Liz Craig is a professional private music teacher and an in-demand performing artist. Our conversation is about understanding employment rights. Are you an independent contractor or an employee? What does this mean for you when you accept work for your time and talent? Liz shares some important information for all artists, whether you are teaching, performing, or hiring for your company.

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My Music Staff Minute: Your website Call To Action (CTA)

Being creative and flexible in your teaching approach is essential in the private teaching studio. Facilitating adaptive lessons is teaching to the students’ individual learning needs. Special guest, Becca Samson is a board certified Music Therapist and a private voice teacher who specializes in adaptive music lessons. Becca shares fantastic teaching strategies for all teachers working with young musicians.

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My Music Staff Minute: Document Disconnect in your business

Do your voice students TRULY understand the story behind their song? Probably not as much as you would think.🤔 Many of our students struggle with reading skills, and lyrical prose is tricky! (Even our teen and adults can struggle with reading comprehension skills.) Perhaps some time exploring the text of the song could lead to more expressive singing?

This podcast ties in with our recent freebie Friday - LYRIC DISCOVERY download. This simple two-page lyric discovery activity encourages students to dig a little deeper into the meaning of their song.

My Music Staff Minute: Making your business accessible.

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Jeremiah Johnson is an opera singer turned financial expert with a passion for helping musicians make peace with their finances. In episode 76, we are talking about money mindset(for self-employed creatives who just want to make music) and simple strategies for preparing for retirement.

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My Music Staff Minute: Your Business Logo

Social media expert, Karen Michaels returns to the podcast to keep us up to date with fantastic opportunities to promote our teaching studios on social platforms. In this episode, she talks about Google My Business and the updates to the Linkedin platform. Karen also shares inspiration and best practices for keeping our social media accounts up to date.

My Music Staff Minute: Writing your story into your business

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Voice teacher and business strategist, Michelle Markwart Deveaux discuss the different lesson fee structures that voice teachers can offer their ideal clients. Hourly rates, tuition fees, lesson packages or value-priced packaging all have pros and cons. Which fee structure is best for you? Which is best for your students? Michelle (as always) shares information and inspiration to build a rewarding business you love.

My Music Staff Minute: Outstanding Customer Service for Music Teachers.

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The Curse of Knowledge is a sneaky cognitive bias that prevents YOU from being the best teacher you can be. Think you're not cursed? It trips up even the most experienced teacher. It can also cause communication challenges when running your teaching studios. Learn about this evil challenge and simple ways you can lift the curse on this episode of the FULL VOICE Podcast.

My Music Staff Minute: Time-saving strategies for busy teachers.

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Returning guest, Dana Lentini shares her teaching strategies for discovering and exploring the lyrics of a song with young singers. From young beginners who are just learning to read to students starting new languages, Dana has some fantastic teacher take-a-ways to help singers learn and appreciate the text of their songs. Effective practice strategies and expressive singing for the win!

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When do you introduce a young singer to a new language? How do you begin the process? What about that tricky rolled or flipped "r" or blended vowels? Special guest, Tracey Ford loves working with young vocalists and is super passionate about teaching repertoire in new languages to her students. She shares her favorite beginner and intermediate song collections, fantastic resources and how she works new language challenges into her student's vocal warm-ups.

My Music Staff Minute: Using Social Media to promote your Business

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Lip and Tongue trill exercises are favorite go-to exercises for many voice teachers. As fantastic semi-occluded exercises, they have many useful applications. Our FREEBIE FRIDAY download "engages" young singers to explore lip and tongue trills with an outer space theme.

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