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Blog #4: Security vs Freedom

Where Will Life Have Taken You By Your 20 Year Reunion? From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home       The Big Twenty!  I went to mine this past weekend at The New Rochelle Raddison Hotel.  As I type this blog I am thinking to myself, “Should I include my personal life into these blogs?”  The answer is yes.  Absolutely!  Life is what makes art happen.  So yes, let’s talk about this experience for a moment, if you don’t mind.  The main thought that comes to my mind is: Choose freedom over security and watch life start to open up.  Now, this does not in any way mean to live life like a gypsy, which I admit, I had been doing for many years.  Yes, I had been living day to day, not taking into account anything but my career as a singer and songwriter, my desperation in wanting to “make it” in the industry.  That, by the way, has not allowed for me to have much of a balanced life.  It’s like I was stuck in the air on a seesaw for so many years with The Incredible Hulk, my ego, as my partner[…]

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Blog #2: I Wonder… Does This Fear Ever Subside?

From The Blog Series… 365 Blogs To Finding Pinocchio A Home   I am letting you know from the very birth of this blog series that there is this voice inside of me that desperately wants to believe that I am wasting my time doing what I love most, music.  It’s telling me that no matter what effort and energy I put towards writing, singing and creating music, it will never be enough, so I can forget about ever doing it full time! I hear this voice so loudly in my head sometimes that I start to panic.  I want to introduce this voice to you now so that you can get a clear picture of my experiences along this journey, both internal and external. So, the past day has been focused on me pausing and breathing, rather than jumping right into a full list of actions that will lead me toward getting my music out there on a larger scale.  I have been reconnecting with the idea that I do not control anything in my life no matter how much I want to believe I do.  My ego would make me believe I was a superhero if I[…]

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