On January 23, 2022 Evie tweeted, “I’m thinking about a new cover. Do we talk about Bruno?” One of her fans responded with “Who is Bruno?” If you know, you know, I guess. But no one really knows. A song from Disney’s animated movie, “Encanto,” went mega viral breaking records of “Let it Go” from “Frozen.” It’s an absolutely incredibly well-written song by “Hamilton’s” Lin-Manuel Miranda so it’s no surprise. It’s the first Disney animation song in history to spend multiple weeks at #1.
Evie took on the challenge a little late in the game because she has been performing again while balancing her studies at the university and time with her new husband. She had a blast with the complexities of her first multi-voice cover and her husband says it’s one of the best videos she’s ever put out. She hopes you love it.
Evie Clair has a surefire method to treat anxiety and depression, courtesy of her late father. This simple solution completely changed Evie’s life. All it takes is a little bit of gratitude. This simple exercise in gratitude is a surefire cure for any heartache. This Thanksgiving, Evie is sharing her father’s advice that makes all the difference.
Incorporating gratitude into daily life doesn’t just help us manage our emotions—it fosters a sense of connection and hope. Pairing this mindset with other wellness practices like mindfulness, deep breathing, or even natural supplements can amplify its effects.
When life feels overwhelming, grounding ourselves with gratitude and reaching out for the right tools can provide much-needed stability. The Kratom Connection offers support to those navigating anxiety by providing access to high-quality, natural products that may aid in calming the mind and body. Together, gratitude and holistic practices can form a powerful combination for healing, reminding us that even in the hardest moments, there’s always something to be thankful for.
Individuals seeking additional support in their journey, exploring alternative methods like psilocybe cubensis has gained attention in recent years. Many have reported benefits in managing anxiety, and the use of these mushrooms is sometimes seen as a way to address mental health from a different angle.
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As more people explore these alternative treatments, it’s important to recognize that the healing journey is unique for each person, and what works for one individual may not be the right fit for another. For those who are open to exploring different paths to mental wellness, Elevated You offers a platform dedicated to alternative medicine, including magic mushrooms and other psychedelics, as potential treatments for mental illness.
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Just like the exploration of psilocybe cubensis, psychedelics present an opportunity to approach mental health from a different perspective, and with the right resources, they can offer valuable tools for healing and self-discovery. As with any form of treatment, it’s crucial to approach these options mindfully, ensuring that they align with personal needs and goals while fostering a balanced, holistic approach to mental well-being.
Evie Clair Overcoming Heartbreak
Amos Abplanalp, Evie Clair’s father, practiced psychology until 2017 when his cancer made him unable to work. He passed away later that same year. Evie was in the final rounds of America’s Got Talent when her father died. She told her mother that she wouldn’t return to the competition. At fourteen years old, the combination of a childhood tragedy and a national competition was far too much for the young singer. Anxiety overcame her, and heartache made it impossible to continue the show. However, Amos’ funeral life sketch included the following phrase, which he often repeated: “I didn’t raise quitters for kids.” Evie knew she had to go back to AGT.
Amos never stopped being a father
Even so, such a brave decision would require a miracle, and her dad had just the treatment. With firm faith, Evie looked back on a lesson her father always taught. Whenever one of his children was suffering from anxiety or feeling down, he would prescribe the following cure: count your blessings. Amos sat with his children as they wrote a list of things for which they were thankful. Within minutes they were calm, content, and ready to face their problems. Evie applied this treatment. Even fatherless, with no indication of what her life would be like, she sat and counted her blessings. She went back to AGT and delivered an unforgettable final performance.
Recently, Evie gave the following statement about this fatherly counsel:
“Always had an extra hard time with my anxiety. When my anxiety would be triggered, it would always help me to forget about myself and focus on what I have. That’s always helped me to combat my feelings of low self-worth. Bad things don’t seem as bad when you remember all of the good things you have.”
