Key Takeaways: Leah Song

Three lessons I learned from my chat with the Rising Appalachia frontwoman.

Rising Appalachia, photo by Earth Based Media

My conversation earlier this year with Rising Appalachia co-frontwoman Leah Song was so inspirational. It was my third interview for Creative Reverberations, and it wasn’t one I had to pursue—it came to me.

Last year I wrote a Thanksgiving Day playlist for Shondaland and included Rising Appalachia’s “Harmonize.” So when the band was close to releasing their new album, Folk & Anchor, their publicist reached out to let me know about it. I mentioned my Substack and asked for an interview, and a couple of weeks later I was on a Zoom call with Leah, chatting about music and art and creativity. Here are a few takeaways from our conversation.

Key Takeaway #1: It’s Okay to Say No

Many of us, especially those of us who work in creative fields, are afraid to say no, for many reasons—we want to be liked, we’re worried we’ll lose work, we don’t want to