Reinventing a Singer

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Added: Thu. Sep 24, 2009 6:42pm
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Dear Reader,

Clearly as we age, the process of 'reinventing' ourselves is one of challenge and imagination, but I never expected to have to face that experience at the age of 45!

After recovering from head and neck cancer, I was no longer able to persue my career as a performing artist and I was lost. I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of four, so there just wasn't anything else I had ever considered.

I did manage to create a 'partial' reinvention of myself by turning what I'd learned as a mother of a misguided child into a non-profit organization called Parent Line and subsequently, that experience led me to teaching injury prevention classes through a local hospital program for the past fourteen years.

But the real REINVENTION of my passion-driven spirit began in April of 2009 when my husband, seeing that I was pretty depressed, asked me if we should think about starting a business and a little spark ignited inside my brain. 

It's taken sixteen years to get to the point where I could REINVENT myself enough to once again allow the luxury of 'living in the right brain'. I am grateful to have navigated my way through a jungle of difficult and dark routes back into the light of creativity.

Part of my 'reinvention' has included changing my name to MCatherine plus starting that  new business my husband suggested during the worse financial climate since the Great Depression!

I have never been a business woman, so deciding to start a little entreprenurial 'online' business has certainly proven to be a huge challenge, somewhat like cramming for a Master's Degree in a week but I am absolutely driven with passion to learn all there is know about developing and selling for success a product one has created. Turns out the 'daily grind' is a great source of pleasure!

From what I have learned so far, one needs to blog, have an Etsy Shop, a web page, Facebook Fan Page, Twitter and MySpace place for folks to visit and one other thing I learned is that if one doesn't blow one's own horn, who is going too? So I am providing the links and invite you to drop by one or more and let me know you dropped in by leaving a comment.

If you would like to know more about what I have learned during the first year of starting a business, visit my blog: Life on Mars: Hide A Heart Begins http://hideaheart.wordpress.com  where I share the Pitfalls and Promise of starting a new business.Learn more about Hide A Heart products, visit my other  blog: Hide A Heart Inspiresexpression http://hideaheartinspiresexpression.blogspot.com  See a Hide A Heart product, visit http://hideaheart.com or http://hideaheart.etsy.com  Come 'fan Hide A Heart' at http://facebook.com/hideaheart or tweet me at http://twitter.com/hideaheart  If you would like to listen to me sing you a song I wrote and recorded, drop by http://myspace.com/marycatherinelunsford or learn more about my recording career at http://marycatherinelunsford.com  Turns out it is also important  to be a 'guest contributor' of articles for other blogs. Luckily, Handmade Spark http://handmadespark.com made me such an offer.

Most of all, if you have been forced to face the task of 'early reinvention', will you share with me what you did to accomplish it? I would love to read your story.
MCatherine