
Mary Chapin Carpenter on owning the process, personalizing mistreatment, and weathering rejection.
About this episode
Mary Chapin Carpenter is an 18x Grammy nominated, 5x Grammy winning, 6x platinum-selling singer-songwriter with over 16 albums and decades of touring so far in her career. We talk with Mary Chapin about her songwriting process, including her need for solitude and her practice of "song walking," we talk about how she still faces rejection even with all of her accolades and commercial success, how common and easy it is to personalize mistreatment from people in power (and how to combat that), and much more on this very candid final episode of Season 1.
Links:
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
- Carl Sandburg
- Taylor Swift Eras Tour
- Steve Poltz
- Ep 43 - Gretchen Peters
- Ep 22 - Group Text (Erin Rae, Caroline Spence, Kelsey Waldon & Michaela Anne)
- Kelly Clarkson
- Ep 16 - Rodney Crowell
- Rose Cousins
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All music written, performed, and produced by Aaron Shafer-Haiss.
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