She Rocks: Navigating Stress & Resilience in the Industry

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The music industry is fast-paced, high-pressure, and often unpredictable, making mental health and resilience more important than ever. She Rocks: Navigating Stress & Resilience in the Industry brings together leading mental health professionals for a candid and empowering conversation focused on helping musicians and industry professionals build sustainable, healthy careers.
 
From the demands of touring and creative pressure to the realities of burnout and uncertainty, this panel will explore practical strategies for maintaining emotional balance and developing resilience in a constantly evolving landscape. Attendees will gain real-world tools to support their well-being while continuing to grow creatively and professionally.
 
This is not just a conversation about coping. It is about creating a stronger foundation for long-term success, both personally and professionally.
Meet the panelists: 
  • Moderator: Laura B. Whitmore, Founder of the Women’s International Music Network and producer of the She Rocks Awards
  • Amanda Wheeler, MA, LMFT, is an LA-based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, founder of In Tune Wellness, and Director of Marketing & Communications for MITC
  • Leily Labuda is a Los Angeles–based Marriage and Family Therapist and member of the Music Industry Therapist Collective (MITC)
  • Lucy Kozak Cesnik is a therapist and member of the Music Industry Therapist Collective (MITC)
  • Jennifer Stafford is a licensed psychotherapist, mental health choreographer, self-love teacher, resilience hustler, author, and philosophical poet practicing in New York and California
  • Janeane Bernstein, EdD, is a mental health advocate, author, and host of Get the Funk Out! on KUCI 88.9 FM

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With over ten years of experience in the music products industry, Natalie brings projects with purpose to life. Currently, she serves as the Senior Segment Marketing Specialist for Education at the Yamaha Corporation of America by championing, advocating, and connecting music educators in the industry and executing Yamaha's strategic vision around the company's continued support and commitment to music education. Natalie serves as a storyteller through several different mediums, from writing to co-founding, hosting, and producing Women of NAMM's ReVoicing the Future Podcast, created almost five years ago, aims to provide a platform to learn from and celebrate women's voices and career journeys within NAMM's focus areas of music products, non-profit/education and pro-audio industries, with the ultimate goal of helping to build an industry with more equitable gender representation. Additionally, she serves on the NAMM Young Professionals (YP)Board of Directors as the marketing committee chair, helping to lead NAMM YP's marketing strategy and how it supports NAMM's mission and the industry's future leaders. Natalie is also the brand and content manager for the Arts Ed Data Project, a non-profit that utilizes data as a catalyst to increase access and participation in music education across the country. In 2025, Natalie was named one of the inaugural members of Music Inc Magazine's 5 Under 45.

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