PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION June 19, 2026 Happy FEM Music Friday! Most musicians have heard some version of “pick a lane.” Pick a niche. Pick a genre. Decide whether you’re an artist, a teacher, a producer, a songwriter, a coach, a worship leader, or a business owner. And yes, there are definitely times when you need to go narrow and deep. You don’t become excellent at something by dabbling forever. At some point, you have to put in the reps and build real skill. But I also think...

PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER June 17, 2026 Hey there, Profitable Musician! A lot of musicians treat their job like the enemy of their music. I get it. When you’re squeezing songwriting, rehearsing, content, booking, recording, and family life into whatever hours are left over, that paycheck can start to feel like the thing standing between you and the artist life you want. But this week’s podcast guest, Aurelie Couble, said something I loved. She used her job as fuel, not an excuse....

Women of Substance didn’t start as a grand business strategy. It started because I wanted to hear more women’s voices while I worked. Back when I was Director of Finance at Opera Pacific, I spent a lot of hours in spreadsheets, budgets, board reports, and all the very glamorous things that come with keeping an opera company financially afloat. This was before Spotify and smartphones, even before iPods, when you couldn’t just pull up almost any song in the world from the little computer in...