Summary
Taylor Hanson’s new soft and swirly King's Hawaiian Cinnamon Bites are making waves, but the conversation quickly shifts to deeper topics as singer-songwriter Georgia Lyons joins host Petra Bagus. Recently returned to New Zealand after a year in Nashville, Lyons reflects on her personal journey, including navigating a challenging divorce and rediscovering her voice. She emphasizes the importance of authenticity in her music, sharing how vulnerability in her lyrics resonates with listeners, even when it leads to misunderstandings.
Lyons discusses her creative process, revealing that she is working on a new record and has decided to launch a snail mail club called "Dear Reader." This initiative aims to bring attention to the mundane yet meaningful aspects of life that often feed into her art. She expresses a desire to create without the pressure of perfection, focusing instead on the beauty of the journey. As she prepares for this new chapter, Lyons embraces the idea that success is not solely defined by external achievements but by the joy and authenticity found in the creative process itself.
Show Notes
Singer-songwriter Georgia Lines has sat inside the messy, sticky chrysalis of life, facing her deepest fears, and emerged into her thirties proud of who she is.🦋🩵
Georgia speaks publicly for the first time about navigating the painful, terrifying journey of walking through a divorce in her twenties, the exact life event she had feared most since childhood. She reflects on how the weight of shame and the terror of being misunderstood kept her from speaking about it when her album The Rose of Jericho was released. She talks about processing her feelings and the sheer resilience it took to pour her heart into those songs in the middle of packing up and moving out of her home.
Together, Petra and Georgia explore the profound freedom of getting older, letting go of the need to control other people's narratives, and breaking free from the female reflex to apologise for taking up space. Georgia shares stories from her transformative year in Nashville, where southern hospitality and analog living helped her dismantle people-pleasing habits and see the emptiness of the fast-paced, AI-driven machine of modern pop songwriting.
Georgia reveals what happens when you decide to tend to the quiet, unglamorous soil of creativity, choosing the tactile grit of cassette tapes and a brand-new snail-mail letter club called Dear Reader. They delve into wrestling with faith that will accompany you through the valley rather than acting as a transactional fix, the grounding ritual of sipping limoncello in an outdoor bath, and why you already have everything you need to make a good decision.
Sign up to the snail mail letter club, Dear Reader, at georgialinesmusic.com/dearreader
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