Hey Anji! I'm Neeta, also known as Essence, I rap, occasionally produce and my sole focus is mixing and mastering, as it's not my intention to be an artist. Would love to meet the other women on here as well! Definitely not a lot of us.

This is a great freebie, thank you Steven! This needs an upvote for those that don't have a membership for soundgym. I played the EQ one, it's solid, I will check out the other ones later.

I selected the first option but even doing this part time consistently would be a dream but would require more time management and project management skills compared to doing it full time. There's other ways to make streams of income without solely working on a project but as creative beings I'm sure we'd all love to become a part of the project. I would hope that the event is transparent enough to let people know it's a constant investment, doing my expenses/losses now for tax purposes as a sole proprietor shows how much I've put in simply STARTING the venture, it would be nice to learn some alternative ways I could break even instead of just cold-reaching out to artists that would be a hit/miss.

Will this cover more of the business aspect? Like the type of things you can expense, would mastering.com be sufficient enough to count as a membership for professional networking or ongoing professional development, or is this more brief? Will there be more suggestions beyond cold reaching out to artists to gain work? Aside from demonstrating our own, I imagine there are some people starting out who only have educational material to work with which isn't permitted for portfolio purposes without artist permission so what are some ways that someone can develop credibility considering all the DIY and competition out there? It seems like anyone can make a youtube tip video and seem credible, I'm not in the full time TRE program but I'm curious about how someone who has completed the program lands a successful placement without already having an established network. I have a lot of questions but I unfortunately can't make it to the live session, I'm looking forward to the replays and seeing if I'm on the right track with what I'm currently doing and gaining some insight and ideas on how to continue moving forward. Great session! I wish I could make it live.

This was a great post, thank you Luiza and Jason for your insights, it gave me something to reflect and revise.