Are you surprised by this chart?
Did you expect it to be full of items like…?
Can’t get enough students
Can’t find good teachers
Families aren’t prioritizing the arts anymore
Students aren’t practicing
Those are real problems. But I think this chart points to something much bigger:
There are two parts to succeeding as a music school owner
There’s what you know how to do—marketing, sales, hiring, financials, systems, leadership…
But more importantly? There’s how you think!
What do you believe is possible? When enrollment drops, a teacher quits, or you make a bad decision… do you see something you can solve?
Or do you see proof that things aren’t going to work?
If you gave me two entrepreneurs… one with incredible skills and a terrible mindset, and another with mediocre skills who believed they could figure things out…
I’d bet on the second one 10 times out of 10.
Skills can be learned. But you have to be willing to look at what isn’t working, take responsibility for the part you can influence, and change it.
Sometimes that means changing your marketing, your staff, your prices, or your systems.
And sometimes it means changing you.
This is why Nate and I created Founder’s Forum…
Yes, we help owners with marketing, financials, hiring, systems, retention, delegation and all the other nuts and bolts of running a school.
But a big part of our job is supporting the person who has to make all of those decisions.
That’s why Forum members get:
Individual coaching sessions with Nate and me when you need to work through something specific to your school.
Personalized support inside our community, so you don’t have to sit alone with a problem for three weeks wondering what to do.
Live Q&As where you can bring us the decision, problem or opportunity sitting in front of you right now.
And it’s why we’ve designed the entire program around what I believe is a school owner’s most precious resource:
Time.
Founder’s Forum is not a traditional course where we dump 40 hours of videos into a portal and give you another giant list of things you’re supposed to do.
We want to help you figure out the ONE thing that will create the most leverage in your school right now…
So you can ignore the other 99 things screaming for your attention.
Past members have repeatedly told us that this kind of just-in-time coaching, along with the templates and support we give them, significantly lowered the stress they felt running their schools.
That matters to me.
Because building a successful school shouldn’t require you to become someone who is constantly overwhelmed by it.
Founder’s Forum starts October 1st.
If you’d like to see whether it makes sense for you and your school, the first step is to fill out a short application and book a free call with me.
We’ll look at where your school is now, where you want it to go, and what I believe deserves your attention next.
Whether you join us or not, you’ll leave with a clearer roadmap.
Apply for a free call here
Very best
Daniel
