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You know what I mean?
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Like Jolene, if that was released right now, like it'd be ahead again.
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So I think there's just something, um, you know, the legacy she left behind, but also just the person she is, as someone I aspire to be like, the humanitarian.
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She's uh, you know, all her philanthropies.
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She's just such a good person.
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We need we need more dollies in the world.
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So I hope, you know, her passing inspires more people to be like her too.
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Um, and it makes me want to be a better person.
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It's Monday, and we are excited to be here.
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I'm here with Carissa Ella.
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Nice to meet you.
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So great to meet you.
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A big fan.
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Thanks for having me.
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Thank you.
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I'm a big fan of yours.
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I love you, have just like fun vibes on social media.
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Thank you.
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That means so much.
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It's so hard, you know?
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But you gotta make it fun.
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So you gotta make it fun.
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Um, I have a hard time with social media.
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Like, I struggle with like what it should I do?
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What should I do not do?
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You know, and you make me laugh.
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So, what do you do?
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Like, how do you just keep it going where it's fun?
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I don't know.
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I do everything.
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I uh I'm so cringe.
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I think that's the goal is to just be cringe and I don't know.
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I just have fun with it, whether it's promoting my music or uh promoting my favorite artists and songs or um favorite recipes, whatever it may be.
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I just kind of, you know, I want to make it as normal as possible.
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So I just want to tell people, yes, I do sing and I want you to come out to my shows and listen to my music, but also I'm just a normal girl that loves to shop and cook and do all the fun, girly things.
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So there's a lot to pull from there.
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There's good content.
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So never uh never a dull moment.
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Never a dull moment, isn't that the truth?
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I love what you did.
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So you've got um the country out, yes, which is such a bop.
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Thank you so much.
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I really like it.
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Um, it's just like I think it's so relatable.
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Thank you.
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Right?
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Yep, it's just a fun summer song, and it's just a reminder of like everything that we rely on every single day, like where it comes from, from the food that we eat to the roofs over our head to the clothes that we wear, you know, everything comes from the country.
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It all comes from somewhere, and it's kind of just saying thank you to all those hardworking men and women that keep the world go round and round.
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So yeah.
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And we thought like summer was the perfect time to release it.
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Yeah, and I haven't released mu music in a minute, so I felt like this is this was the perfect song to like get back in the game with, and it was fun, it's been great.
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It's such a fun song.
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Did you grow up in the country?
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I grew up kind of um a little bit of both.
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So I'm from North Canton, Ohio.
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So one way you go towards Canton, which is kind of more of a steel town and a rubber town acron.
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And the other way there's cornfields galore.
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So it's like I kind of grew up right in the middle of it all, seeing both um parties work.
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And so I don't know.
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I mean, I like to say yes, but I don't think it would be the country that most people would, I guess, think of right away.
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But when I think of country, I think of wide open fields, I think of cornfields, and that's my kind of country.
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So to me, that's what it is.
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But I think that's so cool.
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It's it can be anybody's, right?
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Like, yeah, I grew up in a town called Farmington, and you know, I didn't grow up on a farm.
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Like we had horses and you know, we had ducks and things like this.
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But I think it's like the country, the vibe of that is it's like a spirit of community and it's the small towns and it's hardworking people.
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Yes, absolutely.
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I completely agree.
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Yeah, I know it is.
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And so I would say, yeah, that is where I grew up.
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Yeah.
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Everyone has your your back, they're there supporting you.
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Everyone's hardworking.
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It's gone through generations through generations.
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Um, you know, a lot of people um came from like the coal mines in West Virginia and came for new jobs and new opportunities.
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So I think hard work is just in our roots and whatever that means and hard work in every you know way of life.
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So everything that everyone does to all the different jobs, I guess.
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But I think it's country.
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I think so too.
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You said different jobs, and I have to ask you, what was your first job?
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My first job, probably like babysitting, um, but I also would probably consider um because that was a real job.
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My my little neighbors, they're so cute.
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But I also worked at like a yoga studio and I work at a radio station now.
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Uh you do?
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Yeah, I do.
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I work at this uh station.
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It's 80s, 90s, early 2000s country music.
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So it's cool because I get to listen to all of my favorite artists, you know, from back in the day that are still so relevant to me.
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And Randy Travis, you know, George Strait, all the kings and queens, Dolly, of course, too, and Shania Twain.
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So um, that's been really fun.
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And I get to still kind of be in the music game too and get to be on a radio.
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It's fun.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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And you know, you mentioned Dolly, and I like we were talking earlier.
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It's like I think this will be for so long.
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We're gonna be talking about where we were on August 25th and who we were with.
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And I was actually sitting here.
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Well, I'd gone downstairs, truth be told, to get a guest and found out that Dolly had passed and and Megan had come in and she was like, What do we do?
