For more than two decades, Rachael Yamagata has made a career of translating ache into art.

From the intimacy of her debut, Happenstance, to the cinematic scope of her latest album, Starlit Alchemy, Rachael’s music has always invited listeners to sit inside the tension of beauty and pain. Her celebrated catalog is the beautiful soundtrack of transformation, which is why she made an ideal guest for an insightful conversation into the creative life.

In this episode of The Resistance, Rachael reflects on her lifelong process of turning heartbreak and hardship into creative fuel. She shares how songwriting remains her way of alchemizing pain into meaning while offering a heartening encouragement that every one of us has the power to do the same.

VISIT: Rachael Yamagata