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Overcoming and Avoiding Burnout
52 Cues Podcast, Mindfulness and Wellbeing, Career Advice, Career Habits, Entrepreneurship Dave Kropf 52 Cues Podcast, Mindfulness and Wellbeing, Career Advice, Career Habits, Entrepreneurship Dave Kropf

Overcoming and Avoiding Burnout

Dave Kropf discusses avoiding burnout in music composition, coping with burnout when it happens, plus self-care and wellness strategies. Learn to deal with strict clients, the repetitive nature of production music, competition, rejection, and more.

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4 Ways to Jumpstart Your Creativity!
52 Cues Podcast, Career Advice, Career Habits, Featured Composer, Musical Technique, Composing, Creativity Dave Kropf 52 Cues Podcast, Career Advice, Career Habits, Featured Composer, Musical Technique, Composing, Creativity Dave Kropf

4 Ways to Jumpstart Your Creativity!

We’ve talked about how important sustainable creativity is for the production music composer, but what happens when you got nothing or a deadline hangs over you like the sword of Damocles? On this week's episode, I’m going to give you 4 ways that I jumpstart my own creative process when time is short or energy is low.

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Mindfulness and Well-Being?
Shannon Kropf Shannon Kropf

Mindfulness and Well-Being?

Add to that the fact that we work in a tough industry, and now we're talking about some serious mind games! Let's face it: all of us music folk thrive on praise and approval of our work. It's part of the "psychology of play" that makes us sit for hours in front of a computer screen making music that we hope might get picked up and heard.

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