VIDEO BONUS: Jocelyn Mackenzie on Creativity, Psychic Abilities, and Managing Burnout

The multi-hyphenate talent discusses her work with Pearl and the Beard, being a psychic medium, and how she manages it all.

Jocelyn Mackenzie, photo by Ester Segretto

In 2024, I had a wide-ranging conversation with multi-hyphenate talent Jocelyn Mackenzie. If you’re not familiar with her work, Jocelyn was one-third of the folk-pop trio Pearl and the Beard and is now a successful solo artist, with multiple albums released on Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. In addition, she directs music videos, designs clothing, creates improvisational music with Guy Capecelatro III under the band name Pumpkin Mouth, composed music for the pre-Broadway musical Rutka, and is a psychic medium.

Needless to say, we had a lot to talk about.

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CR 021: Jocelyn Mackenzie Explores Creativity in its Many Forms

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The interview ran for an hour, and there was a lot we discussed that didn’t make it into the original piece, so I’m sharing a few clips now with paid subscribers. In the following videos, you’ll hear about what she learned from her time with Pearl and the Beard, how she manages burnout, her future aspirations, her advice for tapping into psychic abilities, how she balances creative projects with a day job, and her work with The Push Collective, an initiative she launched with other female-identifying musicians.

Please give the videos a watch and then check out her new song, “Rumspringa.”

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