Just less than six years ago, I was approached by Maddy Gerrard of Insight Timer and asked if I wanted to upload some free meditations.
I didn’t think that much of it as I’d never heard of them but I did. I uploaded a meditation called Be Calm. A month later, Maddy emailed me and asked had I seen the feedback. I hadn’t as I didn’t know the app had that feature. Over 6000 people had listened and they loved the British accent and my left field approach.
Six years later, the app has gone from strength to strength and my career has taken a new direction too. Thanks to the experience and credibility given to me by Insight Timer, before lockdowns, I was regularly hosting live meditation sessions inside businesses. Now it’s still happening but over Zoom and the like.
Amazingly through, the app now provides a regular income which means I don’t have to trade time for money quite as much as I used to. This in turn means I have more time to produce content to upload to the app. This now includes ambient music, audiobooks and podcasts as well as meditations.
This all of course boosts listens and listeners – what goes around, comes around – listen to my portfolio here
Are You Ready to Be the Change?
So each and every day between 1000 and 2000 people listen to a meditation of mine. Each month I host an Insight Timer Live where around 500 people show up. All of this is done without me leaving my home.
On the 23rd July at 2pm UK time, I will be sharing the keys on how to open up this kind of possibility for you too.
What I’ll be covering :
Finding your niche (mine is awakening)
Developing and honing your craft
How to write trance-inducing scripts
The techie stuff
Finding your audience
Sticking at it
Getting to revenue
I’ll also be making a very special free offer to all attendees to help get you started …
Next moonth will see the usual exclusive output being published for my Soundwise subscribers – another Insertions Ambient track, meditation and lecture PLUS two new Just for Today meditations PLUS the serialisation of my latest book, The Duadex.
Insight Timer have asked me if I could provide some meditations to help in the workplace, so they will be in production and going live in August. In the meantime, I’ve got some other surprises lined up for publication on Insight Timer in July.
Watch and listen to this space!
Becoming Fear-less
by Töm Evans | one of the new tracks uploaded to Insight Timer this month
Several blogs ago I set my stall our to post once a month as a bread crumb trail of what was going on in my life – the original purpose and format for a blog perhaps.
Something happened at the start of this month which means I should break with this tradition and sneak an extra blog in – my meditations on Insight Timer hit the 2 million listens mark, after three years.
What does this mean?
Firstly, what was something I played and experimented with has gone mainstream. People seem to enjoy each new meditation I post.
Secondly, I have hit a groove where there is no limit. I post two to three free pieces of audio a month – a meditation, a podcast and a short story. The sales revenue from Insight Timer courses mean I can relax and release more and more free stuff, which in turn helps with sales. After 15 years of pretty continual content creation, I have found my metier.
Thirdly, it means I can really devote the time my forthcoming novel Soulwaves requires to create a Big Splash.
Eternal thanks to the team at Insight Timer and all those souls who helped me get to this milestone.
This month sees a couple of new crossings over. One of them was planned and the other unexpected and accidental.
Crossing #1 : Non-fiction to fiction
The first planned crossing is from non-fiction author to post-dystopian cyberpunk novelist as the first draft, at 100k words, is now with the editor. It started 14 years and 16 books ago and I’m now turning th handle on the publication process. I am hoping ebook, audiobook and print book will leak out into the world between June and September this year.
To signify this first crossing, I have assumed the de plume Töm Evans, in memory of my Irish godmother Eileen who often called me “Thom”. This will be the fictional author name going forward – a kind of soft and subtle nom de plume which I hope doesn’t come across as being slight affected.
The book covers are also in production, featuring Valles Marineris on Mars and a special kind of non-spherical supernova – both key elements in the plot.
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Crossing #2 : Selling Time to Providing Content
It’s the dream of any artist to make money while they sleep so that they can focus on their art. The arrival of my second course on Insight Timer seems to have helped me make that crossing, somewhat unexpectedly.
What’s more the feedback for my new Mindfulness for Busy People Course, surpasses even my expectations and has encouraged me to start thinking about the next course (and the next work of fiction)
“Some days I feel like you’re sitting next to me at the kitchen table, sharing a nice cup of tea, and musing on life. Each meditation is exactly the right thing I need to hear on exactly the right day. Bless you, Tom.”
“The title of your course jumped off the screen at me and I was hooked. As the saying goes, when the student is ready the teacher appears, so I thank you sincerely. I am on day six, and am loving this.”
“I know I’m going to sound funny saying this but it’s like this guided meditation course was made exactly for me. Every word was exactly what I needed to hear at that moment. This path of meditation and awareness is still fairly new to me and it’s so easy to let the ego and negative moments in my life to take over. This course is exactly what my soul needs. Thank you Tom.”
“Dear Tom, you have one of the most amazing voices here on Earth. I’ve listened to you quite a bit and I’ve become familiar with the tone of your voice, which means that I am now instantly relaxing within seconds after starting any of your meditations.”
I’m thrilled to have been invited to deliver several live meditations at the Wellness Day at G-Live … find out what it’s all about in this interview with Stacey Mcintyre …
… and here’s what I will be doing on the day
Live Meditation Schedule at G-Live on the 10th March
Talk : Using Meditation to Live Weller for Longer – 3-4pm in the Glass Room
I’ll be delivering more guided meditations for healing and talking about how we can live weller for longer just by treating ourselves to 10 minutes of Me Time meditation a day.
Invest an hour of your time listening to this interview with Smita Joshi and I guarantee you will discover at least one tip which will give you that hour back …
Just less than six years ago, I was approached by Maddy Gerrard of Insight Timer and asked if I wanted to upload some free meditations.
Are You Ready to Be the Change?
What’s Happening Next Moonth?
This month sees a couple of new crossings over. One of them was planned and the other unexpected and accidental.
Crossing #2 : Selling Time to Providing Content
