163: Healing A Painful Experience By Creating Music w/ Hans Williams

Hans Williams is a 21-year-old independent singer-songwriter whose wistful, stirring folk pop is infused with the mindscapes of his native Vermont. Often collaborating with his childhood friend, the producer Phin Choukas, Hans continues to experiment with folk and alternative sounds as a Junior studying Marketing and Music Science & Technology at Tulane University. He is excited to share his development as an artist and an individual with each new release.

Golden Nuggets From This Episode:

✨ “Creating music and singing is totally just another like way of building community.”

✨ “The best part about music too is that it's timeless.”

✨ “I've been super lucky to just have that outlet. I think if I didn't have the outlet, I don't know if I would really talk about suicide like that. But I think honestly, wherever you can tell the story, it'll help.” 

✨ “I think every chance I've gotten, like, just talking about it has always helped me and I hope it's always helped, other people.”

✨ “The reason we have stigmas is that we keep shame around it and we keep it quiet and nothing's going to change if we don't start having harder conversations and speaking about death in general, like just needs to not be so feared, especially in American culture.”

✨ “It's really good that you were able to be there and process the unexpected death because so many of us just start to avoid and disassociate. And although that seems easier, it's really not because we carry that weight for longer.”

✨ “Talk about the hard things and making mental health known to more people is really important.”

✨ “I think the biggest outlet for me was music. And once I like could put it into song. It was very cathartic to play and I think releasing.”

✨ “Having the people around you was definitely the biggest support system for sure.”

✨ “We throw these huge shows and we get everyone singing that song and it feels it's really cathartic for a lot of people, especially myself. ”

✨ “Whatever struggle you're going through it's going to hopefully reaffirm everything you want out of yourself or at least pushy towards where you want to be as a person or mentally.”

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Timestamp from episodes:

04:56   Reasons for sharing his music so openly from his heart
07:38   Hans’s story about his suicide interaction
13:15   How he got through that extremely traumatic
35:40   Hans sings his song

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