Tammy Takaishi is a Board Certified Music Therapist, Podcaster and writer based in New York.

We talked about her podcast Creative Peacemeal, her meaningful and multi-faceted career as a Music Therapist, and her full creative life including her writing. If music therapy is a career you’re curious about, you’ll be inspired by her stories and insights.

As a fellow podcasters, we definitely bonded over our enthusiasm for the medium and the wide range of fascinating, creative people we’ve been able to connect with. I know that fans of Tammy’s podcast will be interested to learn more about her path, personal perspectives and great advice including avoiding burnout.

You can watch this on my YouTube or listen to the podcast; I’ve also linked the transcript to my website

Tammy's podcast Creative Peacemeal

I wanted to let you know about some other episodes I’ve linked directly to this one, with Martha Anne Toll

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Jeeyoon Kim

Gertrude “Trudy” Létourneau

Philip Griffin

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(00:00) Intro

(01:42) Tammy’s musical childhood, juggling creative pursuits

(08:15) Creative Peacemeal podcast

(14:15) preventing burnout

(16:55) Music Therapy with babies NICU

(22:54) Music Therapy careers and training

(29:53) inspiring stories from life as a Music Therapist

(38:30) other linked episodes and ways to support this podcast

(39:10) music therapy life

(49:52) contrast between Houston