The Power of Gratitude
On one occasion, Amos prescribed this exercise to one of his patients. The man was serving time in prison and felt that he had nothing left. At first, his depression worsened as he reminded himself of all that he lost. He listed things like family, love, respect, his job and possessions, health and power. Amos and his patient read through the list. They paused for a while after the inmate read the word, “health.” Amos had only weeks left to live. Evie’s father reminded his patient that there are some things that can never be taken away. The man began to heal after composing the following list:
ability to be a good family member
ability to love
self-respect
ability to work hard
healthy habits
power of self-control
That day, this inmate learned a lesson that Evie Clair had been taught her entire life. He learned that gratitude has nothing to do with what you have. Gratitude is about who you choose to be. A grateful heart is an unconquerable heart. This holiday season, give thanks.
Recently discovered video footage shows that Evie Clair was trained in Italian opera. Even at 10 years old, she had no problem keeping up on this difficult duet with soaring agility and beauty. Before Evie Clair took the stage on America’s Got Talent in 2017, her classically-trained mom was the music teacher at her elementary school. They sing together live for the school talent show an operatic duet called Sull’aria from Motzart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
“Sull’aria…che soave zeffiretto” (lit. “On the breeze…What a gentle little Zephyr) is a duettino, or a short duet, from act 3 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
In the film The Shawshank Redemption, prisoner Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) defies Warden Sam Norton (Bob Gunton) by playing the duettino over the prison’s loudspeakers. Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) remarks in his voice-over narration: “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. […] I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.” The song’s appearance in the Shawshank Redemption soundtrack earned it a nomination as one of 400 songs in consideration for American Film Institute’s list of 100 top movie songs.
Wanting to prepare for the events that Evie’s family had been invited to, they researched Hong Kong, learning that their relationship with China was complex. It began with the Opium Wars between Great Britain and China in the late 1800’s when China was forced to give Hong Kong to Great Britain on a land deal with a 99-year lease. In 1997 that lease ended and Great Britain returned Hong Kong to China as a Special Administrative Region where China allowed Hong Kong to continue to govern itself. While mainland China is a communist country, controlled by a single party, Hong Kong still maintains limited democracy. Politics between Hong Kong and Mainland China have been rocky. In 2014 Hong Kong had massive protests and demonstrations against proposed election reforms that mainland China wanted to impose on how Hong Kong elects their Chief Executive. In 2019 Hong Kongers protested a bill that would have allowed mainland authorities to target critics, journalists and anyone else in Hong Kong for removal to mainland China. Hong Kong is not allowed to maintain its own military or international relations being ultimately at the will of Mainland China through The office of the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs. Even with difficult diplomatic relations, economic advantages keep the two together.
On January 18th, 2021 Evie Clair’s manager received a seemingly normal online booking request for two days of charity events in Hong Kong celebrating the launching of a new community center. Evie has performed for dozens of charity events since America’s Got Talent but was excited to travel to China for the first time. Her manager responded with the requested quote of $5,000 for the appearance but didn’t expect the response from China offering $10,000 plus first class air fare for the whole family of six and lodging at the Ritz Carlton in Hong Kong. They included extras in the contract such as a $5,000 wardrobe allowance with 50% paid up front. The contract stated that if the event was cancelled due to Covid-19 or any other reason, she would be able to keep the deposit.
The circumstances of Evie’s life captured many hearts all over the world and caused her to be deeply involved in charity work. She has often been treated graciously like this by both charity and non-charity organizations for the past several years, but this was abnormal in that the organization’s legal committee chairman asked Evie to present a donation to the charity at the event. He said the CEO wanted to personally give her the money to donate back with a giant check from her at the day-two event. This increased the amount of the deposit they would send by $50,000 which Evie would return as a tax-exempt donation.
