DANIELLE BRADBERY LIVE! From Winning The Voice to Country Music Powerhouse!

We are back LIVE with Danielle Bradbery! Join us for an intimate live podcast with The Voice Season 4 winner, Danielle Bradbery! At just 16, she became the youngest ever to win, capturing hearts with country classics like Maybe It Was Memphis. Now at 28, Danielle’s musical evolution is inspiring fans everywhere, and she’s here to share it all—from her most honest album ever, Danielle, to her top musical influences and the lessons she’s learned along the way. She’ll dive into love, her definition of success, her most unforgettable career moments, and the true meaning of music in her life. She also answers questions from the audience and has a heartfelt moment w a fan that waited 11 years to meet her! Don’t miss this behind-the-scenes look at Danielle’s journey, resilience, and dreams for the future!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, hey, Carl Lounde, she's a queen talking to you song.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, she's getting really.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Not afraid to feel this episode, so just let it flow.
No one can do we quiet like care lone is
time for carolund Daniel Bradberry.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hi, I'm so happy to do this with you. I
know again. Have you ever done a live podcast before?
H No? How does this feel as compared to singing
in front of people.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
It's a little different because talking is I get a
little shy.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
But we're all in this together. We are all together.
So let's just go ahead and raise a drink, raise
a flower, Oku, and raise a toast. Thank you all
for being here in the morning. Danielle. We got our
hab get Mimosa over here. It is so great at Ashley.
This store is phenomenal and it's a grand opening, which
is so fun to have a live podcast. Oh, here
comes my daughter, Hey Sonny. Okay, so let's just kind

(01:12):
of get into it. Danielle, you've been a friend for
a long time. Yes, I have had the pleasure of
really knowing you. I feel like a bulk of your career.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, I remember meeting you very very early on, like
right after the Voice. I started to get in the
groove of the music industry being on big machine and like, yeah,
I met you really early in my career, so.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Kind of give everyone a feeling. And what is that, Like,
you're sixteen years old. You have a very supportive mom
because she like took you to the audition, right, yes
she did. The Voice was brand new, It's not like
a lot of seasons had happened, So you really did
you even know what you were getting into when you
were like signing up for this audition.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I had no idea what I was getting into. I
was freshly. I hadn't even turned sixteen yet when we
went and auditioned.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Because people might know, people might not.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
But there's so many auditions before the actual filming of
the Voice, and so I did three auditions before I
flew to LA and did the whole blind audition thing.
So in the early, you know, auditions, I was fifteen
and my mom signed me up. I'm from Houston, so
the closest audition was in Dallas, Texas, and it was

(02:24):
just a whirlwind. I had no idea what I was doing.
Do you think that helped though?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Like being naive? Oh, because like for sure you probably
don't even know what you're walking into.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Had no idea what I was walking into. I mean,
you could ask me anything about the music industry and
I could not tell you anything. And I you know,
as soon as I turned sixteen, and I mean, sure enough,
the voice journey begun. And yeah, I think being naive
and just literally living in every single moment because I

(02:54):
didn't know what to expect. That helped me so much,
because I was just like that da da kind of
like an air.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
How would you even know? How do you even prep
for something like that? You know, I know most fifteen
year olds don't even are just learning how to drive
a car. And now you're navigating your whole life being
on national TV. And then you win. Your skyrocketed into
the rocket ship you're putting on. You put out a single?
Was it a month after you won? Was that what

(03:24):
you told me?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
It was like kind of right after.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
I remember, so I whin the voice funny because I
told my mom, I'm like, either way I get to
go home. Just again naive And did you want to
go home? Well? I was just so young.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I was like, are you homesick? I was homesick? Did
you cry?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
No? I would. I didn't cry a lot, but I
I was young. I missed home, and.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
My mom was not with you during the whole audition
you're by yourself. She was with me once you like
made it to the finals. Could she stay in the
hotel with you? Or are you on your owh every
she was with me the.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Whole okay, okay, even after that radio tour tour, like, yeah,
she was with me. And that was a big sacrifice
for her because she had my younger brothers. So she
she stopped her job, and like she she took on
a lot too.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
So I lost my train of thought. Where were we going?
We were saying you were ready to go home? After
the Voice.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yes, yes, I was like, either way, we can go home,
And that's not true. I remember there was like a
big voice after party. I sung at that again with
Blake and.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
It was Shelton yeah, your guy yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
And I remember we got back to the hotel and
we forgot our room keys, so I was I literally
was so tired.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I remember this like it was yesterday.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
My voice trophy box is like this big, and I
remember laying on it in the hallway of the hotel
by the door while my mom went downstairs to get
a hotel card.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Was like two in the morning, What is your life
right now?

Speaker 3 (04:58):
I was just sleeping on it again. I just had
no idea what was about to hit my life? And
she came up. We went to bed, but we had
to wake up early immediately. I think we flew here first,
and then we flew to New York to be on
the Today Show. And that was the first time I
sang my first single, Hearted Dixie, first.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Time meeting the band. I'm like, I don't have no
idea the first time you ever met the band. You
never practiced with him or anything. You just showed up
and played on the Today Show on the plaza. I'm like,
what is my life? But also that's terrifying hair nerve racking.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
I was like, I barely even know this song, Dannielle,
I know, but we did it.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
We did it. Are you glad that this experience happened
this way for you?

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Like?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Are you glad that you won? And we're rocket shit?
I guess I guess everyone's glad, But like, once you're
in it, it's like that's a lot.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, it is a lot, especially at that age, and
I don't want to change anything. Obviously, everything happened exactly
the way it was supposed to. But yeah, it's a
crazy thing to think about, especially at that age. I'm like,
I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't It's
it's crazy. It was a whirlwind.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
So you had Blake, Usher and Adam Levine all turned
around for you. Yes, how did you pick Blake?

Speaker 3 (06:13):
I so, I was a fan of the Voice before
I went on, and I never was like, I'm going
to be on that show. It was because I'm naturally
a shy girl. I took my singing to my room.
That is all I did, and I barely liked singing
in front of people.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's just it scared me. I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
And I you know, we watched it. I was a
huge fan of Blake. Blake as you know, he's so funny,
and him and Adams banter on the show made the
show and I was like, this is so I He's awesome,
And so I was. I was a huge fan already,
and so that kind of I know, I like, I

(06:52):
felt that singing, but when you're up there and they're
fighting for you, that's all real. Like they cut it
in half a little bit when they show it on TV.
I was up there, what felt like I guess like
twenty minutes. They were fighting for you for twenty minute
actually because you don't you don't see them, you don't
talk to them before, and sometimes those shows you never know.

