like getting those things practically done and updated, and more accurate to who you are? There’s so much that’s not shut down, like you are not shut down, you as a person are not shut down, and artists aren’t shut down. It’s like kind of what you said to about the universe and you have to put your own car into drive. For us to keep creating abundance, we have to keep driving. And I’m think you might ask me this at the end, but I’ll just jump to another you said like, what’s your intention for yourself for this year and mine is actually to do less. And I mean, that in the less is more way, where I feel like a lot of my natural inclination for creating abundance is like to do a lot of things like, well, I’m going to do this, I’m going do that. And like, my whole day is full of actions I can take. But I think that some of the simplest things I’ve done have gained the most traction. Now can I just learn for myself for a minute here? Like, if just doing a simple thing got XYZ to happen, but me spending 10 hours on this got this tiny thing to happen? Why am I not doing more of the simple thing, right? So for me, like, my intention is to do less so and I’m talking about putting the car and drive that doesn’t mean need to be driving 90 miles an hour all day long. It just means whatever that smart action is for you, that’s going to give you the most bang for your buck. Do that. But do something it’s better than doing nothing. So I think that’s what I would say to people.
Melissa Bingham 22:22
Yeah, I love that. I think it’s and we’ve talked about this before it is that meditative practice of establishing yourself in being before the doing and because when you are established in being and in that connection to your heart, and groundedness, then you can see more clearly the simple things that you can do that will yield the most reward, or you can hear the little whispers of Oh, let’s go this way that open up whatever it may be.
Jim Cooney 22:51
First of all, my favorite quote is, “we’re human beings, not human doings.” And it’s probably my favorite quotes because I need to hear it myself every day. That’s why I love it so much.
Melissa Bingham 23:00
All right. Are you ready for some of my fun questions? At the end? I’m channeling my inside the “Actor’s Studio.” Sure, I really want to ask the first question that question he always asked, but I’m not going to. Okay, so what is your favorite place and why?
Jim Cooney 23:15
I think it’s anywhere with a waterfall because I was trying to come up with a city and I was like, well, that’s too hard. Like, there’s so many different places. But anytime there’s a waterfall or anytime I go somewhere where you can hike to a waterfall. I always do that. And I always want to sit there all day and never leave. I just I love the sound of water. I love the beauty of it. I even have this fantasy in my head like if I get married one day, I want to get married in front of a waterfall. I just I love the cleansingness of it, the refreshingness, just like this constant motion. It’s like an only thing constant in life is change. And it’s just like this as time goes on. I just there’s something symbolic about it that I just really love.
Melissa Bingham 23:50
Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Jim Cooney 23:52
I would say both. But I had a cat growing up. So I probably would have to if I had to pick one I’d say a cat but I really do love both. I love animals in general. I’m such an animal person.
Melissa Bingham 24:01
I love that. We kind of touched on this, what’s your intention for yourself this year?
Jim Cooney 24:06
Yeah, it’s like I think to do less but less is more not just to sit around, watch TV, do less but I feel like the things that are the easiest to do for some reason I have this like resistance to doing them. And I don’t know why. And so I’ve been really trying to like open my mind up to that during meditation in the morning. The things I seem most afraid of are the things that actually are the easiest to do and get the most traction. So what am I afraid of? I’m not really sure what the answer is yet. But uh, I think it’s like, because I have to put myself out there more something I don’t know.
Melissa Bingham 24:33
For me when I lean into that, it’s this idea, it’s a cultural belief that’s like somewhere instilled like I haven’t quite cleared it completely in my ingrained brain is that it has to be hard or I have to struggle to do it. Yes. It’s easy and simple. Oh, wow. But leaning into that.
Jim Cooney 24:57
Well, it’s like I’m just afraid to do it. Like what if it doesn’t go right or if it’s not perfect, but yet when it’s hard things, I don’t think those things. I don’t know. Like, I guess I think it’s easy, so it should be perfect. I don’t know. I have to keep unpacking that. Yeah, well,
Melissa Bingham 25:09
I think all of us do. Okay, what’s your favorite word?
25:14
Love?
Melissa Bingham 25:15
Yes. All right. If you had a theme song, what would it be?
