Helping music teachers create $10k/m Lifestyle Music Schoolsâprofitable, purpose-driven, and freeing them to live as musicians again
For the longest time, I thought success as a music teacher meant:
⥠More students
⥠Teaching longer hours
⥠Squeezing in time for my music âsomedayâ
I literally thought my performance career was over after graduating music school.
I believed Iâd be stuck in a music classroom for 8â10 hours a day.
So when I decided to go all in on my piano studio, I felt completely lost.
Business felt like a foreign language.
And they definitely didnât teach this in music school.
In this video, Iâm sharing a snippet from my 90-minute workshop, The Balance Creative.
Itâs all about:
đŻ Mastering your business, just like you mastered your music
đŻ Letting money flow to youânot against you
This is for you if:
⨠You want to create a school that energizes you (not drains you)
⨠You want to teach dream students who value your expertise and creativity
⨠Youâre ready to let go of that survival energy you started with
⨠You want to step into a new version of yourself as a leader
If youâre ready for the next chapter...
Feeling stuck in the 40-student grind?
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That was me, too.
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In 2022, I was maxed outâteaching a full roster, juggling a music ed degree, rehearsals, coaching, and driving to lessons.
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Teaching was just survival, and I lost the passion that brought me into music in the first place.
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I thought burnout was just the reality for music teachers.
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But then, I saw the same burnout in my clients, too.
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Teachers hitting 30-40 students, feeling maxed out, thinking, âI canât grow anymore.â
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The âtraditionalâ model had us all locked in.
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Every hour full. Every week stretched thin. Every income cap feeling permanent.
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I knew there had to be a better way.
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And thatâs when the Lifestyle Music School started to take shape.
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I began helping teachers create unique pathsâonline courses, group programs, a hybrid of both.
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With each model, the same truth emerged: you can build a six-figure music school without sacrificing your life.
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You can create a music school where:...
If youâre in a season of transition with your music schoolâŚ
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Remind yourself:
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âMy students want me to winâ
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Your favorite students will stick around because they want to work with YOU.
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Not solely because you offer private lessons
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This is whatâs helped me and my teachers break out of the traditional path.
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40+ student = success â A business I enjoy = success
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Free trials â Content that pre-sells for you
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Weekly private lessons â An experience so good students donât wanna leave
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But transitioning towards your dream music school only becomes faster & easier when you stop searching for another course to solve your problemsâŚ
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And towards real conversations you need to have.
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Like âWho are you going to be when youâre in a slow season of growth?â
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âDo I actually enjoy the way Iâm growing my music school?â
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âIs this actually leading me towards WHY I became a music teacher in the first place?â
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To help you answer that, I hosted a new workshop for my ...
Your dream students are out there. When are they going to see you?
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I see it all the time.
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Stop holding back in your content, wondering if your dream students are even out there.
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Because whether theyâre following you or not⌠it shouldnât matter.
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You create music school content whether it gets the likes or not.
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Just like you make music, fame or no fame.
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If you want more dream students to be drawn into your world, then share your messageâwhether anyoneâs listening or notâbecause itâs your truth.
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If theyâre not gravitating toward you, itâs because theyâre busy looking for the teachers who show up real and unfiltered.
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When you speak from the core, thatâs when the right students start paying attention.
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I felt it myself.
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When COVID hit, I was gearing up for my biggest performance with the SDSU Wind Symphony. TLDR: I never got to perform.
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And since then, I always felt like something was missing.
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So in 2023, I threw myself back into my own musicâD...
You might get more students from finding the right answers.
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But youâll build your dream music school by asking the right questions.
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Last week, we had a conversation in our mastermind that almost every teacher has asked themselves.
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It started with a question about social media.
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Should she put her business and personal brand on one page? Or keep them separate?
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On the surface, it sounded like a strategy question.
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One page vs. two.
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But as we went deeper, the real question came out.
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It wasnât about social media at all.
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It was about her. Who sheâs becoming.
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What she wants her businessâand her lifeâto reflect.
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As we talked, the shift happened.
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She realized it wasnât about which strategy would bring in more students.
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It was about stepping into a new level of herself.
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With clarity and conviction in her choices.