(07:14):
You're like, you never know what goes on behind closed doors,
and you never know if you talk to them whatever.
But they really keep you at a distance. You have
no idea what they're like. That is the first time
they're seeing you, and it's the first time talking to you,
and it's it's a real thing. That's why I respect
the voice a lot. Is they they that's what happens.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, yeah, like it's literally it's right there. It's all
happening in real time, in real time.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
But yeah. They turned around and Shakira was the fourth one,
and she was so sweet and I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Did you like ever chat with her or hang out
with her? Yeah, she's like as short as me, she's little,
she's tiny. I'm like, yes, I love it. She did.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
She share on also No, so the guy's turn, but
she her first thing in her in her accent, was
I heard your cowboy boots and I immediately thought you
were going to Blake. I'm like, okay, that's a sweet
that's a sweet excuse.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, okay. So you have evolved though a lot, and
we've talked about this, but I'm excited too, though, because
you've just released a very personal album called Danielle, which,
as we mentioned before, it is a big transition from
Heart Addixie because you were thinking like maybe it was Memphis,
was it a Grandpa, a Day.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Shape, the Sugar Tree, I mean, all these So now
we've gone we're a little bit How would you describe
it now?

Speaker 2 (08:41):
If you're going to describe your sound in a few words,
I have describ's.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's hard because I feel like now genres are kind
of getting blended and it's all up in the air.
I mean, you still have your groups of country, pop,
R and B, hip hop, whatever it may be, but
everybody's just slowly merging. And you know, I have always
been such a huge fan of all different types of music,

(09:10):
Like my.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Dad, that side of the family.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
They introduced me to the George Straits and the you know, uh,
I mean everybody from Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill, Martina mc bride,
like all those all those people in that country, like roots,
I grew up with my dad's side of the influence.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
But then my mom she was more.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Of the R and B Latin flare of things. Okay,
because that side of family. My grandmother was from Mexico,
so I got a little bit of everything growing up,
and I it really that matters. It really stuck with
me and I love all different types of music and
so that that's had a lot of influence on my

(09:54):
music as I've gotten older.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
So is it fun to be able to evolve? Yeah,
that's more accepted now too, because like I did, like
a little bit back in the day, you kind of
like were sound and that was it. But now, like
you said, it's a little more fluid.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
It is a little more fluid, and you know, as
you go on and growing up kind of in the spotlight.
It took me a minute to and I'm still I'm
there's so much I.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Have to learn and you never know.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
But it's been really fun to just kind of feel
out what Danielle Bradberry is all about.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
So, so do you feel like because you started so young,
you started at fifteen sixteen, you're winning the voice. You're
thrown into this like just an insane world that so
few people will ever know or experience. Do you feel
like it took you a while to separate who you
were from who you are musically because you were so
intertwined as like you're who you are as an entertainer

(10:52):
and a person at the same time. Was that like
a journey? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, especially coming from a TV show and a singing show.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I sang the songs I did, and I wore my
cowboy boots, I had the braids in my hair, and
it was very this country sweetheart girl and which I'm
not saying I'm not that, but I it was very
different than what I'm doing now, obviously, and I was

(11:24):
so young and so as I'm evolving and doing, you know,
a little bit of a different sound and stuff. It's
it's been an interesting, you know, little shift because people
were so used to Daniel.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Graber Ghada that like you're glad is in your past
or is it something that you feel like you have
to like prove that you are not, Like even starting
this conversation ten years later, we're still talking about the voice.
You know, do you feel like it's something that you
can't outrun or you're glad that like is in your.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I've thought about that because I feel like, you know
a lot of people that is the case. You're trying
to like separate and you're trying to be like, no,
that's not me. I'm this is who I am now,
and it's it kind of becomes like a bitter thing,
and I know I don't want that, because I wouldn't
be here if it wasn't for the voice. And like

(12:14):
I said in the beginning, it was meant to happen.
And I'm like, you know, I will I think about
it all the time. I think about it in my
everyday life. I'm like, I can't believe that happened to me.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
And so I will forever be grateful in that of
all the people in the world, so many people would
just die to have that happen. Yeah, and then I
love that like you kind of just like fell into it.
You didn't even really know what you're doing, you know.
That's kind of what makes it so beautiful too.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, And so I'm not trying to, you know, dramatically
be like, don't talk about it, don't you know. I'm
this person now, like that's not that is always going
to be a part of me for the rest of
my life and I can't not you know, say that
or talk about that. But you know, there is you know,

(13:02):
growing up and evolving and there is a lot of
difference compared to then. So uh yeah, I mean I'll
evolve and if we talk about it, we talk about
it because it's it's a part of this journey.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
So have you liked growing up in the spotlight? It's
it's been an interesting ride. I will say, what are
some of the highs and some of the lows?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
The highs I'll start there. You know, it's it's a
it's a again like I'm I'm super blessed to be
in the position I've I've been able to be in
and the.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Opportunities I've gotten to do is just unreal.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
And my family they're like they they helped me stay
grounded and they helped me you know, they remind me
of how blessed and how cool this is. And I'm like, yeah,
this is a yeah. A lot of people won't get
to say they've they've done a lot of this, and
that's something that I truly think about a lot. But

(14:07):
you know, there is lows and it's it's a lot,
and especially at these ages where it's you know, I
didn't have a you know, a teenage life, normal life,
which can be a little bit weird, and you know,
it comes with a lot of a lot of people
watch you.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
What does that like? Having people just watch you?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's interesting and a lot of people, you know, have
a lot to say about it. And I think they
can say stuff freely about you know, the way you
look and the way you're doing things. And I feel
like that's everybody. Everybody has a certain type of judgment,
whatever place you may be. People love to comment on

(14:50):
other people's lives.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
But when it's in the.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Spotlight, it's a little extra and it's it's interesting. It's
a lot. I don't think you'll ever get used to that.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
How do you keep yourself open yet protected?

Speaker 3 (15:06):
I you know, I preach about being an honest, vulnerable,
real artist, and there's a lot that I love to share.
And I'm like, okay, you know, if I want to
have a genuine fan base, I have to be.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
A genuine person and share things.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I'm like, I'm I'm human and I'm I'm just like
everybody else. And I go through things that I know
a lot of people will go through as well, and
I love to relate on that that type of level,
and and it's it's easy to to feel like, you know,
celebrities are at a certain level that you can't really
like get to it. And I feel like sometimes it

(15:48):
gets intimidating for people, and I'm like, we're all the same,
We're all just human, and I don't know, I don't know.
It's it's a it's an interesting life. It's an interesting journey,
for sure.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Do you have any advice for us on how to
survive a heartbreak because you went through a terrible heartbreak
and now you have a beautiful love on the other
side of Yeah, uh, moving moved in together?

