5 Reasons to Try the 50-Hour Challenge
As a freelancer and small business owner, I have always struggled with structure. The kind that has me change out of my pjs, that tells me when I should be pitching for new work, when I should be...
View ArticleWhat My Interns REALLY Think
For the past three years, twice a year, my company is paired with two or three Cornell undergraduate students in an alumni program Cornell calls “Externship Sponsorship”. For about a week, my workload...
View Article9 Things I Just Learned About Music & Success
Originally posted on Music Think Tank. It took some effort to leave my default self in the cold streets of Harlem, prior to entering City College Of New York’s Aaron Davis Hall. The theater of 600...
View Article6 Great Tools Every Music Teacher Needs
Whether you’re in your first year teaching piano students or your 50th year, here seven great tools and resources that every piano teacher needs to keep new students rolling in and sticking around for...
View ArticleA Day In The Life of A Music Maker
I’m often asked “what do you do, exactly?”. There are two groups of people who generally ask this: 1) people who know me, or think they know me, and then stop for a second and realize they cannot quite...
View Article7 Ways I Use My College Degree In My Music Career
I’m writing this for anyone who has changed his or her plans after graduating from college. For anyone who has studied one thing and has gone on to do something slightly (or extremely) different. And...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Daily Success Plan?
You may have thought that you only need a plan when you are mapping out travel logistics for your next tour, or when you’re coordinating who’s bringing what dish to the next family holiday gathering,...
View Article11 Free Marketing Tools Every Musician Needs
I’m gonna cut to the chase on this one… Here are 11 free online tools for creating branding assets and managing your marketing efforts that every musician should know about! “Marketing” is no longer a...
View ArticleThe Cool Factor
I started to write this article a few times now and have come to understand that I really just want one thing – to let you know that you are not alone in looking for purpose. I want to do this by...
View ArticleBalancing Rushing… and Waiting
Hey there. If this hits a nerve, resonates in any way, let me know. I’d love to hear what you think and where you are in finding a balance between rushing and waiting… I used to be in a rush ALL the...
View ArticleThe [Digital] Holiday Card Checklist
Hello and happy fourth quarter! Tis the season for preparing holiday cards! And this probably doesn’t mean licking stamps any more. I’ve seen so many great digital holiday cards in the past few years...
View ArticleThe Live Show: Before (part 1 of 3)
I’m deep in prep mode for my first full-band, real live show in three years. It’s a special show, one I wasn’t even going to do, but something was telling me you’re not done yet. It’s a record release...
View ArticleThe Live Show: During (part 2 of 3)
It’s 1:13 am Thursday January 15th, just a few hours after performing with a band for my record release. All I want to do is go to sleep. Well, watch one episode of The Office, then go to sleep. But...
View ArticleWhat’s The Best Business Branding Tool? Female Empathy.
(Written for and originally published on Sharp Heels) One of my first jobs out of college was as a tech at a recording studio. All the engineers were male, all the producers were male. No biggie. Years...
View ArticleWork-from-home design decisions
It’s been a little bit since my last post and that’s due to the two facts that SXSW consumed my life for two weeks, and that my husband and I were selling our house and purchasing a new one. My mind...
View ArticleDo This Instead
It’s Monday at 6:37 am and I woke up to an email, like I so often do, with a link to a new blog post by one of the writers I read. Derek Sivers had just posted part one of his “Do This: Directives“. I...
View ArticleGrammy or Bust
I’m on the Grammy’s ballot… And now for the first time in my life, I’m reaching out and pitching my new record… not to my fans, not to music supervisors and film producers, but to my colleagues...
View ArticleHow Musical Theater Cured My Funk (and why every singer-songwriter should try...
3 years ago, I rediscovered my love for musical theater and allowed it to interrupt said funk. And it works. Every. Single. Time. The post How Musical Theater Cured My Funk (and why every...
View ArticleGive Yourself Permission
On January 10th, I visited an old friend and coach of mine. I thought I was doing her a favor... she had recently had knee surgery and was cooped up in her apartment. Yet when I walked out an hour and...
View ArticleHow Do The Grammys Work? Here’s a look inside.
If you’re a musician, you’ve probably thought about going to the Grammys then wondered “How do the Grammys work?”. Whether you’ve watched them for the performances or for the awards, whether you’ve...
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