# Inspiring Artist Interview :Celebrating New Music with the Incredible Maggie Rose-Music History

An episode of [Music Saved Me Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1703080557), 10 Oct 2025, 26 min.

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Join Host Buzz Knight for this special episode of Takin’ a Walk - Music History on Foot with singer-songwriter Maggie Rose. Maggie is a Grammy-nominated artist with a new EP called Cocoon, which includes a standout collaboration with Grace Potter titled “Poison in My Well.” This Maggie Rose interview podcast will take you behind the scenes of the creative process with an artist whose range and versatility have earned her a devoted following. Listeners will get an inside look at the inspiration behind her latest project, the evolution of her songwriting over the years, and the personal stories that fuel her music. Maggie continues to expand her sound while touring nationwide, performing at venues where audiences experience her dynamic voice and powerful presence up close. This episode offers a deeper appreciation for an artist who is not only shaping her own path but also contributing vibrant new moments to modern music history. If this episode of Takin’ a Walk – Music History on Foot struck a chord with you, we invite you to keep the journey going by exploring the many other stories, conversations and musical pathways waiting in our episode library. Every installment of the podcast opens a new door into the world of music-whether it's a deep dive into a legendary artist's creative process, a walk through the overlooked corners of music history, or a compelling conversation with the people who shape the soundtrack of our lives. There’s an entire universe of rhythm, narrative, nostalgia, discovery, and behind-the-scenes insight spread across our past episodes, each one crafted to make your next walk, drive, workout, or moment of downtime more meaningful, more memorable, and more connected to the music you love. So don’t stop here—take a few extra steps and check out the rest of the Takin’ a Walk – Music History on Foot catalog. The stories waiting for you are as timeless, surprising, and inspiring as the songs that have carried you through your life. Keep listening and discover your next favorite episode. Takin’ A Walk: In-depth music interviews exploring the stories and music history behind the songs. Support the show: https://takinawalk.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://musicsavedme.net/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Taking a Walk.
[0:01] Speaker 2: I think there's also about installation to like protecting myself
[0:07] Speaker 2: during this time of a physical creation and also just
[0:12] Speaker 2: musical creation.
[0:13] Speaker 3: Hum buzz night. And this is the Take a Walk Podcast,
[0:16] Speaker 3: and we're going to be with someone who knows that
[0:18] Speaker 3: in this life, no one gets out alive. That doesn't
[0:21] Speaker 3: mean we can't make the journey beautiful. Grammy nominated singer
[0:25] Speaker 3: songwriter Maggie Rose. She's been spinning musical gold from life's
[0:30] Speaker 3: raw materials her twenty twenty four album No One Gets
[0:33] Speaker 3: Out Alive. Rolling Stone called it one of the best
[0:36] Speaker 3: albums of twenty twenty four. It proves she's not just
[0:40] Speaker 3: surviving the music industry, she is transforming it. And she's
[0:44] Speaker 3: going to talk to us about new music, the EP
[0:46] Speaker 3: called Cocoon, and lots more on the Taken a Walk Podcast.
[0:54] Speaker 3: Taking a Walk, Maggie, Welcome to the Taking a Walk Podcast.
[0:58] Speaker 3: I'm so happy to have you.
[1:00] Speaker 2: I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
[1:03] Speaker 3: So The opening volley we like to bring out is
[1:07] Speaker 3: the question, no, what's coming you do, don't you? The
[1:12] Speaker 3: question being if you could take a walk with somebody.
[1:15] Speaker 3: I'm blushing now, you see, if you could take a
[1:17] Speaker 3: walk with somebody living or dead. Who would you take
[1:20] Speaker 3: a walk with? Then maybe where would you take that walk?
[1:23] Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to cheat because I have to say
[1:27] Speaker 2: two people. Paul McCartney because he's the greatest and I
[1:31] Speaker 2: want to hear all the stories about those early days
[1:34] Speaker 2: and the caverns, but I also want his take on
[1:36] Speaker 2: where music is today, And if I can be so greedy,
[1:40] Speaker 2: I have to also say Abraham Lincoln because he was
[1:45] Speaker 2: one of our greatest presidents during such incredibly divisive time,
[1:50] Speaker 2: and I would want to know what he would think
[1:54] Speaker 2: about today and how he would navigate today.
