The Inner Take

What if the problem is not your talent… but your focus?

Many musicians spend years trying to build a career — auditions, competitions, networking — and still feel empty, insecure, or stuck.

In this episode, we talk about a fundamental idea that can change everything:

Music is the cause. Career is the consequence.

When you play only to be accepted, you lose your connection with music.
When you reconnect with music, your career starts to move in a natural way.

I also share a real story: how a simple improvisation with a woodblock became a piece I later composed (WB1),...

In this episode of The Inner Take Podcast, I’m very happy to welcome my first non-musician guest: Ina Greiner.

Ina is a dancer and teacher of tango and folklore based in Cologne, originally from Berlin. Through many years of working with movement and body awareness, she has developed a deep understanding of the connection between body, expression, and presence. She is currently training in Transformative Bodywork, a practice that helps people reconnect with their bodies and release patterns that limit creativity, confidence, and well-being.

This episode marks an important step for the podcast: TITP is not only for musicians, but...

The difference between making music and building a career in music is the key to understanding why musicians suffer—because we spend our lives playing to be accepted by someone else.

In this episode of The Inner Take Podcast, we explore a fundamental idea that can completely change how you understand your life as a musician.

This is not just another concept.
This is one of the main reasons why so many musicians feel lost, pressured, or disconnected from music.

Why does something that once felt like pure play become something heavy?
When does expression turn into the need for approval?...

Guilt is one of the most common emotions in musicians.

That voice in your head that says: “You should be practicing…”
That feeling that no matter what you do, it’s never enough.

In this episode of The Inner Take, we explore how guilt works, why it is so present in musicians, and how it can become destructive if we don’t question it.

I also share a very personal story about how guilt led me to a panic attack during my studies—and what I learned from that experience.

Finally, I give you practical tools to help you deal with guilt, organize...