Hey, it's Delaney. Popping in to tell you that we just launched brand new

merch over at self-helpless podcast.com slash merch. If you're a patron of ours

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Thank you so much for your support. Again you can find our new merch at self

helpless podcast.com. I'm no good I taking good advice and I'm self careless so don't tell me twice that

lately I've been so stuck in my head that I forget just about everything my therapist said.

Maybe I'm self helpless.

Maybe I'm self-helpless. Maybe I'm self-helpless. Maybe I'm self-help blood. Maybe we are self-helpless I'm Delaney Fisher and today I'm chatting with Tijani Inouah who is the artist behind the most recent theme song of the podcast

which you literally just heard before I started speaking and to Johnny is actually the third artist we've had created a theme song for us.

We love to feature a new artist every few years or so and Tizani responded to a call,

you know a submission we had for artists a while back and wrote this awesome piece of music for us and we just loved it and I thought it would be really fun to have him on the podcast to talk about his creative process and give all kinds of cool insights and tips.

So this episode is just packed with practical tips for people who not only want to get into the music industry and people who want to make their own music

whether it's for fun or as a hobby or you know you're curious about doing it

professionally he offers up so many great tips for getting started with both making music, audio engineering, all that cool stuff, but also just gives really great advice for artists in general and people who want to try something new in their life. We talked about perfectionism and getting out of your own

way to allow yourself to try and be new at something, prioritizing what concepts to work on,

one, and just the realities of creating your art while also making money and paying your bills and being strategic about how and where and when you spend your energy.

So Tajani shares the exact steps he took

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