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With roughly a month to go before my eighth album comes out, I’m revisiting the work I’ve dedicated the past decade to, and what I was searching for through it. This is a look back at that search, and how my upcoming album, Seen Heard Held, aims to be the counterbalance to what Re_movement was. The IG Carousel with photos. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Three weeks after a racial attack in Berlin, I move from shock and helplessness into anger, and sit with the discomfort of agreeing with what someone is fighting for without knowing if I could fight the same way. A solocast about racism, belonging, contradictory truths and what humanity means when even that word can be hijacked. -- More Relevant Links: My talks with Equity Coach Tayo Rockson My Talks with Sheila Chandra My article on Racism in Germany --- Free Artist Training Coaching + cou...

The coaching industry has fractured into two distinct worlds: one grounded in genuine education and responsibility, another built on engineered dissatisfaction and circular profit models. Between them lies a dangerous gap where the language of transformation masks the machinery of extraction, and where the promise of accessibility obscures deliberately incomplete offerings. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com Episode No...

Five years after her first appearance on Tapasya Loading, New York-based Dutch vocalist, composer, producer, educator and psychologist Vivienne Aerts returns as our first-ever guest to make a second reappearance. Her new album, Current, was created aboard a tiny wooden sailboat that Vivienne and her husband, Ted Steinebach, first bought during the pandemic. What began with a fascination for the acoustics of open water eventually became a floating studio, travelling from Leiden towards Amsterd...

What happens when you stop trying to force incompatible parts of yourself into a single coherent identity, and recognize that the relationship between those parts is the identity itself instead? Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

In an era when machines generate the appearance of creativity, understanding the difference is not sentimental. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

The boundary between coaching and therapy has become impossibly blurred, particularly for independent artists navigating both creative ambition and psychological weight. Most distinctions you've heard collapse under scrutiny, revealing instead that what actually matters is scope, competence, purpose, and the specific geography in which support is being offered. Here's my revised take in 2026 Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Why a Growth Mindset less about trying harder and more about loosening your grip on who you think you are. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com

How the relentless pursuit of "likes" ended up reshaping art. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Self-loathing is a harsh word to acknowledge, but what it points to is real. And what it shows up as in our daily decisions are the buildings blocks of the pattern that threatens to pull us away from our own creative centre. Brought to you by: https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/ https://safeandsound.studio/ Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

I was a toddler when two women at a doorstep decided what I was worth. It took me decades to hear the lesson inside that deal. This one is about value decided, not discovered. About us waiting for circumstances to hand down a verdict that was never theirs to give. And about the harder half: receiving. Who taught you what you were worth? And have you been living by their estimate ever since? Brought to you by: https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/ https://safeandsound.studio/ Read the arti...

Why a manager, team, assistant, audience or patron might be useless to us until we understand this first. Brought to you by: https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/ https://safeandsound.studio/ Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Uday Benegal is the founding vocalist of Indus Creed (formerly Rock Machine), the Bombay band that that arguably forced the rest of the world to acknowledge the existence of a culture that had always existed inside post-colonial India amidst the crossfire of an East and West not always as hypothetical as portrayed. Rock Music. Indus Creed navigated a global music industry with no label, no budget, and no precedent, and still managed to land an MTV Video Music Award at a time when public in...

Most creatives know that beliefs are holding them back. Some can articulate them, analyse them, even replace them with supposedly empowering alternatives. Yet the behaviour often remains unchanged, and the resistance stubbornly intact. What comes up: Why "limiting belief" might be the inaccurate terminology What self-sabotage is actually trying to do The question I used to ask, and the one I ask now Why knowing the pattern doesn't always break it The beliefs you never chose Read the art...

The brain mistakes repetition for safety, comfort for understanding, and endurance for choice. This confusion runs deeper than personal relationships; it shapes entire careers, industries, and the inherited scripts we mistake for our own lives. What comes up: Why the decisions that change your life rarely feel safe at the time Why the brain is a prediction machine, not a happiness machine Liking things simply because we've seen them before The known wound vs. the unknown opening The music...

Saying no sounds simple. It isn't, and not for the reasons most people think. In this episode I unpack why the word itself was never really the problem, what's actually happening when we can't hold a line, and why the emotional aftermath of a boundary is harder than the boundary itself. Drawn from real situations — a collaboration that needed a hard conversation, a coaching relationship that got uncomfortably accurate, and years of running a business through someone else's framework, this one ...

There is an entire chapter of Indian music history that has shaped global music in unknown ways remains preserved only in the human memory of a select few. Sandhya Sanjana is one of those humans. Long before "world music" became a marketing category, she was part of a generation of home-grown South-Asian artists blurring the edges of jazz, global and Indian classical music by a trial and error met with genuine curiosity, rather than novelty. Co-founder one of India's earliest internatio...

In this episode, I unpack two economic philosophies that sound academic but are anything but. The gift economy and the transactional economy. What they actually mean, where they came from, why the gift economy keeps surfacing as an alternative to the chaos of how power and wealth get distributed and why, in the creative industries specifically, the romance of giving freely has been one of the most expensive ideas we never agreed to. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

The fear of invisibility haunts nearly every one of us, especially creatives. We're quick to blame the algorithm, the platform, the saturated market, and AI. But what if the real source of that pain runs much deeper? Rooted not in metrics, but in older wounds we're carrying? This piece traces the invisible thread between childhood experiences of being unseen and the desperate urgency many of us bring to our art, asking whether the visibility we're chasing is really about being heard, or whethe...

In an era obsessed with relentless output, we often make the subtle but dangerous mistake of confusing our outward capabilities with our internal space. While modern hustle culture demands flashy performances, new skills, and louder opinions, the profound art of truly "holding space" is quietly slipping away from our daily lives. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com

What does “accessibility” really mean when the door looks open, but power still decides who gets in? Using the music world as a revealing lens, this episode discusses how current culture turns openness, authenticity, and even vulnerability into branding tools that can mask exclusion, exploitation, and control. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com Episode Notes / Text : www.tlwrites.com Music and Audio Production: www.ev...

What if creativity is not just an abstract concept, but a vital physiological necessity rooted deeply within the human brain? What if creative freedom isn’t a luxury at all, but a biological requirement for humanity? The striking connection between stress, brain function, and creativity reveals how judgment, control, and poorly-curated environments can push the mind into survival mode and shut down the very capacity art depends on. And the implications of flipping that dynamic are fascinating...

Pop psychology can often flatten complex neurological phenomena into simplistic manifestation slogans. But the actual mechanics behind how our brains organize reality is far more fascinating. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

(Rec. 23rd Oct 2025) Photo: © Peter Pavlov When a serendipitous turn of events resulted in Mahidhara's international debut being on one of the most visible stages of the world, the cascade of events that followed leading to an illustrious career that breaks multiple stereotypes in the arts industry by default, was not on a premeditated agenda, but a natural bi-product of a passionate and tenacious work ethic amply apparent even in her earlier formative years. We dig deeper to trace t...