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Join Emily Dolan Davies as she shares personal stories, lessons and musings from her 20 years experience as a session drummer. Find out first hand what it’s like touring the world, recording remotely and running a successful business. If you’re just starting out in the music industry or simply crazy about drums - this podcast is for you!
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147 - Navigating Egos and Personalities
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5 hours ago
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Navigating Egos and Personalities where I share how I choose to see and react to 'bad behaviour' or difficult people on the road as well as sharing some of my own shortcomings (of which there are many!!!)
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Saturday Apr 13, 2024
146 - Job Insecurity
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Job Insecurity as I share with you how to make your job as a professional musician more consistent, stable and reliable, and I even talk about a massive shift that is on it's way with my career! Chaos has ensued!!!
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Saturday Apr 06, 2024
145 - Session Musician Misconceptions
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Session Musician Misconceptions as I address the reasons people claim they can't be a session musician, as well as some of the incorrect assumptions I made as a musician coming up to being a professional. Hopefully this will help you get over those barriers too so you can keep striving towards 'the dream'.
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Saturday Mar 30, 2024
144 - Introverts Unite!
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Introverts Unite! I share how I navigate being an introvert in the extroverted world of music, and the drawbacks, benefits, and tricks I have to thrive in this space. I also share how I have cultivated an extroverted persona on stage and on camera, but rest assured, at my core, I am an introvert too! Weird I know!
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Saturday Mar 23, 2024
143 - The 6 Human Needs
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... The 6 Human Needs as I talk about the filter I run all of my career choices through to make sure I'm the most fulfilled I can be, or if I'm feeling down or empty what needs aren't being met so I can change it! I've found this very useful, and I hope you do too :-)
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Saturday Mar 16, 2024
142 - My Favourite Mantras
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Saturday Mar 16, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... My Favourite Mantras as I share the MAIN things I tell myself, my inner workings and beliefs that help me stay on track with my career, goals, and in my personal life too. I've always been fascinated by what people tell themselves, so thought I'd share my side of things. I'd love to hear some of your favourite mantras too, so please feel free to share :-)
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Saturday Mar 09, 2024
141 - Process Goals
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Process Goals, where I turn goal setting on it's head, and reverse them, to make them more achievable, fun, and allow for all the uncontrollable elements that come with pursuing a creative career :-/
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Saturday Mar 02, 2024
140 - Shortcuts
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Shortcuts where I share some proper cringey things I used to do when I was younger to find the 'most effective' route to becoming a professional drummer, as well as some useful things, but the reality of trying to get past the hard work that is necessary to a career in this industry. So if you'd just like to come and laugh at a past version of me, then this is the episode for you, and you're more than welcome to join! :-)
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Saturday Feb 24, 2024
139 - Hot Cross Buns!
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Hot Cross Buns! Is it about food?! Nope, I wish! This is a CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) method that is widely used to help with moments of anxiety by noticing what's actually going on within you. I share how I apply it to auditions, rehearsals, social situations, and I hope it helps you too! Also would highly recommend you look it up for a visual too :-)
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Saturday Feb 17, 2024
138 - Hyper-Focus and Flow
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Join me in this episode, A Drummer's Guide To... Hyper-focus and Flow as I share the benefits of getting into those states and how I use them to 'move the needle' as it were towards my goals. If you want to delve deeper, the books I talk about that are 2 of my favourites are Deep Work by Cal Newport, and Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Would highly recommend both! :-)
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