143 – What is the Profitable Musician Summit? – with Bree Noble

Is it possible for musicians to earn money from their passion? Where can musicians go to learn the skills, they need, to increase their effectiveness? In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, Bree Noble of Female Entrepreneur Musician shares what the Profitable Musician Summit is all about. Download the PDF Transcription Podcast Highlights: 00:34 – Are you investing in your ongoing education? 01:30 – Introductions 01:39 – What brought you to this point? 08:30 – Do you need permission to be a musician? 12:51 – What is the Profitable Musician Summit? 16:40 – What have you learned from putting on the Profitable Musician Summit? 19:46 – What has been the response to the Profitable Musician Summit? 21:28 – Is it even possible to be a profitable musician? 23:11 – People are stopped by the smallest things 24:35 – Make the commitment first, work out the details later 25:28 – Making money in music 28:14 – What are your thoughts on music entrepreneurship? 30:49 – Learning from failures 32:05 – What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve encountered as an entrepreneur? 34:41 – Getting coaching 35:55 – What are some of the biggest successes you’ve experienced as an entrepreneur? 37:11 – Hacking book writing 38:39 – Are there any books or resources that have helped you on your journey? 40:07 – Is there anything else I should have asked? Transcription: David Andrew Wiebe: I have a question for you. Are you investing in your ongoing education? I'm not talking about the education that you get in school. I'm talking about the kind that you get through personal development through reading books, through listening to audios and podcasts, watching videos, getting mentorship. Is that something that you're regularly engaging in? There's so much great content out there and if you don't take advantage of it, and you don't apply it to your music career, but continue to complain about the fact that you can't make money from music, then you're really just shooting yourself in the foot. I have a special guest on today. And I think you're going to love this interview. There is a huge opportunity to contribute to your learning, to your knowledge, to your expertise if you take advantage of some of the things mentioned in this episode. I'm not going to say anymore. Here's my special interview. Today I'm chatting with music business trainer and mentor Bree Noble. How are you today, Bree? Bree Noble: I'm doing great. David Andrew Wiebe: Excellent. It's great to have you on the show. I've had the opportunity to read your bio so I have a pretty good sense of where you're coming from, but for the sake of our listeners, I would love for you to touch on your story and what brought you to this point of founding an online radio station, starting the Female Entrepreneur Musician Podcast, producing the Profitable Musician Summit and more. Bree Noble: Oh, man. Okay. I'll try to keep it brief. You know, I'm a musician at heart of course, and my background is as a musician, a vocalist and a singer songwriter. I grew up performing a lot in high school and every choir I could do and solo competitions. I went to Westmont College to get a degree in music and vocal performance. And somewhere along the way, I got practical. I decided that I also needed a degree in business. So just in case this music thing fell through, which is kind of funny to think about it that way because I wasn't thinking about, “Oh, I kind of need the business in order to do the music.” It didn't occur to me, I thought these are two separate things. And you know, this is my fallback plan. Because I looked at it that way, when I got out of school, I really didn't have any guidance on how to make a career as a musician so I went ahead and went into the world of accounting and finance and ended up kind of marrying those by being a director of finance at a Top 15 Opera Company,