FOLLOW UP: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
JASON HEFFLER (AKA DJ FLUENCEE)
When we last met you, you were performing as a DJ—how is that going and any major milestones
We interviewed Jason Heffler for our Fall 2019
Magazine when he was on tour as
DJ Fluencee. We caught up
with Jason once again to learn about how things are going, and what new projects he has been working on since we last connected.
since we last interviewed you? Yes! I performed at EDC Orlando, one of the nation’s largest and most popular electronic dance music (EDM) festivals. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my career. I was in a zone onstage and could really feel the crowd’s energy, especially when I spoke on the mic. However, my priorities started to change, and the stressful life of a touring artist became less appealing. I got married to my beautiful wife and we’re thinking about kids soon. I became an uncle after my twin sister had her first baby. I also landed an amazing job as the Managing Editor of
EDM.com, the world’s leading electronic dance music publication, which keeps me very busy. So, I'm not DJing much anymore but I get to travel, cover the world’s best music festivals and interview artists I consider idols.
What new projects have you been working on since we last spoke of special interest to the stuttering
community? I wrote a children’s stuttering book for kids struggling with confidence issues related to their speech. It was a grueling project, and it took over a year to publish. Holding it in my hands after it all was a wild feeling. The book is called Tongue Tied and it’s about a kind chameleon who’s shy because of a speech problem that makes it tough to get her words out. She stumbles over her own tongue and camouflages into the forest because she’s scared, she won’t fit in with the other animals. Through eye-opening encounters with a compassionate cricket friend and a mean frog bully, it’s a story about how she learns that her speech doesn’t hold her back from doing amazing things.
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