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DJ Gina Turner is native New Yorker with an extensive background in audio production and broadcasting - she's also a certified yoga instructor.

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00:06I never really plan my sets. I just vibe off of what I feel energetically in the
00:13room on the dance floor. It's just this magic connection where I just like try
00:19and take the crowd on a journey or give that crowd the same exact feeling that I
00:27feel when I hear my favorite house music song you would never think that like
00:43being a DJ would be the best job for a working mom but somehow it is because
00:50I'm able to spend my entire day with my daughter I put her to bed I go
00:57DJ while you know she's sleeping I come back I get to feed her breakfast. There's
01:02not a second I I miss with my child. I am so lucky and blessed that I get to be
01:11a
01:11mom. It's really given me a new purpose a new meaning in life. It's been really
01:20beautiful and really a challenge. I don't see my husband as often as most wives see
01:28their husbands. Yeah and it's gotten interesting because I because I have been
01:33a lot busier since I've had the baby. All of us do it by planning carefully but
01:39what I think most importantly is she she does what she loves and everything
01:44around her makes her happy. She's such an active person so you know I'm really kind
01:50of like a laid-back kind of guy and she's always on the go she's always full of
01:55energy always going fully in everything she does and that really inspires me.
02:07I have a really busy lifestyle and yoga has inspired me in so many ways. There's something
02:14really special about being able to ground myself no matter where I am. Meditating is like being able
02:24to recognize when something is coming up in your head and letting it go. It's helped me navigate
02:30through life through airports and traveling and being in clubs and having hectic schedules it
02:37kind of helps me just like okay we can do this. Namaste everybody. I always try and show people the
02:46parallels between the dance music community and the yoga community because if you think about it
02:51when people come to a nightclub they come to let loose regardless of size shape color
02:59ethnicity religion and they move their body and they express themselves and in a yoga studio
03:07you do the same you know you keep your eyes on your own mat you get to move you get
03:12to express yourself
03:13it's the same thing you don't you don't know anything about your neighbor but you're moving with them.
03:19Being a mom. You are taking a child on a journey through life right and when you are a DJ
03:28or a musician you're taking people on a journey as well.
03:32You're guiding them through life in a different way musically. I feel like I when I'm in front of a
03:39crowd they are all my little babies and by the end by the end we let them go and then
03:44they you know you give them the tools that you need.
03:47to be happy and then they can go off on their own.
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