Success Beyond The Score

Noticing the lack of female musicians in churches and within the music industry, Millicent created ‘Cafemnee’ in 2014 to deliver a series of networking and empowering workshops for female musicians and singers. During the pandemic, it became ‘Time For My Music‘, our online community group for women in music.

After these five years of wonderful achievements, both individual and collective, we want to expand and improve our efforts, so more women receive the support they need to achieve their goals in the music industry.

Our next step towards this is to assess how Time For My Music is perceived, based on the information that you, dear reader, have received about it from our channels. We have put together a four question survey to help with that, and we will be thankful if you'd answer it:

Go to the survey

It is quick and anonymous. Please send your answer before Sunday 22 November. 

There is still time to join Time For My Music, our online community group to help and guide emerging female musicians in their path to achieve their music dreams. Sign up to work together with like-minded women like Joannie, to whom you can listen in the video below, talking about how she gained confidence and improved several of her skills thanks to the support of the group:

 

 

 

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Just like her, upon entering, you will become part of a network, engage with projects and participate in talks and social events aimed at getting you closer to your goals.

If you sign up before tomorrow night, when enrollment closes, you will get a 14 days free trial during which you will be able to:

• Explore our extensive library, including the recent series of workshops we have held about amplifiers and mixers.
• Get acquainted with the other members and talk in our forums.
• Attend one drink, c
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Patricia has been an active member of Time For My Music, our online community that helps emerging female musicians achieve their music dreams, since the beginning. Through the years, we have seen her grow, challenge herself and achieve wonderful things. Let Patricia herself tell you about it:

 

 

 

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This clip comes from our live concert in Birmingham some time ago. You can watch the whole show on YouTube.

Now, if you are:

• A female singer, musician, rapper or DJ, who would like to take your music hobby further by performing outside your four walls, and get paid, but don’t know how to make it happen
• Perhaps a woman who is already performing, but who struggles to some extent with things like sound tech, ways to improve stage craft, how to get bookings, etc.
• A woman who wants to return to music after a break, or give it one more push before quitting, and is now looking for t
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Time For My Music is our online private membership group for emerging female musicians. This denomination includes singers, instrumentalists, singer-songwriters, rappers, DJs and spoken word artistes. Starting today, and for two weeks, it is open for new members. If you have been reading our updates from the group, and wondering how you can take part, this is your chance!

Specifically, Time For My Music is the right fit for you if:

• Music is your hobby, but you would like to perform and eventually get paid.
• You're returning to music after a break, and want support to get back in and boost your confidence. 

• You have gigged occasionally, but it doesn't seem to be working. However, you'd like to give your music one last push to see if you can realise your music dreams.

You can read more about the project in the about page.

Still unsure? No problem, signing up allows you to access the community group for 14 days before you have to pay even a penny. Come and have a look!

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On International Women's Day, we want to highlight the effort and achievements of our community for emerging female musicians, Time For My Music.

As the COVID-19 pandemic forced the world into lock-down, our creative director, Millicent Stephenson, moved her projects to support women in music to the digital space. Time For My Music was thus born as an online community, where women could network, learn about the music industry, and build a path towards their goals.

As a group, Time For My Music has put together two online concerts and one live performance in the city of Birmingham. You can watch them on YouTube:

• Highlights of first online concert
• Second online concert
• Live concert, part 1
• Live concert, part 2

They also got a photographic exhibition:

Individual members have gone to become part of bands, get booked for private gigs, perform in front of bigger audiences and grown their social media following.

Women are underrepresented in the music industry, particularly as...

This is the final batch of episodes from season 1 of the podcast Success Beyond the Score. They share the theme of looking at the future, from what to do when setbacks in other areas of your life jeopardise your job, to how to use new technologies to share your music online, and what good habits will ensure the longevity of your career.

On Wednesday 28th January 2026, there is going to be a FREE COURSE expanding on the subject of music performance livestreaming, which is treated on episodes 27 and 28 of the podcast. You are still in time to sign up by clicking this link.

Here are the episodes:

26. What do you do when life happens to your online music?

What do you do when everything is going in the right direction, and all of a sudden, you get a setback from nowhere? Today, Millicent explores how to deal with curveballs and unexpected life issues that make difficult to keep up with your online posting or work.

27. What equipment do you need to livestream?

Are you interested in p

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Would you like to learn ‘how to stream your live music performance on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok’ to your followers? Do you wonder what equipment you need, or what buttons to press? 

If so, Millicent will be running a FREE beginners’ session on Wednesday 28th January 2026, 7.30pm via Zoom. This session will cover:

1.    The basic equipment that you may already have, and one other thing you really need (which does not cost the earth) to livestream.
2.    How you can make sure your image and sound are captured properly.
3.    The buttons to press and the boxes to fill in order to go live.
4.    How to get viewers to your videos.

This session is for anyone who wants to perform their music on the internet to family, friends, followers or fans. If it sounds interesting, click here to sign up. And if you have any questions, you can ask Millicent directly at info@millicentstephenson.com

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2026 is around the corner. If you are a woman who has been thinking about taking your music to higher grounds as part of your new year's resolutions, we have excellent news: Time For My Music will open its door for new members in January!

One of the most valuable resources you will get upon joining are the monthly workshops. Becoming part of the community grants you instant access to all the workshops that we have already had, which include topics like:

• How to edit backing tracks
• A.I., cookies and data protection
• Dealing with setbacks
• Creating and achieving your vision

Most importantly, you will be able to attend and interact live in the following workshops during the first half of 2026:

• How to broadcast your performance
• Health for musicians
• Starting from scratch
• Promoting yourself
• Legal requirements and your music
• Getting paid Q&A

If this sounds interesting, be sure to join our mailing list. That way, you will be the first to learn when signups start. You can read...

Time is always scarce. The more something matters to us, the more it feels like everything else gets in the way. Days are just too short. Or are they?

Look at your typical schedule for the week. There are some fixed things that you can't skip if you want to stay alive: sleeping and resting, eating, hygiene routines, physical activity. Block those out. There are also unskippable commitments, like work or study —with their respective commute time— house chores, and family logistics (for example, getting your kids ready for school). Finally, there are things that enrich and give meaning to your life, like the nurturing and enjoyment of your relationships, or your spiritual journey, religious or not. Once you block those out as well, you will see the time you really have for yourself, and can decide how to best use it.

At this stage, it's a matter of priorities. What do you want to achieve? What are the most important steps towards achieving it? A to-do list will be very handy, as it wil...

There are two days left for you to join Time For My Music. Upon signing up, you will get free trial access to the community's library of resources and information, and you will also get a 20 minutes one-to-one talk with Millicent, in which you will be able to learn more about the dynamics of the group and talk to her about your music journey and aspirations.

You can learn more about Time For My Music here and sign up here.

For your consideration, here are some highlights of the testimonials that the members of Time For My Music gave during the Evening Showcase last year, which was the first face to face concert they put together as a group:

With Millicent's support, we've been able to achieve things that we never thought were possible.
—Michelle

What Millicent gives us is the confidence to come out and play in front of people.
—Patricia

Time For My Music is togetherness, a way to put ourselves out in the world as musicians together.
—Melody

We have been pushed out of our comfort zo...