Major Jackson is a poet, author, and professor who is the recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts works Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, he has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the Witter Bynner foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, awarded the Pushcart Prize, has been published in American Poetry Review, the New Yorker, Paris Review, Orion Magazine, is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review, and is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities and Director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University. We touch on stewardship, curiosity being emblematic of being human, art in a time of upheaval, human expression, AI, art monsters, and a whole lot more.

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• Major Jackson
• Ep 96 - Maggie Smith
• Parnassus
• Peabody Institute
• Robert Frost
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Marcel Duchamp
• “A Love Supreme”
• Ezra Klein & Rebecca Winthrop - ‘Rethinking Education’
• Humanities Tennessee
• Michaela Anne - “Is This What Mama Meant?”
• Hunter S Thompson
• Michael Ruhlman

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Seth Walker is singer/songwriter, guitarist, author, and painter who grew up on a commune in North Carolina, has released 12(+) records, has toured and collaborated with The Mavericks, The Wood Brothers, Paul Thorn, and Raul Malo, amongst others, and wrote a book titled 'Your Van is on Fire," about the life of a touring musician. This conversation centers around mindfulness, presence, and awareness, and we touch on his nomadic creativity (having lived in NC, Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, and NYC), listening closely because peace speaks much quieter than anxiety, shedding the energy from the audience after the show, pointing towards the joy, and a whole lot more.

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• Seth Walker
• Gladys Knight
• Willie Nelson
• Guy Clark
• Jerry Jeff Walker
• Gary Nicholson
• Ep 28 - The Wood Brothers
• Ep 60 - Lori McKenna
• Gabor Mate - When the Body Says No

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Caitlyn Smith is a singer and songwriter who has released 3 records via Sony and is now releasing music independently, she has a publishing deal with Universal (UMPG) and her songs have been recorded by Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, Meghan Trainor, John Legend, Miley Cirus, Avicii, Lady A, Rascal Flatts, and Chris Isaak amongst others, and she has been nominated or won a Critics Choice Award, ACM and CMT Music Awards. We talk to Caitlyn about not moving from a major label to independence, not believing in writer's block, everyone's horrible first drafts, telling a massive star that they line they came up with just isn't good, and a whole lot about the business of songwriting.

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• Caitlyn Smith
• Sony Nashville
• Tristen
• Vanessa Carlton
• Miley Cyrus
• Anne Lamott
• Jason Aldean
• Tim Mcgraw
• Ep 46 Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Ep 100 Rosanne Cash
• Ep 63 Lori McKenna

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Wilder Woods is the solo project of Bear Rinehart, the lead singer of multi-plantinum, Grammy-nominated, Billboard award winning, multiple Dove award-winning mega rock band NEEDTOBREATHE. We chat with Bear about how his prolific creative output forced his hand on starting Wilder Woods, juggling not only creating but performing with 2 drastically different projects, setting goals and intentions, knowing the path to those goals, internal perception of success and not only allowing things to unfold in their own time but enjoying them for what they are, and a whole lot more.

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• Wilder Woods
• NEEDTOBREATH
• Ep 60 - Lori McKenna
• Natalie Hemby
• Anderson East
• Daniel Tashian
• “The War of Art”
• Ep 27 - Mary Gauthier
• Ep 16 - Rodney Crowell
• Bob Seger - Shame on the Moon
• Jim Scott
• Ryan Tedder
• Drew Holcomb
• Ep 59 - Tyler Ramsey
• Pearl Jam
• The Killers
• Tame Impala

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Daren Thomas Magee - Real Fun, Wow! - is an illustrator, muralist, and designer based in Ojai California, who has used social media as a creative tool to grow a following (370,000 on instagram currently) and launch a company built on his artwork - selling prints, apparel and housewares of all kinds, and has grown to include multiple employees and collaborations with companies as far reaching as tiles, towels, and candles. We talk with Daren about tuning your instrument to the beauty of life around you, sacrifices you make to live in an inspiring place, play within a system not designed for play, creative inspiration in creating performative social media, and a whole lot more.

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• Darren Thomas Magee
• Real fun, wow!
• Keith Richards
• “1000 True Fans” essay
• Beyonce

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Laurie Berkner has released 15 best-selling records, has performed everywhere from The White House to Carnegie Hall and The Today Show, authored children's books based on her songs, written music and lyrics for 3 different off-Broadway shows, and is one of today's most prominent artist's for kids. We talk to Laurie about her transition from rock bands and 'adult' music, to writing and performing music for kids and the assumptions and stigma around that, self-distributing on a large scale, selling your back catalog, navigating changes in the industry, improvising songs experientially, and a whole lot more.

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• Laurie Berkner
• Raffi
• Daniel Tiger
• Tonies
• Yoto
• Kidz Bop
• Razor and Tie
• “After Ecstasy, The Laundry”

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Denison Witmer is a singer/songwriter and woodworking from Lancaster PA and longtime collaborator of Sufjan Stevens, who has been releasing records for 20+ years acclaimed by the likes of NPR and Stereogum, and ran a recording studio in Brooklyn before returning to PA. We talk to Denison about the value of creative documentation, leaving behind the external stimulation of the city (Brooklyn) and how returning to relative quiet (Lancaster) shook up his creativity, embracing imperfection, the parallels and contrasts between woodworking and record making, putting systems in place to be the person/artist you want to be, patience, and a whole lot more.

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• Denison Witmer
• Sufjan Stevens
• Saltlands
• Dawn Landes
• Felix McTeigue
• Chappel Roan
• Charles Mingus
• Ep 85 - Caroline Spence
• Ep 39 - Joe Henry
• MLS Doc
• Cavan Sullivan

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Valerie June is a Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter whose music has been praised by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, NPR, and Bob Dylan himself (who is a self-proclaimed fan). She has performed with John Prine, Norah Jones, Booker T. Jones, Robert Plant, Meshell Ndegeocello, Dave Matthews, Angelique Kidjo, Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile, and Elvis Costello, written books of poetry and on art, and is a certified yoga and mindfulness instructor. We talk to Valerie about intention setting and the law of attraction, learning to live with chronic illness, testing different approaches and your creative limits, manifesting, rituals and routines to get ready to be present for people, and a whole lot more.

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• Valerie June
• Ep 39 - Joe Henry
• Ep 17 - Elizabeth Cook
• 'The Artist's Way'
• Elizabeth Cotton
• Mississippi John Hurt
• Skip James
• Carla Thomas

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