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, we moved in together. We need actually in your
life obviously to decorate the house. Tell me about that though,
like hitting rock bottom in your personal life and then
also kind of like reevaluating your career and then morphing
into this whole new human with a whole new set
of songs that is so real and personal and a

(16:37):
new love. I mean, it's like you literally have gone
through this metamorphos right in front of our eyes. I
have so yeah, heartbreak, it is not fun. I thank goodness.
You could write about it.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Right, I know, I know, and that's yeah, it's a
it's a crazy thing.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
And how long were you in the heartbreak period?

Speaker 3 (16:59):
So I date the guy for like three years and
you know there's never this like immediate cutoff. If you're
good at that, please share.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Because I wasn't.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
And yeah, it was. It was like a four year,
four year thing, and it was it was a lot.
I mean, I got into a situation where he was
not ready for a relationship. He was, in fact the
kind that kind of jumped into relationships. And I've learned

(17:33):
that a lot of people do that and and that's okay.
I feel like that's everyone's different, but it can come
with some some baggage. And it ended up, you know,
with this one in particular, you know, hurting me a lot.
And you know, we I was also in a place

(17:56):
where it just it was fire on fire and I
definitely I tried to help, but I didn't handle things
in the right way and it just ended up being
a disaster.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
But don't we all have those. I mean, you have
to like live room to learn what you like and
you don't and take inventory of like okay, this I
cannot live with this. I can and like learning learning
about yourself through dating others and hard knocks. Yeah, I
definitely did.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
And what I learned the most about this one was
you cannot force someone to love you. You cannot force
and I he did, but there was a certain point
where I think it was he didn't know how to
the right way. And you know, you can't force someone

(18:46):
to stay.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
You can't. You can't. You can't change someone. You cannot
change someone.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
And I was that was a part of my my
toxic my toxic trait where I'm such a fixer. I
care very hard and if something is wrong, I'm like,
I have to this can't be wrong.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I have to.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Everything has to be at peace and okay, which is impossible.
You have to just let it, let it be.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
And I'm still trying to learn that.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
So that was It was a lot of a lot
of that.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
And I learned that you can't do all of that.
So how did that play into your new album? I
Wedding Our Funeral is my favorite song of all times.
For if y'all haven't heard it, she has a song

(19:36):
out It's Wedding Our Funeral and it's basically like, how
does the chorus go? You just have to give us
a little previous. It's so good.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
She's all dressed in white. I'm all dressed in black. God,
when I have to talk my lyrics, I forget then.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
But it's on the spot Daniels.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, I know, but it's basically talking about, you know,
they're getting married, they're living there happily ever after. I'm
dressed in black because I'm sad. But I know how
that wedding is going to turn out. It's going to
be either a wedding or a funeral.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
We don't know how that's gonna happen now, because yeah,
it's it's a it's like a two black Cadillacs Carrie
under a type of it's so good mindset.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
So yeah, so this new album is like it's all
of that, but it's a you know, it's the it's
the heartbreak, but what you're more self aware, You're more
you know, talking about how not you know. I think
that's the only song where it's like a subtle bash.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
You have to have one. You can't not.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
You can't not and I you know, I I'm the
type of person where I don't like to have All
these songs were like he did this and he yes, like,
of course he's done a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
And he deserves a full album.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
But but again, this new album is a lot of
like self awareness too, where I put out the first
half and then I put out four extra songs and
those include the more self aware of Like I have
a song called it Takes two and it's basically like

(21:13):
it does take too. There's this side of it and
then there's this side of it. And in my case,
you know, I did get very heartbroken, but also I
didn't handle things the right way, and that's okay to
be aware of as well. So it's a lot of
like turning the mirror onto yourself, which is very important

(21:34):
to have maturity, and like I've learned that the most
out of this last year and a half, especially though
when you know you've been done wrong though, to be
able to look at yourself and be like, okay, I
actually do play a part at this, because I feel
like that's the hardest part is it's like.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
When you know for a fact, yeah, like you were
not the one causing the big heartbreak, but still you're
in the relationship. H Oh, how did you turn the mirror?
How did you get to the point where you're like,
I want to look at me.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Fast forward into this current relationship. It's a good one,
and uh, you know, I I talked to a guy
in between and I didn't date. I you know, I
saw somebody and I'm I'm a very shy girl when
it comes to guys too.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Like I don't, I'm very just like like the little
girl comes into play. But you know, I learned a
lot there.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
But then this this new relationship, I'm like, oh, this
is healthy. This is what it's supposed to be like.
And you know, it's it's imperfectly perfect. It's not like,
oh we are so good. We still have our our
things and every relationship does, but this new one has
turned every mirror possible to me.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
That's how you know you're in a good relationship, doing
all the hard work. It's the worst. I'm the toxic one.
Now that's maybe it's more fun to be the less toxic.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Know okay, but that just shows like what a you know,
kind of beaten relationship can do to somebody.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
And you bring a.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Lot of baggage and it's been a healing process you
It's highlighted.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
The parts of me that has not been healed.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
And which is crazy, and you know it's you get
into a new relationship and you're like, I do not
want this to turn out like that, so bad that
you overanalyze, you overthink, you get so in your head
and you this.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Is where I've been wrong.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's like I start to feel like he's gonna he's
going to be exactly like the last one, and I'm like, no,
they are two completely different people. That's not fair to him, right,
It's so not fair. And then you you start to
bring in all that problem into this relationship and he's like,
I didn't do anything to you, and you're acting like

(23:58):
I did everything that he'd It becomes you're like, oh god,
you're right.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
And so back to the hour self reflecting the last
four songs exactly. So this is like a real snapshot
of where you are. Yeah, leaving the first relationship and
all those feelings into you coming into your awareness and
realizing I play a part two into your healing journey. Yeah,
that's really awesome. How amazing to be able to put

(24:24):
that into music. Do you feel like that's one of
your most favorite things about music? Oh?

