what you can’t live without | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

what you can’t live without

If you wouldn’t bother to drag it away from the gates of hell, and sigh at the first sign of adversity.
If anything extra is too much for what you’ve budgeted this would cost

Burn it.

The movie Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003) contains a striking goth image:
Johnny Depp’s character, stark black outfits and long dark hair, is wearing sunglasses to cover his missing eyes.

Streams of thick dark red blood have dripped from his eye sockets.
Painting both undereye areas a ghastly red.

Yet, he does not give up (his malicious ways).
Even having lost his eyes, he will not be defeated.

Admirable.
However, we must take one thing into consideration:
He only has his work to focus on, whereas we probably also have a house to take care of, and maybe friends, family, circles of people we regularly see, and so on and so forth.

We do not have just one job, we’d lose our eyes for and still keep going.
And that, makes it complicated.

Even in Romeo and Juliet-like tales, where the main characters center their life around romance, ignoring the social code;
The war it causes illustrates this immediately has consequences.

The truth is, it doesn’t really matter what you center your life around;
Career, romance, running, your health, activism or (my suggestion) your creativity;
It always, comes at a cost.

Life has been designed in a way that allows only for shallow, on-the-fly constantly interrupted interactions, that would not even have counted as connection, a few decades ago.

If you want anything of meaning, you’re going to have to create it yourself.

The more junk-interactions you have, particularly online, consuming rather than creating or connecting;
The less value all those interactions have.

And the happier the big tech companies are, to whom you’re feeding your entire consciousness.
Instead of to doing things that matter.

Value is only in the things you’d lose your eyes for.

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how can it serve you | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

how can it serve you

Providing!
You thought life through and know what your purpose is because by now you live and breathe it and could recognize it deaf, blind, drunk, and with your hands bound behind your back;

Then why are you not wildly excited about whatever it is you are currently doing?

In my twenties I knew someone whose academic curriculum contained a book called: “Children need fairy tales” and I was also introduced to the work by Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey.

Both were, in all probability, a useful addition to my education since I got my highschool education in the years when the Greeks were not part of it.
Our history classes started with the Romans, something my mother pointed out to me and I believed she even asked our history teacher why the Greeks were not part of Canon.

Naturally, at the time I thought her concern with this was merely her professional pre-occupation with the topic, and didn’t think much of it.

But just like children who are raised without sugar (I was ALSO raised without sugar, so I can attest to this from experience) I developed a fascination with it.
Through mysterious ways of boyfriends giving me books on the subject (without them being on my wish list), fan fiction (you may want to look that up, in case you’re unfamiliar with the term) where the Greeks became a popular topic after the early 21st century Greek revival in movies;
And numerous other ways, I learned Greek mythology in a deeply intimate way…

And what both the fairy tales as well as the Greeks have in common, is pointed out in Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey.

Because they’re quests, which you cannot successfully fulfil unless you have first overcome the series of challenges directly on your path.

You are trained by the path itself, as you are on your way.
In the unfolding, you receive what you need later on.

Nothing is ever wasted.

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stop messing with purpose | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

stop messing with purpose

Beneath the doubt, the fear, the constant checking;
Behind the yearning for validation, recognition, someone to lean on or even just to lean with!

You know why it is you’re here.

Today I walked the streets of a rebuilt Roman neighborhood.

I got lost in their alleys, I ate at their inn, I discovered their city villa, centered around the small enclosed courtyard of stone.

I missed the penis sign which had made me wonder years ago, if it was supposed to depict a brothel.
A rebuilt brothel which we had not entered because it had been under construction, but now that I was there, seven years later, I forgot to go into the building and check.
I did not remember.

But I also climbed the wide white stairs of the palace, a wooden throne at its center which the visitors could not sit on.
But it was clear this palace and the large square surrounded by walls, belonged to the ruler of the village.
The palace and its stairs a stage, more than a functional way to enter a home.

