Head down.
In the work.

Back on the stage —
even when it's a livestream.

Monday's 12pm check-in livestream kicked off the week — a public six-month project update where I shared where I was, what I was working on, and what was coming. Then Tuesday brought the regular 4pm concert livestream, which ran beautifully despite a minor technical glitch right at the start. Quickly resolved, great show.

Thursday I went live with Coffee and a Song — a shorter, more intimate set. Post-show tasks included Patreon posts, sharing replays, and getting everything into the right hands. The livestreams are like an energy drink for me. It reanimates me and is where I feel most like myself.

The coaching call
that changed the week.

Wednesday morning I had my coaching call with Mike Macdermid, and I walked out of it buzzing. New ideas, new directions, new things to research. He pointed me toward two platforms worth exploring: That Pitch — a sync pitching tool — and RightsBridge, which has some complexities around UK taxation that I need to untangle.

The insights were really informative. So was the overwhelm. I spent the rest of the morning organizing my takeaways and reassessing my goals for the week.

Friday Vibe, set lists,
and a chart built from scratch.

Thursday brought a different kind of challenge: someone requested a song for next Tuesday's concert that I didn't have a chart for, so I made a simple one from scratch. The more important confession is, the reason I didn't have a chart — and haven't performed that song in literally decades — is because it reveals a very dark scar that I have been carrying for almost a lifetime. The subject matter is raw, confrontational, and to be honest, triggering. I am proud of myself for deciding to add it…even though I'm still pondering how it wound up in my request/Curator's Lounge page.

Friday I filmed, edited, captioned, scheduled, and posted the Friday Vibe video — which took up my entire morning and ran into afternoon with an end time of 12:52pm. I'm still not used to how long that type of creating takes…and I am shifting my intention to approach it with the same enthusiasm that I have when creating music.

I also designed and published a new Facebook banner in Canva to call out that my weekly concert is now on Tuesdays at 4pm ET. I kept up with the social posting that keeps everything connected. Creating content yet again…a necessary…evil? lol I then worked in the studio on a piano volume adjustment because we had changed things around when I was recording.