Cathy Heller is a fire hose of inspiration. She’s the host of the popular podcast Don’t Keep Your Day Job, which has over 11 million downloads and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, HuffPost, Inc Magazine, Business Insider and several times by Apple.
Each week Cathy encourages thousands of listeners to find more purpose and get paid to do what they love. Throughout the show, she has inteviewed
creative entrepreneurs like actress Jenna Fischer, blogger Seth Godin, Lisa Simpson actress Yeardley Smith, designer Jonathan Adler, makeup artist Bobbi Brown, singer songwriter Colbie Caillat, Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran, Starbucks’s Howard Schultz, and Gretchen Rubin to name a few.
Cathy’s book Don’t Keep Your Day Job was released in November 2019 with Macmillan. It’s filled with inspirational stories from people in her community who have taken control of their life’s journey. Her book goes into detail about how to find the work you’re meant to do, grow your business, and wake up to a life you love.
She is a phenomenal coach for creative entrepreneurs and she’s helping people everywhere add their gifts to the world. Cathy often says “purpose is the opposite of depression” and she is truly lifting others to be the happiest version of themselves.
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In this episode we talk about:
- how getting into musical theater as a kid was the first place she belonged
- the struggles she went through in high school and how she nearly didn’t graduate
- how she saw going to college as a way to escape her home life and how that saved her life
- being a messy doer with so much human empathy
- how the story of Pandora’s Box saved her life
- getting an offer to go on a free to Jerasulem for two weeks and ended up staying three years
- how living in such a spiritual space and a war zone created so many awakenings in her and gave life so much meaning
- feeling the call to move to LA and give her music career a try
- landing in LA and making co-writing sessions even though she was nervous but she kept putting herself out there
- getting a record deal with Interscope and then getting dropped a few months later
- feeling like if she couldn’t have her dream job she wanted to get a day job that did something good for others that led to a #metoo moment
- after both her dream failed and doing something that mattered failed choosing to just get a job for the money
- making 6 figures at 26 and slowly feeling herself change and one day not even recognizing herself and quitting
- asking her a new question of, “Is there any other way to make money doing what I love” which led her to putting her full energy on being a songwriter and licensing her songs to ads, tv, and films
- how asking people what they needed was the key to her success as a songwriter
- how she ended up creating a business to teach other songwriters to do the same thing she did after having artists asking her day after day
- starting by teacher a few people in her living room and not really knowing what she was doing but she kept listening to the people and sharing what she did to help them
- creating her first online program by having someone who wanted to do what she did come over every day for a week and ask her every question she had
- how online programs are most beneficial if you are teaching them HOW TO IMPLIMENT and not just giving them more and more info.
- starting her business coaching podcast from the suggestion of a friend as she saw that Cathy had the real tools and heart to teach all business owners not just songwriters
- what gave her the inner push to do the asking that started her songwriting career and still today on asking people to be her podcast guest
- the value of not having an ask but just showing up and having conversations
- how her being interested in others and offering to bring people Starbuck’s got her in the door
- how empathy is everything
- running into Chelsea Clinton at a fast food restaurant and introducing herself so humanly which led to Chelsea mentioning her in a NY magazine article
- how everyone no matter how much success they have struggles with the human emotions.
- how who you spend time is super valuable.
- stepping into owning her worth
- how if you don’t have the courage to sell you work for someone else who has the courage to sell
- how by owning our awesome inspires others to own theirs
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
Find more from Cathy https://www.cathyheller.com and @cathyheller
Tune into her Podcast Don’t Keep Your Day Job and get her book!
And check out her songwriter’s business https://www.catchthemoonmusic.com
And get on the waitlist for when the Licensing Course for Songwriter’s re-opens! 6figuresongwriting.com
LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
PS. If we mentioned something and I forgot to include it here leave a comment and I will track it down for you!
Billboard Magazine article
Variety Magazine article
Music Connection article
Chelsea Clinton New York Magazine article
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