Navigating nightlife and life, in general, can be quite tricky for any human being on this planet. Sometimes you just get stuck in the mud. In this post, you can find some of the most common questions people who are active in the dance music industry have asked me. May they serve you to start thinking about taking action yourself.
Read MoreDo you sometimes feel completely lost between all the things you want to do or think you should do but don't have a clear vision? You don’t have clarity about who you are or what you want in music and in life. You're busy doing things and you see some progression, but it always feels like it's never enough, not good enough, and it doesn't make you truly happy. You start one thing and get distracted by another thing. By the end of the week you realize, you’ve half-assed your way through and you wonder what you’ve been doing with your time - basically wasting it on general fuckery. You didn’t get things done.
In my video, I talk about 3 steps to amp up your productivity so that you can improve focus and get things done.
Being active in nightlife is often challenging when it comes to your work/(night)life balance. It can bring up guilt about how to combine nightlife with healthy living. A life coach can help you find that balance so that you can continue to feel good even after a big night out! Now that you’ve decided to go down the coaching road toward great personal transformation, stability and feeling peaceful, you want to get the most out of the experience. Here are a few tips on how you can prepare for your first life coaching session.
Read MoreNightlife is such an exciting environment! It can also bring up a lot of love/hate/guilt. There are times when you’re thinking, “this is a bit much, what am I doing?” On the other hand, you like it as a way to blow off steam from the stresses in life. How do you balance that? A (night)life coach can help you do that. But before you venture out with one, you should get really intentional about it. You want to ask yourself these 3 questions so that you can fast track your transformation and get the most out of the experience.
Read MoreBefore you start working with a life coach, you need to know how they can help you and why. A life coach with music industry experience who’s working with people active in nightlife will be well equipped to help DJs, clubbers and electronic music industry professionals, not just everyone and their mother. Here are 7 questions you should ask your nightlife coach before you decide to start working together.
Read MoreEven though part of the hustle is about being smart, unfortunately, in many industries hustling has become the equivalent of slaving away until you “make” it. For some this oftentimes involves thinking they need to keep struggling and starving until the right opportunity finds them. Especially in the dance music industry community, it is a myth too many have come to believe. Here’s 10 raving reasons why you shouldn’t subscribe to it.
Read MoreAs we are rounding up the year, we are all already looking towards the next. But, don’t try to get ahead too fast and fall into the empty “new year new me” trap. Before you turn up your nose at 2019 consider all the valuable lessons you can learn from your music career - the victories and failures.
Read MoreWhy having a plan is really essential for any DJ and producer who is truly committed and serious about building a sustainable career in electronic music. Having a plan is essential for longevity in your career. It sets you up for success and will help you anticipate potential hurdles so that you are prepared if and when said hurdles present themselves. Find out 3 major ways in which a strategy can help you to pursue and advance your DJ career.
Read More“I only really discovered the power of meditation when I was on the brink of a burn-out.”
Charlotte Adigéry recently released Yin Yang Self-Meditation tape. The bodacious Belgian artist allows us an intimate look into her head. A vulnerable and relatable experience about body image, racism and anxiety moulded together into an audiovisual, ASMR-like experience.
DJing is not a 9 to 5 gig. Irregular sleep cycles, lots of adrenaline and playing sets at all hours is part of the job. There is talk in the music industry about regularisation in terms of the maximum number of gigs or working days a DJ can work per year, but at the same time, it is that same music industry that upholds a rock’n’roll image of the DJ lifestyle.
What do DJs themselves think of their chronic lack of sleep and how do they cope?