And I stood there, in front of an imaginary crowd who had gathered to see their new ruler and I said:
“I shall be your first female senator, and I am your ruler! You will all bow to me!”
And this was after I had already lingered at a high terrace balconies overlooking a hill, saying:
“I could order the troops from here.”
And in my mind I could already hear a horn.

It were playful thoughts and probably inspired by role players who were at the site. I could see roman soldiers left, right and center.
But still the moments lingered in my mind.
They were fiction, yes, but fiction that resonated.

And I realized that whatever it is we do believe we are here to do, it deserves to be lived like that.

We need to find our point of focus, of power, of truth.
To live it, to speak it, to wear it.

Until we can hear the sound of the horn.

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Choosing Art | Share Your Work 2025 07 28

A very long time ago, I became single. I was excited about the choice but also expected it would end up biting me in the ass. I expected a price to be paid.

And I was right;
Just not the price I anticipated.

Because couples can share burdens, decrease risks and pool resources.
One example is how medical treatment often requires someone to drive you and also to be the first line of emotional support as well as the first caregiver.
If you are single you seriously need to rethink your strategy here, since every medical visit means you have to rely on your social network, which can strain friendships and family bonds.

Being alone at gatherings or the existential idea of aging without next of kin, which were the abstract ideas I associated with being single, are not the first thing you should worry about.
It’s the day to day availability of someone who can step in and help you, either practically or just the soothing effect of having someone around.
My partner and me dropped on the couch every evening, with tea, cookies and cats. I have no memory of anything earth shattering or important happening there, yet it was so nourishing.

My old life dropping away took almost two decades.
And now I can truly say I am alone.
All the soft-landing support networks have become either less available, or there is a more narrowed down understanding of what we share.

So I am now the single I set out to be all those years ago.
Including the price I pay for that.
Yet I do not regret any of it.
The choice to label myself as solitary, like a tiger, was life changing and liberating.
And this year, when the edges of consequence have become razor sharp, has been the most creative by far.

When I was still with my partner I had no creativity to speak of.
Something was missing but it wasn’t the new love life as a single, that would prove to change my world;
It was creating.

The biggest thrill of being single is to have art at the center of your life.

Art is The One.


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what comes natural | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 09 22

what comes natural

The talents, skills and interests that are currently activated in you, are both a gift, because here the energy will flow;
As well as a limitation.

And to up the ante;
They are ever changing.

I think it was about ten, fifteen years ago, when this idea that we (artists and business owners) needed a Why, was very much en vogue.
Which was actually a trickled down version from the idea that companies in general, needed a Why.
Which is how a lot of things in marketing and management got screwed up.
And this was no exception.

Because when you are an independent the only one that is involved in moving your business forward, is you.
And you don’t need to write down on paper what excites you, what moves you, why you love your work, and not even (anyone who has been within 5 yards of a marketing course will recognize this), not even, who your ideal clients are.

You will know what people you gel with, and whom you don’t get along with.
There is little mystery there, except perhaps that you need to give yourself permission to only do business or work with people and under the conditions that suit you.
Permission granted.

However, for a company, where people need to work together within a bee hive or abstract concept, of course it can help to give words to how client relationships should be managed.
You need to give the company a personality, shoes into which employees can step and a vocabulary they can use.
A philosophy to work by.

However, if you are your own person, then all those things do not need to be explicit, because they are yours.
You, are the company.
If you would set up your own philosophy as if you are a company, it would end up being as artificial as for any other employee.

Working under other people’s rules is always straining, even if it was originally your own.
It’s like when you have those business owners/CEOs who work really hard and then expect the same from their personnel.

When the entire company has been tailored to their strengths.
The people around them are working in a to-them-foreign energy, so it’s much harder on them.

The same would happen if you would set your own work philosophy or artistic direction in stone.
You’re immediately stuck in yesterday’s version of you.
Bye bye growth and agility.

So clearly, that’s not an option.

The whole idea of knowing and finding your Why, and it being this Thing that drives everything, might be an improvement for companies, and definitely beats trying to regulate everything at execution level.
But it’s a setback for if you are your own person.