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What do we do?
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I don't know.
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And we decided Dolly would tell us to have a podcast, and so she would want that, right?
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Yeah, so we did.
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I mean, just felt so sudden, but also like what a tremendous life and legacy she had.
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So I yeah, we all will remember that day as is a day of sorrow and sadness, but also such celebration.
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And she was and still is such a huge influence um in my life and on my music.
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I think her songwriting and her creativity is beyond.
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She's I think she's a genius.
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I mean, she just true, I think her songs could still hold up on radio today.
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Like, you know what I mean?
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Like Jolene, if that was released right now, like it'd be a hit again.
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So I think there's just something, um, you know, the legacy she left behind, but also just the person she is, as someone I aspire to be like, the humanitarian.
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She's uh, you know, all her philanthropies, she's just such a good person.
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We need we need more dollies in the world.
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So I hope, you know, her passing inspires more people to be like her too.
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Um, and it makes me want to be a better person, too.
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Me too.
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You know, I really have been thinking about that so much.
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It's like if we all strive to be a little more like Dolly, yes, we'd be in a good spot.
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It'd be if the world would be a better place, you know.
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It doesn't, it takes you get more bees with honey, you know.
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You gotta be nice, you gotta be a good person.
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And I feel like um she she did life well, and she's a role model for us all.
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So for sure.
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So much, she was the best.
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I know, and you did such a beautiful tribute to be so beautiful, and that's where I was like, wow, your voice is stunning, but it was also just so heartfelt.
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Uh it's been a time, and I feel like Nashville will be thinking about that for a long time, of course, with the hotel opening and everything.
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I know there's so much.
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We're surrounded by her.
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That's the beautiful thing.
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You know, we have the hotel.
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There's like always a 5k going on, there's murals of her everywhere.
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Um, so she's always here.
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But you know what?
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I am sad and never got to meet her.
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I think that says one thing about her that everyone was posting that they got to meet her, and she was like this iconic figure, but still made time to meet everyone and anyone.
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I think that's so crazy.
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It's like so, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I saw even on LinkedIn, okay, this is where you realize you you are all the things to all the people.
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But I saw John Acuff, you know, he's a writer who lives here, and he posted that he was a keynote speaker at something that Dolly was also out, like this was like five or seven years ago.
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And he didn't expect that he'd get to meet her.
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And she had a long line of autographs and pictures and things to do.
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And then finally they said, John, do you want to get a picture with Dolly?
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And he said, Yes, of course, like this point when kids feel so cool.
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And he said, you know, she'd been doing that for hours.
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At 75 years old, she was like still out there just meeting every single person.
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It says a lot.
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It really does.
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Yeah.
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I just love that.
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Also, I mean, I just have to think too, like a friend of mine texted me the day that it happened, and you know, are you okay?
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And kind of things.
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And I said, Yes.
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She said, It's so incredible that she lived her life in a way that no one has a bad thing to say.
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No one.
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I think she says like a hundred percent rating from the world or something.
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I was like, hearing, I don't know.
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You know what you hear on lies.
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But I believe that.
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And if someone does say something bad, I'm like, take it back, knock it off.
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You don't like that's a lie.
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There's no way you could ever convince me.
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No, you know, no way.
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There's no way.
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No, she is such a great, um, great person.
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My gosh, yeah.
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I'm just mad I didn't get to meet her.
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Me too.
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No, I agree with that.
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I rarely someday, someday.
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Someday.
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I love singing her songs.
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I love I'm so excited that she has a musical now, too.
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Like, um, you know, but I feel like it was just a little too early.
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We weren't ready to let her go, but all right, she can rest.
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Yes.
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So you better do your part though to carry the torch.
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Yeah.
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I will try.
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You've got it though.
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You've got it.
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And I love this new song that you just came out with, Working Man.
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Yes, Working Man.
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Tell me a little bit about this.
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Working Man is really a really soulful song.
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I love it.
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When we wrote it, I was like, I knew immediately I wanted to put it out.
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Um, but it really is a love song to all of the good ones out there.
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Like I've kind of wrote it about my husband and someone who's not, you know, they're not willing to leave when it gets hard.
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They're willing to um make sacrifices and not just tell you that they love you, but also show you through their actions that they love you.
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Um, so you know, they're willing to put in the work for for you and for your relationship and for your life and love.
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So um, I got myself a working man, and I hope everyone else does too.
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You deserve it.
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Find someone that, you know, treats you the way that you deserve.
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So that's what it's about.
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It's it's a it's a little love song.
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So louder for the people in the back and for the little girls, right?
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Like that's so important.
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Yes, don't settle.
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Settle, no, cheeks.
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Don't settle.
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No, you have only have one life.
