Time to update you on all the things going on. We have clearly been in a waiting period with tiny steps being made. The realization that everything is truly going to happen is finally setting in.
The Music
We leave for Nashville on Saturday! If you follow our facebook and instagram pages, you’ll know that the guys went down last week and watched the musicians lay down the music tracks. They are so awesome! I can listen to just the music without voices in the car all day long. This is going to be the perfect album just to have on in your house or car at any given time. Then adding the words, the stories, the messages and the freaking harmonies! Everyone involved or who has listened has a different favorite song. The producer and experienced musicians as well as Dave and Chad all think we have some hits.
So its rehearse, rehearse, go over lines, stretch our voices while trying to balance out rest and getting/staying healthy so our voices are ready to go. We will be recording 8 songs in 4 days. Scott and I have only done a practice studio so it is going to be a fresh experience. But we are doing all we can to be ready! Dave has put in hours and hours to get us ready. Chad has put in hours and hours writing and perfecting and sending us tracks. Scott has put in hours of contributing, co creating, and working out the business stuff.
We anticipate 6-8 weeks for the vinyl to be cut after the final mix and mastering of the songs. We will hit the social media platforms hard. When it is all ready, the publicist will promote the music and the book. We could do interviews, TV, radio, magazine. Then we will put together mini tours in the places we do the interviews.
If you haven’t yet, please check out our website MidwestMeetsManhattan.com and like and share on facebook and instagram. You can also catch some live performances on facebook. Don’t forget that four of the songs are already out on iTunes, Spotify and amazon music.
The Book
We are in the very final stages of the editing for grammar and punctuation so its perfect. I’m reading it aloud to Scott every night which helps both of us. Chad and Mel are reading it. Our daughter Hannah is reading parts of it so she can get ideas for the cover sketch. Once it is all ready, we will publish it on a web platform that gets it out on all the ebook formats as well as print on demand on Amazon. I will be able as the author to get up to 999 print copies for copy and shipping costs only. We will promote the book along with the album in the interviews and on social media and then have it available for sale at the merch table along with the vinyl. So excited!
The Practice
We are in all the nitty gritty stages of the legal paperwork, the lease, the LLC stuff, the malpractice and liability insurances. Once the lease is signed, the landlord will start the renovations on the office space. We are excited about our office location, 1445 Anderson, in the Anderson Village shopping center. It is next to Suds y’r Duds and down from Sparrow Coffee across from KSU and on the back side of MCC. Two minutes from the house! It is public but also private and has a back entrance and lots of parking in front and back. It has a waiting room, reception area and tiny kitchen, a staff bathroom, a public bathroom, three pretty good size offices and tons of storage.
I’m excited and nervous about all aspects of the practice but am confident moving forward.
Be sure to like and share the facebook and instagram pages Ethos Therapy and Life Coaching and check out our website. Ethostherapyandlifecoaching.com
Me
I continue to volunteer at Homestead and have two clinical supervisees. I work out at Genesis and 9 rounds. I’m still doing lots of self care and resting and healing while getting ready for all the great things to come.
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