This was a red flag, but the organization sent legal documents with their tax-exempt status and ensured there wouldn’t be any tax issues. They researched the company and couldn’t find a social media presence but they said that’s why they needed Evie to help them establish one with her social status. The website at https://lifelinehk.org said they had been established at 10 Tim Mei Avenue Admiralty in Hong Kong since 2015 with accomplishments helping children escape poverty, hunger and abuse, partnering with government and community organizations. Everything seemed in order so the contract was signed and returned.
Tuesday January 26, 2021 – Evie’s mom woke up with concern about the organization and decided to do some research. She wanted to find out who created the website. No information existed but she found out that it had been created only 4 days before the booking request for Evie was made. She then had the thought to call her religious leader, Bishop Elwood, who is also a CPA. She sent him the Chinese tax documentation they provided.
He called back with the news that Lifeline Hong Kong Foundation didn’t exist but that the documentation had been manipulated from another organization in Hong Kong. He recommended that she take the cashier’s check to the bank and explain the situation, but that we definitely should not send them back the $50,000 donation. He said that the check was probably fake and that the bank may not realize it right away. This would give the organizers time to collect returned donation funds from us, leaving us responsible for the fake check and the lost funds.
Evie Clair LLC received the $61,000 cashiers check from Lifeline Hong Kong Foundation that day. It came from TFC National Bank in Sioux Falls, SD and was sent overnight Fed Ex from Lana at Goldfinch Technology – 622 W 168th St FL New York, NY 10032 with the phone number 201-719-4807 and “The Empire Group” written in the memo on the check. All these discrepancies confirmed suspicion that the check was fraudulent but they had already signed a contract to return donation funds upon receipt of the check.
Upon arrival at the bank, they suggested she call the bank that issued the check to verify it. After a long hold in the lobby of her bank, TFC Bank said they had no validation process and that depositing the check was the only way to find out if it was real. The funds were immediately available in Evie’s business account with no hold or issue.
Ivan Chow, the organization’s legal committee chair, emailed several times over the next two days with wire instructions for returning the donation portion of the deposit. When told by Evie’s manager that the funds were still being verified, he became urgent saying the funds were going to help Covid-19 victims in Hong Kong and couldn’t wait. Evie’s manager held off paying or touching the funds, with near certainty that they weren’t real. She called the bank several times to explain the situation but they said everything looked fine and to call back to file a claim if the check became invalidated. Three days later the bank discovered the fraudulent cashier’s check and the $61,000 was gone with no notice from the bank but a $12 returned item fee.
She called the bank to file a fraud claim and they said there was nothing to be done. She then filed a report with the Federal Trade Commission with a response saying “Thank you for helping to fight fraud in your community…The FTC does not resolve individual reports, but your report will be entered in the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel database and will be available to … law enforcement across the country.”
With the new knowledge that not much is done to investigate fraud by the government and that banks don’t seem to care that someone is creating counterfeit checks in their name or that a loophole exists in the system giving criminals 3 days of available, imaginary funds, Evie’s family is so thankful for the help they had from above to see these persons and the problems they wanted to cause her family. The family was disappointed to learn they wouldn’t be going to China after after all. The kids had Hong Kong Disneyland on their radar. They haven’t heard anything else from “Mr. Ivan Chow” or “Lifeline Hong Kong Foundation,” but hopefully releasing this post will help their friends and others in the entertainment industry who may be targeted with this type of fraud in the future.
This is Evie’s second time performing for the Limelight Gala. Her first time was in Philadelphia just after America’s Got Talent. This year because of COVID, the event was done virtually. Evie’s performance starts about and hour and 8 minutes into the program.
HEADstrong’s virtual event is hosted by Fox29’s Good Day Philadelphia co-anchor Thomas Drayton celebrated the 25-year career of Jacqui Melott, a devoted frontline oncology nurse at the Abramson Cancer Center of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The event also honored the courageous Delaney Unger, a 14-year old whose dancing career was halted when she was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma and her triumphant return to fulfilling her dream of dancing much in part to receiving rotationplasty surgery. HEADstrong also recognized the relentless efforts of the Radcliffe family of West Chester, PA, who have embarked on an incredible journey in partnership with the HEADstrong Foundation, through the creation of the Charlotte Grace Fund, to help local families overcome by pediatric cancers in loving memory of their daughter, who bravely battled Medulloblastoma, a malignant form of brain cancer.
