In season three’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown reflect on critically acclaimed songwriter Todd Snider’s recent passing. The discussion highlights Snider’s undeniable songwriting craft and incorrigible scoundrel personality that endeared him and his music to so many adoring fans. They unpack his strong influence on Katie’s writing, and she plays a beloved cover and newly crafted original tribute song dedicated to his memory.

Features her original song, Skeleton Key, and Just Like Old Times (Todd Snider cover) in relation to the topic.

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* 22:34- Todd Snider cover, Just Like Old Times

* 36:38- Katie’s song, Skeleton Key

Episode Resources:

* Songs for Creative Revolution show December 14th, 2025, Sebastopol Center for the Arts

* Todd Snider, “I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like: Mostly True Tall Tales”

* Todd Snider official website

* Otis Gibbs Video

* Dopey Interview with Billy Strings

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: Think about your songwriting heroes/heroines (living or passed). What was it about them that made you become obsessed, inspired, in love?

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*Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

Starting January 8th, 2026, let Supernova support your songwriting practice with our weekly Songwriting Hour, every Thursday, 9-10am PT. Everyone can write songs! You don’t need to be an experienced singer or even play an instrument. We provide a prompt and resource kit with everything you need to start putting a song together. All you need is a willingness to show up and experiment. New and experienced writers welcome. Open to everyone!

In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown interview Little Door, a.k.a., Kate Ellen, a creative powerhouse with a vibrant, must-read, music-focused Substack. They delve into her obstacle-laden path towards singing, writing, and expressing her creativity and fortuitous involvement with Supernova Support’s vocal coaching, song salons– and shares the secret to dealing with crying while performing!

Features her original song, Lover in relation to the topic.

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* 30:22- Little Door’s song, Lover.

Episode Resources:

* Todd Snider, “I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like: Mostly True Tall Tales”

* Todd Snider official website

* Little Door- Substack page: blog, playlists, music

* Little Door a.k.a- Kate Ellen website: brand readings, strategic creative projects

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: What subjects or issues feel off limits to write about?

*Subscribe to the Supernova Support Substack for our special blog, podcast extras and more!

*Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!’

In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown interview Lena, a self-described nomad who’s come into her own as a singer-songwriter over the last five years. The three discuss her unmistakable and enchanting voice that took its time to find the courage to take the stage. Hint- karaoke had a role to play!

Features her original song, Little Voice in relation to the topic.

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Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.

* 16:45- Lena’s song, Little Voice

Episode Resources:

* Lena’s song Little Voice

* Lena’s link tree (social media, Bandcamp, YouTube)

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: What is the little voice inside you asking for?

*Subscribe to the Supernova Support Substack for special blog, podcast extras and more!

*Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown host their first guest, Lizzy Larson, who found the podcast and open mic through a work colleague. They discuss her history with creativity and songwriting and the thirty year hiatus related to addiction and recovery before returning to her gift through Supernova’s song salons and open mic.

Features original song, Western Sky in relation to the topic.

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Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.

* 23:22- Lizzy’s song, If You Could Leave Me

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: How has your creativity helped/guided you through things that felt even too painful to speak out loud?

*Subscribe to the Supernova Support Substack for special blog, podcast extras and more!

*Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

IN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?

Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season three’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the idea of “spontaneous” creative growth. They review and celebrate the one year anniversary of launching their podcast and open mic for women and femmes, identifying how participation in a supportive community creates optimal conditions for artistic expansion, turning competition into companionship and inspiration.

Features original songs, The Ringer and I Need a Song in relation to the topic.

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Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.

* 25:48- Katie’s song, The Ringer

* 45:40- Karen’s song, I Need a Song

Episode Resources:

* Supernova Support website- Not So Open Mic and weekly online Song Salons

* Little Door- musician, writer, mom, brilliant creator of Little Door Substack.

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* JOURNAL PROMPT: How have you experienced spontaneous growth within a community setting or seen it in someone else?

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*Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

What better time of year to explore the scary, dark corners of grief in our psyches than Halloween?

Whether you’ve ever attempted to share any of your creative work, or never found the time, energy, or courage to do so, you’ve experienced loss. Our culture doesn’t know what to do about capital G grief around death, let alone the myriad losses we all encounter that don’t register on official charts.

When we take the risk to share songs and writing from the depth of our souls and things don’t turn out like we hoped, it’s devastating, and often debilitating. Too add insult to injury, there’s no ceremony or officially acceptable way to process it.

