To start off our year I'll offer an open class online on February 22nd - Audacity basics and hints for those a bit more advanced. Your music is part of your signature. In this 1.5-hour deep dive, you’ll learn how to confidently edit your own performance music using Audacity — from clean, simple cuts to more creative, personal edits that make your act stand out. We’ll start with the absolute basics, so you don’t need to be tech-savvy, and then move into more advanced examples you can apply immediately to your own acts. What we’ll cover: - How to navigate Audacity with confidence - Clean cutting, trimming & arranging music tracks - Creating smooth transitions (no awkward jumps) - Understanding basic music counting (phrases, beats & structure) - How to build musical tension and release - Examples of creative edits that make music feel custom-made for your act - Common mistakes performers make when editing their music — and how to avoid them This class is perfect if you: - Want full creative control over your music - Are tired of depending on others for edits - Want your act to feel intentional, professional, and unique 🎧 Bring: your laptop + Audacity installed💡 Level: beginner-friendly with advanced insights⏱ Duration: 1.5 hours By the end of this session, you’ll not only know how to edit your music — you’ll understand why certain edits work and how to use music as a storytelling tool on stage. Link in our calendar!

Are you maybe curious what a week looks like when burlesque is your full time job? Maybe this is a life you want to live one day, maybe it IS the life you already live. Or you're just a kid taking a sneak peek 😉 Either way... welcome to my week! First things first: if you wanna really dive in, check the attached file. That's a screenshot of my calendar this week I'm writing this post. 💖 Now, what is there to see, at a glance? As a solopreneur - like almost everyone living off burlesque - you have a pretty convoluted calendar: it will have your personal things as well as your shows and in my case, my studio hours all there. Nothing like "home & work" - these things are all mixed up together, and add to it it's my absolute passion, when you see free slots we are actually talking "chill time" which is usually me watching burlesque videos, reading about burlesque history or just practicing for myself. Add to the mixture I live across the street from my studio (I know, such luxury, much comfort 😆), things blend in beautifully. 💖 Time is a construct. My days are very long - if you look at the beginning of the week, I start as early as I get up - around 10am - and I go until around 9pm. Now, if you are a creative, this is VERY important. Creatives, creators, visionaries, artists, engineers, inventors, etc. We need time blocking. We need to "get in the zone". I don't do my best work when I have to change my task every hour (if you are a manager, that's actually how you thrive). I need to start off at around 10ish and let me mind wander. Deep dive into the books I'm reading, the topic I'm studying. Get lost into the choreography I am creating, and not worry about the outside world. And you gotta keep your phone out of this. ➡️ This is work time that moves you forward. Without these, you don't create anything. Without these, you don't solve a problem. You don't create quality content. You create superficial choreography. 💖 Admin is necessary. Oh boy, did I use to struggle with this one. You can see a long yellow block in my calendar on Fridays. That is for admin work. Mostly, it's about getting my finances in order, paying invoices, and working my way through Profit 1st systems. Honestly, it used to be my most hated task - that's why it's on a Friday, I get to reward myself with champagne or some fine dining after 😆 and this is what I recommend you do, if you struggle with anything that you gotta get done but don't really enjoy doing - put it on a day you can do it while enjoying something else. Maybe a Saturday afternoon with your favorite TV show. Maybe a Sunday evening with whisky or hot chocolate. Associate a good thing to it and it will help!