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, it's it's like a live therapy session. It's like,
this is what it's like. What's going on in here
comes out into a song, which is so magical.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's so cool. Is it cool to see fans relate
to it? Oh? Yeah, people come up and told you, like,
your songs changed my life.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
I've yeah, like I not changed their life, but you
have changed my life.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I name my daughter Danielle after you.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
But I you know, on social media, I try to
read everybody's comments DMS. I can get to everybody, but
I try to. I'm I'm a I'll get sucked in
sometimes and I'll I'll read and I sometimes do you
read comments when they say you're not supposed to, But
I I get sucked in, and I like to see

(25:15):
what people are saying. And it's been interesting to see
like what songs have resonated the most, or or what
songs I thought were gonna kind of be more popular
than the others. And it's really cool to see. And
it's it's crazy for me and like my manager and
my team, we've lived with all these songs for so long,

(25:36):
and we're like, it's crazy because the whole world is
gonna listen to it for the very first time, and
and it's it's and it's cool to see like the
reaction and then just what songs have resonated, Which songs
have like hit harder that you wouldn't have expected. I
I knew it would, but I didn't realize how much,

(25:57):
like how how it has. And it's called you Could.
That's not God, It's about God, and I love that,
and I love that.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
That's like one of the most popular on the album.
I'm like, heck yes, heck yes, And it was the
most vulnerable.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
I wrote it with my good friend Emily Wise. Man,
it's the best. Who's the best and so great.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
My two producers were also in the room kind of
doing the vibe but also chiming in on the words
and the ideas. But Emily and I were just talking
about the whole thing, and it was about this last
relationship and how I was just like I don't know
what else to do the fixer and me, I'm like,

(26:43):
I can't, I can't do this, but you can.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
And it was a conversation with God.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
And it turned out to be such a unique song
and it has became one of the top listens on
this on this album, and somebody got a tattoo of
you could, which is so cool and it's such a
good reminder too, just overall, not even about a relationship,
and I've seen people resonate with it, not even about

(27:09):
a relationship, like a relationship with their father or it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
It's really cool to see and hear the stories. How
has God played a part in your journey? Oh, He's
played a huge part, even when you're in the middle
of the entertainment business, because I feel like sometimes God
feels more lost than ever when people are on stage
and they're getting adoration and they're putting themselves out there.
You can almost feel like you got this, you know,
like I'm I don't need I don't need God. I'm

(27:34):
kind of crushing. Yeah, but I feel like God has
been a constant thread with you. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
And it's it's been within my family, which I'm so
thankful for. And it's a constant, normal conversation even when
I was little, Like it's just it's been in the
family and very we're very faithful, and I've I've always
been like that. And we went to church growing up,
and I stopped for a while, and you know, I've

(28:03):
always known I love God and I praise the Lord
and everything, but it kind of got lost.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
For a little bit.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
I didn't pray, I didn't you know, I didn't really
pay attention to it. And then ever since, I've gone
through these crazy life changes and you know, changes with
myself and being twenty eight years old. Now these are
such a fragile age, like just phase and more now

(28:31):
than ever, I've been trying to read the Bible, which
is not easy, Like it's hard. I've watched probably one
of my favorite shows that Chosen, which you can watch
it anywhere.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
It's literally changed my perspective.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
I didn't know the full story and I watched that
show and it helped me put a face to the
names and like know the story. And then my boyfriend
is also reading his Bible and it's a very faith
based relationship and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Look at you over there.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
I love this.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
You are just healthy, drinking your green juice while you're
at it. I'm trying. I'm trying.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
It's not easy, and it's you know, they say to
have faith and be you know, put all your worries
to worry, and I've I've been in such a phase
of my life where I worry and I fear even
with career and like a new album coming out and
hoping it does good, and some changes internally with you know,

(29:29):
just teams and careers and I'm no longer with the
label now and a lot of.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Like you're where you're like.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
You have to have the most faith.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, So give people a little sneak peek into that,
because I feel like, on the outside, if I was
just going to look at your Instagram, You're so beautiful,
You're so amazing, You've got great style, You're traveling all
over the place. I feel like you have like billboards
in New York or like big things happening, and it
looks awesome. It's so awesome. But behind the scenes, what
actually is going on when you're releasing a new album,

(30:00):
Because like it feels amazing and huge and massive and
like untouchable, but behind the scenes you might not be
the same feeling that way. Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Social media is such a and that's where I try
to be as real as I can, but without being
annoying about it. But I yeah, social media is very
tricky and it tricks a lot of people into thinking,
oh my god, like and it's so easy to compare.
I compare myself to what other people are posting other

(30:32):
you know, celebrities and people that I work alongside, Like
it's so easy to compare yourself to what other people
are doing and which that's a part of social media.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I can't stand.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
It's like, ugh, like it's so hard to like focus
on what you're doing and not try to be like,
but I'm not doing that, or like why am I
not there? Or why am I not getting all these things?
And that's kind of what's going on behind the scenes.
Like I was so excited to release this album, but
I was also so terrified, especially not releasing an album

(31:10):
after almost seven years, and in.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Seven years, yeah, it's creeping up. Yeah, so you werely early.
You're in a different life racket too, because early twenties
versus late twenties, you're in a whole new mindset. Yeah,
the whole new experience, the whole industry, music industry has
completely changed, completely changed. But that is nerve wracking.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
It is nerve wracking and doing it practically independently and
just you know, hoping that that it comes off in
the way you want it to. And of course we
all want things to go well, and it's it's a
nerve wracking. I was having full on breakdowns before this
album came out, and my manager is here. She I

(31:51):
was texting her. She's gotten the brunt of it, and
I'm like, I'm terrified.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
I'm crying. I don't know. People are gonna hate it.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
I don't know. But it's just it's real.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
It's real anxiety, and I deal with anxiety and just
changes in the industry.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's not a it's not for the week. Yeah, okay,
I'm gonna play a little bit of would would you rather? Okay?
Or it's not would you rather, but it's a tell
me your first answer when I say these words okay,
rapid fire okay, okay? And then how are we doing
on time? We're twenty minutes? Oh great, okay, here we go.

(32:31):
Tell me the first thing that comes to mind. Are
you ready? Okay? A scale of one to ten? How
good are you keeping secrets?

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Ooh ten?

Speaker 2 (32:43):
You don't break. I'm a vault. You are a vault.
Amazing Danielle. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
If you're like my my my person, or like my
sister or like my tight knit like, we'll cut a share.
But I don't people. It stops here.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
That's amazing. That's a great character trait to have. Yeah,
that's very great. Okay, who was your first celebrity crush?
You know what?

Speaker 3 (33:11):
I feel like it and I feel like it was
like almost every girls. But I was such a huge
fan of High School Musical Zach Efron.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, like younger zach Efron.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
I remember me and my sister like getting this close
to the TV the premiere of High School Musical, like
Disney Channel, and I remember we were at my grandma's
house and we were just like, oh my god, my sister.
We loved Vanessa Hudgens, but Zach Efron well.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
And they were dating, right, they ended up dating.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, I'm more of Zach Efron Greatest Showman Edition old
high School Musical.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
But it was like the flippy ever. Yeah, he was
the hot thing.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Have you met him? No, what are you gonna do?
When you mean him the crush? He'll be there.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Ah, I mean it would be. I would be thinking
of High School Musical, Like I've watched every movie I
feel like he's been in up until now, and he
seems like such a cool dude. And I follow him
on social media and like he seems very like he
loves his family and all that stuff. But I feel
like I would be geeking out because I'd still see

(34:14):
like the zach Efron Zach that is his name, The Troy,
The Troy.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah, okay, I love that. Okay, if you can travel
back in time, what time period would you go to?

