We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Trevor Michael. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Trevor below.

Trevor, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Have you been able to earn a full-time living from your creative work? If so, can you walk us through your journey and how you made it happen? Was it like that from day one? If not, what were some of the major steps and milestones and do you think you could have sped up the process somehow knowing what you know now?

I have been doing this full time for about 2 years now. I used to go into my finance job with a knot in my stomach every morning. Being self employed certainly isn’t the easiest but it’s rewarding spending your time on things you truly believe in. I would reach out to 20 venues each week when I was getting started and now I’m trying to focus my efforts more on the creativity side.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

I didn’t have the courage to put myself out there until I put some serious thought into my “Why”. I think it’s easy in this industry to get caught up in the personal image, i.e. wanting people to like you, desire for fame, etc. While those desires are probably inherent in being human and may never go away, I’ve come to realize a more important “Why”. Namely, I want to share vulnerably in my songs. I certainly don’t have it all figured out and I don’t think it’s helpful to pretend but I do believe that vulnerability can help and maybe somebody somewhere can listen to the lyrics and feel that they’re not alone. I genuinely love making music, the entire process brings me joy from writing, to producing, to performing. I love all the guys that I play with too so it’s always a treat to share the stage with them.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

Still figuring that one out but posting consistently and engaging in others content are very important.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

Keep supporting indie music. I know it’s easy to only give credibility to huge artists with a label behind them but there’s also great music being released daily here in our community.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://trevormichaelmusic.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trevormichael__/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trevormichaelmusic/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@trevormichael9987
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0TofxMDhVDmJPKcuabYUV0?si=oLtz_KJRRHOFLo65MmRf-A

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Trevor Michael