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Why I’m leaving academia to focus on my business…
For the past five years, I have had the privilege of creating a beautiful music business program in one of the top music universities in the country. (In this moment of vulnerability, I’ll disclose that I may have shed a tear or two while writing this…) In...
Making 6-figures with social media…
What is the business strategy behind your online presence? I want to preface this post today by saying that I don't consider myself a social media expert. I have a very modest following on all of my platforms. This isn’t going to be about “How do you get 100,000...
The artist in me…inviting you to see a different side of me…
In the process of building my career I’ve always strived to align both my musical side as well as my business side. It has not always been easy, and for a significant period of my life, my artistic side was kept dormant. As time has gone by, I’ve realized how...
What I learned about running a business from a week of Winter snowstorm…
If you knew you only had 30 minutes to get work done, what would you do? Reply to emails? Check your notifications?Enter a deep work state? What if those 30 minutes are your *only* work minutes, so they need to cover deep and “reactive” things? How can we design those...
You don’t have to *start here* (Creating can’t happen without connection)
In my work coaching musicians, I’ve observed a common situation. When we see online content that we think is just so prolific and polished, we can oftentimes feel discouraged and even enter a state of paralysis that prevents us from even starting to take the necessary...
On This Valentine’s Day, I Share a Musical Labor of Love With You….
I wanted to share a wonderful musical labor of love with you all today. But first, a bit of background for more context. During my time studying music in Cuba as a teenager, I had the wonderful opportunity to study with one of Cuba's greatest pianists and composers,...
How a pianist, pedagogue, administrator, and a mother of two, created new income while gaining a new level of clarity, direction and control in her professional life.
Today I'd like to share a story of my long-time friend, colleague, and now recent client, Dr. Irina Pevzner. Irina and I have known each other for nearly 20 years now and have witnessed each other's career trajectories and personal journeys initially as peers at the...
Don’t make things harder for yourself….
During the past few weeks, I’ve been having some deep and meaningful conversations with musicians who are ready to bring in change in their lives (like my MPU program, which starts on Feb 15), they have wonderful goals and dreams, they are committed to improving the...
THE MUSICIAN'S PROFIT UMBRELLA®
How I Scaled My Online Music Business By 6 Figures In Less Than 6 Months And Put It On Autopilot… Without:- Working crazy-long hours
- Feeling run-down and exhausted
- Having to miss out on important family milestones
- Giving up the freedom you’ve worked so hard to create for yourself and your family.