Music Business – Heather Fenoughty

3 September 20217 October 2021

How To Have A Successful Career and Not Destroy the Planet (including Studio Tour)

I want to show people how they can make more sustainable choices in their work-from-home offices and studios. I truly do believe there are very few jobs that can't be made more sustainable. Here are 8 areas to consider in your home office or studio to support your career without destroying the planet.

23 April 20217 October 2021

How to Network to Your Strengths

Conference by Benjamin Horn - Flickr Creative Commons

Networking has been weird in the last year or so, hasn't it. At a time when jobs in some media became more thin on the ground - so networking became even more important to freelancers in these industries. It seems I'm a bit in the minority in that I don't mind networking, per se, that …

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12 March 20217 October 2021

On Making Mistakes, and the Definition of ‘Women’

The word 'women' painted in yellow on a wooden board

Have you joined my newsletter? If so, you may have noticed in my celebration of International Women's Day I attempted to be as inclusive as possible by using any and all words I've seen bandied about on the socials when referring to women. But here's the catch - terms like womxn, womyn, and woman-identifying are not the enlightened and educated terms I thought they were. I should have just said WOMEN.

18 April 201921 January 2021

Ten Tips for Building a Career as a Music Composer for Film, TV and Theatre

There is no magic bullet to getting a foothold into this industry… not unless you consider hard work, lots of rejection, or a healthy bent toward self-determination a “magic bullet”. Is there an easy way in? The answer, as with most things in life, is “no”. Most things that are worth doing don’t come easy. …

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21 August 201711 April 2019

Are Decisions Based On Emotion Bad For Business?

Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk by Marcin Wichary

Or What Would Mr Spock Do? I'm going to come right out and say it. I think emotions are key to business. They are a precious tool that should never, ever be ignored. They are the central line of dialogue between your higher brain functions and your subconscious, the route to your creative well. And …

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1 September 20152 March 2018

Hack Circus Podcast – Musical Manipulation

A little while back I had a lovely chat with Leila Johnston of Hack Circus to talk, amongst other intriguing topics, about musically manipulating people (with consent, obvs).

21 April 201418 April 2019

Women, Money, Success and The Bechdel Test

Four UK 20 Pound notes with the Queen's Head

The year is flying by. April is speeding to a close as I finish up the bulk of the music on a very cool project for the V&A Museum down in London. More about this challenging experience in later posts nearer the time the exhibition will open... I'm starting work on a new feature film …

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23 July 201218 April 2019

How to Network, for Newbies

A woman works on a laptop in the corner of a pristine white office foyer

Nobody likes networking. It is a fact. I have yet to meet a single person who says, "You know what, I just LOVE working the room! All these people I don't know, so many faces, so little time, let's DO THIS." More likely it's, "I hate these events... they don't work... I've never gotten a …

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15 March 201223 November 2018

7 Strategies To Avoid Burnout

Just read Tony Schwarz's post The Magic of Doing One Thing At A Time and thought I would share a few of my own tactics to avoiding creative burnout and squeezing all the juice from my work hours.