RSR528 – Nick Bullock – Building A Creative Retreat Studio for Artists Near Nashville: Freda Recording
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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What does it take to build a dream studio from the ground up? Nick Bullock of Freda Recording shares how he created a retreat for artists on a Nashville farm, blending music, acoustics, and visual storytelling to support independent musicians.
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My guest today is Nick Bullock, Co-Founder and CEO of Freda Recording, a boutique recording studio and Artist Services company located on a beautiful farm outside of Nashville, TN.
Nick returns to the podcast after previous appearances on episodes RSR030 and RSR411 to share more insights from his journey as a producer, engineer, and artist advocate. With a focus on serving the song and honoring the artist's vision, Nick has built a career around making records that are intentional, meaningful, and emotionally impactful. He's worked with artists like Alexz Johnson, Katie Kuffell, National Park Radio, St Paul DeVence, The Aqua Ducks, Katie Basden, and many others.
In 2024, Nick and his wife Meredith launched Freda Recording together—blending music production, visual storytelling, and hospitality to help artists realize their full creative potential and bring their dreams to life.
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| 0:44.1 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:46.9 | So I would give myself permission to feel the success that I knew I wanted right then and there. |
| 0:52.6 | There's a great book, Man's Search for Meaning, |
| 0:56.2 | or Quest for Man's Search for Meaning. |
| 0:58.7 | Man Search for the title. |
| 1:01.7 | Where it was a Holocaust survivor |
| 1:04.3 | and how he went through that experience, |
| 1:08.9 | having nobody could steal from him his sense of inner purpose or |
| 1:13.6 | inner meaning i took from that permission to allow myself to feel all of those like whatever the goal is |
| 1:21.9 | whatever the feeling is that i'm chasing i have these milestones that i always kind of thought were |
| 1:26.6 | these things that would then bring me joy. |
| 1:28.7 | And instead of waiting for them to happen, I just started on these walks, I just started giving myself permission to feel that joy now. |
| 1:34.5 | That's something that I carry with me. |
| 1:35.9 | And if that was a tool that I had in my late 20s or in my earlier mid or late 30s, the sooner I would have learned that, I think, the better. |
| 1:53.2 | Yeah. 30s, the sooner I would have learned that, I think, the better. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:56.2 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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