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Mother Makes Music
Mother Makes Music is an interview-style series featuring honest, conversational stories from mothers working across the music community, from artists to industry professionals, and everyone in between.
Each episode is a real, unfiltered chat about what it actually looks like to navigate motherhood in an industry that doesn’t always make space for it. From touring and travel to behind-the-scenes work, we talk about the highs, the hard parts, and everything that falls somewhere in the middle.
Through open conversation and shared experience, we explore the challenges, the small wins, and the ways people are figuring it out as they go, without pretending there’s one “right” way to do it.
At its core, Mother Makes Music is about connection. It’s about hearing yourself in someone else’s story, and building a community where mothers in music can feel a little more seen, a little more supported, and a little less alone.
Episodes
7 episodes
Leading Like a Mother with Stephanie Hutchinson
A lot of mothers in leadership know the feeling of trying to hold it all together - supporting a team, building a career, raising a family, and somehow finding space for themselves along the way. For Stephanie Hutchinson, those experiences have...
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Episode 6: The Legacy We Leave with ANNIKA
A lot of women in music are told, directly or indirectly, that becoming a mother means putting their careers on hold. For singer-songwriter Annika, that hasn’t been the case. Instead, motherhood has become part of the way she approaches her car...
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Episode 5: Balancing Leadership & Motherhood with Carly Klassen
For a lot of working parents, balance can feel more like a moving target than something you ever fully achieve, especially in an industry as demanding and unpredictable as music. For Carly Klassen, executive director of Alberta Music and mom of...
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Episode 4: Making Space to Create with Ellen Doty
A lot of parents feel like they’re constantly trying to keep everything moving at once with work, family, creativity, responsibilities, and the never-ending mental load that comes with all of it. But for musician and mom Ellen Doty, motherhood ...
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Episode 3: Success on Your Own Terms with Lisette Xavier
A lot of women grow up feeling like they have to choose between career or family, ambition or balance, success or happiness. But for Lisette Xavier, motherhood completely changed the way she sees all of it.In this episode, the singer, TV...
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Episode 2: Between Soundcheck and Bedtime with Amber Bauer
Most touring musicians are juggling a lot, but when you add kids into the mix, it becomes a whole different kind of balancing act. Amber Bauer, a Canadian musician and mom of two, is right in the middle of it. She’s living proof that motherhood...
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Episode 1: The Juggle is Real
A lot of moms in music (and honestly, in any demanding career) know the feeling - you’re constantly juggling. Ambition, guilt, love for your work, love for your family… and somehow trying to hold it all together without dropping anything import...
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