What’s the right way to look at building a music career? How do you make sure that you create long-term results for yourself?
That’s what we’re going to be looking at in this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast.
Podcast Highlights:
00:26 – Exciting new course (now available)
00:53 – Christopher Sutton’s masterclass introduction
05:05 – Entrepreneurial essentials for musicians
05:29 – A musician is a small business owner
07:35 – A statement that could change your life
10:37 – Adopting a long-term mindset
13:55 – What can you accomplish in 10 years?
16:44 – Episode summary
Transcription:
Hey, it's David Andrew Wiebe.
What you're about to hear is a segment of my course, the Entrepreneurial Essentials for Musicians Masterclass. You can find it at davidandrewwiebe.com/Masterclass.
The price goes up every week, so if you'd like to save a bit of money, head on over there sooner rather than later. It's davidandrewwiebe.com/Masterclass.
Enjoy this segment from the Entrepreneurial Essentials for Musicians Masterclass.
This is Christopher Sutton, director of Musical U, a community dedicated to teaching musicians the inner skills that grant them the confidence they need to improvise, perform, and more. We LOVE what Musical U is up to!
Christopher Sutton: Hello and welcome. We are live. Sorry for the short delay and thank you for your patience, we were fighting some technical gremlins. Technology is incredible when it works and incredibly annoying when it doesn't. Thanks for bearing with us. Sorry to be starting a little bit late. I guarantee it will be worth your while waiting a few minutes. Very welcome. Very warm welcome to you all here today, whether you are a Musical U fan or even a Musical U member, if we have any members give a shout out in the chat box. I'm sure we have a few who have come along. Today we are joined by a very special guest. I am delighted to say we have David Andrew Wiebe, author of The New Music Industry and The Essential Guide to Music Entrepreneurship. David say hello.
David Andrew Wiebe: Hello everybody.
Christopher: David is the man behind The Music Entrepreneur HQ website, which is a fantastic blog and also hosts a podcast, and he is himself a guitarist and songwriter based in Canada, but he's really made a name for himself online with his writing on modern music entrepreneurship and what it means to try and make a living with music in this day and age. I recently grabbed a copy of David's new book, which I highly recommend. It's The Essential Guide to Music Entrepreneurship and I just totally loved the way he talks about this topic of entrepreneurship.
If you've come along today, then I know that that word entrepreneurship didn't totally put you off, which is good, but I know that a lot of people assume a lot of things about it, and so I hope you've come today with an open mind because what I love so much about David's book was that it wasn't kind of the traditional just how to make money or how to make a business kind of entrepreneurship teaching. He really goes into the mindset, and the habits that make for success in life in general, to be honest. It's definitely framed as entrepreneurship, but there is a ton packed in there that's useful for any musician whether you consider yourself an entrepreneur or not.
So I was super excited to have David come and present this masterclass for Musical U members and anyone who's joining us live today, because this is stuff that will help you transform your success in any musical endeavor, I think. In a minute I'm going to hand over to David to share his insights with you, and before we do, I'll just explain the structure of today's call. In a second I'll hand over to David and then at the end of his presentation we're going to do some Q&A. So you should be seeing a chat box on your screen live chat thing, so if you're watching Musical U, I think it'll appear to the right hand side of the video.
