Grateful TEDAholic - TEDActivist Robin Palmer Sings the Song She Wrote for TEDActive 2013 About TED

                                         
I am so happy to be participating at TEDActive 2013 for the first time this month! (http://conferences.ted.com/TEDActive2013) Wow! One of my fellow TEDActivists, Tereza Nemessanyi, had a great idea to assemble an a capella choir and sing a song or two for all of the TEDActivators there. Well, it turns out that Tereza is VERY POPULAR! She would have been the girl in high school voted as Ms. Congeniality AND most likely to succeed! So, she has now been asked to participate in several TEDActive projects and has asked me to organize what I have dubbed "The TEDAcapella Choir." Ok, I did star in Broadway musicals for 15 years, but I have never organized or directed an a capella choir before! I started looking for possible songs to sing and then this song popped out of me a couple of days ago. Now the choir members have one more song to vote on. :)
Enjoy! And if you too are a grateful TEDAholic, I've included the lyrics below, so you can sing along! And if we do sing it at TEDActive, you are welcome to join in with "The TEDAcapella Choir!" Enjoy! :)

Grateful TEDAholic by Robin Boudreau Palmer -
When I've got the blues
'Don't drown myself in booze
Take in a talk instead
With TED

When I feel forlorn
I don't turn to porn
I snuggle up instead
With TED

I'm a grateful TEDAholic
I'm addicted all the way
Flew to TED from Swaziland
And now I'm here to stay

I'm a grateful TEDAholic
So glad I'm not alone
All your smiling faces tell me
That I finally am home

And TED's family is special - like Active, Ed and Global
Out of all of my ex's, I love TEDx the best! (spoken -"Way!")

When I'm running scared,
Lost and unprepared
I stop and clear my head
With TED

When I'm longing for a thrill
'Stead of crashing down a hill
I know I'll be elated
With TED

I'm a grateful TEDAholic
I'm addicted all the way
Flew to TED from Swaziland
And now I'm here to stay

I'm a grateful TEDAholic
So glad I'm not alone
All your smiling faces tell me
That I finally am home
All your smiling faces tell me
That I've finally come home.

Lyrics and music by Robin Boudreau Palmer
Copyright 2013 Grace Place Music and My Successables, Inc. All rights reserved.

robin@mywakeupcalls.net  www.MyWakeUPCalls.com 805.796.8201

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Former Broadway star & My Wake UP Call® Motivational Alarm Clock® Messages  inventor, Robin Boudreau Palmer, sings one of her original songs, IN THESE ROOMS, at the Center for Spiritual Living in Westlake Village, CA. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/robin-boudreau-palmer-grace/id464988151



IN THESE ROOMS - Lyrics and Music by Robin Boudreau Palmer

In these rooms I've watched compassion turn a child into a man
Turn cowards into heroes who laugh and sing again
In these rooms I've watched the broken become whole and walk again
And all the lonely people fill our hearts with friends.

In these rooms I found my heaven, in these rooms my share of peace
Here I met the hand of mercy that raised me from my knees

In these rooms I found a power who is greater than my own
Who turns tragedy to triumph and gives the lost a home.

In these rooms I found my heaven in these rooms my share of peace
Here I met the hand of mercy that raised me from my knees

There is a safe place, a haven you can run to
There is a home where you are free, just follow me.

Into these rooms where I found my heaven, in these rooms my share of peace
Here I met the hand of mercy that raised me from my knees
In these rooms I found salvation, in these rooms my piece of sky
Here I stand among the living when alone I stood to die

Thank you, thank you for these rooms, these rooms.
In These Rooms - words and music written by Robin Boudreau Palmer. © 1991-2012 Copyright Robin Boudreau Palmer; Grace Place Music. All rights reserved.

CATS 25th Reunion Slide Show

CATS cast mate, Terry Mason and her husband, Paul, created this "Memory" montage for all of us and gave us each a copy at our CATS 25th Reunion Party last week! What an amazing event! 'So exciting and so much fun! Enjoy!

Robin Boudreau Palmer
http://www.mywakeupcalls.net/

Robin Palmer - Why She Created MY WAKE UP CALL Motivational Alarm Clock Messages

                                                                          

Robin Palmer - Why She Created MY WAKE UP CALL Motivational Alarm Clock Messages (MyWakeUpCalls.net)


Robin (Boudreau) Palmer performed leading roles in Broadway Musicals for fifteen years. Some favorites include playing Linda Ronstadt’s little sister in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE with Kevin Kline, co-starring opposite David Cassidy in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, and singing Memory in CATS.

Four years ago, with a family and a typical, hectic lifestyle, Robin kept wishing for an affordable personal trainer to motivate her to wake up and work out each morning, before the day’s schedule started. The trainer had to say something different every day, and had to be someone whom her husband would not mind being in their bedroom with them when they woke up in the morning!

Robin created My Wake Up Call® Motivational Alarm Clock Messages, which awaken you each morning with positive, five-minute motivating messages instead of an annoying buzzer or the often alarming news on the radio!