[1:58] Speaker 3: That's awesome. I just recorded a future episode yesterday with
[2:03] Speaker 3: Eric from the band Midlake, and he said Abraham Lincoln,
[2:08] Speaker 3: and he was talking himself out of it a bit
[2:10] Speaker 3: at first, and I said, wait a minute, you know
[2:13] Speaker 3: he's he's one of the guys, right, He's like.
[2:17] Speaker 2: He's one of the guys. Yeah, absolutely, paramount to our history.
[2:23] Speaker 2: People kind of chuckle when I say that, because they
[2:25] Speaker 2: think that as a musician you sort of need to
[2:28] Speaker 2: default to another musician. But you know, I'd also work
[2:32] Speaker 2: very hard to make Abraham Lincoln a fan of my music.
[2:35] Speaker 2: That would be a cool accomplishment to have. But yeah,
[2:40] Speaker 2: I mean I think that those really were unprecedented times
[2:44] Speaker 2: and how did he turn down the temperature and how
[2:49] Speaker 2: could how could he possibly unite our country today?
[2:56] Speaker 3: Yeah? What could we learn from our past?
[3:00] Speaker 2: You know? And what would he think about where we've arrived?
[3:03] Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure that might be a kind of
[3:07] Speaker 2: brutal criticism from him to see where we've come, But
[3:12] Speaker 2: you know, I think that it would just be a
[3:16] Speaker 2: eye opening to have some perspective from someone who's who
[3:20] Speaker 2: was able to in some sort of solution during a
[3:22] Speaker 2: time where it felt impossible.
[3:25] Speaker 3: And Paul McCartney would then set us straight down industry
[3:29] Speaker 3: wise where things are absolutely heading. One of the things
[3:34] Speaker 3: I love about all of your music, the new song
[3:38] Speaker 3: Staying Cocoon, the EP, and certainly your great career is
[3:43] Speaker 3: the fact that you touch many different genres. You like
[3:51] Speaker 3: bending bending the rules a bit over your career. What
[3:56] Speaker 3: inspired you to always think that way?
[4:00] Speaker 2: I think it's less about bending the rules and not
[4:02] Speaker 2: really regarding rules, trying to kind of serve each song
[4:09] Speaker 2: with the sonic arrangement that it needs. And I like
[4:13] Speaker 2: to explore my capabilities and continue examining myself as an artist,
[4:19] Speaker 2: so I think that just naturally brings me to these
[4:22] Speaker 2: different these different soundscapes, and I'm very collaborative, so I
[4:28] Speaker 2: know that that also lends itself to some of the
[4:32] Speaker 2: different sounds that you hear. Is just all the different
[4:34] Speaker 2: people I work with.
[4:36] Speaker 3: And you were a fan favorite at Americana Fest recently.
[4:43] Speaker 3: It sounds like you had multiple great experiences. Do you
[4:46] Speaker 3: want to talk about the one with the symphony in particular?
