We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Patience Axmann. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Patience below.
Patience , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
In 2025, I wrote a song every day for 6 months. This not only freed me up to be creative and took the pressure off of each song needing to be “the song” but it also opened up opportunities for me to be others-focused in my writing. During that time, I wrote dozens of songs for friends and social media followers to meet them in moments of loss, sickness, grief, anxiety, depression and overwhelm. Those songs that shine a flicker of light on shadowy moments have my favorites.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I’m a singer/songwriter, and music producer. I got into music after becoming a mother, processing through some of the difficult realities of adult life, singing and writing about it became an outlet for me.
I sing every day, and have many different benchmarks and exercises that I work toward in my singing as well as my piano and guitar. But the majority of my time is spent on writing, honing my craft, and stretching myself beyond my zone of comfort.
I write custom faith-based songs to help bring light, truth and beauty to the most memorable moments in the lives of others. Whether that’s a love story, a loss, a stressful season, a new beginning. There’s something about music that meets people in a memory and in our hyper-commercialized world, there is something very connective and satisfying about this one on one writing work.
In addition to writing custom songs, I also release my own projects under my name Patience Axmann, and lead worship at women’s retreats and conferences.
Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
My mission is to help people know they are not alone. That even in the hardest seasons of our lives, there’s a silver lining. And there’s hope. There is always hope.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
There’s this Hollywood, commercialized narrative about what it means to “make it” as a performer or an artist. Someone is talented from birth, one day gets discovered, and becomes a viral success overnight.
This is not the reality for 99.9% of artists. Behind every thriving artist are 10+ years of work, tears, failure, sweat, and education that nobody sees.
I think a lot of people view musicianship and songwriting as something that is not worth it unless it comes easy. My encouragement to other artists is that there is joy in the journey and every journey will look a little bit different anyone else’s.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://patienceaxmann.com
- Instagram: https://Instagram.com/patienceaxmann
- Other: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0PtXi4JtKhAh9vc3ndXKqm?si=j5f7DqRWTFecGYxtn06TJg
Image Credits
The Axmanns
Staci Brucks