Wendy DayCEO/Coach, PowerPlays Coaching, LLC · Helping rappers make money with their music. Building millionaires in the urban music industry since 1992.

Touring might not be for you...

12 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Two people discuss why touring wrecks your life: constant travel creates trauma bonding, spouses hate the absences especially with kids, and you still have to pay rent while you're gone. The money and the relationships both suffer.

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um, being out on the road is very traumatic. Like, we become trauma bonded when we go out on like promo tours or even tours as a whole, because there's so much going on. You've got life stuff coming at you, you've got business stuff coming at you, you've got relationship coming at you, because, you know, no spouse in the world wants you to be out on the road for any length of time. They get very uncomfortable. And you become—
especially if they got kids and you got kids with situations coming.
So you know what happens because all your bills have to be paid. You got to make sure the rent or the mortgage is paid if you're out on the road for 45 days or 60 days.
Yep.
You know, it's just— it's a different—
it's a different beast. It's, it's definitely a different beast. And I tell a lot of people that is not built for everybody. Not everybody can go out on the road. A lot of people will tell you, yeah, I want to go out on the road, and then you give them 2 weeks out there and they're like, oh God.