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Stop me if you’ve heard this before:

“You have to do the work.”

The message comes back over and over and over, from screenwriters and bloggers and actors and musicians and writers. It comes to us again from Lynne Hanson – singer/songwriter, poet, and the latest podcast guest to remind us that work is the key.

I knew...

In the end, you have to do the work.

Over and over again we hear from successful people that there is no secret formula to becoming whatever it is you want to be. Musician. Actor. Entrepreneur. Blogger. You can romanticize it all you like, but the work is what makes it happen. Acting classes. Bar gigs to seven people. Late nights developing your bus...

Where do I begin with Nikki Bon?

Well, I begin by saying that this is absolutely one of my favourite episodes of the podcast. It generally comes down to the guest, and Nikki was so honest and insightful about her story that our conversation couldn’t help but be great.

But what are the take-aways?

As I said in the intro, I don’t want to interpret the e...

As Sarah K says in this episode, you just never know what’s coming.

A few years ago I didn’t know that touring in Europe was coming. That this website was coming. That this podcast was coming. I didn’t know my current life was coming, but here we are.

Sarah K didn’t know her life as a drummer was coming either.

She was initially a keyboard player. Her...

The same themes just keep running through this show, don’t they?

Commitment to craft.

Forging a path.

Doing your own thing.

If you’ve listened to the show, you’ve heard many different creative people talk about this stuff. Musicians, writers, actors. In Hollywood, California and London, England, and Waterloo, Ontario, my guests keep hammering home the...