How To Look At Your Love For Singing Through The Lens of Career - Living A Vocal Life Episode #17

How a short 10-minute talk by Elizabeth Gilbert finally clarified my troubled relationship with music and the music business and why what I learned might be helpful to you too.
I wish I’d known how to separate and protect my love for music from the pressures of a music career. I knew it was essential to develop a strong sense of self apart from what the outside world thought of me, the music we made, how many gigs we had, or how our records were selling. But it wasn’t easy.
I mistakenly thought - if you’re a true artist, people will discover and follow your creative journey and support you. But music is an emotional commodity. When people listen to music that makes them feel a certain way, they want more of the same thing. If you don’t give it to them, they’ll find someone who will. And who can blame them? I do that too!
That tension between the music you make and what the world wants to hear is what you live with when your vocation becomes your career.
So, if you want your vocation to support you financially, it’s critical to learn how to dance with that tension so it won’t destroy the thing you love to do the most.
So how do you do that? Listen to this episode to find out more.
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