What if you don’t want the career in music you worked so hard for now?

It can be incredibly hard to admit you might not want something anymore. Especially when you worked bloody hard to get it.

I see this a lot with women in music.

You spend years building a career in an industry that really isn’t easy to get into. You work your way up, build a reputation and become really good at what you do.

Then one day you find yourself thinking: is this actually what I want anymore?

There might be nothing obviously wrong.

You still love music. You’re earning good money. You might even have the career that a younger version of you would have been thrilled to have. Which makes it even harder to admit that maybe you don’t want it anymore.

But something doesn’t feel right.

Do I need a holiday? Would I be happier doing something else? Do I want something completely different? Am I having a midlife crisis?

Then round and round you go…

When you’ve been in music a long time, your career often becomes part of who you are. Then there’s that voice saying, but I worked so hard for this. As though changing your mind means all those years were wasted.

You’re allowed to want something different from what you wanted 5, 10 or 15 years ago.

That doesn’t mean leaving music. It might mean working differently. Less pressure. More freedom. Or changing how much of yourself you give to it.

So, ask yourself:

What does success really look like to me now?

Not 10 years ago. Not to your friends and family. Not by anyone else’s definition.

To you. Now.

If you genuinely don’t know the answer, that’s exactly the kind of thing we can work out together.

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