Have you ever thought of creating your own digital course but had zero ideas on where to start? Host Nathalie and co-host Katherine dive into the world of digital courses and the missing elements you need to make a digital course profitable. With Katherine’s decade of experience with The Music Teacher’s Playbook, listen to the myths, limits, and breakthroughs that can help you share your expertise to the right audience.

Main Points:

• The truth about digital course creations and why they’re not always “passive” income
• The business components that most musicians miss
• How knowing your people and community can make the difference
• How to use sales psychology without being “icky”
• The transformation of The Music Teacher’s Playbook throughout the years
• Success stories from Playbook Grads and how you can create your own community!

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For the final episode of Season 1, host Nathalie breaks how knowing that career limits exist can be the first step to engineering the career you’ve always wanted. The long accepted “truths” that classical musicians will always be burned out and financially unstable are challenged in a way that gets you unstuck and finding clarity in which moves to make next. Lastly, you’ll hear tips on how to name, challenge, and break the mental limits in your personal and musical life.

Main Points:

• How music degrees and tradition reinforce narrow definitions of success
• The ways you unintentionally create and enforce your limits
• Naming your limits to facilitate your success
• Relearning your mindset to push through your limits
• Small steps for exponential growth

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Host Nathalie and co-host Katherine discuss the definition of investment when it comes to classical music. We will shed light on the ways musicians invest more than money in their careers and talk about how 3 types of investments can make a clearer path to the career you want.

Main Points:

• Why musicians feel disappointed with investments
• Investments that musicians make that actually stall career progress
• How money is just one factor in building success
• Three types of investments that can define your career path
• How to avoid measuring your identity by the investments you make

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In this episode, Nathalie talks about people pleasing and its not-so-subtle place in classical music jobs. Think of the ways you "starve" yourself on personal and professional levels when you say "yes" to everything. Find out how you can begin to change the habit of saying "yes' to everything else into saying "yes" to yourself.

Main Points:

• How music programs train you to be a people pleaser
• The reasons you keep saying "yes" when you want to say "no"
• Three ways to shift your habits and prioritize the right things for you

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In today’s episode, we talk about the “badge of honor” classical musicians carry: Burnout. Your music degree may have started the fire, but are you keeping the flame burning? Hear about co-hosts Katherine and Nathalie’s personal journeys with balancing stress, as well as the top 3 things that can fuel or burnout or help you reset.

Major Points:

• The reality of experiencing burnout throughout your life
• The difference between burnout in college and post-graduate reality
• Applying the concept of homework to goals and tasks
• How balance helps you protect your real priorities outside of your career
• Building structure, purpose, and balance to manage stress
• Practical tips to balance your schedule, understand your limits, and build a sustainable routine

Book Recs from Kath and Nath:

• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
• Atomic Habits

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Limitless Musician Kate Kayaian shares her journey as a professional cellist, entrepreneur, career & mindset coach, and now as an author of “Beyond Potential: A Guide for Creative Who Want to Re-assess, Re-define, and Re-ignite their Careers.” Join Nathalie and Kate as they discuss how your past shapes your future, how to connect with the version of yourself that you wish you could be, and actionable steps to infuse your core values into every aspect of your career.

Main Points:

• Pivoting your career when there is more that you want
• Stories or lessons you carry that define your perspective
• The “blossoming” process of re-learning yourself and embracing your Ideal Self
• The balance between the pursuit of perfection and the realness of the best version of you
• How to create an environment with people and resources who help you grow
• Finding your core values in your career, especially when you balance multiple jobs

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• Pre-order “Beyond Potential” at Barnes and Noble or Bookshop
• Website: https://katekayaian.com/
• Instagram: @kkayaian
• Podcast: Tales From The Lane

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In this solo episode, Nathalie talks about perfectionism and its roots in the classical music industry from performance to your way of thinking. Reflect on how perfectionism holds you back in your music career, how human nature can break the perfectionist mindset, and what you can do to unlearn the rigid mindset that makes you stand in your own way.

Main Points:

• How you are conditioned to be a perfectionist musician
• Challenging the perceived “truths” about practice makes perfect and other misconceptions
• The difference between psychological inflexibility and psychological flexibility
• Building your own mental prison - and how to break it down
• Five steps to finding your “sweet spot” to overcoming perfectionism and embracing adaptability

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In this solo episode, Nathalie is diving into the struggle that every musician can relate to: the balance between your work life and your personal life. As musicians, we’re conditioned to prioritize work above all else—but at what price? The reality is that burnout, anxiety, and exhaustion run rampant in our field. So, is there a way to build a thriving career without sacrificing personal wellness?

Main Points:

• The difference between living to work VS. working to live
• Why musicians feel pressured to overwork and its effects
• A simple but powerful question to set balance in motion for you
• Practical ways to set boundaries, say no with a purpose, and create a sustainable career

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