Jim Cooney 25:18
Okay, so this like, every day I’ve thought about this since you asked me like, literally come up with a different song. I’m like, I really think it depends on the day. So today, I feel like it’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” because I’ve just been like buzzing or I have so many different random little things going on today that I’m like, just from one thing to the other. I’ll need to relax tonight. I’m not I’m not achieving my less is more approach today.
Melissa Bingham 25:40
Ah, that’s funny. What’s your favorite food?
Jim Cooney 25:42
Either Mexican or Italian? Like I feel like those. I mean, I love all, all cuisine. I love eating. I’m a vegetarian, and I just love eating different kinds of food. But I think I gravitate towards Mexican and Italian the most probably because Mexican it’s the Margarita and with Italian you get the wine.
Melissa Bingham 26:00
I got it. So, superhero name and power, what would it be?
Jim Cooney 26:08
So, I’m actually like, I’ve never followed superheroes. I just I’m not like at the Marvel world at all, but I always have wanted to fly and just have that bird’s eye view of the land so I guess I’ll have to be Superman, or if there’s other superheroes to fly, but it’s like that, that would be the power that I’d want to have power of flight.
Melissa Bingham 26:25
I love that. And I didn’t ask you this one ahead of time. So I’m going throw it out there. What’s your favorite spiritual practice, our most rewarding spiritual practice?
Jim Cooney 26:33
I guess meditation is what has brought the most of my life. I also journal too so I mean, I guess it’d be a toss up between the two, but I think journaling ends up becoming more of analytical. So, I don’t know if that’s really spiritual, whereas meditation is more listening, and more of our awareness. So, I’d say that and I know, it’s like one of those things that you talk about this all the time, too. And I think people think that I’m going to meditate and like, well, I don’t want to be upset about my roommate who doesn’t do the dishes, or, like, I want to be less angry at my spouse or whatever, like you can’t really meditate with these goals in mind. It’s more just like the awareness practice but then you’ll notice yourself in those situations, being more patient, all of a sudden, you’re like, but I didn’t change anything. Why do I feel more patient? Like I think it just happens, the changes that happen in your subconscious, I guess, you end up getting the same goal you want, but just not the way you think you’re going to get there.
Melissa Bingham 27:25
Absolutely. All right. Last question. Our world is topsy turvy, right? So what intention are you holding for the world right now?
Jim Cooney 27:34
I feel like it’s the same every year, compassion. I don’t know why we haven’t learned that yet as human beings, but it’s just we’ve had so many wars over all the years. And I don’t understand why we just can’t be more compassionate and like, what’s the harm in the way someone else wants to lead their life as long as it’s not hurting you? I don’t know why we just can’t all be equal and get along and love each other. So it’s definitely compassion.
Melissa Bingham 27:55
beautiful. Yeah, we all need that. I’m right there with you. I’m holding that all the time for our world. Just hopefully, like, maybe it’ll be in our lifetime. We’ll get to see it. I hope so.
So Jim, if people want to follow you find you, how do they get in touch with you?
Jim Cooney 28:10
I have a free email every Sunday. There’s just different industry insights and career tips and things like that. So if you go to my website, jimcooney.me/join, you can join the mailing list that way, it’s free. And then obviously, if you want a little bit more hands on approach, and you want to dive in and work with me more and work with this community, more of Amplified Artists, you can go to amplifiedartists.life. And you can learn more about Amplified Artists that way. And then the social media Instagram, I’m JimCooneyNYC on Instagram and Twitter so you can connect with me that way.
Melissa Bingham 28:43
Awesome. And we’ll put all those links on the website and the information about this podcast. So thank you so much for being here. I’m so grateful you, and that you live your mission and that you are just living this intentional life that is impacting so many different people in so many different ways. And I’m just grateful for that. I’m grateful for your friendship, and I look forward to seeing what amazing things you’re going to create out of your being.
Jim Cooney 29:14
Yeah, I feel like I could say all the same things about you. It’s good. It’s has it’s been an honor to be here and I’m really excited to be part of this inaugural season that you’re doing with your podcast. It’s so exciting.
Melissa Bingham 29:25
Thank you.
I hope you enjoyed my conversation today with Jim Cooney. To learn more about what I’m up to in the world, please visit my website todayichoose.me and may your day be filled with intention.
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