Through the virtual event, viewers will have the ability to interact and contribute to the HEADstrong Foundation. Proceeds will underwrite a full year of lodging and comfort at Nick’s House, a guest residence that welcomes families to the City of Brotherly Love during the most critical, vulnerable and desperate time of their lives as they pursue lifesaving treatment only available in Philadelphia. In addition to the online program, the event featured an unbelievable silent auction featuring packages, memorabilia, experiences, luxury items.
The COVID-19 pandemic has only added a layer of complexity for those navigating a pre-existing cancer fight and delays in treatment have posed several challenges for those requiring necessary and time sensitive treatments. The economic impact has been equally devastating and the need for funding is at an all-time high.
The HEADstrong Foundation exists to improve lives affected by cancer. The organization was founded by Nicholas “HEAD’ Colleluori, a beloved student-athlete from the Philadelphia suburbs, who was terminally diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and created the organization from his hospital bed to serve as the resource that he wished existed for his own family during their greatest time of need. Colleluori was a D1 athlete at the time of his diagnosis whose battle was chronicled by ESPN, who used his platform to put forth tangible solutions to the everyday challenges of families living the reality of cancer.
Evie recently spent some time interviewing with a woman she respects and admires. Catherine Anaya is a local television and radio host in Arizona that Evie has watched on TV since she was a baby. Evie has been able to meet with and talk to Catherine many times now and considers her a dear friend. Evie’s interview with Catherine for The Women’s Eye Radio Podcast was filled with tons of insights into her past and current life, her growth as a person and as a songwriter and wisdom for overcoming loss, struggles and fears.
Catherine Anaya is a television and radio host. She’s currently a digital TV host at The Social Television Network as well as a contributing host of The Women’s Eye radio podcast on iTunes. The proud mother of two and wife is also a three-time Emmy Award- winning former television news anchor of more than 25 years, recently inducted into the prestigious National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle, for more than 25 years of broadcast excellence
Catherine anchored and reported 12 of those years at CBS 5 News in Phoenix. Prior to that she was an anchor/reporter in Los Angeles, Indiana and Texas. Catherine has won numerous awards including ‘Anchor of the Year’ by the Arizona Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Her career highlights include interviewing President Obama at the White House and co-anchoring a post-presidential debate with the legendary Walter Cronkite.
Catherine is a member of the Make-A-Wish Arizona Board of Directors and was recently featured in the 2019 KNOW Book + Tribe highlighting 100+ Women you should KNOW and do business with. Catherine was also named an Arizona Latina Trailblazer in 2014. She is a former longtime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Arizona Latino News Media Association Board of Directors and is a graduate of the Valley’s Hispanic Leadership Institute (HLI), Class of 2004.
Catherine is a USC alumna and a USC mom. She is also the founder of the women’s charitable group Sisterhood of Super Women and helped her children create The Lats Legacy Foundation and scholarship in memory of their father. She is an exercise junkie and a three-time Boston Marathon finisher (2007, 2011, 2012).
Award winning composer and singer/songwriter Nate Fenwick has scored several indie films and has had his music air across multiple cable and major networks including ABC, NBC, FOX, A&E, Discovery, E! and MTV. Nate had Evie Clair in mind for a new song called Young Fighter after being inspired by her strength through Season 12 of America’s Got Talent. Evie and Nate collaborated on the song with a message that conveys the inner power each of us has to overcome struggles and battle through the difficult challenges of life.
