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When Private Pain Finds a Public Voice

In this episode of Groove with Portia, I welcome Cleveland artist, poet, and songwriter Vita Shields, known as Vitaologee, for a soulful conversation about grief, creativity, and healing through music. Vita shares her journey from a career in recruiting to fully embracing her calling as an artist, and how poetry and songwriting became the words she needed in her darkest moments.

Tune in to hear Vita explain the meaning behind her name Vitaologee and how her creative process often begins with emotion, memory, and lived experience before becoming melody. We talk about how music can hold grief…

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