Each month of messages is downloadable for your iPhone/Smartphone or iPod, or on CDs, or is included Free with My Wake Up Call® iPod or CD Alarm Clocks. My Wake Up Call® also has a free iPhone App.

Maria Shriver recently gave My Wake Up Call® Motivational Alarm Clocks to the VIPs at The Women’s Conference, including First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Oz, Anthony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, and many of the nation’s leading CEOs! My Wake Up Call® has also been featured in SHAPE, SELF, Oxygen, Woman’s World, on NBC TV and Fox News.

Listen to sample messages at http://www.mywakeupcalls.net/my-products.php

Why Robin Palmer Created MY WAKE UP CALL Motivational Alarm Clock Messages

Why Robin Palmer Created MY WAKE UP CALL Motivational Alarm Clock Messages

I performed leading roles in Broadway Musicals for fifteen years. Some favorites include playing Linda Ronstadt’s little sister in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE with Kevin Kline, co-starring opposite David Cassidy in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, and singing MEMORY in CATS, in addition to other roles.


Four years ago, with a family and a typical, hectic lifestyle, I kept wishing for an affordable personal trainer to motivate me to wake up and work out each morning, before the day’s schedule started. The trainer had to say something different every day, and had to be someone whom my husband would not mind being in our bedroom with us when we woke up in the morning! Necessity is the mother of invention!

I created My Wake Up Call® Motivational Alarm Clock Messages, which wake you up positively each morning! You receive daily, specially structured, five-minute motivating messages instead of an annoying buzzer or the often alarming news on the radio!

Each month of messages is downloadable for your iPhone/Smartphone or iPod, or on CDs, or is included with My Wake Up Call® iPod or CD Alarm Clocks. My Wake Up Call® also has a free iPhone App on iTunes.

Enjoy waking up positively!

Robin Boudreau Palmer Original Songs

Robin Boudreau Palmer Original Songs

I performed leading roles in Broadway Musicals for fifteen years. I played Linda Ronstadt’s little sister in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE with Kevin Kline, co-starred opposite David Cassidy in JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, and sang MEMORY in CATS.

I wrote and recorded two CDs of recovery music about growing up as a child around abuse and addiction, which she performed around the country at N.O.V.A. Conferences. Here is a link to my musical compositions, which are also available on iTunes.
http://www.mywakeupcalls.net/original_works.html

Someone asked me today where I was on 9/11 and how had it changed me.

Someone asked me today where I was on 9/11 and how had it changed me. I have never written about my experience with 9/11 before today. I guess I was ready to let it go, out from the place where I had tucked it away.

I lived and worked in NYC and was scheduled to attend our monthly sales meeting there that morning, with my former employer. The night before, he cancelled our monthly sales meeting, which he had never done before. He told us to go vote in the primary elections instead, which is what I was attempting to do when the second plane hit. I was listening to the news on my walkman, while waiting to check in with the elderly woman sitting at the desk at my designated voting place, (a public grade school cafeteria.) I got to her desk as the second plane hit and exclaimed, “Oh, my gosh. We’re being attacked by terrorists!” At which point, she thought I was insane, and told me she’d have me removed from the premises if I said anything like that again. “This is an election, and we cannot allow it to be disturbed.” Still listening to the news through one ear of my headphones, I told her, “But we are being attacked by terrorists.” She pointed to the door and told me to “get out.” Who could blame her? I sounded insane. Real insanity greeted me on the streets when I walked out of the grade school. Mayhem. Zombies. No one seemed to be in their bodies.

I couldn’t find a cab and started walking up the west side highway. I hitchhiked my way out of the city that day to my sister’s house in NJ. A crisis can definitely bring out the kindness in strangers. A kind gentleman picked me up and drove an hour out of his way to her home in Kinnelon.

God whispers, then he talks to you, then he blows the whistle! I always swore if I was ever brave enough, I would pack myself up and move to sunny California. 9/11 was a long, loud whistle in my ear. I got brave enough. I accepted a job in breathtakingly beautiful Westlake Village, CA. I had lived in and around NYC my entire life. I bought a PT Cruiser with a stick shift and practiced driving from New York to Los Angeles. I drove for four days and was pretty good by the time I hit L.A., thankfully.

Well, that just poured out of me!

Robin Boudreau (Palmer) fainting in Kevin Kline's arms in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

By the way, I got married at 45, to a fellow New Yorker I met out here at our local gym. Our paths

had crossed several times before, without having met each other until that day at the gym. One example: I had starred in Broadway shows for 15 years and my husband had seen me play Linda Ronstadt’s sister in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE with Kevin Kline. I remember the night he was there because he was sitting directly in front of Jack Nicholson, who happened to be in the audience that night. I had peeked from behind the curtain before the show started, to get a good look at Mr. Nicholson.

Robin Boudreau (Palmer) in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE with Linda Ronstadt, next to Papa, r. of him.

I also invented a product, which is my other, “If I am ever brave enough…” 

And the rest, as they say, is history!

Robin B. Palmer
Creator of My Wake Up Call®
Motivational Alarm Clock Messages
http://www.mywakeupcalls.net/

Hear Sample Messages at  http://www.mywakeupcalls.net/my-products.php