The Starving Artist Solution

Change your Mindset Create Your Secret Project Start Teaching Online Lessons The days are starting to run together. It's as though the no man's land between ...

The holidays can be tough, whatever your line of work. For artists, and actors in particular, they're a source of unique dread because we have to explain--or...

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about the importance of a morning ritual. I didn’t really get it, but since I put one in place, I've noticed a real differen...

My own spiritual awakening is not that dramatic. I was suffering big time as a struggling singer. I lived in crappy apartments; I worked day jobs that kille

I realized that I lacked a relationship to anything greater than myself. And I learned that my batshit thinking was not only out of control but likely to result either in the total destruction of my career or worse, a nervous breakdown. There's a discount below for Desires and Destiny ... I promise you won't be disappoi

The trouble was, opera wasn’t me. The bigger trouble: I had known this since I was 13, but did nothing to act on this knowledge. In fact, I

I had been working as an executive assistant to the President of a very big fashion label. I emphasize very big.  Devil Wears Prada big. It was a “dream job”...

I had the undeniable and extremely rare good fortune of meeting my best friend and long-time musical collaborator the very first day of graduate school at Ma...

I am sitting on deck on a small French cruise ship, finishing a ten-day gig. I was a featured headline act, performing my original cabaret shows for the pass...

Like most overeducated singers, I was taught only one clear path to success: practice, go to auditions, book a job, and be amazing. In theory, this process w...

This is going to be controversial—but I maintain that an artist cannot thrive if totally broke. When I say broke I mean broke to the point of suffering. If y...

At a lesson earlier this week a student, who happens to be a former Marine, said to me: "I need to retreat." I didn’t know what he meant at first. I thought ...