Happiest Musician Minisode: FEAR of Visibility

I'm talking a lot about Visibility lately - but that's because people are talking to ME about it! This fear, the fear of being seen, is so normal. Here's how it has manifested for me. 

Are you interested in my Fall program, the Happiest Musician Visibility Lab? Hop on the waitlist and be the first to hear about it! 

 

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I help people to lean into their creative careers and start or grow their income streams.  You can read more or hop onto a short discovery call from my website.

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The Happiest Musician Visibility Lab is open for enrollment now! We begin on September 8.  https://www.jennetingle.com/hmvl 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 00 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Jennet Ingle.
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So

Speaker 00 (00:28):
You're listening to Crushing Classical, how to
thrive in your creative career.
I'm your host, Jennet Ingle,oboist, entrepreneur, speaker,
author, and business andcreative coach for musicians.
I believe that musicians arebrilliant, motivated, highly

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trained professionals, and thatin the 21st century being merely
talented is not enough.
In this podcast, I celebratethe musicians and creatives who
are building their own careersand lives within our industry.
My guests are amazing, and youare too.
You are allowed to thrive, andyour artistry matters.
I find it astonishing how manyconversations I've had in just

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the last few weeks wherebrilliant musicians, brilliant
people with huge aspirations fortheir own careers are finding
themselves held back by theirown fear of visibility, their
own reluctance to self-promote,their own hesitation to say out

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loud to people what theyactually want, what they
actually want to be doing andwho they actually want to be.
And I get it.
It is so scary.
Musicians are taught that if wejust work hard enough, if we're
just talented enough andhardworking enough, the rest

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will happen.
The results will follow and wewill get opportunities.
Thank you.
And the problem is that's notreally the way it works anymore.

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We have to be visible.
People have to know who we are.
People have to know what we cando in order to hire us.
And for a lot of us, that lookslike intentional visibility,
showing up on social media,showing up on blogs, on YouTube,
starting podcasts, beingvisible.

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to promote the work that we arealready doing so that people
can find us, so that people canfollow us, and so that people
feel like they know us becausepeople support people they know.
I can relate to this visibilityfear so much.
If you know me, For my HappiestMusician Minisodes or for my

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YouTube channel on reedmaking orfor the Crushing Classical
podcast, you might think that Ihave always been an effortless
public speaker or have alwaysbeen good at expressing myself
verbally.
I have so many times satshaking in my room, sat in full

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fight or flight mode beforeclicking pause.
Right.
This is a thing that happensfor a lot of us.

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And it's odd that this is nottaught in music school.
We are taught to be performers,but we are taught to be
performers on our instruments.
It's peculiar how much safer itfeels to be on stage with an
oboe, an instrument that is muchtoo small to actually hide

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behind.
To walk out on stage andperform something very difficult
is infinitely less frighteningfor me and for many of the
people that I've spoken to thanputting a blog post up, putting
a Facebook post up, sharing evena moment of my practice

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routine.
These are terrifying moments.
to many people, and yetvisibility is a crucial skill in
the 21st century.
There are infinitely manymusicians out there right now
who are terrific, who are sotalented, so skilled, so

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prepared to play all of the jobsand to do all of the things.
If you want to be the musicianthat gets called, for jobs, for
students, for teaching, formasterclass opportunities, for
whatever you are trying to do inyour creative career.

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If you want to be the musicianthat is top of mind for the
people who are hiring, you don'tget to become that by
practicing harder in yourpractice room.
It actually takes time.
outward energy, projection ofvisibility out into the world.
And this is not easy at all.

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So if you also struggle withthis, I want to let you know
that I'm going to have aprogram, a group program about
it in the fall.
I'm going to have a link to await list right in the show
notes of this podcast or in thedescription below the YouTube
channel.
And I would love to hear fromyou.

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What are your visibilitystruggles?
What is the magic that iswaiting for you on the other
side of those hard, sweatyvisibility steps?
And what will support look likefor you?
Let me know in the comments.

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Let me know by emailing me.
Let me know by hopping onto mywaiting list and I will reach
out to you.
Thank you so much for watchingtoday.
Have a great day.