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Ooh, I feel like the nineties.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well that's coming back. It is coming back, so congratulations
on that. Yeah, the camera now, is that like for
a sign or something? It is absolutely storming out side?
Is like the storm that year? Yeah? Right, look out
the window. Stop it. This is a perfect day and
actually having a cozy podcast drinking with the storm that

(34:52):
just turned out the TVs. I love this. Yeah is everything? Okay, okay, okay, great,
that's Are you driving somewhere after this?

Speaker 3 (34:59):
I am? Are you?

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah? Where are you gonna go? Ohio? Great? That's not
far right, he's doing a little road trip. Are you
going to a wedding? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (35:07):
I'm going to get It's Eli's family. But I promised,
I keep my promises.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
You do keep your promises. So I'm like I'm going I've.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
I've driven like a practically a blizzard, so I think
I'm okay, Great, how.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Do you feel that way about yourself? I know you're
gonna be Okay, now that's awesome. Okay, so you would
probably go back to the nineties, which are happening right Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
And I'm such a style like I love fashion, so
I'm like, all the nineties fashion was so good.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
It is not good. The fact that I feel like
that was like the the the big like windbreaker pants
and all that really maybe different. No, you are. I
just was in the nineties. I grew up in the
nineties and I had terrible fashion. But you're gonna make
it cool because now maybe when it comes back the
second time, it's more refined, you know. Maybe. Yeah, I

(35:54):
don't know. Like no cap Oh my god, y'all we
had those conversation. But for you guys on the front,
y'all look cool in your office, y'all probably know what
no cap means right now. Us in who's like twenty
five or older do not know what no cap means.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
My brother he's twenty one and he's like the cool
dude at college.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
And he uses all these phrases, our abbreviations that help
you say things.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
Are cool or not cool, like no cap means like
no lie or for real, yeah, And I try to
do it and then it reminds me of how I'm
getting older, and my brother Drake will be like, don't
don't say that.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
I'm like, I've hit that age. I feel like I'm
still his age.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
It's really hard when you hit that age. I'm forty one,
and I definitely and I hang out with people like
you who are twenty eight, and then I hang out
with Kate, my neighbor back there, who's twenty two to
social media, and I feel like in my head, oh,
we're all the same age, we're all cool hanging, and
then like immediately it becomes apparent that we are not
the same age or cool or hanging. Yeah, I do
not know any of the things that the young people know.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
And just what my so, I have all ages in
my family. I have two thirteen year old brothers. You
have two thirteen year old brothers.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Are they twins?

Speaker 3 (37:06):
No, so I'll explain after but a twenty one year
old brother, a thirty three year old sister, and I'm
twenty eight, so the thirteen year old brother, and then
it's rubbing off on my now nine year old niece.
I'm my good lord, there's just all a different language
throughout the whole, the whole face.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Are some of these steps, some of these half, some
of these whole. So mom, dad have me and my sister.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Okay, divorced when I was four and both got remarried.
My dad with my step mom had the thirteen year
old boy, Colin, and then my mom and stepdad had
Drake and Drew the thirteen twenty one.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Okay, but we're all family at all, they're all all
mix and mingle. Well, heck, my parents do love it.
Your mom and dad get along. Yeah, that's amazing. I
know that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Truly, I like, I know.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
That's not always the case.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
So I'm very I'm so thankful for that.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
That's such a blessing. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. Okay, do
you snore? Do I snore?

Speaker 6 (38:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
You don't. Does ELI snore?

Speaker 3 (38:13):
No? It's like a heavy like breathe, Like it's like
a loud breathe.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Okay, does that bother you?

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Breath?

Speaker 2 (38:18):
But I don't know how to say it. Can you
sleep through it? Or does that bother you? No? It
doesn't bother me.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Okay, yeah, if it was like a loud snore, I'm like, no,
We've got to figure this out.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, what is your favorite childhood TV show?

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Favorite childhood TV show?

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Like, what did you grow up with? I was like
Saved by the Bell?

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Okay, so I was like, obviously high school musical kind
of gave it away. So I was like the the
Disney Prime, Like Hannah Montana, that's so raven sweet live
is that? And Cody actually saw one of those brothers
in person and New York Fashion Week and I about
freaked out. I still see like the Zach and Cody

(39:05):
it was so cool. But I think Hannah Montana.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
That was like, my Jane, that is that why you
wanted to be a singer? Yeah? I think she encouraged
a lot of I think so.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
And I love how she's still kind of like hopefully,
I'm like I get there one day. But she still
talks about Hannah Montana and sings the Climb like I
love that.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
I love the Climb. It's a climb like her theme
song on Hannah Montana. Yeah, it's amazing. Okay, last question,
would you want to live forever if you had the option? Ooh,
that's a tough one.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
That is a tough one. I feel like that's a
deep question.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
I want to say.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
No, because I know what there is and I feel
like that's just how that's how it's supposed to be.
It's not for our forever home. It's like the Carrie
Underwood song or tim Forverry Home. Yeah, so no, somehow, Yeah,
the world's scary.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
I know.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
How do you find the joy in the midst of
all this chaos? Well, I feel like the Lord has
brought me a lot of peace. I feel like it's
just kind of like my little bubble and so that's
helped me a lot. And just trying not to, you know,
watch the news or just go in the dark places,

(40:28):
just be aware, definitely be aware. But yeah, I just don't.
I don't go deep dive. Yeah, it messes with me.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
I feel the same way. Yeah, now that you have
been in the spotlight for so long, you've like twelve years,
I guess I wonder if your definition it's so long. Yeah,
I wonder if your definition of success has changed or evolved,
Like what was success to you when you were starting
versus what it is now.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I feel like when I was starting, it was the
naive like, oh beast, that's kind of what I pictured,
which I knew it wasn't like fully real, but I'm like, oh,
it's it's kind of like it's kind of like playing
dress up and fun or whatever.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
But that's before I knew like the business.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Side of things and just like the behind closed doors
and just it there's a lot that goes into success.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, what makes a happy life for you now?

Speaker 3 (41:34):
I think just not letting a lot of the the bigger.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
That's a hard question because I I it's so hard
not to get sucked into a lot of things. And
I guess it's not that hard because you either either
do or you don't. And I've always been like I
there's there's kind of like these these things that you
can get caught up in in the music industry, and

(42:07):
I'm like, I don't ever want to go there, and
I want to stay as true and real as I
as I possibly can, and especially hold the Lord very
center because that also can get very buried. And in
the music industry is it can get very interesting.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Say that confidently, because I feel like a lot is like.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Being service now and like just whatever, and it's not
all bad, but like it's just mentally it can get
very heavy and it's you know, you have to really
take care of yourself and think of yourself first, and
you know, have a good net people around you. And
that's in everyday life too. But for sure, in this

(42:55):
in this career path I've had to I'm very blessed
to have like a very supportive.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Family and my mom is very.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Very you know, adamant about you know, praying and having
faith and not letting like.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
They're very good at keeping me humble. Yeah, I've shielded,
I mean protected too. Yeah, that's amazing. So if you're
gonna say, who's someone who has never let you down?
I feel like I'm gonna guess that it's gonna be
like your mom. But who's someone who you always call,
who like is always going to tell you the truth?
Who has never let you down?

