My social landscape does not look the way I expected it to a few years ago. Some of that comes on the heels of religious difference or political disagreement. And as sad as that stuff can be, it’s also a bit cliche and predictable. If I’m being honest, what’s been harder, is recognizing that the … Read More
When I first started playing music professionally, it wasn’t the beginning of a dream. It wasn’t the culmination of a wish from my youth, not really. I thought of playing music. I thought it would be cool. But it’s probably most true to say about that moment, the moment in which I decided to see … Read More
So I’ve been really enjoying this new feature of the podcast, taking a question from my Monday q&a sessions at Instagram, and digging just a tad deeper into one of those questions, specifically, those questions when you seem to resonate with those questions and my response. This past week, I got a question that I’ve … Read More
You’ve probably had the bad experience that I had recently, that I’m about to tell you a story about, in which when your mind is already focused on something. You’re already thinking about something regularly, and you start noticing it or connections to it everywhere. That happened the other night while I was reading a … Read More
I want to spend a few moments dissecting and maybe even dismantling this phrase. This idea that comes up in coaching conversations and has come up for a long, long time. In my 20-plus years in pastoral ministry as an artist and is the phrase work-life balance. I’ve got a lot of issues with this. … Read More
Mike Adele is a very talented singer, songwriter, and producer from Canada. And full disclosure a dear friend of mine, he’s also which is a gift to me, a client. He’s someone I’ve had the privilege of coaching over the last couple of years. And as I am with many of my clients, I’m really … Read More
Last week, I introduced a new element to the podcast; namely, bringing part of my Instagram Q&A sessions to this space and providing a longer answer to some of the deeper or, in my opinion, more pressing questions. On Monday, during the Q&A, this question really stuck out to me: “How do we manage over-pouring … Read More
My son and I recently went to see the most recent Marvel release. It’s a movie about Dr. Strange. He’s one of the primary characters in the Marvel Universe. And he is, according to his title, a master of the Mystic Arts, which begs a little bit of a question about what mystic is. See … Read More
I A few episodes ago, I shared a short story about being what I called misnamed at an event. The organizer called me a singer/songwriter when I was there to speak. Now, part of that setup for me emotionally was I was actually in the process of reinventing. I had been playing music for many, … Read More
Reinvention is one of the hallmarks of a long-term career as an artist. The ability and the desire, the capacity to take something that used to work a certain way during a certain season and do something new, something different with that same material with that same pattern with those same skills. One of the … Read More
