We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Beami. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Beami below.
Beami, so glad you were able to set aside some time for us today. We’ve always admired not just your journey and success, but also the seemingly high levels of self-discipline that you seem to have mastered and so maybe we can start by chatting about how you developed it or where it comes from?
My self-discipline comes first from the feelings and emotions and occurrences that were experienced when I didn’t have any self-discipline at all. The disappointment, disgust, and accountability that I hold for myself when I slip up or lapse in a way I know I am capable of not falling down to. We’re all natural and we learn from our mistakes, which we will inevitably make, but, for me, the best practice of discipline has been remembering what it’s like when I take the easy way or let myself go immaturely.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I do a little bit of everything but I’m primarily a writer and a musician. I have a short story series based on memories from my life. I have released tons of content over the last year or so. I’m focusing these days on booking shows and playing in front of real, live human beings and connecting more with the life and community around me. I do some acoustic ukulele diddies, some hip hop, some electronic trance/psych instrumentals and more. I love anything artsy and creative. I love social experiences and collaborations. I love seeing and supporting and working with other talented, kind souls. I hope to release much more original material in the spring/summer.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
First skill I think that was useful to me would be learning to be honest with myself. Correcting my dialogue and language with myself, and then others. I’m not weak, I don’t suck, I’m not terrible, people don’t hate me. But, also, I could use the practice, I’m far from my potential, I have a lot of work to and that’s an exciting thing. I love this. Success comes from internal feelings, not external approval. Secondly, I am proud of myself for finally learning an instrument. I played trombone in middle school but never wanted to. Words brought me into music, but without my own instrument, I just made backing tracks, but still felt so limited and one dimensional. Now I’m teaching myself multiple new instruments and can play something somewhere anytime any way. It’s a relaxing, exciting and helpful skill to have developed at this point and was a long time coming.
Thirdly, maintaining balance. Valuing rest and health and diet and well-being just as much as rocking and writing and recording and socializing and jamming. Understanding how to not burn the candle at both ends, slow down, find peace each and every day, breathe, go at the pace that progress blossoms, not the pace that the clock ticks. There’s no rush on anything, we have all of life to live all of life.
Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?
Absolutely, I would love to connect and collaborate with others. As powerful and capable as we are individually, we can reach even greater heights together. I’d love to record with a like-minded sound engineer in studio, I’d love to work with some more instrumentalists, I’d love to sing more and feature on others tracks, I’d love to work on cover art and photography and images, I’d love to host or lead an event or show, whatever brings people together positively, gracefully and truthfully.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.beami.earth
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beaminotyou
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093018871977&mibextid=ZbWKwL
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@beaminotyou
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/beami-484183229?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
