Songwriter Soup

Songwriter Soup is a frank discussion about how to make it in the music industry as a songwriter. It takes grit and a lot of patience, but also sound financial advice.Laura Veltz is a Four-time Grammy-nominated songwriter and is teaming up with Tracy Hackney, a seasoned financial advisor for musicians, to bring you the tips and tricks of the industry. Joined by host and producer, Kevin Sokolnicki, the trio has interviews with some of the most prominent and up-and-coming songwriters and artists in the music industry.Songwriter Soup airs every Monday where you get your podcasts.

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Songwriter Soup

Episodes (77)

Mar 30th Paul DiGiovanni: Taylor Swift, Boys Like Girls & Nashville’s Emo Boy Influx
Mar 2nd Nicolle Galyon & Rodney Clawson: Money Scripts, Parenting & How The Best Song CAN Win
Feb 16th Gabe Simon: Building Economies, Not Empires

Songwriter Soup

Mar 30, 2026
1¼ hours
72 MB

This week the trio sits down with the tallest man to ever enter the Songwriter Soup lair: producer and songwriter Paul DiGiovanni (“How Not To” Dan + Shay, "The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home” Justin Moore, “Lose You” Jordan Davis). Paul’s journey is a masterclass in the winding road of the music industry, traversing from the height of 2000s emo with Boys Like Girls ("The Great Escape”) to the final frontier of guitars in Nashville. He pulls back the curtain on the raw reality of starting over from scratch - trading TRL interviews and Taylor Swift colla...

Songwriter Soup

Paul DiGiovanni: Taylor Swift, Boys Like Girls & Nashville’s Emo Boy Influx

Songwriter Soup

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