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Someone from back home (Washington state) asked me the last week, "How's the book tour going?" my response was, "I'm on a book tour?!?!" Here's the email I just sent to my tribe...
Fellow TEDx colleague, Scott Amyx, featured my story and book on his blog this week! Check it out!
My latest Badassery Magazine article - all about how bravery skills can build your bank account. A must-read for all my entrepreneurial peeps!
Learn how to use your fear of self-promotion and your creative expression to build your biggest bravery yet! We'll discuss the 3 biggest secret weapons any creative visionary often overlooks when they're planning and prepping for a season of self-promotion.
Learn how to create a ritual around your next season of bravery. Conclude the previous season, make space for the upcoming season, envision the possibilities, identify the friction, map out a plan-of-action, and celebrate accordingly!
You'll receive instructional videos, a .pdf guidebook to use while you're "offline" and a 6-part ritual with easy, step-by-step action items!
You know that thing you're scared sh*tless to do? Here's your chance to GO for it! Join me in a 5-day exploration of how to squeeze the sweetness out of fear so your life, your business, your creativity, and you can become what you were put on this earth to do!
When sh*t hits the fan, don't be the idiot who just grins and bears it. In this free online class, you'll learn how to embrace changes in life by using your fear and your creative expression to build your biggest bravery yet!
To celebrate the release of the book, I was interviewed by Marc-André Laframboise on Why bravery is the most important thing in your business. Check it out!
Today’s question is “What do you do to get into your creative zone?” Submitted by Lars Carl Schmid in Switzerland 🇨🇭
4 Helpful tips for navigating social situations when you don’t want to discuss certain topics with certain people
Today’s question is “What advice do you have to keep the momentum even when there isn’t an actual deadline?”
I wrote this song for the Bushwick Book Club's most recent concert featuring songs inspired by Lindy West's book Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. (Pictured above, you'll see her sitting right in front of the stage! No pressure!) Lindy West is most definitely one of my modern heroines. She writes these killer articles for the New York Times and always has such important, powerful things to say.
Today’s questions are from the Bare Naked Bravery Community. What do you do when you’re in a slump? What your best advice for starting a Patreon Page?
Stage fright. When it’s bad, it’s really bad. Here are 6 tips to help overcome your fear of the stage.
If you’re reading this, most likely you’ve found yourself at one time or another feeling like a friend, family member, client, or student has stepped on your toes.
This week’s #AskEmilyAnn: Carving out time to be creative! (Question sent in from Christina!)
I know us artists can overdramatize things sometimes...but HOLY HELL. Today was such a shit show of grief!
This week's #AskEmilyAnn we've got a special guest Sherrie McCarthy and we're talking all about LIVING ON A SAILBOAT!!!
Because I was in Pat Pattison's class for 4 days straight while at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, I wasn't able to attend some really killer workshops. Mary Gauthier's songwriting workshop was one of those I missed out on.
Oh you guys... today is a treat! Many of you know that last spring I stole myself away to go live with my Atlanta family and care for my grandpa (aka Poppop.) One of the really beautiful parts of being near this side of the family was that I got to hear all these stories that I hadn't heard before. I mean, I had heard the stories, but hadn't heard them with such detail!
Why My Craving for Stress-Free Living Fuels My Almost-Insane Productivity. I’m a productivity junkie. I really get a kick out of knowing that I’m not wasting time. I do this almost to a fault...
Going from Crisis to Calm with Your Calendar. So there you are: It’s the end of your week, the end of your day and for the life of you, you canNOT remember what you actually accomplished and worse IF you actually accomplished anything at all.
There will come a time in any small business owner’s career when they find themselves in one (or probably both) of the following situations...
Songwriting, authoring, teaching, mentoring: these are the things I have to offer. I know I could do almost anything else, but the pull of song and story is much stronger than my resistance to it. So I happily fall in love. Every day I fall in love.
Whether we’re talking about SoundCloud, Spotify, Pandora, or YouTube — audio or visual — playlists are my secret weapon in my business. I use them ALL the time. Here are my top methods grouped into three of my favorite main usages: Ambience, Education, and Collaboration. Maybe you’ll get a few stellar ideas from this list too!
Our answers and stellar discussion in this little online hangout reminded me about the importance of your “About Me”. Sometimes, this comes in the form of a page on your website or an introduction at a networking conference. It also comes in the form of answering the following question when you’re at a dinner party when someone inevitably asks…
After teaching music lessons to both adults and kids for more than a decade, I know a thing or two about what works and what doesn’t work to perfect your students’ practice regime.