Dirty Work: What Nobody Tells Creatives

Dirty Work: What Nobody Tells Creatives

Why a manager, team, assistant, audience or patron might be useless to us until we understand this first.    Brought to you by: https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/ [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/] https://safeandsound.studio/ [https://safeandsound.studio/]    Read the article. [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/blog/dirty-work] Free Artist Training [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/page/artist-mindmap] Coaching + courses [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/]

From Rock Machine to Human Be w/ Uday Benegal

Uday Benegal is the founding vocalist of Indus Creed (formerly Rock Machine), the Bombay band that  that arguably forced the rest of the world to acknowledge the existence of a culture that had always existed inside post-colonial India amidst the crossfire of an East and West not always as hypothetical as portrayed. Rock Music.  Indus Creed navigated a global music industry with no label, no budget, and no precedent, and still managed to land an MTV Video Music Award at a time when public internet did not exist in India, and its passport offered access to a fraction of the countries whose culture flowed freely the other way; a one-way traffic that remains a controversial dynamic in the history of the world's largest democracy. This conversation traces the journey from Bombay bus rides hoping to catch unannounced matinee shows of ‘Woodstock’, to the New York club scene eventually leading to a long creative silence, and Uday’s much awaited solo EP that finally broke it, in his Goa home this May.    Listen to the second half of the episode. [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/page/podcast-taping-backstage]   Resource Links:  Free Artist Training. [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/page/artist-mindmap] Brought to you by the Holistic Musician Academy. [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/]   Connect with Uday:  https://www.instagram.com/udaybenegal/ [https://www.instagram.com/udaybenegal/] https://www.facebook.com/udaybenegal/ [https://www.facebook.com/udaybenegal/]   Connect with T.L. www.findTL.com [http://www.findTL.com]   Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com [http://www.everynowheremusic.com/]

"Limiting Beliefs" — A Limiting Belief?

Most creatives know that beliefs are holding them back. Some can articulate them, analyse them, even replace them with supposedly empowering alternatives. Yet the behaviour often remains unchanged, and the resistance stubbornly intact.    What comes up: * Why "limiting belief" might be the inaccurate terminology  * What self-sabotage is actually trying to do  * The question I used to ask, and the one I ask now * Why knowing the pattern doesn't always break it * The beliefs you never chose   Read the article. [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/blog/artists-and-limiting-beliefs] Free Artist Training [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/page/artist-mindmap] Coaching + courses [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/]   Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com [http://www.everynowheremusic.com/]

Familiarity is not safety

The brain mistakes repetition for safety, comfort for understanding, and endurance for choice. This confusion runs deeper than personal relationships; it shapes entire careers, industries, and the inherited scripts we mistake for our own lives.  What comes up: * Why the decisions that change your life rarely feel safe at the time * Why the brain is a prediction machine, not a happiness machine * Liking things simply because we've seen them before * The known wound vs. the unknown opening * The music industry as an amplified version of everyone's life * The starving artist: when suffering becomes a costume, then an identity * Is this safe, or just recognised? Read the article. [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/blog/the-myth-of-familiarity] Free Artist Training [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/page/artist-mindmap] Coaching + courses [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/]   Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com [http://www.everynowheremusic.com/] Episode Notes / Text : www.tlwrites.com [http://www.tlwrites.com/]

Saying 'No'

Saying no sounds simple. It isn't, and not for the reasons most people think. In this episode I unpack why the word itself was never really the problem, what's actually happening when we can't hold a line, and why the emotional aftermath of a boundary is harder than the boundary itself. Drawn from real situations — a collaboration that needed a hard conversation, a coaching relationship that got uncomfortably accurate, and years of running a business through someone else's framework, this one gets personal. What comes up: * Why setting boundaries is easy and living with them isn't * The two identities in conflict every time you want to say no * How chronic yes becomes a survival strategy — and then a prison * Why managing other people's emotions is costing you more than you think * What congruence actually feels like when you finally get there Read the article. [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/blog/saying-no] Free Artist Training [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/page/artist-mindmap] Coaching + courses [https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/]   Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com [http://www.everynowheremusic.com/] Episode Notes / Text : www.tlwrites.com [http://www.tlwrites.com/]