
D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: Summer Tick Down (September 2022) 🍨
Summer’s ticking down 🍨 It’s been a quiet, but pretty amazing summer. —We just got back from visiting our daughter, who is doing summer stock in Illinois. We refreshed our vision board. And we are knee-deep in our first draft of our book. 📝 6 Things we love about Toronto: https://bit.ly/240toronto6post BUT WTF? Where did it go?! But we are reminded of the fact that, in 3 weeks, all the madness of the fall kicks in. —Our schedules become STUFFED with commitments and the wea

D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: TOO old for this sh*t! (August 2022)
My gift…. — AND I STILL “overslept” this morning, felt kinda crappy and had to remind myself that waking up—and getting started—early is MY gift to MYSELF, which means that it’s WORTH it even when NOONE is “looking.” 🤷🏽♀️ In fact, I think it’s even MORE valuable, because it means the quality of my day, mood, and fitness will be the better BECAUSE of it. So, needless to say, I got my ass out of bed and here I am on the treadmill. 🤷🏽♀️😬🏃🏾♀️ 10 Reasons you should buy a

D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: Not just new weather, but new season 💨 ⏰ (July 2022)
Getting my head together…. —Okay, so we’re back from Toronto and, yes! I am AMBITIOUS about ALL the things that I’d like to accomplish today. 😬🤷🏽♀️ AND that INCLUDES quite a lot…. 3 Summer Music Promo Tips: https://bit.ly/232summerpromoblog What time is it? ⏰ — Okay, so we’re 2 weeks out from starting my summer vacation, good-fashioned, but I have some VERY definite goals. 📝 —YES! I DID wine and dine freely on this Toronto trip, but I am FINALLY ready to embrace NEW goal

D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: Flowing like an oil slick 🛢️ (June 2022)
Revved up…. — Yes! I can feel how much BETTER I have gotten over the years! I feel like I manage the workflow AT WORK and AT HOME in such a better way! Not only do I NOT freak out—EVEN when I am tempted to! 😳—but I just take a deep breath, resolve to return to my list of priorities, choose the first one, two, or three, set my timer, and get to work toward it. Almost as SOON as I begin, I get engrossed in the activity and IMMEDIATELY calm the fuck down! 🧘🏾♂️ What’s more is

D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: Trippy Anticipation (April 2022) ✈️
I, literally, don’t have ANYTHING to fucking complain about this month….🤷🏽♀️ —Oh, except that the South By Southwest trip nearly snuck up upon before I had booked the airfare. 😬🙄 —I am going to chalk that up to the disappointment we felt two years ago….. When we were getting ready to pack for the trip and two weeks before, the entire world shut down for a pandemic that was supposed to last 3 weeks. (If you want to go down THAT rabbit hole, here it is: http://bit.ly/4ti

D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: Not Sweating Anything (March 2022) 😅
Rough Start — It’s amazing that yesterday turned out so well, because, as you know, it started out very poorly, attitude-wise for me. My stomach was in knots, I didn’t feel like I was accomplishing much, and doubted my abilities to be able to leverage the time the way I had originally envisioned it. But I kept GOING. Despite everything. And that’s all I COULD do to keep from just breaking down and throwing up my hands. I just kept saying to myself that, even if I WASN'T able

Yep, READY to rock! 🤘🏽: D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind (November 2021)
—Yep, we're READY to rock! 🤘🏽 Following a roadmap —I feel like, even though I have a shit ton of work to do at the dayjob, I am ready for that too! 💥 I have all the rough plans typed out, so that I WON'T get lost in the shuffle of things. I am going to be shifting back and forth between many IMPORTANT priorities now, so I need to CONSTANTLY have that roadmap to keep me focused. With this, I don’t get as overwhelmed as I tend to get WITHOUT it, because I KNOW that there are

D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: The OTHER shoe is dropping… 👟 (October 2021)
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D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: Thrown in Facebook Jail… Again 🙄 (May 2021)
Yep, in trouble… —I originally had a completely different message for you all this month. I wanted to talk about the need to plan and about how excited we are that we seem to be coming out of the pandemic (and what that will mean for the D.I.Y. Rock Star). But then I found myself in Facebook jail… which caused me to pivot and talk about the importance of diversifying your methods of distribution. Again. (https://bit.ly/Ep141moresocmedblog ) 10 Reasons NOT to Have Only One So

Is there a “sexy” was to say it? 🥓 (April 2021)
So, yeah, there’s no sexy way to say it. What I am looking for is a way to use the idea of “efficiency” as my word of the year. You know… that idea of working smart and not hard. When tasked with choosing a word for the year—an idea that appealed to me from the Happier podcast, Episode 254—that’s the idea that has been drawing me back. Gab & Jam Ep 161 The Prince Music Marketing Mindset (video: http://bit.ly/Ep161Princemusmktgvid and podcast: http://bit.ly/Ep161Princemusmktg