WELCOME TO the Mountain.

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Everyone begins music careers on their own now. The Mountain will help you. Specifically, it teaches you the big picture of your options in the industry so you can integrate Art + Business + Mental health + Physical Performance into a strategy that takes you up a Mountain, to your definition of success. We call ourselves MIC: Music Industry Connected, because our Mountain helps you connect the pieces of your music career dream career puzzle.
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Since our founding in 2013, The Mountain is the product of our consistent field research from musicians going through the same struggles that you are, in real time instead of hypothetically. We reveal the truths behind roadblocks (“Since no one in my life seems to care about my music, does that mean it’s no good?) and trends (“Do I really have to focus so much on expensive services to push my music to playlists?”) by telling you what really matters, and what doesn't. Then, our method of dialectic reasoning (seeing the grey area) teaches how perspective and circumstances can be changed to attain the career you want -- and that this simple concept of harnessing mind strength is the secret behind anyone who’s “made it.”

‍Through its 6 Steps and hover-able visual, The Mountain shows the big picture in both the industry landscape and your strategy options, so your life works with your music career, and vice versa. Then, you’ll be able to confidently seek out the "how-to’s" of each piece of your plan (how to plan a tour, how to record an album, how to do social media) because you understand how each piece of the puzzle falls into your big picture plan, your own personal Mountain.
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We share The Mountain on our website for no cost, because we want the word spread. Plain and simple. If anyone wants more personalized help, we offer one-on-one consulting sessions called Music Career Diagnostics, our form of consulting. In those sessions we dive deeper into music career mental training principles (we coined the famous “First Circle Conundrum” that explains why the people in your life can't be your fans, so you shouldn't take it personally), psychological business principles (like push vs. pull marketing dynamics, listener behavior motivation), and neuroscientific effects on productivity (like trauma, circadian rhythm gaming), and so much more that we had to cut ourselves short here so this introduction stayed an introduction.
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Use The Mountain to help you create your career, then come back and tell us all about it - we want to be invited into your Music Worlds, too.
Godspeed.
- 2019, MIC Founder/CEO Emily Plazek


Now begin your journey by reading the Introduction to the Mountain, then continuing onto the 6 Steps of the Mountain, all located here on our website.