Scammers are everywhere. People are desperate. In tough times, people will go to extraordinary lengths to cover their bills and meet their needs.
In his coaching efforts, however, David often helps his clients create “possibility lists,” a long list of items (usually 50 to 100) possible sources of money an artist or entrepreneur can leverage to get themselves out of tough times. David usually finds his clients are back on track by the time they’ve actioned five to seven items.
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For ambitious artists, waiting on the sidelines hoping for the right opportunity is NOT an option. Creating the life you love through your creativity will require that you stretch beyond what you think you’re comfortable with right now.
In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares why you need to make a mess now, and what you can do to clean it up after the fact (if you even need to!).
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00:17 – Why you should make a mess in your career and life
01:26 – Freeing yourself from the domain of “good” or “bad”
02:41 – What it looks like to make a mess
05:51 – Declaring the incomplete, complete
06:17 – Turn to a mentor or coach for help
07:00 – Building your “mess muscle”
07:27 – Look at what needs to be cleaned up, and clean it up!
07:57 – Determine what you will continue to do, and what you won’t
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There are always those around us who end up having a huge impact on us. We may not realize it as it’s happening, but in retrospect, we can always see who offered a timely word that ended up helping us on our journeys.
In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares what he learned from his mentor and how he applied it.
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Highlights:
00:17 – The people who make the greatest difference are those who you are in direct communication with
01:08 – Mess things up
02:10 – #1: Analog vs. digital
05:26 – #2: Beware of who you take advice from
09:02 – #3: Community enterprise
11:57 – Reflecting on David’s community years
12:33 – Win-win-win
Transcript:
Three concepts I learned from my mentor.
Here is someone that I've seen as one of my main mentors over the years. You can have relationships with close people, mentors at a distance, coaches, even the books you read… All of it can end up contributing to you significantly. But inevitably the people who end up making the biggest difference are those that you are in direct communication with.
This is someone who has been… I've been by their side, creating projects with them, and they've been by my side, supporting my projects.
There are three key things I learned from them that ended up steering the direction of where we're going versus where things went with Music Entrepreneur HQ in the past.
Music Entrepreneur HQ was a grand experiment. We had so much fun with it. We tried a whole bunch of stuff. We made lots of mistakes and learned from them.
I think a lot of people are afraid of doing that. If they went out and started making projects, started messing things up… Go make a mess. The thing that often gets repeated, whether in network marketing or leadership circles, is “Go make a mess.”
That's what people who accomplish things are doing. They're not trying to figure everything out before they start. Never.
Commit first, get into action, and then figure out the rest as you go. This is how it works.
Commit first, get into action, and then figure out the rest as you go.Click To Tweet
This is how courses are developed, right? At least the good ones, because it gives you way more leverage. You can share your course content with your audience before it's ever done. And you can test your stuff and see what people resonate with and see what works.
Anyway, the number one concept that I learned from a mentor that has made a difference is “Analog versus digital.”
I reinterpreted it into my ecosystem to make sense for me. But his whole contention was that I was doing so much digital marketing stuff. I learned a lot, and that's what a good entrepreneur would do, is they would go and learn. They would go and figure out how marketing works because marketing is your direct connection to revenue. If you don't have good marketing, you can't create revenue in your business.
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I don't think my intentions or even my priorities were misplaced. I think that they were in the right place. But I spent so much time creating content, sharing on social media, and sending emails. I was disappointed with some of the results we were getting.
Something that he brought to me repeatedly. He would say, “But you know, I tend to think way more analog with that. I'm thinking like, if I look at events, how many people will come out? That's way more of a confirmation of how your project is going, versus passive content that people can just like, comment, or share, or just not even look at or respond to,”
And he’s so right, because we publish a lot of stuff that doesn't necessarily do anything, and it's easy to get discouraged with that.
When it comes to publishing, I believe you’ve got to keep going no matter what. But when you've done that for years and years,
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The Makeshift Romance EP is arriving shortly. It features five tracks, including:
✅ Makeshift Romance
✅ Perfect Nuisance
✅ Too Late
✅ Wonderfully Dysfunctional
✅ Clean Slate
Stream it or buy it anywhere! CDs coming soon.
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You are the CEO of your own music career. Not necessarily by choice. More so out of necessity. Emily White explains why.
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Spending can easily get out of control, even if it is spending on seemingly helpful, worthwhile tools and resources. Sometimes it’s necessary to cut back.
In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares how cutting your subscription bloat can free up energy.
