Explore commonly asked music industry questions that emerging artists have and best practices to level up your music business and take your songs from the bedroom to the stage, and beyond.

Want Professional Development mentorship to guide and support you to release your songs to the world? Find out more about Level Up Club here. 

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Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. This is THE essential writing practice that has changed the careers and lives of 1000s of songwriters worldwide. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. They are the perfect place to begin and cover everything you need to know to write your first songs. You’ll receive lessons from Francesca directly! 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Want more for your songwriting but don’t know where to go from here? Take the I Heart Songwriting Club Quiz to discover your next steps and inspire your way to writing better songs.

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Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

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French-Canadian songwriter and artist Émilie Landry shares how taking simple practical steps each morning helped her to write her second album in both French and English language. This is a conversation about not relying on talent alone, but building confidence and skill through the courage to take action. 

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5:00 - Co-writing and collaborating with other musicians online 
10:00 - A discussion about French country-folk music and Francophone music
14:38 - Émilie shares about her Acadian heritage and living in New Brunswick, Canada
23:40 - About writing her new album “Enfiler Mes Bottes” (Put On My Boots) 
32:25 - ‘talent vs work’, ‘courage vs confidence’ 
42:39 - Writing songs in a second language and getting feedback on songs
52:05 - Émilie shares her song “Sugar pie” with us

About Émilie: 

Émilie Landry is a bilingual singer-songwriter from New Brunswick, Canada. The country-folk artist takes inspiration from American female country artists such as Dolly Parton, The Chicks, Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves, for her symbols of integrity, success and strength of character. Émilie's journey has taken her to over 150 venues in the Maritimes, Quebec, Europe and Louisiana! She is regularly in the radio charts and was the winner of the International Songwriters Day Song Contest with an unreleased song in English (written in I Heart Songwriting Club). Contact Émilie: Website / Facebook / Instagram 

Song Credit: “Sugar pie" - Written and Performed by Émilie Landry. 

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Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

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Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

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Receiving feedback on your songs can feel really scary, yet it’s been proven time and again that success doesn’t happen in isolation. Let us guide you through the process of giving and receiving relevant and helpful feedback on your songs so that you can create your best work yet. 

Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.

Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. This is THE essential writing practice that has changed the careers and lives of 1000s of songwriters worldwide. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. They are the perfect place to begin and cover everything you need to know to write your first songs. You’ll receive lessons from Francesca directly! 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Want more for your songwriting but don’t know where to go from here? Take the I Heart Songwriting Club Quiz to discover your next steps and inspire your way to writing better songs.

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Many musicians know that it takes years of practice to become proficient on their instrument. But with songwriters, that can all go out the window and they can get stuck for months on one song. This brings up the old quality over quantity argument and which approach is more likely to result in great songs.

In this Club Conversation with bilingual Emmy-Award winning voice actor Kari Loya, we discuss Kari’s bold new adventure into songwriting and how taking a fearless, fun and abundant outlook on creative practice can result in some wonderful songs!

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2:37 - Kari shares how he got into songwriting 

6:15 - On learning new skills as an adult including some helpful tools

20:15 - Kari’s operating principles for learning 

27:50 - How we can learn alongside others 

36:26 - Finding clarity in your artist brand through writing songs 

41:55 - Quantity vs quality 

54:09 - On collaboration and creating unique work 

1:01:45 - Kari talks about writing “Agua” in I Heart Songwriting Club and then shares the song. 

1:18:05 - The Magic of Songwriting

About Kari: 

A bilingual Emmy Award winning voice actor, educator and executive coach, Kari Loya brings bold adventure and excitement to his new skill - songwriting! The American started noodling with song ideas when he lived in Rio de Janeiro years ago and continued noodling when he moved to Silicon Valley and again in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has travelled to nearly 40 countries, worked in seven, and learned several languages along the way. Kari loves exploring, learning, creating and empowering. Contact Kari: Website / Instagram 

Song Credit: “Agua" - Written and Performed by Kari Loya. 

Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.

Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Get songwriting insights from I Heart Songwriting Club: Instagram / Facebook / YouTube

Be inspired by Francesca on socials: YouTube / Facebook / Instagram

Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

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One of our listeners requested we write a song live on the podcast, and so we did! Take a listen to the creative process behind Francesca de Valence’s song “Houseboat”. Listen to how her melodic themes were created around harmonic progressions, and witness the surprise development from an exercise that resulted in this unique song.

Song Credit: “Houseboat" - Written by Francesca de Valence. Performed live by Francesca de Valence at I Heart Songwriting Club Headquarters

Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.

Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. This is THE essential writing practice that has changed the careers and lives of 1000s of songwriters worldwide. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. They are the perfect place to begin and cover everything you need to know to write your first songs. You’ll receive lessons from Francesca directly! 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Want more for your songwriting but don’t know where to go from here? Take the I Heart Songwriting Club Quiz to discover your next steps and inspire your way to writing better songs.

