Jaz Owens from Burbank, California is the founder of Artistic Partners Entertainment & A Song for Life Sarcoidosis Foundation. She’s one of the newest family members of the Own Your Power Community and we want to give her a moment to shine and share with us why she LOVES what she does!

Main service/product: Artistic Partners Entertainment provides professional and creative services to independent artists such as management consulting, image development & music production consulting just to name a few. We also provide promotion and marketing assistance through internet/electronic mediums and special events.

A Song for Life Sarcoidosis Foundation focuses on raising awareness, educating people about the disease & about alternative “natural” solutions for managing the disease through diet & supplemental therapy and finally providing grants to people who may need financial assistance obtaining the necessary supplements to manage their disease since these resources are not covered by traditional insurance.

How long have you been in business?: Artistic Partners Entertainment was established about 3 ½ years ago but has just now been put into full swing this year.

A Song for Life Foundation was just established this year.

What does your business do? Artistic Partners Entertainment is an organization that provides essential resources to creative talent that allows them to sustain independence, maximize their presence while helping them to maintain a professional edge but without tricky contracts and long-term obligations.

A Song for Life Sarcoidosis Foundation is striving to give sufferers of the disease hope for maintaining a functional lifestyle by providing them with tools & resources that will help to restore some form of normalcy in their lives and to shed more light on what we as sufferers deal with from day to day so that our families and the general public can have a better understanding so they may effectively assist us in coping with this disease.

Any interesting fact(s) you can share about your industry? Anyone who has ever had experience in the entertainment industry knows that it can be quite a “hard-knock” & “cut-throat” industry and it is ever changing but I want artists of all kind to know is that there are good-hearted professionals out there who have good intentions in “the business of art” willing to guide and represent artists for the good of their future.

As for the health industry as it relates to Sarcoidosis . . . This disease is still a mystery even to the traditional medical world as it is. Health professionals don’t know it all so we have to educate them as much as they educate us. It’s imperative that Sarcoidosis sufferers and their families continue to do their own research and trust their own experiences. The current therapies offered in traditional medicine today is more often more harmful than good to Sarcoidosis sufferers, so I urge those plagued with the disease to proceed with caution when it comes down to succumbing to the current prescription treatments.

Most popular problem you help people solve? For Artistic Partner clients I’d like to help get back to the art of things and alleviate the burden of them having to wear all the hats. Their career is partnership and they must stay the captain of their ship but our goal is to be a sufficient co-captain so artists can effectively reach their ultimate creative destination.

For Sarcoidosis sufferers I’d like to help them find effective alternative solutions for managing this disease and achieve hope for life longevity.

What year did you kiss Corporate America goodbye and why do you hope to never go back? All though I’ve “kissed corporate America goodbye” in the past, I haven’t had the luxury to kissing them goodbye forever YET, but I’m striving for that because my passions don’t lie in climbing the corporate ladder, it lies in helping others live a better life and achieve their creative goals . . . that’s what drives me.

How do you stay motivated? What drives you? What motivates me is the feeling I get from helping people and my LOVE for good music and positive entertainment. What drives me is the feeling I get from being “chained” to a desk that sits on the path to nowhere and I refuse to live life that way!


What’s your favorite area on www.ownyourpower.biz? I have two favorite areas of the website and that’s networking, because of the ability to connect with people all over the country from different backgrounds, but with similar desires to achieve success & fulfillment. And hands down the success stories, because they continue to feed my hope.

It’s sadly time for your last meal on earth…what would it be? Mushrooms with a seafood stuffing (crab & shrimp) & a spinach and artichoke dip as appetizers, Lobster tail and filet mignon with asparagus and either garlic mashed potatoes or a loaded baked potato followed by classic cheese cake with strawberry topping &/or a moistly rich warm chocolate cake with French vanilla ice cream for dessert . . . OH, and don’t forget the SLAMMIN’ Mojito for my cocktail!

Have you used Social Networking to gain new contacts/business? If so, what have been any results? Yes, I have connected with good resources using social networking through of course the Own Your Power/Give n Take Networks and they have been more than positive.

If you could do it all over again, what is the biggest mistake you’d avoid next time around? Giving up on my projects too soon instead of finding a way to “re-vamp”.

What’s in your cd player/ipod right now? I listen to artists from Nancy Wilson, Lalah Hathaway & Anita Baker to Robin Thicke, India Arie, Janet Jackson & Missy Elliott. But right now I’m mostly rockin’ this “HOT” new artists named Tim “TiO” Owens. He’s been out there performing with other artists and making splashes all over Europe as well as writing & producing for groups like K-Ci & JoJo from the group Jodeci, but now he’s breaking out on the verge of his own thing you won’t wanna miss him so check out snippets of his new CD project entitled “ReaLife” on www.MySpace.com/tiosings and on the Own Your Power community on Ning and he’s also an Artistic Partners Entertainment client so watch how it all unfolds!

GET IN TOUCH WITH JAZ!

Add her as a friend: http://ownyourpower.ning.com/profile/ArtisticPartners

Website (s): www.Myspace.com/Artisticpartners & the foundation doesn’t have a website yet.

Contact info you want in article: Artisticpartners@yahoo.com & Asongfoundation@gmail.com.