Presenting:
The Musician’s Compass:
True North Navigator
4 months to transform your clarity on your unique artistry
I’m Valerie Dueck
I’m a classical pianist, vocal coach, piano professor and musician’s relocation coach. Over the past 25 years, I’ve moved 20 times and lived in 7 different countries on 3 continents. I’ve charted my own course many times: I know what it’s like to start over with finding new friends and colleagues, and pounding the pavement to hustle up work again, and again. Yet, in each new place, I’ve carved out a niche for myself, moved into a space of peak performance, and created an artistically fulfilling career.
As a relocation coach, I’ve been engaged as a mentor by the Association for Opera in Canada and for Ensembl’Arts’ Digital Paths program as well as an invited guest speaker for National and International Organizations such as the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society.
When you work with me, I’ll show you how to dive into a new setting and get your bearings in your new environment so that, even when it is hard and disorienting, you can jump into a new space with ease, charge into any situation with self-confidence and dig right in to doing what you love.
STEP 1
Start by defining your clarity.
Using my 4-week “Inner Compass” method, I will guide you through your discovery of your own personal mission statement, your “why”. From there, we will pan outwards to identify your “how”s - ways in which you live out your why. And finally, we will look at your “what”s - the many different hats that you wear, making sure that they align with your true north.
Valerie Dueck’s “Musician’s Compass” gives you directions to your true self.
A compass gives you directions to the true north; Valerie Dueck’s Musician’s Compass gives you directions to your true self. Working with Valerie helped me develop a plan of action towards achieving my musical career goals.
The Musician’s Compass is an empowering program that helps you recognize your authority and build your community. With Valerie’s guidance, I made many new connections, I developed my offer and increased my rate! Musician’s Compass is the tool to develop a concrete and executable strategy to reach your goals. Thanks Valerie!
Gertrude Létourneau, flutist, singer, pianist and therapeutic musician
STEP 2
Over the next 3 months, in weekly sessions, we will navigate the pathway to your goal: whether that is setting yourself up for a move or change in your career, preparing for a new degree or a move to a new city, or starting up a dream project right where you are right now.
I will show you
How to navigate change using your new-found clarity about who you are at your very core
How your “how”s are manifestations of your “why” and how to use these as signals to yourself and others to demonstrate what you uniquely have to offer
How building community around yourself supports your unique success
Before, I was time poor. Now, the sky’s the limit!
Maghan McPhee, soprano
Founder of Bremo Italy International Music Academy
Before my work with Valerie, I felt like a mouse in a cage. I was creating my Italian summer program and in high demand as a teacher, but was spinning my wheels, and I couldn’t find true enjoyment in my success. The primary reason for my choosing the field of music, my love for singing, was not being fulfilled because I couldn’t carve out time in my day for my own singing practice and I was overwhelmed at the prospect of auditioning and going after gigs on top of the parental and administrative tasks that were demanding my attention. I was time poor.
The results have been astonishing. Valerie opened up a new perspective of what life as a musician, mother and executive director could look like. Through our work together, I started to see that just because it's always been done a certain way, doesn't mean I have to follow suit. I began believing anything was possible, and step by step, I'm seeing real results. I began an ensembles class last season 5 weeks from the end of the school year, yet I sold out in only a few short days with very little advertising. I'm thrilled to report that I have surpassed the target number of students I was hoping to attract this fall into my new program without even advertising!
Now that I have the time to invest into following my passion of singing, the sky's the limit and I can't wait to see what's next!
I will help you find self-sufficiency, agency, a way to make your creative contribution and financial stability, so that you can boldly and confidently embark on your own artistically fulfilling quest.
I believe it is up to us, as musicians, to delve into new opportunities and to search for new possibilities,
no matter what the climate is and
no matter what world we are living in.
Because of what I have been through, and the lessons I’ve learned along the way, I’m now on a mission to help other musicians feel empowered to actively transform their lives so that they can boldly impact and change their world through their creative contribution.
To learn more and to discover if the 1-1 coaching or the group coaching would be a good fit for you:
No strings attached! Just a good old fashioned conversation about what it is you are looking for more of in your life.