Leading up to March 2020, Saskatchewan Artist Justin LaBrash was full steam ahead on his goals, and productivity.

He had gotten himself booked into a few new and bigger festivals than he had ever played before, negotiated a couple of different endorsement/sponsorship deals and summer 2020 was looking spectacular on the books.

Then everything changed, but one thing that remained the same was Justin's mindset and resolve to finding solutions instead of focusing on roadblocks. 

He quickly reset, refocused his goals for the new climate and wound up organizing and playing 13 Drive-in shows across his home province here in Canada.  

During this time he also produced an acoustic album from his own home that he released digitally and also put together the most spectacular music video to his newest single - "Miles Ago". Oh and I forgot to mention that he started up his farming operations again which had been playing second fiddle to his music career pre covid.

There is no stopping this guy, he's a solution finder and an entrepreneur at heart that makes him an incredible musician and farmer in today's climate.

Check him out online: www.labrash.net

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It’s no longer just about the music!

It hasn’t been for awhile, COVID aside.

COVID has just made it blatantly clear that live performance alone has been the business model that many of us relied on for so long never thinking about the possibility that all our venues could be shut down.

For as long as I can remember this had been my business model.

Lucky for me I saw before COVID that even if that is your model, as you get older in this industry it’s no longer sustainable. Playing 6 nights a week, long haul 5 hours gigs are great for the pocket book, but terrible for your body, mind and life balance eventually. Ask anyone who has done that gig long term as I did.

So...what is the answer then? If we can no longer rely on live performance to bring the bulk of the money.

If you are lucky enough to get your single on satellite radio you will enjoy a nice Sound exchange royalty check as many have this past few years. 

But what if that dries up? What then?

There is only one answer and that is “Multiple Streams of Diversified Income.”

So what does that mean for you personally? 

And how do you move to that model if you've been using the old model for so long now?

Also if you’re just starting out, build your foundational business blocks now, it's SO worth it. 

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Can you imagine if we all followed through with everything we said we were going to!?! 

Well we CAN!!! 

Step 1.  Clean up your unfinished physical business

Step 2. Clean up your unfinished mental business

Step 3. Make a promise to approach things differently from here on out.

Be impeccable with your words!

Be intentional about the promises you make to yourself and others.

Keep the promises that you make to yourself and others.

You'll be amazed at how this life change will move you towards success :)

Join my amazing community of musicians today!

http://facebook.com/groups/meant4music

Having a growth mindset is much more than just thinking positive.

It's becoming aware of many different facets of your personality, patterning and belief systems.

One of the techniques that has been incredibly helpful to the people that I have coached is the ability to assess whether they are being more reactionary rather than responsive in situations.

Changing this one thing, becoming really aware of whether you are reacting or responding in the moment has helped many people change their results in life as well as improve their personal relationships.

Join my amazing facebook community for more valuable information like this.

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As a full-time Musician, and now coach to Musicians I was constantly waiting for that one big break! The one thing that would turn it all around and I’d be cruising down easystreet. The money would be rolling in and I wouldn’t have to worry about anything anymore!

Wrong! No matter how hard I worked or how great my songs were that never happened. I waited for the BIG connection to connect me. I worked and worked and worked and yet under the surface I don’t think I ever learned how to believe that I was that miracle I’d been waiting for all along. Once that happened everything changed. I first learned to hack my own brain during my daily driving routines which took up hours of my day in between my own events and my kids activities. 

The biggest reason that I became a coach for other Musicians is that many of us still don’t know that the big kahuna we’ve been waiting for is actually us!

In this episode, I talk about how I took control of my own thoughts and self-talk and continue to on a daily basis

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I have noticed that so many in the music industry are losing their passion and fight on how to survive and I wanted to create something to help them do that. So today I’m going to go in much more detail and tell you about the online community I’ve created and am in the process of building and why I think it’s so vital for us all to belong to communities like this and really step up and get involved in them. 

Community has been decimated by coronavirus, physical community, so online community is where it has to be for us all right now and beyond. Think of the opportunities to connect with people from all over the world.

