You’ve done a variety of showcases, including having a residency at Hotel Café. What does it go through your head when you are performing live, especially in these intimate settings? 

In the smaller venues, I really try to talk about the different songs. I really try to highlight the band and musicians I get to play with, so that people can really appreciate the talent that is on stage. I am really, really so lucky to be playing with those musicians and just share a piece of myself and hopefully they get a little more insight. I hope that my songs help other people feel something. I love talking to people in those intimate settings. I get off the stage, and I’m immediately surrounded by everyone who just watched the performances and talking to people about the songs that resonated with them, and their own personal experiences…I was in LA, and somebody came up to me. I have a that just came out March 29th called “Fake It.” And it’s about a law school class, it’s inspired by a law school class. It’s about Imposter Syndrome, and somebody came up to me afterwards to talk about that and how they are actually a comedian. They’ve got a corporate job, but they like to do stand-up whenever they can and sharing similar feelings, that’s just the most amazing part. Getting to share those experiences with people.  

The last single you released was “Bad Energy,” which has a lot of strong feelings towards a certain person. What was going through your mind when you wrote that song and what goes through it when you perform it?

I’ve always been a people pleaser and will twist myself into a pretzel trying to accommodate everyone else’s needs, and I wrote that song at a time where I really just did not have the capacity to do that. And you start to realize that the people in your life you want to keep when you are more limited in being able to accommodate, almost every person in my life understood and they supported me, and that was just an unbelievable gift. But there were other people in my life who benefited from me having no boundaries and twisting myself into a pretzel to accommodate that I started to realize how toxic they really were, and I wrote that song as a signal that it is okay to acknowledge that someone might be toxic for you, and you have every right to tell them and to keep your distance and have your boundaries because at the end of the day you need to protect your own happiness. You need to do what serves you. 

Your next single, “Fake It” debuted March 29. Tell us about the inspiration.  

So I took in my 1L year of law school…I had a professor who taught another class called “Faking It.” He had written a book about it. You can look it up on Amazon, and that really was an inspiration. He would talk about certain principles of the faking it class, and it really stayed with me. I have personally always struggled with imposter syndrome, whether that’s practicing law or performing, and I have a tendency to pretend that I didn’t feel that way, and when I finally started to share this secret with other people, it was reflected back to me. A lot of people felt that way in their own jobs. Some of the people that were telling me that they felt like an imposter in their respective careers, it was mind blowing to me because I always saw them as so self-assured and powerful and confident. I just realized, “Wow, we all feel this way,” and maybe if we can stop pretending that we feel differently, then that power goes away because it is okay to feel like an imposter sometimes because we all do. 

You are on a marathon of releasing music. We also heard your album Aftermath is coming out later this year. What are you most excited for with your album?

I am so happy to have all these songs come out. It feels like it’s been a really long time coming, and I’ve been performing them for a while. But to have a full album…so I have the second e.p. Aftermath II that will come out, and then the album Aftermath will come out June 14th, and I’m going to perform everything at The Troubadour June 17. It’s just the best feeling in the world, kind of that final piece in the creative process to release it and have people make it their own and have their own stories become part of this narrative because for so long it’s been mine.

How has it been keeping up with such a fast release schedule as you have a constant stream of music coming out? 

To be honest, I thrive on the energy. I was talking to my husband, we were talking about being an introvert or an extrovert. And I said, “Yeah, I think I’m an introverted extrovert.” And he was like, “No, you’re just an extrovert, that’s all you are.” So I really just do thrive on interacting with people. I love sharing music, I love everything about it. It’s exhausting, but it’s also exhilarating. And I’m actually right now about to write my next album, so we have already started that process, and I’m just feeling inspired more than anything.