Episode 27: Elexa Dawson (Potawatomi)

09/19/23 • 10 min

Join us as we sit down with a remarkable artist and 2022 Artist in Business Leadership Fellow, Elexa Dawson (Potawatomi Nation) as she shares her journey, how she found her unique voice, and how she's using her music to heal generational trauma and promote connectivity. Elexa touches upon themes of resilience as she outlines her challenges as an independent artist amid a global pandemic and her strategies to overcome them, including training and networking with the First People's Fund.

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Collective Spirit Podcast - Episode 27: Elexa Dawson (Potawatomi)

Transcript

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I really do believe in music as medicine and part of the generational healing that came about , you know , with writing songs like His Name and Change and something that went on the Music of Medicine album that really were kind of an exercise in like going to the dark place of that generational hurt . The idea behind doing all of that is like making that generational hurt stop w