Alex Winters

My work is typically very event driven, so it’s hard to explore in the evenings or weekends when I might be gigging Thursday - Sunday. But when I do have some time I love to do and try different things…

I believe that we can manifest our desires if we truly want them bad enough. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wished for something really hard and had it come true. If you focus enough energy into something…

A typical weekday morning for me goes as follows: 

After I hit the snooze about 4 or 5 times I usually drag myself out of bed between 9 and 9:30 and head straight for the coffee pot. Once I…

I could list 100 famous people, but I think that would be missing the point of this question. Famous doesn’t equal successful in my opinion. Success for me is having the financial freedom to explore whatever it is you want…

You probably know Tim Ferriss for his book "The 4 Hour Workweek". I read his book many years ago and thought well isn't that special (in the Church Lady's voice, of course). I loved the idea of what he…

I stopped today to let a car into traffic as I often do, and I was thinking about how little acts of kindness can really make a big impact on the kind of day I have. If you’ve ever been…

As a woman trying to find her way in the music business, I found Madonna’s Billboard Woman of the Year award acceptance speech extremely moving. She said a lot of things throughout the speech that rang true for me. It…

Got a spot on the November 7th edition of the Songwriters Across Texas Radio Show! Listen to the replay here.

I've been a supporting member of the Austin Songwriters Group (ASG) off an on for the past 9 years, but I have never had the courage to submit any songs for their contests. This year I threw caution to the…

While adventuring on the Twitter one day, Kyle Walz and I found each other exchanging conversation about music and he graciously offered to feature one of my songs on his website. You can read the article here and get a…

I read an article the other day in Fortune Magazine that talked about how employers are looking for new hires with empathy because this is apparently a decreasing skill that children are not being taught or are not learning. 

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