Crushing Classical is a series of interviews with classical musicians who are forging unique paths with their talent, creating their own artistic fulfillment and financial comfort, and finding ways to thrive. I celebrate these brave people who are taking routes outside of traditional orchestral or academic employment! As always, I invite you to listen for your own sparks and breadcrumbs, and use these interviews to find the possibilities that exist in your own life.
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Redefine your vision of success, one episode at a time. The Goal Digger Podcast is a live-workshop-style business and marketing podcast hand-delivering actionable advice through conversations with entrepreneurs that feel like Facetime calls with your friends. Every week, the New York Times best-selling author of "How Are You, Really?" host Jenna Kutcher is redefining what success means and how you can find more joy, ease, and peace in the pursuit of your goals. We’re helping thousands chase ...
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Self-employment author and coach Peri Pakroo chats with guests about working for themselves, whether that's freelancing, running a coffee shop or heading a corporate empire. Peri and rotating co-hosts also interview artists, musicians and other creative workers who share stories about pursuing their projects and careers. We celebrate and illuminate the many sides of self-employed life and business, including related topics like road-tripping, thrift shopping and procrastinating. Any hour can ...
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804: Do These 5 Things NOW to End Your Year Strong
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Is it just me, or does it feel like just yesterday we were setting our goals and dreaming big for what this year could bring… And now, here we are, with just a few months left of 2024?! I can’t believe it! As we head into September, it's the perfect time to reflect, regroup, and make a strong finish. In today’s episode, I want to share with you fiv…
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803: How Many Customers Do You REALLY Need?
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Calling all brick-and mortar business owners! If you want to get more eyes on your business and more people IN your location, this coaching session has your name written all over it! As a young girl, Heather Davis had always loved baking sweet treats, and although she initially took a traditional career path to become a teacher, she continued to de…
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Have you ever struggled with Imposter Syndrome, with Perfectionism, with being bored and stifled as a musician or as a human? You will love hearing from Cory Barger! Cory Barger is the principal bassoonist in the Filarmónica de Boca del Río, and the founder of Practice Happier, a coaching practice dedicated to helping musicians get the most out of …
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802: The Beginner's Playbook for Starting Something New
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Isn’t it funny how things can change in a year? This time last August, we were driving to the beach with our kids and we drove past the Duluth Rowing Club. Fast forward to this summer, and every single week I spend time in a boat with 8 other women of all ages and experience levels. If I’ve learned anything about being a beginner, you learn by doin…
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801: Don’t Make These 2 BIG Mistakes In Your Email Marketing
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Are you making BIG mistakes in your email marketing?! This episode will help you find out… The conversation you’re about to hear today originally aired on the This Is Small Business Podcast, an original podcast by Amazon hosted by Andrea Marquez. I loved getting the opportunity to teach my favorite topic–email lists–to the This Is Small Business co…
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Have you considered adding a group offering to your studio - but weren't sure WHAT or HOW to teach? Have you wished for a more efficient way of helping your students to learn, and a way to take back some of YOUR precious time? I recently gave this talk to a group of music teachers through Muzie.live, and wanted to share it with you. I'd love to hea…
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800: I Never Thought I’d Say THIS 800 Episodes Later
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Welcome to the 800th episode of The Goal Digger Podcast! Over nearly 8 years, I have interviewed hundreds of business owners in all different industries, taught you countless business strategies, and opened my heart to you during pregnancy, loss, moving, and everything in between. We’ve really lived some life together over the years, haven’t we? Af…
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799: Is It Possible To Work Less And Earn More?
