Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

How I Guided Creative Freelancers #substack #shorts

18 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, a musician who spent 25 years in a band reflects on the challenges of launching a solo career amid a shifting industry. While navigating his own next steps, he describes how he has helped other creative freelancers by designing systematic guidance processes. He emphasizes that the core of his advice is to identify what each individual truly wants, what brings them joy, and what they are naturally good at, using these insights to chart the best next career move.

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I've been part of this amazing band for 25 years and now I'm out solo and like, where do I go? Who do I talk to? Like, what do I want? You know, wild, deep stuff. And then at the same time in the business, you know, the industry was changing. But you know, the thing did very well was I was able to guide other creative freelancers on what was the best next step in their career, wherever they were. I created systems around it. I, I did all these things, but what it always came down to was what did they want? What brought them joy? What were they naturally good at?