by Ed Bell | Dec 18, 2020 | Building a Career, Inspiration
In March this year, The Song Foundry Inc., the business behind the site, turned five. And to celebrate five years of running a real grownup company, I’d planned an article about some of the things I’d learned in that time. But then (spoiler alert) the world went a bit...
by Ed Bell | Nov 20, 2020 | Building a Career, Inspiration
I don’t usually like to blow my own trumpet, but I’ll just say it: I’m good at a lot of things. I can sit on the floor in front of a piano, cross my hands behind my head and play the opening of Mozart’s C Major Piano Sonata. I know the Spanish word for ‘dude’ in like...
by Ed Bell | Jul 19, 2019 | Building a Career, The Creative Habit
If you’re below the age of 35 – and maybe even if you’re not – you’ve probably been told at least 734 times that you should follow your dreams. And that’s great. It’s great to have aspirations. It’s important to aim high. And it’s essential – if you want...
by Ed Bell | Apr 23, 2019 | Building a Career, Inspiration
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but life is hard sometimes. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but songwriting is hard sometimes. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but spending some of your life writing songs can be really hard sometimes. The truth is, life can be...
by Ed Bell | May 18, 2018 | Inspiration, The Creative Habit
veSometimes it feels like the world is going crazy. The Nrazise are back! A third of millennials will never own a home! Flint, Michigan still doesn’t have clean water! And don’t even get me started on politics.b But that’s only half the story. In fact and in...