How To Stop Doubting Yourself And Write More Music with Rosie Bans
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In this episode we’re going to talk about self doubt. I have a wonderful guest with me, a great singer-songwriter from Scotland: Rosie Bans. She’s a podcast host, a champion of songwriters, a feminist – she’s basically the Scottish version of me. OK, maybe not, but we did get along very well, and had a great talk.
Rosie is committed to supporting the music industry becoming a place for people to truly thrive in. The artist is founder of Be Radical Make Music, a community for songwriters to safely explore their creativity together through workshops, song share sessions and online courses. She is also co-founder of SongSeeds Songwriting Retreats, providing affordable and accessible online songwriting camps to artists of all abilities, and serves on the artist advisory board of UK music industry trade body the ‘FAC’.
In our talk, we dug deep into self-doubt, why songwriters seem to fall victim to it, and how to stop letting it get in the way of our creativity. If you’ve ever felt like self-doubt, lack of confidence and negative inner monolog is holding you back, this conversation is going to be eye-opening. And even if you don’t feel this is a problem for you, I challenge you to listen to the end, because Rosie has great advice to share for any songwriter.
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00:00 .00
eyvindur
Hello and welcome Rosie I forgot to ask you how to pronounce your name when you asked me how to pronounce mine your last name... Bans. Rosie Bans welcome welcome I'm not editing that out.
00:10 .46
ROSIE
Bans. Yeah, Bans.
00:15 .93
eyvindur
Welcome to the strongwriting podcast. Thank you so much for being here. Yes, so ah, tell us a little bit about yourself where you come from your journey in songwriting and life in general tell me everything.
00:18 .30
ROSIE
So but thank you, Thank you so much for having me. So.
00:29 .78
ROSIE
Um, life alive. Well I am from Scotland from Glasgow as you noticed on your own which is always lovely because quite often I get told I'm irish.
00:43 .89
eyvindur
I Know you.
00:44 .56
ROSIE
And I'm actually in scottish I feel really bad when I tell people I'm not irish they look disappointed but being scottish is great and so yes I am a singer-songwriter a music producer a musician and I have been doing the music thing for almost thirteen years now I've been at it for a while.
01:02 .81
eyvindur
Well since you were 5 what how does that work really all right? Oh happy birthday.
01:03 .91
ROSIE
I also recently just since I was 5 I just turned to 34 like like two weeks ago yeah it was my birthday. It was my birthday Thank you Thank you? And so yes, a music has been. Absolutely the central focus of my entire life and I am so lucky to be able but say that I am sort aware that that's not normal. That's not always the way people come at it and whatever chaos that the universe created when I popped out I have to get that lucky hand. So. Yeah, music's always been part of my life and at the moment I'm spending a lot of time doing podcasts I have my own and also helping songwriters get to a space in their life where music can be their priority and can be what drives their their day-to-day life too.
01:55 .52
eyvindur
Awesome! That's that's what it's all about and I I I I know a little bit of scottish I can say 1 line in Scottish dars Bena Marar there you go.
02:05 .85
ROSIE
Okay, um I love it. That's the that's that's the that's just high culture. There are you just blew me away. Ah.
02:14 .60
eyvindur
Yeah, there you go. So ah I want to talk to you about ah self-doubt and and consistency and and and things of that nature because I absolutely I think which is said about working on you know. Making music the focus are for your life is is just such an important thing and and the more people can do that but I always say I like to help people get more songs into the world because music makes the world a better place and we can make the world together. We can do that we can make the world a better place 1 song at a time but um, there.
02:40 .72
ROSIE
Get.
02:50 .75
eyvindur
There is a ah question like ah, an example question that I saw on your on your profile which is why is feminism important in music and songwriting and tell me that I want to hear the answer to that question.
03:05 .82
ROSIE
I'm just going to point out that you want a woman to tell you sorry I'm not gonna starfate I'm not starting to fight. No I So I'm glad you asked I Good by the way I'm ripping the Pe and I as it's okay so I suppose.
03:10 .23
eyvindur
Well no, no, no, no yeah I.
03:20 .94
ROSIE
Firstly, we've got to break that Down. We've got to look at what does feminism mean to you and what does it mean to your listeners Whoever is listening out there. What does feminism mean and I think for many people the words can actually be quite a trigger. So if we take away the words and it's just a placeholder for me for want of a better word. But for me. It means that people have a level plain field that they own it means that no matter what your background does what color your skin is what age you are if you have a disability or not that you can access the things that we. We can access a
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