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Four questions for “human potential” specialist
Dana Fonteneau
A musician and therapist works with soloists, actors, educators and administrators to teach what she needed to know in her own career. She will be a speaker at APAP|NYC.
BY MEGAN KAPLON
When Dana Fonteneau worked as a full-time conservatory-trained concert cellist, she wished there were someone who could coach her on the bits and pieces of life as a professional musician that she had never thought about before but had to face head-on every day. She could have used advice on negotiating a contract, deciding whether a gig was worth doing, dealing with injuries and pain, and
finding purpose and fulfillment as a performer.
Such a coach didn’t exist. So Fonteneau went back to school to study psychology and became that person, what she calls “a specialist in helping people fulfill human potential.”
Today, Fonteneau is a performance coach and management consultant, with
a focus on helping artists find success, financial sustainability, health, wellness and empowerment.
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