HeyJaredCome Back To Earth — Music & Mental Health
Come Back to Earth is an interview podcast that goes beyond the stage to explore the internal lives of artists. Hosted by J.D.
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Season 3 Finale: What 13 Conversations Taught Me About Music and Grief (opens the original)
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This season began in grief. My father died on New Year's Day. A few weeks later I sat down with the first guest of Season 3 and asked him what music had taught him about being human. I listened the way you listen when the question is also yours. That's how every conversation this season went. Thirteen guests. Thirteen different answers. And underneath all of them — the same essential truth. Nobody came to music because it was easy. They came because something was hard. And music was the language
Neither Could Dylan: Why Many Musicians Limit Themselves and How to Break Free (opens the original)
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Neither Could Dylan blends rock, punk, and folk into something entirely his own. In this Season 3 finale, Jamie shares how a pandemic hobby became a full creative practice, and how self-production and learning new instruments helped him break through the limits he'd put on his own sound. Jamie dives deep into the creative process, revealing how he overcame limitations and explored new musical territories. You’ll discover: - The unexpected inspiration that sparked his solo project during lockdown
Grace Palmer: The Song You Wrote on the Floor (opens the original)
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“Breathe” was written during one of the most difficult seasons of Grace Palmer's life, when her mother was in intensive care and the weight of uncertainty felt unbearable. After briefly escaping the heaviness on holiday, she returned home and crashed, sitting on her floor with a guitar and writing a five-minute song that would later become an anchor for others navigating anxiety and depression. Years later, after her mother passed away just days before Christmas, Grace wrote “By His Side,” a son
Robin Vincent: Modular Synths, Hardware Culture & Why Building Sound by Hand Keeps Us Sane (opens the original)
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In this episode of Come Back to Earth , I reflect on the grounding power of having something small you can control — a dial, a cable, a circuit — when the rest of life feels unpredictable. I then sit down with music technology veteran and journalist Robin Vincent to talk about modular synthesis, hardware culture, and why building electronic music by hand keeps people curious, engaged, and sane. This conversation explores tactile creativity, community, and the difference between scrolling presets
Elle Indigo: From Poetry to Music (opens the original)
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Elle Indigo has been finding words for things most people leave unnamed. She started in poetry, the private kind, written for no one in particular. Then the words started needing music underneath them. And somewhere in that transition she discovered something about the difference between writing to process and writing to connect. This conversation goes into that space. The vulnerability of making something personal and then handing it to a room full of strangers. The way metaphor can say the thi
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