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MyMusic

Graham Coath in conversation with the musicians shaping today's music scene — the craft, the stories, and the moments that changed their path.

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And In Poll Position — LinkedIn and My Life in Polls, by Graham Coath
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I wrote a book.And In Poll Position

Four boxes. One click. A tidy percentage that feels like an answer.

After seven years and more than 2,500 daily LinkedIn polls, Graham Coath has learned that the vote is rarely the interesting part — the comment underneath it usually is.

"...the very large amount of human complexity that refuses to fit into four small boxes."

And In Poll Position is the story of what one small, stubborn habit taught him about curiosity, consistency, and the very large amount of human complexity that refuses to fit into four small boxes.

10 ready-to-use polls Included to get you inspired.
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Every artist has a story.

Whether you're releasing your first single, touring internationally or quietly building something special, MyMusic is about the conversations behind the songs.

No PR script. No rapid-fire questions. No awkward interview performance. Just a proper conversation about the music you make, the road that brought you here, and the bits people usually miss.

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What musicians taught me

Six years of conversations.
One unavoidable truth.

Every artist I've spoken to — signed or unsigned, touring or bedroom, celebrated or quietly brilliant — has wrestled with the same problem. Not talent. Not timing. Visibility.

The musicians who last are rarely the most technically gifted in the room. They're the ones who learned how to show up with clarity and confidence. They developed a point of view. They became findable before they became famous.

"The ones who disappear don't run out of talent. They run out of visibility."

After six years and more than 650 conversations, I realised I was hearing the same story told from a hundred different stages — and that it wasn't just a music problem. It's a business problem. A professional problem. A you-sitting-at-your-desk-wondering-why-no-one-knows-you-exist problem.

That's what A Better Way Of Life is built around. The Human Algorithm. The conversation between who you are and how the world sees you.

The lessons
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Clarity beats volume

The artists people remember aren't the loudest. They're the most specific. They know exactly what they stand for — and they repeat it without apology.

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Showing up is the strategy

Consistency compounds. Every musician who built a real audience did so by releasing, performing, posting — not by waiting for the perfect moment.

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Confidence is learned

Not a single artist I've interviewed started confident. Confidence arrived after they committed to being visible. The stage comes before the swagger.

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Authenticity isn't optional

Audiences are sophisticated. They can smell performance. The musicians who connect most deeply are the ones willing to be genuinely themselves — online and off.

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The right people over the most people

A small devoted audience beats a passive large one every time. Build for the people who actually care, not the algorithm's idea of what's popular.

A Better Way Of Life

Where musicians' wisdom meets business reality

A Better Way Of Life is the community where Graham works with business owners, professionals, and founders who are brilliant at what they do — but invisible to the people who need them.

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About the host

Graham Coath

Why I started My Music

I've been in bands since I was 14 and, in the 90s, ended up signed — to a band hardly anyone has heard of. I've worked in radio, run a club night in London and done my share of "normal" jobs too.

In 2020 I stepped away from a COO role in EdTech to reconnect with people and real conversations. I started my own social media business and set out to make the kind of content I actually wanted to hear.

Tired of throwaway interviews, I launched a podcast recorded on video — streaming to YouTube and LinkedIn, and available on Spotify to watch or listen. No celebrity. No PR polish. Just musicians and their stories.

After six years of interviews, I realised those conversations had been quietly building something else: a framework for how any person or business can become genuinely visible, not just louder. That became A Better Way Of Life.

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