Even though we like to idealize art and creativity and inspiration as something that just comes to you naturally and in any given moment, you know, you have to really work it out like a muscle and sometimes you can work it out too hard.

It's like any skill or any job, you have listening to Let It Out with me.

I'm Katie, your host. This week I spoke to

singer-songwriter Dana Williams about her career in music, poetry, songwriting, how she's

prioritizing community, her new holiday album. I had never met Dana before, but I really enjoyed

talking to her.

She was really sweet, and she's an extremely talented musician.

Her music's been featured in the Oscar-winning film Withlash, and she's collaborated with tons of artists, and we talk a bit about collaboration in this episode, as well as her

habits and routines, navigating grief, change, what she's

been learning lately, and how gentleness helps with creativity. I want to get to that as soon as

possible, but I just have a couple announcements. We're going to go on a break, a very brief,

two-week break in this podcast, and that's not until the week after next. So one last new

episode next week and it's a real delight of an episode. It's really happy. It's really funny.

I'll tell you who's coming up on the show at the end of this week's episode. So stick around for

that. And I'm so glad you're

here. If you like this episode, please share it with a friend. And if you've been listening,

you know that last week on the podcast, I mentioned the last couple weeks actually, that the

write kit, my self-study journaling and writing workshop was 50% off for the month of October, but I got quite a few

messages about the right kit, and I realized that people might not even know what it is. So I'm going to

tell you a little bit more about it and also extend the 50% off for another week. So if you still want to get

it, just use the code November and that will make it 50% off now. So I made the write kit at the

beginning of COVID because, or I started making it then, because I find that I don't really know what I'm thinking unless I'm writing.

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