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Schubert vs. Rossini: A Cautionary Tale

How Suffering Became the Standard—and Why It’s Time to Teach Structural Success Instead
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The Truth About Church Work for Professional Classical Singers
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Curriculum Will Never Set You Free
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The Referral List I Wish School Had Given You
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The Cost of Institutional “Starving Artist” Programming on Real Careers
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The Trauma Spin Cycle: Schubert, Sleeping Beauty, and the Coaching Industry’s Favorite Spell
From Schubert’s "Gretchen am Spinnrade" to Aurora’s Curse: Why Coaching’s Favorite Lines Trap You in a Loop You Can’t Exit
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"You're Not Working": The Lie Used to Control Artists, Builders, and Innovators
A manifesto for anyone whose economic power was framed as delusion by the people it threatened—yet they’re building a better world anyway.
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Structure // Hype: Why Most Music Business Workshops Won’t Save You—And What Might
🎛️ “Financial Freedom” always comes with a funnel. But what happens when the music staff spells SCALE and FUNNEL instead of Do Re ME? Or when your…
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The Erl King’s Da Capo: Structure Without Seduction—and Systems That Hold
Why an Earlier Setting of Goethe’s Poem Reveals the Key to Structural Sanity—in Music, in Business, and in the Way We Weather the Unknown
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The Erl King Returns: When Coaching Becomes the New Pipeline for Artists
A Sequel to Erl King Economics — From BM Degrees to DM Sales Pitches: How One Performance Economy Feeds Another
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Not ONE Referral
When Visibility Becomes Currency, Silence Becomes Complicity
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The Referral List I Wish School Had Given You
Mentors who meet the standard most don’t even know exists.
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Curriculum Will Never Set You Free
Real income power can’t be graded, credentialed, or contained.
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Erl King Economics: When Your Voice Becomes the Price of Validation
How artists were trained to think of money like it's a dance with the Erl King.
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Passaggio Economics
Why You Can’t Earn in a Higher Range with Lower-Range Behavior
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The Cost of Institutional “Starving Artist” Programming on Real Careers
What conservatories, coaches, and cultural gatekeepers still don’t understand about financial sustainability
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The Bernoulli Effect for Your Business
A voice-science-based tactic to earn clean cash ASAP from value you’ve already delivered.
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When Your Voice Is Loud — But Your Income Won’t Move
Why smart, driven artists and creatives stay stuck—and what finally shifts it.
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The Trauma Spin Cycle: Schubert, Sleeping Beauty, and the Coaching Industry’s Favorite Spell
From Schubert’s "Gretchen am Spinnrade" to Aurora’s Curse: Why Coaching’s Favorite Lines Trap You in a Loop You Can’t Exit
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Structure // Hype: Why Most Music Business Workshops Won’t Save You—And What Might
🎛️ “Financial Freedom” always comes with a funnel. But what happens when the music staff spells SCALE and FUNNEL instead of Do Re ME? Or when your…
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The Third Party Problem
Why So Many People Expect to Pay Less
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Are You A Self-Actualizing Artist?
And Can Self-Actualization Lead to Higher Earnings?
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Are you an “extra” in your own movie?
Are you doing what YOU really WANT to do?
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New Level, New Devil!
What might be in the way of your next level of growth?
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Are You a Squirrel?
Would a squirrel ever even ask itself that?
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Bike Riding → Singing → Making 💰?
If 🚴 = 🎤🎶 and 🚴 = 💵…
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