Live AMA with Khara Wolf
Crushing Classical
Ask Me Anything! This live zoom event with two musical entrepreneurs took place on April 11, 2024. We discussed websites, getting STARTED, musical income streams, pricing strategies and money mindset. Khara Wolf is at Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by . You can join my email list so you never miss an episode! I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams. I'm your host, I love you all....
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Happiest Musician Minisode: What if you don't NEED the money?
Crushing Classical
I've had conversations in the past two weeks with no fewer than four people who claim a good reason for undercharging, or avoiding price increases, or even declining to look at the money at all in their creative lives! And I celebrate you if you are in that fortunate position! If you aren't in a space of urgency around money, that's wonderful. But it DOESN'T mean you shouldn't think about it. Here's why! Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by . You can...
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Ashley Danyew: Musician and Company
Crushing Classical
Enrollment is open NOW for my , a three month program that helps musicians to uncap their income and thrive in their creative careers! I'd love to help you to create income and authority for yourself. Ashley Danyew, Ph.D. is a musician, educator, writer, and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Editor of Musician & Co., equipping classical musicians with the tools and education they need to be small business owners. A graduate of the University of Georgia and the Eastman School of Music, Ashley has over 10 years of experience running an online business and 15+ years of...
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Looking Forward: Work Life Balance 5
Crushing Classical
Thanks for sticking with me through this 5 day challenge! Today, we recapped a bit about the three pillars of Time, Money, and Joy that are available for us to adjust all the time, within our portfolio careers. I hope you've been able to take a little bit of agency around these pillars this week! Here’s my question - NOW WHAT? What are you going to do with the time you’ve created, the income you’ve improved, the space you’ve opened up by saying NO? What is the project you really want to see in the world? Is it an artistic project? An educational one? Is there a new income stream you...
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About JOY: Work Life Balance 4
Crushing Classical
I'm sharing my live challenge with you this week! Listen along to snippets of our daily live sessions: Seeking Work Life Balance for the Working Living Musician! Today we talked about JOY. What are the things you love the most to do or experience, and how can you tweak your portfolio to do MORE of the things you love and FEWER of the things you don't? If you'd like to join us in the room for the rest of the week, or enjoy the full replays, register for free!
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About TIME: Work Life Balance 3
Crushing Classical
I'm sharing my live challenge with you this week! Listen along to snippets of our daily live sessions: Seeking Work Life Balance for the Working Living Musician! Today we talked about TIME. How every YES has a NO in it, how to prioritize YOURSELF, how to take control of your time so you can do what YOU want. If you'd like to join us in the room for the rest of the week, or enjoy the full replays, register for free! And if anything in these conversations sparks you, and let's talk about what's coming up!
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About the MONEY: Work Life Balance 2
Crushing Classical
I'm sharing my live challenge with you this week! Listen along to snippets of our daily live sessions: Seeking Work Life Balance for the Working Living Musician! Today we talked about the money. How to get clear on the outflows, how to stop playing games with the money - and how to optimize your income portfolio to bring you what you want! If you'd like to join us in the room for the rest of the week, or enjoy the full replays, register for free! And if anything in these conversations sparks you, and let's talk about what's coming up!
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Why it's so HARD - Work Life Balance 1
Crushing Classical
I'm sharing my live challenge with you this week! Listen along to snippets of our daily live sessions: Seeking Work Life Balance for the Working Living Musician! Today we talked about how hard it can be for us, as musicians, to make our livings and how we all do a million things both artistic and non-. The OPPORTUNITY I see here is that because we are doing so many things, because all of those things are within our power to start and stop, we can CHOOSE to optimize our portfolio to create the life we want, with our own mix of creativity, artistry, financial ease, rest... If you'd like...
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Brendan Slocumb: From musician to best-selling author!
Crushing Classical
I'm offering a FREE Five Day Challenge starting March 25. . We'll meet on zoom (or you'll enjoy the replay) every day to look at how you could intentionally rebalance your pillars of MONEY, TIME, and JOY and thrive in your creative career! Today you'll hear my interview with Brendan Slocumb, whose life was changed by the books he wrote during the pandemic! I read the Violin Conspiracy a year or so ago, on the recommendation of a non-musical friend. When your thriller, based in the world of classical music, is picked up and enjoyed by people outside of our insular little world,...
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Hitting the CAP
Crushing Classical
I love performing, but when it comes in a surge like it has this week, it reminds me that the cap exists. This is beyond the maximum amount of time I can spend playing in orchestras. But what if I need more money than this? Or need to have a life that works for ME? I'm offering a FREE Five Day Challenge starting March 25. . We'll meet on zoom (or you'll enjoy the replay) every day to look at how you could intentionally rebalance your pillars of MONEY, TIME, and JOY and thrive in your creative career! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by . You...
info_outlineThis week on the podcast, you’ll hear Kirin McElwain, cellist, performer, and coordination enthusiast. You'll hear the story of a musician who has the courage to try new things, over and over, and the courage to STOP the things that aren’t working for her.
Kirin McElwain is a performer-composer on cello and voice and—more recently— laptop and modular synthesizer. Equally at home in concert halls, recording studios, and in DIY venues, Kirin has contributed sounds to numerous film and television scores, contemporary dance performances, mixed media installations, and traditional classical and contemporary classical performances.
In her own sound practice, she explores the tension between form and chaos, western classical harmony and noise, and ideas of “goodness” and “correctness” in musical style.
Currently she is an Alexander Technique practitioner who works with musicians both one on one and through her digital membership, Feel Better Sound Better.
What I admire so much about Kirin is the RELENTLESSNESS with which she approaches her creative and business life. She's not afraid to look at what is and isn't working, she's not afraid to ask herself what she needs and what she wants, and she's not afraid to make it happen. We could all take inspiration from this!
My takeaways from Kirin's conversation:
- When you find something that works for you, lean into it
- Be flexible in how people want to work with you. If you can make it easy, they'll come!
- Always be aware of what you want to do and what you don't want to do
- The scarcity mentality of just being grateful for what you have is NOT moving you forward
- Maintain your standards for yourself
- Imagine the best possible outcome - and figure out how to handle all of that success in advance
- Trust yourself to know what you need and figure out how to get it
What did YOU hear?
Find out more about Kirin at her website!
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