Today we’d like to introduce you to Carly Lind.
Hi Carly, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I grew up in a household where things were unstable early, we lost our home in 2008, my parents split, and somewhere in the middle of all of that I decided the only thing worth building a life around was something nobody could take from me. For me that was music, and it has never stopped being music.
I moved to Boston to study songwriting at Berklee College of Music. Then I made the bigger leap, packed up and moved to Los Angeles alone, the city where I was always supposed to end up. hustled the way you do in your twenties in LA, chasing a thing, paying the bills, trying to make both coexist. I worked in talent acquisition at TikTok during a pivotal moment in the creator economy, then moved into an ad agency where I learned creative strategy from the inside out. Both of those chapters made me sharper. Neither of them was where I was supposed to stay.
Losing both of my parents, in succession, close enough together that grief barely had time to introduce itself before it doubled, sent me toward wellness not as a trend but as a lifeline. I got certified as a yoga instructor, became a breathwork and sound healing facilitator, and built a practice that I now offer to individuals and companies alike. The science behind it fascinates me as much as the results do.
Today I’m an EDM artist, content creator, UGC creator, social media consultant, and wellness facilitator, which sounds like a lot until you realize it’s actually just one thing: I tell true stories through whatever medium fits the moment. I’m on tour with The Latin Legacy band that includes Baby Bash, MC Magic and Lil Rob and I’m preparing to take the stage for FIFA World Cup’s Fan Fest in Dallas, Texas this month. I run a content series called “Music Has Always Been Political” that’s doing exactly what I hoped it would, making people actually listen to songs they’ve been hearing for decades without really hearing them. And I work with brands and clients who want content and strategy rooted in something real.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
No. And I’ve made peace with the fact that it was never going to be.
The road looked smooth from the outside sometimes and that’s its own kind of struggle, actually. When you’re good at holding it together, people assume you are holding it together. I spent a long time being the person who seemed fine while quietly rebuilding from something. The losses, the financial instability, the grief none of that announced itself with a warning. It just arrived, and I had to figure out how to keep moving while carrying it.
The practical struggles were real too. Moving to a new city alone with no financial safety net means every slow month is an existential conversation with yourself about whether you made the right call. The music industry is not built for artists, it’s built for the people who profit from artists, and learning that lesson while also trying to make something meaningful inside of it is a particular kind of exhausting. I navigated publishing disputes, underpaid partnerships, contracts that needed more scrutiny than I gave them at the time. I learned those lessons the hard way, the way most independent artists do.
Building multiple income streams as a creative, which is what you have to do to survive, means you’re never just doing one thing. You’re an artist and a strategist and a facilitator and a content creator simultaneously, and some days that feels like freedom and some days it feels like you’re being pulled in four directions at once and none of them are getting your full attention. Finding the throughline, the thing that ties all of it together into something coherent, took me longer than I expected.
And then there’s the internal stuff, the version of the struggle nobody posts about. The days where the vision is completely clear but the evidence hasn’t caught up yet. Where you’ve done everything right and nothing is moving and you have to decide whether that means stop or keep going. I’ve had a lot of those days. More than I’d like to admit.
What I know now is that the struggle wasn’t interrupting the story. It was the story. Every hard thing taught me something I use every single day, in my music, in how I hold space for clients in breathwork sessions, in how I build strategy for brands, in how I talk about art and politics and truth to an audience that’s still finding me. None of that wisdom came from the smooth parts.
The road wasn’t smooth. But I’m glad it was the road I took.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
My work lives at the intersection of three things that might seem unrelated until you understand the throughline: music, wellness, and storytelling. Everything I do is in service of one idea, that you cannot create, perform, connect, or lead from a dysregulated nervous system. And I’ve built my entire practice around that belief.
On the wellness side, I’m a certified yoga instructor, breathwork facilitator, and sound healing guide with over ten years of experience holding space for people in some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. My flagship offering right now is a program called Regulated as F*ck, a 1:1 breathwork coaching container built for people who are done white-knuckling their way through life and ready to actually build capacity from the inside out. It’s science-backed, it’s deeply personal, and it works. I came to breathwork because I needed it, which means I’m not teaching theory, I’m teaching what saved me. If you want in, the entry point is simple: DM me the word BREATHE on instagram @queencarlyy 😉
On the music side, I’m an EDM artist in the middle of what I can only describe as the chapter I moved to LA for. I recently just released “Bring Me Up,” I’m on tour with The Latin Legacy band that includes Baby Bash, MC Magic and Lil Rob and I’m taking the stage at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Fan Festival in Dallas, Texas June 28th. This is the kind of sentence my younger self would have needed to hear on the hardest days. There’s more coming. I’m building something and it’s moving.
I’m also a UGC creator and social media consultant, working with brands to build content that actually converts because it’s rooted in a real human perspective. And I run a content series called “Music Has Always Been Political” a deep dive into the history of songs that were never just songs, and the artists who used their platform to say something that needed to be said.
What sets me apart is that none of this is a pivot or a rebrand. It’s all the same person following the same thread, sound, truth, the body, the story. I didn’t build a wellness brand and then add music to it. I didn’t become a content creator and then discover breathwork. All of it grew simultaneously from the same root, which means when I show up in any of these spaces I’m bringing the whole picture with me.
What am I most proud of? That I built something real out of the hardest years of my life and that it’s actually helping people. That’s the only metric that has ever mattered to me.
We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
Success, to me, has never looked like what the world usually tells you it should look like.
I didn’t grow up dreaming about climbing the corporate ladder or dreaming of a designer bag or a title that impressed people at parties. What I dreamed about was freedom. The freedom to create on my own terms, to travel when I want, to be financially okay enough that nobody else gets to decide how I spend my time or my energy. The freedom to be my actual self, not a polished, palatable, corporate-approved version of myself, but the full, complicated, creative human I actually am.
My definition of success is simple: getting to do what I love, and having it not feel like a job. That’s it. When I’m in a sound bath holding space for someone who walks out lighter than they walked in, that’s success. When a song I made reaches someone at 2am who needed exactly those words, that’s success. When I’m on a stage performing for thousands of people and I can feel the room shift, that’s success.
The less I’m ruled by a corporation, a structure, someone else’s timeline or someone else’s vision, the more successful I feel. I built my life deliberately around that principle. Every pivot I’ve made, every risk I’ve taken, has been in the direction of more autonomy and less compromise.
I think growing up watching financial instability take things from people I loved made me allergic to the idea that security comes from the outside. A job can be taken. A title can disappear. But the ability to create, to connect, to show up and do meaningful work on your own terms, nobody can take that from you if you’ve built it right.
That’s what I’m building. And by that definition, I’m already successful. The rest is just more of it.
Pricing:
- $750 for a breathwork/sound bath event for corporate events
- $2200 for my 12 week 1:1 breathwork program (hurry prices will be going up)
- $2500 for my 12 week creative strategist coaching program
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queencarlyy/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QueenCarlyyy/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@queencarlyy
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@queencarlyyyyy