You are becoming less, not more, if you put your Why on paper and stick to it.
You’ve thrown away your natural inspiration and alignment, for something man-made.

We have to except that we do not have a Why.
And that that is a good thing.
At the risk of being too extreme for your liking, I would offer you’re actually under direct command of the Universe or your higher Self.

Now of course this does not mean that your work is in isolation! Of course you’re looking for connection with those around you, including your clients or audience.
But what I mean is that you’re not doing it from a point of having your philosophy or mission laminated on your desk.

Dealing with your own ever changing nature, or the ever changing direction that the Universe or other powers give you, can be a bit of a challenge.

There is the story about the scorpion who wants the frog to take him across the river. The frog refuses, saying that the scorpion will sting him.
But the scorpion says, why would I do that?
Because if I do, then we’re both dead.

So the frog takes the scorpion on its back.

Of course the scorpion stings the frog, and before drowning the frog asks why.
“It’s my nature,” the scorpion replies.

In the most extreme sense, you are one day a scorpion, the next day the frog, and the following day a fish who cannot be made to climb a tree.

This is of course a very extreme example, and one I hope you do not have to live through.

It all boils down to two aspects, to this process of doing what comes naturally and what will therefor take flight, and come effortlessly.

The first is to realize you do not need to fixate yourself.

The corporate inspired vision, blueprint, whatever, is not for you. And you do not even have to commit to a set of values unless you doubt your own ability to do the right thing, given the context.
Contrary to businesses, you are flexible because you walk your own path. And staying on path, does not mean to verbalize it and name every corner and formalize every decision;
It means being true to who you are.

And secondly, your natural strengths are forever changing.
Because you, are forever changing.

Who you are, in the most extreme sense, can fluctuate from being the scorpion, to the frog, to the fish, to the tree.
And you could say that the work flows from that.

But another way to see it, is that you change because the work that is supposed to flow out of you, is different every day.
This means to trust you are exactly who you are meant to be that day, in order to do what needs to be done.

That you are not given the satisfaction of being able to articulate what your mission or your philosophy is.
Not the luxury and the peace of mind, of having a clearly aligned Why.

But you got something else;
The understanding that you will wake up every day, being exactly the right person for the work that needs to be done.

Including dealing out the occasional sting.

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We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

2. your purpose
What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

3. your Rock Star expansion
What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

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you’re original material | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 09 02

you’re original material

Every beginning band knows they need to choose;
Either you play covers, giving you a great chance at being regularly booked and a shot at becoming professional.

Or you write your own songs and see chances marginalize, but stakes spiking!
If you win here, you win big.

And it works the same for you, but with one major difference;
You don’t have a choice.

Although widely known that it is difficult to make money from your art, a large part of why that is, is usually not included in the story.
Which is that there are systems, organizations, and ingrained social structures and beliefs, that surround run of the mill productivity and success.
And that are absent or limited, in art.

Within systems and organizations, there are still nuances of course.
Where certain job levels are exploited, and others require working up to 80 hours a week to get to.
But overal there is an understanding of the principles, the dynamics.
Parts of this system are referred to as a rat race, but at least with a race the track is known.

In these places there is a blueprint, a way to establish where you are. There are best practices and books written about how to survive or even thrive in this system.

When for creatives the path is not just less traveled, but to be cut through with a machete.
Because typically, there is no path.

So the big difference between living from your art, and choosing a profession linked to a system, or in a system, is that you have to learn to move forward without a roadmap. 
Without knowing where you are, and in the worst case even not knowing where you are going.

Because the whole concept of knowing your endgame, is tied to the hierarchy as well, of course!

The more that is known, the more of the map is known, and the easier it gets.

Two questions to indicate if what you want (of vaguely have a concept about) is difficult or not:
Q1 Do you have any role models, in the vein of how you want to work?
For beginning bands this question can usually be easily answered!
They will have many idols and people who inspired them with their music.
But so many of us will be carrying our Rock Star soul around through industries where no one has ever done it in a creative way.
Or at least no one we know of.
When it comes to creativity and art, it helps if your dominant creative expression is in a field where others have gone before you.

