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The Unstarving Musician332 Eli Lev – Spiritual Growth: From 250 Shows to Finding Sacred Space in Music Spiritual growth takes many forms for independent musicians. Folk artist Eli Lev has woven together influences from Jewish upbringing, Buddhism, and Navajo teachings into a unique artistic journey that took him through 250 shows last year alone. In this third appearance on the podcast, Eli opens up about the realities of intensive touring, the "entry and exit friction" that comes with constant travel, and how he maintains spiritual and personal well-being while building his Levatators community. We discuss this and his upcoming "Past Lives" EP, as well as his live video for "Where We Come From," s...2025-08-0856 min
The Unstarving Musician280 Nichhole Wagner – Journalism, Photography, Moving To Austin, Rebooting Her Patreon, Drive-by Poetry, Perceived Roadblocks To Making Music, House ConcertsNichole Wagner has a new album titled Plastic Flowers coming soon. The Austin-based songwriter released her first album in 2018. Her music is blends soulful country-rock with funky Americana sounds. She comes from the small town of Louviers, Colorado, studied Journalism at Arizona State University, eventually landing in Austin. We talk about this, plus rebooting her Patreon, a college correspondent gig with Spin Magazine, drive by poetry, perceived roadblocks to writing music and learning to play guitar, house concerts, birthday show July 2023, a couple of favorite songwriters, love of stationary, and mutual acquaintances. You can find all things...2023-09-2254 min
The Unstarving Musician140 Barn Raising—Megan LeighMy guest this week is singer-songwriter Megan Leigh. Megan recently went full-time with her music career time and we dig into how that transition has gone. Along the way we explore how she found the help and support she needed to start the journey, upped her game as a musician, discovered her songwriting process and found life on the road. Megan grew up on a farm where she later converted a barn to hosting house shows and other events. This experience brought her into contact with local musicians which turned out to be the key ingredient to...2020-03-1353 minThe Unstarving Musician135 Self-Care for a Strong Career—Eli LevEli Lev, a return guest to the podcast, just released the 3rd in a 4 album project. He’ll wrap the project up with that 4th album in the later part of 2020. He’s incredibly inspirational, having done so much in the short span of his music career. He’s all about intentions. And I think he found love recently. You’ll hear more about that in our conversation. Global citizen and neo-folk singer Eli Lev is making the world a smaller place, one song at a time. Eli pens hymns for everyday enlightenment—songs that resonate because they’re he...2020-01-1743 minThe Unstarving Musician121 Rock Star Advocate Suz Paulinski on Musician Mindset In this episode I speak with musician mindset coach and mentor Suz Paulinski of The Rock/Star Advocate. We talk about the DIY Musician Conference, her upcoming MusicPreneur Mindset Summit and the one thing she recommends to musicians who seek a better way. We also talk about her MusicPreneur podcast, on which I’m an upcoming guest. Episode Highlights We begin by chatting about the DIY Musician Conference and go on to discuss: Understanding the music-preneur mindset How the MusicPreneur Summit originated What brings someone to hire a coach Creating sustainable habits and mindset sh...2019-09-1351 minThe Unstarving Musician70 Setting the Intention to Make Music Full Time – Eli LevSetting the Intention to Make Music Full Time – Eli Lev My interview with Eli Lev was recording on Labor Day 2018, the US holiday that commemorates hard working Americans. I like to think it commemorates hard working people everywhere. Eli is definitely among the hard working. He’s working hard to figure out what it takes to be a full time musician. It appears he’s doing something right. Eli introduced himself to me by way of Twitter. After listening to his work and looking at what he’s doing on social and the webs, I circled back to ask if...2018-09-281h 00