A complete system for all your practice

Shipping late December 2025

The Practice with Purpose Planner is a 6-month partnership in your creative journey. It's not just a book of blank pages but an inside-to-out system that helps you build a music career as big as your vision, on stage and off.

You're not here because you need another productivity tool. As a human first and musician second you want clarity on your path and in your various roles. You want to integrate them with your deepest purpose. And most important of all? You're ready to stop playing small and stop apologizing for wanting more.

With this planner you get a safe haven to dream and build your path, a place where you can see all possibilities.

Most planners start with productivity. You need to start with purpose.

What I hear all the time from musicians who are teaching, performing, building businesses, living a full life, raising a family, building a sustainable income... 

"I'm managing students, gigs, practice time, and trying to grow something online... but I feel scattered. It's hard to see the bigger picture."

"I have so many ideas, but no system for actually making them happen. I'm just reacting to whatever comes up next."

"Every planner I've tried is designed for 9-5 jobs. Nothing works for irregular performance schedules and creative work."

"I'm so tired. I love music, but I'm not sure if all this is worth it."

"It's selfish to focus on my own dreams"

"I don't have time for what I actually want"

Here's what I want you to know:

You have permission to dream. You can have a career as multi-faceted as you are. You're not failing, and you're not scattered. Your tools are.

Most planning systems start with external metrics—how many students, which auditions, what your social media looks like. They're built for someone else's definition of a successful music career.

But what about what YOU actually want? What kind of life you're building alongside this career? What sustainability actually looks like for you?

After over 20 years of working with musicians, here's what I've learned:

Those who build meaningful careers do not get there by playing it safe. They get there by giving themselves permission to dream messily, want unapologetically, and build boldly.

They create space—actual, physical space—for their dreams to be as big as they actually are.

That's the gap most planners never address. And that's exactly why this one exists.

What happens when you build from purpose

As Gloria Steinem says, "Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

The Practice with Purpose Planner is that space. A complete system built specifically for musicians juggling teaching, performing, and business—not a generic productivity tool demanding perfection.

This is a lived-in space where transformation happens. Where you can be real and be more of... you.

The planner helps you:

✓ Start with what you actually want—not what you think you should want

✓ Honor every role you play—without losing yourself in any one of them

✓ Design intentional practice—on your instrument and in your life

✓ Build outward from a foundation that's actually yours—not someone else's path with your name on it

✓ Give yourself permission to be beautifully, powerfully imperfect

✓ Integrate rest and sustainability—because you can't build a career if you're running on empty

✓ Track both progress and well-being—the metrics that matter AND how you're actually doing

The result? A music career that feels aligned with who you actually are—not who you think you're supposed to be. A life that feels energized, sustainable, and genuinely yours.

The planner system contains resources, tools, guides, and checklists grounded in the 9-pillar framework I teach inside Music 360—the same system that's helped hundreds of musicians build sustainable, meaningful careers.

This isn't about doing more. It's about doing what matters, with clarity and purpose.

It's about aligning who you are as a human being—all your multitudes—with your actions.

What's inside? 

A ROADMAP (50 pages) + A DASHBOARD (90 pages):  To create the clarity where transformation happens, you set up your roadmap—a personal code for navigation.

The Practice with Purpose Planner is organized around a 3-section Roadmap followed by your Dashboard, all the blank monthly and weekly spreads, plus templates.  It's the same "inside out" approach I teach in Music 360. This isn't just a calendar with blank pages. It's a structured path for building a sustainable music career that starts with clarity, moves through intentional practice, and extends outward to how you show up in the world.

Don't just start with external goals and hope you figure out the rest. This one starts with YOU—your purpose, your values, your vision—then helps you build everything else from that foundation.

Why I built this 

I've been a professional orchestral musician for over 20 years. I teach at the university level. I run a digital academy for clarinetists. I founded a chamber ensemble. I created Music 360 to teach musicians how to build sustainable careers. I have a family. I like to cook and travel, and sleep! 

On paper, it looks like I've figured it out.

But here's what nobody tells you about building a multifaceted music career: integrating all the pieces is hard.

Seriously, I have tried every system I could find. Planners that don't allow for irregular performance schedules. Artistic journals with no space for teaching or business planning. Productivity apps that made me feel like I was supposed to be productive every waking moment.

Nothing worked because nothing was designed for the way musicians actually live and work. And most miss the essential parts of what makes YOU tick. What excites you. 

So I created something that puts it together. 

If you saw the original Musician's Purpose Planner I released in 2022, you'll recognize the foundation—but this is a complete evolution.

The Practice with Purpose Planner integrates the full 3-section framework I teach inside Music 360—a system I've refined over years of working with students, helping them move from scattered and reactive to grounded and intentional.

This is a safe place to build your practice and your purpose. A place where you can honor each role you play without losing yourself in any one of them. Where you navigate by your own light—your values, your vision, your unique way of moving through the world.

I see you.

The musician who's been waiting—not for more hours in the day, not for the "right" opportunity, but for permission to build careers that don't fit neatly into one box. 

This planner has space for both artistry and entrepreneurship, and structure without rigidity. It allows purpose to be built, from mistakes and false steps, and from the knowledge that alignment isn't a bonus—it's essential.

This isn't a planner that tells you what success should look like.

This is a planner that helps you build your version of success, from the inside out.

It's a place to think. To reflect. To plan with intention. Get quiet and enter into a space of non-judgment. To remember why you started doing this in the first place.

If you're ready to stop reacting to every opportunity that comes your way and start building toward something that's actually, genuinely yours—

This is for you.

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A 6-Month partnership

The Practice with Purpose Planner: $77

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Is this planner "right" for you? 

This is for musicians building a multifaceted career—teaching, performing, creating, maybe building a business—and you're done with just winging it.  You're done with shrinking yourself to fit... what the world says you need to be. 

You want clarity in your myriad roles. You want to integrate them with your deepest purpose. And you're ready to organize your life in a way that actually honors who you are.

This is perfect for you if:

• You have multiple income streams (or you're building them) and want the clarity to manage them with intention, not overwhelm
• You have vision and ambition, but you need a system to turn those dreams into your actual roadmap
• You're ready to honor both your professional goals and your well-being, because you know they're not separate
• You need a planning system that honors both professional goals and personal well-being, as well as your dreams
• You're ready to invest in a tool that supports not just your technique, but your whole career and life

   

This probably isn't the right fit if:

• You're looking for a magic solution that does the work for you (this requires engagement and reflection)
• You're not ready to examine what you actually want from your career
• You want a quick fix without engagement (transformation requires showing up)
• You prefer only digital tools (this is designed for the kind of deep thinking that happens best on paper)

If you've read this far, you're already ready. You're just deciding whether to give yourself permission.

Consider this your permission.

Got questions? 

One more thing...

Still on the fence? Here's the question: What would it be worth to finally have clarity on where your career is headed—and a real plan to get there? To feel intentional instead of scattered? To build something sustainable instead of constantly putting out fires?

You've already invested thousands of hours and significant money in your musical training. This is your chance to invest in the business and planning skills that will help you actually sustain the career you've worked so hard to build.

The Practice with Purpose Planner gives you the framework to do exactly that.