ReVoicing the Future

While attending 2024’s NAMM Next after a series of happy accidents, Spicer’s Music’s Jessie Osborne found herself full of gratitude and inspired to bring that sense of educational camaraderie to Spicer’s hometown of Auburn, Alabama. This call became Spicer’s Music SheCollective (SheCo), which she founded to help connect, empower, and inspire women in music in the local Spicer’s community by creating a space where female creatives can thrive. Jessie sits down with Natalie and Steph to tell her full-circle story in music, defined by her insatiable curiosity, good humor, and drive to create opportunities for connection and success for her beloved community.

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This episode was co-produced and edited by Natalie Morrison, Stephanie Lamond, and Julia Olsen.  

Music by: Lucky Lamond

The ReVoicing team is LIVE at NAMM 2025 in the Creator Lounge, and what better guest to sit down with onsite than Julia Rubio, Executive Director of the NAMM Foundation! Listen in as Julia looks back on the path that led her here, beginning with her earliest days in the classical music world, and her vision for the future of the Foundation. Julia models how great leaders learn from every step along the way, intentionally integrating it all into an authentic, capable leadership style; we loved this conversation, and can’t wait for you all to get to know Julia Rubio!  

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For our final episode of 2024 we are honored to welcome Dr. Kristal Walker, VP of Employee Wellbeing at Sweetwater. Dr. Walker shares her journey into human resources and to Sweetwater, the far-reaching framework behind their Women’s Career Development Program, and how companies and employees can ensure their DEI efforts are set up for long-term success. She reminds us that investing in your employee wellbeing is vital for a thriving business, and we’re excited for you to be inspired by and to learn from Dr. Walker’s work building a holistically healthy working environment for music people and their families.

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Katie Kailus, the Editor of Music Inc. Magazine, has built a career crafting the destination for music products industry news and sourcing stories of creativity within it. Natalie, Steph, and Katie met up for their first ever IN PERSON recording in Long Beach, where Katie shares her journey through publishing, editing, and PR, before landing back at the helm of Music Inc., as well as her perspective on publishing’s ever-growing digital presence and where the future of the medium lies. She also shares a play-by-play of how the well-oiled machine of UpBeat Daily lands under your hotel room door every morning at the NAMM Show. 

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For Jenna Day, Co-Owner of Day Violins in Virginia, her mission in life is to pay it forward, whether that’s through her store or her day to day advocacy for music education, and even to her passion in social work and hospice care. Join Jenna and Natalie as they discuss how leaning into the vulnerable and uncomfortable makes us stronger in tough times and how she sees the music industry as the tapestry we are all creating.

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Ana Dobrian is quickly becoming a music products industry staple through her work with The Music People and her active involvement with NAMM YP and Women of NAMM. In this episode, Ana shares her journey from live sound into sales, her passion for mentorship, the importance of leaning into the uncomfortable and the power of bringing our authentic selves to work (and creating atmospheres where our teammates feel safe to do so). 

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Mary Luehrsen is retiring after spending 22 remarkable years at the helm of The NAMM Foundation, and ReVoicing the Future is celebrating her singular impact as she leaves an incredible legacy of trailblazing advocacy for music education. Join Natalie, Steph, and Mary herself as they reminisce on Mary's own journey through the music industry, some of her proudest moments for the Foundation, and on why following moments of quiet curiosity is the key to an authentic career. 

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Meet Gillian Desmarais, the K-12 Music Production and Engineering Teacher for Maplewood Public Schools in Minnesota. Gillian joins ReVoicing the Future, to share her journey into the music industry, how her passion for music technology spreads into the classroom, and to educate other teachers about incorporating the curriculum into their programs through Sound Tech Ed. We talk about mentorship and advocating for yourself and your expertise. We even dive into the make-up of the ear and how it’s different for men and women. Yes, you did read that correctly! 

Learn more about Gillian by visiting: https://www.soundteched.com/

Check out the AES Studying, Unveiling the Female Ear: https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22218

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This month on ReVoicing the Future we're joined by Jinting Zhao, the founder of SHE-Q Audio and an audio engineer, and community-builder extraordinaire, who "by day" works in strategy, governance, and public policy for the government of Alberta, Canada. Jinting reflects on SHE-Q's inaugural (fully grant-funded) journey taking a group of women engineers to the 2024 NAMM Show, why investing in your community is ultimately a case of selfishness for good, and how to tap into funding networks to GET THAT MONEY as creatives. 

Learn more about She-Q Audio at: https://www.sheqaudio.com/

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Join Natalie and Steph for a belly-laugh-inducing, enlightening, authentic conversation with Shira Yevin of Gritty in Pink. We trace Shira's activism from her famous crashing of the Warped Tour and starting the women's stage to the creation of Gritty in Pink and their most recent project, the INPINK marketplace, all while recording and touring with her band, Shiragirl. Shira has a lot to teach us all about the power of who we surround ourselves with and of being fearless in taking up space as a woman; thank you, Shira!

Website: https://grittyinpink.co/ 

INPINK: https://inpink.com/ 

Shiragirl: https://www.shiragirl.com/

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