[4:50] Speaker 2: Yes, it was surreal. So on my last album, No
[4:54] Speaker 2: One Gets Out Alive, I had a lot of these
[4:56] Speaker 2: really great orchestral arrangements and we actually used a symphony
[5:00] Speaker 2: in Macedonia for the recording. This was something that sort
[5:04] Speaker 2: of came out of the pandemic where these incredible symphonies
[5:07] Speaker 2: were able to remotely record scores for films and arrangements
[5:14] Speaker 2: for albums like my own. So this is the first
[5:16] Speaker 2: time that I actually got to realize that kind of
[5:20] Speaker 2: presentation with an actual ensemble behind me. It was seventy people,
[5:26] Speaker 2: so that was daunting because that's a big train and
[5:30] Speaker 2: once it's moven, there's no stopping it, there's no improvising,
[5:35] Speaker 2: So that part was nerve wracking, But it just was
[5:38] Speaker 2: I just got totally swept up in the experience and
[5:43] Speaker 2: it felt like one of those moments where you know
[5:46] Speaker 2: there aren't many, but where you get there and you're like, Okay,
[5:49] Speaker 2: this is kind of that touch point of all this
[5:52] Speaker 2: work that I've been doing over the last couple of
[5:54] Speaker 2: years to be able to play this music with, you know,
[5:58] Speaker 2: these musicians who've dedicated their life to their craft and
[6:02] Speaker 2: just talk about a collaborative experience. It was like everybody
[6:05] Speaker 2: together helping carry these songs through. And something happened right
[6:13] Speaker 2: before I hit the stage where I was able to
[6:15] Speaker 2: consciously slow my brain down and be like, please enjoy
[6:19] Speaker 2: this and don't let the sensory overload, just make it
[6:23] Speaker 2: go by so quickly, and I was able to really
[6:25] Speaker 2: settle in and enjoy the night. And just that concert
[6:30] Speaker 2: hall in Nashville, it's so beautiful, and all the people
[6:33] Speaker 2: that contributed to this record, so many of them were there,
[6:39] Speaker 2: and it just felt like a big celebration. And I
[6:41] Speaker 2: hope it's the first of many now that we have
[6:44] Speaker 2: these arrangements. I know there's symphonies all over the world
[6:47] Speaker 2: that I'd love to recreate that night with.
[6:49] Speaker 3: I got chills it's awesome. It's fantastic.
[6:52] Speaker 2: I got chills too. It was really very, very special.
[6:57] Speaker 3: I want to talk about the twenty twenty four album
[7:00] Speaker 3: One Gets Out Alive. It, you know, certainly has a
[7:04] Speaker 3: haunting title. What was your headspace as you were in
[7:09] Speaker 3: the midst of that project and that creation.
[7:13] Speaker 2: I kind of felt like I had nothing to lose.
[7:18] Speaker 2: I wrote that song with Natalie Humby and Sonny Sweeney,
[7:22] Speaker 2: and it was after I had lost people close to me.
[7:29] Speaker 2: I had people that passed away, I had friendships that
[7:33] Speaker 2: didn't sustain the pandemic and all the stress of that,
[7:38] Speaker 2: and I just felt like, my life is too short
[7:42] Speaker 2: and it should be celebrated and we should create things
[7:46] Speaker 2: that are beautiful. And I kind of took that approach
[7:50] Speaker 2: to the production as well, Like these were big arrangements
[7:54] Speaker 2: and we swung for the fences, and I tried to
[7:56] Speaker 2: put together like the best band that I could put
[8:00] Speaker 2: together in the studio, and I just really I went
[8:05] Speaker 2: for it, I suppose. And it's a lot about life
[8:08] Speaker 2: and all of its wonder and you know how different
[8:13] Speaker 2: events affect our perception of the passage of time, And
[8:18] Speaker 2: it's about gratitude and I think I just was at
[8:21] Speaker 2: a place in my life where it was just so
[8:26] Speaker 2: like incredibly palpable, and all the joy and sorrow just
[8:31] Speaker 2: felt like a really creative moment, I think for me.
[8:37] Speaker 3: And then moving into Cocoon, you have your son Graham,
[8:45] Speaker 3: your new young lad. How much did motherhood influence this
[8:52] Speaker 3: metaphor of sort of transformation and emergence.
[8:58] Speaker 2: I think there was also about insulation too, like protecting
[9:03] Speaker 2: myself during this time of a physical creation and also
[9:08] Speaker 2: just musical creation. I wanted to have this snapshot of
[9:13] Speaker 2: these collections of songs during this really special time in
[9:16] Speaker 2: my life. And it also was about growth and all
[9:22] Speaker 2: the beautiful things about it, but also the sharper edges
[9:26] Speaker 2: of it and how you know, not everyone wants to
[9:29] Speaker 2: grow at the same rate as you. Not everyone wants
[9:32] Speaker 2: to go with you to this new place that you're going,
[9:34] Speaker 2: and emergences worthwhile, but you've shed some things on your
[9:41] Speaker 2: way to that next phase as well. So I think
[9:46] Speaker 2: it was a lot of it about anticipation, letting go
[9:49] Speaker 2: of things that I didn't need to bring with me
[9:52] Speaker 2: in this new chapter as a mother, unburdening myself of
[9:55] Speaker 2: some resentment. And also there's song about hope that I
[10:01] Speaker 2: want to impart that idea on Graham and show him
[10:06] Speaker 2: that there is a world where hope is very much alive.
