Kari helped me to focus on my strengths and showed me constructive ways
to move ahead with specific and useful advice. Her suggestions were
based on my own material and talent.

MARY GAUTHIER

Kari is as good as they get…working with her is one of the best things
I’ve done in my 30 years as a songwriter, performer and recording artist.

SI KAHN

I’ve been down the ‘manager’ road before, Kari’s way is better - I call her my
“para-manager.” I get what I need, when I need it and with no strings attached!

JIM PHOTOGLO

Kari knows the music business and she knows people. Her insights
are clear and helpful, her ideas accessible and practical.

TOM KIMMEL

Kari pours her heart and soul into whatever she does.
She will find yours with an unerring knack honed from years of experience.

DAVID LLEWELLYN

Working with Kari has helped me change my life.

TOM PRASADA-RAO

The first time I implemented one of Kari’s suggestions, it paid for the entire consultation
fee five times over. Kari Estrin offers career direction you can take to the bank.

MICHAEL GULEZIAN

Kari has phenomenal capabilities to help you get your career off the ground.
She brings wisdom, discipline and order to a world of chaos. Her knowledge, insight
and talent of encouraging you to see new ways to improve your outlook
on life will open doors you never thought you could open.

DONNA HUGHES

Kari’s broad knowledge of the music business field, her focused organizational
skills and her personal warmth and generosity have made her a great asset
and ally in many facets of my musical career… road managing, promoting shows, developing a CD concept, career counseling, and creative PR approaches
to name a few. Kari gives 100% to get the job done.

MARK SCHATZ

Some of the best things that have happened since working with Kari are
directly attributable to my work with her…I treasure her partnership in my career.

DAVID LAMOTTE

Working with Kari is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
I would never have believed that there would be so many positive shifts in my life–
not just in my career, which is what I thought I was hiring her for, but also in my
whole life. Its all very exciting. In short, she is the best!

HELENE KATES

Kari has guided my music career like a well-intentioned arrow shot from a bow.
She has helped me focus on the target and aim for what is important my career.

GLEN HELGESON

Kari’s got savvy, sensitivity, and a great deal of integrity. Her commitment to her
own growth as well as her clients’ makes her an honest ally in this business.  
As a performing songwriter and director of a non-profit music organization, I value
her astute listening, strategic mind, and compassionate understanding of how to
achieve and sustain professional and personal success in an artist’s life. 

JUDITH KATE-FRIEDMAN

Kari embraces the eccentricity and coaxes out the essence of the art, yet at the same time,
her advice is truly practical…[she] has nourished my writing in ways I could only have dreamed I’d ever have the opportunity to experience with an amazing intuitive talent.

RAIN PERRY

Kari promoted my CD to folk radio, getting it to No. 2 where it remained
in the Top 5 for two more months. She is experienced, savvy and intelligent.
Her insights and suggestions have been invaluable.

COSY SHERIDAN

Working with Kari was one of the smartest decisions we’ve made…
she motivates us to do the hard stuff.

ANNIE & ROD CAPPS

Kari’s “Career Assessment” has helped me in other areas of my life besides music.
It’s an overall self-esteem booster. And after I hired Kari to write my new bio,
even my wife saw me in a new light!

MICHAEL VEITCH

Kari’s unwavering commitment to my success has inspired me to
get more serious about my career goals, my life goals, and, especially,
my writing…I am actively creating my best material to date.
My only regret is that I didn’t find Kari earlier in my odyssey.

TED GARBER

Thanks for your wisdom, and for your ability to integrate different kinds of truth in
your words -- spiritual, higher truth; pragmatic truth; body truth, psychological
truth. Since I operate in all of these places, working with you allows me to
make an enormous amount of connections in a short period of time.

SOFIA ECHEGARAY

Kari's observations helped me see there was a way to reach my goals. I came away feeling renewed and hopeful, with an assurance that I am truly meant to do what I believe in.

PAM GADD

Kari is one of the most strategic thinkers I know.
She has a knack for getting the big picture quickly.

BRUCE KAPLAN

Let's face it, this industry has it's own language, grammar and rules.
Kari Estrin does business with a fluent voice for what to do next.
She follows the changes and keeps a constant eye on the playing field.

SALLY FINGERETT

Kari really helped me to understand the underlying personal issues
that can get in the way of being a professional artist.

CLAUDIA RUSSELL

Kari and I have worked together on several event projects.
I can think of no better person to call on to put it all together for you.
Her vision and attention to both the big picture and the details are MUST-HAVES.

JESSIE SCOTT

Creative types often have difficulty being objective with their careers
or personal lives. Kari makes the illusions disappear--focusing on
what you can do to be effective right now.

JOHN DANLEY

When you are lost in the maze of what to do next, wondering what is really
important, reasonable, practical, do-able.... call Kari Estrin.

CROW JOHNSON

Kari's holistic approach to consulting has helped us create a balanced
and renewed path for our career. Her expertise, wisdom, and insight have saved
us hours of time, not to mention cultivated many new resources we were unaware
existed. In working with Kari, she provided us with invaluable information we
not only benefited from, but will continue to use for years to come.

DANIEL & AMY CARWILE

Kari Estrin has the unique qualities of being both an expert in the
music business and an approachable and professional consultant. Her varied
experience as a promoter, manager, booking agent, and publicist gives her the ability
to help target effective marketing tools to those different audiences. Her background and experience in music makes her sensitive to the challenges involved in being a
musician. She returns phone calls and emails promptly, and is friendly yet
unafraid to give criticism where it is due. Kari is a joy to work with.

Chris & Meredith Thompson

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