Morgan Wade

“The more active I am, the more energetic I feel. And that’s when I get my best ideas.”

Morgan Wade gets more done by 8am than you do.

If you want to schedule a meeting with Morgan Wade, do it early. I mean really early. She's usually up and ready to go by 5am. "I get emails from people who want to schedule meetings at 10am, and that is way too late for me. I'm thinking 8am is a much better time," she told me. In fact, on those rare occasions when she’s slept in until 8am, her day is ruined. [Trust me when I tell you how unique this is. To many songwriters I’ve interviewed, getting an early start to the day means 10am at best.]

Wade’s creative process involves constant movement. She can sit for about 30 minutes tops before there's a noticeable decline. That's when she heads outside, a favorite place to write. When she can't do that, she'll just walk around the house, guitar in hand, writing songs. Wade tries to write every day, even if it’s not songs. She finds journaling to be an effective and therapeutic way to channel her creativity.

Wade’s attention to wellness in areas like these—running, sleeping, movement, journaling—is part of the bigger picture: combining health with writing. It’s also why the start of the pandemic was so difficult for so many songwriters. No, it wasn’t a great time to write because they had so much free time. Instead, it was a crippling time to write because what experiences are there to write about if you can’t experience anything?

Wade's debut album Reckless is out now on Thirty Tigers Records.