Speaker 3 (43:28):
My older sister, Your older sister, My older sister. She
is the type that is she cannot She is so
real with you. She can sniff out fake, she can
sniff out stuff when it just doesn't seem right, and
she's super honest.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
She's super honest.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
She has two little girls. I have a nine and
a two year old niece. They've been she's been married
for gosh, probably now twelve years and she's Yeah, she
she keeps me like I can call her about anything.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Do you sometimes not call her because you don't want
the truth.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Yeah, No, seriously, I will. I'll sometimes keep a lot
to myself because I'm like I already know the answer.
But and even in this new relationship too, like I've
I've called her when my mind starts to go off
and think about, oh, if he's gonna hurt me, or
he's doing something behind my back, or you know, stuff

(44:30):
like that too, and I'll call her and she she
puts me in the right hand's face real quick.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah, and I'm very thankful for that. Yeah. Okay, so
let's talk around the storm. Do you see like things
that would match your taste, like what would be your
home decor style?

Speaker 3 (44:48):
I do. I walked around earlier and I've already picked
out a few things and I sent it to him.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
But Eli Diney house is like, it's such an expression.
It's another way to express, yeah, who you are. Yeah,
because I've I've lived in apartments.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
I had a town home and I kind of got
to decorate, but it's it's temporary. So now I he
bought a house kind of near Goodletsville if you if
you're around here, whatever. But it's kind of like this
little secret spot that he found and it's so pretty.

(45:26):
I'm more of a outside the city kind of girl.
The city stresses men, city chach.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
I want to get away, like the country I love.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
I love horses, I love animals. I love just nature
and the peace and quiet. And so he found this
house about thirty minutes outside of the city and he
asked me to move in.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
And I was like, yes, that's scary, Like are we
nervous about that?

Speaker 3 (45:53):
I know, because it's more it's healthy, okay, okay, and
he's actually clean, which.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Always a good thing, always a good thing, always a
good thing.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
No, but I wasn't nervous at all. I was very
excited and we actually are. And so it was older.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
We walked in.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
It's a one story but higher ceilings, and it's on
two acres and I feel like snow white because every
time I step out of the front door the back door.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
There's like deer and there's squirrels and sing to them.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
I feel like They'm like I'm going to become They're
all going to come up to the door at some point.
I'm like I convinced them.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
To get like some like deer.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Food, and I'm my dad built this like beautiful bird feeder,
and I have to hang up like I want them
all to come to me get one of those huntingbird
things that you put on your body.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Danielle and her morning or her morning routine.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Yeah, but it's a it's a beautiful house. It's like
the it has good bones.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
And I'm learning all of about that too. And he
is too.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
He's never you know, renovated a house. And we we
got all new floors. We painted everything white because the
old color was like this like mustard orange. It was
not good colors. And we yeah, and we knock some
walls down.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
I feel so official, so grown up and so official.
Are you guys like doing it yourself? So he's done
some stuff.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
I've I've helped, I like, because my dad knows how
to build andy. He's done it all. So it's I
like being hands on. I like knowing how to do
stuff and stuff too. But he's hired a lot of people.
He's like, I'm not going to touch that. So we've
we've been learning a lot. We're sleeping in the house
now and it's been I mean the difference from sleeping

(47:48):
in an apartment to this house. It's night and day,
what's the difference. I feel less strussed, I feel less
like wound up.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
And I don't know.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
I I think it's just my body. But I kept
waking up with headaches like almost every morning in an apartment.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I don't know what that has to do with any
of that, but I don't anymore.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
In the house, I'm like, Okay, that just is more
of a telltale sign. But it's just I love it.
You walk out and it's just silent, and you hear
birds and it's just like and we always talked about
how being in the city and having it like all
at our fingertips, we've kind of got jaded with how
much we had right in front of our face, and

(48:33):
when our friends would be like let's go to this
place or there's events going on, it would be more
like a chore and like, oh, we have to go
to this thing.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
But now it's like, oh, we're actually excited to go.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
In town and do stuff and be with everybody because
we know we get to like escape and we have
like bonfires and it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
That's it. Okay, So how would you describe the style
of how so.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
I personally love more of like a western mind modern
Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Kind of like how you have this on like goots
with this awesome amazing I.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Have a dog and I see dog here, but you're
just like so cool, Yeah, okay, western modern western general. Yeah,
Like I I love Western stuff. I not like the
you know, bedazzled that's beautiful, but it's just not my style.
But I'm subtle, like a sleeks like and I yeah,

(49:30):
like a modern Western style.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
And ELI like he.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
He let he's letting me decorate. He's like, I get
to figure out what walls come down and what the whatever.
I'm like, that's totally fine. So it's it's nice being
here because we do we need a new couch, we
need all the new stuff. So I'm like taking pictures
and I facetimed him earlier.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
I'm like, what about this couch?

Speaker 3 (49:54):
So he's six four, he's a tall dude. So he's like,
I want a deep couch, and I'm like, okay, this.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
One there is the best couch I've ever said on
my entire life. I think I know what couch I'm getting.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Well, I mean it's like it's literally right, so yes, yeah,
oh it's this one right here where she's sitting. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
So okay, before we open up for questions, because if
you have some fan questions, we are here to answer them.
But I want to know what have been three top
experiences that would never have happened if you had not
been in this wild experience that you can kind of
share with us, like to give us a peek of
like the most or maybe not even three, just like
something that comes to mind where it's like this, I

(50:30):
cannot believe this is actually my life, Like I cannot
believe I'm sitting here with this person doing this thing
in this situation that just doesn't ever happen. Hmmm. Wow.
So I know you've had a ton of those, Yes,
yes I have. Have you ever been like sitting next
to somebody who're like, how am I sitting next to
Jim Carrey and he's telling me his life story? That
would be so awesome that actually just happened to some

(50:50):
when I interviewed. So she's an actress married to John
Rich and she's like, yeah, one time I was at
this party and Jim Carrey just starts spilling his whole
life to me and telling me all about I'm like
Jim Carrey would be his life so awesome. He's like
one of my favorites. I know, Yeah, I love I
mean to hear what he has.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
To say, right, it hasn't been that cool. I love
how I think God says otherwise because all the whites
just turned off. Yeah gosh, there has been so many,
and I know after we're done all they're all gonna start.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
What about the one you just went to where you
were singing Ariana Grande song in New York with Was
she in the audience or that would have been I
would have Oh my gosh, if you want the sound
of heavy rain, we're.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Just trying gonna all taken out now. But I got
to do so funny. I got to sing God is
a Woman by Ariana Grande, but for this Songwriter Awards
in New York, and sadly she was not there, and
I'm honestly half a little bit glad.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Because I would have been. I was already so terrified
because seeing an Ariana Grande song, and Ariana Grande now
I'd like top ten most nerve wracking pis you could do.
So she was not there.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
But the one of the writers that wrote the song.
Was there. Also Priscilla Presley, which is Elvis Presley's ex wife,
and yeah, crazy Lana del Rey.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Who else?

