Thoughts

End of the first week of being a CMO (Chief Music Officer)

Today marks the end of the first week where I have taken a new job as a CMO or Chief Music Officer for Elizabeth Chan Christmas Music Enterprises. 

Before I talk about how the last few days have been, I kind of want to start off with a dream I had last night. I had a dream I was in the airport with Beyonce and Kelly Rowland and an old friend that I worked with at Atlantic Records. Beyonce wanted to hang out with me and offered to buy me a seat on her flight to the Caribbean…She even plunked down her card. I declined and said I needed to stay in NYC to work on my Christmas music. 

Some dream huh? #lousysleepdreamadventurer 

The weirdest part about it is that during my daily readthrough of NYC papers, I found a video that Beyonce made to tout her Revel concert series this week. I am really not a Beyonce fan at all — except watching her behind the scenes video made me really respect her, and inspired me. Her work ethic is bananas and I can relate to the way she really pours through the details and vision. It feels very much where I am right now in my journey. 

I digress. Yesterday I spent the day with my family to celebrate my brother’s graduation. 

Sitting through the commencement ceremony I really found myself to be a bit jaded to sit through the speeches. Their speaker was the IBM chairman, who had some good points — but otherwise I wasn’t buying into the Ra Ra Johns Hopkins stuff. 

However, I am quite a cheerleader for my brother. 

He is a person I am ever so proud of. William had initially gone to Johns Hopkins because he wanted to be a doctor. It is one of the top universities in the nation for medical sciences. Somewhere during his journey, he realized that med school wasn’t for him – and decided to major in economics. Despite the expectations from everyone around him that he would eventually become a doctor. At his young age, he had the wherewithal to not be coerced on a road but to find his own. During our family dinner last night, I commended him for this. I realize it takes people a lot of strength to be able to truly find what they love and stick on that path. 

For all of us who find our love, path, calling – we all should be applauded and I definitely cheer you too! 

So as I wrap up the first real week of my appointment as CMO heading into this Memorial Day weekend — this sobering reality kicks in. I really don’t have weekends anymore and this holiday weekend, will just be that… a weekend filled with writing holiday music 🙂