JinJa Birkenbeuel's Seven Entrepreneurial Sins Playlist: 7 Sins, 5 Genres, Countless Jams to Boost Your Entrepreneurial Game

For some reason, I’ve been thinking about the seven deadly sins as they relate to entrepreneurship for the last two years. The mere thought of sin itself can be used as a mechanism to control your mind and actions. That control is not always for good intent. I don’t believe that we should be afraid of sin and sinning, because we all do sin. So here, I am reconsidering the seven deadly sins in particular, to understand how they can be turned around, and not be used to make me feel guilty, but rather, let me embrace them in the context of business to be more successful. And anyways, don’t you think guilt is a terrible thing to waste energy on anyway?

I decided to kick start my writing process by posing this question to my new writing partner Arianna Industry aka ChatGPT.

However, the results were fascinating! I leveled up a bit. To make this even more interesting, and some of you already know that I’m a songwriter in a soft country rock and Americana band Utah Carol , I wanted to create a music playlist as a backdrop to my thinking about the seven sins. My song memory bank isn’t as powerful as my husband Grant Birkenbeuel 's, I’m certain he would have made superior playlists to the ones I collaborated on with ChatGPT. Nevertheless, I did reprompt on some of the lists, and made changes, because most of the suggested artists on the song playlists were men. Go figure!

Hip Hop

Lust: "Wet Dreamz" by J. Cole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCGV26aj-mM

Gluttony: "Big Poppa" by The Notorious B.I.G. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phaJXp_zMYM

Greed: "Money Longer" by Lil Uzi Vert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1a7o44WxNo

Sloth: "Lifestyle" by Rich Gang ft. Young Thug, Rich Homie Quan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGt_JGHYEO4

Wrath: "M.A.A.D. City" by Kendrick Lamar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yrPDf92hY

Envy: Envy: "Feeling Myself" by Nicki Minaj ft. Beyoncé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw8BtzIOvPc

Pride: "Can't Tell Me Nothing" by Kanye West - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E58qLXBfLrs

Rock

Lust: "Barracuda" by Heart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0OX_8YvFxA

Gluttony: "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g1yv2IjOkw

Greed: "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho

Sloth: "Lazaretto" by Jack White - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kqQDCxRCzM

Wrath: "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo

Envy: "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwTJF1K1uc

Pride: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ

Chicago House Music

Lust: "Your Love" by Frankie Knuckles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw

Gluttony: "Acid Over" by Tyree - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk52n-cq6U0

Greed: "Can You Feel It" by Mr. Fingers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EI0ZLpK_Io

Sloth: "Mystery of Love" by Fingers Inc. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvaGGRDfHuI

Wrath: "Move Your Body" by Marshall Jefferson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZrJrNrtGi8

Envy: "Jealousy (Remix)" by Clubland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlv7mPnRafo

Pride: "House Nation" by House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy of House - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm-cFO6F0UQ

Electronica

Lust: "Go" by Moby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nW5AF0m9Zw

Gluttony: "We Share Our Mother's Health" by The Knife - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdq8RPgTlL0

Greed: "Born Slippy .NUXX" by Underworld - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSCD5G9_y40

Sloth: "Breathe Me" by Sia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFGvmrJ5rjM

Wrath: "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" by Deadmau5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ArUgxtlJs

Envy: "Chase the Devil" by Max Romeo & The Upsetters (remixed by Lee "Scratch" Perry) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4lX0EIE3vU

Pride: "Your Silent Face" by New Order - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPBwsRc6O-o

Country

Pride: "I'm a Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9SbFPH1Zc4

Greed: "The Richest Man (In the World)" by Johnny Cash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYRYZ8pEhmI

Lust: "Your Cheatin' Heart" by Hank Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgMZpGYiy8

Envy: "Jealous Heart" by Loretta Lynn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JklYDlxEhxM

Wrath: "The Angry American (Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue)" by Toby Keith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxKv3aVZG6g

Sloth: "I Don't Want to Be a Burden to My Friends" by Merle Haggard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54L5g5zLFF0

Gluttony: "Hungry Eyes" by Dolly Parton - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxd01E1eLkU