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Supernova Support
by Where creativity and recovery collide
Supernova Support invites listeners along for the ride with two veteran songwriters and former bandmates, Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown in their recovery from music scene disillusionment, career crashes, motherhood, and co-dependency. The dynamic duo explore the pitfalls of internal and external critical voices and systems that keep songwriters from sharing their songs with the world and illuminate the pathway to a joyful, sustainable, and successful creative life. Episodes feature original songs that illustrate creative struggles and craft elements pertaining to the topic. Lots of laughter and f-bombs along the way. supernovasupport.substack.com
Episodes
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What is Supernova Support?
A quick scoop on what Supernova Support is and who it’s for….. maybe you! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit supernovasupport.substack.com/subscribe
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Season 4, Episode 8- Caroline in the Garden
In season four’s eighth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown talk with Caroline Milby of Caroline in the Garden, the imaginative pop project of singer-songwriter/producer. She shares the joy of producing a song from its paired-down state to a full-blown piece of art,...
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Season 4, Episode 7- Crystal McDougall-Purdy
In season four’s seventh episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown talk with Crystal McDougall-Purdy, an award-winning vocalist, instructor, program director of multiple choirs, and co-founder of the Norcal Vocal Arts Community. The conversation traces her path of discovering...
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Season 4, Episode 6-Grey DeLisle Griffin
In season four, episode 6, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown talk with Grammy award winning singer-songwriter and voice actress, Grey DeLisle Griffin who’s performed over 1500 cartoon voices including Daphne from Scooby Doo. They discuss the challenges of parenthood and making...
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Season 4, Episode 5- Natalie Lucie
In season four’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown speak with Natalie Lucie, a quietly fierce, Britain-based songwriter and producer who champions women’s rightful role as creators and producers of their own music. She traces the arc of her call to songwriting...
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Season 4, Episode 4- Come Shine Your Light
In season four’s fourth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown talk with Chelsea Coleman, a courageous and vulnerable storyteller of a songwriter who fearlessly shines the light of her songs in dark places. The interview reveals her inspiring work with YG2D (Your’re Going…
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Season 4, Episode 3- The Immovable Force
In season four’s third episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown interview Brittany Aquamarine, a Sonoma County-based singer-songwriter who combines pop and jazz influences in her deeply poetic “mystic soulfolk and ethereal grooves” on piano and guitar. She traces the long…
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Season 4, Episode 2- Jaimee Harris
In season four’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown talk with Jaimee Harris, the Texas-born, powerhouse troubadour rightfully forging herself into a shining star of the folk-country scene. Jaime shares her call into songwriting at a young age and how the miracle...
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Season 4, Episode 1- Creating the Creative Life You Want
In season four’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown launch the season with the call to listen and respond to the challenge the “creative gauntlet” is throwing down in our individual lives. The two unpack their personal experiences doubling down on creativity’s…
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How do we know a song is "done"?
Enjoy the video or the transcript below of a little chat that explores the “simple but not easy” answer. KAREN: Hi, I’m Karen Joy Brown. KATIE: And I’m Katie Phillips of Supernova Support, a program that supports songwriters in making their best songs. KAREN: That’s right, damn right. Damn...
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Season 3, Episode 8- Magic Trick
In season three’s eighth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown talk with Briget Boyle, a sought-after vocal coach, creative director, and a pillar of the Bay Area’s world and indie music scene. The dynamic relationship between inner work and songwriting shines through as...
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Season 3, Episode 7-From Isolation to Loving Self-Witness
In season three’s seventh episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown speak with Kim Ketner, Karen’s twin sister. Katie wrangles the two sisters to tease out the story of Kim’s solitary journey into singing and songwriting from obsessing over Chris Cornell’s voice over the car...
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Season 3, Episode 6- Nobody's Invited to My Birthday
In season three’s sixth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown connect with Cassidy Frost, self-declared writer of sad songs with sugary pop hooks who NPR’s Robin Hilton once called “gloriously gritty.” They share their strange and surprisingly early entry into the music...
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Season 3, Episode 5- Remembering Todd Snider
In season three’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown reflect on critically acclaimed songwriter Todd Snider’s recent passing. The discussion highlights Snider’s undeniable songwriting craft and incorrigible scoundrel personality that endeared him and his music to...
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Season 3, Episode 4- Inviting in the Lover
In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown interview Little Door, a.k.a., Kate Ellen, a creative powerhouse with a vibrant, must-read, music-focused Substack. They delve into her obstacle-laden path towards singing, writing, and expressing her…
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Season 3, Episode 3-Letting Out the Little Voice
In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown interview Lena, a self-described nomad who’s come into her own as a singer-songwriter over the last five years. The three discuss her unmistakable and enchanting voice that took its time to find the courage to...
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Season 3, Episode 2- Breaking Through to the Other Side
In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown host their first guest, Lizzy Larson, who found the podcast and open mic through a work colleague. They discuss her history with creativity and songwriting and the thirty year hiatus related to addiction and...
