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PODCAST

Supernova Support

Where creativity and recovery collide

Supernova Support invites listeners along for the ride with two veteran songwriters, friends, and former bandmates, Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown in their recovery from music scene disillusionment, career crashes, motherhood, and co-dependency. The dynamic duo explore the pitfalls of internal and external critical voices and systems that keep women songwriters from sharing their songs with the world and shine the light on a pathway to a joyful, sustainable, and successful creative life. Each

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All Episodes

56:40

Season 3, Episode 6- Nobody's Invited to My Birthday

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2025/12/11

In season three’s sixth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown connect with Cassidy Frost, self-declared writer of sad songs with sugary pop hooks who NPR’s Robin Hilton once called “gloriously gritty.” They share their strange and surprisingly early entry into the music industry and how their songwriting and relationship to music has evolved over time. Stay for the whole delightful conversation on emotional and literal sobriety, continual music growth, and the joy of a

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56:40

Season 3, Episode 5- Remembering Todd Snider

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2025/12/05

In season three’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown reflect on critically acclaimed songwriter Todd Snider’s recent passing. The discussion highlights Snider’s undeniable songwriting craft and incorrigible scoundrel personality that endeared him and his music to so many adoring fans. They unpack his strong influence on Katie’s writing, and she plays a beloved cover and newly crafted original tribute song dedicated to his memory.Features her original song, Skeleton

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56:40

Season 3, Episode 4- Inviting in the Lover

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2025/11/21

In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown interview Little Door, a.k.a., Kate Ellen, a creative powerhouse with a vibrant, must-read, music-focused Substack. They delve into her obstacle-laden path towards singing, writing, and expressing her creativity and fortuitous involvement with Supernova Support’s vocal coaching, song salons– and shares the secret to dealing with crying while performing!Features her original song, Lover in relation to the

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56:40

Season 3, Episode 3-Letting Out the Little Voice

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2025/11/15

In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown interview Lena, a self-described nomad who’s come into her own as a singer-songwriter over the last five years. The three discuss her unmistakable and enchanting voice that took its time to find the courage to take the stage. Hint- karaoke had a role to play!Features her original song, Little Voice in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a review– even one

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56:40

Season 3, Episode 2- Breaking Through to the Other Side

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2025/11/08

In season three’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown host their first guest, Lizzy Larson, who found the podcast and open mic through a work colleague. They discuss her history with creativity and songwriting and the thirty year hiatus related to addiction and recovery before returning to her gift through Supernova’s song salons and open mic.Features original song, Western Sky in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and

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63:01

Season 3, Episode 1- "Spontaneous" Growth and Community

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2025/10/31

In season three’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the idea of “spontaneous” creative growth. They review and celebrate the one year anniversary of launching their podcast and open mic for women and femmes, identifying how participation in a supportive community creates optimal conditions for artistic expansion, turning competition into companionship and inspiration.Features original songs, The Ringer and I Need a Song in relation to the topic.Like this

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Recovering From Our Creative Losses

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2025/10/16

What better time of year to explore the scary, dark corners of grief in our psyches than Halloween? Whether you’ve ever attempted to share any of your creative work, or never found the time, energy, or courage to do so, you’ve experienced loss. Our culture doesn’t know what to do about capital G grief around death, let alone the myriad losses we all encounter that don’t register on official charts. When we take the risk to share songs and writing from the depth of our souls and things don’t turn out

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57:46

Season 2, Episode 8- Finding Meaning

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2025/07/31

In season two’s last episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown demonstrate the obvious connection between the “sixth stage” of grief and songwriting. Carefully separating the false platitude of attributing meaning to a horrible or tragic event, they support the perspective of discovering a new way of living with the loss and creating new purpose from the ashes.Features original songs, Paper Mothers and Believer in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star

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74:57

Season 2, Episode 7- Acceptance & Hope

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2025/07/25

In season two’s seventh episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss the complexities of the concept of acceptance. They highlight what acceptance is/is not, and explore living with the residual pain of loss while moving forward in an unfamiliar and new future.Features original songs, Oleander and I Know What Heaven Is in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a review– even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you

