Over the past two months I’ve been going through something of a renaissance in my musical and professional life. I suddenly and without seemingly any care, walked away from a teaching job I had been doing on the side for two and half years. The job brought security and insurance, and fulfilled a decade long desire to add teaching as an income stream. But it was also, unfortunately, a bit if a trap, and other than refocusing me to where I am now…I think it might have been a complete waste of my time. In fact, I think I’ve been wasting time for decades. So today, I want to talk about how to know if you’re wasting time on things that are taking away from the music life you’ve always wanted. WANT TO BE A POSITIVE SPIN PARTNER? Email me personally at eric@makemusicincome.com and let's get to work on an album together! — SELL YOUR MUSIC ON NON-EXCLUSIVE LIBRARIES: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL GET YOUR MUSIC TO TV, FILM, ADS, AND GAMING: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH FREE EBOOK: THE DO-EVERYTHING CHECKLIST FOR YOUR SONGS https://makemusicincome.com/checklist FREE COURSE: HOW TO UPLOAD TO POND5 https://makemusicincome.com/pond5 FREE EBOOK: 50 WAYS TO MAKE MUSIC INCOME V4 https://makemusicincome.com/50ways FREE EBOOK!: TOOLS YOUR NEED TO MAKE MUSIC INCOME V2 https://makemusicincome.com/tools FREE STOCK MUSIC RESEARCH PAPER: "The Ubiquitous Style, Form, and Instrumentation of Corporate Stock Music" https://makemusicincome.com/ubiquitous ONE-ON-ONE COACHING FOR COMPOSERS AND PRODUCERS: Get Feedback From Eric on Your Music & Career: https://makemusicincome.com/coaching/ JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST (Get an email when we release new videos!) http://eepurl.com/hF8ihr THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE: https://makemusicincome.com/ OUR WEEKLY PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/makemusicincome DISTROKID: Get your music to Spotify, Apple, Youtube, and more for one yearly price. Get 7% Off: Click here: https://distrokid.com/vip/seven/911910 Get 50% off if you are a student or educator! Click here: https://distrokid.com/student/911910 NEED GEAR? SWEETWATER SOUND: Support the channel by using this link to find the latest deals and get the gear you need at our favorite music store, Sweetwater Sound! https://sweetwater.sjv.io/q4JEB5 DISCO: Show off your amazing portfolio and be where the music supervisors and music buyers are! Click here: https://disco.ac/signup?b=2095&u=34391 IDENTIFYY: Get paid when your music is used on YouTube Click here: https://identifyy.com?referral=MTMzMjc2 POND5: Get into Music Licensing easily! Use this referral code to sign up and get started selling YOUR music with Pond5! Click here: https://www.pond5.com?ref=FromtheMomentMusic JOIN OUR COMMUNITY ON DISCORD: https://bit.ly/3fYDSVd GET DAILY SHORTS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makemusicincome https://www.tiktok.com/@makemusicincome MY SYNC LICENSING MUSIC Positive Spin Songs - https://positivespinsongs.com MY PERSONAL MUSIC: https://www.ericcopelandmusic.com Timestamps: 0:00 - It's a Trap! 2:03 - Podcast Intro 3:44 - My Week 9:27 - The News 17:00 - How I've Wasted My Time 30:06 - Q&A 33:32 - The Future of this Channel 41:00 - How Are YOU Wasting Time? 51:35 - Coaching? Courses? Classes? 54:44 - Positive Spin Partners

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Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH For this episode airing on Halloween, we have some very scaaaary sync licensing stories that may or may not have been told by a witch. Ok, so that’s not exactly true. They aren’t scary stories and aren’t told by a witch…or are they? I’ve told you many times many times about when I first heard about this thing Sync Licensing on a podcast. A lady named Cathy Heller was talking about how artists and songwriters could make music income by getting their songs into TV, film, advertising, and videos games. Hearing that podcast was basically a "turn that car around" moment for me professionally and changed the path of both my music business and my personal music focus. I went from producer back to composer, eventually getting both my first sync deal with a BMG library AND a master’s degree in music composition. Scary twist? Not really. Well, today I’m going to speak with Sonnet Simmons of @2indieofficial who was part of that journey with Cathy Heller and their company Catch the Moon, and now works in, and teaches others, about sync licensing through her podcast 2Indie. LINKS IN THIS VIDEO: Find out more about Sonnet Simmons and her company 2Indie at https://www.2indie.com/ Get FREE stuff at https://makemusicincome.com/free/ -- THE NEW COURSE "GETTING IN SYNC" IS HERE! Start it FREE! https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH How I Got My Music on TV! (And How YOU Can Too!) This course will describe that whole process to you and take you step by step from producing the songs, to finding sync libraries, sync agents, and music supervisors, to get placements in TV shows and movies, to getting paid real music income. -- THE POPULAR COURSE "THE STOCK MARKET" Get DIRECT LINKS to each library: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL -- HELLO COMPOSERS! Join our sister channel Hello Composers! where we talk ONLY about composing. Subscribe to the YouTube channel at http://HelloComposers.com, AND make sure to join the mailing list at http://eepurl.com/hSLgr9 FREE EBOOK: THE DO-EVERYTHING CHECKLIST FOR YOUR SONGS https://makemusicincome.com/checklist