Feeling Drained? Protect Your Energy With the Right Audition Mindset for Singers
If your mental energy was money, how much of it have you given away for free this month?
I see it all the time—singers who are careful with their vocal health but reckless with their emotional capital.
- One offhand comment from a peer derails confidence for days
- One audition that didn’t go well eats up a week of mental real estate
- One Instagram scroll spirals into comparison and self-doubt
Your focus, confidence, and joy in singing? That’s expensive. Not everyone has earned the right to spend it.
Taylor Swift on Energy and Boundaries for Performers
This week, Taylor Swift said something that hit me right between the eyes:
“Think of your energy as if it’s expensive. As if it’s like a luxury item. Not everyone can afford it. Not everyone has invested in you, in order to be able to have the capital for you to care about this.”
Amen, amen, amen!
As singers and performers, we have to treat our emotional and vocal energy like the luxury items they are.
Audition Mindset: How I Protected My Emotional Energy
Just this week, I went in for an in-person audition in Raleigh and got a callback in the room. I was asked to send in a few tapes later that day. 😅
Here’s what I could have done:
❌ Panicked about what to send
❌ Taped 12 takes hoping for perfection
❌ Quit because of the pressure of the quick turnaround
Instead, here’s what I did:
✅ Sent two audition tapes I already had and was proud of
✅ Put the song I did live that day on tape—in just two takes
✅ Trusted my preparation and moved on
Micromanaging wasn’t worth my time or energy.
3 Keys to Protecting Your Energy in Auditions
In auditions or self-tapes, the most powerful singers are the ones who:
- Rehearse until they feel ready (that’s a confidence deposit)
- Declare their preparation complete instead of endlessly nitpicking
- Step in intending for the first take to be the performance—because they know each take isn’t a rehearsal.
This isn’t about being perfect. (I’m certainly not!) It’s about protecting your energy so you can enjoy the journey of being an artist, instead of crawling home emotionally bankrupt after every opportunity.
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Final Thought: Protect Your Emotional Capital as a Singer
Your emotional capital is as valuable as your vocal technique. Protect it wisely, and you’ll have more left for the people, projects, and performances that really matter.
So—how much emotional energy do you want to have left over for what’s most important?
