July 30, 2026
Episode 465: Client Spotlight: Bank On Yourself® for Creatives: Building a Music Empire with Janet Kuester
Apple Podcasts In this episode, we ask:
- How can you make your side hustle the main event, without money stress?
- Who is Janet Kuester and how did she grow the Music Connection to hundreds of students?
- What did Janet do with her Bank On Yourself® type whole life insurance policy?
- What is a music activist?
- What did Janet discover on her journey?
- What did Janet learn in the Orchestra?
- Who is looking for a tribe?
- What about communicating without words?
- What happened when Janet was 5 years old?
- When did Janet start playing an instrument?
- Could you believe the sound?
- What was the journey like?
- How did Janet found and build the Music Connection school in 2004?
- What was Janet’s “entrepreneurial seizure”?
- What happened when she was bursting at the seams at the Orland Park location?
- What happened with the Suburban Youth Symphony?
- What about kids getting access and opportunity?
- What happened when Janet learned about Bank On Yourself®?
- How did Janet sell her business?
- What happens after work?
- What did Janet do with her policy when she turned 70?
- What about an amazing experience?
- What about Janet’s children book, Try It and See?
- What about Janet’s new book, More Than Music Lessons: Wisdom Beyond the Notes?
- …and more!
Janet Kuester describes herself as a music activist.
As a young woman, she doubted her music ability, though she was filled with a love for classical music. After a 28-year detour into a nursing career, she felt called to start a music school and that started a 20-year journey into founding and running her own music school business, the Music Connection, which she sold in 2020. She is a firm believer in life’s chapters and is in the middle of the next one!