The creative itch is taking up space in your head—let it out.

BY NATASHA MILLER, FOUNDER & CEO OF ENTIRE PRODUCTIONS

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As entrepreneurs, we’re experts at mental bandwidth management. We know that unfinished projects don’t just sit quietly in the background; they consume precious cognitive real estate, creating a low-level hum of distraction that can impact everything from decision making to sleep quality.

For two decades, I carried one of those projects, a song called “My Sleep” that refused to let me rest.

The project that wouldn’t die

“My Sleep” first emerged on my debut album Her Life, as a simple piano and vocal piece; intimate, raw, born from those universal moments when love exists only in dreams. But this song had bigger aspirations.

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In 2004, while building my company, Entire Productions (now in its 25th year), I was invited to perform with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra at the Kofman Auditorium in Alameda, California. It was a benefit concert featuring mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and other remarkable musicians. As a classical violinist, jazz vocalist, and entrepreneur, performing with an orchestra represented a dream I’d been nurturing alongside my business goals.

The performance was magical—and haunting. I was eight months pregnant, though I didn’t yet know I was seriously ill with pre-eclampsia. Weeks later, I would lose my son Aidan at 37 weeks and nearly lose my own life. Although I only touch on........

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