[10:11] Speaker 3: You collaborated on Cocoon with this this gentle flower who
[10:18] Speaker 3: needs to come out of her shell by the name
[10:20] Speaker 3: of Grace Potter.
[10:21] Speaker 2: You know, she's such a wallflower, she's so shy. I
[10:27] Speaker 2: loved y'all's episode by the way she's She's such a
[10:30] Speaker 2: great person. The song is about, you know, not necessarily
[10:35] Speaker 2: being able to support someone else in their successes and
[10:38] Speaker 2: the antithesis of that. She's so supportive and like her
[10:42] Speaker 2: Vermont community benefits from that, but also her creative community.
[10:46] Speaker 2: You know, she's always lifting people up. And I shared
[10:51] Speaker 2: this music with her after it was done because I
[10:55] Speaker 2: wanted her to hear it and I wanted her feedback
[10:57] Speaker 2: on it. But really I was angling to get her
[10:59] Speaker 2: to jump on this song with me, and she, just
[11:02] Speaker 2: the way she is, she said yes on the spot
[11:05] Speaker 2: when I asked her over to the phone. And her husband,
[11:10] Speaker 2: Eric Valentine, is an incredible producer and engineer, so the
[11:14] Speaker 2: two of them, I think that night went and put
[11:17] Speaker 2: Grace's part on Poisoning My Will, and she sent it
[11:20] Speaker 2: back the next day and I just was like, this
[11:22] Speaker 2: is surreal and an example of like asked for what
[11:25] Speaker 2: you want and you might get it, and we certainly
[11:29] Speaker 2: did with what she contributed to that song, It's so great.
[11:33] Speaker 3: I love it poisoning my will And thanks for your
[11:35] Speaker 3: nice words on having Grace on. She makes it very
[11:39] Speaker 3: easy to roll with the flow because she's got such
[11:43] Speaker 3: amazing energy and focus.
[11:46] Speaker 2: And I love going on walks with her. I mean
[11:50] Speaker 2: just she is. She's so generous with just her her thoughts,
[11:57] Speaker 2: her takes on what's going on, and she'll just sit
[12:00] Speaker 2: in it with you and kind of you know, there's
[12:03] Speaker 2: not an agenda. She's trying to figure it all out
[12:08] Speaker 2: and work through it with people.
[12:10] Speaker 3: Can you remember the first time in your life that
[12:13] Speaker 3: you were impacted by music?
[12:17] Speaker 2: Yes, I mean I was very young, and I actually
[12:23] Speaker 2: think it was because I always loved just sing around
[12:27] Speaker 2: the house and I love to perform for my parents'
[12:29] Speaker 2: friends and they'd come over for dinner. Like I justk
[12:31] Speaker 2: a bit of a show boat in that way. But
[12:34] Speaker 2: I think what impacted me was seeing this group of
[12:39] Speaker 2: adults all of a sudden fall silent and pay attention
[12:43] Speaker 2: and gather together just to like commune and music. I
[12:49] Speaker 2: think seeing the power of that in the community that
[12:52] Speaker 2: it brings at such an early age was pretty impactful
[12:57] Speaker 2: to me. And there were some pretty cool opportunities as
[13:05] Speaker 2: a very young person to sing with other people in
[13:08] Speaker 2: choirs and just kind of getting to learn from that.
[13:12] Speaker 2: And also my parents played great music around the house too,
[13:15] Speaker 2: Like my mom would just be like, what do you
[13:17] Speaker 2: think about this song? She'd played like the Duds and
[13:21] Speaker 2: MARYA Shape and Carpenter and talk about their songwriting, and
[13:25] Speaker 2: it just was like a very alive in my house.
[13:29] Speaker 3: And very diverse musically, which leads to your diverse musical approach.
[13:34] Speaker 3: Certainly there was a pop side. I mean you grew
[13:37] Speaker 3: up outside of DC, right.
