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Mental Health Education for Music & Entertainment
Industry-informed conversations, workshops, and media appearances focused on burnout, psychological safety, touring, leadership, performance pressure, and sustainable creative careers.
Supporting the People Behind the Work
Practical mental health education grounded in real industry experience.
Music and entertainment careers can be deeply rewarding, while also placing significant emotional, relational, and practical demands on the people within them.
I speak with artists, executives, managers, touring professionals, creative teams, and industry organizations about the mental health challenges that can arise in fast-moving, high-pressure environments.
My approach combines clinical insight with more than a decade of prior experience in artist management, marketing, touring, and live music. The goal is to create conversations that feel relevant, accessible, engaging, and useful in real life.
Selected Engagements
Conversations across the music and creative industries.
Selected speaking, workshop, panel, and community engagements centered on mental health, touring, leadership, resilience, and sustainable creative careers.
NAMM
Stress, Resilience & Psychological Safety on Tour
Speaking at NAMM for two consecutive years on the emotional realities of touring, stress management, resilience, and creating psychologically safer environments on the road.
Women in Music
Mental Health Education for Music Professionals
Workshops and conversations supporting women and professionals across the music industry with practical tools for stress, burnout, boundaries, leadership, and career sustainability.
SONA
Supporting Songwriters & Creative Careers
Mental health education designed for songwriters and creative professionals navigating performance pressure, career uncertainty, identity, and the emotional demands of creative work.
Jump Global
Community, Well-Being & Sustainable Growth
Supporting summit and community conversations around mental health, meaningful careers, identity, personal growth, and sustainable professional development.
Backline
Mental Health Support for the Music Community
Contributing to workshops and broader conversations that increase access to mental health education, practical support, and resources for artists and industry professionals.
Industry Panels & Events
Leadership, Touring & Creative Sustainability
Participating in panels, fireside conversations, and industry events focused on emotional well-being, performance pressure, career longevity, and healthier professional cultures.
Speaking Topics
Relevant conversations for artists, teams, and organizations.
Every engagement can be adapted to the audience, setting, and goals of the organization.
Burnout Prevention & Recovery
Recognizing the early signs of burnout and developing sustainable approaches to creative work, leadership, touring, and high-demand careers.
Psychological Safety
Creating teams and working environments where people can communicate honestly, raise concerns, recover from mistakes, and perform without fear.
Mental Health on Tour
Navigating irregular schedules, isolation, sleep disruption, pressure, group dynamics, transitions, and the emotional impact of life on the road.
Leadership in High-Pressure Environments
Building emotional awareness, boundaries, communication skills, and values-based leadership in fast-moving entertainment careers.
Performance Pressure & Anxiety
Understanding the relationship between anxiety, perfectionism, identity, public visibility, and the pressure to consistently perform.
Artist-Team Communication
Supporting healthier communication between artists, managers, teams, and creative collaborators while reducing emotional labor and blurred boundaries.
Creative Identity & Career Longevity
Exploring self-worth, identity, career transitions, uncertainty, and how to build a meaningful career without losing yourself in the work.
ADHD in Creative Careers
Practical and strengths-based strategies for focus, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and sustainable professional systems.
Engagement Formats
Flexible formats for different audiences and settings.
Panels
Thoughtful, accessible conversations that bring together clinical insight, lived experience, and multiple industry perspectives.
Interactive Workshops
Practical sessions combining psychoeducation, reflection, discussion, and tools participants can apply immediately.
Keynotes & Talks
Focused presentations for conferences, organizations, companies, and creative communities.
Fireside Conversations
Candid, conversational discussions that make complex mental health topics approachable and relevant.
Moderated Discussions
Skilled facilitation for panels and conversations involving mental health, leadership, touring, culture, and creative work.
Company & Team Sessions
Customized programming for labels, agencies, management companies, artist teams, touring organizations, and creative businesses.
About Amanda
Clinical expertise with firsthand entertainment-industry experience.
Amanda Wheeler Flotlin, MA, LMFT, is a licensed therapist, coach, speaker, and former artist manager.
Before becoming a therapist, Amanda spent more than a decade working in music and entertainment across artist management, marketing, touring, and live events.
Her clinical work focuses on anxiety, ADHD, eating disorders, body image, burnout, career transitions, relationships, identity, leadership pressure, and the emotional demands of creative and high-performance careers.
That combination of clinical training and firsthand industry experience allows Amanda to speak in a way that feels grounded, credible, and directly relevant to artists, executives, managers, teams, and organizations.
Media & Podcast Appearances
Conversations about mental health, burnout, and creative careers.
Selected interviews and media appearances focused on the emotional realities of working in music and entertainment.
She Rocks Podcast
Burnout, Stress & Mental Health in the Music Industry
A conversation about the realities of mental health on and off the road, industry burnout, stress, resilience, and building more sustainable creative careers.
Listen to the EpisodePanels & Interviews
Additional Media Appearances
Future podcast interviews, panels, articles, and recorded conversations can be added here as the media library grows.
More appearances coming soonA Customized Approach
Every audience and organization has different needs.
Speaking engagements and workshops can be tailored around your audience, event format, company culture, team dynamics, current challenges, and desired outcomes.
Topics can be delivered as standalone sessions or incorporated into a larger conference, retreat, leadership initiative, artist-development program, or company wellness series.
Speaking & Media Inquiries
Bring an industry-informed mental health conversation to your audience.
To discuss a panel, workshop, keynote, podcast, interview, conference, company session, or customized engagement, email Amanda with a few details about your audience, topic, format, and timing.
Email Amandaamanda@intunewellness.co