FREE COURSE: HOW TO UPLOAD TO POND5 https://makemusicincome.com/pond5 FREE EBOOK: 50 WAYS TO MAKE MUSIC INCOME V4 https://makemusicincome.com/50ways FREE EBOOK!: TOOLS YOUR NEED TO MAKE MUSIC INCOME V2 https://makemusicincome.com/tools FREE STOCK MUSIC RESEARCH PAPER: "The Ubiquitous Style, Form, and Instrumentation of Corporate Stock Music" https://makemusicincome.com/ubiquitous ONE-ON-ONE COACHING FOR COMPOSERS AND PRODUCERS: Get Feedback From Eric on Your Music & Career: https://makemusicincome.com/coaching/ JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST (Get an email when we release new videos!) http://eepurl.com/hF8ihr THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE: https://makemusicincome.com/ OUR WEEKLY PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/makemusicincome DISTROKID: Get your music to Spotify, Apple, Youtube, and more for one yearly price. Get 7% Off: Click here: https://distrokid.com/vip/seven/911910 Get 50% off if you are a student or educator! Click here: https://distrokid.com/student/911910 NEED GEAR? SWEETWATER SOUND: Support the channel by using this link to find the latest deals and get the gear you need at our favorite music store, Sweetwater Sound! https://sweetwater.sjv.io/q4JEB5 DISCO: Show off your amazing portfolio and be where the music supervisors and music buyers are! Click here: https://disco.ac/signup?b=2095&u=34391 IDENTIFYY: Get paid when your music is used on YouTube Click here: https://identifyy.com?referral=MTMzMjc2 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY ON DISCORD: https://bit.ly/3fYDSVd FOLLOW US: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makemusicin... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makemusicincome SYNC LICENSING Positive Spin Songs - https://positivespinsongs.com

Do you ever feel like you just made the wrong decisions in your music life through the years that have left you in a place now where you can’t succeed in music the way you want to? Today, I look back at my old music life, when I was taping and scraping by, and generally not in a successful place and thought I might never get to a place where I am now - almost completely living my dream. Sponsored by: FREE EBOOK: 50 WAYS TO MAKE MUSIC INCOME V5 (New Update!) https://makemusicincome.com/50ways Upload Your Music Direct to Non-Exclusive Libraries: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL Get Your Music to TV, Film, Ads, and Gaming: https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH LINKS IN THIS VIDEO: Coming Soon… -- READY TO GET YOUR MUSIC IN TV, FILM, ADS AND MORE?! Start it FREE! https://payhip.com/b/KtoqH How I Got My Music on TV! (And How YOU Can Too!) This course will describe that whole process to you and take you step by step from producing the songs, to finding sync libraries, sync agents, and music supervisors, to get placements in TV shows and movies, to getting paid real music income. -- THE POPULAR COURSE "THE STOCK MARKET" Get DIRECT LINKS and upload YOUR music to Pond5 and each non-exclusive library: https://payhip.com/b/pvsfL -- HELLO COMPOSERS! Join our sister channel Hello Composers! where we talk ONLY about composing. Subscribe to the YouTube channel at http://HelloComposers.com, AND make sure to join the mailing list at http://eepurl.com/hSLgr9 FREE EBOOK: THE DO-EVERYTHING CHECKLIST FOR YOUR SONGS https://makemusicincome.com/checklist FREE COURSE: HOW TO UPLOAD TO POND5 https://makemusicincome.com/pond5 FREE EBOOK!: TOOLS YOUR NEED TO MAKE MUSIC INCOME V2 https://makemusicincome.com/tools FREE STOCK MUSIC RESEARCH PAPER: "The Ubiquitous Style, Form, and Instrumentation of Corporate Stock Music" https://makemusicincome.com/ubiquitous ONE-ON-ONE COACHING FOR COMPOSERS AND PRODUCERS: Get Feedback From Eric on Your Music & Career: https://makemusicincome.com/coaching/ JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST (Get an email when we release new videos!) http://eepurl.com/hF8ihr THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE: https://makemusicincome.com/ OUR WEEKLY PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/makemusicincome DISTROKID: Get your music to Spotify, Apple, Youtube, and more for one yearly price. Get 7% Off: Click here: https://distrokid.com/vip/seven/911910 Get 50% off if you are a student or educator! Click here: https://distrokid.com/student/911910 NEED GEAR? SWEETWATER SOUND: Support the channel by using this link to find the latest deals and get the gear you need at our favorite music store, Sweetwater Sound! https://sweetwater.sjv.io/q4JEB5 DISCO: Show off your amazing portfolio and be where the music supervisors and music buyers are! Click here: https://disco.ac/signup?b=2095&u=34391 IDENTIFYY: Get paid when your music is used on YouTube Click here: https://identifyy.com?referral=MTMzMjc2 POND5: Get into Music Licensing easily! Use this referral code to sign up and get started selling YOUR music with Pond5! Click here: https://www.pond5.com?ref=FromtheMomentMusic JOIN OUR COMMUNITY ON DISCORD: https://bit.ly/3fYDSVd FOLLOW US: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makemusicin... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makemusicincome SYNC LICENSING Positive Spin Songs - https://positivespinsongs.com 0:00 - Do You Look Back in Regret? 5:28 - Eric's Week 10:22 - Q&A 13:54 - News: SESAC ACQUIRES HAWWK (Identifyy) 19:29 - Digging for Gold 20:28 - How Lucky You Are 28:15 - My Music Regrets... 33:48 - Q&A 39:19 - For Such A Time As This! 46:15 - This Could Be Your Time! 48:52 - Q&A