Ep #5 - Steven Paradis - How To Quit Your Job and Start Playing Solo Gigs

This month's guest is the incredible Steven Paradis

Steven plays 5-7 times a week in the Bradenton, FL area.

I've had the pleasure of seeing him play a few times and he is an incredible performer

who has fun with his audience.

I thought Steven would be a great guest because he started performing solo later in life.

One day he said screw it, quit his job, and started playing gigs

He'll tell you how he did it in this episode.

We'll also talk about:

Making time for vacations

Making that leap of faith from a regular job to pro musician

Having fun with the audience

How not to be intimidated by people who we think are more talented than us

Hosting open mics

Steven's awesome social media strategy

We're also gonna talk about how your critics probably aren't doing anything anyway

Steven's advice for beginners

Paul McCartney is allowed to screw up and so are you

…and of course the 5 songs you should know according to Steven