Today we’d like to introduce you to Stephy Moore.
Hi Stephy, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I got started in Nashville in 2013, moving here right after graduating high school in St. Paul, MN, to pursue audio engineering. I was part of the first class at The Blackbird Academy, attached to Blackbird Studios in Berry Hill, graduating in 2014 and interning there for six months afterward.
Music actually came first, though — I grew up singing, performing in talent shows and competitions, and I picked up guitar and started writing songs at 13. My family’s love of country music shaped my early influences, and a family trip to Nashville for my 16th birthday sealed the deal.
After my internship, I landed in hospitality — specifically coffee — for over a decade, working as a barista and eventually into management, all while chasing music on the side. I released music sporadically over the years, but between the instability of food-industry work and moving constantly to find affordable housing (I’ve stayed in my car more than once), it was hard to build any real momentum. My relationship to what I even wanted from a music career kept shifting too.
During the pandemic, I pivoted toward filmmaking and content creation for other artists — something rooted in childhood, making silly videos with my brother and his friends on the editing software my dad bought me at 13 or 14. (Though my first real attempt, a short film in a competition back in MN, was not up to the caliber of my peers and skipped in front of a full theater. It was definitely one of my more embarrassing moments and I didn’t try again until years after moving to Nashville.)
From 2020 on, I built a client base helping music artists with content and video, with a few detours along the way: helping open and manage The Proverbial Cup’s first brick-and-mortar in Midtown, then serving at The Patterson House while working toward my tea sommelier certification. This past year has been the first time in a while I’ve been exclusively freelancing as a social media manager and videographer — a jump I don’t think I could’ve made without my fiancé, who I met in 2020.
Right now, I’m gearing up to release new music for the first time in a few years, this time with a real understanding of how to do a rollout, and I’m also starting to put my own content front and center through my media business, Running Wild.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The biggest challenge was never having a stable place to land. For my first 8 years in Nashville, I was moving 1–2 times a year, always chasing something more affordable or more livable. That kind of instability makes it hard to build momentum on anything — you can’t really settle into a creative practice, a routine, or a community when you don’t know where you’ll be in six months. It ate up energy that could’ve gone into music or building a client base, and it’s part of why I couldn’t focus on one thing and it took a while for things to come together.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I specialize in creative direction — I love hearing an artist’s ideas and inspirations and pulling them together to bring the vision to life. (If you know Human Design, I’m a generator through and through, so this kind of work genuinely energizes me.)
As a social media manager and videographer, I wear a lot of hats for the artists I work with: pre-production, camera operator, video editor, strategist, and the person actually managing the accounts day to day. It keeps me on my toes and I never get bored. Eventually I’d like to hone in on a specialty, but right now I’m enjoying the spontaneity of it all and everything I learn along the way.
What I’m most proud of, and what I think sets me apart, is the trust I build with artists. I want them to feel — from the very first conversation through the final product — that they can hand me their vision and trust the process completely.
If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
To me, it’s listening — really listening — and not pouring too much of what I want into another artist’s vision. If I want something done a certain way, I’ll go make my own thing. It’s a level of detachment that took me a long time to learn, but it’s helped me be so much more objective in my creative work.
It’s hard, because you want to see everything you make as your baby. But there’s that famous line in creative work: you have to kill your darlings. The upside is they don’t have to disappear — they can be reborn as something else in another project down the road.
Pricing:
- Essentials Management — $1,500/month (3 posts/week, strategy call, monthly analytics)
- Growth Partnership — $2,500/month (5–6 posts/week, up to 2 strategy calls)
- Hourly Creative Support — $100/hour (filming, editing, strategy; project-based)
- Engagement Management Add-On — $500/month (for accounts with 3k+ followers)
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runningwildproductions/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephy-j-moore-20b816213/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@runningwildproductions
