Paul Bruch-Wiens is a Private Wealth Manager at Quadrant Private Wealth, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where he lives with his spouse, two children and still has a deep passion for the performing arts.

QUOTES

“Singing in close harmony with my family and church community was a way of life. It was something you just did every Sunday.”

“After I finished a business degree, the only thing I could do to have gainful employment based on the training was to be a bookkeeper. But I’d already done that for 3 years as a part time job. It wasn’t interesting to me. So instead I studied for a Master of Music.”

“There was no job lined up for you coming out of music school, but I adamantly chose not to be a music teacher.”

“I got the job (in a bank) and thought it would solve everything. But it didn’t. It was really difficult to come to terms with making the wholesale change. In my heart of hearts I was still a performer and the reality of the situation had not caught up with me. I just didn’t believe it. I perhaps thought I would go back.”

“I have all of these things to pull experience from. People don’t necessarily want advice from people who haven’t felt that themselves”

“It’s liberating when you  find yourself, and let go of who you think you should be.”

LINKS

• Find Paul on LinkedIN

PODCAST TEAM

Production Support from Molly Jenkins 

Audio Engineering from Frazer Ruddick

Theme Music Composed by Danna Yun

Theme Music Performed by Jasper Ly

RECORDED

Recorded on 21 October 2021

A former professional oboe and cor anglais player based in London, Sadah Webster now works as an investigator and intelligence analyst. Investigating whistleblower complaints and misuses of public office.

QUOTES

“I was halfway through a Bachelor of Music degree when I took a year off to study linguistics and live in Thailand.”

“I didn’t know what I was doing, I was petrified all the time and I was burned out.”

“Looking back, emotionally, I think the fact that I was advanced as a player quite early on and I got thrown into a lot of stuff which was great for my playing but emotionally I wasn't ready.”

“Because I had solely focussed on being an Oboist, I didn’t know anything else.”

“I had various attempts at retraining, but a sense of purpose came much later in my emotional journey.”

“As a freelancer, you never know why you don’t get booked.”

“The context in which we learn perpetuates “there’s something wrong with me” and the same toxic productivity runs through the law school as in music school.” 

“Assumptions are being made about your work ethic, motivation and ability to use your time. I had been told by various teachers that I was lazy when I couldn't practice more because instead I had to work to earn a living.”

“The only tool the teachers have is “well just practice more”.

“The work was more stressful than enjoyable, the balance had totally shifted and I was just exhausted.”

“The cost benefit analysis of being an oboist doesn’t make sense, but I didn’t know how to make that assessment when I was studying.”

LINKS

• Find Sadan on LinkedIN

PODCAST TEAM

Production Support from Molly Jenkins 

Audio Engineering from Frazer Ruddick

Theme Music Composed by Danna Yun

Theme Music Performed by Jasper Ly

RECORDED

Recorded on 24 October 2021

Daniel Meyers is a bass player, music administrator, and professional fundraiser who currently manages donor relations and annual giving at the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota. Before moving into fundraising, Daniel performed regularly as a substitute with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and he was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

QUOTES

“I was playing with orchestras that were “the end goal” if you’re searching for a career as an orchestral musician, but I wasn’t finding the connection and focus on the audience and that focus on the audience. That’s what I care about.”

“I never heard or rarely heard musicians talk about the experience of the audience. And I felt like the people I was playing with didn’t care that much.”

“I don’t think you can expect something that someone does full time, that it can't be a job just some of the time.”

“You have this great opportunity and people are congratulating you, your peers are congratulating because you’ve achieved their dream. You feel like you should be on top of the world and you’re not. This is what I was hoping for and it’s really not all that”

"It was just a job for a lot of them."

LINKS

• Find Daniel on LinkedIN
• Unsupervised Ensemble
• Aubrey Bergauer
• Ruth Hartt
• St Olaf College

PODCAST TEAM

Production Support from Molly Jenkins 

Audio Engineering from Frazer Ruddick

Theme Music Composed by Danna Yun

Theme Music Performed by Jasper Ly

RECORDED

Recorded on 08 October 2021