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Dave Lenahan is the host of the Songwriter Connection Podcast.

He is an award winning singer-songwriter who lives in Nashville Tennessee. Dave is also a 40 plus year veteran of broadcast radio.

Dave set out on a mission to celebrate the craft of songwriting through the eyes of the songwriters. Hosted in Nashville Tennessee, Songwriter Connection Podcast has over 3 million streams and is considered one of the top songwriter podcasts internationally.

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Wednesday October 14, 2026

Bill O'Hanlon & J4

Songwriter Connection Host Dave Lenahan welcomes Songwriters Bill O'Hanlon and J4 to discuss their collaborative project for Mental Health Month "Being of Sound Mind".

About Bill O'Hanlon | William "Bill" O'Hanlon is a world-renowned leader in the fields of brief psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis. Bill is the author of nearly 40 books and has delivered over 3,700 talks around the world. He was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show with his book, Do One Thing Different.

Though now mostly retired from the mental health field, Bill still offers a few online courses a year, sometimes with occasional group consulting. Along with teaching clinical skills around psychotherapy and hypnosis, Bill also teaches others how to write and publish their own books and how to become paid public speakers.

Bill is the co-founder of the Solution-Oriented Approach, a therapeutic method that focuses on identifying unrealized possibilities while acknowledging emotional and contextual issues. During graduate school, Bill studied with the eccentric and creative psychiatrist Milton Erickson (he was Dr. Erickson's only work/study student), he later became a major teacher/translator of Dr. Erickson's approaches to clinical hypnosis and change.

As of 2022, Bill has written or co-written over 1,000 songs and has had more than 30 of these recorded by other artists, with some of these songs being feature in television and other media.

About J4 | Joseph Henry Wandass IV, better known as J4™, is a Buffalo-born, Nashville-based recording artist, songwriter, and producer who has made a significant impact on the Nashville music scene for over the last decade. A versatile artist with a passion for his virtuosic compositions and storytelling, he has opened for/shared the stage with artists such as Josh Turner, Lee Greenwood, Michael W. Smith, Darryl Worley, Walker Hayes, The Tenors, and Cage the Elephant.

One of Nashville’s premier performers, J4 is a local fan favorite who has performed such stages as The Listening Room Cafe, Schermerhorn Symphony Center (with The Tenors), The Bluebird Cafe, The Local, and The Roman Auditorium (with Cage the Elephant) to name a few. In 2025, J4 released his Debut EP entitled “Every Song About You,” his first major solo project, which was met with great critical reception. J4 has enjoyed over 25 movie placements in in 2025 alone, including a landmark project at Warner Chappell in which J4’s voice was featured in an internationally televised advertisement for Honda's "Happy Honda Days."

J4 began his musical journey at age 10 performing on local stages. He moved to Nashville in 2014 to pursue his career and performed on Broadway in Nashville for many years until attending Belmont University in 2016 for commercial music performance. J4 earned a Bachelor’s (2020) and Master's (2022) in Commercial Music from Belmont University, where he honed his music performance and production skills while interning with Singing Success as a vocal intern and Nashville Cool Music as a track writer. His thesis entitled "Co-Writing Nashville Style, A Recital of Selected Country Songwriters" was published to the Belmont University Lila D Bunch Library in January of 2023. A copy is available here in the Lila D Bunch Digital Repository: "Co-Writing Nashville Style, A Recital of Selected Country Songwriters." His academic experience continued as an Adjunct Professor of Recording Industry Studies at Middle Tennessee State University (2025), where he instructed up and coming music professionals in piano instrumentation and commercial musicianship.

J4 currently pursuing his career as a recording artist in Nashville, TN, and works as a a staff songwriter at Lucky Sky Music Publishing. He also serves as a voting board member of the non-profit Tennessee Songwriters Association International.