It’s been a while since I’ve done any kind of personal- or career-based update. But I feel like some of the changes I’ve been making to my work life warrant a proper announcement.

In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I share what I’ve been up to this summer, some of the changes that have been occurring in my life, as well as what I’m planning to do moving forward.

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Podcast Highlights:

00:14 – The Music Entrepreneur HQ update

00:28 – What I’ve been up to this summer

02:25 – Keeping up with content creation and burnout

03:07 – What’s happening with The Music Entrepreneur Live

03:30 – My plan for The Music Entrepreneur HQ moving forward

04:05 – Content publishing schedule

04:45 – Why I’m streamlining my work

05:56 – Products and books

07:52 – What are your thoughts on everything I’ve shared with you?

Transcription:

Thanks for joining me. Today, I wanted to share an update with you. I don’t think I’ve done a general update like this one before since starting The New Music Industry Podcast, but there is a good reason why I’ve put together this episode.

So first I want to share a little bit about what I’ve been up to. Obviously, one of the things I’ve been working on is the new book Flashes of Elation. I am in the editing phase and I’ll be passing that manuscript off to editors very soon. That process has been going relatively smoothly, although I admit I haven’t been working on it as much as I feel I should be. The reason for that is because I’ve been feeling a little bit burnt out.

This is something that came to the forefront at the end of June. I was actually out of town for two weeks conducting my business and work outside of Calgary. So that was all well and good, but life circumstances began to change fairly quickly after I returned home.

I’m not going to bore you with all the details, because I feel like we might get into a little bit of woo-woo territory which I’m not sure all of you would necessarily relate to, but from a practical standpoint I’ve really been going at it hard for the last three years. I needed to get my finances under control. It was worth doing, but on the other end of it I find myself a little bit tired and even restless.

I’ve been taking some time to enjoy the summer because it really is one of my favorite seasons. I’ve been going out of town to places like Red Deer, and Canmore, and Airdrie, and pretty much just wherever I could get myself to.

I’ve been spending some time with friends and enjoying a little bit more of a meaningful social life than before. I think that’s something I do want to incorporate more moving forward. It’s become really important to me.

I’ve been walking, and working out, and doing hot yoga, and exercising a lot more than before. Paying attention to my health. And health is one of my theme words for the year. I always set three theme words. Health ended up being one of them. It really has guided some of my decisions this year. I think that’s been for the best.

You’ve noticed that I have kept up with the podcast in spite of everything that’s been happening. I think I will continue to keep up with it. I have no plans of changing my regular publishing schedule, but some things have fallen by the wayside including The Music Entrepreneur Live event I was planning for August.

In addition to being burnt out, I’ve actually been sick basically twice this summer, so I had to spend time recovering from that also. I feel a lot healthier now. I think I’ve just been a little bit more immunocompromised due to working out a lot more. As well as maybe some of the smoke that we’ve been seeing here in Calgary due to the forest fires in BC.

It’s still possible that I will reschedule The Music Entrepreneur Live for another date, or I might even attempt to do maybe smaller get together instead of trying to hold one big event and plan the whole thing. Because if I’m doing it all alone,