Katie and I believe that it’s essential to actually meet those losses head on in order to move forward to create another day. We did a whole 8 episode podcast series on it (season 2), and on October 25th from 10-3pm, we’re hosting an in-person workshop that provides the perfect space to look down those haunted hallways of our souls.

If you’re in the SF/North Bay area, we’d love to have you join this small group of women songwriters and creatives limited to ten spots. We’ll write, share, snack, and sing our way into the light of a brand new creative day!

See you there!

Click here to sign up

In season two’s last episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown demonstrate the obvious connection between the “sixth stage” of grief and songwriting. Carefully separating the false platitude of attributing meaning to a horrible or tragic event, they support the perspective of discovering a new way of living with the loss and creating new purpose from the ashes.

Features original songs, Paper Mothers and Believer in relation to the topic.

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Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.

* 14:11- Karen’s song, Paper Mothers

* 34:35- Katie’s song, Believer

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* The Sixth Stage of Grief, Finding Meaning, article by Lifetime

* The Power of Meaning, Finding Fulfillment in a world obsessed with happiness, Emily Esfahani Smith

* JOURNAL PROMPT: What, if any, meaning have you found in experiencing a loss?

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*Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

*Get the big picture at www.supernovasupport.com.

IN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?

Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s seventh episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss the complexities of the concept of acceptance. They highlight what acceptance is/is not, and explore living with the residual pain of loss while moving forward in an unfamiliar and new future.

Features original songs, Oleander and I Know What Heaven Is in relation to the topic.

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Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.

* 23:56- Katie’s song, Oleander

* 47:59- Karen’s song, I Know What Heaven Is

Episode Resources:

* Ho’oponopono prayer

* Karen Joy Brown, I Know What Heaven Is

* JOURNAL PROMPT: What feels unacceptable to you in your life right now? Take a moment to explain specifically what is happening and why you cannot tolerate it. Tap into where you feel the resistance in your body and read it to yourself in the mirror to allow the space for it to exist.

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IN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?

Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s sixth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown dive into the depression stage of grief and unreasonable societal expectations to snap back to normal. The discuss losses both experienced and perpetrated and how they weigh us down personally and as a collective when we don’t feel the feelings completely, and how songs aid in that process.

Features original songs, Send Me a Sign and Sleepwalking in relation to the topic.

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Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.

* 19:27- Karen’s song, Send Me a Sign

* 37:25- Katie’s song, Sleepwalking

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* DSM-5 Bereavement Exclusion

* Johann Hari, seven disconnections that cause depression

* JOURNAL PROMPT: Brainstorm a list of your personal secret signs of depression. How does it show up through your sensory experiences- sound, sight, touch, taste, smell?

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Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!

In season two’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss bargaining as a stage of grief and the subtle ways we spin our energetic wheels in a vain attempt to alter the past. They highlight self-awareness and kindness as we understandably try to avoid the pain of the present by bargaining for a better past or future.

Features original songs, Save the Day and End of the World in relation to the topic.

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Listen to Season 1’s songs on Bandcamp, Katie on Bandcamp and Karen’s music on Spotify, Apple Music or buy directly at www.karenjoybrown.com.

* 17:44- Karen’s song, Save the Day

* 31:29- Katie’s song, End of the World

Episode Resources:

* Karen Joy Brown | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram

* Katie Phillips | Bandcamp | Instagram

* The Bootleg Honeys | Bandcamp

* Why Don’t You Love Me No More, Bootleg Honey song on a City of Santa Rosa compilation album- The Out There Tapes

* JOURNAL PROMPT: Consider where you find yourself repeating “if only ____ then _____” in circumstances you’re grieving. Follow the logic to the end, writing the whole scene and see how that makes you feel.

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IN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA?

Join Katie and Karen at Coffee & Moore in Sebastopol for the Not So Open Mic for women performers (and yeah, that means, all women, and femme trans and nonbinary folks who feel comfy being in “women’s spaces”) of original music and covers from 1:30-3:30pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. We want to gather women who have put their creativity on the back burner as well as those who are currently playing out in any capacity, because we believe that songs have the power to transform us regardless of “professional” or “amateur” status.

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD….

Every Tuesday from 7-8:30 PT, gather with women songwriters around the country and world for Song Salons, an opportunity to share a completed or in-progress song, live or recorded, with curious, enthusiastic colleagues ready to highlight and amplify what’s powerful in your writing and music. Hone songwriting craft skills, get inspired by others, and reconnect with the unique magic you bring through your songs. Meet your long-lost songwriting sisters and get ready to laugh, cry, and keep coming back!