[13:39] Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, so you were. And also the divas
[13:42] Speaker 2: were just like abound when I was growing up, I
[13:45] Speaker 2: feel like more so than now. It's just like the
[13:50] Speaker 2: female singer was everywhere in every genre, really celebrated, and
[13:57] Speaker 2: I think that definitely shaped my inclination to want to
[14:02] Speaker 2: sing and belt it out like them.
[14:05] Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more of the Taken a
[14:08] Speaker 1: Walk podcast. Welcome back to the Taken a Walk Podcast.
[14:17] Speaker 3: How much since you moved to Nashville quite a few
[14:20] Speaker 3: years ago. Has Nashville changed.
[14:25] Speaker 2: It's a totally different town in my opinion. But I've
[14:28] Speaker 2: also found a different Nashville myself personally. I think in
[14:31] Speaker 2: the creative community that I have around me. And when
[14:37] Speaker 2: I moved here in two thousand and eight, I was
[14:40] Speaker 2: releasing commercial country music. I was doing the country radio thing,
[14:44] Speaker 2: and you know, being dragged around the country doing radio tours,
[14:49] Speaker 2: trying to get that one song played on that station.
[14:53] Speaker 2: And I feel like I would put a whole year
[14:56] Speaker 2: of my life into promoting this one song when you
[15:00] Speaker 2: know we have multitudes within us, and just the template
[15:04] Speaker 2: didn't really work for me. And I think that forced
[15:07] Speaker 2: me to explore my sound and that's when the soul
[15:10] Speaker 2: started to come out. And my departure from that approach
[15:15] Speaker 2: actually just opened up my world of music. So I
[15:21] Speaker 2: started working in a different way, and I think that
[15:23] Speaker 2: that made me attract people who maybe aren't what you
[15:30] Speaker 2: would typically assume a Nashville musician to be. Like Nashville's
[15:34] Speaker 2: music is, the spectrum is so much more broad than
[15:39] Speaker 2: it was before. You'll find people making all kinds of music,
[15:44] Speaker 2: and I love that it's growing. The traffic sucks, but
[15:48] Speaker 2: the food's gotten really good. I do wish that there
[15:51] Speaker 2: was some reverence for the old music venues around town.
[15:56] Speaker 2: This being music city, I think that we've forsaken some
[16:00] Speaker 2: of those really awesome institutions that made people want to
[16:04] Speaker 2: move here in the first place. There's so much that's
[16:07] Speaker 2: given way to the bottom line and tourism and all
[16:12] Speaker 2: those things which are necessary proceeded to grow. But yeah,
[16:15] Speaker 2: I think I'm missing the soul of the music scene
[16:19] Speaker 2: a little bit in terms of the live entertainment. But
[16:24] Speaker 2: there are some incredible places still.
[16:27] Speaker 3: There's a lot of unsung musical heroes, songwriters, session people
[16:33] Speaker 3: that need to be showcased and acknowledged more. I know
[16:39] Speaker 3: there's a ton of them that worked on Cocoon with you.
[16:43] Speaker 3: Why don't you shine a light on some of these
[16:45] Speaker 3: at times unsung heroes.
[16:49] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Melissa Fuller is an incredible writer. She's
[16:55] Speaker 2: also a great artist, and I've written songs with her
[16:58] Speaker 2: on previous projects. Davis Nash he was one of the
[17:02] Speaker 2: producers with Bent Tanner who produced my last album, and
[17:07] Speaker 2: Davis helped me write a lot of the songs. He
[17:12] Speaker 2: is an incredible programmer and musician. The Ben tanner Is.
[17:18] Speaker 2: He's with the Alabama Shikes out on tour right now,
[17:21] Speaker 2: and he's been so instrumental to my evolution. We made
[17:27] Speaker 2: an album down at Fame and Muscle Shows a couple
[17:29] Speaker 2: of years ago, and then we worked on No. One
[17:34] Speaker 2: Gets Out Alive. And he's someone who really gets into
[17:36] Speaker 2: trenches with me and helps me with the a and our
[17:38] Speaker 2: process and selecting the songs, and I mean the role
[17:42] Speaker 2: of producer he takes and he runs with it. He
[17:47] Speaker 2: offers so much more. And of course Natalie Hemby's a
[17:53] Speaker 2: great friend of mine. She collaborated on it. Steph Jones,
[17:56] Speaker 2: who's had a hell of a year. She's written a
[17:58] Speaker 2: bunch of songs for Sabrina carpon Or has a great
[18:02] Speaker 2: op sensibility. Oh boy, I know I'm forgetting a bunch
[18:07] Speaker 2: of people. But my sound guy, Anderson Clendennen helps with
[18:13] Speaker 2: the mixing of it. And he's like this young kid
[18:17] Speaker 2: who comes out on the road with us and is
[18:19] Speaker 2: such a whiz. I'm very excited to watch his career grow.
