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From Conversations to Collaborations: Building Real Music Industry Relationships

April 9, 2025·1 hr 1 min·4 clips

X explains how to prepare a vocal session by leaving life outside the door and creating a safe space.

1. Made It In Music: Interviews With Artists, Songwriters, And Music Industry Pros centers this episode on networking, creative community, and producer relationships. 2. Seth Mosley, X O’Connor, Riley, and Maggie Youngs each speak from a different music-industry role, which matters because the episode compares songwriting, production, and community-building from inside the room. 3. The episode asks how artists, songwriters, and producers can find collaborators and build relationships that actually lead to work. 4. Seth says “community is everything” and adds that he would not have his career today without co-writing. 5. Riley says networking is “more than giving and helping” and pushes back on the idea that it should be transactional. 6. The group returns several times to Song Chasers, the online songwriting community they describe as part of their solution for networking. 7. X tells a story about a recent co-write with a guy from LA who made a big ask for his Pro Tools template. 8. Seth explains that a producer’s template is “the thing I’ve spent 20 years” building and treats it as part of a producer’s secret sauce. 9. Maggie recommends Mark Maxwell’s book “Networking Kills, Success Through Serving” as a resource for learning relational service. 10. Seth says Instagram is one of the most powerful tools for scouting artists, and he also points to TikTok and Spotify as practical places to look. 11. Seth says producers should block out “scouting time,” which makes networking feel like a deliberate work habit instead of a random hope. 12. Riley says people outside Nashville can still join online communities, virtual writers’ rounds, writing retreats, and writing camps in places like Florida and Ohio. 13. Maggie says people can create community where they are, pointing to Connor Flanagan in Minnesota and his church-based creative circle. 14. X says consistency matters because “who knows you” can matter more than “who you know.” 15. The group says showing up for releases, writers’ rounds, coffees, and small moments builds the kind of trust that lasts. 16. Seth says rejection usually looks like silence, a passed song, or not being invited back rather than a formal decline. 17. The tone stays practical and conversational, with the hosts interrupting each other, laughing about stormy Nashville weather, and trading examples. 18. The format moves like a roundtable, with each speaker adding a short answer and the others building on it. 19. Artists, songwriters, and producers building real industry relationships will get the most from this. 20. Listeners wanting celebrity gossip or finished-song analysis can skip it.

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A practical conversation about networking, creative community, and the relationships that keep music work moving.

This conversation stays with networking in the music industry and the search for a creative tribe in Nashville and beyond. Seth Mosley, X O'Connor, and Maggie Youngs keep it practical, moving from stormy Nashville chatter into advice about being a connector, offering help before…

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