But rock n roll itself, wasn’t invented until halfway 20th century.
Every established creative industry once had someone, usually more people, who started not just moving the needle, but painting it, hanging it upside down, knitting a Rock Star outfit for it, or whatever creative thing it is they do!

By definition, creative industries do not appear out of nowhere;
People gave their lives for this.

So if you do not have examples, and it has not been done before, know that is a place where many have stood before you.
It’s where all things begin.

And then:
Q2 Are there known paths to make money, that are more safe?

Again, illustrated by the choice beginning bands make;
Yes, there are multiple options for bands and musicians, such as playing in a Tribute or Coverband, or becoming a studio musician, or a music teacher.

The two questions are actually related;
If your creative expression does not have others to set a positive example, then the options you have of playing it safe, will also be further off from what you had in mind.
Or simply non-existent.

To illustrate:
Before rock n’ roll existed, Yes an “aspiring avant-la-lettre Rock Star” could become a music teacher, as an alternative to this urge to express something liberating and rebellious but not knowing what because of course there was little inspiration to draw from!-
But they’d have to teach classical music, because they could hardly become a teacher in something that had not been invented.

So whatever your dreams are – whatever the art or your creative reinterpretation of your craft or profession which no one has dared to mess around with before –
Know that you are, in the words of Brené Brown, braving the wilderness here.

There have been people who became rock stars and played in successful bands, who were thoroughly unhappy there.
In retrospect, they would have been better off choosing a lower profile job so that they could specialize without the disruptive powers of being in the limelight.

But those must have been few compared to the ones who settled for what promised to be safety, when they actually had Rock Star DNA that was not designed to be unleashed in confided spaces. At all.
When set off in front of 60.000 people, that power would not just have been expected and somewhat required, but completely safe as well.

There is a story about the first rock n’ roll musician, Robert Johnson. He is surrounded by myth, but what is not a myth is that he was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986.

Legend has it, he sold his soul to the devil in order to learn to play the electric guitar very well.

And although I do not recommend selling your soul to the devil, I do believe the story of Robert Johnson, the first rock n’ roll star, is a tale of initiation,  and of understanding.
He knew what he wanted was beyond human skill to obtain.
He knew he wasn’t going to get there through earthly means, just setting one foot in front of the other.

He gave his soul, and to the devil no less, because his goal was that important to him.

It is the same power that resides in you.

What are you holding on to, that is definitely granted to the Plan B coverband studio musicians of this world, but that needs to be tossed into the flames of you finally accepting your bigger purpose?

The world needs more studio musicians, more cover bands, more wonderful professionals who are very good at what it is they do, and are beloved members of their communities, and valued deeply for the good they bring and everything they mean for the people around them.

But your fire was meant to light up the night’s sky.
Your name, to be catapulted forward into a future where none of us will be alive to hear it.

You were born to sustain the pressure of the limelight, of 60.000 people or the world watching every move.
You could handle knowing the devil is waiting for you.

Because what awaits you when you turn inside, the screaming of a calling unanswered, and creativity denied, is a thousand times more scarier, than facing whatever is outside.

You didn’t exactly come with options.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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THE ROCK STAR, is Catacombe’s signature 3 hour session.

THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
s_beenackers@hotmail.com

Terms and conditions at:
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Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

2. your purpose
What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

3. your Rock Star expansion
What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

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If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

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it is what cannot be stopped | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 08 29

it is what cannot be stopped

What flows naturally, what came with a vision.
What followed you around when all else dropped away.

It is what will remain until the day you die.

All the rest, is entertainment.

The trickiest part about being called to do something, is that it appears surprisingly similar to people doing the same thing you think you should be doing.

The moves are the same, and there are unspoken as well as official rules, standards you never fathomed.
If you’re very unlucky there are diplomas and trainings expected to have or pursue.

But your gift doesn’t work that way.
In fact, if you insist on killing it – which is difficult but it can be done!- then your best bet is to formalize it, and start tailoring and kneading your vision and your natural talents and abilities;
To the smallminded worldly interpretation of it.

