Singer/Songwriter, Watercolor Artist, Caregiver
- Jodi began playing piano at the age of 6, adding guitar at 16. She learned to sing in her family and in church, high school and college choirs. When Jodi picked up the guitar, she began to set the Psalms to music in a unique, soothing style. She sang special solos in the churches she attended and participated however the worship team needed, whether leading worship, playing piano or synthesizer. She and her husband Uno, a Navy Veteran, lived in Nashville for a decade to be involved firsthand in the Nashville songwriting community. It was then that she started writing more and more songs of faith. She shared them in at Liberty United Methodist Church in Brentwood, Tennessee and when they returned to Wisconsin, led worship with Uno at a Friday night coffeehouse ministry.
- Throughout her career as a nurse and data consultant, Jodi continued to write songs about her journey through life; to describe what is often hard to put into words and allow a song to marry the feeling and the words into its own art. In 2025 she began dabbling with watercolor painting and found it meditative, especially painting leaves.
- Recently retiring to care full time for her husband, Jodi’s songs embrace this phase of the journey. One of her friends told her people need to be validated; the songs about the caregiving experience do just that.