Young Fighter Lyrics
On the run
There once was a thief
She was one
Who stole the silence with her tongue between her teeth
And fell asleep
On the sea
Drifting further from her silent dream
Awakened by the storm
She fought her way to shore
To break the silence
Oh – oh – oh
Rise high young fighter
Oh – oh – oh
Fly high young fighter
From the ground
She feels the fire burn within her bones
Breathing reason to a heart of stone
Awake the mighty one that shouts within her soul
Fired up
And from the ash to rise above
To show her demons what it means to burn
And turn to ground and fade away
Ya – a – a
Oh – oh – oh
Rise high young fighter
Oh – oh – oh
Fly high young fighter
The time has come to win
The battle that has never been won
Without the fighter found inside
Her silent dream above
Oh – oh – oh
Rise high young fighter
Oh – oh – oh
Fly high young fighter
Oh – oh – oh
Rise high young fighter
Oh – oh – oh
Fly high
Okay Day is Evie Clair’s first original album with featured song “Okay Day” that she performed live on NBC’s America’s Got Talent Season 12 Finale with James Arthur. The album shows Evie’s range of styles and dedicates a special song 57 Seconds to her late father.
1. I Needed You Evie Clair 2:46 Stephen Moyer – Drums; Stephen Moyer – Keyboard; Adam Armijo – Gutiar; Mario Mendivil – Bass
2. Morning Star Evie Clair, Clancy Thomas 3:26 Stephen Moyer – Keyboard; Melanie Yarger – Cello
3. Too Young Evie Clair, Clancy Thomas 2:53 Stephen Moyer – Drums; Adam Armijo – Guitar; Stephen Moyer – Keyboard; Mario Mendivil – Bass
4. Will I Be Enough Evie Clair, Stephen Moyer 4:23 Stephen Moyer – Piano; Melanie Yarger – Cello
5. Head In The Cloud Evie Clair, Stephen Moyer 3:36 Bobby Hamilton – Drums; Loannis Goudelis – Piano; Adam Armijo – Guitar; Mario Mendivil – Bass; Jacob Campos – Trumpet
6. Fair Minded Evie Clair, Porter Abplanalp 3:11 Stephen Moyer – Drums; Stephen Moyer – Bass; Stephen Moyer – Keyboard
7. One Day Evie Clair 3:52 Stephen Moyer – Drums; Stephen Moyer – Bass; Stephen Moyer – Keyboard
8. 57 Seconds Evie Clair 3:28 Stephen Moyer – Piano
9. Au Revoir Evie Clair, Clancy Thomas 3:45 Stephen Moyer – Piano; Melanie Yarger – Cello; Stephen Moyer – Keyboard
10. Okay Day Evie Clair Feat. Kirra L.A. 2:42 Stephen Moyer – Drums; Stephen Moyer – Bass; Stephen Moyer – Piano; Stephen Moyer – Keyboard; Melanie Yarger – Cello
Evie traveled to Utah on April 26th to sing for the wedding reception of Elder Gressman, a missionary who served near her home last year. For the event, she worked with the mega talented director of the One Voice Children’s Choir, Masa Fukuda and top Utah cellist, Garrett Rosza.
They covered a beautiful song by Ruelle called “I Get to Love You” that was requested by the bride. They also covered “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and some ‘on the spot’ requests. This is live, raw video footage filmed by A.J. Moss. Evie feels so grateful to be able to collaborate with such incredible musicians.
Evie Clair loves visiting Utah because she has lots of beloved aunts, uncles and cousins there. On this trip she also got to spend some time with her best friend, Clancy Thomas and his mom, who came to see her perform. She was happy to get to see them since Clancy only has a few months until he leaves on his mission. Evie belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where young people as young as 18 serve and teach away from home for up to 2 years. Just like Elder Gressman who served his mission in Evie’s town of Florence, Arizona, her friend Clancy will leave home in August to serve the people in Vina Del Mar, Chile.
Clancy has even helped Evie with lyrics for songs on her upcoming “Okay Day” Album that will be released June!
