Megon with "The Secret" star, Dr Michael Beckwith
Voice Training
Meeting don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
From: Danielle Steel To: Megon

Megon with "The Secret" star, Dr Michael Beckwith after singing Amazing Things before Dr Beckwith spoke at The Center for Spiritual Awaking in Chicago Fri. Feb 16, 2007. (What a night! Please see The Secret, it will change your life, and visit www.agapelive.org & chicagocsl.org for more info) Megon

Please email Megon about private sessions as well as her vocal and improvisation workshops.

Like so many people, I first heard about The Four Agreements on Oprah. She mentioned the comic Ellen Degeneres had recommended it to her and that it had been particularly helpful. Now, also like so many of us, I am always interested in new tools for living. I picked up a copy, and I"m glad I did.

Some time later I got a call to sing at a Unity service, and because I like to plan my music for a service I asked what the lesson was for that Sunday. The minister asked if I was familiar with The Four Agreements. I said yes, and that I really liked the book. "Well, he said the lesson was on the second agreement: Don"t take anything personally", (my personal favorite).

The song "Don't Take It Personally" came in that mornings' quiet time. I sang it at the service and from the reaction I knew I had to write 3 more songs!

When don Miguel Ruiz came to Chicago to speak at Transitions Learning Center I called my beautiful friend Gayle Seminara Mandel, who with her husband Howard, have a haven for all seekers there at Transitions, and asked her if I could sing the song before don Miguel spoke, "Yes"! She said. It was great fun singing and especially wonderful meeting him, his beautiful wife and family.

Click here to listen to all 4 songs plus a bonus track of a song I wrote with Debi Smith called "That's What a Menu's All About" It's an expression she uses. I knew when I first heard her say it that it just had to be a song!

Last summer, I attended a wonderful week long Improvisation Workshop with my sister Brenna in Door County Wisconsin given by the legendary Paul Sills.

Paul's mother, Viola Spolin, invented Improvisation for the Theatre (her wonderful book by the same title). Bren teaches on camera acting in MD and D.C.(On Camera Training) and is a member of a terrific Improv group in DC called GNP (Gross National Product - she does a great Laura Bush!) We always come away from this experience changed at depth. I wrote 3 new songs while there!

I can't describe how magical it was. To all my classmates; I love you guys!

Pictured is me and the maestro after our class performed for the Door Co. locals who love to come and see the graduating class after a week of "The Theatre Intensive" (and I do mean intensive).

In September of 1999, Danielle Steel, the popular novelist, was talking to Barbara Walters on TV about the death of her son Nick. Just 19 and a manic-depressive, he had committed suicide.

Watching at home in Des Plaines, Megon McDonough, a singer and actress, was moved to tears. She sat at her piano the next day and, with Nick's story very much on her mind, composed a song,"Golden Boy." She did not so much write it, she says, as let it "come through" her. McDonough recorded the song with the help of her Evanston producer, Steve Rashid, and mailed a copy of the CD to Steel. She received a polite reply by email: "Dear Megon, Thank you very much."

"Cool 'McDonough thought to herself, "she got it." But two months later, Steel called on the phone. "Megon," she said in a voice full of emotion, "How could you have known him so well?" Steel followed up with a letter "Dearest Megon, the sounds of your incredibly beautiful song have resounded through the house....You have an exquisite voice, the music is beautiful the words priceless. It is a gift to a mother's heart."

McDonough danced on air. She had reached out in song and eased a woman's pain. What more could music do?

On May 20, 2000, Steel is hosting a bash for a philanthlopy she has created, the Nick Traina Foundation, to fund programs in the field of mental illness. She has invited all her friends: Bill Cosby, Robin Williams, Dolly Parton, Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oscar de la Renta, Oprah, Tipper Gore, Michael Douglas, Danny Glover and many others.

And she has invited McDonough to perform for the toast of Hollywood. Will McDonough make it?

"The only question is what will I wear," she replies. "l mean, Oscar de la Renta?" - Tom McNamee for Prelude

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