Episode 148: Community Struggles

2018-06-25

In today's episode of the podcast, we give our thoughts on the struggles people are having within the Passionate DJ community. We reached out to our Facebook Group, and pulled lots of great topics. Not a member of our Facebook group? Well, what are you waiting for? https://passionatedj.com/community Here are some struggles which we address in Episode 148: Mental stamina with longer DJ sets Balancing professional life and DJing Knowing and remembering digital tracks vs. records Finding help with all the non-DJ stuff (promo, writing, d...

In today's episode of the podcast, we give our thoughts on the struggles people are having within the Passionate DJ community. We reached out to our Facebook Group, and pulled lots of great topics.

Not a member of our Facebook group? Well, what are you waiting for?

https://passionatedj.com/community

Here are some struggles which we address in Episode 148:

Mental stamina with longer DJ sets
Balancing professional life and DJing
Knowing and remembering digital tracks vs. records
Finding help with all the non-DJ stuff (promo, writing, design, video, etc.)
Saying no to bookings, and finding time to record mixes
Dealing with requests
Dwelling on mistakes in the mix
Finding new venues to play
Stage fright; confidence
Getting better gigs; playing the shows we want
Getting clients to leave reviews
Determining which DJ hardware to invest in

Tony starts out the show by telling us about his experience at Breakaway festival, and the story behind the awesome photo he took with legendary duo Sasha & John Digweed:

David also takes a few minutes to discuss other happenings within PDJ, including lots of incoming hardware reviews on our YouTube channel.

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