S2E61 - Adam Schumaker

What happens after you’ve already grown up… but your heart still has some catching up to do?

Composer and songwriter Adam Schumaker calls this next chapter “the second growing up”—a quiet reckoning with love, loss, and the slow understanding that we never stop becoming who we are. From his roots in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to the haunting beauty of his new album Love, Death, Sleep, Money, Adam has learned to turn personal transformation into poetry.

In this conversation, we talk about the sacred mess of middle life, the role music plays in navigating grief and joy, and why songwriting isn’t about finding the answers—it’s about holding space for the questions.

If you’ve ever stood at a threshold and asked, Now what?, this episode is for you.

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Theme music by: Lincoln Parish

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