Thanks For Thinking

Who Is Your Website Actually For? Is your studio website helping you attract the right clients? Most producer/engineer websites focus too much on factoids and accomplishments rather than showing your ideal customers how you can solve their specific problems. In this video, I explain why your website should be focused on serving your ideal clients, not just anyone who stumbles onto

Struggling with fear, nerves or uncertainty about creating social media content? Learn how I overcame my own overwhelming anxiety about filming YouTube, TikTok and Instagram videos. I'll share actionable tips for managing vlogging stress, including the game-changing video editing web app helping me rapidly transform messy first drafts into polished, magnetic content. If you battle

As we take on the new year, many of us set lofty financial goals that end up falling flat. If that sounds familiar, tune in as I share my surprising plan for career and income growth in 2024 that does NOT rely on a specific dollar figure.After expanding my family and missing last year’s money goals thanks to an adorable (but time-sucking) new baby, I knew I needed to shake things

An adaptation to Malcolm Gladwell's "10,000 Hours" rule, where we consider collecting failures like trophies on the path to mastery and fearlessness.Intro music: “Gingerly” (instrumental) by Surname. Mixed by yours truly.Focus music by Pink Coyote.Outro music: “Futurism” (instrumental) by mrnoname. Produced and mixed by yours truly.@CarlBahner on Instagram@ThanksForThinking

Change will happen whether we're ready or not. In this episode, I talk about how seizing opportunities outside my comfort zone completely reshaped my music career. Intro music: “Gingerly” (instrumental) by Surname. Mixed by yours truly. Focus music by Pink Coyote. Outro music: “Futurism” (instrumental) by mrnoname. Produced and mixed by yours truly.@CarlBahner on Instagram@

After the first time I did a year-in-review to count how many songs I worked on, I was determined to beat that number the next year. Why? Honestly I’m not sure. I just felt compelled to beat that number. I wanted more. More clients. More songs. More money. More students. Then I heard the phrase “undisciplined pursuit of more” and it hit me like a wrecking ball that shattered

There’s an old metaphor, made famous by Sir Isaac Newton, about making scientific progress by adding to the knowledge already discovered by those who came before us. You’ve probably heard it before: “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This holds true for intellectual and artistic pursuits, and in my experience, it holds true for failure,

Last night, I was having a conversation with a new potential student, trying to figure if we would be a great fit to work with one another. We had spoken briefly a few times before, and I knew he listens to this podcast (you know who you are). By the end of the conversation, we had our first session scheduled and paid. He thanked me and said he looked forward to learning and hearin

Burnout doesn’t show up like a light switch - rather, it’s much more orogenous. No, I didn’t say “erogenous,” I’m talking about orogeny - the process of how mountains form.Burnout appears slowly, gradually, like a mountain pushing through the earth’s crust. Well, maybe not quite THAT slowly, but my point is that it can be very difficult to recognize burnout until it�

So, you’re not a true internet guru until you’ve coined a new marketing term, so I’m really, really hoping I’m not the first person to talk about having a “personality niche.”Admittedly I don’t have an airtight definition quite yet. The closest I’ve got so far is: a group (or groups) of people with whom a creative service provider shares values, passions, and commun