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Judy Rafat, Canadian protégé and friend of the world-famous bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, is undoubtedly one of the best jazz singers of our time. Judy offers her enthusiastic listeners colourful fireworks of bossa nova, swing, Latin, blues and, of course, bebop. She possesses a voice that is truly unique in its combination of intimacy and strength, enabling a range of expression that has touched the hearts and souls of her fans all over the world.

What she shares on this episode

If we are unaware of the nuances of the music business, it is easy to be taken for granted. When we have multiple goals to achieve and are not organised it can become overwhelming and difficult. This tends to affect the overall quality of our work which is directly proportional to the image of our brand. Do you feel like you are unable to manage all the things that need to be done and that everything is chaotic? On this episode Ariane helps Judy organise her work in the order of priority. She also talks about the ways that she can promote her brand and build a fan base. However in order to receive hep you need to be first aware of your challenges.

In this episode of the Creator Mindset Podcast

• The reason she did the coaching online and her challenges currently
• The ways to build a stable fan base – what tools work best
• How to gain exposure as an artist and get noticed.

Key takeaways

• Decide on who your ideal fan is.
• Decide on one action you can do on one social media platform every day – steps that you need to take to accomplish this action.
• In order to be organised – make a schedule and decide what goes where based on the order of priority.
• When you have a product that you want to launch – take time to market it before you put it out there, otherwise its like a stone in water.
• Allow yourself to accept situations that are not in your favour. Use them as stepping stones to move ahead.
• The key in all this being perseverance and consistence

Connecting with the artist

Website: arianeleanzaheinz.com 7 keys to build a strong foundation for your voice and brand: arianeleanzaheinz.com/27

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Sigrun is a lifestyle entrepreneur and business mentor for online entrepreneurs. She has combined her unique background in business, information technology, architecture, and personal development to help women go from zero to multiple six figures in their online business.

What she shares on this episode:

Sigrun really highlights the importance of giving in order to receive, whether it is entrepreneurship or music. You need to have a vision that is powerful enough to drive you to see it through to fruition. Be inspired and believe that it is possible to turn your passion into profit. We all just want to be discovered, but what are we doing about it? Owing to her background in business and the exponential success she has had over the past few years Sigrun shares with us the knacks to using social media to our advantage. If you’re starting out today as an artist or entrepreneur, it is important to remember that you need to pay to play. It is an investment of time and money. Start small and be willing to do what it takes.

In this episode of the creator mindset podcast:

• How Sigrun started and grew her business.
• Ways to continuously build your community and gain subscribers online.
• Actionable steps for young artist entrepreneurs to kick start building their community.
• Current projects that Sigrun is working on.

Key Takeaways:

• Ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing.
• Your experience will not be the same as another person’s. Your message is different from theirs.
• Facebook and Facebook advertisements – use this as a tool to reach regular everyday people.
• Use benchmarking tools to learn what other people that are successful on Facebook are doing.
• Be personal. People always want to see the person behind the process.

Connecting with the guest:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sigruncom/
• Website: https://www.sigrun.com/
• Contact: [email protected]

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Ariane loves working with people and empowering them. She believes in integrity, gratitude and connection. She came from a simple family in Geneva Switzerland and made her way to be a teacher at the Music Conservatory in Geneva at age 24. In the year 2000, she took a few suitcases, her savings, quit her job and moved to New York City to study with William Riley, known for his work with Céline Dion. She then opened her vocal practice studio in New York City, worked with recording artists, organized concerts and guided young artists in their careers, she became a booker, a manager and a coach. She is an expert on voice and loves performances. The process of creating is her passion; creating a song, a performance, a concert. On November 17th, 2017 she was the speaker vocal coach for TEDx Zürich, a very successful event. She currently works for CNN Money Switzerland preparing the voice and performance of an anchor to be ready for their launch end of January 2018. In the last few years, she has had the honour of accompanying beautiful artists like Mélanie René, Mané, Bastian Baker, Scott Irribarra, Al Pride, Arika Kane and many more for a moment on their path. Currently she works with artists, speakers and entrepreneurs online and offline in her vocal practice in Zürich.  

On this episode of the Creator Mindset Podcast

Merry Christmas! And whatever your beliefs are, we wish you a beautiful day. As many songs say, may it be Christmas every day. With no intention to offend anyone’s sentiments, to Ariane Christmas is about light, awareness and a time to reflect. A time to reflect on values, a time to reflect on the year that has gone by and a time to meditate on the success and growth of the year that’s passed by. As Audrey Hepburn said very elegantly: “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” There are many traditions around Christmas time, In Switzerland we have what we call an advent calendar, and each morning for the whole month of December the children get a little surprise in the morning. It’s not all about the presents but more about being together as a family. “Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.” -Edna Ferber Do you have a special tradition around that time? Have you ever written a Christmas song? If you have, write to us at [email protected] and get featured next Christmas! And don’t wait, it’ll be here sooner than you think. “Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” -Thomas. S. Monson What are your values? As you spend time with your loved ones and reflect on yourself we wish you a beautiful and peaceful Christmas.

