Can You Still Love Your Passion When It Needs to Pay The Bills? Jules Harding from Good Luck
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What happens when the thing you love most becomes your job?
For Jules Harding, one half of South African electronic duo GoodLuck, music has been part of her life for as long as she can remember. But turning a passion into a career comes with an unexpected complication: the thing that once brought you joy can start to feel like something you have to measure, manage and perform.
In this conversation, Jules opens up about the pressure of the music industry, overthinking, self-doubt and the gradual shift in her definition of success. She talks about becoming a mother, reconnecting with creativity, letting go of outcomes and learning to enjoy her work again.
The conversation also explores something bigger than music: what happens when we stop measuring our lives by achievement and start paying attention to how life actually feels.
In this episode:
- Why making your passion your job can change your relationship with it
- How achievement, numbers and external validation affected Jules's creativity
- The role motherhood played in changing her perspective on success
- Why she has stopped worrying about streams, charts and outcomes
- How she has brought more joy back into GoodLuck's live performances
- Why family, friendship and time in nature have become central to her happiness
If you've ever wondered whether doing what you love is enough to make a good life, this conversation is worth listening to.
Music: Tommy Duwe
Website: www.thejoymovement.co.za
For Jules Harding, one half of South African electronic duo GoodLuck, music has been part of her life for as long as she can remember. But turning a passion into a career comes with an unexpected complication: the thing that once brought you joy can start to feel like something you have to measure, manage and perform.
In this conversation, Jules opens up about the pressure of the music industry, overthinking, self-doubt and the gradual shift in her definition of success. She talks about becoming a mother, reconnecting with creativity, letting go of outcomes and learning to enjoy her work again.
The conversation also explores something bigger than music: what happens when we stop measuring our lives by achievement and start paying attention to how life actually feels.
In this episode:
- Why making your passion your job can change your relationship with it
- How achievement, numbers and external validation affected Jules's creativity
- The role motherhood played in changing her perspective on success
- Why she has stopped worrying about streams, charts and outcomes
- How she has brought more joy back into GoodLuck's live performances
- Why family, friendship and time in nature have become central to her happiness
If you've ever wondered whether doing what you love is enough to make a good life, this conversation is worth listening to.
Music: Tommy Duwe
Website: www.thejoymovement.co.za
