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Talk It Out with Jodi Leib is an entertainment program in the nature of on-going special variety, news, music, or comedy featuring celebrity interviews, documentary biographies, live performance, music videos, movies, audience interactivity, and website social networking broadcast over television, satellite, internet, and audio/video media.

Inception

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Talk It Out! began after the Columbine shootings as a way to create dialogue and community through music and television. Jodi Leib was directing music videos in 1999, and after Columbine she realized musicians are so much more than an image fronting music ~ they are voices in our communities and throughout the word.

Dedicated to exposing the positive and inspiring leadership qualities at the core of today's popular artists, Jodi Leib began hosting Talk It Out! on local cable in Los Angeles and Detroit on a regular basis soon after September 11, 2001. Programs with up-and-coming artist began airing on a regular basis, which led to an online music magazine featuring a series of print interviews with rising stars and local bands.

Working with the Black Eyed Peas

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In 2004, Jodi Leib hosted and produced the episode Talk It Out with Jodi Leib: On Tour with the Black Eyed Peas, which helped the band launch their breakthrough album Elephunk that featured Will.I.Am, Apl.d.Ap, Taboo, and Fergie. The television program ran in Los Angeles, Philedelphia, and Detroit. The show also features the music video for Where is the Love?

Talk It Out! Today

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Jodi Leib continues to dig deep into the soul of a leader, revealing truth, enlightenment, humor and the "issues" that matter most through a series of television and online interviews known as the Talk It Out Sessions. Talk It Out Sessions feature musicians and activists such as Black Eyed Peas, Breaking Benjamin [1], Janeane Garofalo, Indigo Girls, Moby, Gloria Steinem, Royal Crown Review, Randy Stern, Sterling Mire, Danielle Evin at Farm Aid, and more.

References

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  • [www.talkitout.tv]
  • [www.jodileib.com]