Watch!
How it sucks the soul straight out of it.

Until its lifeless remains have the exact same shape as what everything else thinks it should look like, but the urgency, the compelling pull, the spark of fascination and your natural willingness to be totally absorbed by it;
Are gone.

The thing that is yours to bring into this world, comes with its own soul and its own resources.
It does not answer to the laws of this world.

But doing it in an uptight, proper manner, aimed at winning respect and showing how professional you are;
Will leave you empty handed.

..
~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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THE ROCK STAR

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THE ROCK STAR, is Catacombe’s signature 3 hour session.

THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
s_beenackers@hotmail.com

Terms and conditions at:
https://catacombenijmegen.com/terms-conditions/

Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

2. your purpose
What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

3. your Rock Star expansion
What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
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If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

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your calling will find you | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 06 07

your calling will find you

When you close your eyes and open yourself up to universal wisdom;
Thinking deeply.
Contemplating.
Feeling the breath calming and the mind clearing.

Or when you are ecstatically dancing in Flow;
To the beat of the Universal drum.

One with Life itself.

Or whether you are working hard, struggling forward, leaving no stone untouched, with a therapist, a coach or studying a book or a program.

The calling you find is, in all probability, not The One.

The deal is really simple here.
Either you are someone who will have a calling, or you are not.
And even if you are someone who has a calling, it can still come in at least two ways;

It can come from the outside moving in;
A pressing quest like Frodo knowing he was the one to take the ring to Mordor.

Or it can come from the inside moving out;
Jezus knowing he was here to do God’s work.

These two examples illustrate a calling is not something you can choose, nor should you be particularly delighted when you find out you have one.
In the classic The Hero’s Journey from Joseph Campbell, there is a reason there are several chapters dedicated just to the part where the hero refuses the calling.
A calling is not something we accept because we think it’s a nice way to spend our lives, because we will be meeting cool people, because we will learn things we have been curious about for a long time;
Nor is it something that will make our lives better, nor necessarily will we be saving others.

Above all, a calling is something you cannot NOT do.
It will risk losing your life, either figuratively because your life is now in service of that (you’ve lost your life to the calling) or you risk losing your life literally due to various perils on your way.

In other words;
You’d have to be pretty lost to voluntarily go look for a calling, or want one.

Fantasies, ambitions, nice-to-have-stuff, cool adventures to want, and massive challenges to take, just to see of you can do it?
Those are the goals that can shape and give direction to our lives, in a fun and meaningful way, without eating us alive.
Without breaking us, without burning our world down, without stripping us from everything we hold dear, and we can still grow, we can find friends for life, and we will have spent our lives in a meaningful and better way because of it.
Growing, and aspiring a worthy goal.

But real callings?
Those are the ones that find you, when you are not looking.
The ones you don’t want, and that are so overwhelming and outside your zone of comfort, you simply have no idea where to begin.

You look around, if there’s not someone else who can do this, but there is no one. If you don’t do this it will not get done, and you know it.
And yet you still refuse.
Run away.
You deject, the real calling.

Which isn’t a problem at all, really. No, seriously, no probs!
‘Cause this one?
Oh, it will find you again.

~Suzanne
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It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

2. your purpose
What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

3. your Rock Star expansion
What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

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this is your curtain call | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 05 04

this is your curtain call

Not to the show you think is feasible, in line with the past, or the one you have been meticulously working on.
Slowly progressing in your skills.

I mean the one coming out guns blazing.

Someone who has seen the 4-part Bon Jovi documentary “Thank you, Goodnight” may recognize the line from guitarist Phil X, that when they come back after Jon Bon Jovi’s recovery of his voice, it will be:
“Guns a-blazing”
So that is where I got the idea, and let’s hope that Bon Jovi will come out in this cowboy style fashion.

But that is really where the comparison stops, because I am not talking about you setting yourself up for a final tour where you take your body of work to a whole new level and let it shine again.
Although it may end up being what you’re gonna do, I don’t know.

But that is not what this is about.