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Season 3, Episode 1- "Spontaneous" Growth and Community
In season three’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the idea of “spontaneous” creative growth. They review and celebrate the one year anniversary of launching their podcast and open mic for women and femmes, identifying how participation in a supportive...
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Recovering From Our Creative Losses
What better time of year to explore the scary, dark corners of grief in our psyches than Halloween? Whether you’ve ever attempted to share any of your creative work, or never found the time, energy, or courage to do so, you’ve experienced loss. Our culture doesn’t know what to do about capital G...
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Season 2, Episode 8- Finding Meaning
In season two’s last episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown demonstrate the obvious connection between the “sixth stage” of grief and songwriting. Carefully separating the false platitude of attributing meaning to a horrible or tragic event, they support the perspective of...
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Season 2, Episode 7- Acceptance & Hope
In season two’s seventh episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss the complexities of the concept of acceptance. They highlight what acceptance is/is not, and explore living with the residual pain of loss while moving forward in an unfamiliar and new future. Features...
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Season 2, Episode 6- Depression
In season two’s sixth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown dive into the depression stage of grief and unreasonable societal expectations to snap back to normal. The discuss losses both experienced and perpetrated and how they weigh us down personally and as a collective...
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Season 2, Episode 5- Bargaining
In season two’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss bargaining as a stage of grief and the subtle ways we spin our energetic wheels in a vain attempt to alter the past. They highlight self-awareness and kindness as we understandably try to avoid the pain…
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Season 2, Episode 4-Anger
In season two’s fourth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss anger as a stage of grief. Leaning into and allowing the often rejected emotion as an important part of the grieving process is explored as a particular challenge for women in the patriarchy. The two...
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Season 2, Episode 3- Denial
In season two’s third episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss denial, the extended play version of shock. Tell-tale behavioral signs of denial are highlighted, and the two share how songwriting can help break the spell and move us forward without leaving the love…
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Season 2, Episode 2- Shock
In season two’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown delve into the “shock” stage of grief, sharing personal stories of their fathers’ deaths, and the waves of numbness and overwhelm that continue to ebb and flow throughout the grieving process. They demonstrate…
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Season 2, Episode 1-Grief
In season two’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown introduce the theme of grief and how songs bridge the gap left by culture’s unwillingness and inability to allow grieving its full depth and breadth. They discuss the current conceptions of the stages of grief…
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Episode 8-Listening pt.2
In episode eight, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown look into the other side of listening; paying close sonic and emotional attention to what we hear in our own songs and those we love. They address classic pitfalls like self-doubt and judgement and offer the...
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Episode 7-Inspire
In episode seven, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the fifth and final element of the Supernova Support program: inspiration. They uncover the highly powerful and practical nature of the seemingly fluffy concept, and how cultivating it keeps our...
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Episode 6-Support
In episode six, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the fourth of five elements that support a joyful, sustainable creative life: support. They explore what happens without it, and the ways we can powerfully combine nurturing ourselves, participating in…
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Episode 5-Craft
In episode five, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the third element of the Supernova Support program, craft, breaking it into its three parts: song content, technique, and song components. They address how fear and doubt get in the way of attending to...
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Episode 4- Do the Work
In episode four, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the second of five elements that support a joyful, sustainable creative life: doing the work. They explore the “do the work” list of practices that attend to the work of songwriting craft as well as...
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Episode 3- Listening pt.1
In episode three, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the first of five elements that support a joyful, sustainable creative life: listening. Practices like morning pages and the artist’s date from Julia Cameron’s widely popular book The Artist’s Way are...
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Episode 2-Imposter Syndrome & Perfectionism
In episode two, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown address the insidious influence of imposter syndrome and perfectionism on creativity. Basic definitions and origins of the term are uncovered and held to the light of scrutiny in the context of sexism, racism,...
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Episode 1-Creative Recovery
In this pilot episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown share the origin and inspiration for their podcast and program Supernova Support including times they lost their creative identities and how they began to recover them together. They discuss the meaning of creative...
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Supernova Support Intro Episode
Songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown introduce their new podcast exploring where creativity and recovery collide. Find out what inspired them and what to expect in the episodes to come, f-bombs and lots of laughter included. IN THE NORTH BAY/SAN FRANCISCO AREA? Join Katie and Karen at...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Supernova Support invites listeners along for the ride with two veteran songwriters and former bandmates, Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown in their recovery from music scene disillusionment, career crashes, motherhood, and co-dependency. The dynamic duo explore the pitfalls of internal and external critical voices and systems that keep songwriters from sharing their songs with the world and illuminate the pathway to a joyful, sustainable, and successful creative life. Episodes feature original songs that illustrate creative struggles and craft elements pertaining to the topic. Lots of laughter and f-bombs along the way.
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Supernova Support invites listeners along for the ride with two veteran songwriters and former bandmates, Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown in their recovery from music scene disillusionment, career crashes, motherhood, and co-dependency. The dynamic duo explore the pitfalls of internal and...
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