We recently connected with Julia Sage and have shared our conversation below.
Julia, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about the best boss, mentor, or leader you’ve ever worked with.
The best boss I’ve ever had is the boss I currently have. Her name is D Boyle and she is the owner of Dcompress Downtown in Little Italy, the wellness studio where I work as a holistic skin therapist and reiki provider.
She is the sweetest, hardest working and most supportive boss I’ve ever known. She did everything to make sure our studio survived COVID times and kept us going and connected through the hardest times. I love her to pieces.
Julia, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I am and have been a musician and songwriter since my teen years, with a few breaks here and there. Music is what has gotten me through many emotional upheavals and life’s ups and downs. It could be said that music makes me who I am, along with all the other creative endeavors that I have learned and worked on throughout my life (Including photography, art, graphic design, etc)
I am also a sound healer, a holistic reiki practitioner, and bit of a “seer” as well, if you will. I know it may seem a bit weird for me to say something like that, but I’ve had so many otherworldly experiences pointing me in that direction, that I am finally heeding the call and starting to develop that side of me more.
In your view, what can society do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
Society needs to really start appreciating the hard work, years of experience, effort and all the expenses that go into creating. This includes not only supporting by showing up, but also monetarily… I believe too many people expect musicians/artists/ and just creative types in general to do things for free or unreasonably cheap. This is completely unsustainable. In the last couple of years, we all had a taste of what life would be like without music and the arts. We need to keep reminding ourselves of what that felt like and start giving creatives the credit and support they really deserve and need to survive. Buy the album… buy the painting… hire the photographer. And if you are a hiring venue, compensate adequately.
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being creative?
The most rewarding aspect will always be, at least for me, live performances where you feel heard and appreciated. As a musician and a songwriter, there is nothing that compares to playing in front of an audience who loves what you do and how you do it, and shows you their appreciation. With that being said, the process of creating alone at home also has its own rewarding effect on one’s soul.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://www.juliasage.
com - Instagram: http://www.
instagram.com/thejuliasage - Facebook: http://www.facebook.
com/juliasagemusic - Youtube: http://www.youtube.
com/juliasage - Other: TikTok: TheJuliaSage
- Other: http://juliasage.bandcamp.
com/
Image Credits
All images by Julia Sage, except photo sitting with guitar and cowboy hat, which was taken by my friend James Clippinger.