[18:24] Speaker 2: I forget that he's like only twenty four or something,
[18:29] Speaker 2: So yeah, it's exciting. I stay inspired by the people
[18:32] Speaker 2: I get to work with.
[18:34] Speaker 3: I mean, you've been an independent, you know, kind of
[18:39] Speaker 3: self founded in your own way. Can you give a
[18:41] Speaker 3: piece of advice to artists trying to make it without
[18:44] Speaker 3: the big machine behind them.
[18:48] Speaker 2: Yes, I mean I think you have to be resolute
[18:53] Speaker 2: and the fact that this is what you want to do,
[18:56] Speaker 2: and definitely don't let what's around you you validate your efforts.
[19:04] Speaker 2: I've done this with a big machine. I've done it
[19:07] Speaker 2: independently over the years, of course, and I think just
[19:12] Speaker 2: always wanting to write that next song and staying curious
[19:18] Speaker 2: and wanting to continue to examine myself that's never gone away.
[19:24] Speaker 2: I think staying creative is a choice. You have to
[19:29] Speaker 2: just be diligent about it. I think that's an approach it.
[19:33] Speaker 2: I feel like I need to always be trying to
[19:35] Speaker 2: flex that muscle. And also I have done this in
[19:41] Speaker 2: such a grassroots way. I think playing live regularly and
[19:47] Speaker 2: all these different markets and making sure that I go
[19:51] Speaker 2: back and nurture those communities that have come out and
[19:54] Speaker 2: seeing me over the years, like that's a really important
[19:58] Speaker 2: way for me to sustain my audience and what I do,
[20:02] Speaker 2: even if it's a little bit longer of a lapse
[20:04] Speaker 2: in between releasing new music, like we just we try
[20:09] Speaker 2: to stay out there because the live show is so
[20:13] Speaker 2: important to me in connecting with people.
[20:16] Speaker 3: Talk about some more of the songs on Cocoon that,
[20:20] Speaker 3: in particular you feel are going to really play great
[20:23] Speaker 3: out in front of people.
[20:26] Speaker 2: Well, I failed to mention Chuck Harmony and Claude Kelly
[20:30] Speaker 2: as some of my collaborators. They wrote the title track
[20:33] Speaker 2: with me, and they also wrote Relentless with me, and
[20:39] Speaker 2: they actually are very celebrated songwriters. They've written songs for
[20:43] Speaker 2: Miley Cyrus and all sorts of people. But I think
[20:48] Speaker 2: Relentless is a really great message for the EP as
[20:53] Speaker 2: a whole because I wrote it just a few days
[20:58] Speaker 2: after I found out that I was dropped by my
[21:01] Speaker 2: previous record label. I have a new home and everything
[21:07] Speaker 2: turned out all right, but that was one of those
[21:10] Speaker 2: moments where you're asking, like, how does an artist keep
[21:13] Speaker 2: going without the big machine. That was definitely a moment
[21:15] Speaker 2: where I decided to double down and press on. And
[21:21] Speaker 2: I think that that always goes over really well in
[21:23] Speaker 2: the audience because it's not necessarily providing a solution for
[21:28] Speaker 2: the listener, but it is definitely an encouraging message.
[21:35] Speaker 3: The Washington Post little newspaper called you one of music's
[21:40] Speaker 3: rising storytellers. What stories are you most compelled to tell
[21:47] Speaker 3: right now, at the stage of year of your life
[21:51] Speaker 3: right now?