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Highlights:
00:17 – Cutting costs is often a necessary aspect of business
00:38 – When pride gets in the way
01:12 – Successful entrepreneurs are willing to cut expenses if necessary
01:38 – A time to reevaluate
02:07 – Giving up pride
02:47 – Cutting costs will free up energy
03:34 – A helpful app
04:02 – Get good at managing your finances
Transcript:
Entrepreneurs sometimes must cut costs. If this weren't true… Just look at the big businesses out there that sometimes lay off employees in droves. Sometimes for a business to survive, it's got to cut away at the fat to be able to survive.
But sometimes it is so easy to fall into a sense of pride, like, “I know what I'm doing, things are okay. I don't need to cut costs. I just need to be more consistent and make more money.”
And, I mean, how many times have I or someone else or people in general thought that way that they could just go and make more money and solve all their problems?
It's partly right. But many have had that experience where they weren't able to generate that amount and found themselves treading water because their income stayed about the same. Their expenses also stayed about the same or just went up.
But if you think about the fact that successful people are those who are willing to do what others are not willing to do, that means successful entrepreneurs are willing to cut expenses, even if temporarily, if need be.
Now I've heard people do insane things just to be able to meet payroll at times. I think in those cases it pretty much paid off, but I don't know how much I could recommend being reckless in that sense.
But I do think there's a time and place to evaluate your finances. Look at all the subscriptions that have stacked up. Do you need those right now? Are those contributing to you? Are they helping you make more money or are they just eating away at cash reserves?
As someone who's had to file for a consumer proposal, I can tell you that it is possible for those to keep eating away at your cash reserves to put you into debt.
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So, we must give up pride. And I say that as if it's always an easy thing to do and it can be hard at times. It’s like, “Oh, I know what to do. I've got the Midas touch, man. I've got the golden finger. Everything's going to work out.”
Well, sometimes it doesn't. And we can have a bias towards our success and that's a good thing, but sometimes we can go from success to success to success and suddenly encounter failure and go, “Well, that was the anomaly.”
But the reality is that it's usually a mix of failures and successes on the way to your eventual success.
And I think this is what I recognized about cutting expenses. What it does is it frees up energy. And this is something I noticed this last time I went and cut a few costs that were idle and not doing anything for me. When you trim away the fat, you don't have to think about it anymore.
Cutting expenses frees up energy.Click To Tweet
Then you can free up yourself and free up your mind to concentrate on ways that you can improve your financial outlook and improve your income. And what matters is your takeaway or your profit, right?
So, if you haven't done some purging recently and things don't appear to be going well, it might be time to explore purging to look at what you can do to cut away some expenses that aren't serving you.
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Success in music hinges on a strong mindset, because inevitably there will be challenge and rejection to endure. The pressure to quit will always get the best of you unless you’ve got your psychology together.
But what happens when you’ve been pushed so close to the edge that taking an involuntary leap into the great unknown is a foregone conclusion? What happens when a gentle shove is all it takes for you to plummet into the abyss?
In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, David shares what “death by 1,000 arrows” is and how it can be avoided.
Podcast Highlights:
00:17 – Success is an inside job
01:25 – What is “death by 1,000 arrows?”
02:27 – Star of the Giants (Kyojin no Hoshi)
03:38 – Real life examples of death by 1,000 arrows
05:11 – Everything is what it is
06:37 – The best way to avoid death by 1,000 arrows
07:27 – Expansion
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Is it time to embrace Web3 as a musician? What steps should you take if you’re interested in making a go of it as an independent artist?
That’s what we’re going to be looking at in this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast.
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016 – 5 Things I Learned From Blockchain Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xws_LSHR_8
180 – The IMDb of the Music Industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muxnzle7dHw
192 – Looking to the Future of a Blockchain-Powered Music Industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGKcwUv8Ujk
237 – Music Streaming, Copyright & NFTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDbYugSeDOc
248 – Get Your Music Distributed & Tap into More Revenue Streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaXT49AeUV0
260 – The Future of Music & Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqmrok4qxgs
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Video Highlights:
00:27 – Web3 is here
01:06 – Learning about blockchain-powered, decentralized platforms
02:13 – Discover the platforms and experiment with them
03:41 – Dig your rolodex well before you’re thirsty
04:34 – Create your first NFT (if you haven’t already)
05:46 – Understanding how to handle cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.
07:01 – Episode summary
08:10 – Closing thoughts
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David Andrew Wiebe explains why you should be in the right place in the right mind to make decisions about your music career.
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