Meet Brianna Bollinger

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

Brianna, we are so deeply grateful to you for opening up about your journey with mental health in the hops that it can help someone who might be going through something similar. Can you talk to us about your mental health journey and how you overcame or persisted despite any issues? For readers, please note this is not medical advice, we are not doctors, you should always consult professionals for advice and that this is merely one person sharing their story and experience.
I’d like to say that I’ve persisted despite a very challenging last few months. I’ve had a lot happening in my personal life which has obviously trickled into my professional life, and there have been many times when I questioned myself and just didn’t want to keep going. But I’m still here now and if you’re going thru it right now, I just wanna say that you’re loved and you’ll get through it. 🤍

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Basically, I write songs about anything and everything. I also play lead guitar, which is fun because I’m a girl and I guess that’s not typically a girly thing. Omg I think I just said I’m not like other girls lol. But songwriting has always been such an outlet for me, and ever since I started listening to Taylor Swift when I was 15, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
First of all, I’d say that the quality to take criticism is very important. I took songwriting classes some years ago with an amazing songwriter named Kirsti Mana. When Kristi said your song needed tightening up, she wasn’t wrong – your song needed to be better. Learning to tell the difference between hate and constructive criticism is important- and what’s even more important is taking it as an inspiration to be better. An area of skill that’s also been useful for me is simply the fact that I play guitar. I write all my songs on guitar and have now begun taking several gigs as a lead guitar player on the side. Another quality that’s been useful for me is learning to taking a door closed in my face as inspiration. When people tell me no or I play a show that wasn’t great, I take it as a chance to be better and prove them wrong. That’s not always easy though, and it might not be the best thing for you – it’s just worked for me.

How would you spend the next decade if you somehow knew that it was your last?
My biggest challenge now, as an artist, is simply to find my audience, which is pretty hard now that the music market is so over saturated. Presenting my music on social media in a way that’s authentic and interesting to my potential listeners is a challenge I haven’t quite figured out yet, but where there’s a will there’s a way.

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