Speaker 3 (52:20):
There were so many just iconic people in this audience.
You're singing just you and a guitar, right, just me
cello and a piano. It was a really cool setup
for this song because if you've never heard the song,
it's very bass heavy and pop leaning, so it was
like a super stripped down of this Ariana Grande song.

(52:41):
And Priscilla she was the sweetest human being, just the
most kind hearted, light like spoken person, beautiful for her age,
and so it was really cool.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
And then later I think there was.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Another event where Sizza performed fd sez A. She's an
R and B artist.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
She's so awesome, awesome and when your name is three letters,
you know your own.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Yeah, And I mean there's at the event Carrie and
Keith Urban performed and were there, and there's just so
many Timberlain, I mean, there's so many people that walked
across that stage and I was like, that was a
moment where I was like, this is a really cool
room to be in. Yeah, and I've gotten to perform
on the same stage with Leanne Wallmack and a Little

(53:31):
Big Town.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
I love them, but they they were.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
On stage as well. I mean, there's just been a
really cool experiences I've I've been like, this is cool,
but I'm trying to play it really cool.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
And it's crazy that your voice has just taking you everywhere.
It really has. Yeah, that's really amazing. Yeah, what do
you want to tell someone who is feeling like they

(54:02):
have they're calling, is starting to rumble, they know there's
something inside of them, just like you did, Like you
always knew you had this gift and you were you
started so young. But like when someone feels like, Okay,
I know I have something that I'm supposed to be expressing.
How would you tell someone to get going on a
big dream? Just how to start it?

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Gosh, I feel like there's no right or wrong way
to start something because obviously you're calling and what you're
supposed to do will happen. And I'm I'm kind of
I've had all these amazing opportunities, but you know, I
haven't ever had a number one I've it's hard to believe,

(54:43):
like there's a lot of things that I haven't done,
and I've been in this for so long, and I've
had moments where I'm like, am I like, I feel
so behind or I haven't reached this goal and what
am I doing something wrong? And so and then that's
where my mom comes in, and then the prayer comes
in and then and I feel like that happens with everybody.

(55:06):
And I don't know, I don't have like exact advice,
but just I think starting something, do not be someone
that you're not like, be fully you, be real, be real.
There's not enough realness in the world. Just be authentically you,
because that's what's gonna get you the where you're supposed

(55:27):
to be.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yeah, I love that. What's on your bucket list? You
said there's still things to achieve.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
There's still staying with the top thing. Would love to
get a number one. And then I just being from Houston,
Texas and if you're not aware of what goes on,
there's a huge Houston rodeo, the biggest, the biggest, and
I grew I was like this little going and seeing everybody,
and so that would be a bucket list.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
It's in the stadium too placed.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
And heck yeah yeah obviously, yeah, yeah for sure. And
then Madison Square and like that's all these places like
heck yeah, Like that would be a moment where I
would be like, okay, yeah. But I'm also very hard
on myself and I'm like I'm always trying to achieve, Like, oh,
it never stops. It never stops.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
You know. You just gotta sit outside on your porch,
drink your coffee and just it's all gonna be snow. Yeah,
just be snow. Like Danielle, it's all gonna unfold. I
always wrap up with leave your light, and then we're
gonna throw some a box out into the audience. There
it is. We got a box and we're gonna ask questions,
but leave your light and it's open ended. What catch
a box? This reminds me of like class being in school.

(56:36):
What do you want people to know? Oh oh man,
some inspiration, some inspiration. Oh my gosh, I feel like
I just said it. You have been dropping it. Yeah,
just just be authentically you do.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Not let the chaos of the world get in there,
and just especially just everything that's going on. I feel
like it's just a madness out there. So protect your piece.
Protect your piece.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
That's all I have. I love that. Yeah, Okay, we
got some questions. I know you have some questions. You
guys on the front row have some. I think you
just I think it just turns on. Okay, ready wait
is it a mic? You can do it? Okay, you
said it in your life, yeah, you just.

Speaker 6 (57:25):
I'm curious, like, how do you weave in like your
faith and your day to day because I feel like
that's so hard with social media, you know, promoting your music,
going through all the life changes that you're going through, Like,
how do you kind of weave them in?

Speaker 2 (57:43):
I feel like there's no like system to it.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
I feel like in whatever moment feels right to for
me right now, just as an example, like if Graham
or whatever it may be, and those can get very draining,
I feel, and I'll feel where I catch myself. I'm like,
I've been on my phone and stuck in this thing
for like an hour and a half now, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Like, that's always devastating when you have that realization, yeah,
you know, And I feel like a.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
Little bit of my day was kind of wasted. And
so in those moments where I catch myself like Okay,
well what do I do next? I either open my Bible.
I have this bible called she reads truth, and there's
a he reads Truth for men as well, and there's
an app if you don't want to carry around the book,

(58:36):
and I just I start reading and then I really
I started watching The Chosen and that has helped me
just understand a lot of things better. And just having
conversations with God, like just praying out loud. There's no
right or wrong way to do it, just having a conversation.
And then if I'm busy, just like on my like

(58:58):
having my app and just just knowing that it's there
and knowing that it's right in front of me instead
of paying attention to other things. There's yeah, just whenever
feels right and whatever feels you know, right.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
To just just think about it.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Even and I've you know, had conversation about this too,
like even if he knows you're thinking.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
About him, like that's that's that's enough. So yeah, okay,
I know you've got one too, let's hear it. I
love it, hats By the way. I know you.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
First and foremost, I want to say, I watched you
on the Voice when I was fifteen. I've been trying
to see you for like eleven years now.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
So big and work here all right, what's your name?

