Adventures Of An Entrepreneurial ADD

The Adventures of Entrepenurial ADD

It’s 3am, my body is exhausted, my bank account is well overdrawn and yet my mind feels like I’ve just had an infusion of 3 espresso martini’s straight to the bloodstream.

My name is Kelly and I have entrepenurial ADD.

Rather than put my feet up and think, ah best go to bed, rest up and fix those cash-flow problems in the morning my mind looks for the next anything to take those whirling stressed out thoughts and do something productive with the anxiety.

For years I had my fingers in all of the pies desperately trying to find the thing that would fill the hole left by my fear of pursuing the thing I knew I was put here to do.

With a passion for multi-coloured spreadsheets and making websites at 3am I spent many years spread between hundreds of projects as an artist manager, booking agent, publicist, session guitarist, backing singer, co-writer, music business lecturer, guitar teacher and vocal nerd until the exhaustion took hold and I ended up with stress related epilepsy.

Of course, I was too afraid to focus 100% on making music and sabotaged every opportunity I had until I hit rock bottom and had no option but to work on my “stuff” that kept creeping up.

Fast-forward 3 years and a whole lot of soul searching - today I am the musician who helps emerging musicians get gigs, get noticed and make money.

I’ve let go of the need to be busy and I’ve focused my business into a simple “post it note Monday” list of 3 tasks to keep my business moving forward financially. On Follow up Friday my coach keeps me accountable and we tackle the self sabotage head on rather than let it creep into my weekends making music.

I’ve married the perfect calendar which keeps my social media moving, my gig schedule healthy and my client meetings restricted to late in the afternoon so my entrepunurial ADD brain can be channeled into writing songs (making my heart sing rather than stressing out the adrenals at 3am).

Getting clear on my why has literally changed my life.

Getting selfish with my calendar and need to create has filled my love bucket like you wouldn’t believe.

And getting tough with my stuff and asking for help has been the defining factor in all of it.

Kelly Brouhaha is a leading Artist Development Coach and Musician in Adelaide, SA. Having lectured Music Business at MUSIC SA, she consults with local industry on the Creative Industries Advisory Panel and has previously sat on the board of The Songwriter’s Composer’s and Lyricist’s Association.

When Kelly isn't blogging it up here at IndieLove Magazine, you can find her doing her thing at http://kellybrouhaha.com.au

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