Women making the music business move.
She Creates Noise is a warm, industry-literate interview show about women whose work shapes how music gets made, heard, marketed, and remembered. Its conversations move from origin stories to hard-won craft lessons, with guests reflecting on sessions, touring, A&R, ownership, mentorship, reinvention, and power behind the scenes.
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She Creates Noise is a reflective interview series about women who have shaped music from both visible and hidden positions. Its conversations are rooted in career stories, but they rarely stay at the surface of achievement. Sarah Nagourney asks how people arrived, what they had to learn, and what changed once they gained authority. The result is warm and practical at the same time. Songwriters talk about preparation, range, artist identity, and the strange pressure of writing something another performer can claim as their own. Producers and artists talk about teaching themselves the tools, making records around family life, and finding more control in rooms where women have not always been given enough. Managers and executives trace the long work of championing talent, building rosters, understanding catalogues, and trusting the spark before the market catches up. Music journalists and content strategists add another layer, showing how artists are framed, interviewed, archived, and remembered. The show has a strong sense of lineage. It connects late-blooming creative courage, New York production communities, UK publishing networks, streaming-era independence, and the old-school patience of A&R. There is admiration here, but not empty hype. Episodes often pause over the small details that make a career believable: a thesis topic fought for, a studio habit built through repetition, a mentor who opens a door, a song rewritten from scratch, a catalogue that keeps growing across years. The tone stays generous. It is also clear-eyed about sexism, health, ownership, and the emotional cost of staying in a difficult business. That balance gives the show its usefulness. It honors success without flattening the labor behind it. For listeners who know the names on the charts but want to understand the people building the scaffolding, She Creates Noise offers access to the rooms where music careers are actually made. It is strongest when a guest's personal turning point becomes a lesson in craft, power, and persistence.
Made for: For listeners who love music and want the career stories behind songs, artists, publishing, production, streaming, and management. It especially suits aspiring industry workers, songwriters, producers, artists, and anyone interested in women's leadership in music.
What sets it apart: The show pairs emotional career reflection with concrete industry knowledge: studio authority, song preparation, A&R instincts, catalogue work, media framing, mentorship, and ownership. It feels personal without losing the business mechanics that make the stories useful.
She Creates Noise, the podcast that shines a light on the groundbreaking work that women in the music industry do. Hosted by platinum-selling songwriter/producer and artist development strategist, Sarah Nagourney.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
She Creates Noise makes the music business legible through specific conversations about songwriting, publishing, ownership, production, mentorship and career reinvention.
She Creates Noise turns music-business careers into working knowledge. Sarah Nagourney builds interviews around the decisions behind songwriting, artist development and production, then follows up from her own experience as a songwriter and producer.
The studio door opens, and you hear how women turn hard-won authority into lasting careers.
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A grounded story about learning production at home and earning more control over sound.
This episode reads as a steady story of creative reinvention. Sarah Nagourney stays with the practical side of that shift: stepping back from constant travel, learning to produce at home, and building more authority over sound.
Pam Sheyne turns a hit into a working lesson in songwriting, prep, and artist brand.
Pam Sheyne's talk with Sarah Nagourney treats the hit as more than a radio success, showing how it spilled into fashion, little girls, and dolls, and how that reaction pushed Sheyne to think about an artist's ideal brand inside a song.
A story of reinvention that gives real weight to craft, loss, and starting over.
She Creates Noise offers a clear look at A.C. Scott's second act, with Kate Hyman shaping a story about a broadcaster, TV presenter, and novelist finding her way back to songs in her 60s.
A grounded look at ownership, community, and the hidden labor behind music's power shifts.
This single-episode review frames power in the music business as something that lives in ownership, community, and visibility, not just fame. It starts with independent artists holding onto their masters and publishing, using those numbers around monthly streams and income to…
A music-business conversation shaped by instinct, passion, and a vivid story about Pharrell.
She Creates Noise is at its best when it stays close to music-industry work and the pull of managing Pharrell, especially in the moments that linger on memory.
A grounded publishing conversation built around roster, experience, and care.
Sarah Nagourney shapes She Creates Noise around women who keep the music business moving, then gives Annette Barrett room to talk through publishing, roster-building, and the work that happens offstage.
Indie music marketing from the scene floor.
Sarah Nagourney sits down with a guest for a conversation that moves from her earlier career into a new phase of creative independence.
Sarah Nagourney talks with Pam Sheyne about When Do You Need a Bottle, a song Sheyne wrote that changed fashion, little girls, and dolls.
A veteran music journalist discusses her career interviewing top artists and the evolution of music media.
She Creates Noise centers A.C.
Sarah Nagourney interviews audio engineer, producer, and creative leader Ebony Smith about music-industry power, artist rights, technology, and representation.
Sarah Nagourney opens She Creates Noise from New York City and frames the show around women who power the music industry.
Sarah Nagourney opens She Creates Noise as a podcast spotlighting women who power the music industry.
Michelle Fantus discusses how songs get chosen for playlists and the dynamics of music publishing and streaming.