PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER December 31, 2025 Hey there, Profitable Musician! Happy almost new year. For our final newsletter of the year, I thought I'd highlight our top podcast episodes of the year based on number of listens (so basically voted by what the listeners wanted to learn about). You can click right through to listen from this email, so if you missed these, queue 'em up and enjoy! In this issue 🥽Most Listened-To Podcast Episodes of 2025 💗Got Love Songs For Our Valentines...
4 days ago • 1 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION December 19, 202 Happy FEM Friday! Welcome to our last FEM Friday newsletter of 2025. I want to start this week somewhere a little more personal than usual. Back in 2014, when I was just getting the Women of Substance podcast off the ground, I asked my then eleven year old daughter Julia if she wanted to make a little extra money creating promo images for artists. She said yes, mostly because eleven year olds are very open to the idea of getting paid...
16 days ago • 6 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER December 17, 2025 Hey there, Profitable Musician! I want to start out by thanking you, our readers, for consistently opening our newsletter each week. We have an open rate WAY above industry standards - usually over 50%. When writing these newsletters, I always try to put myself in your shoes and consider what topics will benefit you and your music career. The crazy thing about writing a weekly newsletter is that oftentimes, the topics you think are going...
18 days ago • 2 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION December 12, 2025 Happy FEM Friday! Last Friday I shared my top 5 Podcast episodes I recorded with Tara Brueske. Those were so fun and impactful based on your feedback, we'll be continuing the collab in 2026. If you missed that Top 5, here's the roundup. But the other thing I'll be doing in 2026 is more solo episodes. Based on your feedback, especially on episodes #1 and #4 below, you find my personal take on challenges women face pairing music with...
23 days ago • 3 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER December 10, 2025 Hey there, Profitable Musician! My family is crazy about books! My husband is an English Professor after all. And my daughter graduated with a degree in English. So, as you can imagine they've read a lot of books. And they definitely have their opinions about what makes a book good...which is why I was pretty intimidated to write a book myself. But I did write one, and it was one of the most rewarding and all-consuming projects I've ever...
25 days ago • 4 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION December 5, 2025 Happy FEM Friday! This year, I started recording podcast episodes with my friend and music business colleague Tara Brueske (Tara B). After I few recordings together, it was clear to me that these convos would be some of the best episodes of the year - and my personal favorites. Tara is the real deal: 30+ years of booking and performing, vocal and piano teacher, author, podcaster, previous coach in my community, church musician, and now...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER December 3, 2025 Hey there, Profitable Musician! We survived Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Thanks to all of you who snapped up our deals this year. Now we're back to our regularly scheduled weekly newsletters. I'm kicking off a December "Best Of" Series with a roundup of useful tools and resources for musicians from our 2025 Podcast Guests. In this issue 🛠️Best Of: Tools & Resources For Musicians 🎧What To Do When Injury Or Illness Threatens Your Music...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION November 21, 2025 Happy FEM Friday! I can still picture it like it was yesterday. My daughter was 4 years old, sitting on the living room floor working on a giant Elmo puzzle, and I was at my little desk in the middle of the common living space at my computer. I was between tours, catching my breath, and thinking about all the incredible women I’d met on the road. Songwriters pouring their hearts into music that no one outside of their limited local...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER November 19, 2025 Hey there, Profitable Musician! During a recent podcast interview, I talked with a musician who said something surprising that really stuck with me. She told me that everything changed the day she stopped saying she “does music” and started calling herself a “musician.” It was surprising because she is a very accomplished artist who has a thriving solo career and is in a worldwide-touring band. Yet, she was still thinking of herself as a...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
