One thing I’ve learned from my coaching clients over the past years: The problem is never the vision. We all have plenty of dreams and ideas.
The hard part is saying them out loud. Even harder is actually putting them into motion.
I often catch myself thinking I should wait until things are clearer. Until I’m “ready.” But that moment never comes without movement. And without movement, every vision stays stuck as just an idea.
So I’ve started taking small steps. Doing what I can, right here, right now. Messy action. With a pounding heart – and fear always walking beside me.
Because I don’t want to look back one day and say: “If only I had.”
This is exactly what I encourage in my coaching sessions.
And thankfully, I’ve also been encouraged by others to step into action myself. Only when we allow ourselves to start imperfectly – and still keep moving forward – can a vision take shape.
That’s why I decided to launch a solo music project alongside @baha.project . And this Saturday, I’ll be taking the next scary and exciting step, sharing the stage with the most incredible artists.
Sept 13, 11 PM – JANITHA live @suedpol_hamburg
📸 @crystalknast
We are super happy to finally share our new song „Let’s Run“ with you all. It was a long journey … you can stream it on all platforms 👻
Mastering by the fabulous @metatext_txetatem 🙏
📹 @spektral3000
#bahaproject #letsrun #newrelease #electroniclivemusic #electronicwave #newmusicalert
I forgot a lyric. And it didn’t matter.
First time playing live in New York City with @baha.project — at the opening of the incredible recording studio @epiphany_nyc . Improvised setup — laptop, guitar, vocals. It wasn’t perfect. But it was fun and it was alive.
And that’s the thing — after a performance, you don’t remember whether everything went right. You remember whether you were actually there and how it felt.
I was there.
📷 @juhahansen
That was one for the books. So honored to have been part of the opening of Epiphany Studios — a stunning space brought to life with vision, craft, and so much heart. The energy in that room was something else entirely.
Thank you for having us. Here’s to everything this place is going to inspire.
📷 @flynnhudsondean
#EpiphanyStudios #GrandOpening #Grateful #CreativeSpaces
Our friend has a vision.
He didn’t ask if it made sense. He just built it.
I’ve been watching him do this for years — have the idea, feel the pull, move toward it. No waiting until the conditions are perfect. No asking permission. Just: I see it, so I’m doing it.
It’s one of the most impressive things to witness. Someone who just moves.
I like to be prepared. I like to know. This is the opposite of that.
And somewhere in all of it, I thought: You don’t have to have it figured out. You just have to go.
We’ll see what this day becomes.
Walked into my friend’s studio for the first time. It’s huge. Built for musicians.
And immediately — the voice. The one that says “You don’t belong here. Real musicians play in spaces like this. You’re not that.”
I make electronic music. I produce alone. No audience. That’s where I feel free. This feels different.
But I stayed. And had a good time just being there.
I don’t always have a profound takeaway for moments like these. Sometimes it’s just — notice the voice. Don’t leave.
I enjoyed the space. And after a while, another voice. Quieter. This one said: “You might record something here one day.”
📸 @juhahansen
Somewhere between the sixth and seventh spontaneous stop, something shifted.
No more hunting for the shot. Just … there. Present with whatever light existed in that exact moment.
No forcing. No “this needs to be better.” Just — this is what’s here. Is it beautiful? Yes. Shoot it.
I spent years believing I needed the right conditions first. The perfect idea. The clear direction. The moment it all made sense.
It doesn’t work that way.
Flow isn’t something you plan your way into. It’s what’s waiting on the other side of the planning. Past the performing. In the place where you’re moving and not thinking about moving.
I don’t know what this trip will produce yet.
Maybe that’s where you are too. Not lost — just in the space before the shot.
And for once — that feels exactly right.
📸 @juhahansen@spektral3000
There’s a version of this trip I could perform for you (and at some point I might). The aesthetic shots. The city at golden hour. The caption about inspiration and new energy. But what’s actually happening is simpler — and more real than that.
Day two in New York. We walked 20K steps yesterday and did 10 spontaneous photoshoots in whatever light we found. Tonight, sessions at a friend’s studio. A music video is in motion.
Not escape. Not a break from what matters. This is what matters.
The kind of work that doesn’t happen at a desk. The kind that needs a different room, a different light, a different air — a body that’s actually moving through the world.
I’ve been thinking about how much of our creative life gets quietly postponed. Not cancelled. Just ... moved. Always just after the next thing settles. What if it never settles?
What if this — right now, exactly as it is — is the moment you’ve been waiting for?
📸 @juhahansen
There is something that happens when you travel.
A change of coordinates. A different city, a different light, a different rhythm under your feet.
And suddenly you can see the horizon again.
Not because anything changed. Just because you moved.
I think a lot about why we get stuck — and I think one of the most underrated reasons is this: trying to solve a perspective problem with more presence. More time in the studio. More hours in the same room, in the same life, looking at the same thing.
Sometimes moving IS the work. Setting things in motion.
Not avoidance. Not procrastination dressed as adventure.
I’m traveling again – and something is already starting to shift.
Last Thursday I finished a client project at midnight.
The design was right. It felt good. I built something real for someone else’s vision.
This morning I opened the folder with my own project in it. Stared at it for maybe ten seconds. Then closed it, made tea, answered emails for three hours.
I told myself I was tired. And I was. But that’s not why I closed the folder.
I closed it because some part of me still believes that if no one is paying me to make it — it doesn’t count. That my own creative work is a luxury I haven’t earned yet.
I see this everywhere in the creatives I work with. Staying up until 2am for a client — and nothing left for the work that actually made them a creative in the first place. Not because they forgot about it. Because somewhere along the way they stopped believing it was worth protecting.
That project is not a luxury. That project is the whole point.
No one is paying you for it yet because no one has seen it yet.
Because you keep closing the folder.
What’s in your folder right now?
