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 can’t. It doesn’t have a life.It hasn’t lived through anything.It doesn’t know what it’s like to lose someone, start over, fall apart, rebuild, learn a lesson that only boots-on-the-ground can teach. It can’t write from a human place. It can only imitate. That’s the...
3 days ago • 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 doesn’t protect you from where you’re leaking it. And that’s usually the bigger issue... In this issue 🥽you don’t need more ☑️to-do’s, you need this 🛠️Got Songs For Mom Or Celebrating Motherhood? 📻Add...
8 days ago • 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...
10 days ago • 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 you’ve been thinking about “getting ahead” 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...
15 days ago • 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...
17 days ago • 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...
22 days ago • 4 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER March 18, 2026 Hey there, Profitable Musician! Let me ask you something. How many songs are sitting on your hard drive right now? Not the ones you already released. The other ones. The voice memo you recorded at 11pm because the melody wouldn't leave you alone. The lyrics you came up with on your walk that are half-typed in a Notes app. The demo from two years ago you kept meaning to revisit. The track that was almost there and then just... got buried. Be...
24 days ago • 3 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN: FEM FRIDAY EDITION March 13, 2026 Happy FEM Music Friday! Today, no mincing words, no pleasantries... Sometimes life just kicks the SHOUT out of you. I know I am not the only one feeling it right now. This was a big topic of conversation on our FMA call last week. A lot of people feel disoriented and disillusioned. A little discouraged. Wondering if anything they do actually makes a difference. When the world feels complicated, it is easy to start thinking our small...
29 days ago • 4 min read
PROFITABLE MUSICIAN WEEKLY NEWSLETTER March 11, 2026 Hey there, Profitable Musician! I heard a speaker say something recently that made the whole room laugh. He said, “99.9 percent of the world is already unsubscribed from your fan email list.” As Homer Simpson points out in his oh-so-quotable way, "It's funny! It's funny because it's true." Most of us have been trained to feel protective about our email lists. Every time someone unsubscribes there is that little sting. Did I say something...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read