Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 11, "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU," features my conversation with Maine-born composer Trace Callahan. Our dialogue runs the gamut of Callahan's upcoming original musical to her involvement as a video game music composer and sound designer, to how being female relates to creative opportunities, and how she incorporates both suffering and joy within her creative works. Callahan talks openly about her personal struggle with mental illness and how her journey with deep darkness enables her to incorporate both suffering and joy into the creative process. 

In "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU," Part 2, Trace and I discuss her video game music composing process, the tools necessary for implementing game music, and how she created and plans to launch her first original musical, "Better Than Fine."

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