Key Takeaways

• Find your quiet space.
• Look at where you are not and compare it with where you were a year ago.
• Re- align with your purpose and make a plan and vision for the following year.
• Appreciate everyone and everything you encountered in the past year.

Connecting with the artist

Website: arianeleanzaheinz.com Send us your song: [email protected]

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Bio of the artist

Ariane loves working with people and empowering them. She believes in integrity, gratitude and connection. She came from a simple family in Geneva Switzerland and made her way to be a teacher at the Music Conservatory in Geneva at age 24. In the year 2000, she took a few suitcases, her savings, quit her job and moved to New York City to study with William Riley, known for his work with Céline Dion. She then opened her vocal practice studio in New York City, worked with recording artists, organized concerts and guided young artists in their careers, she became a booker, a manager and a coach. She is an expert on voice and loves performances. The process of creating is her passion; creating a song, a performance, a concert. On November 17th, 2017 she was the speaker vocal coach for TEDx Zürich, a very successful event. She currently works for CNN Money Switzerland preparing the voice and performance of an anchor to be ready for their launch end of January 2018. In the last few years, she has had the honour of accompanying beautiful artists like Mélanie René, Mané, Bastian Baker, Scott Irribarra, Al Pride, Arika Kane and many more for a moment on their path. Currently she works with artists, speakers and entrepreneurs online and offline in her vocal practice in Zürich.

In this episode of the Creator Mindset Podcast

You have the ability to create your own happiness irrespective of the circumstances around you. On this episode Ariane talks about the skills we can develop to create happy lives for ourselves and others.

Key takeaways

• Cultivate gratitude – your vibration will rise
• Be true an authentic with yourself – have clarity
• With patience – anything can be achieved
• Persistence – see the big picture
• Ability to see things from different viewpoints – there is no one right thing
• Kindness – its free so, give it away.
• Have the courage to step out of your comfort zone
• Love
• Compassion
• Awareness – being aware of your surroundings
• Courage – to do things you haven’t done before
• Vulnerability
• Integrity – making you whole
• Following your intuition – a big skill to finding more confidence

Connecting with the artist

Website:  arianeleanzaheinz.com 7 keys to build a strong foundation for your voice and brand: arianeleanzaheinz.com/20

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Bio of the artist

She has a Marketing Degree, she went to drama school in London, Melbourne Australia. She went to the Footsbarn Theatre, France. She worked as an international corporate entertainer as an improvisor/ clown/ stilt walker and has also been a clown in hospitals. She is also a yoga teacher and birth educator. She now lives in Switzerland and works online as a Live Video Coach.

What she shares on this episode

We are by virtue of being human fearful about being left out of the tribe. We are afraid that if we are truly ourselves we might not be accepted. The key to overcoming this fear is to refocus your mind. When you have an intellectual understanding of what fear is you can witness it rather than react to it and every time you do it your conscious awareness of it increases. It never goes away but you are able to process it better. You need to find practices that build your consciousness rather than self-consciousness. The more you can develop a sense of not being only yourself you realise that you are a part of something greater and really acknowledge your spirit that is driving you to express your art. Yoga and meditation, gets you in touch with the greater force in you. It releases yourself from being the one responsible for delivering something. It’s a different way of being on stage and you start to become real. The audience wants your eyes, your honesty and you being true to whatever is going on for you at the moment. The more you get to know yourself, the more you can be yourself and that is what the audience wants. It boils down to overcoming the fear of not being good enough and when you are not true to yourself people can sense it.  

In this episode of the Creator Mindset Podcast

• How to be on stage and be live on camera?
• How she became a live coach.
• The ground elements of going live both on stage and online.
• Ways to be more confident on stage and overcome self-consciousness.
• Does self- work really allow you to be yourself on stage?
• Relating to your public.
• Michelle’s current projects.

Key Takeaways

• Be centred before you perform, be present.
• Shut down all the little voices that are telling you that you are not good enough.
• Warm up your body if you’re doing a physical performance.
• Warm up your voice.
• Breath, body and voice – three pillars of your pre-show preparation to manage fear.
• Don’t hide behind a mask of what you think your audience wants to see – give them you.
• Practice – nothing can takeaway from the importance of taking action.
• There is no such thing as failure, just experience.
• Have people that you trust, and love give you feedback.
• There is no better way to learn what works on stage than to be on stage.

