by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 18, 2021 | business, Pricing, SpeakEasy
In going along with the blog (What’s in your hour?) I wrote a while back, and on the heels of giving a fun presentation on pricing at this past weekend’s Vocology in Practice conference, I wrote an extra-special blog on some pricing basics. I am super...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 4, 2021 | Branding, General, Review, SpeakEasy
It’s true! It’s true! While the planning and the thinking and the setting it all up began in the Spring of 2016… The SpeakEasy Cooperative opened its doors in March of 2017, to little fanfare and in much timidness. Now? The SpeakEasy Cooperative is...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Feb 3, 2021 | Branding, business, Pricing, SpeakEasy
I cannot implore you enough: please, please please, please stop selling your time. Time is merely the tool we use to deliver what we do sell – which is so much more than our time. How we move from this paradigm can be handled in many ways. I’d like us to...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Mar 15, 2019 | business, General, How to Run, SpeakEasy, Success
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...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jan 2, 2019 | business, Inspiration, SpeakEasy, Success
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...
by Michelle Markwart Deveaux | Jul 7, 2018 | business, General, SpeakEasy, Success, Teaching
for being late. for not practicing. for not reading the policies. for being “lazy”. for being “impatient”. for being busy. Stop blaming for missed payments. ignoring boundaries. hovering at lessons. asking for copies of music, again. Each and...
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