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Creator of the Week with Nate Maingard

March 27, 2022

Meet Nate Maingard, a touring singer-songwriter and modern-day Troubadour.

Location: South Africa

Patreon Web page: www.Patreon.com/NateMaingard

Q+A with Nate Maingard

Patreon: Describe what it’s that you simply create!

Nate Maingard: I write songs, sing, play guitar and ukulele, and make weekly youtube movies (amongst different issues). I share songs and tales to encourage open hearts or, as one reviewer put it: “Maingard writes love songs for rebels and protest songs for lovers.”

How did you get your begin as a creator?

NM: Lyrics!!! Rising up listening to the singer-songwriters of the 60’s and 70’s because of my Mama and Papa, I used to be all the time fully mesmerised by the tales within the lyrics. So many layers of which means, from probably the most mundane to the actually profound. I used to be hooked, and started songwriting once I was about 14.

Admittedly, took me till I used to be 28 to completely commit, however that’s one other story.

What did it take to finish up the place you might be right now?

NM: It took me realizing that nothing else was going to work for me. I attempted working in many various areas, however all the time got here again to music, to sharing, to connecting authentically by means of the attractive vulnerability of open-hearted sharing.

If you happen to might be any ocean creature other than a dolphin or a shark, which might you choose and why?

NM: Octopus, as a result of they’re BADASS! Change color, squirt ink, tremendous clever, versatile like a grasp yogi, can squeeze into small areas…they’re just like the swiss military knife of the ocean!

At what level did you determine to develop your artistic ardour right into a enterprise?

NM: After I was 28, I realized that if I didn’t get off my arse and make it occur, then I’d spend my total life questioning ‘what if’. The ache of not attempting grew to become higher than the concern of failure, hah!

At 28, I noticed that if I didn’t get off my arse & make it occur, I’d spend my life questioning… Click on To Tweet

What are three ways you’ve used to develop your viewers over time?

NM: Authenticity, compassion, consistency.

What has been the simplest monetization technique for you the final yr?

NM: P.A.T.R.E.O.N.

When was the toughest time in your artistic profession, and what do you want your current self might’ve informed your previous self throughout that point?

NM: The toughest time was earlier than I dedicated. As soon as I actually dedicated myself to this path, regardless of how laborious it grew to become it was one way or the other simpler than the uncertainty. I knew, deeply, that I used to be gonna make this work, it doesn’t matter what.

What’s the best problem you face proper now as a creator?

NM: Balancing private well-being with the toll that enjoying guitar and sitting at a pc take from me.

How have your followers helped you all through your artistic profession?

NM: Followers, what followers? Severely, my tribe, my neighborhood, my supporters…these lovely people are the muse upon which my success resides. Greater than that, they’re the brothers and sisters of my coronary heart, who’ve witnessed my fact and stood beside me on the cliffsides of thriller, watching infinity unfold.

I’m blessed to be healed of the phantasm of ‘independence’. Nobody is unbiased, we’re ALL interconnected. It is just by means of my neighborhood that I’m right here in any respect, writing these phrases.

My tribe, my neighborhood, my supporters. These lovely people are the muse upon which my success… Click on To Tweet

When did you determine to launch on Patreon, and in what methods has it affected your artistic objectives?

NM: I heard about Patreon on a CDBaby DIY Music Podcast, the place they interviewed Jack about it. I knew IMMEDIATELY it was the factor I’d been searching for. I launched every week later, in late April. Patreon simply match me completely, and my neighborhood has cherished supporting me there ever since. It took the strain off. I noticed that “Hey, all I must do is maintain being me, being actual, creating issues I care about. The remaining is taken care of.”

What does Patreon imply for artists and creators?

NM: It’s the blazing tip of the comet of artistic revolution, exploding by means of the sky of our archaic society’s attitudes in direction of artwork and artists.

When artists can proudly say, “Hello, I make these items, in the event you love them, please assist me,” as a substitute of getting to fake to be a ‘rock star’, or some distant mysterious determine, or look forward to the gatekeepers to say sure…nicely, then we understand how intently we’re all associated. All human, attempting our greatest to do our greatest, to seek out which means and share love with these we meet.

How did you first announce your Patreon web page to your neighborhood? What was the overall suggestions?

NM: I simply kinda went for it, I used to be excited and so they have been excited and out of the blue I used to be making $200 I hadn’t been making earlier than, and there was this group of individuals WHO REALLY CARED! And all they needed as for me to maintain doing what I used to be already doing. MAGIC!

When occasions are powerful as a creator, is there something you proceed to come back again to, one thing that retains you going and retains your eye on the prize?

NM: The messages I obtain, from those that have discovered what they wanted to seek out within the openness of my songs.

What’s subsequent for you? Are there any thrilling tasks or large objectives you might be working in direction of?

NM: I’ve simply executed an enormous push on my Patreon web page to develop a bunch of bushes whereas including names to my upcoming album and elevating funds to report in 2017! Additionally collaborating on some epic creations with probably the most unimaginable visible artists I do know, my good friend Alexis Aronson!

If you happen to might problem creators to do one factor that labored for you, or was transformative in your expertise, what would it not be?

NM: Converse your fact, even while you assume it makes you look weak. Reality is rarely weak, it’s all the time the best technique to develop (not that it’s straightforward, hah).

If you happen to might collaborate with one creator, lifeless or alive, who would it not be?

NM: The 13th century Sufi poet, Hafiz.

“I caught the pleased virus final nightWhen I used to be out singing beneath the celebs.
It’s remarkably contagious –
So kiss me.”
-Hafiz