The landscape of post-university work for musicians is changing rapidly. In today’s economic climate, the traditional expectation that a graduate will secure an orchestral position or academic post shortly after completing a degree is no longer realistic for many. At the same time, higher education arts and music departments face increasingly constrained resources and often lack the expertise, staffing, or curricular space to provide comprehensive and individualized training in entrepreneurship. Where such courses are offered, they tend to be too broad or impersonal to address the particular aspirations and diverse professional realities of emerging artists from multiple backgrounds.This session argues that applied studio faculty and private teachers are uniquely positioned to bridge this gap. Their sustained, often one-to-one contact with students places them in a strong position to nurture portfolio careers characterized by diversified income streams, self-directed creative initiatives, and adaptable professional identities. The session introduces a framework of twelve interrelated building blocks designed to help musicians develop personalized portfolio careers aligned with their strengths and values. Topics range from reflection on identity, values, and audiences to advanced competencies in branding, networking, project design, financial literacy, digital presence, resilience, and lifelong adaptability.These elements are presented as short “capsules”: self-contained modules that can be easily integrated into undergraduate programmes without displacing core musical training. Whether sequenced across the years of a degree or used individually to support specific areas of development, capsules allow studio teachers to provide targeted entrepreneurship training informed by their knowledge of their students, creating a gradual and developmentally sensitive approach to career preparation.In this interactive workshop, participants will experience four examples of capsules aimed to support the creation of a portfolio career, engaging directly with short activities on topics such as identity, value proposition, networking, and project design. Through guided reflection and small-group discussion, the session emphasizes hands-on experience, adaptability, and dialogue, prompting participants both to reflect on the portfolio aspects of their own careers and to gain concrete tools for integrating these ideas into their work with students.By reframing career preparation as incremental, contextual, and deeply personal, this approach empowers young musicians to thrive with resilience, creativity, and purpose in an evolving professional world.