My guest today is Katie Callahan, a singer, songwriter and visual artist from Baltimore Maryland, and a mum of 2.

Katie moved to Hawaii when she was 6 and grew up there until finishing her first year of College before her family relocated to mainland USA.

Katie is one of 7 children and comes from a very musical family, she grew up playing and singing in the evangelical church worship band. She plays acoustic guitar and started song writing in high school.

Her music is very lyric based, in the Americana, folk and spirit style, and she processes a lot through her music.

She released her first album of original music in 2019 called Get It Right and her latest release The Water Comes Back from 2021, recorded in Nashville at Gray Matters Studio by Matthew Odmark from the band Jars of Clay, Katie's musical heroes, after months of Zoom meetings due to the pandemic.

Katie has also been writing a song a month with the assistance of her email and social medial followers, with them suggesting the theme for each song.

Katie is also a visual artist, she studied painting at College it was her minor along with Theatre Performance. She paints primarily in oils and does a lot of mixed media work.

Today we compare our song writing styles, explore the difference between expressing ideas with words as compared to painting and discuss being able to ask for what you want.

***This episode contains mentions of pregnancy loss***

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