Do you know what control you have over the music you compose when you allow it to be used by an advertising agency or for a film? Or maybe you've spent a week in a recording studio working toward someone's album, but how much do you get when it's played on the radio or on spotify? 

It's never fun looking at our art as a business but how else are we supposed to make a viable living from the thing we pour our heart and soul into? We need to make sure we can protect ourselves by understanding our contracts, getting signed up to a union and knowing who pulls the monetary strings. 

To help me is a dear friend and composer, Nino Russell, also known as ZOLLINO, who knows exactly where the trip wires are and how to make sure you're protected. 

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Today we are really giving those dark self-doubting narratives a safe space to land with coach and mentor Tatiana Bejinari. Those of you who have read my blog will know that I refer to my own inner critic as the Kraken, wrapping its tentacles around me like a boat lost at sea desperately trying to pull me under. But how often do we have the courage to look at its origins? To work out why the Kraken chose your boat and whether it's pulling you under out of fear, protection or something more? Tatiana and I discuss the benefits of coaching and mentoring, the difference between criticism and feedback and how getting uncomfortable with your own thoughts and feelings can help you unlock your potential and get that career you've always wanted.

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Three years since our first interview, composer Dani Howard and I catch up, exploring her creative process with some incredible advice for those composers out there as well as tackling the difficult subject of rejection and tokenism as a female composer. 

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