Show Notes
Vanessa Munns, a Group Piano University graduate, lives in Beacon, a tiny farming community in the Central Wheat Belt of Western Australia. She drives up to 300km a day to teach. She has rebuilt her studio from scratch - twice - after drought wiped it out. She went through the pandemic having just had her ability to teach in state schools taken away overnight.
And she has built a six-figure income from teaching piano and music in the middle of the Australian outback.
This episode is one of the most awesome conversations we’ve had on the podcast!
Vanessa's mindset, her resilience, her absolute refusal to let geography or circumstance stop her - it is genuinely inspiring.
In this episode, you'll discover:
How Vanessa built her studio twice - and watched drought wipe it out both times
The teaching model that actually works
The day that 50 new students became part of her weekly schedule
That time when a school asked her to write a five-year music program dream list
Why being remote actually worked in her favour
What Whole Body Learning did for her neurodiverse students
The teaching track that transformed her students’ progress more than anything else
The mindset that took her from side income to six figures
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