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You know what I mean?
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So there's no sense in that.
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And I just got married, so we're coming up on one year, and I'm writing about new things.
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I'm not writing about breakups right now.
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Of course, you have to have them.
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We love a good breakup song, we love a good drinking song, but right now I'm just in the phase of of love.
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And so I'm just writing about what I know, and that's it.
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So that's why we thought this would be a great next song to lead after.
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It also kind of plays off of the country and talking about the hardworking, you know, men and women that, you know, help the world go around, like I said.
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But also now we go into working man too.
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So um, not only are they taking care of the world, but they're bringing it home too.
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So yeah, and then we got more music hopefully coming for the rest of the year and into 2027, which is crazy to even say.
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I can't believe we're almost there.
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This is the fastest year of my life.
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You feel this?
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Yes, I feel like I'm blinking.
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Me too.
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Yeah.
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But you have you do such a good job of just keeping everything.
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It feels like you've just got this like train rolling.
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And so I like it's Monday.
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We like to talk about like motivation and mindset and kind of you know, like we're all resetting on Mondays, it feels like sometimes.
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Oh, yeah.
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So, what are your like main things that you do to make sure that you are kind of just checking all your boxes?
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Because this is a hard business.
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This is so hard.
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I also think like mentally, it's really hard.
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It's so easy to get discouraged, it's so easy to get let down.
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Um, so I think for me, one thing has been just really making sure I'm in a routine and not breaking that routine, whether that's getting up and working out, eating better, whatever it may be, like just making sure I stick to that routine so I feel like um I'm goal-oriented and I can get up and do things and I'm motivated.
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Um, but meditation is huge for me.
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Um, reading is big.
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Um, and I I think we were talking about this getting more protein in earlier, but just trying to eat better too has really, I feel like changed my mindset and um my health too.
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But um, it's really hard.
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You know what I mean?
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Not everything works for everyone.
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You have to find what works for you.
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But hanging out with my family, taking um, you know, those trips if you need to, getting away, taking a break, like that's huge.
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I think you you gotta turn off the phone every now and then, especially, you know, us artists.
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I have I'm grateful to have a team around me, but you know, you do still wear a lot of hats.
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So you're you're doing this and you're doing that.
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And being an artist is a 24-7 job.
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Like you bring it home with you.
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You're constantly thinking of different TikToks you could be doing, or how to promote that song, or what the merch should be for that, or how to get booked on that.
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You know, it just it never ends.
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So being able to kind of calm that and quiet that has been really important for me.
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Yeah.
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Well, I gotta say, you have calming energy.
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I do think so.
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Yeah, you do, which is I'm I'm a little surprised, right?
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Because watching you on social, you're like so you're vibrant and bubbly and like all the energy.
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But sitting here with you, it's like, okay, well, maybe you're the first person that's said meditation and made me think, oh, maybe I should try it.
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Oh, yeah, I love meditation.
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I think it's and some, you know, some you have to start small, maybe five minutes and work your way into it.
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But um, you're regulating your nervous system is huge.
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I've really learned that how if I don't do that, it affects my voice even when I sing.
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So I don't know, just learning how to take a breath, you know, and being patient with everything is um that's a virtue I did not have coming into this.
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Girl, I don't have it.
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Yeah, no one told me.
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I but I I learned the hard way, that's for sure.
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Patience um, you know, with everything in in the in life and in the music industry.
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Um, so that's been a it's been a fun lesson to learn, along with, you know, many others.
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But yeah.
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It's a really hard lesson to learn, especially for overachievers.
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Yeah.
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And I'm perfectionists, perfectionists.
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And I think people who are creative, it's like um, I'm also having to, I'm in that space of reminding myself that that like you have to you have to build things slowly sometimes.
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Yeah.
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Even though that's really hard to do.
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It is, but you know what?
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It's so rewarding.
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Like I always say I'd rather take the stairs all the way up, you know, take the long way to get there because I'm gonna learn so much at each level.
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And um, that's more that's more important to me than anything.
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I don't want to skyrocket to the top.
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I wanna earn it.
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So see.
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But take the stairs all the way up.
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Is yeah, that's the line of the day.
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That's it.
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If I could have put it um probably a little bit more poetic, but that is how that's what it is, you know.
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You gotta take the stairs all the way up.
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And I'm telling you what, I hate taking the stairs.
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Yeah, I do not want to take the stairs.
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I am tired, you know.
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You when you get halfway there, you get tired, but you gotta keep going because you don't know what else is up there.
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So um, but I think you learned so much along the way.
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And I wouldn't trade my journey for the world, you know what I mean?
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It's everyone's on a different path, and we all get there a different way, but we all get there somehow.
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So you just gotta trust in it.
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So yeah.