[21:53] Speaker 2: Stories of hope. The last song on the EP is
[22:00] Speaker 2: a song called Fly, and it's the only song in
[22:05] Speaker 2: this collection of songs that I didn't write and record
[22:09] Speaker 2: while I was pregnant. I actually wrote it years ago
[22:12] Speaker 2: with Caitlin Smith and Rollie Goldswick, and it almost I
[22:17] Speaker 2: felt like I was like, this is too too hopeful,
[22:21] Speaker 2: this is too positive, and because of where I am
[22:25] Speaker 2: right now with my son and I'm excited about the future,
[22:32] Speaker 2: I felt like, Okay, this is time to share this
[22:35] Speaker 2: message and maybe it'll be like Field of Dreams. If
[22:39] Speaker 2: you put it out there, it'll happen, and I think
[22:43] Speaker 2: that's what we need right now. No, it sounds trite,
[22:45] Speaker 2: but if you can package it in a way that
[22:51] Speaker 2: you can believe, and I feel like I'm trying to
[22:54] Speaker 2: get there, then that's okay. We can. I'll have more
[22:58] Speaker 2: of that out there for sure.
[23:00] Speaker 3: Maggie, you clearly have this approach which is not leaving
[23:06] Speaker 3: anything you know taken for granted and just playing and
[23:12] Speaker 3: creating as if it's the last time you're going to
[23:15] Speaker 3: play and create. You you have that all in thousand
[23:19] Speaker 3: percent approach for sure. Do you know when that first
[23:22] Speaker 3: clicked in as a musician, that attitude.
[23:26] Speaker 2: I mean, I think sometimes it's it's almost like I
[23:33] Speaker 2: just need to get in that mode and hope that
[23:37] Speaker 2: I will mentally arrive there. So like it appears that way,
[23:40] Speaker 2: but I think it's because I see this as a vocation.
[23:46] Speaker 2: I think it's a there's not really a plan. B,
[23:51] Speaker 2: there's not something else I would rather be doing. So
[23:56] Speaker 2: it makes it very simple in a way because you're
[24:00] Speaker 2: just like, well, this is it, and I'm getting to
[24:03] Speaker 2: do what I love. And yeah, it comes with some
[24:05] Speaker 2: challenges and it can be kind of gnarly at times,
[24:07] Speaker 2: but I don't have to wonder about what else I
[24:11] Speaker 2: want to be doing, So that kind of makes it
[24:13] Speaker 2: easy in a way to just say, Okay, we're all in.
[24:20] Speaker 3: I'm so grateful that she came on the podcast, and
[24:23] Speaker 3: for I'm so grateful for the music that you continue
[24:27] Speaker 3: to give us and the performances, and oh I neglected
[24:31] Speaker 3: to let you plug your podcast, so why don't you
[24:33] Speaker 3: plug your podcast?
[24:35] Speaker 2: Thank you? It's called salute to songbird, and I get
[24:39] Speaker 2: to interview all my favorite women in the industry. And
[24:45] Speaker 2: I just did a special episode with Caitlin Smith and
[24:48] Speaker 2: Lucy Silvis and Jillian Jacqueline about motherhood and being a
[24:53] Speaker 2: working mom in the industry. But I've had Melissa, Ethri
[24:57] Speaker 2: John and Nancy Wilson, and it's just it's so dreamy.
[25:00] Speaker 2: And now I'm doing in front of a live audience,
[25:02] Speaker 2: which is really fun because I'm talking to other performers
[25:06] Speaker 2: and they just really give me great interviews with that
[25:10] Speaker 2: energy in the room. So I hope to continue doing it.
[25:14] Speaker 2: And the list of people that I'm being recommended that
[25:17] Speaker 2: just never ends. It's constantly growing because there's so many
[25:20] Speaker 2: amazing people out there to talk to.
[25:22] Speaker 3: Well, and those people want to be on with the
[25:25] Speaker 3: cool people, and you are one of the cool people.
[25:28] Speaker 2: So thanks us.
[25:30] Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks Maggie, I'm trying. I appreciate you being on.
[25:33] Speaker 3: This is awesome.
[25:34] Speaker 2: It's great to talk to you. Thank you so much
[25:36] Speaker 2: for having me.
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