I created the Meant4Music Community on FB. I would like to address the FB haters, I’m with you, I totally understand the irresponsible ways that FB is used and how addicting, manipulating it can be. That is why I decided if I was going to create something new on the platform it was going to be for the better of the community. I have been a part and continue to be a part of many communities of FB that have helped me move forward in many ways, that’s why I know it works and can work if you step up and become an active part of it.

I currently have a number of members in my community that I met in other FB Communities for music, who I have hired and collaborated with and continue to work with who are doing excellent work and excellent projects. 

Join the Meant4Music Community Today
http://facebook.com/groups/meant4music

If you’re currently setting goals or have previously set goals, make sure to add this one to the list.

In this episode I share the "Awesome Unexpected Goal" with you that I ask everyone I work with to consider.

I find that this mentally opens you up to possibilities, subconsciously so that when unexpected opportunities present themselves you are more likely to be courageous enough to accept them, even if they aren’t part of plan. If you are holding on SO very tight to achieving only the goals that you have set, that can actually create a fixed mentality. A kind of desperation and mindset stuck in lack and limitation that is hidden in your very well intentioned goals.

Plans and goals are made to be changed and flexible. The best part about making a plan is that it gets you working on something that is going in the general direction of your vision.

As we’ve all seen this year, everyone’s life plans and music and career plans changed in an instant! We all had to be flexible, courageous try new things, let go of goals we had set and worked hard towards already. So covid gave us all the quick MBA in perseverance, flexibility and courage that’s for sure.

So let me ask you this, when you last set your goals did you leave room for the unexpected and awesome to happen?

It's time to open yourself to the possibilities that you haven't even thought about yet and they are so sweet!

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Creativity, Self-Worth, Self-Love are all things, yet only few of the things that suffer when we live in a world where we are compelled to constantly compare ourselves to others.
Use this podcast to create a safe place for yourself to face the realities of how comparison is affecting you.
I give actionable steps to take to gain fully self-supported awareness and start to implement change, so you no longer have to suffer the outcomes of be bomb-barded by comparison to everyone's news feed.

In this podcast you will discover

Your social habits.

How to replace them with healthier ones.

How you feel about it.

Who you are comparing yourself to.

How to structure your social media usage time in a way that makes sense and is not damaging to your person.

And that everyone is feeling like this at times. It's okay to start taking back your power.

http://musiclifecoach.joannejanzen.com/ep88

Doug Folkins is a Songwriter/Artist in that order. He runs a sustainable and successful music business, writing songs that have been cut over 100 times by other artists.

He also regularly releases his own music as an artist, both activities supporting each other to provide multiple income streams to his business, just part of his secret to success.

In this interview he gives a number of tips on how he has gotten so far in his career, and as he works daily to hit new goals and new milestones he continues his journey by challenging himself in so many ways.

He touches on so many valuable tips in this interview:

Including

* Mentoring & Having a Mentor.
* Being a Legitimate Business.
* Taxation - why you need to get going on it.
* Perception - he has such a great story about perception, you won't want to miss it.
* The huge importance of tracking and measuring in very detailed ways.
* The important of doing one thing daily on your music business.
* Finding a community who do what you want to be doing well.

Find out more about Doug at the links below:
http://dougfolkins.com
http://instagram.com/folkinsdoug

Spotify: Slaying It

Now if you’re like me, I don’t really enjoy “networking”. I find it a bit forced and uncomfortable so I’ve used both these techniques because this is something that I struggled with, in fact in the early days of my trying to be in the music business I would get great anxiety over going to industry events that were designed for networking.

I don’t consider myself extroverted at all, I tend to fade into the crowd and not want to be seen unless I”m on stage that’s a whole different story. I love being on stage.

Don’t feel bad if that describes how you feel, many artists actually feel that way, not all, but many do. So we need some ways to get better at this because you do need to create connections in this business.

Many opportunities in the Music business are about who you know or are connected to.

In this episode I’m going to give you 2 of my most effective techniques that I use and I have helped others use to widen their networks, increase their connections both online and offline.

Out of the gate the biggest piece of advice I can give is for live events, both industry and social, also when you’re playing a gig and you are socializing with a crowd big or small. 

1. Turning Small Talk into a Connection

2. Become a Connector

I have recently gone deeper into these in my monthly program.If you're interested in checking out my monthly coaching program, here is the link.

http://musiclifecoach.joannejanzen.com/mlmonthly