EMI Music Publishing

It's all right.

After graduation, signed a songwriting deal with EMI Music Publishing.

He wrote songs for other artists before starting his own career, which happens a lot, I feel like.

In the country music

And with me today is a special guest, Carla Ondrasik, who was a keynote speaker recently at the ESOP Association's annual Chief Financial Officer Summit, which we held out in Sonoma, California.

And Carla has had an amazing career helping creative artists, singers, and songwriters like Cher and Mariah Carey and Barbra Streisand and Jewel in her career as the Vice President of Creative Writer Development at EMI Music Publishing.

So Carla, welcome to The Ownership Effect.

Thank you.

Guy, so lucky.

Um, I wrote for EMI Music Publishing when I first moved to Nashville.

EMI was the longtime home for Guy Clark, and, uh, they kept Guy on after Guy wasn't making any money anymore.

Like, you know, Guy had his heyday, and he was really kinda- You know, I remember a story that one of the heads of EMI had said, uh, I think Gary Overton was his name.