A strong teaching bio has to do more than just list your degrees and experience. To be effective, a teaching bio needs to give prospective students a real sense of what it’s like to study with you. This needs to be compelling enough so that they will reach out. To...
Last year my business coach Dallas Travers held a retreat in which a group of us did a values exercise. Out of all the other training I did last year, this one intervention had the single biggest impact on me and my work. I'm betting that this powerful values exercise...
What if instead of letting fear and uncertainty overpower us, what if we leaned into accepting where we are now: Musicians — Welcome to the Ordeal. I know, it sounds like a video game. I wish it were. But it's our reality: we're in the Ordeal, the "all is lost"...
In career coaching, questions are paramount. The kind of questions that get us to slow down and take stock. To focus on our values and our goals. It's about re-orienting ourselves to what actually matters, as opposed to the daily crap we obsess over. It's all too easy...
MONDAY BYTES —March 14, 2016 If you're going to be in the Boston area, I really hope you'll grab one of the four remaining spots for the Musician's Teaching Philosophy Statement workshop this coming Saturday March 19. I'm so excited to be offering this...
MONDAY BYTES — August 11, 2014 Jullien Gordon's TED talk on "side hustling" millennials and why it's dangerous to have just one source of income is especially applicable to musicians. Granted most musicians have multiple income streams and project-driven careers: so...
MONDAT BYTES — July 14, 2014 What kind of Citizen Musician are you? Check out Yo-Yo Ma's inspiring Chicago Symphony Orchestra Citizen Musician program (from the CSO website): "About the Citizen Musician Initiative Yo-Yo Ma has described his concept of citizen...
MONDAY BYTES - July 16, 2012 This weekend I was at the NYFA/NYU Artist as Entrepreneur Performing Arts Bootcamp, a terrific professional development program crammed into 2 packed weekends. The opening session, led by Entrepreneur Mark Golden of Golden Artist Colors,...
MONDAY BYTES - January 30, 2012 Latest obsession: the value of our education. Hard to weigh, huh? Our own education is something we probably value differently depending on the year, the developmental stage we're in, and whether or not those student loans are paid off....
MONDAY BYTES - September 12, 2011 Last Thursday in NY I went to a concert at Trinity Church at Wall Street, the church closest to ground zero. The concert was part of a weeklong 9/11 memorial program of music, poetry readings, all-night labyrinth walks, and an...
