Meet Nate Jones

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Nate Jones. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Nate below.

Nate , thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

Resilience, isn’t quite learned, it’s formed and refined. Resilience, becomes a part of you during the hardest chapters, the loneliest moments, the time in between one smiling photo and another. Show me a person that is resilient without conflict and I will reveal a person who knows not yet just how resilient they can become. This life is incredible and wonderful and a brief beautiful experience, but it is also harrowing, hard, and at times, can seem impossible to bear. Resilience, is the becoming you on the other side of those moments of barrage and bombardment. It’s the composition of being stoic and pliable, vulnerable but not defenseless, and steadfast but in flux. We are ever growing, ever learning, and ever adapting. Where do I get my resilience? I’d say from living.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

The simple answer, to “what do I do?” Is that I create music. Whether that’s a specific or uniquely crafted live show experience, or writing a song that resonates with you, the listener, or maybe it’s just a one on one moment sitting next to someone who is really in the thick of it, going through life. I have been given a talent to share, in those moments, what often is hard to put into words. I often say that my talent is communication and music is just the vehicle I choose to express it with. I have truly run the gambit on life experience and to share it all here would be more than a page allows. But, I have put that experience into the music that I share, hoping to connect with you in your struggle. The music I create is guided by three things; Healing, Rest, and Community. That means that when I write, one of those things is typically at the center and with a simple message ” You are loved exactly as you are, right where you are.” New music is releasing soon. Two full EPs worth of music will be released in 2025 with the next single “Needed You to Know” releasing early to YouTube and all platforms by mid-May.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

A desire to learn and grow is probably one of the most important qualities a person can have. Without growth and learning we become stale and stagnant. Bitterness and resentment creep in for lack of progress and ego often bloats are perception of ourselves in our former glory. On that note, introspection is a powerful skill to learn. It keeps us honest, humble and aware that we are human, experiencing life as all other humans do. Which leads me to my third quality, which is authenticity. Being who you are is what makes you brilliant and beautiful, so don’t try to be anyone else. You can certainly be a better version, and we should seek to become the best version of ourselves that we like in each moment. But as Jack Kerouac said “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends, fads, and popular opinion.” So be you.

A couple of side notes:
Time, is a valuable resource, so is energy. Don’t waste them. It’s okay to trim off limbs that aren’t bearing fruit. It’s called pruning and any good gardener knows just how necessary that process is. So if something is taking more time and energy for the yield, it’s okay to let it go.

Be willing to hear critique, it can certainly help you grow in your experience, but don’t be so tied to others opinions that it instead cripples your growth. One person’s opinion, in the long run, is just that (one person’s opinion) and if it’s from the internet, it should probably be heavily vetted before you let it hold too much weight.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

As a songwriter you can imagine that an entire books of ancient songs could be pretty inspirational so the book of Psalms is up there. When I have been in my darkest hours, the book of Psalms and the 4 gospel books Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were all I could read. The expressions of joy, pain, sorrow, praise, regret, anger, fear, surrender and redemption are enough to meet anyone right where they are at.

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