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What if I told you you didn’t have to work as hard to dig your biggest goals?! Would you believe me, or think I’m crazy?! My guest today has cracked the code on how to work less and earn more and how YOU can do the same. (Yep, you read that right!) Erika Brown is a Real Estate Investor and Serial Entrepreneur who went from living paycheck to payche…
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Nancy Green: The Evolution of a Portfolio Career
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I have wondered, in my darker days, whether this portfolio career I love is truly sustainable. Whether I can really keep tweaking and evolving all the way until I stop. This interview gave me an inspiring YES! Hailed by Fanfare Magazine as "one of the great cellists of our time", Nancy Green is an internationally recognized recording artist, known …
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798: Behind the Scenes of My (Intentionally) Slow Summer
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When was the last time you intentionally slowed down? I’m not talking about a quick weekend getaway, although that’s important too. I’m talking about slowing down by choice – for a day, a week, a month or even a season. Have you done that recently? Or…. Ever? Breaks are still just as important to our wellbeing as they were when we were kids. The on…
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797: What’s ACTUALLY Working For Email Marketing In 2024
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Let’s face it: times are changing, and email marketing is no different. But how do we know what the heck we should start doing, stop doing, and change how we’re doing it?! Sign up for my FREE email list-building challenge that helps you start, serve, and grow your email list at listbuildchallenge.com! Martha Bitar is the CEO and co-founder of Flode…
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Have you ever felt like your content, your social media sharing, even your practice schedule is the BOSS of you? Consistency is important, and also you are a human being with reasonable human needs. I'd love to hear from you. You can DM me on instagram or email me with your thoughts on this episode or a question I could answer on a future one! Than…
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796: Try These 5 Strategies If You Want Your Email List to Grow FAST
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Over the years, my business has evolved in so many ways. It’s changed with me as I’ve grown, and transformed as my priorities have shifted. But one thing that HASN’T changed, year after year, is growing my email list. Visit http://www.growanemaillist.com to register for my FREE email list building class, where you’ll learn my secret strategy that a…
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795: The Secret to Staying in Alignment As You Evolve and Change
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Summer is in full swing and as we spend less time on our phones and more time IRL, sometimes it can cause us to rethink our goals, or life’s mission, and our impact. If you find yourself realizing that you’re feeling stuck or unsure of where to go next, I can’t WAIT to introduce you to Jessica Zweig: a serial entrepreneur who’s founded three busine…
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Miriam Schulman is an artist, author, and host of The Inspiration Place podcast. She’s helped thousands of creatives around the world develop their skill sets and create more time and freedom to do what they love. Her signature coaching program, The Artist Incubator, teaches artists go from “so-so” sales to “sold-out” collections. After witnessing …
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794: 10 Fresh Business Ideas with Low Startup Costs
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I think just about everyone and their mother knows the story of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs starting Apple Computer Co. from Jobs’ parents garage… but did you know they’re not alone in the list of billion-dollar companies who started with little-to-no investment? Walt Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Mattel, Papa Johns, and so many more household names we…
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793: Hot Take: The “The Ideal Client Avatar” Exercise is Overrated
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Are you struggling with converting your audience into paying clients? If so, today’s coaching session may be for you! After all, as business owners, our goal is to increase our bottom line… because Instagram followers and social media ‘likes’ don’t pay our bills! Claudia Woodford is a self-love & empowerment coach for working moms. In our coaching …
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Choose your Attention
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I had an AHA during a FLOW class I was leading last week. You can choose what you pay attention to! This had such a wide resonance for me that I couldn't wait to share it with you. What do you want to pay attention to? What focus might help you to move forward? I'd love to hear from you. You can DM me on instagram or email me with your thoughts on …
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792: The Who, What, Why and How of My NEW Brand
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NEW brand, who dis?! Visit http://www.jennakutcher.com to witness the magic! A lot of times when we think about a rebrand, we think about new logos and colors… and as you’ll hear in this episode, there was a lot of that. But through this process, there was also a lot of discussion about what the Jenna Kutcher brand IS; how to make it reflect ME and…
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791: Can Pinterest Work for YOUR Business? Hit Play!
