I have been teaching in some capacity on and off for the last thirty years or so. One of my first jobs out of high school was in a preschool/daycare. During the early part of the day, I worked with 3 and 4 year olds, and in the afternoons, I was the head teacher for the after school program. I quickly discovered a love for teaching and mentoring. Since then, I have had multiple opportunities to teach in a variety of settings. I have been a philosophy department teaching assistant, offering extra help to philosophy undergrads, grading papers and exams, and occasionally filling in to teach a class when the professor was out. After grad school, I spent five years helping to prep students for standardized tests (SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and LSAT) in both classroom and 1-on-1 settings. And for the last eight years, I have been giving private music lessons, helping students with voice, guitar, piano, songwriting, arrangement, music theory, music production, etc. I’d love to put those years of teaching experience to use to help you in any of the following ways:

MUSIC LESSONS

I offer half-hour, forty-five minute, or hourlong sessions. Meetings are generally done on a weekly basis and can be either in-person at my home studio in Carmel, IN or online. Focus is on popular music of all kinds - pop, rock, soul, funk, country, Americana, alternative, r&b, Broadway, jazz, etc. — basically everything other than classical.  So, if you're primarily looking for formal classical preparation, then you might do best to look elsewhere. However, if you'd like to focus on anything related to popular music—singing, playing, playing and singing together, performance and presentation, songwriting, reading chord charts, playing by ear, music theory, ear training, recording and music production, etc.—there's a good chance I can help.  All instruction will be tailored to your needs with the ultimate goal of helping you to maximize your abilities so that you can perform and create the very best music you're capable of producing.

test prep

I love helping students to master test prep strategies and skills. I taught for two years for one of the largest test prep companies in the country and then for another three years independently back in the 2000’s and 2010’s and have just recently started offering those services again. I am a 99th percentile scorer who has excelled on multiple standardized tests, including official 99th percentile scores on the LSAT (174) and GRE (1540 - on the old scoring scale). I also have extensive experience helping students prep for the SAT, ACT, and GMAT. If you are planning to take any of those five tests in the near future, I’d love to help you maximize your score and reach your goals!

faith, formation, and philosophy

This is probably my favorite kind of teaching. My education—both graduate and undergrad—is in philosophy. I love big, difficult questions. And I love helping others to step into and wrestle with those questions. I don’t, by any means, pretend to have all of the answers. To be honest, I’m not sure I have ANY of the answers! But I do bring a background of careful philosophical inquiry, intellectual openness, a desire to meet people where they are, and a teacher’s knack for breaking down big, complicated problems and making them accessible. On questions of faith, I bring the unique perspective of someone who has walked away from Christianity and then returned some twenty years later. Some areas of particular interest and expertise include: spiritual formation, spiritual practices, difficult ethical questions and issues, intellectual openness and humility, faith and philosophy. From keynote speaking, to leading seminars and discussions, I’d love to help in any way I can.

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