I’m talking about putting it ALL, together. Your whole crossover, mix and match, hot mashup of dreams, callings, things you set out to do, and then you never did.
Start embodying it all, and start it today, because we’ve passed the moment when all this could be achieved according to the ways of the world.
As far as they ever could, in the first place.

But now we need magic.
Improvisation.
You getting the f*** over yourself, and take responsibility for what you came here to do.

Get a paper, a notebook, write yourself an email, and jot down what the fully accomplished version of you has, does, but more importantly who that person IS.

And there may be things that you no longer feel are right, tomorrow.
And I know that writing and words are poor ways of expression, but the real things will be more individualized.
I will share three of them.

Three moments or things or people that shot me straight into where I needed to be.

The first one was when I bought a new black (faux) leather jacket, they called it “sky leather”, when I was 15 year old.
It really grew me, it defined me, and I liked the feeling of the cool inside of the coat, wearing a T-shirt underneath.
The jacket made me.

The second one was Madonna in 1998, coming out with her new record and a new physique; The muscular Ashtanga yoga version of herself.
She radiated power and self-agency, and became the reason I started doing yoga and became a yoga teacher.
Her example engrained in my psyche, what a yogi could be.

The third one was a business coach, Katrina Ruth, whom I found online in December 2016.
Taking her teachings was like a purge, a cleansing of all unhealthy playing small trauma I had picked up along the way.
Of all the times my message was silenced.

If you’re interested you can watch the playlist I made on YouTube, or purchase her trainings on her website.

Katrina Ruth embodied the pushback and turned me into someone who is not just able to stand up and speak, when asked;
But to roar and rage, when all else has failed.

Claim your place in this world, today.
The show YOU are here to give.

And yes, do it with words, with writing and other modest means;
Until you find your magic jacket.
Until your new body mirrors itself to you, in front of your very eyes.
And until the one who has already become the person, appears, showing you how to do it.

In the 3 areas of

1. income, revenue, possessions;
What is it you are here to HAVE?

2. art/work/meaning/purpose;
What is it you are here to DO?

3. FULL Rock Star, bells and whistles and fireworks, expression;
Who is it you are here to BE?

Your show has a stage, it has characters, it has costumes, it has a storyline, it has a set list, a soundtrack;
And it has a very limited time window in which it can be performed, and make its mark.

It’s showtime.

~Suzanne
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you’re exactly right for where you are meant to go | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 03 12

you’re exactly right for where you are meant to go

Your anxious restlessness, your unquenchable thirst, your lingering aggression already cracking through a paper-thin layer of civilized behavior;
Are, indeed, disturbing signs.

Just not of you.

It is remarkable how toxic, how debilitating, how all immersive the curse of human civilization has become.
Like the microplastics in our bodies, we would not be able to get them out, even if we could all agree they are harmful.
Which in all probability, when it comes to how unnatural and soulless our lives have become;
We will not agree on.

Not on if one tribe of pre-historic humans overthrowing the other, and the real risk of ending up in a cooking pot or between the jaws of a wild animal, was not actually the better deal all along.

But what I do know is this;
The past ten years, between 2014 and 2024, the internalization of small, repressive, industrialized or better “digitalized”, thinking has taken flight.

That if we look back now, at the 1999 movie Fight Club, and we see it raging against the machine of 9-5 productivity and how corporate culture turned us into zombies;
We see a world that was still surprisingly simple, to get out of.

At the turn of the century, Tyler Durden’s rules dictating how to run the secret groups and ultimately overthrow the system, were still sufficient to stay under the radar.

Yes, I know.
We now have digital warriors, and on all sides.
Fight Club’s current day Project Mayhem would have been an army of them, without a doubt.

But it all brings us back to the question;
Is it all worth it?

Or should we start celebrating every real-life, physical, dirty and challenging, soul still roaming this earth?
Be that person, and rise as high and as far, and as often as we can, into uncharted territory. Turn our backs, on everything nibbling at our free thought, capping our free speech, and devouring our consciousness.

And be free.

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