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The results are in: Pinterest is one of the BEST places to market your business. If the reason why you haven’t given it a chance is because you’re not sure it will work for YOU, click play on this episode and snag a seat for my FREE class at http://www.teachmetopin.com! I originally had this conversation with Lori Harder on her podcast, Earn Your H…
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Dr. Jonathan M. Gregoire: Creative Coach, Performing Artist, Arts Educator
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I just loved this conversation with Dr. Jonathan Gregoire. From the first moment we met I could tell we were aligned in how we saw the world, how we saw our musical careers, and how we sought to help others. His journey from full-time, salaried performing work to the entrepreneurial world of coaching is an inspiration! Dr. Gregoire is a multi-talen…
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790: How to Scale Your Business Without Losing Your Soul
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Are you feeling the pull to take your business to the next level but you're worried about becoming a corporate robot or sacrificing your sanity in the process?! If so, this episode is for you. I’m going to break down what you can do right NOW to scale your business authentically and sustainably without losing sight of what truly matters! Together, …
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789: Simple Sales Strategies to Overcome Your Fears and Make More $$$
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Ready to learn how to turn my presentations into profit machines?! Colin Boyd is an international speaker, trainer, and coach who is OBSESSED with helping Coaches and Entrepreneurs sell from stages in a non-pushy or sleazy way. Learn how at http://www.jennakutcher.com/stage! Colin’s zone of genius is helping people turn every presentation into a mo…
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Behind the Scenes
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I'm releasing a new pre-recorded course this week for oboists! And I'm pulling back the curtains of my business to talk about how I created it. If you've been curious about bolstering your own online presence with educational offerings, and if you've been stymied by the tech, or the marketing, or by the fear of putting yourself out there, you might…
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788: Repurpose Your Content and Maximize Results in Under an Hour a Week
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The strategy I’m about to teach you today gives your content a waaaay longer shelf life, making sure your hard work gets seen, consumed, and SOLD. Gone are the days when you spent hours working on a lengthy blog post, podcast episode, or YouTube video and hit ‘post’ without a plan to promote it… I’m going to share with you my best tips to get more …
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787: Get RICH: In Business, Relationships, and Life
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Do you want to make more money in your business?! I’m willing to bet you’re nodding your head right alongside thousands of other Goal Digger listeners right now… and I’m also willing to bet you’re thinking, “Yes, Jenna… but HOW?!” Marshawn Evans Daniels is a Reinvention Strategist, Influence Expert and Best-Selling Author and she’s about to prove t…
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Michael Cooke: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
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Michael Cooke is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and composer, seamlessly blending the worlds of jazz and classical music. A two Emmy Awards and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award, Cooke’s versatility shines through in his mastery of soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones, flute, soprano and bass clarinets, bassoon, and percussion. A cum laude gradu…
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786: The Best 5 Pieces of Financial Advice We've EVER Heard
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I don’t know about you, but when it comes to money conversations and financial advice, I can’t get enough. I mean, in the right hands, money has the ability to change the world! That’s why today, we’re doing something a little different. We have compiled 5 clips from 5 Goal Digger Podcast guests from over the past year who have given us the BEST pi…
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785: Transitioning Your Biz, Showing Up Scared, and Growing Your Audience
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Struggling to grow your social media accounts? We all wish we had a bigger audience to promote our businesses, and although I don’t believe in quick fixes, there are some things you can do to grow your following and, as a result, your business too. This episode is a recording from a coaching session I had with Goal Digger Podcast listener, Savanna …
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Happiest Musician Minisode: Do Your Own Hike
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What I learned on my summer vacation... about hiking up a mountain, playing the oboe, and crafting my career! Perhaps you too will enjoy this minisode about choosing your own path. Make sure you SUBSCRIBE to Crushing Classical, and maybe even leave a nice review! Thanks for joining me on Crushing Classical! Theme music by DreamVance. You can join m…
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784: Steal My Simple But Effective Work Wind-Down Routine
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If you’re anything like me, it can be hard to pivot from work mode to life mode – especially when you’re an entrepreneur and the work is quite literally never “done.” However, over the past few years, I’ve incorporated a few key practices into my daily rhythms that have helped me be more present in my LIFE, even when there are needs in the business…
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