We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Brittany Berger. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Brittany below.
Brittany, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to have you retell us the story behind how you came up with the idea for your business, I think our audience would really enjoy hearing the backstory.
My mission in life is to raise awareness of the importance of mental health and ignite healing in the music industry. I choose to do the same within our community by expanding a greater conscious connection for all individuals on their healing journey, while also helping creators bring their visions to life. I wanted to create a safe environment for artists, writers, producers, engineers, management, and all music industry professionals to create, connect, and grow together in alignment, while initiating or supporting their healing journey. We are all human before we are artists and I wanted to create a mindful recording studio that welcomed not only signed talent, but independent artists, authors for audio books, healers recording their meditations and sound frequency music. A place where everyone who steps inside these doors can feel free without judgement and display full creative acceptance. I am very hands on with the creative process as a healer, songwriter, executive producer, publisher and A&R, and I wanted to build a space that felt like a home away from home for all. Where we take off our shoes, are welcomed with a hug and feel safe enough to be seen, understood, and heard. I see you. To me, this place didn’t exist, so I created it.
Most importantly, I wanted to build a safe space for women to create and solely exist. There is a scarcity of women in the industry as creators and I want to change that. I want to be the studio where women have an opportunity to grow, heal, and create their best work by being their best self. All of the studios I have done healing sessions in as a mindset coach, reiki and energy healer, had no windows, dark rooms with colored lights and it was never the atmosphere for healing. How can we create our most empowering music when the environment isn’t built for vulnerability and authenticity? I wanted to blend all my worlds under one roof. A mindful recording studio concept where you can work one on one with healers, meditate, create music, and program or attend mindful community events all in one place. If an artist calls me because they are struggling, they have a place to go and a friend to guide them.
Why don’t women own studios? Why is there no natural light? Where is the nature element? How do we eliminate the ego’s in studio culture? How many more women need to be silenced, uncomfortable, abused or assaulted with their reputation soiled because they were forced in a situation that has forever left a traumatic mark in their memories? How many more friends do I need to lose to suicide because they gave up on themselves? This is why I created this movement. It is not just a physical place. I am here to heal the world and change the culture to protect my people.
Brittany, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I created my role in the music industry as a mindset coach, reiki and energy healer first. I discovered that I was a songwriter through my industry friends who read an excerpt about empowerment after heartbreak in the second novel I’m writing. Reading those words, they told me I should be a songwriter. After writing my first song, I couldn’t stop and I wanted to know how I could make this into a full time career. Learning the music business I found that it would not be easy, but instead of having a seat at the table, I wanted to own the building. I loved not only writing my own music but helping others create their best music. I’ve been a hustler working many jobs my whole life so I invested my own personal money into this space believing in myself more than anything because I knew this would be the beginning of change for music culture integrating mental health, mindfulness, and meditation into the music process.
At Mindful Music Lab, we offer recording studio sessions, podcast filming and production, mindset coaching one on one, for couples and groups, reiki and energy healing, sound bowl therapy and meditation. We also offer astrology birth chart and tarot card readings, breath-work and community events with sound baths, vulnerability sharing circles, manifestation courses, for men, women, and kids. Anything is possible in our space and I love to work with other community members to help them activate their own programming events at MML. Most importantly, I want to expand the conscious community in Miami to be the mindful mecca of music and healing. If you need healing, you travel from wherever you are in the world to our MML home. The music industry has a reputation to be a dark and toxic place, but that is not my experience. I have made beautiful friends and positive connections to bring together all bright lights in the industry so we can be the positive epicenter of music in Miami and grow collaboratively.
We’d love to hear the story of how you turned a side-hustle into a something much bigger.
I believe when you are curious about a certain path or endeavor, it may first sound like a quiet ping, and overtime it may turn into an alarm. Follow that ping and see where it guides you. I am the queen of side hustles. I do too much but it is the most fulfilling. I am not built to only do one thing in my life. I have always done many and I always will. I have had full time jobs working for other companies while also working for myself on the side because I love being of service to the community. This is why I wrote my book, 25 and Self-ish, started motivational speaking, mindset coaching, healing others, and creating music. I also have been teaching fitness for 8 years. I still do all of these things but now I am able to do it in one place. I know I operate as my best self when I do the things I love and just because I am a multi hyphenate entrepreneur doesn’t mean I need to stick to one thing. All of these side hustles birthed Mindful Music Lab to be what it is today because I tried everything and turned it into something. I took an idea and in less than a year, even with the challenges, brought it to life.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
My self made motto throughout this entire process still is, “Don’t give up, give more.” I have had to learn to pivot, to make hard decisions, to figure it out along the way, to fully trust and surrender to the universe. To equally trust your gut and intuition, not other people. To always ask questions and for advice. To really put yourself out there and network because as we know, your network is your net worth. Honestly, I’m still figuring it all out. I am forever a student. I don’t have all the answers but I remind myself to enjoy the process. The infinite hours, the no sleep, no food, swallowing tears, the constant showing up for yourself even on the days that were too heavy to carry. The 8-12 hours sitting in dust for the build every single day. A lot of praying and a lot of believing. Supporting yourself even when others can’t. Giving yourself grace and kindness and throughout every moment, enjoying the journey in where you are. It is never about the destination, it is always a constant work in progress to live in gratitude and be self motivated. I am grateful to have built a space where people can come and be free, creating, healing, speaking their truth, sharing their vulnerabilities, making friends, and learning how to love themselves while learning tools how to self soothe outside my presence. I learned that you can’t do everything yourself and it is okay to ask for help. I am very independent and self reliant, but my friends and family really came through for me when I learned to ask for help. I realize I never ask for help and always try to do everything on my own, but what I am still working through is that you don’t have to. Let people be there for you like you have always been there for them. Don’t give up. Give more and receive as equally.
Contact Info:
- Website: mindfulmusiclab.com
- Instagram: mindfulmusiclab
Image Credits
Isabella Green Aiden Snell Julian Castro