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So, what's your best life advice for people who are listening to this thinking, well, I wanna move to Nashville and chase my dreams?
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Oh man, I guess I would say you just have to believe in yourself, and it's great to have some support.
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I'm very grateful.
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I come from a lot of support, like family support, team support, but um believing in yourself and keeping that faith.
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Um because every things will come and go, but the belief in yourself is the thing that will keep you going.
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And it it really is so important.
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Um, and I think I already said it, but patience and everyone's journey is different, so don't compare yourself to anyone else's.
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Um, and just enjoy the ride.
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It's crazy and network like crazy.
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That's it.
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I don't know, have fun, come hang out with us.
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Yeah, move here.
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I'm a big move to Nashville.
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It's you'll have a blast, you know.
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And if it's not meant for you, another door will open.
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And I'm I'm I understand that too.
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So yeah.
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Y'all see why I love her?
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I don't know if that was good motivation, but motivation, you should just do it.
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Go for your dreams, you know.
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Yeah, whatever they are.
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Don't live with any what ifs, chase the nose.
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That's my what um, that is my motivation.
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Chase the nose.
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Yeah, what someone's gonna say no, who cares?
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You move on, you grew from it, and or you at least you had the courage to go after something that scared you, you know?
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Yeah, yeah.
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That is oh gosh, like you're great.
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I'm gonna this this little episode might be my new favorite, like, get ready for the week.
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Um, because I think you're so right.
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And I think that's what we all have to remember is you have to go for it.
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Yeah.
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You don't want to get to the end of the journey and wish that you'd done something differently.
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Like just go try.
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Yeah.
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And I think if it scares you, then that means you absolutely should do it too.
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Because everything in this industry scares me.
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Like, even going to networking events, you know, whatever it may be.
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But you always have a good time once you're there and once it's over with and you and you learn from it.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's so true.
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You gotta show up.
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You gotta show up in this town.
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That's a good piece of advice.
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You do have to show up.
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You gotta be here.
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Yep.
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I gotta credit Barrett Weber with that one because he did say that on this show, and I thought that's really easy.
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Did it keep showing up?
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You know, I has yes.
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So I say so and learn from y'all, and it's so fun to get to have this platform to share with other people.
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And one of the cool things that we've done is we added a little fun at the end of every episode.
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So you have a question from the person who sat in that chair last.
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Okay, and everybody's face is the same when I say that.
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So yours is actually from Sam Palladio, who was a gunner in Nashville.
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Yeah, oh my gosh.
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Yeah, classic.
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I mean, he is so cool, but yeah, so cool.
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So he would like to know who your dream collab is.
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Oh, Sam, such a good one.
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Thank you for your question.
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My dream collab, there are so many artists that I wish I that I wish wish to collab with, dream to collab with, but I think you know, um Chris Stapleton is a huge one.
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I love everything he embodies.
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His his voice is so incredible.
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Um so can I give you a few people?
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I can't just pick one.
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I can't do it.
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So get my.
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I'm gonna say probably Chris Stapleton or you know, Miranda Lambert, a Carrie Underwood, I grew up on then, and then Gretchen Molson, you know, she is oh man, such a cool girl.
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When I first heard her music growing up, I was like, man, I want to be just like her.
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And I was so not cool.
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And I was like, this girl is so cool.
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So I would love to at least meet her, if anything.
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Um, but yeah, there's so many, those are just a few.
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Honestly, anyone.
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Those are great.
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They'd be great.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I love those.
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Well, this has been so fun.
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I'm happy to hang out with you.
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I'm happy for people to get to know you because I'm I'm new to learning about Carissa Ella.
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But once I started following you, I was like, oh, this this is algorithm.
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Bring her back.
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Bring her back.
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So bring her back.
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FYP, I know.
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Algorithm does not like me right now.
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Geez, we are not friends with a lot of, I feel like they're not a lot of my artist friends have been saying that.
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So yeah, I felt it actually recently too.
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It's annoying.
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The ups and downs.
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I've told people since I started this chapter in my life, the ups and downs of social media in a day.
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Talk about lessons.
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Talk about lessons.
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It's a journey, and you can really like it can kind of take your mood up.
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You be like, look at that one, or very down.
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And it's like, we all have to just realize that this is silly.
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It is so silly, isn't it?
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Yes, we have to live by it, unfortunately.
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Unfortunately, we still have to be a part of it.
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Yeah, but it is silly, and we are not performing brain surgery, so it's okay.
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We will all we'll all be alright with it.
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We'll be all right.
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But the best thing people can do is follow you, comment, like, share the music.
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Um, y'all go check out the country and working man.
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Yes, thank you.
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So much.
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Thanks for having me.
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Sometimes a girl's gotta find her way on her own, free to room, make mistakes.
