A Different Release

Lovelies,

At long, app-store-review-process last, MUZI IS LIVE!

For those who missed last month's newsletter, the gist: I spent the last two years making Muzi, an app that helps you access greater creativity. 

There are ways this release feels familiar:

I feel the squirmy transition from creative cocoon to public airing.

I feel the delight of imagining people's reactions; I feel the dread of imagining people's reactions.

I feel immortal potential reduced to a single mortal question: What the heck did I make?!

But this release also feels WHOLLY DIFFERENT.

Never have I released something so devoted to service. Whether or not this app helps anybody (I hope it does!), I chose every word, every function, every image with the winds of service beneath my wings.

Never have I released something that required so much of me. I don't mean effort. You know I leave it on the field every time I create. I do mean this app required me to use every aspect of myself. Even aspects of myself that didn't yet exist. I had to develop a discerning eye. I had to develop a business savvy. I had to develop the courage to insist on my vision.

Never have I released something unfinished. You release an album and hope to god you made good choices. But an app? You KNOW you didn't! Sharing Muzi is but step two of infinity in its becoming. And now is the interesting part where we get feedback -- and iterate.

I really hope you'll give it a try!

And tell me what you think so I can make it better 💓

With love,

Rachel

Muzi Launch Party!

At the Muzi launch party I mentioned I was an introvert a grand total of too many times. 

But surrounded by friends, colleagues, and artists I've coached, I was so submerged in community I couldn't help but grasp at a sense of myself in this misting way.

So there I was, an introvert in love with her community, pulling it together just barely enough to present on what she'd made in deep service to her community.

It was a night for the ages and I shall not soon forget it!

Special shout out to Jay Clemens, teacher of bizness words, co-founder of pure-hearted dreams, and partner in song and other technologies. 

Deep thanks to 25th Street Recording for hosting us, Karishma Kumar and Collin Purdue for impossible seamlessness, Philip Gelb for converting 49 more people to veganism, and Sierra Alyse for destroying us in the length of two songs.

Thanks, too, to you who were there with me, and even more, to you who will be there with me in the missions and reflections and meditations of this app.

Photographs by the exceptional Cherlyn Wagner.