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56:40

Season 2, Episode 6- Depression

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2025/07/19

In season two’s sixth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown dive into the depression stage of grief and unreasonable societal expectations to snap back to normal. The discuss losses both experienced and perpetrated and how they weigh us down personally and as a collective when we don’t feel the feelings completely, and how songs aid in that process. Features original songs, Send Me a Sign and Sleepwalking in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star

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60:11

Season 2, Episode 5- Bargaining

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2025/07/10

In season two’s fifth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss bargaining as a stage of grief and the subtle ways we spin our energetic wheels in a vain attempt to alter the past. They highlight self-awareness and kindness as we understandably try to avoid the pain of the present by bargaining for a better past or future.Features original songs, Save the Day and End of the World in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a

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56:40

Season 2, Episode 4-Anger

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2025/06/27

In season two’s fourth episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss anger as a stage of grief. Leaning into and allowing the often rejected emotion as an important part of the grieving process is explored as a particular challenge for women in the patriarchy. The two demonstrate the usefulness of songs as a vehicle for healthy expression of rage and conduit for healing.Features original songs, Mother and Line of Fire in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a

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57:31

Season 2, Episode 3- Denial

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2025/06/21

In season two’s third episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown discuss denial, the extended play version of shock. Tell-tale behavioral signs of denial are highlighted, and the two share how songwriting can help break the spell and move us forward without leaving the love for what and who we lost behind.Features original songs, De Rien and 321(Summer’s Gone, So Are You) in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating on Apple and leave a review– even one

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54:29

Season 2, Episode 2- Shock

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2025/06/13

In season two’s second episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown delve into the “shock” stage of grief, sharing personal stories of their fathers’ deaths, and the waves of numbness and overwhelm that continue to ebb and flow throughout the grieving process. They demonstrate how songs and songwriting create a safe space to hold our disorientation and disbelief. Features original songs, Got To Be and We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This (Funeral Reunion) in relation to creative

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60:41

Season 2, Episode 1-Grief

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2025/06/06

In season two’s first episode, singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown introduce the theme of grief and how songs bridge the gap left by culture’s unwillingness and inability to allow grieving its full depth and breadth.They discuss the current conceptions of the stages of grief and the wide range of losses besides death which are made harder through society’s lack of recognition. Personal experience through the loss of their fathers, friends, and break up of their band provide

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70:00

Episode 8-Listening pt.2

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2025/01/03

In episode eight, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown look into the other side of listening; paying close sonic and emotional attention to what we hear in our own songs and those we love. They address classic pitfalls like self-doubt and judgement and offer the benefits of objectivity and discernment while identifying what makes a song work without falling for the fool’s gold of cookie-cutter hits.They perform and discuss original songs, Real Time and Last Year’s

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68:34

Episode 7-Inspire

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2024/12/19

In episode seven, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the fifth and final element of the Supernova Support program: inspiration. They uncover the highly powerful and practical nature of the seemingly fluffy concept, and how cultivating it keeps our creativity flowing in a beautiful cycle that enriches the creators of art as much as those who appreciate it.They perform and discuss original songs, Joy Yet to Come and Ophelia in relation to the topic.Like this

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67:36

Episode 6-Support

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2024/12/14

In episode six, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the fourth of five elements that support a joyful, sustainable creative life: support. They explore what happens without it, and the ways we can powerfully combine nurturing ourselves, participating in a creative community, and actively supporting other artists for a more joyful and fulfilling creative life.They perform and discuss original songs, Thinking of You and I Know Why People Die of a Broken Heart

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65:32

Episode 5-Craft

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2024/12/06

In episode five, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the third element of the Supernova Support program, craft, breaking it into its three parts: song content, technique, and song components. They address how fear and doubt get in the way of attending to growth areas and share a few craft secret weapons.They perform and discuss original songs, Mary and the Juniper Tree and Grand Canyon in relation to the topic.Like this show? Please give us a 5 star rating

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65:28

Episode 4- Do the Work

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2024/11/21

In episode four, podcast hosts and singer-songwriters Katie Phillips and Karen Joy Brown unpack the second of five elements that support a joyful, sustainable creative life: doing the work. They explore the “do the work” list of practices that attend to the work of songwriting craft as well as personal care/growth strategies that free us to access available learning tools and resources. They perform and discuss original songs, Meditate on the Sun and Teenage Angel of the Morning in relation to the

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