Negotiating Balance with Carmina Rae

"Someone said that you can't wait for inspiration. It's got to be discipline. And that's got to be like the most useless thing. That didn't work for me. I can't discipline myself into writing. I will just write. [...] I don't really see myself as a person that's going to be, like, a song machine."

In this episode of Resonant Rest, singer, songwriter, and voice teacher Carmina Rae speaks to host Oceaan Pendharkar about how the pandemic grew her ideas of value and independence, how to redefine productivity, and how not to be a song machine.

Oceaan and Carmina explore everything from the pros and cons of working for yourself versus working for others, adding and appreciating value outside of capitalist definitions — and even their ideal funerals.