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Season 4, Episode 1- Creating the Creative Life You Want
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In season four’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown launch the season with the call to listen and respond to the challenge the “creative gauntlet” is throwing down in our individual lives. The two unpack their personal experiences doubling down on creativity’s dare by attending one of Mary Gauthier’s songwriting retreats and the Gateless Writing Academy and Teacher Training.
Features original songs, Tony’s Train Song, and Pleiades’ Secret in relation to the topic.
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Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.
* 20:58 -Katie’s song, Tony’s Train Song
* 45:49 -Karen’s song, Pleiades’ Secret
Episode Resources:
* Mary Gauthier’s website -scroll over “Teaching & Private Coaching” on top menu bar for a current list of songwriting workshops
* Gateless Writing- website for the Academy, Teacher Training, and writing retreats
* CMAT artist website
* JOURNAL PROMPT: What is your creative life asking you to double down on?
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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.
ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….
Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live o