PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION April 17, 2026 Happy FEM Music Friday! I was sitting at a round table with a paper plate of that soupy hash brown casserole they always served. You know the kind. It doesnāt look like something you should trustā¦ but somehow itās the best thing on the table. I only came once a month, and even that felt like a luxury back then. It was a mom's group called Mothers of Preschoolers. I went for the childcare, honestly. Ninety minutes where someone else...
3 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 5 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER April 15, 2026 Hey there, Profitable Musician! As founder of Women of Substance Radio, I'm on the receiving end of a LOT of music submissions. And since I have the unique vantage point of reviewing hundreds of new songs each month, I have to tell you about the trends I'm seeing... Thereās more music being created than ever. And with the use of AI, especially AI Recording Artists, a lot of it sounds polished. Even impressive at first listen. But none of...
5 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION April 10, 2026 Happy FEM Music Friday! I want to tell you how last week, my busiest week of the entire year, actually went for me. It was Holy Week. And as a worship Director at a Lutheran Church, it's a lot! I had 7 services to prepare for.17 congregational songs.5 choral pieces I was leading.2 solos. And Iām still doing bookkeeping for the churchā¦ and running this business. So going into the week, I had that thought of: āOkayā¦ something important in...
10 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER April 8, 2026 Hey there, Profitable Musician! I want to say something out loud, because I know this has been sitting in the background for a lot of you. AI is not replacing real music. It canāt. It doesnāt have a life.It hasnāt lived through anything.It doesnāt know what itās like to lose someone, start over, fall apart, rebuild, learn a lesson that only boots-on-the-ground can teach. It canāt write from a human place. It can only imitate. Thatās the...
12 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 3 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION April 3, 2026 Happy FEM Music Friday! We spend a lot of time focused on what to do to grow a music career. Post more. Email your fans. Book shows. Finish your songs. But that only solves half the problem. A to do list tells you where to aim your energy. It doesnāt protect you from where youāre leaking it. And thatās usually the bigger issue... In this issue š„½you donāt need more āļøto-doās, you need this š ļøGot Songs For Mom Or Celebrating Motherhood? š»Add...
17 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER April 1, 2026 Hey there, Profitable Musician! Q2 is here! It may be April Fools Day, but I'm dead serious when I talk about this dangerous trap I see musicians like you fall into again and again. It's the thing standing between you and real progress this quarter, and it probably isn't what you think it is. It's not a lack of talent. It's not a lack of ideas. If anything, you have too many of those. Here's what I see constantly with artists: you've got...
19 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION March 27, 2026 Happy FEM Music Friday! I want to share something that might gently challenge the way youāve been thinking about āgetting aheadā in your music career. So many of us are taught to look up. To chase the people who are further along. To try to get in the room with the biggest names, hoping that proximity will somehow fast-track our progress. I totally tried to do this in my early years. I remember hurling my CD at industry reps as they came...
24 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 6 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER March 25, 2026 Hey there, Profitable Musician! Picture this: you get an email from a music supervisor who is interested in licensing one of your songs for a new show. Exciting, right? But then the stress kicks in. Where are the files she needs like the final master, the backing track and the stems? You start hunting through folders that are all over the place. Maybe you have some files on your desktop, others on Google Drive, some on your phone. You open...
26 days agoĀ ā¢Ā 4 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION March 20, 2026 Happy FEM Music Friday! Have you ever had a collaboration that started out exciting and slowly turned uncomfortable? Most musicians have. At first everything feels right. Someone shares an idea, you start trading voice memos, the song begins to take shape and there's that spark you get when two creative people are actually clicking. It feels like something bigger is happening than what either of you could have pulled off alone. And then...
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