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You know what I mean?
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Like Jolene, if that was released right now, like it'd be ahead again.
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So I think there's just something, um, you know, the legacy she left behind, but also just the person she is, as someone I aspire to be like, the humanitarian.
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She's uh, you know, all her philanthropies.
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She's just such a good person.
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We need we need more dollies in the world.
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So I hope, you know, her passing inspires more people to be like her too.
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Um, and it makes me want to be a better person.
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It's Monday, and we are excited to be here.
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I'm here with Carissa Ella.
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Nice to meet you.
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So great to meet you.
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A big fan.
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Thanks for having me.
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Thank you.
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I'm a big fan of yours.
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I love you, have just like fun vibes on social media.
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Thank you.
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That means so much.
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It's so hard, you know?
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But you gotta make it fun.
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So you gotta make it fun.
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Um, I have a hard time with social media.
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Like, I struggle with like what it should I do?
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What should I do not do?
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You know, and you make me laugh.
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So, what do you do?
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Like, how do you just keep it going where it's fun?
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I don't know.
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I do everything.
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I uh I'm so cringe.
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I think that's the goal is to just be cringe and I don't know.
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I just have fun with it, whether it's promoting my music or uh promoting my favorite artists and songs or um favorite recipes, whatever it may be.
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I just kind of, you know, I want to make it as normal as possible.
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So I just want to tell people, yes, I do sing and I want you to come out to my shows and listen to my music, but also I'm just a normal girl that loves to shop and cook and do all the fun, girly things.
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So there's a lot to pull from there.
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There's good content.
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So never uh never a dull moment.
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Never a dull moment, isn't that the truth?
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I love what you did.
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So you've got um the country out, yes, which is such a bop.
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Thank you so much.
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I really like it.
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Um, it's just like I think it's so relatable.
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Thank you.
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Right?
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Yep, it's just a fun summer song, and it's just a reminder of like everything that we rely on every single day, like where it comes from, from the food that we eat to the roofs over our head to the clothes that we wear, you know, everything comes from the country.
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It all comes from somewhere, and it's kind of just saying thank you to all those hardworking men and women that keep the world go round and round.
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So yeah.
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And we thought like summer was the perfect time to release it.
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Yeah, and I haven't released mu music in a minute, so I felt like this is this was the perfect song to like get back in the game with, and it was fun, it's been great.
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It's such a fun song.
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Did you grow up in the country?
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I grew up kind of um a little bit of both.
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So I'm from North Canton, Ohio.
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So one way you go towards Canton, which is kind of more of a steel town and a rubber town acron.
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And the other way there's cornfields galore.
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So it's like I kind of grew up right in the middle of it all, seeing both um parties work.
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And so I don't know.
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I mean, I like to say yes, but I don't think it would be the country that most people would, I guess, think of right away.
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But when I think of country, I think of wide open fields, I think of cornfields, and that's my kind of country.
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So to me, that's what it is.
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But I think that's so cool.
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It's it can be anybody's, right?
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Like, yeah, I grew up in a town called Farmington, and you know, I didn't grow up on a farm.
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Like we had horses and you know, we had ducks and things like this.
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But I think it's like the country, the vibe of that is it's like a spirit of community and it's the small towns and it's hardworking people.
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Yes, absolutely.
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I completely agree.
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Yeah, I know it is.
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And so I would say, yeah, that is where I grew up.
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Yeah.
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Everyone has your your back, they're there supporting you.
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Everyone's hardworking.
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It's gone through generations through generations.
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Um, you know, a lot of people um came from like the coal mines in West Virginia and came for new jobs and new opportunities.
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So I think hard work is just in our roots and whatever that means and hard work in every you know way of life.
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So everything that everyone does to all the different jobs, I guess.
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But I think it's country.
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I think so too.
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You said different jobs, and I have to ask you, what was your first job?
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My first job, probably like babysitting, um, but I also would probably consider um because that was a real job.
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My my little neighbors, they're so cute.
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But I also worked at like a yoga studio and I work at a radio station now.
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Uh you do?
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Yeah, I do.
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I work at this uh station.
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It's 80s, 90s, early 2000s country music.
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So it's cool because I get to listen to all of my favorite artists, you know, from back in the day that are still so relevant to me.
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And Randy Travis, you know, George Strait, all the kings and queens, Dolly, of course, too, and Shania Twain.
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So um, that's been really fun.
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And I get to still kind of be in the music game too and get to be on a radio.
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It's fun.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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And you know, you mentioned Dolly, and I like we were talking earlier.
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It's like I think this will be for so long.
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We're gonna be talking about where we were on August 25th and who we were with.
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And I was actually sitting here.
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Well, I'd gone downstairs, truth be told, to get a guest and found out that Dolly had passed and and Megan had come in and she was like, What do we do?
