Welcome to episode 20 of the Passive Income Musician Podcast! In this Part 1 of 2 episode series, we have special guest Christopher Sutton from Musical U to tell us the story of how he built and scaled his online music education business. It’s a riveting story full of ups and downs, wins and failures, and packed full of valuable insights into the world of music entrepreneurship.
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If you’re on your journey as a Passive Income Musician, making money teaching music online, or on the sidelines looking in, this is an important episode for you.
On this podcast, I often talk about how rewarding being a music entrepreneur is. The lifestyle of choosing your own hours, being your own boss, and making an income without trading your time for money, is just plain awesome.
But I also do my best to mention, that achieving this kind of freedom is anything but easy. It takes a lot of perseverance, learning from failures, and having a long-game mentality.
Christopher Sutton’s story of how he built his online music education company, Musical U, is the embodiment of what it means to be a music entrepreneur.
Christopher is someone I deeply respect, so I had him on the show knowing that he wasn’t going to hold back. Indeed, he didn’t.
In this part 1 of 2 episodes featuring Christopher’s story, you’ll learn what it really means to be a music entrepreneur. He lets us on the inside of how he grew and scaled his online music education business.
You’re about to learn a great deal.
In this episode:
1. Christopher’s ear training app and the blessing and curse of its success.
2. How Christopher slowly left his day job to go full time on his music education business.
3. Some of the big wins, and failures he had along the way to a sustainable business.
This episode continues in Part 2, where we learn more about how his roller coast ride of a journey lead to the business he has today.
Music entrepreneurship isn’t easy, but it’s a whole lot of fun. While sometimes it can be frustrating, as Christopher points out, the rewards of the journey beat out the struggle by far.
Let me know in the comments:
What’s the main takeaway you learned from Christopher’s story today?