 

Connecting with the artist

Website : http://michelleseatonwitte.com/

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Mélanie René is a singer songwriter of Mauritian origin, she wrote a song with such heart “Time to Shine”, that she got selected to represent Switzerland for the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2015. She loved the interviews, concerts & events adventure connected with the Contest, and now it’s time to move forward with the release of her single and EP in 2018. Her sound is a mix between the Pop world and the Electro vibes, with a live Rock sound that brings a little edge to the mix. Her unique twist on the Pop sound is enhanced with her soulful and powerful vocals. Always writing and composing, she is working on her debut EP in between London & Switzerland.  

In this episode of the Creator Mindset Podcast

This is a singing on air episode with Mélanie. She sings a song and Ariane guides her through some vocal and breathing exercises with the goal of reducing the amount of air that comes through the vocal folds and gives it a tighter sound.  

Key Takeaways

• We ideally don’t need as much air as we normally use while singing – you need to train your body to be ok with that.
• The consonants are the percussion and the vowels are the water and music – with straight percussion the vowels sound better.

 

Connecting with the artist

http://melanierene.eu Website: www.arianeleanzaheinz.com/22

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Nayanna Holley is an L.A. based Singer-Songwriter and Vocal/Performance Coach. She has served as a backing singer on American Idol and The Voice. Major tours have included Selena Gomez, Sheryl Crow, Robin Thicke, Allen Stone Johnny Hallyday and Robbie Williams. Her YouTube Channel, “The Practice Room”, provides insider tips on singing, auditioning, music business, and health and wellness for the working musician. Nayanna earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Studies from Western Michigan University

What she shares on this episode

I must say that Nayanna has quite an interesting definition of success. She says success to her is the freedom of being able to choose what you do with your time. We live in a time where you are assessed based on your result. Your product. It takes a lot to get to a place where your results are able to speak for themselves, but you’ve got to do it in order to grow. As singers we usually tend to give our stuff away for practically nothing at all. It doesn’t have to be this way. Money is important, even if the focus is on the music and art. That’s just the way the world works. And It’s easy to be taken advantage of in the business. To avoid this from happening be more intentional when talking about money. Its uncomfortable but do it anyway. Look out for yourself. “Starving artist” is cliched and cute, but it doesn’t have to be that way. You never get taught the nuances of the business aspect of music when you are in school. You learn by asking people, doing research, experience and practice. Learn how to negotiate in the business. Write down the conversation if you know its going to be difficult. You need to look after yourself in order to be able to perform effectively.  

In this episode of the creator mindset podcast

• Nayanna’s take on the music business.
• How to break that wall of discomfort when it comes to talking about money.
• Current projects she’s working on.

Key takeaways

• Networking – people have to know who you are and what you can do.
• Use social media as a networking tool.
• Don’t allow yourself to be taken advantage of.
• Talk about money.
• Ask questions.
• Have a sense of power and confidence within you.
• Have goals for yourself. Having a clear vision helps as you are trying to narrow in your focus of the business sense.
• Successful people do not procrastinate. Set at least three business goals every day.
• Be intentional about business side of things.
• They key to be a working artist is to commit

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Connecting with the artist

YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/c/ThePracticeRoom Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NayannaHolley Instagram: http://instagram.com/nayanna Episode on how she became a backing vocalist: www.arianeleanzaheinz.com/5

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Bio of the artist

Ariane loves working with people and empowering them. She believes in integrity, gratitude and connection. She came from a simple family in Geneva Switzerland and made her way to be a teacher at the Music Conservatory in Geneva at age 24. In the year 2000, she took a few suitcases, her savings, quit her job and moved to New York City to study with William Riley, known for his work with Céline Dion. She then opened her vocal practice studio in New York City, worked with recording artists, organized concerts and guided young artists in their careers, she became a booker, a manager and a coach. She is an expert on voice and loves performances. The process of creating is her passion; creating a song, a performance, a concert. On November 17th, 2017 she was the speaker vocal coach for TEDx Zürich, a very successful event. She currently works for CNN Money Switzerland preparing the voice of an anchor to be ready for their launch end of January 2018. In the last few years, she has had the honour of accompanying beautiful artists like Mélanie René, Mané, Bastian Baker, Scott Irribarra, Al Pride, Arika Kane and many more for a moment on their path. Currently she works with artists, speakers and entrepreneurs online and offline in her vocal practice in Zürich.  

