Two years ago, I saw a performance that changed my life. I wrote about that experience here. That performer was Michael Franti and that performance was at Bluesfest 2009.

Seeing him inspire thousands of people to forget their inhibitions and jump around and sing for a couple of hours then walk home singing the songs together – I was like, “I want HSM to be that.”

"Relative to people like Michael Franti, I may be at the busking at shopping centre stage of my career, playing two notes on an old recorder, but I'm really enjoying it for what it is. One crazy adventure." (BLUESFEST REVELATIONS - Posted 15/04/09)

That was a turning point in both myself and Hello Sunday Morning. It wasn’t going to be enough for just me to believe in the HSM idea, I needed to find others out there that also believed.

A couple of months later, I quit my job. I moved to Melbourne. Starved for about 8 months while I worked out how to turn it into a job. Hustled a way to fund the organisation I needed to build. Moved back to Brisbane. Employed a team of exceptionally talented people and 24 months later there are 750 people that are doing a HSM, tens of thousands of people that have been influenced by the idea and… we are only just getting started!

In full circle, I managed to line up an interview with Michael Franti when he came to Bluesfest this year to personally thank him for the inspiration and find out a little about what inspires him.

Here it is.. Enjoy.

PART I

PART II Thanks to Matty Roberts from Projucer for putting the video together for HSM. Also, thanks to WE CAN ALL BE HEROS for being a content partner --> http://www.facebook.com/we.can.all.be.heroes http://michaelfranti.com/