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Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

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An open conversation with Australian songwriter Lisa Richards about her triumphant journey from addiction and abuse, to listening to and following her fierce and bright voice; a voice that pulled her out of the darkness to learn how to sing, play guitar, write songs and record, all the way to releasing her 8th studio album. 
 

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4:20 - How music overtook Lisa’s old substance abuse patterns

22:35 - Lisa’s songwriting journey started in NYC in her 30s 

34:00 - How Lisa’s success was a series of ‘small accidents’ and asking for favours 

41:00 - How Lisa’s funded 7 albums completely independently and developed to eventually record and produce her 8th album 

54:00 - Lisa shares about writing her song “Waiting For Love To Cure Me”

1:00:00 - Lisa performs “Waiting For Love To Cure Me” live.  

About Lisa: 

With a voice described as both ferocious and sweet, and a percussive guitar style, Lisa Richards writes songs of longing, loss, love and hope. Songs steeped in musical expressiveness and lyrical succinctness, borrowing from the traditions of folk, blues and jazz with her feet firmly planted in her own musical corner of the world. Shaped by her childhood in Townsville North Queensland, as well as long stints in New York City and Austin Texas she now resides in Canberra, Australia. Contact Lisa: Website / Facebook / Instagram

Song Credit: “Waiting For Love To Cure Me" - Written by Lisa Richards. Performed live by Lisa Richards at I Heart Songwriting Club Headquarters.

Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.

Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Get songwriting insights from I Heart Songwriting Club: Instagram / Facebook / YouTube

Be inspired by Francesca on socials: YouTube / Facebook / Instagram

Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

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If you knew what it took to create a masterpiece, would you do it? In this podcast episode, master artist Pablo Picasso shows us what it takes to create a songwriting masterpiece.

Find out how you can write your best songs and an album every year! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.

Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. This is THE essential writing practice that has changed the careers and lives of 1000s of songwriters worldwide. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. They are the perfect place to begin and cover everything you need to know to write your first songs. You’ll receive lessons from Francesca directly! 

Want more for your songwriting but don’t know where to go from here? Take the I Heart Songwriting Club Quiz to discover your next steps and inspire your way to writing better songs.

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Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

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If you feel bound by genre or stuck in your creative styles, liberate your self-expression to realise the music you’ve always wanted to make. Be inspired by the journey from folk songwriter to gospel artist with Hannah Acfield.

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3:49 – How the pandemic created some positive circumstances for artists to write and record work

8:00 – A journey from folk songwriter to soul artist

12:27 – How to navigate questions about genre

15:00 – Skill development required to write new genres 

21:47 – Integrating new skills into the songwriting process

27:25 – Are my songs good enough? 

34:50 – We talk about the recording of Hannah’s album “No Light Without Shade”

48:35 – Hannah shares about writing her song “Searching (For More)”

57:30 – Hannah performs “Searching (For More)” live at IHSC Headquarters

1:00:00 – Can having a beautiful voice mask if a song is any good or not?

About Hannah: 

Described as “a luscious blend of Jeff Buckley, Aretha Franklin and Joni Mitchell”, Melbourne-based singer songwriter Hannah Acfield combines the storytelling of indie folk with soaring, stirring vocals inspired by gospel and soul. The award-winning songwriter has toured extensively throughout Australia and overseas supported artists such as Joan Armatrading, Josh Pyke and Vika and Linda Bull. Contact Hannah : Website / Facebook / Instagram 

Song Credit: “Searching (for more)" - Written by Hannah Acfield. Performed live by Hannah Acfield at I Heart Songwriting Club Headquarters.

Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.

Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Get songwriting insights from I Heart Songwriting Club: Instagram / Facebook / YouTube

Be inspired by Francesca on socials: YouTube / Facebook / Instagram

Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

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Discover how to experience songwriting magic in a real and tangible way to up-level your creative practice and your life.

Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.

Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. This is THE essential writing practice that has changed the careers and lives of 1000s of songwriters worldwide. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. They are the perfect place to begin and cover everything you need to know to write your first songs. You’ll receive lessons from Francesca directly! 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Want more for your songwriting but don’t know where to go from here? Take the I Heart Songwriting Club Quiz to discover your next steps and inspire your way to writing better songs.

Get songwriting insights from I Heart Songwriting Club: 

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Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

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Take a look at behind the scenes of the magic of songwriting.  In Season Three of the podcast, we unveil more of the mystery of songwriting and what this magic can look and feel like, and that when you start to tap into this magic, you can rely on it to take your songwriting somewhere really special.

Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.

Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. This is THE essential writing practice that has changed the careers and lives of 1000s of songwriters worldwide. 

Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. They are the perfect place to begin and cover everything you need to know to write your first songs. You’ll receive lessons from Francesca directly! 

Don’t struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. 

Want more for your songwriting but don’t know where to go from here? Take the I Heart Songwriting Club Quiz to discover your next steps and inspire your way to writing better songs.

Get songwriting insights from I Heart Songwriting Club: 

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Be inspired by Francesca on socials:

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Theme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence 

If you love this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and tell everyone you know about The Magic of Songwriting. 

Thank you for joining us.