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What do we do?
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I don't know.
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And we decided Dolly would tell us to have a podcast, and so she would want that, right?
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Yeah, so we did.
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I mean, just felt so sudden, but also like what a tremendous life and legacy she had.
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So I yeah, we all will remember that day as is a day of sorrow and sadness, but also such celebration.
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And she was and still is such a huge influence um in my life and on my music.
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I think her songwriting and her creativity is beyond.
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She's I think she's a genius.
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I mean, she just true, I think her songs could still hold up on radio today.
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Like, you know what I mean?
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Like Jolene, if that was released right now, like it'd be a hit again.
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So I think there's just something, um, you know, the legacy she left behind, but also just the person she is, as someone I aspire to be like, the humanitarian.
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She's uh, you know, all her philanthropies, she's just such a good person.
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We need we need more dollies in the world.
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So I hope, you know, her passing inspires more people to be like her too.
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Um, and it makes me want to be a better person, too.
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Me too.
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You know, I really have been thinking about that so much.
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It's like if we all strive to be a little more like Dolly, yes, we'd be in a good spot.
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It'd be if the world would be a better place, you know.
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It doesn't, it takes you get more bees with honey, you know.
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You gotta be nice, you gotta be a good person.
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And I feel like um she she did life well, and she's a role model for us all.
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So for sure.
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So much, she was the best.
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I know, and you did such a beautiful tribute to be so beautiful, and that's where I was like, wow, your voice is stunning, but it was also just so heartfelt.
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Uh it's been a time, and I feel like Nashville will be thinking about that for a long time, of course, with the hotel opening and everything.
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I know there's so much.
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We're surrounded by her.
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That's the beautiful thing.
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You know, we have the hotel.
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There's like always a 5k going on, there's murals of her everywhere.
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Um, so she's always here.
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But you know what?
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I am sad and never got to meet her.
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I think that says one thing about her that everyone was posting that they got to meet her, and she was like this iconic figure, but still made time to meet everyone and anyone.
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I think that's so crazy.
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It's like so, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I saw even on LinkedIn, okay, this is where you realize you you are all the things to all the people.
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But I saw John Acuff, you know, he's a writer who lives here, and he posted that he was a keynote speaker at something that Dolly was also out, like this was like five or seven years ago.
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And he didn't expect that he'd get to meet her.
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And she had a long line of autographs and pictures and things to do.
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And then finally they said, John, do you want to get a picture with Dolly?
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And he said, Yes, of course, like this point when kids feel so cool.
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And he said, you know, she'd been doing that for hours.
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At 75 years old, she was like still out there just meeting every single person.
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It says a lot.
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It really does.
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Yeah.
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I just love that.
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Also, I mean, I just have to think too, like a friend of mine texted me the day that it happened, and you know, are you okay?
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And kind of things.
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And I said, Yes.
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She said, It's so incredible that she lived her life in a way that no one has a bad thing to say.
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No one.
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I think she says like a hundred percent rating from the world or something.
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I was like, hearing, I don't know.
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You know what you hear on lies.
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But I believe that.
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And if someone does say something bad, I'm like, take it back, knock it off.
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You don't like that's a lie.
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There's no way you could ever convince me.
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No, you know, no way.
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There's no way.
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No, she is such a great, um, great person.
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My gosh, yeah.
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I'm just mad I didn't get to meet her.
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Me too.
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No, I agree with that.
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I rarely someday, someday.
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Someday.
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I love singing her songs.
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I love I'm so excited that she has a musical now, too.
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Like, um, you know, but I feel like it was just a little too early.
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We weren't ready to let her go, but all right, she can rest.
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Yes.
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So you better do your part though to carry the torch.
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Yeah.
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I will try.
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You've got it though.
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You've got it.
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And I love this new song that you just came out with, Working Man.
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Yes, Working Man.
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Tell me a little bit about this.
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Working Man is really a really soulful song.
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I love it.
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When we wrote it, I was like, I knew immediately I wanted to put it out.
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Um, but it really is a love song to all of the good ones out there.
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Like I've kind of wrote it about my husband and someone who's not, you know, they're not willing to leave when it gets hard.
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They're willing to um make sacrifices and not just tell you that they love you, but also show you through their actions that they love you.
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Um, so you know, they're willing to put in the work for for you and for your relationship and for your life and love.
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So um, I got myself a working man, and I hope everyone else does too.
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You deserve it.
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Find someone that, you know, treats you the way that you deserve.
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So that's what it's about.
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It's it's a it's a little love song.
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So louder for the people in the back and for the little girls, right?
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Like that's so important.
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Yes, don't settle.
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Settle, no, cheeks.
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Don't settle.
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No, you have only have one life.
