Life & Work with Zac Woodward of Nashville

Today we’d like to introduce you to Zac Woodward

Hi Zac, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
Hi, my name is Zac. I am currently a singer-songwriter, I grew up playing music but never had a serious interest in taking it seriously until I was older. I’ve been an Alaska crab fisherman for the last 10 years, however I have had too many different types of jobs to count!but silently and seriously taking steps to become an artist and to try to take my life’s triumphs and pitfalls to help the world and the people in it somehow. That’s my mission! I was adopted at birth, when my birth mother left her house one night, for a pack of marb reds, and didnt go back home to her husband and kids until 9 months later pregnant with me haha. At that time my birth father was touring and following around a band, So My entrance into the world is a wild one. So I was adopted, my parents I have now raised me out in the woods, my dad was a pastor my whole life, and my mom was a book writer, I was homeschooled until jr high where I went to private school, and then later on public school. I was raised to know God, I have had many, many crazy things happen in my life, good and bad. And I intend to use them for the betterment of people who feel things but don’t have a way to express it, I want to be used as a vessel to take pain and suffering or joy and beauty and transform it through writing and music. These are just brief glimpses of my life, I recently moved to Nashville, my wife and our two kids. We have gone through a lot for 14 years straight, good and bad, and have seen life through a different lens and I love to connect with people who are in all different phases of life. It sure how in depth I can go here, there is seriously a lot and I’ve lived life extremely fast in the 35 years I’ve been alive. I’m not sure if this is an official entry for your guys platform or if this is just a rough introduction to it, but I have as much content or stories as you could handle haha!humbled to even be saying any of this. So thank you

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
To be honest there hasn’t been a moment of smooth road from birth til now..there has been a lot of experience, humbling, and eye opening moments, also moments of joy and happiness. But it’s been intense to say the least. But I believe that through struggles comes great things on the other side, you just have to try and look at it that way. I’m lucky to be here, lucky to be alive, and on a path that is anything but boring!

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I have been a “artist” since I was little I suppose?!I played violin in the Everett symphony as a boy, I hated it haha!I was much more passionate about playing basketball, which I did end up playing very competitively through high school. But my parents always encouraged me to play music, I just hadn’t developed a love for it until my life and my eyes were opened in ways I can’t explain in a paragraph, but essentially music has become my vehicle for expression and my life story is the catalyst and so I’m pouring my soul into it all and I’m not expecting any specific outcome, other than to maybe help a fellow person along the way, and also feel fulfilled by doing what I feel called to do! But for the past decade I was a crab fisherman in Dutch harbor in the Bering sea, and that was a wild ride figuratively and literally!I rely heavily on my faith, and I make life decisions for myself and my family based off things spiritual, I try to discern things in life beyond what I can see with my eyes, and that sets who I am apart from others I suppose?!I also look much different in appearance haha!im most proud of being a dad to my kids, who are 14 and 11, my wife and I were super young when we had them and got married, a lot of people wished ill for us, and I’m very proud to weather all of life’s storms with them and we’ve come out strong. Really strong considering our trials!but none of that would even be possible without the grace of God, it’s something I don’t deserve and so really none of what I’ve accomplished is even me, I’m just following the light in this life the best I can, and I mess up daily, but I’m a work in progress and I don’t plan on stopping

Do you have any advice for those looking to network or find a mentor?
I’m a social/anti social/lone wolf….haha, I observe people and situations and if I feel a connection to someone who I think is on a wavelength that I’m curious about, I’ll make moves to try and connect with that person. But I don’t rely on others for paving the way for me, and I try to offer anything I can as well, I keep a pretty tight circle these days though, and when it comes to writing I keep that sacred in a way. But I don’t seek among peers often for much anymore. I seek God more than anything, and I take each step in faith daily literally just to live. I have no desire to preach to anyone, at all, I just have been brought to my knees hard in this lifetime and through the pain and darkness my spirit and soul crave truth and the desire to know the mysteries of this life.

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