We recently connected with Katie Yeager and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Katie, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I knew that I wanted to pursue music as a profession when I started writing songs in high school and thinking about the path I wanted to take in college. I wanted to be a pop star when I was a young girl watching Hannah Montana, and yet I had a funny moment as an older child where I thought I needed to be more realistic. Because I knew no professional musicians, it felt like a pipe dream. Once I started to find a music community in Denver and saw real people living my dream, I knew that I wanted to go all-in. I enrolled in CU Denver’s Singer/Songwriter program and never looked back.

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 am a Denver-based singer-songwriter who is heavily inspired by Harry Styles, George Harrison, and boygenius. I am in an all-women trio called Children of Divorce, I co-host a podcast about George Harrison titled Apple Scruffs, and I am a website contributor for That Fangirl Life. The basic essence of who I am as an artist comes from what I love, and this often ties into my fandoms. I discovered who I was and met some of my closest friends because of my identity as a fan. There is such a power in loving what you love unabashedly, and there is a long lineage of fangirls that I am so proud to be connected to. My latest single “Black Cravat” was inspired by the TV show Our Flag Means Death, an incredibly funny and moving show about queerness (and pirates, but mostly about queerness). I love taking the perspective of a character and relating it to an emotion we all can recognize. In the case of “Black Cravat,” I wrote from Blackbeard’s perspective on how it feels to be broken-hearted and have bittersweet feelings about an ex.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

That networking can look like however you want it to look like! As an introvert, I hated the idea that I could only connect with other creatives by going to parties or conferences and talking to talented artists I knew nothing about as people. The social anxiety factor of that really paralyzed me and made me feel like I would never be good at such an important factor of working in a creative field. Yet, I’ve learned that networking can also look like meeting people you respect and admire, becoming peers, and then working together. It’s okay if you have a hard time working with someone you don’t love or even like very much, especially when you’re bearing your souls to each other in a process like co-writing.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

What I find most satisfying about music is its reciprocity. Music feeds me. It has my entire life, and it does every day. I will be eternally grateful for everything music’s given me, both as a listener and as a creator. It’s even more incredible then when you can stand in front of an audience and share a piece of music that you’ve created that has been an outlet for you and see it being an outlet for them, as well. It’s a circle of giving and taking that feeds you and feeds others, and there’s really no other feeling like it. Besides maybe love.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://katieyeagermusic.wixsite.com/website
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katieyeagermusic.x/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-yeager-aa5985140/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcUPBhAjq3OpvPb7S33ahA
• Other: https://linktr.ee/katieyeagermusic

Image Credits
Misha Kline Sydney Yllanes