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In place of my big impossible goal, I decided to focus my energy on slowing down, creating, and having fun this year. And technically it...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 24
- 1 min
No One Has The Answer Key
Do you know what you want, but you aren’t sure how to get there? Do you know what you want, but you are just waiting for someone to...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 23
- 1 min
What Does It Take To Change Your Life?
Humans swallow between 500-700 times every day. When we sing, we most often want to release these swallowing instincts and resist the...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 22
- 1 min
Why You're Feeling Stuck After Graduating With An Arts Degree
When I finished grad school, I felt that I had been taught one, maybe two ways to be a successful artist. And I had checked all of the...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Comfort Vs. Peace
Both Comfort and Peace are needful and useful. Comfort is a tool to find relief from suffering, a tool to discover contentment, ease, and...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 19
- 1 min
3 Questions That Lead to Aligned Action
Your mindset is important, but you can’t just sit around and meditate all day. You have to take action. But it is important that you take...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 19
- 1 min
What I Think About Fear
I used to think that the presence of fear meant… … that I was doing something wrong. … that I was in danger. … that I wasn’t enough. But...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 17
- 1 min
What Nintendo Taught Me About Failure
Growing up, I never had an N64, playstation, or gamecube. I had the original nintendo. So instead of mastering MarioKart, I mastered a...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 15
- 1 min
The Reason People Aren't Paying For Your Art
I used to think that the reason people didn’t pay me to sing or pay me to teach them to sing was because of what THEY thought of me and...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Your Voice Matters
You’ve seen the passionate videos of wives explaining to their husbands the significance of Taylor’s version, right? (click here for an...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 12
- 1 min
You Can't Go Over It
The only thing that stands in between you and *making it* as an artist is failure. You can’t go over it. You can’t go around it. You have...
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Jenny McKay
- Jun 5, 2021
- 2 min
What Every Transformation Has In Common
My senior year of high school, I played Mrs. Potts in our production of Beauty and the Beast. It was a blast. It was a new challenge...
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Jenny McKay
- Jun 2, 2021
- 1 min
Sustainable Results
We want results. And we want those results to be long-lasting. As a voice teacher and a singer, it is tempting to seek a quick fix for...
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Jenny McKay
- May 30, 2021
- 2 min
I dare you to JUST START
I think the greatest tip to figuring out the solution to any problem is to JUST START And humans resist it so much. What if we start...
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Jenny McKay
- May 26, 2021
- 1 min
17 Ideas to SparkCreativity
Humans long to create meaning. In their lives, in their career, in their art. We want to squeeze meaning out of anything. As artists...
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Jenny McKay
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Do you feel like you are in an eternal downward dog?
A week ago I began participating in a 30-day yoga challenge. Sometimes, the yoga is easy to follow and flows nicely. I like this stuff....
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Jenny McKay
- Apr 8, 2020
- 1 min
Build Your Vision Meditation
I have listed a link to a five-minute meditation that will help you envision your life in 10 years. You can listen to this meditation and...
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Jenny McKay
- Sep 7, 2019
- 3 min
A Single, Childless Mother
Growing up in a conservative Christian community, motherhood has been celebrated and praised often. Though encouraged, I never felt drawn...
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Jenny McKay
- Feb 27, 2019
- 2 min
When I Found My Magic
In the last quarter of 2018, I read (listened to) Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. And that's when it all started. That's when something...
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Jenny McKay
- Feb 15, 2019
- 3 min
Why I Left a Creative Career to Lead a Creative Life
I had made it. I was in my final year of my Masters Degree at a prestigious university in an extraordinary music department. I was...
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