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You know what I mean?
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So there's no sense in that.
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And I just got married, so we're coming up on one year, and I'm writing about new things.
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I'm not writing about breakups right now.
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Of course, you have to have them.
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We love a good breakup song, we love a good drinking song, but right now I'm just in the phase of of love.
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And so I'm just writing about what I know, and that's it.
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So that's why we thought this would be a great next song to lead after.
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It also kind of plays off of the country and talking about the hardworking, you know, men and women that, you know, help the world go around, like I said.
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But also now we go into working man too.
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So um, not only are they taking care of the world, but they're bringing it home too.
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So yeah, and then we got more music hopefully coming for the rest of the year and into 2027, which is crazy to even say.
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I can't believe we're almost there.
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This is the fastest year of my life.
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You feel this?
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Yes, I feel like I'm blinking.
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Me too.
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Yeah.
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But you have you do such a good job of just keeping everything.
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It feels like you've just got this like train rolling.
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And so I like it's Monday.
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We like to talk about like motivation and mindset and kind of you know, like we're all resetting on Mondays, it feels like sometimes.
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Oh, yeah.
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So, what are your like main things that you do to make sure that you are kind of just checking all your boxes?
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Because this is a hard business.
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This is so hard.
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I also think like mentally, it's really hard.
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It's so easy to get discouraged, it's so easy to get let down.
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Um, so I think for me, one thing has been just really making sure I'm in a routine and not breaking that routine, whether that's getting up and working out, eating better, whatever it may be, like just making sure I stick to that routine so I feel like um I'm goal-oriented and I can get up and do things and I'm motivated.
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Um, but meditation is huge for me.
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Um, reading is big.
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Um, and I I think we were talking about this getting more protein in earlier, but just trying to eat better too has really, I feel like changed my mindset and um my health too.
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But um, it's really hard.
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You know what I mean?
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Not everything works for everyone.
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You have to find what works for you.
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But hanging out with my family, taking um, you know, those trips if you need to, getting away, taking a break, like that's huge.
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I think you you gotta turn off the phone every now and then, especially, you know, us artists.
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I have I'm grateful to have a team around me, but you know, you do still wear a lot of hats.
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So you're you're doing this and you're doing that.
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And being an artist is a 24-7 job.
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Like you bring it home with you.
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You're constantly thinking of different TikToks you could be doing, or how to promote that song, or what the merch should be for that, or how to get booked on that.
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You know, it just it never ends.
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So being able to kind of calm that and quiet that has been really important for me.
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Yeah.
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Well, I gotta say, you have calming energy.
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I do think so.
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Yeah, you do, which is I'm I'm a little surprised, right?
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Because watching you on social, you're like so you're vibrant and bubbly and like all the energy.
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But sitting here with you, it's like, okay, well, maybe you're the first person that's said meditation and made me think, oh, maybe I should try it.
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Oh, yeah, I love meditation.
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I think it's and some, you know, some you have to start small, maybe five minutes and work your way into it.
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But um, you're regulating your nervous system is huge.
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I've really learned that how if I don't do that, it affects my voice even when I sing.
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So I don't know, just learning how to take a breath, you know, and being patient with everything is um that's a virtue I did not have coming into this.
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Girl, I don't have it.
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Yeah, no one told me.
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I but I I learned the hard way, that's for sure.
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Patience um, you know, with everything in in the in life and in the music industry.
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Um, so that's been a it's been a fun lesson to learn, along with, you know, many others.
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But yeah.
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It's a really hard lesson to learn, especially for overachievers.
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Yeah.
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And I'm perfectionists, perfectionists.
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And I think people who are creative, it's like um, I'm also having to, I'm in that space of reminding myself that that like you have to you have to build things slowly sometimes.
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Yeah.
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Even though that's really hard to do.
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It is, but you know what?
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It's so rewarding.
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Like I always say I'd rather take the stairs all the way up, you know, take the long way to get there because I'm gonna learn so much at each level.
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And um, that's more that's more important to me than anything.
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I don't want to skyrocket to the top.
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I wanna earn it.
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So see.
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But take the stairs all the way up.
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Is yeah, that's the line of the day.
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That's it.
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If I could have put it um probably a little bit more poetic, but that is how that's what it is, you know.
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You gotta take the stairs all the way up.
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And I'm telling you what, I hate taking the stairs.
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Yeah, I do not want to take the stairs.
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I am tired, you know.
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You when you get halfway there, you get tired, but you gotta keep going because you don't know what else is up there.
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So um, but I think you learned so much along the way.
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And I wouldn't trade my journey for the world, you know what I mean?
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It's everyone's on a different path, and we all get there a different way, but we all get there somehow.
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So you just gotta trust in it.
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So yeah.
