PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION November 14, 2025 Happy FEM Music Friday! Here’s a little secret most musicians don’t realize about time management: It’s not really about managing time at all. It’s about managing decisions. Every day you make hundreds of choices before you even sit down to work on music stuff. What to wear, what to make for breakfast, how to juggle work, family, errands, bills, and somewhere in there, your music. By the time you sit down to write, practice, or...

PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER November 12, 2025 Hey there, Profitable Musician! If your holiday calendar looks anything like mine, it probably makes you both smile and sigh at the same time. Between school concerts, church services, office parties, community events, extra rehearsals, family traditions, and the gigs that suddenly land on every day of the week (not just the weekends), December can feel like a joyful blur. You love it. You want to be present for it. But deep down you...

PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION November 7, 2025 Happy FEM Music Friday! When my daughter was four, I tried to teach her piano. From the very beginning, it was a battle. She had this fierce little streak of perfectionism, and if she couldn’t play a song exactly right, she didn’t want to play it at all. Getting her to practice was harder than convincing our cat Nutmeg to take a bath. The moment something sounded off, she’d slam her tiny hands down on the keys and declare that she was...