Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a staff writer on Music Row, Nashville? In today’s show, I interview the ever-inspiring, Hit Songwriter Victoria Banks.

Labeled “one of the best songwriters in the business” by Nashville’s MusicRow magazine, Victoria Banks was named Female Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) in 2010 and has been nominated for 9 other CCMA Awards. She is an instructor of Songwriting at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business. In her multi-decade tenure as a songwriter on Nashville’s Music Row, Victoria has had cuts by over 100 artists, including her award-winning “Saints and Angels” for Sara Evans, Johnny Reid, Carley Pearce and more.

We discuss:

- How she maintains time for herself to make room for creativity, even amidst the chaos

- How she turns off the constant distractions to trust her inner Source to come up with songs

- How to listen within in order to get the best musical results

- How she’s learned to constantly pivot in the ever-changing music industry, while still maintaining her songwriting integrity

- Finding the time to be quiet and what that does to propel your songwriting

- How therapy has helped her “take the hard” out of her songwriting process, and how you can too!

- We talk about your Creative Source, imposter syndrome, anxiety in co-writes and performing and how this Award-winning songwriter got through it all to see her dreams come to fruition and SO MUCH. MORE!!!!

There are so many takeaways in this show, you won’t want to miss a minute!

Find Victoria at: https://www.victoriabanks.net/

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