YOU’RE READY AFTER YEARS OF GETTING READY

“We have a problem,” I was told by the manager of the Platinum selling band we had in our studio.

The artist wasn’t comfortable with the writer I assigned for this interview.

This drops in my lap after a morning of pre-production by the studio team.

I didn’t know the back story, but something was stewing over an article from years before. In that moment, I laid it out; my writer is a professional, we’re all here to do a job, and we can either proceed as planned or cancel the whole thing.

I tell this to clients pretty often: learn how to (metaphorically) deal with a broken guitar string in front of five people on a Tuesday night, so when you do it in front of 5,000 people, you’ll know how to handle it.

Have you seen professional musicians deal with on-stage mishaps? They deal with it like pros, because they learned those lessons over many years, maybe decades.

So be careful what you wish for. Are you sure you want that next note to go viral? Are you ready for 500 new subscribers when you can’t make heads or tails of what the 50 subscribers you have even want from you?

Anyways, I got through that power trip with that manager by dealing with plenty of other power trips over nine years leading up to that moment in that studio hallway.

The interview went as planned, everyone had a good time, and we hugged it out by the end of the session.