My Music Episode 691 - Mandi Leigh
Graham Coath is joined by Canadian singer-songwriter Mandi Leigh for a proper conversation about music, story and the work behind the songs.
Graham Coath in conversation with the musicians shaping today's music scene — the craft, the stories, and the moments that changed their path.
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Graham Coath is joined by Canadian singer-songwriter Mandi Leigh for a proper conversation about music, story and the work behind the songs.
13th Floor Sound support independent artists, original music and the people building the scene from the ground up.
MyMusic exists to give musicians space to tell the stories behind the songs. This partnership fits because it is built around the same thing: championing artists, releases and real music discovery.
Whether you're releasing your first single, touring internationally or quietly building something special, MyMusic is about the conversations behind the songs.
No PR script. No rapid-fire questions. No awkward interview performance. Just a proper conversation about the music you make, the road that brought you here, and the bits people usually miss.
Every artist I've spoken to — signed or unsigned, touring or bedroom, celebrated or quietly brilliant — has wrestled with the same problem. Not talent. Not timing. Visibility.
The musicians who last are rarely the most technically gifted in the room. They're the ones who learned how to show up with clarity and confidence. They developed a point of view. They became findable before they became famous.
"The ones who disappear don't run out of talent. They run out of visibility."
After six years and more than 650 conversations, I realised I was hearing the same story told from a hundred different stages — and that it wasn't just a music problem. It's a business problem. A professional problem. A you-sitting-at-your-desk-wondering-why-no-one-knows-you-exist problem.
That's what A Better Way Of Life is built around. The Human Algorithm. The conversation between who you are and how the world sees you.
Clarity beats volume
The artists people remember aren't the loudest. They're the most specific. They know exactly what they stand for — and they repeat it without apology.
Showing up is the strategy
Consistency compounds. Every musician who built a real audience did so by releasing, performing, posting — not by waiting for the perfect moment.
Confidence is learned
Not a single artist I've interviewed started confident. Confidence arrived after they committed to being visible. The stage comes before the swagger.
Authenticity isn't optional
Audiences are sophisticated. They can smell performance. The musicians who connect most deeply are the ones willing to be genuinely themselves — online and off.
The right people over the most people
A small devoted audience beats a passive large one every time. Build for the people who actually care, not the algorithm's idea of what's popular.
A Better Way Of Life is the community where Graham works with business owners, professionals, and founders who are brilliant at what they do — but invisible to the people who need them.
Why I started My Music
I've been in bands since I was 14 and, in the 90s, ended up signed — to a band hardly anyone has heard of. I've worked in radio, run a club night in London and done my share of "normal" jobs too.
In 2020 I stepped away from a COO role in EdTech to reconnect with people and real conversations. I started my own social media business and set out to make the kind of content I actually wanted to hear.
Tired of throwaway interviews, I launched a podcast recorded on video — streaming to YouTube and LinkedIn, and available on Spotify to watch or listen. No celebrity. No PR polish. Just musicians and their stories.
After six years of interviews, I realised those conversations had been quietly building something else: a framework for how any person or business can become genuinely visible, not just louder. That became A Better Way Of Life.





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