THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST Episode 110: Sophia Shnapp | When Music Remembers the Earth
What if music isn’t just entertainment, but a remembering?
A returning.
A way back into the felt sense of being part of nature, not apart from nature.
In this intuitive, playful, open and wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with Sophia Shnapp - an impact producer working with organisations like EarthPercent - the Music Industry’s Climate and Nature Foundation alongside the Wisdom Keepers Delegation and Futr Earth.
Sophia works at the intersection of culture, music and systemic change but that doesn’t quite capture the essence of how she moves.
She’s a pollinator.
A bridge-being.
A shape-shifter between worlds:
From the dancefloor and the woodland, through policy rooms and prayer circles, within the music industry and the more-than-human world.
Sophia is a proper Earthling, culture lover and movement maker She’s guided by deep purpose, and the power of music to awaken hearts, spark change, and remind us we all belong to this great big living Spaceship we call Earth.
This was an insightful, honest, creative conversation that often led to us to riffing imaginatively on what could be and I really respect Sophia’s willingness to dance with complexity, nuance and contradiction.
We spoke about music as something that wakes us up again, not just emotionally but somatically, in the body:
How a bassline can regulate a room.
How a melody can remind us we still have a heart.
How a festival, a choir, or a dancefloor becomes a temporary village - teaching us something about belonging we didn’t know we were missing.
Together, we explore:
🌬️ Music as a gateway into feeling, intuition and interconnection.
🌿 Nature as origin story - how childhoods shaped by land root the work we do today.
🎧 Culture as systems change - what happens when artists, activists and elders collaborate.
🔥 Fear, endings and uncertainty - and how feeling is not weakness but medicine.
🌀 Rites of passage & the 4 Ds - dance, drums, deprivation, and the “drug” of altered states
✨ Imagination as infrastructure - how new worlds begin inside conversations like this
Sophia asked:
What if music is one of the ways the Earth is trying to get our attention back?
That question has stayed with me.
Sometimes conversations I have on this podcast are like doorways and this one felt like that - a shared stepping-through into a wider field of possibility.
It opened up space for imagining what could be and that in my opinion is vital exploration for these times.
It’s an episode that wanders beautifully - honest, mischievous, open-hearted.
I really enjoyed this one, I hope you do too if you give it a listen.
And if you do please let us know what it brings up for you.
And please give it a share to someone else who might appreciate it.
This is how we grow together, through reciprocity and entanglement.
Becoming Crew on Spaceship Earth.
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