Ashley Gorley, Jelly Roll pair up on Onsite mental health initiative
Grammy-nominated Nashville native Jelly Roll’s continuing standard-setting moment regarding extending mental health benefits from his star-making hits is extending to those songs’ songwriters.
Over six dozen hit-making Nashville Songwriting Association International co-Songwriter of the 2010s Ashley Gorley has announced that his work on current country chart-topper “I Am Not Okay” — written with his fellow Tape Room Music writers Taylor Phillips and Casey Brown — will aid in launching the Creatives Support Network as part of speaker, advisor and emotional wellness space entrepreneur Miles Adcox’s Onsite Foundation.
A press statement offers that the network is a philanthropic initiative that’s part of “The Okay Project,” a more extensive, forthcoming charitable endeavor from Jelly Roll, Adcox and Gorley initially aimed at providing free mentorship, education, resources and mental wellness support specifically designed for members of the songwriting community.
“A song about struggling to get out of bed in the morning is No. 1 and that really speaks to where we are in the world. It was important for us to take this moment to say ‘you’re not the only one,’ and to support a creative network with programming that is tailored to songwriters at any stage of their journey,” Gorley noted via a press statement.
“This song in particular, along with the Jelly Roll Era, is creating a movement and timely conversation regarding the need to equip creatives with necessary tools to optimize their personal and professional pursuits,” adds Onsite’s chairman and proprietor Adcox.
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How will the Creatives Support Network administer services?
Onsite’s Creatives Support Network programming will feature two-day immersive individual or group coaching and therapy sessions explicitly curated for creatives. Additionally, the program includes mentorship and social impact initiatives, plus complimentary online curriculum and conversation resources via Gorley’s gift in the form of 80 grants for 80 individuals and program infrastructure support.
The Creatives Support Network will join Onsite’s existing international brand family, providing in-person and digital emotional health and wellness services, including Onsite Workshops, Milestones, Onsite Adventures, Onsite Entertainment, Onsite Business Consulting Services and Onsite Wellness House.
A press statement adds that Onsite’s mission “is to design and deliver transformational experiences that optimize life and build meaning and value into the human experience.”
“Music is medicine, and the comfort, relief, support, and overall impact it provides globally to humanity is immeasurable,” Adcox adds. “Our storytellers are a national treasure we should pour into and protect at all costs. We’re grateful to Ashley, Jelly Roll, and the Tape Room writers for starting this conversation in the songwriting community and lending their expertise and resources.”
Jelly Roll’s work with mental health via new album “Beautifully Broken”
Tape Room Music and Jelly Roll partnership is one of many wellness initiatives attached to his recently released, top-selling album “Beautifully Broken.”
That recording’s roll-out was similar but different than his 2021 and 2023 releases “Ballads Of The Broken” and “Whitsitt Chapel.”
Net profits from each website pre-order of his album were donated to organizations helping individuals who struggle with mental health and addiction, including military-related groups Folds of Honor and Wounded Warrior Project, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Shatterproof, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming America’s addiction treatment system.
Regarding the album, the performer offered the following to the New York Times, related to his art, moving forward, serving a purpose greater than himself:
“(I’m) trying to impact as many people as (I) can while God is giving (me) a platform… I’m looking for songs that have purpose. When I go to put out a song under the name Jelly Roll, I think to myself, Why? Because for the first time in my life, it has nothing to do with a financial decision. I’m well past putting out anything for money. So, now, it really is a why.”
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