ready to ditch your unhelpful patterns & come up with your next act?

Viv Fantin

Professional Coach, Registered Counsellor, Comms Coach.

Welcome. I'm so happy you're here!

My name is Viv and I am a professional accredited coach, comms coach and a registered counsellor who works specifically with people in the music and creative industries – from the creators to their support network. I’m here to help you engage from a place of wellbeing and thriving. If that sounds good, I’d love to help you to create your Next Act.

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Helping you thrive in our industry.

I know what keeps us up at night: endless hustle, lack of boundaries, scope creep, imposter feelings, the evil twins - perfectionism and procrastination, endless comparing, fear of uncomfortable conversations, and accepting less than what we deserve.

My lived experience in our industry combined with professional coaching and counselling training, will help break down these barriers and discover what matters to you most.

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My Services

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Coaching

Coaching is a game-changing personal development and performance tool. It can help you sort out what you really want to achieve in your life and then help you get there.

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Comms Coaching

Communication is everything. I help people communicate clearly and assertively, navigate uncomfortable conversations, and move beyond limiting beliefs so they feel more empowered across all aspects of our lives.

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Counselling

I am a Registered Counsellor, with a passion for helping people in the music industry with any worries, problems, or psychological difficulties they may be facing.

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Testimonials

Working with Viv has been hugely beneficial for me during a hectic and challenging time at work. I was tasked with leading the company I work for while our director was on a long leave, and I was struggling with limiting beliefs and self-doubt. Viv’s guidance during our coaching sessions helped me feel empowered and equipped me with the necessary tools to overcome those negative beliefs and switch up my behaviour. Viv is an excellent coach who genuinely cares. She is kind, compassionate and resourceful - I can’t recommend her coaching services enough!

Layla Carrol, Scrabble PR

Viv is the dream coach. Holistic, practical and challenging. She will really push you to make goals and achieve them. Could not recommend more highly. (Can't wait for my next sesh) x

Emily Ulman, Programming Director ALWAYS LIVE, Co-Founder Managing Director/Programmer Isol-Aid Festival

I love the way that Viv operates - she is supportive and grounding but provides frameworks for clients to get the answers they need themselves, rather than pointing them out. I felt really empowered after each session, because Viv knew the right questions to ask, to help me put a plan together that really worked. She could understand situations really easily, and empathise, and put a strategy together to work through things. I would 100% recommend Viv and already have, to others.

Sarah Hamilton, Founder One of One

So basically, I can’t thank you enough! I really have grown a lot over the past year and a bit, and our work together has really impacted me.

Emma McGarry, Music Marketing Specialist

Viv provides such an empathetic and practical approach to her coaching. It's both her thought provoking practical tasks, and deep emotional understanding that build such a cohesive learning experience. Viv helped me understand parts of my professional, and personal behavioural processes that I may never have seen, and our sessions have allowed me to calm my inner critic, and become far more self aware and pragmatic in my decision making. It's been such a wonderful experience, I highly recommend her services to anyone needing some professional guidance.

Blaise Sherrie, Label Manager @ Mushroom Group. I Oh You. Soothsayer

The overall experience working with Viv has been fantastic and I would recommend it to everyone. After each session I felt motivated and excited about actioning what we had just spoken about. Viv provided various useful tools to help me overcome challenges and showed me ways to look at problems with different perspectives that I would have never thought of. Viv has made me feel super comfortable throughout the whole program and it’s clear that she is very passionate about helping people achieve their goals.

Desiree Venuto, Booking Agent / Lonely Lands Agency

Viv is an incredibly kind, supportive and empathic soul. She not only worked with me to help me find my personal goals but dug deeper into the psychology and brain science behind what might be holding me back. I learnt so much about myself in these coaching sessions and she held me accountable to do the work. Throughout the entire process, she feels like a best friend, who is easy to talk to and incredibly wise. If you thrive off self-development alongside goal-orientated work, Viv is an excellent coach and support network.

Lauren Poulter, Music Manager UNIFIED Music Group

I am the owner of a small but busy music PR business. I recently brought my remote team together, both to celebrate a successful year and also to prepare as I’ll soon need to take some time off. I wanted my team to feel empowered and confident to step up while I’m away, so I called Next Act Coaching. Viv’s Mini Goal Getter workshop was both informative and super inspiring for me and my staff. Viv is kind of like google maps for your business or career. Her Goal Getter Workshop will help you set a course to get to where you want to go and hopefully skip some of the roadblocks along the way. I cannot recommend Viv’s workshops highly enough and I look forward to doing more of them in the future.

Gabe Cramb, Owner / Director Scrabble PR

Viv is an amazing coach who really helped me regain my confidence in myself and my career. I highly recommend her coaching services and although she had not yet completed her counselling degree at the time of our sessions, I would also recommend her services for counselling. I felt I received way more than just career coaching in our time together, as Viv is a very kind soul who is genuinely invested in your progress. I will definitely continue to use her services in the future.

Larissa Drew, Operations Manager, SXSW

The Qube Effect Music Mentoring and Development program has presented The Goal Getter Workshop by Next Act Coaching for two years, as part of the professional development day that we hold for artists. The workshop is helpful, thought provoking and equips you with really achievable bite-sized actions to take in order to reach your goals - without the overwhelm that often accompanies aiming for something that you really want! The beauty of this workshop is that it can be applied to people in EVERY stage of their career - from the greenest of green artists, to very established artists and arts workers. Goal setting is no longer scary or unachievable - it’s a process and a very fun one when you work with Next Act Coaching!

Janne Scott, Moondust Merchants

Viv is the dream coach. Holistic, practical and challenging. She will really push you to make goals and achieve them. Could not recommend more highly. (Can't wait for my next sesh) x

Emily Ulman, Programming Director ALWAYS LIVE, Co-Founder Managing Director/Programmer Isol-Aid Festival

I love the way that Viv operates - she is supportive and grounding but provides frameworks for clients to get the answers they need themselves, rather than pointing them out. I felt really empowered after each session, because Viv knew the right questions to ask, to help me put a plan together that really worked. She could understand situations really easily, and empathise, and put a strategy together to work through things. I would 100% recommend Viv and already have, to others.

Sarah Hamilton, Founder One of One

So basically, I can’t thank you enough! I really have grown a lot over the past year and a bit, and our work together has really impacted me.

Emma McGarry, Music Marketing Specialist

Viv provides such an empathetic and practical approach to her coaching. It's both her thought provoking practical tasks, and deep emotional understanding that build such a cohesive learning experience. Viv helped me understand parts of my professional, and personal behavioural processes that I may never have seen, and our sessions have allowed me to calm my inner critic, and become far more self aware and pragmatic in my decision making. It's been such a wonderful experience, I highly recommend her services to anyone needing some professional guidance.

Blaise Sherrie, Label Manager @ Mushroom Group. I Oh You. Soothsayer
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