Speaker 4 (59:46):
My name is Courtney.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
I just moved here as well, so Courtney for eleven years.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
And actually my first performance in front of people as
well was mean, my gosh, because when I was thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
So I've always really.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
Connected with you and I wanted to see it Boots
and Hearts last year but I couldn't. Oh no, So
I just moved here from Canada, but I just wanted
as a fellow performer, I just wanted to ask how
you got over the initial stage fright, Yeah, because being
new to town, I don't know really where to go
to close door to knock on without being annoying. Yeah, anything,

(01:00:25):
So if you have any.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Advice on that, yeah, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
I so I've been naturally a shy girl at heart,
and I feel like it's still there and it will
come out. And I'm naturally super hard on myself, like
in the studio or on stage, I'll I'm so nitpicky
and I'll walk off stage Roon's like that sounded awesome,
that was so great, and I'm like, no, I didn't, No,

(01:00:51):
I didn't, which I need to be better at and
I have to give myself a little bit more grace.
But I think just just doing it because I, you know,
on the voice, I just went and did it, like
I I don't know how, I don't there's like no
recipe for it. And I think having this like mindset.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Of a alter ego or like this, do you have
a name for girls? For ego? I forgot? I do know?
What is your name?

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
So my my middle name is Simone And fans have
started to be like, oh that was Simone. Like it's
more like it's more sassy, I guess, but obviously be you,
but kind of just yeah, like play into the music
you're singing and play into and whether it's your songs too,

(01:01:41):
like you're you're putting on you're trying to tell this
story for people, and so I feel like just tap
into that and and just and Blake would always tell
me just have fun with it. It's there's it's nothing serious.
It's I'm like, you're right, you're right. And I'm still
trying to remind myself. So it's not like, oh, I
have this down and I've messed up so many times

(01:02:04):
on stage it's not even funny even of Hearted Dixie,
like I've forgotten the words and it's crazy, but just yeah,
just continuing to do it and finding like what you're
most comfortable doing the song singing and just yeah, just yeah,
practice makes perfect, I guess, and just yeah, go. I

(01:02:26):
always think about go through it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Not over it. You have to like just go through
it full force. Bob Dapiro, who's a hit songwriter, he
told me this one time and I have never forgotten it.
He said, fear is one hundred feet wide and one
hundred feet tall, but it's paper thin, Like you just
have to like walk through it. Like it feels like
it's all around you and it's everything that you can see.
But actually if you just like go through it, it
breaks pretty fast. Yes, but you got to get through

(01:02:50):
it because like the build up maybe is sometimes worse
than the actual doing of the event. Yes, it is.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Like I get so nervous before every single show, before everything,
and it's the waiting around, like the hurry up and
wait I always say, and the waiting around. I cannot
sit still. I'm like this build up, I just I
need to go. I just need to do it, like
I just need to rip the band aid off. I
just need to get out there. Whatever that makes me.

(01:03:16):
The most nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
So just yeah, just just do it, and I will
say also what you were saying, and maybe this will
help seeing someone in their joy doing what they love
to do. It doesn't even matter if you miss a note.
Like if you see someone who's just loving what they're doing, yeah,
you walk away, you're like that, Yeah, and you can
feel their love and it transfers. Yeah. So just yeah,

(01:03:38):
just happened to you. And people are gonna love that
way to move here. That's the first thing I know.
And it's so nice to finally meet here and you
met Danielle's that they are looking up for eleven years.
This is about to be your straight You're gonna hit
your role. I love it. I love that. Anybody else
have a question? Okay, yes, hey, you're gonna throw it?
Oh my god? Playing cat? You ready? Nice?

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
All right? My question is what is a core memory
of yours with Emily Wise band? Like?

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
I love her?

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
She so, I met her for the first time in
a writer Emily Wise band, Emily Wise, that's an incredible
songwriter everyone she is. So she actually was the first
person that helped me tap into songwriting. She I don't
even think I need to tell her this because I
feel like she doesn't even know. But I was not
always a songwriter. I did not know how to do it.

(01:04:35):
I didn't know where to even start. I kind of
got thrown into it. But she was the first person
that felt like I could be comfortable in the writing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Room, like dare to suck.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Yeah, because she's she's like that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
She's super real, she's super honest.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
She does not hold back, and I just admired that
about her and she just kind of gave me that
confirmation like Okay, like I I can let these laws
down a little bit. But my I guess a core memory.
We went to LA to write a bunch together and

(01:05:10):
then at the end of that I was performing at
Stagecoach and she was going to come with me. And
this was actually in the beginning of just talking to
the last relationship guy.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
The toxic, the toxic Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
So she was she's been around for every phase of
my life.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
I love that, and she's been through so many of
her own relationships journey, so y'all probably get after.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
And saying about both of our lives for a long time.
So that was kind of a core memory because she
was with me through that whole thing, and we shared
a hotel room.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
And I remember.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Being in the studio at this the wherever we were
writing at in La and he was calling me while
I was in the vocal booth and I go Emily,
she swaps with me, starts doing harmonies on the song,
and I walk out to answer the phone to this guy.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Oh, like, I mean, that's what that's that's my girl
to win it. Yeah, so she's she's been through it all.
How cool that y'all can like not only be in
it emotionally supporting each other as friends, but now you're
writing about it too. Like that's a very special relation.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
And I'm singing about songs on this new album that
relates so much to what I've I've gone through, what
I am going through. And then she posts about it
and she kind of writes her reasoning on writing it,
and it's about her husband, and it's just it has
two lives that are now out in the world, and

(01:06:36):
she's she's awesome and she's been through a lot and
she's just still kicking it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Yeah. Yeah, we probably have time for one more question.
Does anybody have an anybody got one more question on
how to do it? Or we got it all wrapped up,
Thank God. Good? Okay, we got one more? One more?
Can you hear me? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
First, my name is Austin Danielle. Oh I love your name.
I love that. This is just a fun question. Yeah,
what is your current like on replay song? Oh? Right now?

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
To be honest, So Torri Kelly just released an album.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
I love her.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
She also vocally is insane.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
I was gonna say, do you have to be impressed
with someone's vocals to like them because you're so good?

Speaker 6 (01:07:23):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Do they have to be able to do like sing
the up and down and all around for you to
like that?

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Because your next level vocals? So it's actually okay. So,
actually two songs are on repeat right now. So Tory
Kelly's new album just came out, and her song it's
the Letter You. It's just a fun I just I
love that song. So that's been playing. And then Ella Langley's.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
New album came out. She's amazing, so bad she like
then Jesse Coulter.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
I don't know, but she's got her dang going. Yeah,
she seems like such a cool chick. I've never personally
met her, actually, which is crazy, and I feel like
we do the same stuff, and but her she he
does these acoustic versions of songs, and the acoustic broken
in freaking love it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
I love it. I love singing to it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
It's just so like an easy singing, like I just
love it. So those two songs are on rebeat right now. Yeah,
I love that