For anyone who feels there is something bigger inside them waiting to be expressed and released.
The media, music and news you consume daily are programming you. The question is whether they are pulling you closer to the life you want to live and are meant to live, or further from it.
Most people don't think about music as a tool, but when you stop to think about it, music is more effective than effort. In three minutes and thirty seconds, music can shift your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual state faster than most tools. Music has the power to lift you up or drag you down.
Empowering songs enable you to live above the line and tap into the power of thinking BIG. The right song can spark more openness, creativity, presence, and clarity, which leads to better results. The wrong song can leave you feeling closed, judgmental, angry, uncertain and fearful.
What type of music do you choose to consume?
Across thirty plus original songs, J Hobbs weaves timeless personal development tactics into catchy pop music you can use as a tool in your life.
These are not songs meant to play quietly in the background. They are songs with a framework inside every lyric, created to help you come back to an empowered version of yourself.
Especially when most media, music and news is just bringing you down.
When you are living above the line, you are open, creative, curious, and present. Below the line, you are reactive, defensive, and stuck in survival. Most people know the difference. The hard part is getting back above the line when life pulls you down.
That is where music works differently. It reaches the body before the ego has time to argue, helping you shift your state, reset your perspective, and return to the present where you get to choose who you want to be.
Conscious Music
Songs written to move you above the line and empower you to be your best self in three minutes or less!
Conscious Community
Practicing good habits alone is tough. The Empowerment Family is an online community to support you in practicing, growing, and staying empowered while also connecting with others walking the same path.
J Hobbs brings original music, world-class facilitation, and conscious leadership into school assemblies, corporate events, and musical performances. Whether he is speaking to students, facilitating an event, or rocking out at a music festival, the goal and purpose of the music and the message are the same: to inspire people to be at their best through the power of music.
School Assemblies
J Hobbs has performed over 100 school assemblies and is often asked to come back to every school he's been to because of his rare combination of performance, facilitation and motivation.
Corporate Events
Live music for corporate events that gives teams more than entertainment. J Hobbs creates moments of connection, reflection, and energy that help participants return to the task at hand with more presence.
Musical Performances
J Hobbs has performed over 1000 shows across 26 states. He brings the high-energy, empowering messages and interactive experiences to music venues, festivals, and street performances.

I have been making conscious music my whole life, even when I was building it in the margins between sales calls, live events, leadership work, and the rooms I was helping other people transform. I was not avoiding music. I was becoming someone worthy of it.
I learned how to connect with people selling knives door-to-door at nineteen, then I learned how to hold hundreds of people in transformational experiences my music and then I learned what conscious leadership actually requires by living it under real pressure.
Then one day, I realized every single thing I had learned pointed back to the music, not as a side project, but as the delivery system for everything I had spent thirty years learning about what moves people, changes people, and helps them live above the line.
What you put on in the morning can become a reminder of who you are choosing to be. When you wear J Hobbs’ gear, you are wearing the messages of the music. You will be wearing courage, love, gratitude, and resilience. Your close will be pulling you above the line. Carry the messages of the song beyond the 3 minutes... carry the empowerment into you entire day.

Maybe you found your way here because something in you is calling. You know what it feels like to be above the line, and you know what it costs to keep living below it.
Whenever you're ready, the empowering music, the community and the movement is here.
The only question is whether today is the day you choose to use empowering music as a tool in your life.

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