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So, what's your best life advice for people who are listening to this thinking, well, I wanna move to Nashville and chase my dreams?
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Oh man, I guess I would say you just have to believe in yourself, and it's great to have some support.
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I'm very grateful.
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I come from a lot of support, like family support, team support, but um believing in yourself and keeping that faith.
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Um because every things will come and go, but the belief in yourself is the thing that will keep you going.
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And it it really is so important.
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Um, and I think I already said it, but patience and everyone's journey is different, so don't compare yourself to anyone else's.
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Um, and just enjoy the ride.
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It's crazy and network like crazy.
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That's it.
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I don't know, have fun, come hang out with us.
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Yeah, move here.
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I'm a big move to Nashville.
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It's you'll have a blast, you know.
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And if it's not meant for you, another door will open.
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And I'm I'm I understand that too.
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So yeah.
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Y'all see why I love her?
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I don't know if that was good motivation, but motivation, you should just do it.
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Go for your dreams, you know.
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Yeah, whatever they are.
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Don't live with any what ifs, chase the nose.
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That's my what um, that is my motivation.
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Chase the nose.
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Yeah, what someone's gonna say no, who cares?
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You move on, you grew from it, and or you at least you had the courage to go after something that scared you, you know?
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Yeah, yeah.
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That is oh gosh, like you're great.
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I'm gonna this this little episode might be my new favorite, like, get ready for the week.
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Um, because I think you're so right.
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And I think that's what we all have to remember is you have to go for it.
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Yeah.
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You don't want to get to the end of the journey and wish that you'd done something differently.
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Like just go try.
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Yeah.
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And I think if it scares you, then that means you absolutely should do it too.
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Because everything in this industry scares me.
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Like, even going to networking events, you know, whatever it may be.
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But you always have a good time once you're there and once it's over with and you and you learn from it.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's so true.
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You gotta show up.
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You gotta show up in this town.
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That's a good piece of advice.
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You do have to show up.
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You gotta be here.
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Yep.
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I gotta credit Barrett Weber with that one because he did say that on this show, and I thought that's really easy.
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Did it keep showing up?
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You know, I has yes.
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So I say so and learn from y'all, and it's so fun to get to have this platform to share with other people.
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And one of the cool things that we've done is we added a little fun at the end of every episode.
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So you have a question from the person who sat in that chair last.
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Okay, and everybody's face is the same when I say that.
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So yours is actually from Sam Palladio, who was a gunner in Nashville.
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Yeah, oh my gosh.
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Yeah, classic.
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I mean, he is so cool, but yeah, so cool.
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So he would like to know who your dream collab is.
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Oh, Sam, such a good one.
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Thank you for your question.
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My dream collab, there are so many artists that I wish I that I wish wish to collab with, dream to collab with, but I think you know, um Chris Stapleton is a huge one.
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I love everything he embodies.
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His his voice is so incredible.
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Um so can I give you a few people?
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I can't just pick one.
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I can't do it.
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So get my.
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I'm gonna say probably Chris Stapleton or you know, Miranda Lambert, a Carrie Underwood, I grew up on then, and then Gretchen Molson, you know, she is oh man, such a cool girl.
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When I first heard her music growing up, I was like, man, I want to be just like her.
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And I was so not cool.
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And I was like, this girl is so cool.
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So I would love to at least meet her, if anything.
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Um, but yeah, there's so many, those are just a few.
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Honestly, anyone.
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Those are great.
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They'd be great.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I love those.
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Well, this has been so fun.
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I'm happy to hang out with you.
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I'm happy for people to get to know you because I'm I'm new to learning about Carissa Ella.
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But once I started following you, I was like, oh, this this is algorithm.
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Bring her back.
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Bring her back.
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So bring her back.
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FYP, I know.
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Algorithm does not like me right now.
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Geez, we are not friends with a lot of, I feel like they're not a lot of my artist friends have been saying that.
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So yeah, I felt it actually recently too.
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It's annoying.
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The ups and downs.
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I've told people since I started this chapter in my life, the ups and downs of social media in a day.
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Talk about lessons.
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Talk about lessons.
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It's a journey, and you can really like it can kind of take your mood up.
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You be like, look at that one, or very down.
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And it's like, we all have to just realize that this is silly.
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It is so silly, isn't it?
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Yes, we have to live by it, unfortunately.
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Unfortunately, we still have to be a part of it.
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Yeah, but it is silly, and we are not performing brain surgery, so it's okay.
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We will all we'll all be alright with it.
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We'll be all right.
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But the best thing people can do is follow you, comment, like, share the music.
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Um, y'all go check out the country and working man.
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Yes, thank you.
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So much.
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Thanks for having me.
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Sometimes a girl's gotta find her way on her own, free to room, make mistakes.