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It was about whether having the same or separate pages would allow her to share her message most authentically.
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And with t...
For most of my life, I never knew what makes the good musicians stand out from the ones I looked up to.
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I use to think âgreatnessâ in music meant hitting the big milestones.
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đ How fast can you play?
đ How high can I sing?
đ Playing on the biggest stages.
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You probably know the real answer though.
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What separates good musicians from the greats isnât just skillâitâs connection.
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Itâs how deeply you resonate with your audience.
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How well you can send a message through your music and make people feel it.
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And thatâs the bridge from you now to the version of you who runs their dream music school.
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Burnt out â Free
Offering lessons â Creating experiences
Complexity â Simplicity
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If you wanna create a Lifestyle Music School, thatâs the same approach we need to bring to our brand.
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Itâs not about getting 10k IG followers before you can profit.
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Itâs not about how fancy you can make your content so people see how professional you are.
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The question to a...
When are you moving past the traditional way of teaching?
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Our music ed world is moving fast.
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COVID got online lessons just as popular as in-person. Now AI is reshaping everythingâincluding the way we run our music schools.
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For teachers still sticking with the traditional way, itâs easy to feel like youâre falling behind.
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Packed schedules, low rates, burnout⌠those old methods donât fit a world thatâs moving forward.
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Yesterday, I shared a private training with my clientsâthe 7 trends Iâm seeing with the New Era Lifestyle Music Teacher.
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These arenât your usual fixes that everyoneâs told you before like:
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âOh just raise your prices.â âDo group lessons!â
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Theyâre focused on helping you build a biz thatâs fully aligned with WHY you started it in the first place.
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Teachers making these shifts are waking up energized, with time for themselves and their own music.
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Their days are filled with students who bring them joy, who actually stay committed to the pro...
Is Your Music School Brand Too âPolishedâ to Connect?
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I remember when I first started my piano studio.
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I thought âprofessionalâ was the answer.
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So I spent weeks on the logo, polished my socials, got it looking just right.
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But something felt⌠hollow.
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Iâd post, waiting for those dream students to reach out.
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But all I got were students who showed up because they were supposed to.
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Students who didnât feel the connection with music the way I did.
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Every time I posted, it felt like I was just throwing something out there.
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Trying to seem âlegit,â but it didnât feel like me.
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In my experience, when you focus on looking too âpolished,â I attracted students who wanted a service, not a connection.
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They were there for the lessons, but not for the love of music.
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Then I tried something different.
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I started sharing the moments that made music come alive for me.
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The stories of why music is so much bigger than what happens in lessons.
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I shared W...
Are you teaching just âlessonsâ⌠Or are you building musicians?
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For years, I taught the way I learned music.
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Sticking to the method books, showing students how to play songs by rote, and hoping it would inspire them.
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But something was off.
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My students could play the notes... but they werenât feeling the music.
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It felt like a chore to them just like it did for me.
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And some werenât as fortunate and decided to quit.
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I see so many music teachers stuck in this cycle.
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They teach a certain way because itâs âsafeâ or because itâs how they learned.
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But when they do this, theyâre just teaching songsânot creating musicians.
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This is NOT why we chose a life in music in the first place.
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The real magic? It happens when you bring students into the experience of being a musician.
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One of my clients, Emily, recently made this shift. She rebranded her music school, not just to change the name, but to create a space where her students actually become musician...
You have your own âspecialâ way of teaching.
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The energy in your lessons that you canât replicate with any other teacher.
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But when it comes to your content?
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I donât see that same spark.
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Instead, I see the âprofessionalâ versionâthe âbig name music schoolâ they feel they need to present.
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I totally get it.
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You donât want to look âtoo salesy.â You donât want their students to feel like theyâre being marketed to.
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But hereâs what happens:
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When you show up online in a way thatâs different from who you are in lessons, students canât see why they should choose you.
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So they just see⌠another music teacher.
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Anyone can offer lessons. Anyone can say, âI teach music.â
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But when you let your audience see the real you?
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When you bring your unique style and passion to your brand?
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What you do inside AND outside your lessons?
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Thatâs when everything changes.
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You stand out. Youâre not just a teacher.
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Youâre the RIGHT teacher for them.
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Itâs a...
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