ReVoicing the Future

Mar 10 2025 63 ep. 46 mins

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ReVoicing the Future, a Women of NAMM podcast features female leaders from across the music products industry sharing their professional journeys and lessons learned to empower the professional development of emerging talent in the industry. This podcast has been co-produced and edited by Natalie Morrison, Stephanie Lamond & Julia Olsen. Music by: Lucky Lamond Sponsored by: AKG

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Jessie Osborne: How Music Stores Can Create Local Community for Women in Music

Mar 10 2025 49 mins

While attending 2024’s NAMM Next after a series of happy accidents, Spicer’s Music’s Jessie Osborne found herself full of gratitude and inspired to bring that sense of educational camaraderie to Spicer’s hometown of Auburn, Alabama. This call became Spicer’s Music SheCollective (SheCo), which she founded to help connect, empower, and inspire women in music in the local Sp

Investing in a Healthy Community with Julia Rubio, The NAMM Foundation

Feb 10 2025 32 mins

The ReVoicing team is LIVE at NAMM 2025 in the Creator Lounge, and what better guest to sit down with onsite than Julia Rubio, Executive Director of the NAMM Foundation! Listen in as Julia looks back on the path that led her here, beginning with her earliest days in the classical music world, and her vision for the future of the Foundation. Julia models how great leaders learn from

Dr. Kristal Walker, Sweetwater: Invest in Employee Wellbeing for a Thriving Business

Dec 09 2024 70 mins

For our final episode of 2024 we are honored to welcome Dr. Kristal Walker, VP of Employee Wellbeing at Sweetwater. Dr. Walker shares her journey into human resources and to Sweetwater, the far-reaching framework behind their Women’s Career Development Program, and how companies and employees can ensure their DEI efforts are set up for long-term success. She reminds us that inves

Katie Kailus, Music Inc.: Uplifting Creativity in Music Products

Nov 11 2024 33 mins

Katie Kailus, the Editor of Music Inc. Magazine, has built a career crafting the destination for music products industry news and sourcing stories of creativity within it. Natalie, Steph, and Katie met up for their first ever IN PERSON recording in Long Beach, where Katie shares her journey through publishing, editing, and PR, before landing back at the helm of Music Inc., as well

Jenna Day: Weaving Our Threads in Music’s Tapestry

Oct 07 2024 52 mins

For Jenna Day, Co-Owner of Day Violins in Virginia, her mission in life is to pay it forward, whether that’s through her store or her day to day advocacy for music education, and even to her passion in social work and hospice care. Join Jenna and Natalie as they discuss how leaning into the vulnerable and uncomfortable makes us stronger in tough times and how she sees the music i

Ana Dobrian: The Power of Bringing Our Authentic Selves to Work

Sep 09 2024 60 mins

Ana Dobrian is quickly becoming a music products industry staple through her work with The Music People and her active involvement with NAMM YP and Women of NAMM. In this episode, Ana shares her journey from live sound into sales, her passion for mentorship, the importance of leaning into the uncomfortable and the power of bringing our authentic selves to work (and creating atmosph

Celebrating the Mighty Mary Luehrsen

Aug 12 2024 52 mins

Mary Luehrsen is retiring after spending 22 remarkable years at the helm of The NAMM Foundation, and ReVoicing the Future is celebrating her singular impact as she leaves an incredible legacy of trailblazing advocacy for music education. Join Natalie, Steph, and Mary herself as they reminisce on Mary's own journey through the music industry, some of her proudest moments for the

Gillian Desmarais: Music Technology Can Inspire the Evolution of Music Education

Jul 08 2024 53 mins

Meet Gillian Desmarais, the K-12 Music Production and Engineering Teacher for Maplewood Public Schools in Minnesota. Gillian joins ReVoicing the Future, to share her journey into the music industry, how her passion for music technology spreads into the classroom, and to educate other teachers about incorporating the curriculum into their programs through Sound Tech Ed. We talk abou

Leveraging the Power of Community with Jinting Zhao, She-Q Audio Founder

Jun 11 2024 64 mins

This month on ReVoicing the Future we're joined by Jinting Zhao, the founder of SHE-Q Audio and an audio engineer, and community-builder extraordinaire, who "by day" works in strategy, governance, and public policy for the government of Alberta, Canada. Jinting reflects on SHE-Q's inaugural (fully grant-funded) journey taking a group of women engineers to the 2024

ReVoicing Your Head with Shira Yevin of Gritty in Pink

May 13 2024 47 mins

Join Natalie and Steph for a belly-laugh-inducing, enlightening, authentic conversation with Shira Yevin of Gritty in Pink. We trace Shira's activism from her famous crashing of the Warped Tour and starting the women's stage to the creation of Gritty in Pink and their most recent project, the INPINK marketplace, all while recording and touring with her band, Shiragirl. Shi