The N'Courage & N'Spire Podcast EP 19 - Finding Your Artist Pathway Feat Brianna Ruelas
The N'Courage & N'Spire Podcast di Durell Peart
15 lug 2021
01:13:04
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Finding Your Artist Pathway Feat Brianna Ruelas
In this episode Durell is joined by singer, and performing artist consultant Brianna Ruelas. Brianna and Durell begin the episode talking about how they got connected at the Springboard Music Festival and that from the moment they connected it's been so much fun to support each other. Brianna talks about her first introduction to music at the age of 9 where she performed in a talent show singing Debbie Gibson’s song “Out Of The Blue”. She remembers singing over the vocals because back then at that age she didn’t know how to remove the lead vocals and just sing over the backing track. She knew after that experience she wanted to continue to sing and perform and the path in which she took was musical theater, and ultimately decided to attend Pepperdine University to study musical theater. After graduation she started working at a restaurant in Malibu where she ultimately got connected with a voiceover artist and coach named Lauren Adams who helped her secure representation with an agency called Sutton, Barth, & Vernari Inc.
Brianna knew that her ultimate goal was to be a performing artist and make music. She made the choice to audition for Season 4 of American Idol. Brianna shared that she actually auditioned 3 times but ultimately didn’t make the final cut. She remembers that it was a very tough experience and even though she didn’t make it on the show she was thankful for her experience. Brianna thought that after her experience on American Idol her music dreams were over but she learned the importance of how to manage expectations. What she ultimately learned was that it wasn’t the end but really it was the beginning of a brand new journey. Durell asked her if the goal was to make a record after that but Brianna said that wasn’t even the case; she just wanted to sing.
Brianna and Durell talk about her meeting her husband Victor in Los Angeles and they knew they wanted to start a family. Brianna shares that she ultimately didn’t want to raise a family in Los Angeles for a variety of different reasons. She and her husband decided to make the move back to her hometown in Dallas, Texas. Moving back to Dallas was also big for her husband because his ultimate goal was to open a restaurant and the opportunity for that was much greater living in Dallas.
Brianna talks about the fact that she almost bought into the lie that just because she was a mom that she could no longer pursue her love for music. She shared that she didn’t do anything related to music for several years which led to her going through depression. After some encouragement from her husband she decided to start performing with a band and make connections around the music community in Dallas. She made the decision to pivot into consulting and coaching artists/creatives because she was now a mom of three and didn’t want to gig every weekend with her band. Brianna talks about being given the opportunity to work at a music school doing vocal and performance coaching after quitting her full-time job working in advertising sales. She talks about her husband receiving the keys to open the doors to a restaurant and them both suddenly becoming business owners and how scary that was while still having to provide for their young girls. She talked about all the business skills she had to learn to help support the opening of the restaurant being the foundation of what she does today as a strategist in helping indie artists with their careers in showing them how to take a small business approach to achieve success in their music career.
Durell asks Brianna how she feels about artists who only view success from the viewpoint of being one of the biggest acts in the world. Brianna says that she always likes to dig a bit deeper to find out why they view success that way and that she isn’t the right person to coach them because she doesn’t promise that’s what she can help them ac
In this episode Durell is joined by singer, and performing artist consultant Brianna Ruelas. Brianna and Durell begin the episode talking about how they got connected at the Springboard Music Festival and that from the moment they connected it's been so much fun to support each other. Brianna talks about her first introduction to music at the age of 9 where she performed in a talent show singing Debbie Gibson’s song “Out Of The Blue”. She remembers singing over the vocals because back then at that age she didn’t know how to remove the lead vocals and just sing over the backing track. She knew after that experience she wanted to continue to sing and perform and the path in which she took was musical theater, and ultimately decided to attend Pepperdine University to study musical theater. After graduation she started working at a restaurant in Malibu where she ultimately got connected with a voiceover artist and coach named Lauren Adams who helped her secure representation with an agency called Sutton, Barth, & Vernari Inc.
Brianna knew that her ultimate goal was to be a performing artist and make music. She made the choice to audition for Season 4 of American Idol. Brianna shared that she actually auditioned 3 times but ultimately didn’t make the final cut. She remembers that it was a very tough experience and even though she didn’t make it on the show she was thankful for her experience. Brianna thought that after her experience on American Idol her music dreams were over but she learned the importance of how to manage expectations. What she ultimately learned was that it wasn’t the end but really it was the beginning of a brand new journey. Durell asked her if the goal was to make a record after that but Brianna said that wasn’t even the case; she just wanted to sing.
Brianna and Durell talk about her meeting her husband Victor in Los Angeles and they knew they wanted to start a family. Brianna shares that she ultimately didn’t want to raise a family in Los Angeles for a variety of different reasons. She and her husband decided to make the move back to her hometown in Dallas, Texas. Moving back to Dallas was also big for her husband because his ultimate goal was to open a restaurant and the opportunity for that was much greater living in Dallas.
Brianna talks about the fact that she almost bought into the lie that just because she was a mom that she could no longer pursue her love for music. She shared that she didn’t do anything related to music for several years which led to her going through depression. After some encouragement from her husband she decided to start performing with a band and make connections around the music community in Dallas. She made the decision to pivot into consulting and coaching artists/creatives because she was now a mom of three and didn’t want to gig every weekend with her band. Brianna talks about being given the opportunity to work at a music school doing vocal and performance coaching after quitting her full-time job working in advertising sales. She talks about her husband receiving the keys to open the doors to a restaurant and them both suddenly becoming business owners and how scary that was while still having to provide for their young girls. She talked about all the business skills she had to learn to help support the opening of the restaurant being the foundation of what she does today as a strategist in helping indie artists with their careers in showing them how to take a small business approach to achieve success in their music career.
Durell asks Brianna how she feels about artists who only view success from the viewpoint of being one of the biggest acts in the world. Brianna says that she always likes to dig a bit deeper to find out why they view success that way and that she isn’t the right person to coach them because she doesn’t promise that’s what she can help them ac