What she shares on this episode

“Acknowledging the good you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance” -Eckhart Tolle There is one feeling that changes everything like magic, Gratitude. What are you grateful for today? Is it the house you live in? A supportive family? The sunshine? It could be anything. Gratitude is not proportional to the things that we own or which strata of society we belong to, gratitude is a choice. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ― Melody Beattie For starters, you could make a gratitude list. Put down all the things that you are grateful for. Ariane is grateful for her new house, her daughters, her supportive husband, all her clients and students, music, life, snow and Christmas coming up. When you choose to have gratitude you will manifest so much more than what you’ve wanted in your life than ever before. You’ll realise that every day is a unique and you can create it as poorly or as beautifully as you want. So be a child and discover it with new eyes. “This is a wonderful day and I’ve never seen this one before.”  – Maya Angelou. What are you amazed about? Is it the people that you meet, the smile of a child, a song on the radio, or something that the radio announcer said that you connected with? What makes your heart light? For Ariane it is Making music and enabling people to make beautiful music. Ask yourself, how you can add value in another’s life today through your gift? “Even though you have a small heart it can hold a relatively large amount of gratitude” – Piglet, Winnie the Pooh.

 In this episode of the Creator Mindset Podcast

• Ariane’s gratitude list

Key Takeaways

• Acknowledge all the good in your life and be grateful.
• Don’t loose the wonder of life. Be amazed and it will change your life.

Connecting with the artist

Website: arianeleanzaheinz.com 7 keys to build a strong foundation for your voice and brand : www.arianeleanzaheinz.com/20

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Born in Switzerland, sultry and fiery pop songstress Mané weaves songs of love, loss, strength and self- empowerment with a mysterious edge and vulnerability. After putting out her single “All I Need” in January 2017, Mané is now releasing her first EP “Before The Storm.” With this 5 track CD produced by SashaF in London, and Yaacov Salah and Meïr Salah from Meya Music (Slimane, Marina Kaye) in Paris, Mané takes us on a journey with a pop sound influenced by artists like Sia, Demi Lovato or Marina Kaye. In 2017, Mané went on a European tour with shows in cities such as Liverpool, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris.

What she shares on this episode

What is your message as an artist? What do you want to convey through your music? Why do you want to put your music out there? What is the sound that resonates with yours the most? What kind of image do you have for your persona as an artist? These are some of the questions you should ask yourself before venturing out into understanding the process of creating and producing your EP. The key to answering the above questions is knowing yourself and embracing who you are. The more you know yourself, you live as authentically as possible and you know what matters to you and what doesn’t. After you have done this self- work, match it with your image. This will allow you to trust your creativity and your image. On this episode Mané talks about the process and organization to produce an EP, where she started, how much time she took and the steps to come up with the final product.

In this episode of the Creator Mindset Podcast

• Making of her EP.
• How long it took to have her songs produced.
• Her song writing process.
• Influences on her image as an artist.
• How she was able to choose all these elements (example, the blue coloured theme) that were a part of her vision, and how she was able to fine tune it to match her music?
• Constructing concerts.

Takeaways:

• What is your message as an artist?
• Why you want to put this EP out?
• Start writing songs.
• Develop yourself as an artist: Song writing lessons, learning an instrument, theory and harmony lessons.
• Find the right people to work with: someone who can arrange and produce your songs.
• Put together a mix of all the songs out there that resonates with your sounds the best.
• Be honest about what you like and dislike with your producers.

Connecting with the artist:

Website:  http://mane-music.com/ Instagram:  http://instagram.com/manemusic_ YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf2m_MG47rNOuuENMBWvADQ Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/manemusicofficial/ Before the Storm (EP): Itunes : http://tinyurl.com/y7tbfjl9 Spotify :http://tinyurl.com/y9bvcqe8

Download Bio of the artist: Anne Issermann is a French Singer and Actress living in Paris, Starting her career. She is now preparing to play concerts with her guitar player. What she shares on this episode: We often find ourselves in situations where we are stuck and unable to move forward. This happens when we have things that are unanswered. It is a struggle to organize our thoughts and be productive. We stay in this indecisive stage for too long, then end up doing nothing. The key is to reflect and feel the things that make you uncomfortable but not overwhelming and do them. Allow yourself to step out of that comfort zone and explore new possibilities that add value to your art. On this coaching session with Anne Issermann, Ariane answers questions that most new artists resonate with. In this episode of the creator mindset podcast:

• How to pick up from where you stopped and be consistent
• Key elements to consider when planning a concert
• Organizing your image on the internet if you have multiple facets as an artist.
• Making a self- presentation video that represents who you are for life.

Key takeaways:

• Put your attention on things that are at the top of your priority.
• Give yourself deadlines and work towards them
• When incorporating an instrument to your singing focus on one song at a time.
• As an artist your goal is to serve your audience
• Your set list has to build a bridge between you and your audience
• When creating your set list, it is important to understand these three things

1. Where I want to take my audience in terms of emotion.
2. How I want to feel at the end of a concert.
3. How I want my audience to feel at the end of a concert.

• Consider what facets of you, you would like to showcase to the world.

How to connect with the guest: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anne.issermann