What's on my mind...
Bitterness and the Key of B-Sharp
The key of B-Sharp. (If you are a super music theory nerd, you see where I am going with this, connecting bitterness with this particular key. Just hang out and wait for the delicious satisfaction of knowing you know. No spoilers!) B-Sharp is full shenanigans and...
Ingredients Are Not Enough.
We've got every ingredient we need inside us, right now. Every element for greatness available. Ready to go. Ready to be what we require it to be. On this, I am adamant. Yet, we believe we are stuck. What do you do when you feel this? Do you give up? Do you say to...
Incarnate
One of the most powerful things I did in 2019 was to uncover the framework that I use to run my business. It goes beyond a mission statement and a vision statement. It's a manifesto turned practical and actionable skeleton that is used to determine decisions,...
Kelli Barham
SECO Spotlight Interview with Kelli Barham
Eden Casteel
SECO Spotlight Interview with Eden Casteel
Hyperbole, a New Enemy?
I use hyperbole a lot. I think it’s charming and fun, and it really calls my super big feels out and names them, so I can move on with my life. It makes for some fabulous hashtags. #allthefeels, anyone? #amIright? Yet, lately, I am beginning to see hyperbole like a...
Are You Asking Permission or Forgiveness?
Okay, folks, time for the truthiness. The truth about how we make decisions and walk in the world. The truth about asking permission instead of forgiveness. Voice peeps that now have a business are stuck in a pattern. We've been conditioned to ask permission. To beg...
Mary Poppins Saved My Life
When I watched Mary Poppins Returns around Christmas last year, I ugly cried. UG-LEE.I wasn't expecting to get hit with a ton of emotional bricks and have an illuminating transformative moment in a dark theater. And I certainly wasn't expecting to be brought to my...
Let’s Ban the Word Busy
I've noticed a trend. You're starting to get in the groove.You grow, become unfettered, increase your mission and vision in the world. You get FOCUSED. COURAGEOUS. WISE.And then, you get... busy. Or do you?Here is the charge, vocalistas: Let's ban the word "busy".We...
Three Reasons for Two Accounts
Figuring out expenses for taxes is waaaaay the heck easier - think of the amount of time and energy you will save when you already know that everything you spent on your business was in one place. Even if you aren't yet ready to have two separate bookkeeping systems,...
How the Sunk Cost Fallacy is Keeping You Down
Your best work is not behind you. It is in front of you. Your best self wasn't in college, or grad school, or DMA program, or at yesterday's workshop. Your intelligence, wit, selflessness, and gobsmacking amazingness didn't end when you got a diploma or your...
To Get What we Want, we must Seize the C.R.A.Y.
Now that it's January 75th (DEAR GOODNESS MAKE IT STOP!), I offer to you a new mantra: Seize the C.R.A.Y. Clear & Responsible About what is Yours "I wish I would have started planning earlier..." or "I just don't know how to plan! I get ideas, but then am...
You Can Change Your Life. Yes, you can.
I wrote a thing for myself. A reminder. A manifest. A pep-talk. I thought you may relate, so decided to share it: Dear Self (you amazing and delightfully silly and grace-y person, you), You have a choice. Yes, you. You have a choice in how your voice works, your...
Believing in Competition is Killing Your Studio
Believing we are in competition with the studio owner down the street kills our mojo. And by mojo, I mean our soul, teaching, and bank account. Believing we have to hoard all the students in our community is an apology for not specializing. Being convinced that...
Scheduling for Voice Teachers… an Observation
Observation: Never ever once have I listened to a podcast with a male entrepreneur speaking about how they set their life tasks around their family activities, getting the house taken care of, or how to shift the mindset around work when you become a parent. I've...